well done great Lecture !...in 1941 my Australian Grandfather was seriously wounded in the Easter battle at Tobruk. Stopping Rommel from getting the Suez and the vast supplies of Oil....now since then his people 'the Australians' have been covertly exterminated ...
The Barbarossa operation was so bizarre to me. (Hitler) thought he needed to defeat Russia to defeat Britain. What a dunce. He just needed Japan involvement during operation sea lion. Japan didn't need to attack pearl harbor but instead attack Britain with Germany. Such a wasted opportunity for the axis.
When based in germany in 1980-85 i met dozens of wartime vets, most were friendly and interested in telling me their story which i was facinated to listen to. Most were happy they survived and it was long over, but I can remember on a couple of ocasions where you could tell they were still bitter these were the ones i wanted to speak to but my german friends would warn me not to push my luck! even in their 60's and 70's they looked tough.
My Grandfather’s brother, a member of the Ustashe, and ardent fascist, was wounded in October in Stalingrad. He was evacuated right before Uranus. He continued to fight for the Germans til the end of the war- fighting Tito’s partisans near Split on the Mediterranean coast. Very strange and angry man, but I was always fascinated by him and his connection to history. He was a hateful man - the worlds problems were all because of Serbs, Muslims, and Bolsheviks. I wish I could have talked with him later in life, he died when I was 12, just to try and understand him and what he had been thru. He never spoke to anyone in the family unless spoken to first and as far as I can remember I was the only one who exchanged more than 3-4 words with him. He gave me, a 10 year old, a $100 bill one year at Xmas. He told me not to tell anyone and use the money to do what boys do best - “what is that?” I asked him. He smiled, the only time I ever saw him smile, and told me “get into trouble”. Epilogue: I bought an Alva Fred Smith III skateboard deck and a pair of Gullwing trucks with that $100
Thanks for that. I know this history and went to these places in 1972. There are many books about British agents and local resistance in Yugoslavia and Albania.
Thanks for that. I know this history and went to these places in 1972. There are many books about British agents and local resistance in Yugoslavia and Albania.
Thanks for that. I know this history and went to these places in 1972. There are many books about British agents and local resistance in Yugoslavia and Albania.
Satan is the ruler of this world and God allows him to go on for a limited time to prove a point, and that is that rebelling against God is self destructive. God's Messiah, Jesus will soon take Satan down and resurrect all innocent people to life again. This is the Christian hope. Atheist scoffers have NO HOPE to offer poor suffering mankind, just DESPAIR The Bible explains it - Satan rules the world and is trying to destroy it because he knows his own destruction is coming soon. (1 John 5:19 & Revelation 12:12)
@@rossyerkes5217 This is an accurate depiction of what is happening, but no need to include the Bible or Jesus. It is self evident for all aware humans.
Normally I get bored by posts of still images with a narration but this one in particular I couldn't look away from! The soldaten's account of last days of the Wehrmacht in Stalingrad are fascinating, and told in a very engaging way.
Satan is the ruler of this world and God allows him to go on for a limited time to prove a point, and that is that rebelling against God is self destructive. God's Messiah, Jesus will soon take Satan down and resurrect all innocent people to life again. This is the Christian hope. Atheist scoffers have NO HOPE to offer poor suffering mankind, just DESPAIR The Bible explains it - Satan rules the world and is trying to destroy it because he knows his own destruction is coming soon. (1 John 5:19 & Revelation 12:12)
I am grateful for your interpretation of German involvement in WW2 which has given me a more humanitarian understanding of how people were affected by events.
Brother of my grandfather was fighting in Stalingrad as member of Croatian 369 infantry regiment.Nobody knows what hapened with him and where is his resting place
Years ago I read the novel 'Babi Yar",,,It was about the war from the perspective of a 12 year old who lived in Kiev. If you ever have the chance, read it,, I do not recall the author but it was almost a life changing experience for me. The novel portrayed the goodness and utter depravity and madness which becomes commonplace during wartime. Complex characters,, nobody wanted to be there under that situation ,, they all just wanted it to be over with and to go home to their little farm or house and to be with their family,,,,,,
Anatoly Kuznetsov wrote the book; I read it in 1973 while still in high school and it was transformative for me too. It really blew away the romanticism of war that my generation had been indoctrinated with by Hollywood.
If you haven't already, "The forgotten soldier" by Guy Sajer is a classic and maybe the best account of the Ostfront from the German soldaten's point of view. Or at least everyone I know that's read it, still wants to talk about it.
I worked in Germany in 1971 as a student. A coworker had fought on the Russian Front. He said out of 1000 of them, after 10 days, without confronting the Russians, only six survived, him being one and the rest freezing to death.
Thanks a lot for the clips. Mother's first husband was wounded and taken prisoner at Stalingrad. The Russians declared him dead. My mother remarried and I think was around 1953(54), I don't know exactly when I was little. It was a special situation. He was a career soldier (captain) and teacher. He told that he was subjected to humiliating situations. He had a metal spinter i the heart area and could not be operated on. He did not receive any kind of medical care from from the Russians. He was helped as much as possible by German prisoniers. It was used for agricultural work insteaded of draft animals. He had marks on his back from the leather strips he used to pull the plough.
Do you know about forced labor for Germans during the war, which was obligatory for citizens of nations conquered during the war? I knew Poles who were there and also in concentration camps. Those who lived in conquered areas, also displaced. They did not remember the Germans well. Every cgbody. for the Germans to leave, they lost the war. Germany received what it taught Europe.
These are great authentic accounts "ohne Aufschmuck". By risk of repeating myself (I follow a couple of these channels); "Krieg führen ist wie den Tür eines dunklen Zimmers öffnen....-man weisst nie genau was passieren wird" Eine sehr kluge-fast filosofische- Aussage Hitlers-2 Tage vor Unternehmen Barbarossa. And the absolute best characterization of the Eastern Front by a british historian as he described the invasion on June 22; "The Germans were about to play sublime toptennis on a SOCCERFIELD "
What I always found rather fascinating was how cleverly Goebbels and the Nazis knew how to pull the puppet strings of an entire nation. The Germans of the era, especially the males, were conditioned practically from birth to do the bidding of the Nazis. While every nation does this, Goebbels did it so adroitly most Germans never even suspected how their minds were being molded like clay in his expert hands! "Every man a soldier" Germans were raised with so many martial ideas - Germany is surrounded by enemies, only you can save your Fatherland, war is your destiny, etc. that when war came in 1939 the Germans had already been fighting in their own minds since 1933! That's why they beat the Poles and steam-rolled the French in two months, no other nation was like this at the time, not even Russia - who were too busy accusing each other of real and imaginary crimes to ever really have a coherent ideology other than "Communism = good!"
I am German and grew up a lot by my grandmother. There I met a lot of her friends . Very nice people. I still remember one friend . My grandmother said one day , after he died. The friend of mine was guilty in the Nürnberg processes . His name was Heinz Fanslau (died 1987) he was a real nazi . For me he was a friendly old men ..
Approx 5 y ago an older man approached me. He has lost his way in our German village . I brought him home. He told me that he was 90y. I did a small math, and said. You were 18 y old when the war ended ! Yeah he said. I was a Unteroffizier and fought the Russians and was captured. I spend 10 years in Siberia. I asked him do you still speak Russian (somehow a hunch) He laughed ! No, but I did . Learned it from the Russian guards. He said .. I can still sing He sang one song for me. He went home . Never seen him again His name was Georg
My friends father from Calw I think it’s spelt near the Black Forest spent five years in a Russian camp and lost all his teeth through malnutrition.He got back to Germany in 1950 . They captured a Russian one day and they never saw the hand grenade he had on him .To quote my friend “ suddenly there were two half Russians “
0:016:43 Collapsed building at Barrikady gun factory. 0:02 memoir 3:23 6-barrel nebelwerfer. 3:48 Crater [N48.6899°, E044.4754°] near the railyard of Stalingrad 2. 5:02 From a German propaganda newsreel. 7:06 On the grounds of Barrikady factory. 9:13 Conveyor-gantry stanchions by ZKO's Martenovskii smelting works? 15:14 "bekYEtovka" 18:50 The (broad) U-shaped building by Krasnoznamenskaya Ulitsa, 950 meters from the Volga. 19:01 Victory gathering by the Square of Fallen Fighters. 19:11 Photo taken from a Soviet biplane. Ruins of the L-shaped (apartment) house for railway workers at lower left. Part of 9 January Square at left. Milk House by it. At lower middle are the ruins of School No. 38. 19:29 The two storey building [N48.6969°, E044.4979°] in lower right is still intact. Near the top is the railway trestle bridge across the Tsaritsa.
Prisoners on both sides were taken by the millions and the vast majority were usually underfed at best. At worst they were killed outright (the Japanese did a whole lot of this), beaten, tortured, abused in every way mental and physical, and allowed to die by the millions and this is what happened to many prisoners of both the Wehrmacht and the Red army. Often prisoners died because their captors lacked the means to do anything other than march them somewhere and place guards over them - all the food had to go to men on their own side. This is what happened to many prisoners of the German Wehrmact, who more often than not had no interest in torturing or abusing them any further, but literally had no way to get food to them - and since they couldn't leave the area, all they could do was perish where they stood. The Red Cross was able to do much to alleviate the mass suffering, as they were usually recognized by all combatants as being neutral, the Red Cross would help any POW they could reach. Unfortunately it was war and millions of people inevitably fell through the cracks, since to feed someone you first needed to gain access to them, and on many of the battlefields, this was almost impossible.
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Special thanks to the veteran soldier sharing personal information/combat experiences. Enabling historians to replicate those diaries/memoirs for viewers to better understand. The actuality of front line precarious duties. & an added bonus story of being a ( pow )
I often see photos of the young German soldiers in the June sunshine smiling as they cross the boarder into Poland,,,, how many of these boys ever came back,,,,,
My dad told me about his friend who knew sumone on russian front. German boots had studs in sole that froze the foot. Many soldiers tokk boots off and found loose toes in boots. Must have been terrible in that weather with no proper winter uniform.
Interesting. My mother's uncle was from the same part of Austria and went in to Stalingrad, just like this man. He never came out from there though. No one ever found out what happened to him.
We both know wat happened to him, i struggle to have remorse for german soldiers during world war 2 with all the evil shit they did the holocaust the babi yar ravine masacres and does are the ones we know of, then they lost and all of a sudden hitler tricked them, stalingrad and the whole russian campaign was proof that there's a God and a people womt indefinetly get away with doing dumb shit, i save my sympathy for the children and victims caught in the crosshairs of hitler's racial purity campaign imaginr wat would have becomr of africa if germaby had won ww2
It's sad you think like that. The bulk of any army during WW2 was made up of drafted men. 90% of German soldiers were no different than American, British and Russian soldiers they were drafted and sent by their government to fight a war they wanted no part of.
Yet you do nothing about it. Letting the Russian monsters get away with murder just like when Hitler got away with murder. What the fuck is wrong with you?
I am suprised that he came back after four years and eight months captivity. I was told the German prisoners were released after ten years - for those who were alive. There were 91 000 German prisoners and barely 6 000 came back.
there was no standard duration in keeping our POW grandpas in Russia. I worked with released POW together as car mechanik. Workshop manager came back 1955 (when i was born). Other colleagues 1950 others 1951 some 1952 some 1953 others 1954 and even later than 1956. my both grandpas could walk back at the harsh end in 1945.
The last german POW in Russia came home to Germany in 1955, 10 years after the war had ended. Maybe that is where you misunterstanding has its roots from.
16:55 hard to believe that a Croatian soldier would have been under the blanket...even now the population is so low compared to many parts of the world and back in the day it was even lower...what were the odds that a guy from so far away would have been even farther from home...so unbelievable yet true.
Hearing this story I realized that two days ago was September 17th - a sad anniversary of Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 when Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and Red Army joined their forces against Polish Army. The Minsk radiostation started special broadcasts that helped German planes to navigate over Poland. Later Luftwaffe delivered special thank you letter to Soviets. But before that Germans and Soviets were bombing targets in Poland and fighting together and both killing POWs and civilians on many occasions. There was also unforgettable joint German-Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk (Brześć) on September 22nd 1939. But if you think that this red alliance ("both flags are red") was only possible because if the two men-eaters Stalin an Hitler, you are wrong. Weimar Germany had several secret bases and training grounds in Soviet Russia allowing German troops to flex their military muscles.
My WWII veteran father in law told me a few stories. And that after the battles. He and the other young men would lie in their bunks and cry for home. Sometimes upon the remembering I might notice his own moist eye.
17,000 horse evacuated the week before the capitulation, since they lacked fodder. The 13,000 left when the encirclement occurred were eaten, as described.
From the war diary of a private in the Luftwaffe, born in 1925. (my grandfather) "From March 5th to 15th, 1945, we took part in a close-air tank combat course in Zollfeld, about 7 km from Klagenfurt. The entire school (FFS A14) was then disbanded and transferred to Gardelegen to the infantry + paratroopers. On March 29th, 1945 I left Klagenfurt and arrived in my hometown of Haldensleben on April 1, 1945, the first day of Easter! I stayed here for a whole week. On Monday, April 9, 1945, we left for Gardelegen and were changed into paratroopers there. We were divided into KV -Transports one and three days later our train, the 400th Transport KV, was the last to leave Gardelegen. Via Rathenow we went to Berlin - Reinickendorf and Heiligensee. A few days later, I think on April 16, 1945, our transport was forwarded to Hoyerswerda. We were unloaded and had to walk quite a distance when we stopped in a meadow and were divided into companies. At the same time we were given weapons: machine guns, carbines, pistols and bazookas. We called ourselves Parachute - Panzer - Grenadiers. The bloody scene began on April 19, 1945. We were loaded onto trucks and driven to a ditch just behind the HKL and a forest area east of Spremberg. We occupied this ditch and spent the night there. The front was getting closer and closer. On the morning of April 20, 1945, Ivan attacked our positions with infantry and anti-tank guns. After we had lost our way, we went back to Spremberg, where we were locked in during the day. During the night we broke through with a total of 11 men and got back to our positions. We found the Pz.-Gren.-Div. "Großdeutschland", the SS Panzer Div. "Frundsberg" and the "Führerbegleitdivision" under Remer. As grenadiers we were assigned to the “Panthers” of the “Frundsberg”. These units were also already surrounded and were being squeezed more and more by Ivan. Some of them managed to escape, others were beaten up. The remains were taken prisoner. On the night of April 21st to 22nd, 1945 I was slightly wounded in the back by shrapnel (7.5cm). On April 22, 1945 I was taken prisoner by the Russians. After a long period of moving back and forth, we were stationed in Sorau in Lower Lusatia. We did labor service in a former air force barracks that was set up as a Russian hospital. On June 11, 1945, our hair was cut off except for baldness! On August 11, 1945, "Avanti" went home..."
Rip to all those lost souls , fought for their country so close to victory we lost the best on all sides ,once again rip to all those men that fell ill never forget them ,im 50 from ireland .
fought for their country... yes germany has been attacked at stalingrad... if you are sorry for enforcers of "new order" with gas chambers and slavery for masses "unworthy" to live, experiments on humans...
Over 90,000 surrender at Stalingrad and more in the general area before the fall . They say less than 5,700 made it home alive in the 1950s. These guys would've been better off fighting to there end.
A nother great video you never disappoint M C. You do a great job transcribing the German dialect and Russian dialect. Can't be easy exp if you can't read their handwriting. Even if you have a program to help you I know my spelling can be hard for me to even read. LoL great job JDP Underhill 9/2023
So MANY deaths. All of it totally unnecessary. But if you want a DIFFERENT personal perspective about the lives of German soldiers on the Russian Front then the books written by Sven Hassel & Leo Kessler are a MUST. You'll laugh out loud at least once in reading any of the books written by either of these authors.
Der Russe brauchte den Kessel nur immer weiter zusammendrücken. Damals waren es unter -30 Grad, zu wenig Essen, kaum Munition und überall Tote. Das ist keine Situation in der sich ein Mensch befinden sollte. Während meine Montagezeit in Russland war es 1986 und 1987 mit bis -42 Grad sehr kalt. Wir hatten gutes Essen, warme Kleidung und konnten uns alle 2 Stunden kurz aufwärmen. Trotzallem konnte man sich bei starken Wind und der Kälte in 15 Minuten die Nase oder Ohren erfrieren.
No. Most likely he was thinking what the Soviets did to their own people. Firng squad, a shot to the nape, or deliberate starvation as in Ucraine region. Murdering millions, even before the war. Then the invasion of Finland, Estonia, and Lithaunia. And for sure he was thinking that the declared intention of the Soviets was to "liberate" the entire world from capitalist exploitation.
@@idiot_city5444 No - the Nazis starved to death or used as slave labourers Soviet POWs in huge numbers. Unfortunately Stalin decreed that any Red Army soldier who had been taken prisoner by the Nazis was to be sent to the gulag. German POWs in general weren't treated like that by the British or the Americans. I remember a British Army officer who had been held in a POW camp a long way East, in somewhere like Silesia, telling how glad they were to see Red Army units coming in and defeating the Germans at their camp. The British POWs came out of their huts to welcome them, but very quickly went back in. From the windows, they could see that the Red Army had tied German camp guards onto the front of their tanks and were then going at high speed pushing down the barbed-wire fences around the camp. The Germans were white-faced and screaming and I doubt whether any of them survived. Later on the British POWs were exchanged one by one for Soviet POWs, the British were of course desperately hoping that there would be enough Soviet POWs to allow them to be released.
Interesting, the soldier in Stalingrad seems to have spent most of his time finding food and warmth rather than fighting, most of this is stories about eating. My dad had the same problem with food, he was stationed in Malta during the war and also suffered from not enough food, he never let any food go to waste for the rest of his life, if it was edible, he would eat it.
My buddy at work is a descendent of a German fighter pilot. He was not a nazi and he told me his father always said the nazis were an evil organization. He told me of a funny story where he said his grand father was flying one day and actually did a fly by buzz over his parents house lol. When he had a week off and went home his grand fathers parents gave him hell because they new it was him lol!!!
At Stalingrad the casualties on russian side was more higher . " we keep shoting ,round after round ,till the barrel of my MG34 was red . The terrain was full with dead bodies. But russians still coming ,wave after wave." - german vet.
@@jiridrapal7512 dude, about Pavlov house it was just a battle for one house ,nothing more. If you think Pavlov was a Superman or Terminator and he killed thousands of germans then you are too naive.
@@kniespel6243 you are too naive beliving to narrative of german officers and soldiers who instead of admitting how they fucked up or were beaten will pull a card "they were thousends and thousends and us only 3"
Seems like you had to keep your eyes out as you went along -- like the way the officer in this story collected wood & things to burn while on the march to melt some snow to drink each night. You had to love yourself and keep your will to live strong and take note of what is beautiful and noble around you, even in a difficult situation. A little luck helped, too: like the way a bit of food came into his hands near the end, and how his rash occurred just in time to give him a bit of a rest before being captured. I imagine guys who ended the battle wounded, half-starved, and demoralized were basically doomed.
That’s because the way the Germans treated every Russian person as low life , and murdered men women and children , millions of them . Why would the Soviets not want revenge for the families they had lost
Listening to this, it seemed the Ruskies were just lethal. Comparing it to the current Ukraine civil war, something serms lost with them today... Hell in 20 minutes.
You are right, I think. The answer is that 20+ years of Russian civil war and subsequent Soviet rule had made life cheap and hard back then. Orders - even suicidal orders - were obeyed by the troops, and strictly carried out by the officers, who also were subject to harsh discipline. This meant that the higher command could organize large and complex attacks with confidence that things would proceed as planned. Yet in spite of all this dehumanization, I think love was still present then, and patriotism -- more than exists today. The Red soldiers knew, intuitively and correctly, that they were fighting a war for national existence. They knew that a deep insult lay behind the logic of the German attack -- that because the Germans were "superior" they were entitled to take the Russian land. Collectively, the Russian nation said "No. You will not do as you please. You are invaders who will be thrown out." Of course today in Ukraine the Russian soldiers have a different attitude. Deep down they know, to a degree, that this time they are the invaders. Orders are still obeyed, but without zeal. It has taken the spark away from the the men. Instead of being thrilled to be part of the world's greatest battle, they feel unlucky. Anyway, that is how I perceive the situation.
They just overwhelmed the Germans. What was it that Stalin said, they will run out of bullets before we run out of men. That’s what happened. Stalin didn’t care how many of his men died, as long as he won.
It's sobering to think that if you were born in Germany at about 1920, you would have been fighting for the Nazis, believing that God and justice was on your side.
It's still that way today. What is beautiful is celebrated. Positive motives are assigned to actions. What is sordid, ugly, and evil is kept out of sight. I mean, go to a hospital. What you'll see, in general, is clean and bright and cheerful. But when you burrow a bit deeper there's plenty that's less pleasant to see.
That is a common reasoning - but! If the 6th Army was allowed to try to brrak out they would maybe succeed maybe not, but would definetly be decimated and the Red Army would reach Rostov and closed the path to Caucasus - at that particular date of encirclemwnt of 6th Army 19th November 1942 there are almost one million Wehrmacht soldiers down there in Caucasus and they basically all managed to retreat becauae 6th Army was keeping enormous amount of Russian diviaions around itself, they were just sacrified in the end, but the strategic logic in November & December had a point
Why would he feel guilty of the Soviet commissar being deleted , the Commissars where like the Soviet SS in many ways , they would shoot men for retreating in times when it was forbidden , they would delete men for many stupid reasons and would commit mass deletion of enemy prisoners and they worked closely with other groups like the NKVD which committed millions of murders of its own people b4 the war .and later became the KGB .
Он выжил в Сталинградской битве (Ганс-Эрдман Шёнбек) He survived the Battle of Stalingrad (Hans-Erdmann Schönbeck) ruclips.net/video/z5aR91jyTlk/видео.htmlsi=KwkYA2zMMfvB-SAY
How is it that you (probably) can pronounce "Jaegermeister", but not "Jaeger" (you make it sound something like "Yuhger")? 😅 Muricans... 🙄😉 Great video though, very interesting. Thank you! 😊
The thumbnail on the video with the five German soldiers,i believe the gentleman on the far left who is slightly leaning actually lived to the age of 92. The photo 1942 would make him only 23 at the time. The German 6th army RIP.
why are you all so interested in german war storys ? That was so long ago. It seems to me that the longer it was, the more people reported about it. No other army in the world receives so much negative and so much reporting. my grandfather was a soldier. Born in 1918 and a soldier from 39 - 45 8 times wounded 4 times heavy poland france russia italy the full shit
I like to learn more and more stories about the Battle of Stalingrad. I hope you all enjoy it too!
It's not Yaw ger--it's YAY ger
These stories tell the pitifully human side of a terrible war.
well done great Lecture !...in 1941 my Australian Grandfather was seriously wounded in the Easter battle at Tobruk. Stopping Rommel from getting the Suez and the vast supplies of Oil....now since then his people 'the Australians' have been covertly exterminated ...
The Barbarossa operation was so bizarre to me. (Hitler) thought he needed to defeat Russia to defeat Britain. What a dunce. He just needed Japan involvement during operation sea lion. Japan didn't need to attack pearl harbor but instead attack Britain with Germany. Such a wasted opportunity for the axis.
Normalizing the humanization of Natsee soldiers. Perhaps to support the current conflict ?
When based in germany in 1980-85 i met dozens of wartime vets, most were friendly and interested in telling me their story which i was facinated to listen to. Most were happy they survived and it was long over, but I can remember on a couple of ocasions where you could tell they were still bitter these were the ones i wanted to speak to but my german friends would warn me not to push my luck! even in their 60's and 70's they looked tough.
My Grandfather’s brother, a member of the Ustashe, and ardent fascist, was wounded in October in Stalingrad. He was evacuated right before Uranus. He continued to fight for the Germans til the end of the war- fighting Tito’s partisans near Split on the Mediterranean coast. Very strange and angry man, but I was always fascinated by him and his connection to history. He was a hateful man - the worlds problems were all because of Serbs, Muslims, and Bolsheviks. I wish I could have talked with him later in life, he died when I was 12, just to try and understand him and what he had been thru. He never spoke to anyone in the family unless spoken to first and as far as I can remember I was the only one who exchanged more than 3-4 words with him. He gave me, a 10 year old, a $100 bill one year at Xmas. He told me not to tell anyone and use the money to do what boys do best - “what is that?” I asked him. He smiled, the only time I ever saw him smile, and told me “get into trouble”.
Epilogue: I bought an Alva Fred Smith III skateboard deck and a pair of Gullwing trucks with that $100
Thanks for that. I know this history and went to these places in 1972. There are many books about British agents and local resistance in Yugoslavia and Albania.
Thanks for that. I know this history and went to these places in 1972. There are many books about British agents and local resistance in Yugoslavia and Albania.
Thanks for that. I know this history and went to these places in 1972. There are many books about British agents and local resistance in Yugoslavia and Albania.
Interesting. In Australia, the Ustashe were often trying to blow up Yugoslavian diplomatic posts.
Good story
Very sad, the way the world is going we may live through similar again. I enjoy these personal stories of the German soldiers. Thx
Satan is the ruler of this world and God allows him to go on for a limited time to prove a point, and that is that rebelling against God is self destructive. God's Messiah, Jesus will soon take Satan down and resurrect all innocent people to life again. This is the Christian hope. Atheist scoffers have NO HOPE to offer poor suffering mankind, just DESPAIR
The Bible explains it - Satan rules the world and is trying to destroy it because he knows his own destruction is coming soon.
(1 John 5:19 & Revelation 12:12)
When will Satan's rule end?@@rossyerkes5217
@@rossyerkes5217 This is an accurate depiction of what is happening, but no need to include the Bible or Jesus. It is self evident for all aware humans.
We all must fight for our democracies. Vote!
Normally I get bored by posts of still images with a narration but this one in particular I couldn't look away from! The soldaten's account of last days of the Wehrmacht in Stalingrad are fascinating, and told in a very engaging way.
Satan is the ruler of this world and God allows him to go on for a limited time to prove a point, and that is that rebelling against God is self destructive. God's Messiah, Jesus will soon take Satan down and resurrect all innocent people to life again. This is the Christian hope. Atheist scoffers have NO HOPE to offer poor suffering mankind, just DESPAIR
The Bible explains it - Satan rules the world and is trying to destroy it because he knows his own destruction is coming soon.
(1 John 5:19 & Revelation 12:12)
@@rossyerkes5217Try not to be such a complete gibbon for the whole of your life friend. Or at least just keep the messages of doom to yourself yeah?
I am grateful for your interpretation of German involvement in WW2 which has given me a more humanitarian understanding of how people were affected by events.
Fantastic testimony, thanks for sharing
Thanks for posting this. A very fascinating account.
Brother of my grandfather was fighting in Stalingrad as member of Croatian 369 infantry regiment.Nobody knows what hapened with him and where is his resting place
Sounds good
Croatian soldiers were particularly cruel to Russian Jews and other civilians
Three of my Austrian uncles disappeared there as well. Alll in their early 20s.
The Slavs kicked his ass 😂😂
May all soldiers rest in peace.
Thank you for upload, I appreciated the story.
Years ago I read the novel 'Babi Yar",,,It was about the war from the perspective of a 12 year old who lived in Kiev. If you ever have the chance, read it,, I do not recall the author but it was almost a life changing experience for me. The novel portrayed the goodness and utter depravity and madness which becomes commonplace during wartime. Complex characters,, nobody wanted to be there under that situation ,, they all just wanted it to be over with and to go home to their little farm or house and to be with their family,,,,,,
Yes Bill I have read it...... it's immersive and it's commonplace and it's..... harrowing, the commonality of the savagery is breath taking.
By Anatoly Kuznetsov, a great book and a "must read" for anyone who wants to understand the Eastern Front...
Anatoly Kuznetsov wrote the book; I read it in 1973 while still in high school and it was transformative for me too. It really blew away the romanticism of war that my generation had been indoctrinated with by Hollywood.
Recorded memoirs of Australian ww1 diggers would cure anyone of romancing war. To a man they condemned the senseless slaughter and futility of war.
If you haven't already, "The forgotten soldier" by Guy Sajer is a classic and maybe the best account of the Ostfront from the German soldaten's point of view. Or at least everyone I know that's read it, still wants to talk about it.
I worked in Germany in 1971 as a student. A coworker had fought on the Russian Front. He said out of 1000 of them, after 10 days, without confronting the Russians, only six survived, him being one and the rest freezing to death.
Wow
That happened to thousands of US soldiers in Korea. What a horrible way to die.
Anyone recognize the location names.....in current events-
@@mikeray1544
Thank you for these very interesting videos
Thanks a lot for the clips. Mother's first husband was wounded and taken prisoner at Stalingrad. The Russians declared him dead. My mother remarried and I think was around 1953(54), I don't know exactly when I was little. It was a special situation. He was a career soldier (captain) and teacher. He told that he was subjected to humiliating situations. He had a metal spinter i the heart area and could not be operated on. He did not receive any kind of medical care from from the Russians. He was helped as much as possible by German prisoniers. It was used for agricultural work insteaded of draft animals. He had marks on his back from the leather strips he used to pull the plough.
Do you know about forced labor for Germans during the war, which was obligatory for citizens of nations conquered during the war? I knew Poles who were there and also in concentration camps. Those who lived in conquered areas, also displaced. They did not remember the Germans well. Every cgbody. for the Germans to leave, they lost the war. Germany received what it taught Europe.
Thanks for collating and sharing these amazing accounts with us
These are great authentic accounts "ohne Aufschmuck".
By risk of repeating myself (I follow a couple of these channels);
"Krieg führen ist wie den Tür eines dunklen Zimmers öffnen....-man weisst nie genau was passieren wird"
Eine sehr kluge-fast filosofische- Aussage Hitlers-2 Tage vor Unternehmen Barbarossa.
And the absolute best characterization of the Eastern Front by a british historian as he described the invasion on June 22;
"The Germans were about to play sublime toptennis on a SOCCERFIELD "
these stories are useful. no one should grow up thinking there is any virtue in dying in a foreign land.
unfortunately politicians of all stripes will continue to cultivate that very idea....
What I always found rather fascinating was how cleverly Goebbels and the Nazis knew how to pull the puppet strings of an entire nation. The Germans of the era, especially the males, were conditioned practically from birth to do the bidding of the Nazis. While every nation does this, Goebbels did it so adroitly most Germans never even suspected how their minds were being molded like clay in his expert hands! "Every man a soldier" Germans were raised with so many martial ideas - Germany is surrounded by enemies, only you can save your Fatherland, war is your destiny, etc. that when war came in 1939 the Germans had already been fighting in their own minds since 1933! That's why they beat the Poles and steam-rolled the French in two months, no other nation was like this at the time, not even Russia - who were too busy accusing each other of real and imaginary crimes to ever really have a coherent ideology other than "Communism = good!"
They fought Communism. That's a huge difference.
@@GregorSass-Ranitz Ha ha. Thay fought against communists but never see such order?
@@GregorSass-Ranitz Spoiler alert, they lost.
I am German and grew up a lot by my grandmother. There I met a lot of her friends . Very nice people. I still remember one friend . My grandmother said one day , after he died. The friend of mine was guilty in the Nürnberg processes . His name was Heinz Fanslau (died 1987) he was a real nazi . For me he was a friendly old men ..
Approx 5 y ago an older man approached me. He has lost his way in our German village . I brought him home. He told me that he was 90y. I did a small math, and said. You were 18 y old when the war ended ! Yeah he said. I was a Unteroffizier and fought the Russians and was captured. I spend 10 years in Siberia. I asked him do you still speak Russian (somehow a hunch)
He laughed ! No, but I did . Learned it from the Russian guards. He said .. I can still sing
He sang one song for me. He went home . Never seen him again
His name was Georg
10 years in siberia are many years....
My friends father from Calw I think it’s spelt near the Black Forest spent five years in a Russian camp and lost all his teeth through malnutrition.He got back to Germany in 1950 .
They captured a Russian one day and they never saw the hand grenade he had on him .To quote my friend “ suddenly there were two half Russians “
@@wilfredwilde9559 I like black Humor 😂
0:01 6:43 Collapsed building at Barrikady gun factory.
0:02 memoir
3:23 6-barrel nebelwerfer.
3:48 Crater [N48.6899°, E044.4754°] near the railyard of Stalingrad 2.
5:02 From a German propaganda newsreel.
7:06 On the grounds of Barrikady factory.
9:13 Conveyor-gantry stanchions by ZKO's Martenovskii smelting works?
15:14 "bekYEtovka"
18:50 The (broad) U-shaped building by Krasnoznamenskaya Ulitsa, 950 meters from the Volga.
19:01 Victory gathering by the Square of Fallen Fighters.
19:11 Photo taken from a Soviet biplane. Ruins of the L-shaped (apartment) house for railway workers at lower left. Part of 9 January Square at left. Milk House by it. At lower middle are the ruins of School No. 38.
19:29 The two storey building [N48.6969°, E044.4979°] in lower right is still intact. Near the top is the railway trestle bridge across the Tsaritsa.
The prisoner experience was fascinating. I didn't understand before why so many died. What a unique perspective on history.
it was told it was -40 celsius, it wasnt, it was -25 celsius. 💀💀
Sounds like Civil War POW camps. One ofy Great Uncles died in a camp in Chicago of scurvy
@@Luis-bo2uj So cold, its beyond belief
Cold, disease, malnutrition. How anyone survived is just a miracle.
Prisoners on both sides were taken by the millions and the vast majority were usually underfed at best. At worst they were killed outright (the Japanese did a whole lot of this), beaten, tortured, abused in every way mental and physical, and allowed to die by the millions and this is what happened to many prisoners of both the Wehrmacht and the Red army.
Often prisoners died because their captors lacked the means to do anything other than march them somewhere and place guards over them - all the food had to go to men on their own side. This is what happened to many prisoners of the German Wehrmact, who more often than not had no interest in torturing or abusing them any further, but literally had no way to get food to them - and since they couldn't leave the area, all they could do was perish where they stood.
The Red Cross was able to do much to alleviate the mass suffering, as they were usually recognized by all combatants as being neutral, the Red Cross would help any POW they could reach. Unfortunately it was war and millions of people inevitably fell through the cracks, since to feed someone you first needed to gain access to them, and on many of the battlefields, this was almost impossible.
Great video, shows that every nationality suffered and that there are no winners in war.
The winners are the cabal of international bankers who benefit no matter who wins.
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Special thanks to the veteran soldier sharing personal information/combat experiences. Enabling historians to replicate those diaries/memoirs for viewers to better understand. The actuality of front line precarious duties. & an added bonus story of being a ( pow )
A good book. The Forgotten Soldier. Le Soldat Oublié.
I often see photos of the young German soldiers in the June sunshine smiling as they cross the boarder into Poland,,,, how many of these boys ever came back,,,,,
I think a very small percentage of these soldiers survived the war.
I wonder the same thing. I lament the loss of all those German and Russian boys.
Also how many slaughtered?
Too many
Fighting for a demented ideological monster in Berlin………….6 million regrets.
My dad told me about his friend who knew sumone on russian front. German boots had studs in sole that froze the foot. Many soldiers tokk boots off and found loose toes in boots. Must have been terrible in that weather with no proper winter uniform.
Hitler thought the war would be over before winter set in.
Interesting. My mother's uncle was from the same part of Austria and went in to Stalingrad, just like this man. He never came out from there though. No one ever found out what happened to him.
We both know wat happened to him, i struggle to have remorse for german soldiers during world war 2 with all the evil shit they did the holocaust the babi yar ravine masacres and does are the ones we know of, then they lost and all of a sudden hitler tricked them, stalingrad and the whole russian campaign was proof that there's a God and a people womt indefinetly get away with doing dumb shit, i save my sympathy for the children and victims caught in the crosshairs of hitler's racial purity campaign imaginr wat would have becomr of africa if germaby had won ww2
It's sad you think like that. The bulk of any army during WW2 was made up of drafted men. 90% of German soldiers were no different than American, British and Russian soldiers they were drafted and sent by their government to fight a war they wanted no part of.
I listen to alot of these, heartbreaking we are hearing the same place names again now "Donbass' etc
Russia has a dictator and it’s his doings like it was hitler
Yet you do nothing about it. Letting the Russian monsters get away with murder just like when Hitler got away with murder. What the fuck is wrong with you?
The German eu wants hitters borders
I am suprised that he came back after four years and eight months captivity. I was told the German prisoners were released after ten years - for those who were alive. There were 91 000 German prisoners and barely 6 000 came back.
Most of them died in the first six months of captivity, due to being on starvation rations since October 1942, typhus and other diseases.
there was no standard duration in keeping our POW grandpas in Russia. I worked with released POW together as car mechanik. Workshop manager came back 1955 (when i was born). Other colleagues 1950 others 1951 some 1952 some 1953 others 1954 and even later than 1956. my both grandpas could walk back at the harsh end in 1945.
The last german POW in Russia came home to Germany in 1955, 10 years after the war had ended. Maybe that is where you misunterstanding has its roots from.
16:55 hard to believe that a Croatian soldier would have been under the blanket...even now the population is so low compared to many parts of the world and back in the day it was even lower...what were the odds that a guy from so far away would have been even farther from home...so unbelievable yet true.
Hearing this story I realized that two days ago was September 17th - a sad anniversary of Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 when Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and Red Army joined their forces against Polish Army.
The Minsk radiostation started special broadcasts that helped German planes to navigate over Poland. Later Luftwaffe delivered special thank you letter to Soviets. But before that Germans and Soviets were bombing targets in Poland and fighting together and both killing POWs and civilians on many occasions. There was also unforgettable joint German-Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk (Brześć) on September 22nd 1939.
But if you think that this red alliance ("both flags are red") was only possible because if the two men-eaters Stalin an Hitler, you are wrong. Weimar Germany had several secret bases and training grounds in Soviet Russia allowing German troops to flex their military muscles.
Very good. He was one of the lucky ones.
My WWII veteran father in law told me a few stories.
And that after the battles.
He and the other young men would lie in their bunks and cry for home.
Sometimes upon the remembering I might notice his own moist eye.
Amazing story and pictures. All very well told 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
17,000 horse evacuated the week before the capitulation, since they lacked fodder. The 13,000 left when the encirclement occurred were eaten, as described.
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These photos are epic 👏
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Anytime you lose that many men in short period is poor leadership
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From the war diary of a private in the Luftwaffe, born in 1925. (my grandfather)
"From March 5th to 15th, 1945, we took part in a close-air tank combat course in Zollfeld, about 7 km from Klagenfurt. The entire school (FFS A14) was then disbanded and transferred to Gardelegen to the infantry + paratroopers. On March 29th, 1945 I left Klagenfurt and arrived in my hometown of Haldensleben on April 1, 1945, the first day of Easter! I stayed here for a whole week. On Monday, April 9, 1945, we left for Gardelegen and were changed into paratroopers there. We were divided into KV -Transports one and three days later our train, the 400th Transport KV, was the last to leave Gardelegen. Via Rathenow we went to Berlin - Reinickendorf and Heiligensee. A few days later, I think on April 16, 1945, our transport was forwarded to Hoyerswerda. We were unloaded and had to walk quite a distance when we stopped in a meadow and were divided into companies. At the same time we were given weapons: machine guns, carbines, pistols and bazookas. We called ourselves Parachute - Panzer - Grenadiers. The bloody scene began on April 19, 1945. We were loaded onto trucks and driven to a ditch just behind the HKL and a forest area east of Spremberg. We occupied this ditch and spent the night there. The front was getting closer and closer. On the morning of April 20, 1945, Ivan attacked our positions with infantry and anti-tank guns. After we had lost our way, we went back to Spremberg, where we were locked in during the day. During the night we broke through with a total of 11 men and got back to our positions. We found the Pz.-Gren.-Div. "Großdeutschland", the SS Panzer Div. "Frundsberg" and the "Führerbegleitdivision" under Remer. As grenadiers we were assigned to the “Panthers” of the “Frundsberg”. These units were also already surrounded and were being squeezed more and more by Ivan. Some of them managed to escape, others were beaten up. The remains were taken prisoner. On the night of April 21st to 22nd, 1945 I was slightly wounded in the back by shrapnel (7.5cm). On April 22, 1945 I was taken prisoner by the Russians. After a long period of moving back and forth, we were stationed in Sorau in Lower Lusatia. We did labor service in a former air force barracks that was set up as a Russian hospital. On June 11, 1945, our hair was cut off except for baldness! On August 11, 1945, "Avanti" went home..."
Don't understand the final few words but thank you for your contribution to history.
@@MarkPulford-p7i
The hair on her head was shaved off and on August 11, 1945 my grandfather was released from captivity.
@@OswaldOstfalen Hi OO. Thanks for your reply. I thought our Russian friends keep prisoners for years and few survived. Mark P.
@@MarkPulford-p7i
Chance and luck..🤷♂️
Rip to all those lost souls , fought for their country so close to victory we lost the best on all sides ,once again rip to all those men that fell ill never forget them ,im 50 from ireland .
fought for their country... yes germany has been attacked at stalingrad... if you are sorry for enforcers of "new order" with gas chambers and slavery for masses "unworthy" to live, experiments on humans...
Over 90,000 surrender at Stalingrad and more in the general area before the fall . They say less than 5,700 made it home alive in the 1950s. These guys would've been better off fighting to there end.
I agree don’t give up
They couldn't fight to the end, they were starving and they had a typhus epidemic. They were doomed. Many of them did not return home because of this.
they already been starving to death…
they were starving, freezing and had no more ammunition. How could they continue to fight?
@@DaveCarlson01I would fight until diarrhea comes up through my arse.
"my comrades surrendered, but i still had 5 cans of stew"
this goes to show the demoralising effect of starvation.
It is always quite sad when young men die because of stupid orders given by old men...
You beat me to it. War, I believe has always about old men lying and young ones dying.
Thank you so much
A nother great video you never disappoint M C. You do a great job transcribing the German dialect and Russian dialect. Can't be easy exp if you can't read their handwriting. Even if you have a program to help you I know my spelling can be hard for me to even read. LoL great job
JDP Underhill 9/2023
nothing needed to be translated. this is an excerpt from a published book. its not a diary
Bonjour de France. very good idea to give viewers something else but a still image. Bonne continuation.
Amazing photos of the ruined city of Stalingrad, along with the daily life some of it's inhabitants still living there, near the end of the vid
He survived Der Kessel. A lucky, lucky man. I’m surprised the Russians only kept him in captivity for 5 years.
That was a good one 👍🏻
So MANY deaths. All of it totally unnecessary. But if you want a DIFFERENT personal perspective about the lives of German soldiers on the Russian Front then the books written by Sven Hassel & Leo Kessler are a MUST. You'll laugh out loud at least once in reading any of the books written by either of these authors.
Der Russe brauchte den Kessel nur immer weiter zusammendrücken. Damals waren es unter -30 Grad, zu wenig Essen, kaum Munition und überall Tote. Das ist keine Situation in der sich ein Mensch befinden sollte. Während meine Montagezeit in Russland war es 1986 und 1987 mit bis -42 Grad sehr kalt. Wir hatten gutes Essen, warme Kleidung und konnten uns alle 2 Stunden kurz aufwärmen. Trotzallem konnte man sich bei starken Wind und der Kälte in 15 Minuten die Nase oder Ohren erfrieren.
My grandfather wounded captured in the battle for Stalingrad and made it home to Bavaria after the war!
Woher haben Sie die Berichte?
Typhus is spread by various chiggers, ticks, and mites. He described his leg rash? That is typhus. It is deadly, and not merely inconvenient.
I have a German friend in Jamaica. He lost both grandfather's one last wrote from stalingrad. The other they just never heard from.
I wonder if he took time to reflect on what his army had done on its way into Russia to POWs and civilians.
No. Most likely he was thinking what the Soviets did to their own people. Firng squad, a shot to the nape, or deliberate starvation as in Ucraine region. Murdering millions, even before the war. Then the invasion of Finland, Estonia, and Lithaunia. And for sure he was thinking that the declared intention of the Soviets was to "liberate" the entire world from capitalist exploitation.
Basically the same thing every army did back then
@@idiot_city5444 No - the Nazis starved to death or used as slave labourers Soviet POWs in huge numbers. Unfortunately Stalin decreed that any Red Army soldier who had been taken prisoner by the Nazis was to be sent to the gulag. German POWs in general weren't treated like that by the British or the Americans. I remember a British Army officer who had been held in a POW camp a long way East, in somewhere like Silesia, telling how glad they were to see Red Army units coming in and defeating the Germans at their camp. The British POWs came out of their huts to welcome them, but very quickly went back in. From the windows, they could see that the Red Army had tied German camp guards onto the front of their tanks and were then going at high speed pushing down the barbed-wire fences around the camp. The Germans were white-faced and screaming and I doubt whether any of them survived. Later on the British POWs were exchanged one by one for Soviet POWs, the British were of course desperately hoping that there would be enough Soviet POWs to allow them to be released.
@@idiot_city5444 You've chosen an appropriate handle for yourself.
@@strnbrg59 You're correct, I'm surrounded by idiots...
Anyone should be a little careful about the existence of so "many" diaries... without a reliable source.
" I had no need for guns anymore"
Interesting, the soldier in Stalingrad seems to have spent most of his time finding food and warmth rather than fighting, most of this is stories about eating.
My dad had the same problem with food, he was stationed in Malta during the war and also suffered from not enough food, he never let any food go to waste for the rest of his life, if it was edible, he would eat it.
Where can I find these memoirs?
They're made up. You can google any of the names of the authors/soldiers of these "memoirs", and literally nothing comes up. It's all fake.
Lenin grad is now St Petersberg. Stalingrad is now Volgograd it's on the volga River.
Who sent you to Stalingrad to suffer at the first place? ... Your dearly admired leader.
@user-ip7lb1pd3nAll Hitler did was lead his best soldiers in a slaughter house Germany never had a chance in USSR
My buddy at work is a descendent of a German fighter pilot. He was not a nazi and he told me his father always said the nazis were an evil organization. He told me of a funny story where he said his grand father was flying one day and actually did a fly by buzz over his parents house lol. When he had a week off and went home his grand fathers parents gave him hell because they new it was him lol!!!
Journal entry: “How in the hell did I end up here?”
At Stalingrad the casualties on russian side was more higher . " we keep shoting ,round after round ,till the barrel of my MG34 was red . The terrain was full with dead bodies. But russians still coming ,wave after wave." - german vet.
and how do you think ended germans assaulting pavlov haouse or these factories?
Lol, they there were dieing in thousends too.
@@jiridrapal7512 dude, about Pavlov house it was just a battle for one house ,nothing more. If you think Pavlov was a Superman or Terminator and he killed thousands of germans then you are too naive.
@@kniespel6243 you are too naive beliving to narrative of german officers and soldiers who instead of admitting how they fucked up or were beaten will pull a card "they were thousends and thousends and us only 3"
@@kniespel6243 Germans lost 2 000 KIA trying to that single house defended by 30 men over two months of non stop daily assaults
@@jiridrapal7512 bullshit . If you believe russian propaganda, be my guest. În russian opinion they lost just a few soldiers in ww2 ! 😀
悲惨な、➖２５℃の世界。 戦争中の、６歳の女の子との楽しい雪合戦、、、、
ヒトラーが侵略を始めさえしなければ、こんな悲しい物語はなかったのに。
Very lucky to come back home after s ruzzians had you
Seems like you had to keep your eyes out as you went along -- like the way the officer in this story collected wood & things to burn while on the march to melt some snow to drink each night. You had to love yourself and keep your will to live strong and take note of what is beautiful and noble around you, even in a difficult situation. A little luck helped, too: like the way a bit of food came into his hands near the end, and how his rash occurred just in time to give him a bit of a rest before being captured. I imagine guys who ended the battle wounded, half-starved, and demoralized were basically doomed.
That’s because the way the Germans treated every Russian person as low life , and murdered men women and children , millions of them .
Why would the Soviets not want revenge for the families they had lost
How do we know if this is true?
All wars are unnecessary. Still the human nature is such that we cannot live long in peace with each other.
Listening to this, it seemed the Ruskies were just lethal. Comparing it to the current Ukraine civil war, something serms lost with them today... Hell in 20 minutes.
You are right, I think. The answer is that 20+ years of Russian civil war and subsequent Soviet rule had made life cheap and hard back then. Orders - even suicidal orders - were obeyed by the troops, and strictly carried out by the officers, who also were subject to harsh discipline. This meant that the higher command could organize large and complex attacks with confidence that things would proceed as planned. Yet in spite of all this dehumanization, I think love was still present then, and patriotism -- more than exists today. The Red soldiers knew, intuitively and correctly, that they were fighting a war for national existence. They knew that a deep insult lay behind the logic of the German attack -- that because the Germans were "superior" they were entitled to take the Russian land. Collectively, the Russian nation said "No. You will not do as you please. You are invaders who will be thrown out." Of course today in Ukraine the Russian soldiers have a different attitude. Deep down they know, to a degree, that this time they are the invaders. Orders are still obeyed, but without zeal. It has taken the spark away from the the men. Instead of being thrilled to be part of the world's greatest battle, they feel unlucky. Anyway, that is how I perceive the situation.
They just overwhelmed the Germans. What was it that Stalin said, they will run out of bullets before we run out of men. That’s what happened. Stalin didn’t care how many of his men died, as long as he won.
8:00 talk about bad advice
In hindsight
I believe the field hospitals were around Stalingrad anyways.
@@aaronwatson1677 And the Red army disposed of the sick and wounded first.
Good to listen ww2 from German perspective.
I’ve visited Stalingrad a terrible fight. 2017
They should of never surrendered
비극이다
하루만 누군가의 아빠가.
아들이 생명을 잃었다.
본인은 물론이고 가족들의
고통은 헤아릴수가 없다.
국가적으로도 여지껏 성장해온 성인이 사망한다는건
엄청난 손실이다.
정치와 정치인은
1순위로 중요하다.
비극의 씨앗이다.ㅜㅜ
18:28 Sharp photo of a young and tall Asian Wehrmacht !
人类喜欢恋爱,酷爱战争,在战争中,相互伤害,在和平中,相互倾轧.
不在沉默中爆发,就会在沉沦中死去.一切社会经济生活的穷极一切的
极端.办法.本身是为了减少痛苦,但是在战争面前.人性,文化,政治,被
重新衡量,一个民族屠杀另一个民族,文化情感通过野蛮的方式相互渗透.
重组.甚至被涂改.在废墟上建立新的秩序.
最不愿意见到年轻人死去.但是战争却最喜欢年轻人,就像空气中弥漫的恋爱气息一样
硝烟和战火.流血牺牲无处不在.
12:57
He used an axe to grind coffee?
Well, at least it was hot. Fir a while.
Why not? As for me, this is a great idea)))
It's sobering to think that if you were born in Germany at about 1920, you would have been fighting for the Nazis, believing that God and justice was on your side.
Propaganda...like now
As the zionist....
It's still that way today. What is beautiful is celebrated. Positive motives are assigned to actions. What is sordid, ugly, and evil is kept out of sight. I mean, go to a hospital. What you'll see, in general, is clean and bright and cheerful. But when you burrow a bit deeper there's plenty that's less pleasant to see.
@@Aniss_Ichkhakh69200🤔🤔🙄🙄😂😂👎👎👇👇
A struggle that can't be matched
I think they understood this then -- that they were part of an earth-shaking drama.
The battles of WW2 will be nothing compared to what ww3.
A lot more civilians dead wwlll
According to the book of Revelation, billions will die in WW3.
just look at ukraine and you get an idea of how wwiii would go
If Ukraine is like ww III then I don't want ww iii
Dabei waren das alles Touristen auf Besuch!! 😮😢
O único regimento a conseguir escapar do cerco de stalingrado foi o regimento alpinista italiano.
The War was lost by the end of September
I'm sure they didn't refer to those Junkers as JEW87's 😂
Excellent account
i like the story, what video?
It's beyond reason why Hitler didn't allow the 6th to break out of Stalingrad. 250K soldiers lost for nothing.
That is a common reasoning - but! If the 6th Army was allowed to try to brrak out they would maybe succeed maybe not, but would definetly be decimated and the Red Army would reach Rostov and closed the path to Caucasus - at that particular date of encirclemwnt of 6th Army 19th November 1942 there are almost one million Wehrmacht soldiers down there in Caucasus and they basically all managed to retreat becauae 6th Army was keeping enormous amount of Russian diviaions around itself, they were just sacrified in the end, but the strategic logic in November & December had a point
Why would he feel guilty of the Soviet commissar being deleted , the Commissars where like the Soviet SS in many ways , they would shoot men for retreating in times when it was forbidden , they would delete men for many stupid reasons and would commit mass deletion of enemy prisoners and they worked closely with other groups like the NKVD which committed millions of murders of its own people b4 the war .and later became the KGB .
Agree, the commissars were destroyed for a completely different reason. The Germans didn't care about their crimes.
I think he felt sorry for him because he saw his parents.
Он выжил в Сталинградской битве (Ганс-Эрдман Шёнбек)
He survived the Battle of Stalingrad (Hans-Erdmann Schönbeck)
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Oh God save us from ourselves !
thanks
How is it that you (probably) can pronounce "Jaegermeister", but not "Jaeger" (you make it sound something like "Yuhger")? 😅
Muricans... 🙄😉 Great video though, very interesting. Thank you! 😊
thermos is a brand name- vacuum flask is what container was.
The thumbnail on the video with the five German soldiers,i believe the gentleman on the far left who is slightly leaning actually lived to the age of 92.
The photo 1942 would make him only 23 at the time.
The German 6th army RIP.
why are you all so interested in german war storys ? That was so long ago. It seems to me that the longer it was, the more people reported about it. No other army in the world receives so much negative and so much reporting. my grandfather was a soldier. Born in 1918 and a soldier from 39 - 45 8 times wounded 4 times heavy poland france russia italy the full shit
Becauae the present is boring and the mankind is boring af 😅
85000 plus died in the Gulags. Field Marshal Paulas was well treated of the sixth army that beseiged Stalingrad. NAPOLEON A GENERAL A GENIUS FAILED.
Dude was lucky 🎉🎉🎉
Why would he save a Soviet Kommisar?