Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 2 of Memoirs of a German Panther Tank Commander, He left school at age 15, going directly into the German youth labor forces and then the Wehrmacht panzer training schools. By the age of 18, he was the driver of a Tiger 1 tank in the Wehrmacht Heavy Panzer battalions, seeing extensive service on the Eastern Front from 1943-45, during which time his family were killed by Allied bombing. After experiencing the catastrophe of the Battle of Halbe in April 1945, he managed to break through Russian lines and surrender to the Americans on the last day of the war, a fact for which he was eternally grateful. This is the link of part 1 ruclips.net/video/7f5dnSH_76A/видео.html Please Subscribe to Our channel and Help Us Grow ,so that we may continue improving and upload more great content for World War 2 enthusiasts !
@@michaelclairforet5031You also need to tell people “Wolfgang Faust” is not a real guy, and the “memoirs” are a hoax. Not to say they are not entertaining, but the listener should know this is fiction.
@@davidduval8681 Hey David, I’ll reply here, too. Think about it… “somehow” this guy sees all this graphic super high def 360 3D battle action all through a tiny tank viewing port during the chaos of battle. None of the shots taken just hit a target or a person and the tank stops / person drops. No, they all blow up in some fantastical way. Everyone gets killed in some “final destination” / over the top horror story way in minute graphic seemingly slo-mo detail. And this guy can see all these gruesome deaths no matter if the dead guy is 300 yards away. The guy never gives a complete first and last name for anyone he serves with. He never names his unit. Nothing boring ever happens. Some of the subplots are just plain ridiculous such as transporting a female Soviet spy who’s chained up inside his armored vehicle. Even his name “Wolfgang Faust” sounds made up. If all that’s not enough to convince you, search for it and you’ll see no legit WW II historians / WW II biography & literature experts accept these “memoirs” as genuine. In particular check out Lindy Beige, he does an ep on it. He only made through a chapter before smelling a rat. These books are straight-up war pron and super-entertaining. These books are self-published, and popped up out of nowhere on Amazon a few years ago. The guy who wrote the review/forward is suspected to be the actual author. As far as I can tell no one has seen original manuscripts.
After listening to the two parts I found the incredible detail of the story too precise to be believable. I do not believe that anyone under that kind of constant and repeated near-death stresses would have the ability to later recollect all of those fantastical details. The callous hellishness of the too vivid, too many, moments would most likely cause a person's recall to become a sort of stream of conciousness experience, devoid of memory markers which stick to a human brain. Yes, a few things of greatest import would stick, but not this much. It has the feel of a fictional recall, a feat that is nowadays acceptable in our deteriorating legal system, but not here. What's more, the surprising mispronouciations of the some of the words was jarring. Is the narrator a native English speaker, or perhaps an AI machine?@@mattkaustickomments
I'm 72 and have met German immigrants who survived ww2 and a few people that had escaped from Eastern Europe in the 50s and 60s. They loved America and were grateful for a chance to come here.
Yep... "America Bad is being taught".....yeah right! Greatest country on God's earth!! God Bless America, Long live The Republic! @@otpyrcralphpierre1742
@@otpyrcralphpierre1742 it's sickening. isn't it? my father was a forward observer then and he had emotional problems. i never understood until i served in vietnam. i wish i could talk to him now.
I'm 65 and I've met Jewish people whos parents escaped Nazi Germany only to come here and still feel the same discrimination and watch former Nazis welcomed into the great melting pot.
I experienced both extremes through my uncles. Neither of my grandfathers saw action: one was the radio man on a flying boat in the North Atlantic, the other was an Army electrician stationed in Iraq. But Uncle 1 was part of the relief force at the Battle of the Bulge. He would talk for hours about his experiences on the western front. Uncle 2 spent two years in Korea. He would never speak about what he experienced. He just handed me a book about P.O.W.s.
@@TooLateForIeagoI have a cousin who’s dad was in the Battle of the Bulge. Never talked about it. It eventually killed him, at the end of his life. He just lost his will to live.
Of all the episodes I have listened to, this one really showed me just how brutal that damn war was. Such wreckage and carnage because of one man's obsession with desire.
@mattkaustickomments My best friends grandfather was a Wermacht soldier who wasn't released by the Soviets until 1952. We live in Alabama. His mother's name is Gudrun Landrum.
@@anthonyfuqua6988 the “Wolfgang Faust” books, from which this episode is taken from, are very entertaining but bogus. That said, there are some real memoirs on this channel and they are very good. I don’t have a problem with the Faust stories, as long as the poster acknowledges upfront the stories are fictional and informs the viewer in the description. This poster presents the Faust stories as being real memoirs about a real guy.
It’s ok to have sympathy for the civilians and soldiers. The soldiers were kids who had nothing to do with the politics of the war. And most were drafted anyway. Even ones who were enthusiastic going in were pumped full of propaganda. You can absolutely respect and sympathize with them. The take away is don’t let your government throw away fine young men who could have contributed allot to your country had they not be wasted on a stupid war.
Horrifying account of the Osterfront in 1945 my father served in WW2 but only revealed his experiences when i joined the Army in 1967 when you're young you think nothing cannot happen to you now 50yrs later i definitely know better.
While stationed in Germany (1970-72) i met quite a few men who had fought the russians. Scary stories. Keep in mind I did a tour in Vietnam 69-70. What impressed me were the germans who had been P.O.W.s in America. They spoke in awe of the good treatment they were given by us. Although, I am sure there were exceptions but I never heard about any.
@@rizon72 You do understand the concept of revenge, don't you? If you see your whole country ravaged, your women and children murdered, you tend to do that. Not excusable, not right, just understandable. To me it's always amazing how people comment, very offended, on what the soviets did, but forgot to comment what the anglo-americans did, ravaging the whole of Germany from the sky! The Wehrmacht was destroyed by the soviets, Germany was destroyed, and their civilians murdered, by the anglo-americans.
That’s how it was intentionally written. Basically war pron. “Wolfgang Faust Memoirs” have been debunked as hoaxes by serious WW II scholars. Damn entertaining though!
I'm crying right now...the amount of suffering and desperation these people went through is just too hard to imagine! and we know many didn't made it to Western lines
I have Uncles (passed on now) that endured WW2 and Korea.... only one has ever spoken with me and on a limited amount about WW2.. he was a Gunner on a MBT... he did say the Germans WANTED to surrender to the Americans for humaine treatment....the Germans feared the Russians far more as far as POW Captivity goes...
They feared the Reds for good reason, though, huh? Call it karma, 'what goes around comes around', or 'as you sow, so you shall reap'. Whatever. The Germans had to pay for their attrocities.
All of this hell had been experienced by these veterans and displaced refugees only AFTER each of them had already gone thru 6 years of only “God knows what” struggle in this horrible world conflict. It is sure to be different while also carrying with each individual, drastic and varying degrees of trauma for each and every one of those infantry soldiers, orderlies, nurses, lieutenant-General’s office staff, teenage anti-aircraft gunners, Kriegs Marine U-Boat welders, volunteer firefighters, teachers, city council members, to the church leaders, the widows + widowers, grandparents that had to bury their children and grandchildren, university professors, preteens with no family left, and the countless orphaned infants and toddlers; No doubt they felt like the world going to end there in front of their very eyes... The environment of fiery, bloody, corpse-laden, miserable, yet very REAL hell on earth… Surrounded by it completely. every sq foot that they’re disbelieving eyes would scan over, they would witness + see nothing but this inhumane and unearthly situation. Even after going through this episode twice, and researching that mixed pocket , (Battle of the Halbë), on my own, I can’t come close to understanding how any of it must have really felt for these poor souls… ugh… May God have mercy on mankind. (except for Lenin, Stalin, Marx, and the other millions of sick, twisted , spawn of Satan Soviet bolshevik communist partisans)
War is Hell, but crazy men, time and again bring Hell onto Earth. Erinnern wir uns immer an die schrecklichen Fehler unserer Vergangenheit und wiederholen wir sie nie!
It would be great if you could add the sources of the tales. So that one would have a name with the story. Especially since this is about valor an personal stories, it would be nice if one could connect it to the name of the soldier who wrote the memoirs. Or might some of the stories be more of the imaginative kind? The events are almost too perfectly timed and too spectacular. Whatever it is: A very good series. Exciting and a thrilling 48 minutes of listening.
@phillyrube4276 Sir, when ever you watch some video ,you will find a link of playlist of that series in video description ,go to that link and you will find all the parts in sequence ,secondly the easiest way is to go to comments section of the video you are watching ,see the first comment (it will be a pinned comment by channel WW2 Tales) ,In this comment you will find the links of all the previous parts of that series ,Kind Regards
Committed atrocities in the East. Then desert the women and children. Justified that "Germany will need us after the war". The women and children needed them then.
Isn't this from the book 'The Last Panther" by Wolfgang Faust ? I seem to remember reading this book about the escape to the Elbe and surrender to the americans.
Jawohl! Panzer Kommandant Faust was a very gifted writer who had an exceptional ability for creating vivid, visual pictures in the mind of the reader with minimal adjectives.
@FinallyAlmino Sir there are eighteen videos in total of this series ,am gonna share the link of the playlist ,so that you can watch all part in series ruclips.net/p/PLGjbe3ikd0XEB0tw8c5PNFvQWdL0-eYAy
One of my high school teacher talked of a group of German soldiers who had traveled for a week so they could to surrender to his group of American soldiers.
Interesting story. Certainly a side of the war that you dont normally hear. There is an error here in that the T34 flamethrower was in the hull in place of the machine gun. Not on the turret as the main gun wa still in place on these tanks. Theres a film inside one on youtube.
You can imagine the horrors these Germans have had to endure to get to the west....but you also can imagine what these same people did to the Russians soldiers & civilians to get this much vengeance thrown back at them🇦🇺😎☠️
@@chamuuemura5314 I won't disagree with you there. The soviets and the SS were brutal. My point was that typically since the SS got disposed of, many of the Wehrmacht generals who wrote "memoirs" tended to greatly downplay their involvement in the atrocities that occurred in Eastern and Central Europe. Although the Wehrmacht did not fully participate in every aspect of the Holocaust like the SS did, they were not as "clean" as they claimed.
@davidlj53 Sir when ever you watch some video ,you will find a link of playlist of that series in video description ,go to that link and you will find all the parts in sequence ,secondly the easiest way is to go to comments section of the video you are watching ,see the first comment (it will be a pinned comment by channel WW2 Tales) ,In this comment you will find the links of all the previous parts of that series ,Kind Regards
What a story! Thank you for these two posts. Always the same results whenever all power is handed to a single man. The GOD of the Bible warned of this throughout Israel's & Judah's history. The same may be said of Rome, from the caesars to popes.
Compelling story I didn't know anything about. Can I ask if the narrator is some kind of bot? Words ending in -ed are routinely mispronounced with an extra syllable, like "sea-led" instead of sealed, which isn't correct in either British or American English according to the Cambridge Dictionary. A human narrator would be better, if more expensive.
This is read by a bot, and is not even a real memoir. You basically have to accept it as free entertainment, warts and all. My only real beef with the channel owner is that they don’t provide a disclaimer that the “Wolfgang Faust” books are not legitimate “memoirs” but are war fantasy set against the backdrop of WWII / Eastern front.
There is no movie to be made Im a vet and I've alot of my friends are ww2 and Vietnam vet's sad to say they are all gone now, they had respect for the regular army but the ss not so much the reds had Had total hate for the all Germans because off the treatment at the hands of the ss.Just let it go women and children always suffer the most sad to say .
I’ve read countless books over the last 50 yrs, I’m 60. I can’t verify this man’s personal account but I can account for the brutality. There were 27 million Russians killed and I believe 4 million Germans. By those numbers alone one realizes the carnage. I’ve read many accounts equal or worse, German and Russian.
@@davidduval8681 I'm nearly 70, I know the shit my Dad, his brothers and my wife's father went through in WW II, Korea, and Vietnam , the atrocities in WW II between the Russians and German, make this story pale to what happened over there, when you get a chance look up Japanese hell ships, they are even worse.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video and story…. However, …. I do believe that this is a written story…. Like a short novel…. Quite entertaining, but probably not true… or at least embellished
It's kinda scary how good synthetic speech is these days. Pauses, inflections, emphasis, everything. So very close to real speech 99% of the time. I think most of the slipups are spelling errors in the source material, 36:21 for example "king tiggers".
This from "The Last Panther" by "Wolfgang Faust" - one of a number of fictitious WW2 stories from a publisher called Sprech Media. These are FICTION not genuine accounts. Well researched and gripping, but ultimately not real.
Who is the narrator? If this is an artificial voice then please let all the other so called documentaries on RUclips know because the delivery and pronunciation on this is nearly perfect. If you know who the narrator is please let us know. His voice and enunciation is no longer prevalent unfortunately.
This is so confusing. Multiple videos maybe as many as 6! All of them not numbered and going by different names. Listened to two of them, can’t seem to locate the third. I’m just sorry I wasted an hour and a half of my time and can’t get to the end. Avoid WW2tales.
@cmmmiller42 Sir, when ever you watch some video ,you will find a link of playlist of that series in video description ,go to that link and you will find all the parts in sequence ,secondly the easiest way is to go to comments section of the video you are watching ,see the first comment (it will be a pinned comment by channel WW2 Tales) ,In this comment you will find the links of all the previous parts of that series ,how ever in order to watch next parts ,you have to go to playlist ,Kind Regards
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It sure bugs me that there are no titles, or names, or chapter number etc. what a crappy sloppy effort. Such wonderful memoirs that bring life to the other side of a war that should never have been fought.
@michaelclairforet5031 sir whenever you watch some video ,you will find the link of playlist in video's description ,more over go to comments section of that particular video and see the first comment (it will be pinned comment by channel) ,there you will find brief description about the soldier/aviator/sailor and you will find all the parts in sequence ),you have watched the second video of this playlist This is the link of first part ruclips.net/video/7f5dnSH_76A/видео.html
@@WW2Tales I think as entertaining as these are without saying they are fiction you are fraudulent in this effort and should be demonized and channel dropped. If fiction say so and clean up your act.
Michael, soy latte, gender confused, pony rainbow, you would not survived 1 second in April 1945 Germany. Why bash WW2 tales? He brings valuable true stories from untold stories from WW2. You are an ignorant fool, angry, and ignorant of world history.
Well…this guy whined about being thought of as a Nazi, and blamed Hitler on Versailles, so it’s not like he was an exemplar of moral courage. Like most Germans of his generation, he seems to have blamed everyone but himself.
@@pinverarityAmen. It stands out to me that none of these Nazi war dairies never seem to mention the Holocaust. Where people with politically unpopular labels were killed in millions.
How do you know any of this is a true story . There is no references that this is an actual memoir . You have to be skeptical now days AI could make up this story easily .
No winners, the Nazis had to be defeated, same with the Japanese, both have now become stable democracies, and, our allies in war and peace. Yes the sacrifice of human life is tragic, but, in this case it had to be.
Check out the book, "Single Handed." A death camp survivor serves in Korea in combat and winds up in a NK / Chinese POW camp. I am going to pursue German veterans who fought in Korea. Thank you.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 2 of Memoirs of a German Panther Tank Commander, He left school at age 15, going directly into the German youth labor forces and then the Wehrmacht panzer training schools. By the age of 18, he was the driver of a Tiger 1 tank in the Wehrmacht Heavy Panzer battalions, seeing extensive service on the Eastern Front from 1943-45, during which time his family were killed by Allied bombing. After experiencing the catastrophe of the Battle of Halbe in April 1945, he managed to break through Russian lines and surrender to the Americans on the last day of the war, a fact for which he was eternally grateful.
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You really need to put part 1 and part 2 on these, and if more then 1/5 or 2/5 etc so we can find them.
@@michaelclairforet5031You also need to tell people “Wolfgang Faust” is not a real guy, and the “memoirs” are a hoax. Not to say they are not entertaining, but the listener should know this is fiction.
@@mattkaustickomments What makes you think it is fiction?
@@davidduval8681 Hey David, I’ll reply here, too. Think about it… “somehow” this guy sees all this graphic super high def 360 3D battle action all through a tiny tank viewing port during the chaos of battle. None of the shots taken just hit a target or a person and the tank stops / person drops. No, they all blow up in some fantastical way. Everyone gets killed in some “final destination” / over the top horror story way in minute graphic seemingly slo-mo detail. And this guy can see all these gruesome deaths no matter if the dead guy is 300 yards away. The guy never gives a complete first and last name for anyone he serves with. He never names his unit. Nothing boring ever happens. Some of the subplots are just plain ridiculous such as transporting a female Soviet spy who’s chained up inside his armored vehicle. Even his name “Wolfgang Faust” sounds made up. If all that’s not enough to convince you, search for it and you’ll see no legit WW II historians / WW II biography & literature experts accept these “memoirs” as genuine. In particular check out Lindy Beige, he does an ep on it. He only made through a chapter before smelling a rat. These books are straight-up war pron and super-entertaining. These books are self-published, and popped up out of nowhere on Amazon a few years ago. The guy who wrote the review/forward is suspected to be the actual author. As far as I can tell no one has seen original manuscripts.
After listening to the two parts I found the incredible detail of the story too precise to be believable. I do not believe that anyone under that kind of constant and repeated near-death stresses would have the ability to later recollect all of those fantastical details. The callous hellishness of the too vivid, too many, moments would most likely cause a person's recall to become a sort of stream of conciousness experience, devoid of memory markers which stick to a human brain. Yes, a few things of greatest import would stick, but not this much. It has the feel of a fictional recall, a feat that is nowadays acceptable in our deteriorating legal system, but not here. What's more, the surprising mispronouciations of the some of the words was jarring. Is the narrator a native English speaker, or perhaps an AI machine?@@mattkaustickomments
I'm 72 and have met German immigrants who survived ww2 and a few people that had escaped from Eastern Europe in the 50s and 60s. They loved America and were grateful for a chance to come here.
Yes, and just imagine, now our college students are telling each other that America is the worst place on Earth.
Yep... "America Bad is being taught".....yeah right! Greatest country on God's earth!! God Bless America, Long live The Republic! @@otpyrcralphpierre1742
@@otpyrcralphpierre1742 it's sickening. isn't it? my father was a forward observer then and he had emotional problems. i never understood until i served in vietnam. i wish i could talk to him now.
Very unlike the illegal immigrants we have now who are making demands.
I'm 65 and I've met Jewish people whos parents escaped Nazi Germany only to come here and still feel the same discrimination and watch former Nazis welcomed into the great melting pot.
After hearing a story like this is it any wonder why our grandfather's never want to talk about what they saw in the war…
I experienced both extremes through my uncles. Neither of my grandfathers saw action: one was the radio man on a flying boat in the North Atlantic, the other was an Army electrician stationed in Iraq. But Uncle 1 was part of the relief force at the Battle of the Bulge. He would talk for hours about his experiences on the western front. Uncle 2 spent two years in Korea. He would never speak about what he experienced. He just handed me a book about P.O.W.s.
@@TooLateForIeagoI have a cousin who’s dad was in the Battle of the Bulge. Never talked about it. It eventually killed him, at the end of his life. He just lost his will to live.
what they saw and what they had to do to get through it
I would believe it was time he needed to be with his fellow soldiers@@CorePathway
Of all the episodes I have listened to, this one really showed me just how brutal that damn war was. Such wreckage and carnage because of one man's obsession with desire.
It's amazing how he and so many Wermacht soldiers ended up U.S. citizens in the years after the war.
Yes, many did. But not this guy. He did not exist. This is a work of fiction.
@@mattkaustickomments I don't know about this episode, but this series did one on a soldier that did exist in the Afrika Corps.
@mattkaustickomments My best friends grandfather was a Wermacht soldier who wasn't released by the Soviets until 1952. We live in Alabama. His mother's name is Gudrun Landrum.
@@anthonyfuqua6988 the “Wolfgang Faust” books, from which this episode is taken from, are very entertaining but bogus. That said, there are some real memoirs on this channel and they are very good. I don’t have a problem with the Faust stories, as long as the poster acknowledges upfront the stories are fictional and informs the viewer in the description. This poster presents the Faust stories as being real memoirs about a real guy.
I know.they were our enemies but I cant help but to feel bad for the civilians caught up in this nightmare.
It’s ok to have sympathy for the civilians and soldiers. The soldiers were kids who had nothing to do with the politics of the war. And most were drafted anyway. Even ones who were enthusiastic going in were pumped full of propaganda. You can absolutely respect and sympathize with them. The take away is don’t let your government throw away fine young men who could have contributed allot to your country had they not be wasted on a stupid war.
@@davidduval8681 "The world burns because a few dozen people can't get along."
@@giantidiot31 brilliant
It’s the civilians who are at most fault.
@@AshleyHarding-ho4dj How do you figure that?
Horrifying account of the Osterfront in 1945 my father served in WW2 but only revealed his experiences when i joined the Army in 1967 when you're young you think nothing cannot happen to you now 50yrs later i definitely know better.
While stationed in Germany (1970-72) i met quite a few men who had fought the russians. Scary stories. Keep in mind I did a tour in Vietnam 69-70.
What impressed me were the germans who had been P.O.W.s in America. They spoke in awe of the good treatment they were given by us. Although, I am sure there were exceptions but I never heard about any.
they forgot to tell what terrible stories they did commit in soviet Union, I suppose, no?
@@fjmmc9907 Ah yes, this excuses what the Soviets did.
@@rizon72 You do understand the concept of revenge, don't you? If you see your whole country ravaged, your women and children murdered, you tend to do that. Not excusable, not right, just understandable. To me it's always amazing how people comment, very offended, on what the soviets did, but forgot to comment what the anglo-americans did, ravaging the whole of Germany from the sky! The Wehrmacht was destroyed by the soviets, Germany was destroyed, and their civilians murdered, by the anglo-americans.
Ask a Japanese POW. Or American citizens of Japanese decent treated like POWs.
@@rizon72 No, but then who invaded who in the first place?
This compelling story illustrates the murdering brutality of war horrifyingly well. Bravo!
One of the best WWII stories I have ever heard.
That is a hardcore story of total desperation. Why do we still not learn. I have no words.
the giant global financial lenders to western governments crave the spilling of our blood on their battlefields.
Heartbreaking to see how people act in self preservation.
The steering committee has determined that the club will definitely NOT repeat this excursion next year.
What do you expect? It's human nature.
Can't imagine the chaotic confusion/anarchy with the Russian military forces in close proximity.
Out of all of these ive listened to, this one was the most brutal to digest for me
That’s how it was intentionally written. Basically war pron. “Wolfgang Faust Memoirs” have been debunked as hoaxes by serious WW II scholars. Damn entertaining though!
I'm crying right now...the amount of suffering and desperation these people went through is just too hard to imagine! and we know many didn't made it to Western lines
Don't forget this. These soldiers did things just as bad in the invasion of Russia.
Well written, my compliments you should be proud of your work.
I have Uncles (passed on now) that endured WW2 and Korea.... only one has ever spoken with me and on a limited amount about WW2.. he was a Gunner on a MBT... he did say the Germans WANTED to surrender to the Americans for humaine treatment....the Germans feared the Russians far more as far as POW Captivity goes...
They feared the Reds for good reason, though, huh? Call it karma, 'what goes around comes around', or 'as you sow, so you shall reap'. Whatever. The Germans had to pay for their attrocities.
What happens when politicians make appeals to people's darker emotions of selfish pride, spiteful envy, and vengeful wrath.
The magnanimity of the armies of the English-speaking world towards its enemies in WWII is unparalleled by any victor in history.
Yeah...the privileged western oppressors. 😖🙄
@@mfawls9624you ready for 3 it's coming down the pipes
@@mfawls9624Garbage
Western oppressors? As opposed to holidaying in Siberia? Get real.
@@anthonystagliano9795 I was being sarcastic.
Sick of the woke chattering and hypocrisy.
It really makes you think how humans can get used to that amount of death
All of this hell had been experienced by these veterans and displaced refugees only AFTER each of them had already gone thru 6 years of only “God knows what” struggle in this horrible world conflict. It is sure to be different while also carrying with each individual, drastic and varying degrees of trauma for each and every one of those infantry soldiers, orderlies, nurses, lieutenant-General’s office staff, teenage anti-aircraft gunners, Kriegs Marine U-Boat welders, volunteer firefighters, teachers, city council members, to the church leaders,
the widows + widowers, grandparents that had to bury their children and grandchildren, university professors, preteens with no family left, and the countless orphaned infants and toddlers;
No doubt they felt like the world going to end there in front of their very eyes... The environment of fiery, bloody, corpse-laden, miserable, yet very REAL hell on earth… Surrounded by it completely. every sq foot that they’re disbelieving eyes would scan over, they would witness + see nothing but this inhumane and unearthly situation.
Even after going through this episode twice, and researching that mixed pocket , (Battle of the Halbë), on my own, I can’t come close to understanding how any of it must have really felt for these poor souls… ugh…
May God have mercy on mankind.
(except for Lenin, Stalin, Marx, and the other millions of sick, twisted , spawn of Satan Soviet bolshevik communist partisans)
tears, tears a lot of tears on this one. do not have to be there, this story is enough pain hearing it.
Good to hear from the tanker in his own words.
My eyes are tearing. I can not imagine the pain and suffering. I have never heard of anything so horrific. I cry. Part 3. I hope...
The US M1A2 SEP v3 Abrams weighs just shy of 74 short tons, even heavier than the King Tiger. Just a little trivia.
War is Hell, but crazy men, time and again bring Hell onto Earth. Erinnern wir uns immer an die schrecklichen Fehler unserer Vergangenheit und wiederholen wir sie nie!
Jawohl!
It would be great if you could add the sources of the tales. So that one would have a name with the story. Especially since this is about valor an personal stories, it would be nice if one could connect it to the name of the soldier who wrote the memoirs. Or might some of the stories be more of the imaginative kind? The events are almost too perfectly timed and too spectacular.
Whatever it is: A very good series. Exciting and a thrilling 48 minutes of listening.
These were soldiers and suffered as soldiers.
This would be a great movie.
See "The Iron Cross".
I wouldn't go see it if it was a movie. Listening to it is barely bearable....
Helluva tale.
Quite a story.
It was stunning, and I shared.
Enjoying these. Wish there was just so wecal listen in chronological order.
@phillyrube4276 Sir, when ever you watch some video ,you will find a link of playlist of that series in video description ,go to that link and you will find all the parts in sequence ,secondly the easiest way is to go to comments section of the video you are watching ,see the first comment (it will be a pinned comment by channel WW2 Tales) ,In this comment you will find the links of all the previous parts of that series ,Kind Regards
Committed atrocities in the East. Then desert the women and children. Justified that "Germany will need us after the war". The women and children needed them then.
Fascinating and horrifying story.
If I have the correct Halbe, it's 59km SSE of the center of Berlin.
Baruth is WSW of Halbe and almost due South of Berlin.
This narrator has done a great job a really good job.
its an AI
@@override367Its odd pronounciations give that away.
It's AI. I love the stories but hate the AI pronunciation.
Isn't this from the book 'The Last Panther" by Wolfgang Faust ? I seem to remember reading this book about the escape to the Elbe and surrender to the americans.
@ricktrenaman6838 You are right Sir .
Jawohl!
Panzer Kommandant Faust was a very gifted writer who had an exceptional ability for creating vivid, visual pictures in the mind of the reader with minimal adjectives.
I;ve never heard absolute war communicated so well
Hey this is great, is there any more? Please post a link or tell me the name of the site or app where I can buy it
@FinallyAlmino Sir there are eighteen videos in total of this series ,am gonna share the link of the playlist ,so that you can watch all part in series
ruclips.net/p/PLGjbe3ikd0XEB0tw8c5PNFvQWdL0-eYAy
Hi Is this a fictional account or a memoir of a real commander ? & by the way your fb page is fantastic + thank you for uploading the audio books
one day aI will find all the pics and diaries etc of each event. will be cool
War is never as good as some imagine.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Unfortunately for the Germans, they had to learn this the hard way.
The russians were sadistic thugs long before the war.
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One of my high school teacher talked of a group of German soldiers who had traveled for a week so they could to surrender to his group of American soldiers.
Damn this is crazy
I’m suprised they still had matinence crews for the panzers even in the last few days of the war.
Support ukranians
The ghastly consequences of war 😢
Interesting story. Certainly a side of the war that you dont normally hear. There is an error here in that the T34 flamethrower was in the hull in place of the machine gun. Not on the turret as the main gun wa still in place on these tanks. Theres a film inside one on youtube.
Ok, hold on a second. Are these actual diaries from real people or are these fictional stories? I’m new to the channel and a little confused.
Usually autobiographies.
It's a fictional book sold as an autobiography. A scam sort of. Search for; "Wolfgang Faust - The Last Panther - askhistorians"
You can imagine the horrors these Germans have had to endure to get to the west....but you also can imagine what these same people did to the Russians soldiers & civilians to get this much vengeance thrown back at them🇦🇺😎☠️
It was mostly the SS, not the German Wermacht, in general.. There were many honorable Germans who fought in WWII, like FM Rommel.
@@Austrian_blood bull shit he and almost all knew what was going on and went to war to keep the evil in power.
@@Austrian_bloodThe Wehrmacht did not have clean hands.
@jeffreyharris3440
The Wehrmacht and every other army had at least one guilty soldier but the SS and Soviets were inhuman from the top down.
@@chamuuemura5314 I won't disagree with you there. The soviets and the SS were brutal. My point was that typically since the SS got disposed of, many of the Wehrmacht generals who wrote "memoirs" tended to greatly downplay their involvement in the atrocities that occurred in Eastern and Central Europe. Although the Wehrmacht did not fully participate in every aspect of the Holocaust like the SS did, they were not as "clean" as they claimed.
Where can I download computer generated voiceover like this for video production? Any ideas? Thanks!
@crstothard Try checking Speechify, LOVO AI , Murf AI
@@WW2Tales Thanks! Greetings from NYC!
@@crstothard So kind of you sir ,all the best for your project and channel
@36:21 "...King Tiggers..." ;)
The automated narration is actually quite good, but this slip up gave me a chuckle.
Lots of self-righteous posting today.
Here’s the most self-righteous and most accurate post: “Wolfgang Faust Memoirs” have been debunked as hoaxes. Still entertaining though.
Nothing new eh?
This strangely reminds me of ww z book in its horror parts.
So are these fiction or actually written by soldiers based on true events?
war is hell
Is it AI narrating?
Please label these videos, it’s great content but no numbers, very confusing
@davidlj53 Sir when ever you watch some video ,you will find a link of playlist of that series in video description ,go to that link and you will find all the parts in sequence ,secondly the easiest way is to go to comments section of the video you are watching ,see the first comment (it will be a pinned comment by channel WW2 Tales) ,In this comment you will find the links of all the previous parts of that series ,Kind Regards
How can regular, middle class Americans ever feel depressed?
What a story! Thank you for these two posts. Always the same results whenever all power is handed to a single man. The GOD of the Bible warned of this throughout Israel's & Judah's history. The same may be said of Rome, from the caesars to popes.
At least Luftwaffe woman went out with a bang.
@fishheds Lol :D
WHAT IS A jagd Panther?
Jagpanzer is a tank destroyer.
Literally = "Tank Hunter"
Basically a tank with a fixed gun on it. Fully armored crew compartments. No turret. They were very effective anti tank machines
Turetless tank
google says its a tank destroyer
Listening to this AI is like listening to Officer Crabtree...
Compelling story I didn't know anything about. Can I ask if the narrator is some kind of bot? Words ending in -ed are routinely mispronounced with an extra syllable, like "sea-led" instead of sealed, which isn't correct in either British or American English according to the Cambridge Dictionary. A human narrator would be better, if more expensive.
This is read by a bot, and is not even a real memoir. You basically have to accept it as free entertainment, warts and all. My only real beef with the channel owner is that they don’t provide a disclaimer that the “Wolfgang Faust” books are not legitimate “memoirs” but are war fantasy set against the backdrop of WWII / Eastern front.
Please do these stories justice by having them narrated by an actual person
There is no movie to be made Im a vet and I've alot of my friends are ww2 and Vietnam vet's sad to say they are all gone now, they had respect for the regular army but the ss not so much the reds had Had total hate for the all Germans because off the treatment at the hands of the ss.Just let it go women and children always suffer the most sad to say .
I wonder if these stories are real? Are they vetted? Who are the authors? Or is this war histories version of a creepy pasta? I would like to know?
I’ve read countless books over the last 50 yrs, I’m 60. I can’t verify this man’s personal account but I can account for the brutality. There were 27 million Russians killed and I believe 4 million Germans. By those numbers alone one realizes the carnage. I’ve read many accounts equal or worse, German and Russian.
How old are you?
@@russellnc 60.
@@davidduval8681 I'm nearly 70, I know the shit my Dad, his brothers and my wife's father went through in WW II, Korea, and Vietnam , the atrocities in WW II between the Russians and German, make this story pale to what happened over there, when you get a chance look up Japanese hell ships, they are even worse.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video and story…. However, …. I do believe that this is a written story…. Like a short novel…. Quite entertaining, but probably not true… or at least embellished
You can chose not to believe. But it would be a shame to live life ignorant of history just because of a refusal to believe. Good luck man.
It's kinda scary how good synthetic speech is these days. Pauses, inflections, emphasis, everything. So very close to real speech 99% of the time. I think most of the slipups are spelling errors in the source material, 36:21 for example "king tiggers".
Im not a fan of the Russians, the germans were brutal also. Civilians so sad.
Sorry...but these folks should have thought better about the Thousand year Reich
One photo n 48 minutes?
This from "The Last Panther" by "Wolfgang Faust" - one of a number of fictitious WW2 stories from a publisher called Sprech Media. These are FICTION not genuine accounts. Well researched and gripping, but ultimately not real.
The AI voice has a way to go with pronunciation. 😏👎
Who is the narrator? If this is an artificial voice then please let all the other so called documentaries on RUclips know because the delivery and pronunciation on this is nearly perfect. If you know who the narrator is please let us know. His voice and enunciation is no longer prevalent unfortunately.
Obviously read out by a computer and full of errors.
This is so confusing. Multiple videos maybe as many as 6! All of them not numbered and going by different names. Listened to two of them, can’t seem to locate the third. I’m just sorry I wasted an hour and a half of my time and can’t get to the end. Avoid WW2tales.
@cmmmiller42 Sir, when ever you watch some video ,you will find a link of playlist of that series in video description ,go to that link and you will find all the parts in sequence ,secondly the easiest way is to go to comments section of the video you are watching ,see the first comment (it will be a pinned comment by channel WW2 Tales) ,In this comment you will find the links of all the previous parts of that series ,how ever in order to watch next parts ,you have to go to playlist ,Kind Regards
@cmmmiller42 Sir accept our apologies for causing inconvenience ,if you are still unable to find other parts ,please tell ,we will share the links of all parts with you ,regards
Its all made up by AI bots . They scan the history data base and make uo a fictional story . Its a stupid waste of our time .
It sure bugs me that there are no titles, or names, or chapter number etc. what a crappy sloppy effort. Such wonderful memoirs that bring life to the other side of a war that should never have been fought.
@michaelclairforet5031 sir whenever you watch some video ,you will find the link of playlist in video's description ,more over go to comments section of that particular video and see the first comment (it will be pinned comment by channel) ,there you will find brief description about the soldier/aviator/sailor and you will find all the parts in sequence ),you have watched the second video of this playlist
This is the link of first part ruclips.net/video/7f5dnSH_76A/видео.html
I believe it was completely unavoidable. When “they” require war, they will get it no matter the cost
@@WW2Tales I think as entertaining as these are without saying they are fiction you are fraudulent in this effort and should be demonized and channel dropped. If fiction say so and clean up your act.
Michael, soy latte, gender confused, pony rainbow, you would not survived 1 second in April 1945 Germany. Why bash WW2 tales? He brings valuable true stories from untold stories from WW2.
You are an ignorant fool, angry, and ignorant of world history.
How exactly is one to explain total chaos? Or to be a part of it? Your query from your chair of comfort is disgusting.@@michaelclairforet5031
These days there's people whining that they're not being called by their preferred pronouns....
Well…this guy whined about being thought of as a Nazi, and blamed Hitler on Versailles, so it’s not like he was an exemplar of moral courage. Like most Germans of his generation, he seems to have blamed everyone but himself.
Back then there were other people to terrorize into hiding I suppose.
@@pinverarityAmen. It stands out to me that none of these Nazi war dairies never seem to mention the Holocaust. Where people with politically unpopular labels were killed in millions.
Well, these events can happen to armies who's leaders start wars of annihilation.
Mis-gendering me is a HATE CRIME! (Listens to a few WWII stories). OK, never mind.
TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT DONT KNOW THIS IS NOT REAL AND IS BASED ON A FICTIONAL BOOK CALLED THE LAST PANTHER.
How do you know any of this is a true story . There is no references that this is an actual memoir . You have to be skeptical now days AI could make up this story easily .
It is a reading of "The Last Panther", a historical fiction book by Todd Mitchell
But was what it all for?
Stopping Hitler maybe?
Well, yes, obviously. But what was Hitler trying to do? @@rosscampbell1173
Being able to surrender to the American military forces. Was worth the chaotic/retreat. For both military & civilian refugees.
To stop vicious deranged fascists like tRump from becoming the next Hitler.
The whole war? Study human history, this kind of senseless war has happened more times than anyone can count.
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And Germany still wants to fight Russia in Ukraine? Utter criminal madness. 👎😵💫🙏🇦🇺🦘
This kind of madness won’t stop until Jesus returns, it will only get worse until then.
Moses will part the red sea and free the people from bondage.lol.
Then he'll see his shadow and there will be six more years of war
😂
Sandwich King you are so right. I look forward to His return but not looking forward to wars and rumors of war and death and pestilence.
they left their women and children to the mercy of rapists and murderers ! tells you all you need to know about this rabble. looking after number one
There are victors and no winners in war we all loose in it's tragedy
@gardenbasha22 "Only If We Learn "
No winners, the Nazis had to be defeated, same with the Japanese, both have now become stable democracies, and, our allies in war and peace. Yes the sacrifice of human life is tragic, but, in this case it had to be.
@@keithkuckler2551Gotta luvs our democracy!
What do you expect from the mental ie ill?
why use AI, not only errors of pronounciation on a regular basis. but also factual errors
This ai is ass
Some of these men fought for the US in the Korea war
And Australia
Check out the book, "Single Handed." A death camp survivor serves in Korea in combat and winds up in a NK / Chinese POW camp. I am going to pursue German veterans who fought in Korea. Thank you.
This is bad but stuff like this has never quit it’s still happening
There is no such thing as a kind war