How was life in the destroyed German cities after the Nazis were defeated?
A Day in Dresden 1946 provides a glimpse. Elli Göbel guides viewers through post-war Dresden’s ruins. As a war widow and one of millions displaced from the former German eastern territories, this young woman finds work as a ‘Trümmerfrau’, helping rebuild the devastated city. To care for her children, Elli demonstrates immense resourcefulness, especially in the face of dire supply shortages. For the prospect of a better life, she sometimes pushes the boundaries of what’s allowed. When she learns of a violin audition from a newspaper, Elli takes a risk, sneaking away from her rubble-clearing job to procure an instrument from the black market. However, when the police arrive and arrest her, she faces potential imprisonment and losing her children. This fictional biography, rooted in real historical events, offers deep insights into the everyday struggles of the post-war era, illuminating the intimate connection between documentary storytelling and the haunting ruins of the past.
Documentary: A Day in… – One Day in Dresden 1946
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Interesting links and sources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/02/13/photos-70-years-ago-dresden-was-destroyed-heres-what-it-looks-like-today/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/world/europe/dresden-germany-anniversary.html
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/air-war-germany-map/
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How many people married someone else only to find out their “dead” spouse or family has returned form the grave?
How does Germany feel today about what their ancestors did 75 years ago do they seek forgiveness or do they seek revenge
A genocide created on the German civilians shame yourself s all the allies..
Poor girls and women got tortured and raped. 4 million of them
My grandma was among those women, my mother and my aunt were small children and my grandpa was MIA, he was drafted and fought in Stalingrad. What they did not know then, is that he was taken prisoner by the Russians and taken to a POW labour camp in Siberia. After 8 yrs he got out and found his wife (my grandma) and daughters with the help of the Red Cross. After the Soviet Communists built the wall (iron curtain) many family members of our family on my mother’s side were cut off.
Hard years of bare survival, we grew up hearing all the stories.
How do you get rid of all the cement debris seriously do you throw it in the ocean?
My grandad coming back home in Italy after fighting in ww1 in alps walked the local forests and picked up Austrian bayonets helmets shovels brought them back to use helmets made buckets bayonets taken to blacksmith and made in to knifes .I remember German helmet use in the caw stable as a bucket 😂
I often think that the resilience and character displayed by the German people after the war was one of the reasons that helped propel them to the position they’re in today. Conversely, as an American, watching my own society, self destruct through drugs, delusional, fantasy, and outright laziness will surely leave us in a bad position, if not in the future now, I say this as a Bay Area residence, whose watched the Bay Area decline dramatically over the last 40 years
Thank you for this video. What happened to Dresden was criminal and take my hat off to the women and children left behind especially those who lost their men in the war. Bless them all. So tragically sad.
Why did she call her kids "Polacks" at 3:52? Isn't that a slur?
Now show Coventry!
What a wonderful program! Thank you!
This should be shown in every school, instead of 'gender studies'. Thank you for making this available.
Nazus called Jews rats yet it was the German who became a "mouse"–ironic!
Boo hoo
Thank you for this superbly produced and colorized documentary. The colorization and scripting brings to life the difficult conditions of Russian-occupied Germany.
Not mentioning the raping?