A Young German Soldier Killed at the Front far from home in 1944 - Personal Documents
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- Опубликовано: 11 авг 2016
- I decided to share these interesting personal documents with you!
This is a small documentary, about a young German soldier that was killed, far from home, in Talnoje ( Ukraine ) in 1944.
I hope you like the video! :)
BTW.. März is March.. not May.. i wasn't paying attention.. ;)
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If you pause the video @1.38 (on page 34, which is wounds, illnesses) you can see an entry dated 21.8.43-1.10.43 and marked XII / 31b. Well if my memory serves me correctly 31b means he was wounded by a grenade. So he was wounded at least twice.
Page 21-Looks like he went on a stretcher bearers training course (krankentrager ausbildungs) and had the army drivers license (wehrmachtfuhrerschein). This would explain why he was posted to Rez kriegslarezett (on page 32) so he could relieve the training course.
Page 23- shows he received the schutz wall (west wall) medal.
He should have been entitled to the Ost medaille (eastern front medal) definitely the wound badge in black.... possibly wound badge in silver? Depending on the seriousness of the first wound (page 34 21.8.43-1.10.43).
Anyway lovely wehrpass, I hope my info has helped, and that the info is correct lol and sorry for my spelling on the German words!
Thank you very much for the info, really interesting!! :-D
Your spelling on German words is good!! :)
Thanks!
Gr Nick
Amazing, thank you for the information and input
Those assignments were also given out to men growing a bit old for infantry positions, as this man was.
The letter written to his wife states he took grenade shrapnel to the head and chest resulting in his death.
@@History-Secrets He had died not MAY / Mai but March 7th = März
you mentioned it some times and you might update the info box
At 4:59 you can see it in the subtitle and before that I had heard it when you where going through the pages but at 4:59 you said it in german right with MÄRZ which is March ... cause Mai is May ...easy to remember cause both 3 letters long and first 2 are the same ... while March März are longer but first 3 are the same if you ignore the dots of the "ä"
Your German is rock solid like a native speaker - great achievement !
Chapeau !
thx for sharing
Personalizes the war. My father told me of going through the personal documents of a dead Japanese soldier killed in the Philippines. Prior to this he thought of the enemy as less than road kill. They were as human as we. Thanks for posting this.
Im in tondo Manila right now with my wife it was the last stand of the Japanese in the Philippines.
No they weren't.
Sure those humans you mentioned raped every women they came across in China and practiced all sorts of horrendous things on the Chinese soldiers. And then in their down time persecuted American POW’s Really nice example of a human being. If they were as human as you stated why the fuck was an atomic bomb delivered to them?
Agree with blue shirt man. One of the old Spanish forts in Manila or outside the old dungeons would fill up with water. Japanese kept their prisoners in those dungeons knowing they would die.
Thats part of the training. To dehumanize your enemy.....making it easier to kill evil.....than to think of them as human beings.
I hate to say this, but I seem to recall a book I once read entitled "Fire" (in German), a memoir of a young German that was drafted into the Whermact and trained in artillery just in time for operation "Barbarossa". After recovering from wounds to his legs he was reassigned as company clerk and issued a typewriter. He said that the policy for death notification to family back home was to always say the soldier was killed instantly and did not suffer. No matter how gruesome and horrible the actual truth was. Even returned soldiers from the front adhered to that policy to save the feelings of grieving wives and mothers. He credits his reassignment with saving his life as having survived the chaos of the collapse of the Eastren Front he was able to make his way to the American lines to surrender at the end of the war. In the ensuing decades he was never able to find any surviving members of his original artillery outfit. He surmised that he may very well have been the sole survivor.
This was generally true in most armies. The letters to widows and orphaned children always said their husband/father died a hero and was killed instantly.
I suspected that "killed instantly" was a standard operating procedure. Its also quite possible the person typing the letter had no details to add regarding the cause of death.
Jerry Andersen yes. And not an easy task researching some of the more obscure units. It’s incredible he seemed to be a sole survivor from his unit. So many German army units swallowed up in Southern Russia/Ukraine.
You guys are correct. It was fairly standard to report a instant death, whether true or not, to the family if the soldier died on the battlefield. However, if wounded and evacuated to a hospital only to die later they would report that. They would write something along the lines of "he was transported to the field hospital and all efforts were made to save him, but he succumbed to his wounds the next day" or X days later, whatever the case was. Every once in a while, this resulted in trouble. One German officer wrote in his memoirs about describing a man's death to his wife as a very clean and quick one. The truth was he'd been blown to tiny pieces when an enemy artillery shell hit a stack of mines near the soldier. The family back in Germany turned around and accused the man's unit of stealing his ring and wallet and a couple other valuables they knew to have been in his possession - when in reality it had all been blown to bits. See, it was standard procedure for the unit to send a box with the soldier's possessions back to the family. If the tactical situation prevented recovery of the body, the unit would at least send back his personal property that was back in the baggage trains.
@Jerry Andersen You can probably take the date of death with a grain of salt, too. The German army was in a terrible state by March 1944. Death notifications were probably completed en-masse when a lull in the fighting allowed. Biographies of military officers frequently refer to sending letters to NOK, but some time after the actual death. At at time where there were major losses and retreats accuracy with dates was difficult and unnecessary.
At the :33 second mark, you translate the German word "Heer" as "Wehrmacht." This is not correct. The Wehrmacht was the unified armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer (army), the Kriegsmarine (navy) and the Luftwaffe (air force). Heer is correctly translated as Army.
As I get older I realize that there are no true winners in war. Everyone loses. My era was Vietnam. When I was young and in the Army I had no qualms about going to Vietnam to “kill the enemy.” Now, I know that we should have never been there in the first place. It was an ill conceived war and too many soldiers on both sides and Vietnamese civilians needlessly lost their lives.
I was a bit surprised at all the interesting comments about my comments. However, I do want to clarify something. Although I was in the Army during the Vietnam conflict, it was during the last stages of the war and Nixon was starting to pull troops out of Nam because of all the civil disruptions against the war on college campuses. Americans wanted out. I was stationed in Germany and did my service there and at Fort Lewis, Washington. I didn’t go to Vietnam, but I was whole heartedly prepared to go because we thought it was the right thing to do. My point is that as I grew older, and hopefully more wiser, I realized our government sold us a false narrative about “fighting communism,” etc. It was a bad war and I recognize that now. At 19 years old. I trusted our government.
Exports were $10.5 billion; imports were $47.8 billion. The U.S. goods and services trade deficit with Vietnam was $37.3 billion in 2017. Vietnam is currently our (US) 17th largest goods trading partner with $58.9 billion in total (two way) goods trade during 2018. The Vietnamese people begin their history in about 200 B.C., when a Chinese general established a kingdom in what is now southern China and northern Vietnam that he called Nam Viet. This kingdom was captured by China in 111 B.C. and renamed Annam, which meant pacified south. China controlled the area for the next thousand years (despite sporadic rebellions such as the one led by the Trung Sisters in the second century, which elevated them to folk hero status they still enjoy), until it left in 939 A.D., and the Vietnamese established an independent state that was to last for 900 years (except for another 20-year period of Chinese domination in the 1400s). Vietnam has always been Vietnam, no matter who tries to claim sovereignty; the invaders never remain in power. And as always, China still thinks it would like to have it's renegade province brought back under control, so what will happen now? Vietnam sure as hell does not need a hamburger, it needs a friend or two, and as a Vietnam veteran I hold out hope that my country- America- will be that friend when the time comes, we owe them that much at least.
Mark Mathosian This is my era, too. As a young bride, I saw many of our friends go to ‘Nam, and only a few come back. My husband was a Captain who was kept here as a trainer. I’m glad you made it home, and know there are still many who appreciate you.
In retrospect everything looks different from the future. Many times in history war was the only viable option to prevent genocide of one's people from invaders. So what, historically, was the invader's excuse for war? Plunder, slaves, women, land.....basically human greed to covet what belongs to others. I was just a couple years too young for Vietnam and the more I learned over the years, the more glad I was too young. Going back to Pres Truman the US leadership had enough information on the players in North and South Vietnam to make different decisions. JFK was itching for an excuse to get more active in SE Asia, per a long time co-worker who was a Marine on Okinawa in 61-62 but that's a whole nother story.
The Vietnam War was a weak effort to slow down the Communists in southeast Asia.. We didn't lose the war; it is just that we were not in it to win it. Don't start a war, or join one, unless you want to go all the way, as in using ANY AND ALL WEAPONS AT YOUR DISPOSAL.
@Jay Jay Oh boy, we have another genius keyboard commando.
This could be the story of thousands of young men of all nations who fought and died in these terrible wars. Nicely done article. Thanks for posting.
Or those who died in gas chambers because of killers like this guy.
The war was a huge waste of life for everyone great job on honoring this young man!
I agree!
All war is a monumental waste of life, though a part of human nature from which we will never be separated. This young man gave his life for his country- for his parents (who if they survived, grieved terribly), for the life that he lived in the only country/culture he knew (as did countless young men on all sides). So, politics aside, all of them died as heroes... and victims. But, again, this is the human condition. We all will meet death someday. Some die in bed, some die in combat. Heroes are made by how we live, not by how we die. But that being said ....May God bless and honor him and all those who have died and will die (on all sides) in our never ending wars.
if there had not been so many deaths, this planet would have 12 billion instead of "just" 8. thats the way I see it
Watching the video I noticed he had a "lazy eye". Whatever the cause of this, injury or birth defect, I suspect this may have kept him out of the military until the Reich got desperate for manpower. If that's the case he may have been better off joining earlier and getting an assignment anywhere but the Russian front. We'll never know one way or the other.
"Honoring this young man" you do realise that 25,000,000 Russian civilians were killed during the German invasion and he was there and i bet that he wasn't innocent.... "I VAS ONLY OBEYING ORDERS"
„Der Tod ist das Tor zum Leben“ means „Death is the gate to life“.
This man was born in 1910 in Sölde, which was a district of the city of Dortmund and got suburbanised to Dortmund and partially to Holzwickede in 1929. He got married with a woman named Elisabeth Maria Bathen in Holzwickede, who also was born in Holzwickede.
This is just what I can add to the letter, a letter similar to millions of written letters, many families and wives received.
This was the story of one man of millions of killed soldiers from all involved nations.
War is hell - for every soldier involved. Soldiers just do their job. Blame the politicians for sending young people to die for random bullshit.
Remember the fallen! May all of them rest in peace!
It is a true saying , life is continuous.
Dr Fritz who was killed in WW1 returned & healed countless people via the channel of Arigo:ruclips.net/video/4BX6WTL88j4/видео.html
I disagree with yer conclusion. When you are sent to kill women and kinders, the honorable thing to do is TO TURN AROUND AND KILL THOSE WHO ISSUE YOU THAT KIND OF CRIMINAL ORDERS. THAT, OR HONORABLY KILL YOURSELF SO YOU DON'T BECOME A CRIMINAL YOURSELF. YOU SHOULD HAVE SHOT YOUR KOMPANY KOMMANDER AND ALL THOSE SS BASTARDS!
Danke sehr fuer die Uebersetzung!!!
@last of the mohawks You are a traitor.
@last of the mohawks True .
Thank you very much for sharing these items and stories with us. I love WWII history and I really like the way you include the footage and pictures so that we can see where and what exactly was happening there at the time. I really liked the way you did this video with the young German soldiers personal items. Please keep the videos coming and thank you!!
Thank you very much!!
It's really important to think about the German side too.. not all German soldiers were bad.
This young man died for his country.. so far away from home.. it's really sad.
Thank you so much for watching, glad you like it Kim! :-D
Gr Nick
Agreed. My grandfather fought in the 1st Panzer Division as a Panzergrenadier through the entire six years of war from the invasion of Poland to the final surrender in 1945. He was wounded once in 1943 in Russia but was returned to his unit after convalescence. He lived to be 84 years old. All of his brothers were also in the army and the oldest disappeared at Stalingrad (or on the long march eastward or in a Soviet camp afterwards).
I just found out that im related to Field Marshal E. Rommel
@@youknowyourewrongright93 that's actually pretty cool if its true
@@geewhiz5926 faintly, but I am
Woowwww right in the gefühl!!! What a fantastic video this is! The documents are amazing and the effects you made in the video almost took me there right with them.... Crazy good job mate! Thank you for sharing this awesome piece of history with the accompanied effects, really gives some insight in how it was. Cheers! Mats
Thanks a lot my friend!!
Thank you very much for watching!! :)
Gr Nick
You are very lucky to have all those documents. When i traced one of my great grand fathers documents who was in the brandenburg regiment, his pay book and everything was assumed to have been destroyed but i was lucky enough to get where he fought, his ranks, his volunteer dates and how and when he died. I wish i could have got his paybook though. Thanks for sharing.
Did you ask a private company?
Because it's very rare for them to have been lost entirely with no trace. There are thousands in the German archive that are yet to have been sorted, i recommend checking there
I’m sure you can go online and request information from German Deutsche Dienststelle in Berlin.
@@worldwarwill1278 Thats exactly what i did. Unfortunately it was presumed lost according to the dienstelle. He was a commando after all so i am not surprised.
That’s a shame, but I can total agree!
It might be worth joining a few military forums, you never know, his Wehrpass or Soldbuch could be sat in someone’s collection!
This video really hits you regarding the reality of war. We read about wars and the number of casualties but behind every number there is a real person with a name and a family. I cannot imagine the grief his wife felt when she read that letter. May he RIP.
Sad waste of life,some were only children.My husband is German I am English we are in our early sixties, in a decade or two before we would've been enemies, we love each other so much we cannot imagine Frau Junkers loss, hopefully they are together now in the Lords keeping, bless them both.
What if Frau Junker remarried and lived a long happy life with her 2nd husband? Where does that leave him in your afterlife fairy tale?
@@braderwin9620 Bachelors were in short supply after the war.
You remind me of a movie Allied
@@braderwin9620 classy
Great video. It shows the loss of life was true in Germany and their families did not receive his body for burial. War was brutal for all who died including innocent civilians. My condolences to the families of all soldiers who gave their lives in defense of their country.
Excellent video - thanks for reminding us of the other side. By the way: “März” means March, not May.
Correct! The mistake happened at 0:18
And again at 3:13
And again at 3:29 and 4:57. By the way, at 5:06 "Fahneneid" does not mean flag (which means only "Fahne"), but oath of allegiance (or oath of loyalty).
Confirmed by the letter from the field written 7 of April 1944
it Always gives me a tight throat and a hard time breathing to watch These fates… how could People mentaly survive These years
R.I.P - Wilhelm Junker
Although you fought for a terrible leader, you had no choice. You fought whether you wanted to or not. I have great respect for you.
Why do you have respect for him? Because he went to fight whether he wanted to or not? Do you know how the Wehrmacht behaved on the Eastern Front during the war? Chances are Mr Junker was involved in much dirty business. I am not saying he was, but it is likelier than not. As we have no proof, it is proper to give the fellow the benefit of the doubt, but to profess respect? There is nothing respectable or glorious about war. Nothing.
@@Nickauboutte Lucky for you, there are people willing to fight those that threaten your way of life. While you sit back and judge them for the way they go about it.
Terrible leader? You fell for the propaganda like me. Watch this. thegreateststorynevertold.tv
@@Nickauboutte Nothing glorious about the Spartans battling to the last man defending their country from the Persians? Really? Spoken like a true beta-male .
@Conor Hanley Mr. Hanley is another one indoctrinated in absurdity. Lemmings following the asses of the other LEMMINGS in the "not know".
Nick, this was very well done. I salute you for your compassion, and the length you went to to do justice to this soldier. The fact that you went as far as showing the hospital in both past and present forms added to the feeling in this video, and your ending with his company commanders letter was inspired. Good job!
Thank you so much for the compliment! :)
I just want people to realize that not all the German soldiers were bad.
They also had a family.. we are all human.
Of course, there were a lot of really evil people.. but most German soldiers didn't had a choice.
He fought for his country, and died as a hero.. but on the wrong side.
Thank you for watching, glad you liked it!
Gr Nick
What a great video, Thank you for sharing it with us.. This is something that leaves a spot in my heart......... Take care From U.S.A.
Thank you so much!!
Take care!
Gr Nick
You do him honour with this tribute, that is a great gift and very kind.
Well done Sir....Thank for posting!
Thanks for watching! :)
My Opa was with the 8th Panzer Division. He survived 5 years of combat. It’s a miracle
Thanks for sharing this respectfully and well made video. Btw, März means March, not May. Interesting channel!
Awesome video.. Thank you
I enjoy the personal stories too..
Thank you very much, glad you liked it! :)
Gr Nick
Wow. Very moving. All those lost lives and every one a story. Amazing video!
Thank you, thank you for this: I am an Veteran with years of active duty service behind me.Seeing this brings back the memories of 2 of my best buddies.They were more my brothers than my own blood relatives.I do miss them so, Ill never forget you my brothers Gid Bless and see you again.KPC
Enjoyed this very much and thank you for sharing! John from Texas.
Thank you so much for watching!! :-D
Gr Nick
Thank you for preparing the video and sharing the documents. Likewise the comments are interesting to read. Being German and having learnt to read and write the old Sütterlin writing for a high school history class project approx. thirty years ago, I tried to read the notes from the Wehrpass. Additional to the already quoted passages. His profession as listed was Eisenflechter - which is a special construction job preparing the armour for concrete works. I had to look it up also. The notes about his active service describe a number of battles and fights in Russia. Here to mention are the Winterschlachten 42/43 (winter battles). At the list of wounds you can also find Erfrierungen => frostbites.
One thing further notable is the NSDAP party badge worn by Wilhelm Junker for the photo taken. He was one of the 7.5 million members until 1945. Access to the party was limited, still he very likely was a supporter of the system. For the letter I would like to a add two comments to the translation. There are two words that are very specific for the time and the translation into English does not fully convey the meaning behind. Heldentod (heroic death) and Pflichterfüllung (not directly indicated in your transcription - performance of duty). These two words are stand-alone phrases that very much reflect the militarism of the time. Today you would barely use these words in German.
To underline the tragic and misjudgements of the German men at that time … the closing remark of the platoon leader states that he died for the protection of his Heimat (homeland) - approx. 1000 km east of where his homeland can was to be considered even 1944! An old friend of my family, who has passed away some years ago, told me about his graduation class from high school (all born 1922/3 and then graduated 1940) … 2/3 of them are bury or were simply left behind at battlefields in nowadays Ukraine and during his later investigation is was impossible to even allocated all listed field cemeteries.
Lesson to be learnt: Never follow or trust politicans or generals who promise easy answers and even think a war will solve any problem.
Thank you for your wise words.
Very personal, you did good honoring this young man
Thank you for sharing this! May God bless his family!
Outstanding presentation. Thank you for sharing a bit of history with us. At least his story could be told where many others rest forgot in time.
Thank you for watching! :)
The war was a great waste of young men , my father was injured bad in North Africa, he said it almost ruined his life , he couldn't get a good job , but finally started his own trucking company and did well .
Great job you did on this video! thnx for sharing
Thanks a lot for watching!! :)
Gr Nick
not May 7th, its March 7th 1944...Ruhet in Frieden . i remember as a kid my German relatives showing me black and white pictures of my German relatives who were WW 2 soldiers, " this is your uncle he went missing in Russia in 1944" " this was my cousin, he died in France in 1944" very sad....
Awesome video. Great stuff. Very Interesting.
GREAT WORK. The letter saddens me.
Great personal collection! Thanks for sharing. On a personal note, my Opa (grandfather) lived through the war. Obergefreighter Artur Paul Heller, 3./Flak.Ers.Abt.26, Flak-Regiment 59
Thank you very much!
Wow, that's so interesting!
Great video @History Secrets What strikes me it says hes from 110. PanzerGrenadier Regiment. They were apart of the 11. Panzer Division, its nickname was the Ghost Division (Gespenster-Division). About this time 1944 Late January. 11. Panzer Division were involved in the Cherkassy-Korsun Pocket and were one of the first hit by Ivan Konevs 2nd Ukrainian Front. They only hung on by a thread and the Russians encircled 60,000 men of 8th Armee. 11. Panzer witnessed this happen in front of them and they were battered from the fighting at Korsun and by June moved to France. Im amazed that he went through all of early 44 as a survivor of recent battles and was killed in march a few months before his division moved to France (Toulouse).
No, the Ghost Division was Rommel's 7th Panzer.
Where did you acquire that stuff? So interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Wow...Great video. Very well done.
Thanks a lot for watching!! :)
Gr Nick
What can I say? Firstly, I appreciate your content. Everything from showing us your grand collection to metal detecting to re-enactments. I am relatively a new subscriber who happen to be scrolling and came across the video of you in a trench you had in your yard. Then, the next vid of you and friends spending the night in a trench. I was hooked. I am an amateur WWII historian/reader and always, your content is amazing. Thank you for your passion, effort and time.
He died on March 7th, not May 7th.
"The death is the door to life" says the paper.
Thanks for sharing these documents
Tor means goal, not door.
@@mybluebelly Only in football, my friend. Greetings from Germany.
@@maximkretsch7134 I know some german, whatever happened to "Tür" meaning door? Tor is very similar but they are not the same? Any chance it could mean "schlussel zum leben" even though it says "door" ? My logic tells me the text means "Death is the goal of life" but i am no german native speaker.
He was a person and may have been lost forever to time and tragedy. Nobody knows if he was a good or bad man but you brought a piece of his life back and he will never be forgotten.
Do you have a video that shows your collection of artifacts? You have found many impressive items and know a great many details surrounding military history. I am a fan of yours for sure.
I do not have a video from all my finds, a lot of items ( Like weapons and ammo ) are not legal to keep.
Most of the finds are in boxes because i do not have enough space to display it, haha!
I will make a video someday from my collection again :)
Thank you very much!!
Gr Nick
A generation on both sides lost for ever; Never again (excellent video btw!)
Mooi en treurig tegelijk
Echt een interessant filmpje
Zou je een keer een filmpje willen maken over een stuk in je verzameling in het Nederlands
You have honoured him🌹
März is March dear..not May
Beautiful video you made!
where did u get these? did u return them to his family?! (he had a wife and children)
i would be rly mad if someone would trade or even keep some personal stuff from my grandfather....
That was my first thought. Maybe they got rid of them and he picked them up at an auction or something. I'd have thought he'd taken the trouble of getting them translated before doing the video.
Agree!
this is clearly an estate lot more than likely there are no descendants left now and the last survivor's stuff got sold off including this bit of history
viviphyd starting from a position of anger as you did before you obtained understand is wrong.
Very moving. I like personal stuff as well. It reveals the soldiers as individuals, not a mass of anonymous, impersonal living weapons. 😢
This is absolutely amazing!! Great video. I have a question though, where did you get these documents ?? Thank you and have a great day xx:)
Thanks!!
I got these documents from an online shop.. don't know which one anymore.. sorry!
Thanks for watching, and have a nice day! :)
Gr Nick
@@History-Secrets then you probably come from a family estate
Great video best wel heftig dat jij dat gwn hebt terwijl hij gwn dood is. Hoe kom je eigenlijk aan deze spullen?😦
Bedankt! :)
Ja.. erg bijzonder om in bezit te hebben.
Deze items heb ik gekregen voor mijn verjaardag.
Ze komen van een online webshop.
Gr Nick
Beautifully done.
I noticed on the Identification credential, the two open rivets with crimped splays through the photo. Obviously making it very difficult to change the photo. Didn't know they did that.
It's one of those important details you don't read in books by narrative approved published and praised academics who plagiarise one another to regurgitate the same old hackneyed trash. I concur. Difficult to remove and replace without the right tools without telltale indication the page/photo had been tampered with.
My grandmother got a letter like that in 1942, my grandfather was also K.I.A. in Russia.
I thus never got to know him, I tried to find something about him but with no succes.
The only thing is his name on a statue in the german town called Weener, this was the place that my grandmother fled to with my mother and onkel. Before the war they lived in the very east in a town that is in Poland now.
Henk Wolters you can ho online to the German Deutsche Dienststelle Berlin and simply requested his military records. You only need his full name, birth date and place of birth and the send you what they have. It takes only five minutes. They will ask you to pay 16 euros per page. My grandfathers kriegsmarine records were three pages. The website is even in English.
I'm very sorry for your grandfather loss, Henk. My grandpa fought in WWI on the Italian front. Extraordinary men: no matter the side they fought for. God bless your grandmother. Regards
Go to the Volksbund website. You will need to know his full name and date of birth. It’s helpful to known the place of birth and date of death too.
Great Video. amazing.
Great video
Thanks for sharing
Thank you for watching! :)
Nicely done. 🙏
All Soldiers who never back to their home from both side of axis & Allies power.
RIP
This was very well done.
Interesting Video and also done well. Some minor errors of translation were mentioned below.
Where did you get those very personal belongings from? They look quite new with only slight signs of age.
The documents were given by the soldier's family through an online seller
Thanks for showing this historical papers to me. It is very interesting. Life is short, and in this case cut short by a war, we should all make the best of our own lives.
excellent video
All the handwritten letters were written in Suetterlin, an old German cursive which was taught in the first 30 years of the 20th century, my grandmother could read and write it ... but not me
Wonderful - thank you.
Your videos are the best
Thanks!! :)
Excellent video!
Very nice editing, where you read the letter.
Well done!
As a hobby i try to connect people that has shared story's.
I managed to get in touch with the daughter of a very brave man, who took care of fled jews and paratroopers who got in action during Market Garden. This was done after a request from also a daughter of a English para who asked if someone knows if there are relatives of that man who helped her father.
Rest in peace soldier.
Touching!
Oh wow that's an intresting artifact ! I can read nearly all letters (I come from germany) but Sütterlin is not easy to read ! :)
Thanks!
Yes, i really like personal stuff like this.. really interesting!
Really cool that you can read most of it!
Gr Nick
But someone in Germany can, why not get it translated?
I don't speak german and can't read the letters but I can translate it for free
@David Vazquez Not all of it is written in Sütterlin, because it was a time of transition: The Nazis had introduced Latin instead of Sütterlin handwriting in schools and also shifted from Gothic to Latin types for propaganda reasons. Though the Latin types you see in the paybook have a specific "German" design you can read them easily. Same for at least some of the handwritten entries.
RIP brave soldier Wilhelm Junker.
I wish these memorablia was sent to his family members and they were shown and interviewed in this video.
May God bless the family of Wilhelm.
This speaks a lot about your honesty, respecting all this historic stuff, both sides had brave men fighting, a relief that they are in good hands now, My compliments to you!.
Thank you very much! :)
Gr Nick
Very interesting, thanks.
März is toch maart, en geen mei? Verder een erg interessante video, blijf zo doorgaan zou ik zeggen!
Klopt!
Normaal weet ik dat, maar had er even niet op gelet..
Ik ga hem binnenkort van RUclips afhalen, en opnieuw uploaden op mijn andere kanaal denk ik ;)
Bedankt voor het kijken!!
Gr Nick
@@History-Secrets nergens voor nodig het is een mooie video. Je kan gewoon een comment met correctie er onder zetten.
Makes me want to learn more about his company commander as well.
these young lieutenants had an average survival rate of six weeks
I make military diorama's ,thinking of doing one of his company and unit.
Force Ten please share your work? Very interesting
@@TheRealDill93 My facebook is myles turnbaugh.some of my work is on there .I will report progress on there if you want to check in .
Force Ten cool man. Thank you. I’ll check it out. I appreciate it
An uncle of my wife (also a Wilhelm) was killed in the Russian advance near Kielce, Poland on 12/13 January 1945. He was twenty one. He has no known grave. I wonder if the family has his service book and if there are any such letters. Your poignant video prompts me to enquire.
Great Job!
Thank you very much! :)
Gr Nick
Respectfully done too. Very interesting.
Everyone of these soldiers at the Ostfront are dear to me - my grandfather fought there and survived he was one of the kindest men ever - the waste of German and russian life there makes me sad. Germans and Russians are brothers in reality but they both got abused by their regimes
If people finally wake up to realize they are being played today, just like in WW1 and WW2; we'd have a different world. All wars are bankster wars.
Your grandfather and the other 2 million Nazi soldiers invading Russia, ... had nothing to do there. 16 million Russian civilians have been murdered by the Angriffmacht, sorry, Wehrmacht. Did your grandfather ever told what he did there?
Pretty emotional for a soldier family.
oh what a sad memory .. I raise a prayer for the soldier Junker and his family
My grandfather brother died in September 1944 at the age of 23 years . He was a motorcyclist.
Oh. that's sad.. so young.. RIP!
Great history about is german soldier...thanks to share this things and congratulations for your respect and care for preserve this documents...
God Bless You for a really good dedication of that soldier lift.
Thank you very much for watching!!
Gr Nick
Wow letter gave me the chills , were did you get it from ?
I once bought in online!
Personal items like this are so special..
Thank you for watching! :-)
Gr Nick
War is declared by nations, but fought by individuals. With out proof of anything else, he was a husband and solider. Doing what many other were...trying to stay alive and come home
These documents belong with the surviving family of this soldier. Nevertheless, you show and demonstrate a great level of respect for these documents of history.
The fact that this man has all these documents, tells me this soldier has not been forgotten
@@Diemerstein Agreed...and may this brave soldier rest in peace. Never Forgotten !
@Amanda B Yes that's true... And it's the holders responsibility to find that out. Cheers.
That was some powerful reading!
du bist in unserem herzen,,,,,,,,und unvergessen,,,,,,gott mit uns.
He actually died in March. May, in German, is Mai. Great video
As far as I know, my native town Talne(Talnoje),( Cherkassy region, Ukraine) were liberated from the Germans on March 8 or 9 in 1944. I heard a little story about young soldier, who asked a some water at my grandmother's parents home leaving Talne. He did'nt want to fight. But then they find out that he were killed near. Also my great-grandmother told me about good and very terrible things that German soldiers did here. For example, all Jews from Talne was kill'd on August 16-18 in 1941 and in Fabruary 1942. The history is different. I think you all understand me
The Germans usually substitute the j for a y ......."Talnoje" is Talnoye about 40km east of Uman. Now possibly modern day Tal'ne
As to the battle listed at the time of his death was the Russian Uman-Botoșani Offensive until 3/5 through 4/17 1944
German 8th army sustained 45,000 KIA and 10 German divisions destroyed or decimated, Army Group South cut in half.
As to the timeline the death of this soldier in Talnoje on March 7th, it is about 40km east of Uman (liberated on March 10th) by the Soviets scattering General Ernst-Eberhard Hell’s VII Corps in the immediate area. So probably there were many mass burials in or around the region.
Very nice and Lovely made Video, but it's Sad for me that so many young man died in WWII at both sides. My beloved Grandpa came home fortunately about 6 Years of Russian War Prison, he died at 2006 whith age 89-he spoke never about the War Time .
R.I.P Grandpa and all they let her life in WWII.
Thx for your Video-go on !
These are remarkable documents, not only in condition, but completeness so I hope this young soldier's family will now be aware of the fate of their relative
GOTT BLESS Wilhelm JUNKER
Wilhelm JUNKER, how many people did you shoot in Russia?
@@sudfac sO MANY THAT IT STOPPED THE COMMUNIST FROM TAKING ALL OF EUROPE
@@JOEBURNES2006 Yes, I understand now : To stop communists from taking over all of Europe, German soldiers killed Poles, French, Norwegians, Danes, English, Greeks and Jews.
@@sudfac Yes, they wanted their cities and land back that were unjustly taken after the first world war. They offered to Poland that they could keep the land Poland had in east Germany for a simple land bridge to the German city of Danzig Poland refused burned German by blood farms in the land they had in Germany and sent raiding parties into Germany to attack Germans -So after warning them they went in and destroyed the polish army in 6 weeks. The French and the English declared WAR on Germany and the German Army and Waffen SS drove both army out of Europe. The Russians then went into Poland and killed 50,000 Polish prisoners of war (look up kaytan forest massacre) the Russians then had a plan to take all of europe so they moved up 3 million men to the German border and made two air fields on the boarder as well as trains filled with tanks the plan of having Germany attack England Get depleted then they would all out attack Europe. Oh and Yes People get killed in war.
@@sudfac As many as he could to save Europe from the communists
Nice collection of paperwork. Note: Marz is the German word for March. Not May as you have written or reported several times.
Thanks, yes i know.. i made a mistake in the subtitles, it's in the description of the video.
according to the subtitles and translation this soldier was a senior corporal? Great piece of personal history. It tells a lot about the superb organization of the German armed forces.
These documents belonged to the soldiers family.
Yes - they most certainly do. An effort should be made to locate surviving family members.
@Dan Gurău You're absolutely correct Dan - the nearest living relative.
When a soldier died the Wehrpass was sent to the next of kin. I’ve seen a lot of cases where the family will sell these type of documents because of the value £€$ or even destroy them because they don’t want to be associated with the time period.
Very Touching. The date was March not May though . It would be nice to see the translation of the letters.
Yes, i know, I said in the description i made a mistake in the subtitles ;)
Thanks for watching!
Gr Nick
Thank you for sharing this video I love anything about the wars it’s so tragic for theses young soldiers I’m from German decent on my mother’s fathers side and not all German soldiers are the same they did what all soldiers done was fight for there country. To all of the fallen and alive today thank you for your service ♥️
Do you like jews lol
Carlos Reyna what do you mean by that
Carlos Reyna well yes I’m half Jewish and polish on my dads side
Carlos Reyna what about you
@@laneyspangle4474 damn
Really decent people and soldiers! Interesting video! Respect for the fallen!
man this is awesome,kepp up the good work 😀
Thanks a lot for watching!! :)
Gr Nick