Our Best Men Were Absolutely Obliterated By Allies At Normandy(Ep.5)
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- (German Memoirs Of Normandy Invasion, Series, Part 5) Watch our video " Our Best Men Were Absolutely Obliterated By Allies At Normandy (Ep.5) and Join us on "WW2 Tales" as we delve into the pivotal moments of June 6, 1944, D-Day, through an immersive video series. Discover the intense events of the day when the Allied forces launched a massive assault against Germany on the Western Front. Our series explores critical questions: Why did the German high command dismiss the possibility of an invasion at Normandy? What stalled the German counterattack, and why were the formidable panzer divisions held back? We also uncover the sophisticated Allied deception strategies that misled Fuhrer and his generals, leading to crucial misjudgments. Experience history's turning points with detailed analyses and dramatic recounts of the battle that changed the course of World War II. Subscribe to "WW2 Tales" for more episodes that bring the past to life with accuracy and insight.
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• German Memoirs Of Norm...
Ladies And Gentlemen this is part 5 of German memoirs of Normandy invasion,
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I have a small photo album my father took from a deceased German soldier. It has pictures of the very young man as a cadet, thin his training, and he and fellow soldiers digging and building a bunker/fox hole. Last pictures are of the young Nazis sunbathing on the roof of their shelter. And then blank pages. Dad was in the second wave at Normandy and fought in the battle of the bulge.
That sounds fascinating. It seems his time in combat was likely brief when he died. A shame he and others like him on both sides had to die in a war by that time all but won by the Allies.
The German Army per se or Wehrmacht were not Nazis. The SS were generally indoctrinated Nazis and were given the role of racial extermination etc. You can’t assume that this young soldier and his comrades were ideological Nazis just because they were in the Army.
Another young life violently sacrificed on the demonic altar of Nationalism.......
Should send copies to the library of Congress. I think they collect that stuff.
@@awsomeoawsomeo2103 good idea, I’ll do that. Thank you.
Listening to this play list series I keep wondering when anyone slept? How utterly exhausted they must all have been, on both sides.
Methamphetamines helped sustain the Germans. Apparently freely available.
Its funny if you think about it. The defenses germany had set up would have been valuable during WW1 but WW2 was a truly mobile warfare. Static defenses used by both sides during the war proved to be quite outdated and half the time useless. France’s maginot line. Germans Atlantic wall, then later their inner defenses similar to maginot line. All fell rather quickly due to the new age of warfare. Air power can demolish static defenses with near impunity so long as they have air domination
Those sweeping generalizations are mostly untrue. Air power is largely ineffective at the Normandy Coast alltho essential to prevent Germany reinforcements from arriving. The status defenses at Monte Casino blocked the allies for months and the rubble produced by air bombing made it even tougher to take.
@@emmetjames3 as i said. They weren’t all useless. But most static defenses were either shelled, bombed, or just maneuvered around. Germans would use a very effect tactic in Normandy that effectively slowed and stopped Allied offensive. The battle in the hedgerows were the best defensive tactics used by Germany at the time. And while yes in some places on the beach the German defenses were left untouched. But in most the others they were decimated. Dont even talk about their island fortresses that were just straight up ignored.
With the Maginot line it was more of the open declaration of neutrality in October 1936 of Belgium. So Instead of a Fully defended line with mobile reserve, the British forces had to addvance into the German attack. Imagin Fort Ében-Émael with proper infatry supprt.
@@lurch8111 the maginot lines greatest weakness wasnt lack of numbers. It was location and tactical ineptitude of commanders. No one thought germany would do a mass attack through the Ardennes. Their were bunkers setup in the Ardennes but they were to small and to spread out to be effective. But one bunker did hold the entire german advance for a day or two before eventually being bombed out. During that time france was warned of the German onslaught but didn’t do anything to respond until it was to late. Forcing a mass retreat from the marginot line as French forces fleed to the south and north trying to escape from france to either french colonies in Africa or Britain.
I'm sorry but I disagree. The Germans managed to keep the allies contained in a rather small beachhead until August when Bradley unleashed hell from above with a bombing campaign that finally let the Allies break through. The Atlantic Wall even according to Rommel was nothing more than propaganda. It was at nowhere near the strength Goebbels portrayed in his propaganda. Had Rommel gotten his way the Allies certainly would have lost at least one and probably more likely 3 of the beaches they assaulted. The brilliant use of Patton's ghost army and more importantly the flipping of every important German spy in Britain were able to trick the Hitler into only implementing the Atlantic wall as portrated at Calais. Going off what they were able to do imagine the damage they would have inflicted had they been prepared for Normandy or if the Allies had attacked at Calais. It's no wonder Ike was so worried. Think of the fight the Allies would have had if Rommel had gotten a battle hardened division or 2 fresh off the front with the Soviets instead of older men, former Russian troops and men with head and stomach ailments.
Such incredible descriptions about being attacked by the bombers.
nice
Your best men that paid a huge oath of undying loyalty to a sadistic clown, to a man in all branches of service, over democracy and the rule of law??
Yes ... But still their best lol
@@williammontroy9024 As Patton once supposedly said looking through his binoculars, "What a waste of fine infantry".
I agree man . Such fine men wasted . I suppose such could be said for all wars .. but to me it's just that much more sad that such men fought for such a horrible cause .
@@williammontroy9024many of the best were murdered by the Germans in their genocide.
Hitler's "fight to the last man" Strategy had a lot to do with German losses. Rommel fumed when he was ordered to go along with the Bohemian Corporal. Rommel was smart enough to withdraw and redeploy. Hitler was not.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Nice photo depicting panther group's advancing forwards regardless of the consequences-!!!😳. Wonder how many became (POW's)-???🤔. With the Ruskies heading west reinforced troops/supplies were about depleted. Along with severe fuel shortages😭. Giving the Allies a tactical advantage-!!!😉.. Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous (2024). 🌈🎉💵😉.
This photo could not be France 1944. Those are Pzw IIIs used at the start of the war in Poland, France, and North Africa.
Of such ballsup's is history made, usually us !
As Wellington said "Their Infantry got them into trouble, mine get me out"
Strange there doesn't appear to be much comment re Naval Gunfire.
Star spangled banner might be considered a song about naval gunfire
How exactly did the allies knock out the Panzer tanks ? Was it that the allies had brought their anti-tank platforms into the beachhead early on ? Or was it that, plus air power like the Thunderbolts, Typhoons, and Mustangs with their rockets ?
- I mean I know the key bridges were destroyed exactly to keep the Panzers away from the beaches.
Few heavy tanks were available to the Germans early on and the Allies were handicapped by not being able to unload enough armour quickly dealing with huge traffic jams.
Allies Air force destroyed most of the German tanks long before they ever reached the front lines.
Some were still on the train carts when they where attacked.
I thought most of Normandy was defended by Osttruppen and reserve forces?
And WW-1 dispatch runner corporal Hitler slept through the Normandy invasion-!!!😳.
The military genius, the fuhrur Wouldn't let Rommel bring in the panzer divisions, if he did Eisenhower might have had to read that letter where he takes full responsibility for the disaster
@@geraldw1678A Corporal will always outrank a Field Marshal.
Once u lost the sky's it was time up
Nice out fit though !!!
I don't know that the German Soldiers by that time and place during WW2 were as good as the original armies that first fought in 1939 and 1940. A number of those men were dead by 1944. However, the soldiers that fought the allies invasion fought bravely and many of them killed and their weapons were destroyed because the Allies had Air Superiority and overwhelming supplies and material superiority over the German army that fought the invasion. No shame is intended, but the odds were against the Germans.
Lol…5000 ships and Von Rundstedt still thought it was a diversionary campaign.
I’m confused as to whose diaries are being read. They are so extensive and too grammatically exact (in German). Who had so much time on the battlefield to write these?
I venture to guess-???🤔. A good % of these stories were written from memory. Long after those battles were over-???🤔.
Sounds like a book. Someone's memoirs or a historian.
No one mentioned what about overwhelming air power.
It was mentioned several times. Everyone but you were paying attention
I don't think the outcome would have been very different even if
german tanks and troops had been released immediately. As Germans got within 20 miles of the beaches, US aircraft and Naval artillery would have been brought to bear upon them as they necessarily bunched up to attack the small beaches. In fact it may have allowed German tanks and troops to be destroyed early on and then not able to provide a defense in depth through the hedgerows and in other locations.
Maybe...maybe not.
Wasn't just the tanks, there were 200 000 soldiers that waited until late in the day before given the order to move in.
Had they been ordered to move in the moment the attack started early hours of the morning.
They might have been able to stop them from ever getting off the beaches and protected the 88s that targeted the beaches.
Not to forget the German intelligence had informed the high command about the incoming attack the day before it happened.
They could have moved the tanks up overnight to Caen and Carentaan and other villages near the villages just hours before the attack took place.
They could have moved the 200 000 troops up closer to the beaches during the night.
As always, a great episode, but it repeats in the middle.
And the word had is often pronounced as bad.
Just two pictures do not cut the mustard, it is a visual medium, haven't you noticed?
Nonsense. Normandy beaches were manned by inferior forces. Their best been were killed in Stalingrad a year earlier
Proven to be untrue. Untrained old men and boys didn't hold up the attack toward Germany for 11 months.
I agree
Can someone please explain mobile phones in WW2? How did they work? Radio frequency?
Yes, they were radios - with vacuum tubes.
They were like huge bricks and called walkie-talkie due to their mobile capabilities. They were bulky and awkward, but they gave allied forces a significant advantage by having virtually instant communications regarding positions and disposition of both allied and enemy forces. This allowed precise artillery bombardment and flanking maneuvers that encircled strong points. It was a war of attrition that resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides
Very heavy to carry and hard to hide. The longish antenna gave you away as a prime target. The radios were easily damaged too
@@heinrichmakkink4104 The main point was that there was no German equivalent. Imagine how much more effective those Ostfront veterans would have been with instant comms? Frightening, to say the least.
Mobile phones?
And Operation Cobra.
These scripts have the all too familiar characteristics of an AI Chatbot
pretty sure they are AI
Thank goodness Hitler made so many mistakes. Just a few less and he could have won the war. If he had waited and not attacked the Soviet Union, it would have been all but impossible to invade Europe if those 3 million troops were in Italy and France. He could have reinforced Rommel in North Africa with enough men and material to take Egypt, then the Middle East and he could have had access to all that oil in Iraq and Kuwait.
He also could have won the war if he had waited until 1942. Then he would have had enough subs to seal off the Atlantic and built LSTs and an armada to invade England. Attacking the British from Norway, Denmark and France might have worked. Hitler was over confident and didn't understand how different the Soviet Union was from the Russia that failed in WWI. He was fighting the last war which is always a mistake.
His greatest error was probably his treatment of tye Slavic populations otherwise if he hadn’t been so hung up on his racial superiority kick, he could have invaded the USSR with an Army 10 times the size. The Eastern European Russians hated the Russians with a zeal the average German couldn’t dream of.
The titles for these videos are ridiculous
This title is nonsense! There is a pattern of these videos disparaging the service, skill and bravery of German troops in WWII. To what end?
Why did they not just have a few armored cars which they could go onto the beach with?
Most Armored vehicles would have been either Demolished or buried during the bombing and naval bombardment. Omaha beach was a best case scenario for the germans most of the other beaches even though just as defended were smashed into dust and barely held for a few hours before being overwhelmed
@TheCulturedThug
If by chance u mean "they" (the Allies) ...
The Allies deployed amphibious tanks from the ships as planned, but they ALL sank in the high seas near the beaches. And most of these Allied amphibious tank crews drowned.
Each Allied amphibious tank had what looked like curtains all the way around, but the unexpectedly high waves splashed over the curtains adding weight that overcame the buoyancy.
The Allies also had D.U.K.W.s (multiple axle trucks, called "ducks", with skirts to help them float). And many of the DUKWs made it to shore successfully, but I wouldn't say a DUKW was an armored vehicle.
The name DUKW comes from General Motors Corporation model nomenclature:
D = 1942 production series
U = Utility
K = All wheel drive
W = Tandem rear axles; each of these axles is a rear wheel drive axle
@@ieatoutoften872 No the Germans I mean. They could have waited until the Allies were on the beach and then moved in with old tanks and armored cars etc.
@@ieatoutoften872 actually that was only at the American beaches in which most of the amphibious tanks drowned due to launching them to far out. The British and Canadian beach heads they had many successful landings of their amphibious tanks. And also unlike the Americans they also landed many more ‘weird’ tanks. Their was one in which they attached a giant roll of wood or hay and its job was to roll up to the anti-tank ditch or a big crater and drop its roll of wood or Hay into the hole allowing other tanks to drive over the hole. Then their was of course the crocodile tank, the mine sweeper. I believe their was a whole documentary of the weird tanks deployed to normandy by the allies.
@@theculturedthug6609 they did on paper. Rommel had requisitioned multiple panzer divisions to be able to reinforce the beach head. But i believe as stated earlier or later in the series i can’t remember. But due to a confusing mess that was the german chain of command and conflicting ideals of how to defend france from a sea born invasion. And with all of the major commanders having been away from their posts at the worst/best timing in human history. Then their was no possible way to get a vast amount of german tanks to the beachhead in time
at 44 the best men were already dead . on the eastern front. also the luftwaffe was a joke at this time . might be hard to swallow for western allies , but the udssr basically won most of this war
The USSR without aid from the Allies would have been defeated years earlier. Moscow would have fallen and with it the entire Russian rail network. Even today the Russian military are almost entirely dependent on their rail network to move its military around. Moscow wasn’t just a rail hub for tye rail network it was the entire focal point of the entire network. All rail was routed via Moscow.
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Lol our best men on the atlantic wall? So the best of the injured , old or stupid?