US Army Combat Footage in Leipzig, Germany 1945 [ WWII Documentary ]

The city was "liberated" against germans 😂

Thanks, for the Armor guys, notice the M4's have the grousers installed.

Ultra rare M4A1 (76) W VVS with muzzle brake spotted at 1:15

Very interesting episode. An excellent example of how the US Army was operating in 1945.
My dad was a WWII ETO vetreran in the 99th Infantry Division. The 99th had crossed the Rhine in March of 1945. They participated in the encirclement of the Ruhr Pocket.
Dad had told me as they approached a town, a small contingent of vehicles would make an advance toward the town. If they did not take any fire or meet any resistance, they would move into the town slowly. If they took fire from within the town, depending on if it was small arms or heavy artillery, the Americans would encircle the town and call in their artillery.
Even if there was no German fire or resistance encountered, the thing dad said they feared the most was Hitler youth with Panzerfausts. Even though large numbers of the German Army was surrendering in early 1945, the Hitler Youth wee feared because of their fanaticism. They had grown up with the Nazi ideals and devotion to Hitler. A 12 or 13 year old soldier in a basement could take out a Sherman or half track. Because they wouldn’t surrender to the the Allies, the only remedy was to “eliminate them”. This was dangerous to the Allied soldiers and to the other German civilians that were trying to surrender.
It was extremely helpful to armor support but often times it was the individual GI having to secure a building. No one wanted to be the last casualty of the war.

Hitler is the cause of current problems .
US military was the only hope for Germany in 1944

'Liberated' from Germans on German soil? I don't think so.

My god…….the pink-haired wokesters, who love Hamas and burning history…..have no clue what the world went thru before them.

In 1994 I stayed in Leipzeg for a week on work assignment with several others. The city had a very drab extrerior appearance on its older 1940s era buildings. I literally could blink and be back in early 1941 Germany imagining Nazi banners hung all over. Near our work site was one of the old parade grounds. At one end was a tower with a doorway and narrow balcony where Hitler gave a speech to thousands of military troops gathered there. It was a very ominous looking at this place still intact.
We were put up in one of the older hotels in the city. We all had rooms on the 2nd floors. After a couple of days and taking into account the first nite getting used to a different hotel. I found myself not getting good sleep after several nites. I mentioned this to some of my colleagues and they too weren't sleeping well at all. That evening I made an inquiry at the front desk as to this and if the building had any interesting history . "Indeed it does " came the reply from the front desk clerk. I was astonished. He went on to reveal more " This building was used for Gestapo operations thruout the war. The later Stasi organization Headquarters now a museum, is just down the street. THe Gestapo brought People in for interrogations and held in the basement" . I was aghast at this info. I asked " So certain indivduals were probably tortured, even killed here ? " His response : " More than likely."…. " Sir, would you like to change your room to one higher up ?"

Looks like a cake walk for those boys the German ran away from the mighty usa army.

My great uncle was killed there April 19th, 1945. He was in the 271st Infantry Regiment, 69th Infantry Division.

Good footage a lot of it was acting. Their are scenes that are authentic. It does show the taking of Leipzig the combat was not that too bad atliest from this units perspective from this footage.

I live in Leipzig, I’m not German I’m Spanish tho. This looks amazing!