My family originated from Germany but in 1938 my great great grandmother immigrated from there to Sweden. My great great grandfather stayed behind and got drafted into the German Wehrmacht. He served in holland, France,North Africa, and then finally Stalingrad where he surrendered to the Russians. For 12 years we lost contact to him, when in 1955 he showed up at my great great grandmothers house in Sweden. He lived until 1989 when he died from heart attack. My Mother knew him well and spoke fondly of him after I was born. Sadly, I never knew this great man. Truly a hero. Now in canada, my family recently visited his grave in Germany (he requested to be buried there). (Edit) No, he wasn’t a Nazi. Simply one of the millions drafted.
Sorry, but wars don't make heroes, he was nothing more than a poor pig, like every other soldier in every war, no matter what nation. Those who have survived the suffering and brutality will have invisible scars in their soul or mind all their life. I'm glad I never had to point a gun at someone else and I hope it stays that way forever.
Don’t listen to the comments above. It’s easy for us to condemn your folk for something we will never understand (I pray to god it remains that way as well). He was your great great grandfather, he is a hero for you - period. He served his country, dutifully via draft, he did what a man with honor would do and he SURVIVED above all. It’s something you should tell your children with pride
He was a hero the people that commented above do not take anything into consideration. He was drafted, fought and survived for a nation he just became a part of. And saw and lived through horrors we could only imagine. So many negative people in this world smh
My grandpa was a little boy when the Germans invaded USSR. The German army was passing through a village where he lived. Surprisingly enough they did not kill anyone, and one young soldier gave my grandpa a bar of chocolate as a present. He forever remembered that. Despite all the atrocities that the Germans committed in Eastern Europe, there were still a lot of good German people who sort of became victims of circumstances: they either thought that they were the good guys in this story, or they did not want to participate at all but were forced by the Nazi regime. So it's painful to think how war forces good people to do terrible things.
The first German troops to enter Russia were definitely more behaved and fairly human. They were the regular conscripted army. But soon after came the Nazified storm troopers and the SS nightmare really began. There were many suicides among German troops forced to murder innocent civilians.
I know that most people prefer the german version with english subtitles, for me at least in the english one it was more satsifying to hear the scream of that nazi officer before he was shot by otto.
Few veterans cherish a romantic remembrance of war. War is awful. When nations seek to settle their differences by force of arms a million tragedies ensue. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. ~John McCain, 1999
An amazing and well made film of the insanity of war. These men entered Russia believing they were the finest, unbeatable soldiers on earth. So many forgotten and lost to time now. Families who would never know of their true fate.
Personality wise, I was honestly a lot like Fritz while I was in service. I even tried the ear thing to make my fellow servicemen feel better. I had pretty similar results with a few people, which surprised me because I never seen the movie until my end of service. I hated what they done and how they treated us and I counted down the minutes until I could finish my contract 5 years later. When I left, I became like Oto in the truck scene. I became like a nomad to my family estranged to even myself. Thankfully I got help two years after service but I know there is plenty of others who were not as lucky as me. I landed by far better than they did and I was almost homeless. I stopped myself from falling into alcoholism like so many others did. Honestly my experience can best be explained like a mixture of Das Boot mixed with Chernobyl. It was an unforgivable experience but I tend to address the problems there in my comic book series. Give a voice to those who aren’t heard and give them a little bit of hope that I seek while I was in. Hopefully give them a light in a dark place and someone who understands them and wants to give them a hand up.
Just heartbreaking what the German Soldiers went through. They are not forgotten. May their souls RIP. Salute and Respect. You fought on for the Vaderland no matter what and you went through hell without being given the correct clothing for that bitter cold. So very very sad
I’m sorry wtf what the German soiders went through could be considered bad but the GERMAN SOLDIER I’d say it was worse to be a Jew Russian French Polish Danish or Norwegian then it was to be a German soldier
50:34 I have the same dream when i was a teen at high school when i realized i didn't set up my clock and woke up when he said well go soon, dont fall asleep. That part and I was that man who was resting while a batch of soldiers are surrendering and the officer said the same thing they all said and woke up just enough of get there.
The ending is indeed sad, and also very chilling. Because we the viewers of this movie, are the only ones left alive at the very end. That realization as it came over me, on top of the closing music, seeing the fading silhouettes of two men who froze to death out on that bitter steppe. Men who, in another time and another place, I might have called friends. We the viewers are the only ones left to tell not only their story, but also the story of the others that were their comrades. And we also are the only ones left to tell the naked truth that war is neither glorious nor heroic and how the only good ever found in any war is its ending. We, the surviving viewers, must take the lessons those men taught us with their deaths, and then we need to put forth every effort to see that another conflict on the scale of the second world war with its needless death, its needless misery, its needless hatred and destruction, is allowed to happen again to humanity.
An awful lot made the choice to just say NO to the Vietnam War. Many paid a high price. Some in prison. Like the guy who just couldn't shoot that kid in the film, some people are just not born to kill.
It's easy for you to feel that way while safe in a warm house well fed and not worried about some armed animals bursting into your house to rape, murder, and steal.....
he killed the russian, before he s been killed, the boots where the bonus many years ago i talked to a veteran who served the last 3 winters in russia. he froze his feet, said it feels like walking on half-filled water balloons, imagine this for the rest of your life.
Adolph never supplied his Eastern Front with proper clothing to withstand the brutal winter conditions. They didn't even have gloves! Hitler was a lousy commander, who like Trump, thought he knew better than any general how to wage war.
The Germans inflicted 25 million casualties onto the Russian people and the Russian army, committing all kinds of despicable atrocities mostly against Russian civilians. Russian prisoners of war were used as guinea pigs for their experiments with different types of gas, which they later used against the Jews. So I must say that The German army had it coming. However, this movie makes me see it from a different perspective, How the German army was abandoned By it’s own High command, and Hitler himself, when he couldn’t get the victories that he wanted, how the common soldiers were mistreated, misled and pushed to the side just because they could not deliver what was impossible from the beginning, a complete victory.
Fecking_retard agreed, that’s why I mentioned that watching the movie gave me a different perspective regarding the German foot soldiers, some were good, just obeying orders many hated
@@gilbertogonzalezr9353 The soviet communists were WAY fucking worse my friend. You've been fed a cesspool of false narratives and lies about why the Nazis came to power and who financed and supported them, and even greater lies about how many innocent people they killed. Every German soldier was fully justified in fighting for country against those Bolshevik bastards who posed a real threat to their wives children and the future of Europe and humanity. All sides of the war including Americans, were used as pawns fighting for causes they didn't understand and were lied to heavily about. This movie pure and utter Soviet propaganda. The world is a stage, the victors write history. J's were the architects of the murderous Soviet regime and z10n1st j-ish businessmen were doing business with the Nazis, because they have a much greater agenda which needed a war and genocide to justify it's progression(Izrael).
I wouldn't say the 6th army was abandoned by the German high command. Several attempts were made to supply them from the air and a rescue mission was assigned to break the encirclement but it was just impossible because of the Soviet numerical superiority. Operation Barbarossa should have started in April instead of June, but Hitler wanted to deal first with Yugoslavia and Greece...Big tactical error that costed him the war.
The common soldiers always fight other people's battles. I pity the poor men in the Wehrmacht, or any soldier from either side who got pulled into a war they didn't want to fight in.
My mates gardener was in the war. He said that the most important thing is the fact that he was not in a relationship. The best wishes for the kids are the best wishes of all. The most useful data points are given to the most important gay men.
Is it really a myth? Do you personally know all the German soldiers who fought in the war and how their character was morally? They weren’t all bad some of them were evil some of them weren’t. Not all these guys were evil nazis with villain cartoon laughs. If you want a more negative portrayal of the Germans watch come and see.
@@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347 You don’t know any of them stop being ridiculous. I doubt you were a thought when this battle took place. That same logic could be used for anything all women are evil, all men are evil, all black people are evil, and all white people are evil. I don’t discredit that the Wehrmacht did commit war crimes because they did but I don’t believe they were ALL fanatic nazis who were extremely devoted to cause.
My family originated from Germany but in 1938 my great great grandmother immigrated from there to Sweden. My great great grandfather stayed behind and got drafted into the German Wehrmacht. He served in holland, France,North Africa, and then finally Stalingrad where he surrendered to the Russians. For 12 years we lost contact to him, when in 1955 he showed up at my great great grandmothers house in Sweden. He lived until 1989 when he died from heart attack. My Mother knew him well and spoke fondly of him after I was born. Sadly, I never knew this great man. Truly a hero. Now in canada, my family recently visited his grave in Germany (he requested to be buried there).
(Edit) No, he wasn’t a Nazi. Simply one of the millions drafted.
Sorry, but wars don't make heroes, he was nothing more than a poor pig, like every other soldier in every war, no matter what nation. Those who have survived the suffering and brutality will have invisible scars in their soul or mind all their life. I'm glad I never had to point a gun at someone else and I hope it stays that way forever.
Not a Hero, but a survivor, a survivor of a brutal battle that only left millions of souls dead in uncommon graves.
wasn't a hero. still chose to fight under a psychopath. should have immigrated like the smart ones
Don’t listen to the comments above. It’s easy for us to condemn your folk for something we will never understand (I pray to god it remains that way as well).
He was your great great grandfather, he is a hero for you - period. He served his country, dutifully via draft, he did what a man with honor would do and he SURVIVED above all. It’s something you should tell your children with pride
He was a hero the people that commented above do not take anything into consideration. He was drafted, fought and survived for a nation he just became a part of. And saw and lived through horrors we could only imagine. So many negative people in this world smh
My grandpa was a little boy when the Germans invaded USSR. The German army was passing through a village where he lived. Surprisingly enough they did not kill anyone, and one young soldier gave my grandpa a bar of chocolate as a present. He forever remembered that. Despite all the atrocities that the Germans committed in Eastern Europe, there were still a lot of good German people who sort of became victims of circumstances: they either thought that they were the good guys in this story, or they did not want to participate at all but were forced by the Nazi regime. So it's painful to think how war forces good people to do terrible things.
And that's why I don't hate all german soldier despite what alot of people say that all German soldiers were bad people
The first German troops to enter Russia were definitely more behaved and fairly human. They were the regular conscripted army. But soon after came the Nazified storm troopers and the SS nightmare really began. There were many suicides among German troops forced to murder innocent civilians.
@@lhasaroadrat9374 So basically not all german soldiers were bad people, it was only the SS loyalists that gave them a bad rep
@@pickachugamng9455 The movie does seem to portray that to some extent. You can't generalize though. "Only" is a loaded word.
@@lhasaroadrat9374 true, you could take my logic and use it on the SS, so basically not all SS were bad people
I know that most people prefer the german version with english subtitles, for me at least in the english one it was more satsifying to hear the scream of that nazi officer before he was shot by otto.
Few veterans cherish a romantic remembrance of war. War is awful. When nations seek to settle their differences by force of arms a million tragedies ensue. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. ~John McCain, 1999
I don't recall him opposing either the Iraq or Afghani debacles.
An amazing and well made film of the insanity of war. These men entered Russia believing they were the finest, unbeatable soldiers on earth. So many forgotten and lost to time now. Families who would never know of their true fate.
You can feel the terror in their hearts when they're rushing to get on the plane to leave but never make it on.
Thank you so much for this.
Personality wise, I was honestly a lot like Fritz while I was in service. I even tried the ear thing to make my fellow servicemen feel better. I had pretty similar results with a few people, which surprised me because I never seen the movie until my end of service. I hated what they done and how they treated us and I counted down the minutes until I could finish my contract 5 years later. When I left, I became like Oto in the truck scene. I became like a nomad to my family estranged to even myself. Thankfully I got help two years after service but I know there is plenty of others who were not as lucky as me. I landed by far better than they did and I was almost homeless. I stopped myself from falling into alcoholism like so many others did. Honestly my experience can best be explained like a mixture of Das Boot mixed with Chernobyl. It was an unforgivable experience but I tend to address the problems there in my comic book series. Give a voice to those who aren’t heard and give them a little bit of hope that I seek while I was in. Hopefully give them a light in a dark place and someone who understands them and wants to give them a hand up.
Just heartbreaking what the German Soldiers went through. They are not forgotten. May their souls
RIP. Salute and Respect. You fought on for the Vaderland no matter what and you went through hell without being given the correct clothing for that bitter cold. So very very sad
Naaah- they fought for NOTHING. A cause unjustified and anti-human in scope and concept. Weird Karma for them all the way.
@@lhasaroadrat9374 u dont know
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I’m sorry wtf what the German soiders went through could be considered bad but the GERMAN SOLDIER I’d say it was worse to be a Jew Russian French Polish Danish or Norwegian then it was to be a German soldier
Respect their pain, not the "vaderland" idea that killed them. Your mentality enables a new nazism.
one hell of a movie! you can't make this tuff up!
50:34 I have the same dream when i was a teen at high school when i realized i didn't set up my clock and woke up when he said well go soon, dont fall asleep. That part and I was that man who was resting while a batch of soldiers are surrendering and the officer said the same thing they all said and woke up just enough of get there.
What a waste of men and treasure on both sides...
I thought the ending was really sad
Real
thought ?
The ending is indeed sad, and also very chilling. Because we the viewers of this movie, are the only ones left alive at the very end. That realization as it came over me, on top of the closing music, seeing the fading silhouettes of two men who froze to death out on that bitter steppe. Men who, in another time and another place, I might have called friends. We the viewers are the only ones left to tell not only their story, but also the story of the others that were their comrades. And we also are the only ones left to tell the naked truth that war is neither glorious nor heroic and how the only good ever found in any war is its ending. We, the surviving viewers, must take the lessons those men taught us with their deaths, and then we need to put forth every effort to see that another conflict on the scale of the second world war with its needless death, its needless misery, its needless hatred and destruction, is allowed to happen again to humanity.
Thankyou so much love from India
Amazing film, thank you for sharing
It's hard to be in a nice warm bed eating Salami watching a film about the sixth army.
I liked ending music.
I don't feel it is fair to Judge any Service Member from any Country that was Drafted or Conscripted to Serve. They really had no choice.
An awful lot made the choice to just say NO to the Vietnam War. Many paid a high price. Some in prison. Like the guy who just couldn't shoot that kid in the film, some people are just not born to kill.
Then again, the Nazis would just kill you for resisting at all.
It's easy for you to feel that way while safe in a warm house well fed and not worried about some armed animals bursting into your house to rape, murder, and steal.....
When he said the boots fit got chills. Killing a man for his boots dam.
he killed the russian, before he s been killed, the boots where the bonus
many years ago i talked to a veteran who served the last 3 winters in russia.
he froze his feet, said it feels like walking on half-filled water balloons,
imagine this for the rest of your life.
@@nullkommanix7372 Exactly
@@nullkommanix7372 Naaah- He said "shoot the fat guy" 'cuz he knew the boots would be big enough to fit him.
Thank you.
When the weather is -30 degree's its difficult to survive nevermind fight!
Adolph never supplied his Eastern Front with proper clothing to withstand the brutal winter conditions. They didn't even have gloves! Hitler was a lousy commander, who like Trump, thought he knew better than any general how to wage war.
@@lhasaroadrat9374 You will eat your words about Trump. Keep watching.......
@@gazof-the-north1980 Rave on Olaf
@@lhasaroadrat9374 You'll see...
@@gazof-the-north1980 we'll see what? You white nationalist roach
It looked like Rohleder was more or less numb to the whole thing the entire way through.
Just wanted to survive and get home, like the rest...
Thank You ❤❤❤❤
The Germans inflicted 25 million casualties onto the Russian people and the Russian army, committing all kinds of despicable atrocities mostly against Russian civilians. Russian prisoners of war were used as guinea pigs for their experiments with different types of gas, which they later used against the Jews. So I must say that The German army had it coming. However, this movie makes me see it from a different perspective, How the German army was abandoned By it’s own High command, and Hitler himself, when he couldn’t get the victories that he wanted, how the common soldiers were mistreated, misled and pushed to the side just because they could not deliver what was impossible from the beginning, a complete victory.
Don't forget, the soviets were as bad as the nazis... And no, not all germans/russians were bad
Fecking_retard agreed, that’s why I mentioned that watching the movie gave me a different perspective regarding the German foot soldiers, some were good, just obeying orders many hated
@@gilbertogonzalezr9353 The soviet communists were WAY fucking worse my friend. You've been fed a cesspool of false narratives and lies about why the Nazis came to power and who financed and supported them, and even greater lies about how many innocent people they killed. Every German soldier was fully justified in fighting for country against those Bolshevik bastards who posed a real threat to their wives children and the future of Europe and humanity. All sides of the war including Americans, were used as pawns fighting for causes they didn't understand and were lied to heavily about. This movie pure and utter Soviet propaganda. The world is a stage, the victors write history. J's were the architects of the murderous Soviet regime and z10n1st j-ish businessmen were doing business with the Nazis, because they have a much greater agenda which needed a war and genocide to justify it's progression(Izrael).
I wouldn't say the 6th army was abandoned by the German high command. Several attempts were made to supply them from the air and a rescue mission was assigned to break the encirclement but it was just impossible because of the Soviet numerical superiority.
Operation Barbarossa should have started in April instead of June, but Hitler wanted to deal first with Yugoslavia and Greece...Big tactical error that costed him the war.
The common soldiers always fight other people's battles. I pity the poor men in the Wehrmacht, or any soldier from either side who got pulled into a war they didn't want to fight in.
What kind of tanks were those that kept on driving away from the T34 tanks in the background at 3:19?
They were probably some post war APCs mocked up to look like tanks to swell the numbers.
Great
How nice to watch a WWII movie where the German's don't have English accents!
Its still dumb they're speaking English.
@@Jarzyn44 this is just a dub the original German with eng subtitles is online.
It’s never leaves your sole still I have nightmares
My mates gardener was in the war. He said that the most important thing is the fact that he was not in a relationship. The best wishes for the kids are the best wishes of all. The most useful data points are given to the most important gay men.
it's not bad, but somehow it sounds like a inofficial dubbing
Why did rollo not button his shirt to receive medal he already earned ?
He simply forgot to because he was rushing, when he got there he no longer was eligible because of his appearance.
@@ArcticWolf00Alpha0 thank you for explaining . I get it now .
@@anthonybarnes2355 No problem:)
so sad
8:27
That’s definitely a blunt B]
48:50
After what they just went through Destroying those tanks they could use it
Can anyone tell me what the fuck is happening I’m so lost in many of the parts in this it’s a good movie but like what the hell is happening
This is part 2 of the movie split up.
Just think in a year Americans had the atomic bomb. Coulda stopped all this in a few days.
the nazis did so much harm
still do
My great grandad was on the on the Eastern front for the Germans aka the **** which I will not say bc u know why
Shamefull for ur family
Urdu zaban
If you find any Urdu text, translating, I try to install that.
The eternal german "good soldier doing his duty" myth is alive and well!
Is it really a myth? Do you personally know all the German soldiers who fought in the war and how their character was morally? They weren’t all bad some of them were evil some of them weren’t. Not all these guys were evil nazis with villain cartoon laughs. If you want a more negative portrayal of the Germans watch come and see.
@@tannerthepanman9202 I do.
Guess all a myth in the hinterlands, Eizengrupp n all huh tiger?
You clearly didn't watch the movie or you straight up weren't paying attention.
@@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347 You don’t know any of them stop being ridiculous. I doubt you were a thought when this battle took place. That same logic could be used for anything all women are evil, all men are evil, all black people are evil, and all white people are evil. I don’t discredit that the Wehrmacht did commit war crimes because they did but I don’t believe they were ALL fanatic nazis who were extremely devoted to cause.
Typical of any war.. few old idiots can’t get along, and the rest is history.