Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 5 of Memoirs of a German POW who was a sergeant in Rommel's Famous Afrika Korps and was captured from (battle of Tunis)North African Theater of World War 2 and sent to pow camp in America, he escaped from Camp Deming, New Mexico, in 1945 and had been on the run for forty years, This is link of the playlist ruclips.net/p/PLGjbe3ikd0XGvh2jAYm7oJwgnbXMQCPEh This is the link of Part 1 ruclips.net/video/nRZkMYgceaQ/видео.html This is the link of Part 2 ruclips.net/video/d6daOoOKlPI/видео.html This is the link of Part 3 ruclips.net/video/zhCOwneN1Ec/видео.html This is the link of Part 4 ruclips.net/video/3qlIYQUmmIc/видео.html We really hope that you are enjoying this series 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 !
I am so enjoying listening to Georg. His story has "ups, downs, and all-arounds" and not just downs. Growing up in Ireland I met a number of German Internee's who had been incarcerated in Ireland during WW2 who had decided to stay and build a life there. Good guys each and every.
As an army Brat, I grew up in Germany in the late 70s early 80s with my father, who was in the US Army. We didn’t have television so we had to read a lot. Your stories brings my imagination back to life. Thank you for putting these stories together I look forward to going back to the beginning and listening to everything from the start.
It would make an excellent movie...and just think, a movie without special effects, droids, monsters... just people doing amazing things..... I'd buy a ticket but think I'd likely be one of the fiew.
I'm so grateful you have taken upon yourself the reading of war diaries and memoirs! I just love a great story told well, and you are exceptional! Thank you!
Just in case it wasn't already apparent, these are being narrated by AI. You can tell by some of the occasional mispronunciations. Nonetheless, they are few, and the end product is very good and suffers because of them very little. It doesn't really detract from my enjoyment at all. :)
I am used to dealing with non-native speakers of English, being a long time teacher of ESL, so that doesn't bother me much. I studied German and, though far from proficient, it is mispronunciations of German in what is a German memoir that startle, if not bother, me most. This can not currently be easily solved because an English language AI pronounces German wrong, but a German language AI would pronounce English wrong. This is an interesting issue, made more complex by the fact that English uses many German words like kindergarten, While Germans use many English and French words. @@mwirkk
Robert Stack was portraying FBI Elliott Ness in a 1950-60's TV series. My neighbor was German, Mr Braun, now deceased. He walked over one day when we returned from rock climbing and shared his experience at climbing training in the Wehrmacht. I never imagined I would be sharing a common experience with a WW2 German soldier, as My parents were both either in the Pacific theater of War or did crypto analysis of signals intelligence of the German Navy. We can't help where we were born,not really what we believe. Society dictates our actions, for good, or evil
So fascinating! The fact that I know well virtually all of the places Georg speaks of makes it all the more interesting. The Sierra's, San Mateo, San Francisco, Fresno and Aptos of all places!
You are so awesome, I vaguely remember a documentary about this POW. When I started to listen to your videos/audio etc... and you started posting this, I thought "Hmmm, this sounds familiar" , But you have it 100000% better. They had like a 10-15 thing about it. This has been so cool, I Love it. Keep 'em coming. I been telling all my friends . Thank You So Much .😁😄👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
"@rickdozier3609, it's fascinating to hear about Bill Klein's connection to Sugar Bowl and your memories of him, even in his later years. Such personal connections to historical figures add a unique dimension to their stories. Thanks for sharing this glimpse into the past!
Joel Hildebrand, Dean of the School of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and the Chem building is named after him. Been in the building many times to visit a friend working on her PhD. My doctorate is from Berkeley but not in Chemistry. Oh, and the Emporium on Market. Had a girlfriend who worked in the men's department back then in the late 70s through early 80s. Always used it for the back way from Mission through to Market. I will say for someone in the Afrika Korp he does panic too quickly.
A large percentage of German soldiers who came to the United States. As pows became citizens of the United States. Some like this guy didn't want to go back to Germany. Can't blame him for that. Great story unfortunately most people around the world don't feel this way anymore.
The pre-war and WW II content was very interesting to me because my first major was European History, but was focused more on culture than military matters. The issues related to being a foreigner in a foreign land was more personally interesting because I have been there. Adjusting to life in the US is the most interesting to me because my occupation for the last three decades was teaching and assisting foreign students in the US, in my wheelhouse, so to speak. I actually knew one of the German POWs who was shipped back to Germany against his will, and who spent years getting back to the US. Wie geht es dir heutzutage alles, Hans?
As a European with an American Father and Grandparents?......by my early 20's I found that there was far more to life than the US, and I went East. Today I can't leave the Southern Pacific and I can't be taken away.
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg I'm a minimum of three generations American on all sides, but some of my ancestors were here to fight in the Revolution and Civil Wars. I've been to Europe a dozen times, more if you count airport stopovers. I like Europe a lot, and there are some countries I wouldn't mind living it. My German is rusty and was never very good, but Germany, Austria and Switzerland appeal to me because I at least have some connection to them. If I had to move, I might choose South Korea, though, as that's the country I lived and worked the longest in. I wouldn't mind Japan either, but I can actually speak Korean. I taught ESL in both countries for a total of ten years. I also taught in several countries in the Middle East, but that area is too hot and the culture is too different. Turkey and Dubai are the only countries I would consider going back to.
@@JMM33RanMA My first family in America from Ireland was my 6 times great grandfather Hugh Mulligan a brother of Hercules Mulligan, America's first true spy.
@@JMM33RanMA I've lived in Australia now for 34 year's, if I was to move it would be to Vietnam or the Philippines, my work history is as a services engineer, everybody needs good water and sewerage
@@JMM33RanMA I divorced in 1996 and went back to school, lived in an overseas students share house then went out and rented and furnished a house myself, renting by the room, ended up with 13 rentals/sub rentals and 51 co-tenants many Korean. They're true individuals is my opinion, as are Vietnamese people. Have you been to Vietnam?
I read his book many years ago I checked it out at my hometown library. I had a hard time putting it down. I had forgotten a lot of this book all these years later. I have enjoyed listening to this in E-book form, even if out of order. One thing I was surprised about was his version of why the Jews have been persecuted. I do understand his reasoning and desire to stay in the United States. Maybe he is right about when he was a child and accepted things as they were. But to say it was the Christians that started the hostility and persecution is very far-fetched. Every person forms their own reasons for the things that happen, just as today. But it is a very narrow viewpoint he held on this topic. Just as I don't blame him for the things Hitler did in WWII he could have left this out of the book. Like I said, I understand his desire to stay here.
This sounds a lot like the career of the late Earnie Blake (german skier and founder of Taos Ski Valley in New Mexico). Blake wasn't POW-he was a german citizen interned when the war broke out-he would up working for the OSS (predessesor of the CIA). I met him years ago.
@jayr178 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
About the early Christians and the Jews: The Jews of that times were rebellious lot, gave the Romans a lot of trouble, for for those Romans interested in the monotheism of the Jews, a cold shoulder Or a warm welcome that unfortunately led to circumcision. Even after the rebellion in Palestine, the Jew still had status and the Christians had none, Just another eastern sects with a reputation of human sacrifice and enjoying the hostility of Jews.
.. narration voice is overly dramatic. Delivery too fast as too many "facts" are almost shouted and the bad pronunciation is annoying. Have an experienced person help with these issues ❤
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 5 of Memoirs of a German POW who was a sergeant in Rommel's Famous Afrika Korps and was captured from (battle of Tunis)North African Theater of World War 2 and sent to pow camp in America, he escaped from Camp Deming, New Mexico, in
1945 and had been on the run for forty years, This is link of the playlist
ruclips.net/p/PLGjbe3ikd0XGvh2jAYm7oJwgnbXMQCPEh
This is the link of Part 1 ruclips.net/video/nRZkMYgceaQ/видео.html
This is the link of Part 2 ruclips.net/video/d6daOoOKlPI/видео.html
This is the link of Part 3 ruclips.net/video/zhCOwneN1Ec/видео.html
This is the link of Part 4 ruclips.net/video/3qlIYQUmmIc/видео.html
We really hope that you are enjoying this series
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 !
I am so enjoying listening to Georg. His story has "ups, downs, and all-arounds" and not just downs. Growing up in Ireland I met a number of German Internee's who had been incarcerated in Ireland during WW2 who had decided to stay and build a life there. Good guys each and every.
As an army Brat, I grew up in Germany in the late 70s early 80s with my father, who was in the US Army. We didn’t have television so we had to read a lot. Your stories brings my imagination back to life. Thank you for putting these stories together I look forward to going back to the beginning and listening to everything from the start.
He could add Expert Storyteller to his set of skills. I can't stop listening to this
Fascinating, I love listening to this.
Georg, or Dennis Whiles, passed away on January 30, 2013 (aged 92)
I read his story! Epic! Needs to be made into a movie
Needs to be made into a movie
It would make an excellent movie...and just think, a movie without special effects, droids, monsters... just people doing amazing things..... I'd buy a ticket but think I'd likely be one of the fiew.
I'd go to it.
oh YEAH, All of his postings would make great movies. These stories are Awesome.
Yes let’s make a movie about a Nazi scumbag whom totally passed over what he did as a hitler youth in the thirties.
@@JohnSmith-gb5vg alrighty then. Don't think anyone said he was good, bad, or the devil. I said it would make an interesting movie.
I'm so grateful you have taken upon yourself the reading of war diaries and memoirs! I just love a great story told well, and you are exceptional! Thank you!
Just in case it wasn't already apparent, these are being narrated by AI. You can tell by some of the occasional mispronunciations. Nonetheless, they are few, and the end product is very good and suffers because of them very little. It doesn't really detract from my enjoyment at all. :)
I am used to dealing with non-native speakers of English, being a long time teacher of ESL, so that doesn't bother me much. I studied German and, though far from proficient, it is mispronunciations of German in what is a German memoir that startle, if not bother, me most.
This can not currently be easily solved because an English language AI pronounces German wrong, but a German language AI would pronounce English wrong. This is an interesting issue, made more complex by the fact that English uses many German words like kindergarten, While Germans use many English and French words. @@mwirkk
Does indeed need to be a movie
Excellent. I’m really enjoying this fellows story. Thanks for posting
So nice of you sir for your kind words and appreciation 💗
Thank you! What a great story. I really like the way he fell in love with America and why.
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow one of the best stories ever can't wait for it all
Robert Stack was portraying FBI Elliott Ness in a 1950-60's TV series. My neighbor was German, Mr Braun, now deceased. He walked over one day when we returned from rock climbing and shared his experience at climbing training in the Wehrmacht. I never imagined I would be sharing a common experience with a WW2 German soldier, as My parents were both either in the Pacific theater of War or did crypto analysis of signals intelligence of the German Navy. We can't help where we were born,not really what we believe. Society dictates our actions, for good, or evil
Thanks.
@Bob.W. Sir , You're welcome
Can’t wait for the next installment. But dread the end if the story. Thanks!
Cannot stop listening, great story 👌
Thanks for listening
Fantastic story. Thanks a lot.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Someone below said that this needs to be made into a movie. I agree. Why hasn't it happened?
Georg Gaertner, interesting story from an escape POW who eluded capture for over 40 years.
@richardthornhill4630 Sir very kind of you for being an active part of our community
Or Dennis Whiles, This is so awesome.
I don't understand. One of you saying your him?
@@TyranyFighterPatriot He died in 2013
Loads of German POW’s in my local area in England stayed on and married English girls. Several kids in my school had German surnames.
So fascinating! The fact that I know well virtually all of the places Georg speaks of makes it all the more interesting.
The Sierra's, San Mateo, San Francisco, Fresno and Aptos of all places!
This guy went from picking grapes with Mexican migrants to schmoozing with Hollywood actors and college snow bunnies.
Only in America....
I was just working down the street from Sugar Bowl. What a small
world. Very interesting.
So cool!
You are so awesome, I vaguely remember a documentary about this POW. When I started to listen to your videos/audio etc... and you started posting this, I thought "Hmmm, this sounds familiar" , But you have it 100000% better. They had like a 10-15 thing about it. This has been so cool, I Love it. Keep 'em coming. I been telling all my friends . Thank You So Much .😁😄👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Wow, thank you sir
Wow! Number 16 from Mr. Head! Impressive
Bill Klein was still there when I worked at Sugar bowl, but he was quite old by then.
"@rickdozier3609, it's fascinating to hear about Bill Klein's connection to Sugar Bowl and your memories of him, even in his later years. Such personal connections to historical figures add a unique dimension to their stories. Thanks for sharing this glimpse into the past!
Joel Hildebrand, Dean of the School of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and the Chem building is named after him. Been in the building many times to visit a friend working on her PhD. My doctorate is from Berkeley but not in Chemistry.
Oh, and the Emporium on Market. Had a girlfriend who worked in the men's department back then in the late 70s through early 80s. Always used it for the back way from Mission through to Market. I will say for someone in the Afrika Korp he does panic too quickly.
A large percentage of German soldiers who came to the United States. As pows became citizens of the United States. Some like this guy didn't want to go back to Germany. Can't blame him for that. Great story unfortunately most people around the world don't feel this way anymore.
I'll have to say, that as a Fugitive who was supposed to be keeping a low profile, he was doing a pretty bad job of it during this period!
Seriously Sugar Bowl? My Bronco broke down on the way back up to Tahoe from Tahoe in Sugar Bowl years ago!
The pre-war and WW II content was very interesting to me because my first major was European History, but was focused more on culture than military matters. The issues related to being a foreigner in a foreign land was more personally interesting because I have been there. Adjusting to life in the US is the most interesting to me because my occupation for the last three decades was teaching and assisting foreign students in the US, in my wheelhouse, so to speak. I actually knew one of the German POWs who was shipped back to Germany against his will, and who spent years getting back to the US. Wie geht es dir heutzutage alles, Hans?
As a European with an American Father and Grandparents?......by my early 20's I found that there was far more to life than the US, and I went East. Today I can't leave the Southern Pacific and I can't be taken away.
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg I'm a minimum of three generations American on all sides, but some of my ancestors were here to fight in the Revolution and Civil Wars. I've been to Europe a dozen times, more if you count airport stopovers. I like Europe a lot, and there are some countries I wouldn't mind living it. My German is rusty and was never very good, but Germany, Austria and Switzerland appeal to me because I at least have some connection to them.
If I had to move, I might choose South Korea, though, as that's the country I lived and worked the longest in. I wouldn't mind Japan either, but I can actually speak Korean. I taught ESL in both countries for a total of ten years. I also taught in several countries in the Middle East, but that area is too hot and the culture is too different. Turkey and Dubai are the only countries I would consider going back to.
@@JMM33RanMA My first family in America from Ireland was my 6 times great grandfather Hugh Mulligan a brother of Hercules Mulligan, America's first true spy.
@@JMM33RanMA I've lived in Australia now for 34 year's, if I was to move it would be to Vietnam or the Philippines, my work history is as a services engineer, everybody needs good water and sewerage
@@JMM33RanMA I divorced in 1996 and went back to school, lived in an overseas students share house then went out and rented and furnished a house myself, renting by the room, ended up with 13 rentals/sub rentals and 51 co-tenants many Korean. They're true individuals is my opinion, as are Vietnamese people. Have you been to Vietnam?
Beats growing Sugar Beets in Georgia
Had he kept the Packard he'd been a millionaire now.
I read his book many years ago I checked it out at my hometown library. I had a hard time putting it down. I had forgotten a lot of this book all these years later. I have enjoyed listening to this in E-book form, even if out of order.
One thing I was surprised about was his version of why the Jews have been persecuted. I do understand his reasoning and desire to stay in the United States. Maybe he is right about when he was a child and accepted things as they were. But to say it was the Christians that started the hostility and persecution is very far-fetched. Every person forms their own reasons for the things that happen, just as today. But it is a very narrow viewpoint he held on this topic. Just as I don't blame him for the things Hitler did in WWII he could have left this out of the book. Like I said, I understand his desire to stay here.
Prof. Hildebrand? We used his book at USC.
He's got a wikipedia page if you want a overview.
#5
This sounds a lot like the career of the late Earnie Blake (german skier and founder of Taos Ski Valley in New Mexico). Blake wasn't POW-he was a german citizen interned when the war broke out-he would up working for the OSS (predessesor of the CIA). I met him years ago.
Can you put these in order? Pt 1 , pt2, etc
@jayr178 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
Wonderful series, but please, please, use a human narrator for future issues.
About the early Christians and the Jews: The Jews of that times were rebellious lot, gave the Romans a lot of trouble, for for those Romans interested in the monotheism of the Jews, a cold shoulder Or a warm welcome that unfortunately led to circumcision. Even after the rebellion in Palestine, the Jew still had status and the Christians had none, Just another eastern sects with a reputation of human sacrifice and enjoying the hostility of Jews.
Who narrates this?
Wonderful storytelling of an inspirational life.. only downside is that this seems to be an AI-aided reader.
See, when the gunshots went off, he should have gone out the back door.
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.. narration voice is overly dramatic.
Delivery too fast as too many "facts" are almost shouted and the bad pronunciation is annoying.
Have an experienced person help with these issues ❤
Funny, I found those traits charming and typical of someone who’s English is self taught.