Sturm und Stille - Between Storm and Silence | WW2 Short Film

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[00:00:11]Suddenly the world is thrilled with the news of a startling achievement.

[00:00:14]A bold spearhead of Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army captures the Remagen Bridge at Remagen.

[00:00:20]The startled Nazis react with desperate efforts to destroy it.

[00:00:31]In the meantime, a pontoon bridge is thrown across the river.

[00:00:35]When the Remagen Bridge is finally knocked out, the First Army's communications are secure. The great assault in force on the Rhine barrier comes with the crossing of the river by the British Second, Canadian First, and American Ninth Armies.

[00:00:48]Winston Churchill insists on a personal invasion of Hitler's inner fortress.

[00:01:46]Ultimatum.

[00:01:48]Sind Sie gut? Ja.

[00:01:49]Nein, danke.

[00:01:51]Was ist das?

[00:01:53]Das ist mein Sohn.

[00:01:55]Gustav.

[00:01:57]Second Corps? Yeah.

[00:01:59]He was He did He was lost at Stalingrad.

[00:02:02]I've not heard from him in over 2 years.

[00:02:06]Did you fight in the last war?

[00:02:08]Infantry.

[00:02:09]Verdun, 1916.

[00:02:12]Why fight another?

[00:02:13]I have little left to fight for but for Germany.

[00:02:16]My son is gone.

[00:02:18]The bombers took my wife and my home.

[00:02:21]At least my brother and my niece are alive in Bayern, thank God.

[00:02:26]I've seen the death that the bombers have brought to my hometown.

[00:02:30]Maybe now we can fight some on the ground like men.

[00:02:33]The Americans can no longer hide in their B-17s.

[00:02:37]At least we can fight them on the ground.

[00:02:40]But, you know what the best thing about an American is?

[00:02:43]They're not a Russian.

[00:02:59]Hans, this is so cold. Cold?

[00:03:02]You've just come from Russia land or Norway.

[00:03:05]What brings an SS Gruppenführer here to the Rhineland?

[00:03:08]You're a bit late. Your Ardennes offensive failed 2 months ago.

[00:03:13]I am here on orders from the Reich's Ministry of Propaganda. We are here to show that our Western Front holds strong with the Volkssturm being key to its defense. You.

[00:03:22]As strong as our defenses in the east, is that what you were told at the Oder river? No, no. I have personally been to Königsberg and Festung Breslau. They they are fortresses, steel fortresses that cannot break. That's what we were told after the disaster at Stalingrad when the Sixth Army was annihilated.

[00:03:41]They made a heroic sacrifice for Deutschland.

[00:03:45]A heroic sacrifice? Forbidden to retreat, forbidden to regroup? Is that what we're doing here? Is this what you want? Us to be surrounded? To be destroyed just as they were? If that is what it takes, then yes. Did you lose anybody at Stalingrad?

[00:03:58]You known anybody and lost them?

[00:04:02]No, I Of course not. But you're here lecturing us here in the west. Shut up and get find this camera. He's He's food. Russians.

[00:04:11]I don't want to hear it.

[00:04:23]My brother will be in Tokyo before we hear back from HQ. Oh, really? Where is he fighting?

[00:04:29]Iwo Jima.

[00:04:30]Oh, really? How is he giving them Tokyo hell?

[00:04:33]Oh, yeah. Sent me a picture about 2 weeks ago. Take a look.

[00:04:38]I could I had to find it.

[00:04:43]Yeah.

[00:04:45]At least we're dealing with civilized people here.

[00:04:47]You got the real bastards over there.

[00:04:50]Yeah, but they did do our boys in Bataan in '42. I think so.

[00:04:54]They're going to give them what's coming to them.

[00:04:59]Does this calendar say 1942, private?

[00:05:03]No, it says '45. Focus on the war.

[00:05:06]If you were as focused on these Germans as you were on the Japanese, we'd be strolling through Hitler's backyard.

[00:05:12]Let's get moving. We got to get to a secure location for the night.

[00:05:16]Yes, sergeant.

[00:05:22]Well, you see when we have young fighters like Schmeck Yeah, that's what they said.

[00:05:26]Like Schmeck here. You think they'd die for the fatherland?

[00:05:30]No sacrifice is in vain.

[00:05:32]No measure is too desperate.

[00:05:34]I have had faith in the Führer since my family was lifted out of poverty and hunger.

[00:05:39]I have had trust in him then and have no fault in him now.

[00:05:42]Schmeck You might want to take a look at your rations. You may want to reconsider.

[00:05:47]These are the good rations. What are you talking about?

[00:05:50]These are well, only for the camera, but you know, enjoy them. Schmick.

[00:05:55]How many folks do you think actually have have been distributed those rations?

[00:05:59]>> Many. Many. Many.

[00:06:00]>> You believe that it's massively distributed? Uh yes. That's right. See, he knows he knows what is good for him.

[00:06:07]He knows what is good for him. You do not know nothing, old man.

[00:06:10]Now come, get the rations. I don't have all day.

[00:06:15]Danke schön.

[00:06:17]Ja.

[00:06:19]A gift from the Führer.

[00:06:21]So I guess these are the wonder weapons that the Führer has been promising us.

[00:06:25]Do we even need any more V1 or V2 rockets? No, not not the fish.

[00:06:30]The the chocolates, that's the wonder weapon.

[00:06:32]There you go.

[00:06:34]This is why we're resisting the allies all the way to Berlin.

[00:06:37]Listen, Kämpfer.

[00:06:39]I fight the same war as you do.

[00:06:41]Except my rifle is my camera.

[00:06:46]All right, hold on. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

[00:06:48]Let me get my camera ready.

[00:06:51]All right, let's come together. You, Schmick. Uh you're you're patriot. Get your your hat and your your machine and pistol.

[00:07:00]Anyway, sir.

[00:07:01]Good.

[00:07:02]Come on.

[00:07:04]All right.

[00:07:49]>> What's the headline, Corporal? Uh just bomb plot about Hitler.

[00:07:54]Tojo's getting bombed to hell, so that's good.

[00:07:56]Any meat shortage back home? They're sending it all over to you.

[00:08:01]What are they saying about our boys, Simmons? You doing us any justice?

[00:08:04]You're all right, Sarge. Look what they just took, Coblenz, few miles south of here. 80,000 are stuck in the Rhineland.

[00:08:14]You hear what I'm with us, Nansteel?

[00:08:16]Bagged our 100,000th POW last month.

[00:08:19]I got a picture right here.

[00:08:21]Looks like Santa Claus had a Merry Christmas, Sarge. What?

[00:08:25][ __ ] No, this one.

[00:08:29]I don't know, Sarge. He looks a little too happy. I think we should go back and fix that.

[00:08:34]It's real neat, Sarge, but I prefer the other one. Uh huh, yeah. You know, this is real neat, Private. You're carrying the extra ammo when we move out.

[00:08:43]Isn't that right, Simmons? Yes, Sarge.

[00:08:47]Camp 5, Rhineland. Come and see here. Go slow.

[00:09:10]Reichsminister Dr. Goebbels broadcasts in Berlin with under Rhineland heights come.

[00:09:20]That's all the soldiers.

[00:09:22]When Every me see the soldiers.

[00:10:34]It's even there.

[00:10:37]right off the boat.

[00:10:49]It is quite a cold weather.

[00:11:05]That I can make.

[00:11:07]this rising You are the only one there.

[00:11:13]or the I was going to go there.

[00:11:18]I don't know what I can't see the I don't know. I don't know.

[00:11:25]I don't know.

[00:11:27]I don't know.

[00:11:29]I don't I don't I don't I don't know what to >> We should be fighting in the east instead of wasting our time here. How many more atrocities before they tell our families?

[00:12:00]As many as it takes for the German people to know what is at stake.

[00:12:04]I know if we all had the opportunity, we would fight the Russians in the east.

[00:12:08]However, we are here in the west facing the Americans. At least if we get captured, we may not get tortured or executed.

[00:12:48]Hey Sarge, a cigarette? No thanks, I quit.

[00:12:54]Hey Sarge, Lucky Strikes? Nah, get your head out of your ass or you're going to get shot.

[00:13:05]Those boys in Chalisey and don't stand a chance being so young.

[00:13:09]They may earn a medal today, but who's to say that they'll be alive tomorrow or not?

[00:13:14]When I was at Verdun, I was only 17.

[00:13:17]I didn't stand much of a chance myself.

[00:13:20]But back in 1916, we still thought we could win that war.

[00:13:24]Unlike With others, you are open to reason.

[00:13:27]I lived my life for the millions lost in the in the first war.

[00:13:32]Now, you have to live your life for the millions lost in this one.

[00:13:47]Then the division of war, sergeant.

[00:13:49]War. Then there's only tiger war during the bulge.

[00:13:53]Which bulge? The one in Berlin?

[00:13:55]>> Belgium or the one in Berlin?

[00:13:58]>> Sorry, sergeant. I've seen too many of you replacements slaughtered because you think this is some damn adventure.

[00:14:04]It's all fun and games until you get blown the [ __ ] up.

[00:14:07]Yes, sergeant.

[00:14:10]Any of you guys having fun that's okay.

[00:14:14]We all got a right to be scared.

[00:14:17]You remind me of Willie.

[00:14:21]Who?

[00:14:22]Uh replacement.

[00:14:24]Couple months back.

[00:14:27]Kid from Jersey. Always cracking jokes.

[00:14:31]Didn't last a week.

[00:14:35]You're a good soldier.

[00:14:38]Got to keep your head down and your mouth shut.

[00:14:41]But, you'll get out of this one.

[00:14:44]We'll all get to go home soon.

[00:15:10]Why?

[00:15:12]All this waste of life.

[00:15:16]War, death.

[00:15:18]People, bodies everywhere.

[00:15:41]Why?

[00:15:43]What point?

[00:15:46]He's going to finish killing us all.

[00:15:48]With [ __ ] artillery. Hour by hour, forever. You said the French THE FRENCH ARE HERE. The French ARE AT THE TRENCHES. HALT.

[00:15:57]HALT.

[00:15:58]HALT.

[00:16:00]IT'S TURNING NIGHT.

[00:16:02]SORRY.

[00:16:04]SORRY.

[00:16:07]DEATH WILL follow us everywhere.

[00:16:11]Oh, this Please display 7th battalion, get back to us yet?

[00:16:37]No, not yet.

[00:16:42]Oh, [ __ ] All right, let's pack up. Stand still. Grab that bandolier. Don't think I forgot you.

[00:18:06]>> Get down.

[00:18:07]Let's go.

[00:18:33]See that man? Looks like he's been through hell.

[00:18:36]Schmeck, haven't you all?

[00:18:38]Yeah, he thinks he's the only one that's been through it.

[00:18:42]You wouldn't believe what I've seen on the Eastern Front. Oh, yeah?

[00:18:46]Yeah.

[00:18:57]I'm not going back.

[00:18:59]Don't blame you.

[00:19:02]Be glad you're here in the West.

[00:19:08]Yeah, made up here.

[00:19:19]>> I might not be as old as the the old man, but I've done my time.

[00:19:27]I respect you.

[00:19:30]Dr. Schmidt.

[00:19:34]What's incoming? Ah.

[00:19:48][ __ ] Shots fired.

[00:19:51]What's going on?

[00:20:01]Hey Tony, you help him.

[00:20:06]Tony, you all right?

[00:20:09]Hey, what you doing? Is he done?

[00:20:11]We got a rifle on the other side.

[00:20:15]Hello?

[00:20:16]Hello?

[00:20:19][ __ ] Barry's dead.

[00:20:24]Oh, [ __ ] You still up? Look out the way.

[00:20:44]What should I do?

[00:20:46]Simon, Simon, just live. Live.

[00:20:49]Lauf. Lauf.

[00:21:01]And Hawk, and Hawk, come on. [ __ ] over here.

[00:21:04]You're a [ __ ] yes. Get over here. get on the ground.

[00:21:35]With confidence in our armed forces, with the unfounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph. So help us God.

[00:22:27]No matter how long it may take us, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

[00:23:07]>> Woo!