Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 14 of diary of an enlisted man in Germany's army, who served on both the Eastern and Western fronts and was wounded four times before being captured in 1944. After a highly unpleasant stay in a French POW camp, he was turned over to American authorities and sent to the U.S., where he spent a comparatively comfortable 14 months in several POW camps. Repatriated in 1948, He worked as a dental technician until his death. This is link of the playlist ruclips.net/p/PLGjbe3ikd0XEB0tw8c5PNFvQWdL0-eYAy Link of part 1 ruclips.net/video/r0biN5f4_N4/видео.html Link of part 2 ruclips.net/video/Zt1NBHVPNrU/видео.html Link of part 3 ruclips.net/video/Cp0Mzh9Q5wE/видео.html Link of part 4 ruclips.net/video/X_lBu9c-wOg/видео.html Link of part 5 ruclips.net/video/EPCJLhYQNf0/видео.html Link of part 6 ruclips.net/video/TDqEeT1BZLQ/видео.html Link of part 7 ruclips.net/video/BxZCDasoXwU/видео.html Link of part 8 ruclips.net/video/dl72ezOQiYo/видео.html Link of part 9 ruclips.net/video/tlCY2Ev1mjY/видео.html Link of part 10 ruclips.net/video/n7sWURlHS78/видео.html Link of part 11 ruclips.net/video/RlRQCeVAJUg/видео.html Link of part 12 ruclips.net/video/ch5LrfRc-qc/видео.html Link of part 13 ruclips.net/video/GLXM6IiuuLw/видео.html
My Papa was a pow brought to the U. S. He ended up in n. Dakota. Working in sugar beet fields. It may have been Colorado. It’s amazing to hear now about what he must have experienced. He told of some funny things that happened in the camps. I consider it a miracle that he came back from the war. He told of marching into Russia. The Americans treated us good he said.
@@henrikchristensen7118 Why would you think that's unusual? I see videos about times and places where my family members were present. There could be 200 guards who rotated through Greeley over 3 years, and those men could have thousands of descendants by now.
@@goodday126 your father would be app. 95 by now, - making you no less than 70. Are you (no less than) 70-75 years old? when we see uploads of this kind, EVERYONE has a father who was involved of some sorts.. so I just don’t believe you..
@@henrikchristensen7118 What does my age have to do with skyhigh6's age? Do you think older people don't use the internet? I've worked with many skilled IT professionals in their late 60's. A 70 y.o. person would have been in their 40's when the internet was proliferating, and a significant percentage owned computers before that.
It's really amazing to me that we treated them good, but in the same respect they didn't treat us well at all what do they have to gripe about. They don't understand that a rations were also cut for Americans to. The only difference is we grew gardens which supplemented our food. Some of these guys don't sound grateful that we were feeding them so well. Our guys weren't eating that well.
The only thing remaining of the prison camp outside of Greeley are the two roughly built stone towers that were the entrance gate into the camp. Unless they have torn them down since I was last there, they are on the road going from Greeley to Loveland on the north side of the road before you get to the turn off for Windsor. You have to know where to look, because if you blink you will miss them.
Right out of college at UNC, I lived for awhile on a farm near Gill, Colorado while attending job training at the phone company in Greeley. The house had been moved from the POW camp in 1950 and it was once their barracks.
My father was a B-17 pilot shot down over Schweinfurt in '43. Initially, he said they were treated decently considering the circumstances. Fairly soon the Red Cross delivery parcels stopped and his meals were soon comprised of cabbage and a weird bread of flour and sawdust. He noticed the guards ate the the same as he did. I assume it wasn't a great experience at all for pows and guards. Weird hearing these guys complaining about harvesting sugar beets. Dad would have greatly preferred to work for a good meal vs crapping his bowels out for nearly 2 years for a rank cabbage swill.
The murdered Polish pows of the Katyn war crime done by the Soviets gained maximum credibility because the USA was still neutral and there were American diplomats still stationed in Berlin who were quickly invited to view the freshly discovered atrocity.
The unimaginable Hell these men went through. They are human. Wounded, defeated, captured, shipped across an ocean then incarcerated. Then shipped back overseas to their homes in a defeated , destroyed, war torn country. They have a right to whine a little.
They are not really liking the results of their making. They for the most part are have been brainwashed by their Nazi leaders since childhood. Most of the ideas they were taught are still set in their mind. Retraining will take a long time. I had a daughter in law that my son picked up while stationed in Germany who told me she was taught in school that Hitler was really a good leader and only wanted to unite the countries into one country like the USA.
One wonders if many of these German POWs felt grateful they were safe and well fed in America far from the war and the horrors that what fell on so many of their countrymen with the invading red army. Some of the diaries read in these blogs of soldiers and what they saw happen to their women and children are so sad I actually feel pity for all those Germans and the hell that befell them. I felt pity for the Ukraine people as well as Russian people who were butchered by the invading SS. Many German POWs taken by the Soviet army never survived captivity. Many never saw home or their families again.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography picture 📷 of migrant ( POW ) farm 🚜 workers. Once again mind you!!! Edible meals/clean uniforms/adequate housing/medical 🚑 assistance if needed/recreational activities/movies/canteen allowance for field work!!! 😱. 1000 fold better then a Russian Gulag style internment camp!!!😉
Do we have any diary’s of American POWs from Germany read aloud as conversation with others like this? 🤔 I love the old movie Stalag 17. The narration part from one prisoner is interesting but I guess that story was made up maybe from bits and pieces of real experiences. Some German movie maker should make a movie on an American camp of German POWs from that period. There was one made for TV movie that came out in the 1980s called, Summer of My German Soldier. About an ironic romance with a young Jewish girl who fell in love with a young German POW. This took place in the south. He escapes and she hides him away from the guards and police looking for him. Her father explodes in rage at this and great conflict emerges while it’s not a happy ending, but came off very realistic.
Your AI voice sounds fine but I really dislike the fact that you didn't go back through and correct the errors. You have slightly less subs that I do so I know you get paid for posting these. Put the work in. These are great stories.
Its from the book: "A German Odyssey: The Journal of a German Prisoner of War" published in 1991 by Helmut Horner The book has a little more detail and is easier to follow.
Computer generated. It stumbles when it has an irregular phonetic group. sugar beet = soo-gar beet without 'sh' sound. The technology is remarkable but it needs a human editor to give it additional vocabularyfor irregular words.
yeah, simple text-to-speech with a German accent (not sure why people keep calling it AI, it is not). It does stumble. The publisher of the video could clean it up though. Not sure why they don't.
I'm listening to this as I'm reading about Germany sending weapons to Ukraine to protect themselves. The USA was the leader in aiding Ukraine, now Germany is leading the way in protecting freedom. So I see it as the German people have grown to be much better people, and us Americans much worse people, and all in a generation or two. As an American, I'm ashamed. And I say Bravo to the German people 👏 🫂 🫡
Its apparent that you don't know much about German history. It has been a German foreign policy mantra to separate the Ukraine from Russia for over 100 years. The German Empire tried it in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918, and it was a policy goal of the Hitler Regime. The aid sent by the US was SEVEN TIMES what the Germans sent as of May 2023. Germany as a country, and as a people is as dead at the Deutsche Mark.
So Americans are bad now because most don’t want to continue to fund another forever war? Was 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan not enough war for you? two decades in the sandbox only for ISIS to sweep through Iraq and Syria and then the Taliban to take back over Afghanistan. Trillions were spent and those places still aren’t free. Ukraine has been corrupt since the 1980s; isn’t it reasonable for Americans to be skeptical about where money, weapons, and tanks are sent? Don’t be so naive.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 14 of diary of an enlisted man in Germany's army, who served on both the Eastern and Western fronts and was wounded four times before being captured in 1944. After a highly unpleasant stay in a French POW camp, he was turned over to American authorities and sent to the U.S., where he spent a comparatively comfortable 14 months in several POW camps. Repatriated in 1948, He worked as a dental technician until his death.
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These first person soldier's accounts of life they experienced are fascinating and a whole new perspective that war films can't do.
1000 fold better then residing in a Russian Gulag style internment camp. No Saturday night 🌙 movies!!!😭
I'm already looking forward to a breakfast coffee with one of those.
My Papa was a pow brought to the U. S. He ended up in n. Dakota. Working in sugar beet fields. It may have been Colorado. It’s amazing to hear now about what he must have experienced. He told of some funny things that happened in the camps. I consider it a miracle that he came back from the war. He told of marching into Russia. The Americans treated us good he said.
My father was a guard at Greeley but left before the camp closed. He was discharged on March 6th, 1945, because of health issues.
Right… 😂
@@henrikchristensen7118 Why would you think that's unusual? I see videos about times and places where my family members were present. There could be 200 guards who rotated through Greeley over 3 years, and those men could have thousands of descendants by now.
@@goodday126 your father would be app. 95 by now, - making you no less than 70.
Are you (no less than) 70-75 years old?
when we see uploads of this kind, EVERYONE has a father who was involved of some sorts..
so I just don’t believe you..
@@henrikchristensen7118 What does my age have to do with skyhigh6's age? Do you think older people don't use the internet? I've worked with many skilled IT professionals in their late 60's. A 70 y.o. person would have been in their 40's when the internet was proliferating, and a significant percentage owned computers before that.
Its amazing how these German POWs were able to complain given the fate they could have faced in the gulags. Amazing.
It's really amazing to me that we treated them good, but in the same respect they didn't treat us well at all what do they have to gripe about. They don't understand that a rations were also cut for Americans to. The only difference is we grew gardens which supplemented our food. Some of these guys don't sound grateful that we were feeding them so well. Our guys weren't eating that well.
The Germans weren't eating well by 1945, so prisoners were probably lucky to get anything.
The only thing remaining of the prison camp outside of Greeley are the two roughly built stone towers that were the entrance gate into the camp. Unless they have torn them down since I was last there, they are on the road going from Greeley to Loveland on the north side of the road before you get to the turn off for Windsor. You have to know where to look, because if you blink you will miss them.
Camped out once at what was left of the camp at Greely Maybe 40 years ago. I only remember concrete pads, nothing else.
Right out of college at UNC, I lived for awhile on a farm near Gill, Colorado while attending job training at the phone company in Greeley. The house had been moved from the POW camp in 1950 and it was once their barracks.
My father was a B-17 pilot shot down over Schweinfurt in '43. Initially, he said they were treated decently considering the circumstances. Fairly soon the Red Cross delivery parcels stopped and his meals were soon comprised of cabbage and a weird bread of flour and sawdust. He noticed the guards ate the the same as he did. I assume it wasn't a great experience at all for pows and guards. Weird hearing these guys complaining about harvesting sugar beets. Dad would have greatly preferred to work for a good meal vs crapping his bowels out for nearly 2 years for a rank cabbage swill.
I wonder how many Red Cross people were counting prisoner calories in Siberia. Not many, I'll venture.
The murdered Polish pows of the Katyn war crime done by the Soviets gained maximum credibility because the USA was still neutral and there were American diplomats still stationed in Berlin who were quickly invited to view the freshly discovered atrocity.
I wouldn't be on your soapbox too high how many civilians did the Americans kill in Japan?
These pow seem to have whined about pretty much everything. Their arrogance had no limits.
The unimaginable Hell these men went through. They are human. Wounded, defeated, captured, shipped across an ocean then incarcerated. Then shipped back overseas to their homes in a defeated , destroyed, war torn country. They have a right to whine a little.
They are not really liking the results of their making. They for the most part are have been brainwashed by their Nazi leaders since childhood. Most of the ideas they were taught are still set in their mind. Retraining will take a long time. I had a daughter in law that my son picked up while stationed in Germany who told me she was taught in school that Hitler was really a good leader and only wanted to unite the countries into one country like the USA.
It would be a great kindness if someone edited some of the conversations.
Yes, those genes are alive and multiplying. Pray years from now they don't have nuclear weapons!
Not arrogance. Just normal human nature.
One wonders if many of these German POWs felt grateful they were safe and well fed in America far from the war and the horrors that what fell on so many of their countrymen with the invading red army. Some of the diaries read in these blogs of soldiers and what they saw happen to their women and children are so sad I actually feel pity for all those Germans and the hell that befell them. I felt pity for the Ukraine people as well as Russian people who were butchered by the invading SS. Many German POWs taken by the Soviet army never survived captivity. Many never saw home or their families again.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography picture 📷 of migrant ( POW ) farm 🚜 workers. Once again mind you!!! Edible meals/clean uniforms/adequate housing/medical 🚑 assistance if needed/recreational activities/movies/canteen allowance for field work!!! 😱. 1000 fold better then a Russian Gulag style internment camp!!!😉
Do we have any diary’s of American POWs from Germany read aloud as conversation with others like this? 🤔 I love the old movie Stalag 17. The narration part from one prisoner is interesting but I guess that story was made up maybe from bits and pieces of real experiences. Some German movie maker should make a movie on an American camp of German POWs from that period. There was one made for TV movie that came out in the 1980s called, Summer of My German Soldier. About an ironic romance with a young Jewish girl who fell in love with a young German POW. This took place in the south. He escapes and she hides him away from the guards and police looking for him. Her father explodes in rage at this and great conflict emerges while it’s not a happy ending, but came off very realistic.
Your AI voice sounds fine but I really dislike the fact that you didn't go back through and correct the errors. You have slightly less subs that I do so I know you get paid for posting these. Put the work in. These are great stories.
Any info about the source Material? Are these memoirs publish somewhere?
@d4nilipe Sir please check memoirs of Helmut Horner, regards
Its from the book: "A German Odyssey: The Journal of a German Prisoner of War" published in 1991 by Helmut Horner
The book has a little more detail and is easier to follow.
I can't listen to a german complain about war propaganda.
Notice what appears to be s young boy standing just behind the driver's door. Or did the African corps have at least one midget?
I think the farmer's son
The Germans seemed shocked that being Nazis we thought they were Nazis
re-run.
actually no, building golf courses and swimming pools in the desert is more important than agriculture. US will eventually run out of water
Mostly made-up conversations
That sounds about right!!! Nothing wrong with excessive Emblishment to keep the attention of the captive audience.😉.
I agree
The reader mispronounces words and it is very annoying.
Computer generated. It stumbles when it has an irregular phonetic group. sugar beet = soo-gar beet without 'sh' sound. The technology is remarkable but it needs a human editor to give it additional vocabularyfor irregular words.
I find it amusing
yeah, simple text-to-speech with a German accent (not sure why people keep calling it AI, it is not). It does stumble. The publisher of the video could clean it up though. Not sure why they don't.
I'm listening to this as I'm reading about Germany sending weapons to Ukraine to protect themselves. The USA was the leader in aiding Ukraine, now Germany is leading the way in protecting freedom. So I see it as the German people have grown to be much better people, and us Americans much worse people, and all in a generation or two. As an American, I'm ashamed. And I say Bravo to the German people 👏 🫂 🫡
Its apparent that you don't know much about German history. It has been a German foreign policy mantra to separate the Ukraine from Russia for over 100 years. The German Empire tried it in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918, and it was a policy goal of the Hitler Regime. The aid sent by the US was SEVEN TIMES what the Germans sent as of May 2023. Germany as a country, and as a people is as dead at the Deutsche Mark.
So Americans are bad now because most don’t want to continue to fund another forever war? Was 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan not enough war for you? two decades in the sandbox only for ISIS to sweep through Iraq and Syria and then the Taliban to take back over Afghanistan. Trillions were spent and those places still aren’t free. Ukraine has been corrupt since the 1980s; isn’t it reasonable for Americans to be skeptical about where money, weapons, and tanks are sent? Don’t be so naive.