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My grandfather fought and was wounded in the battle of the bulge. We're American. My 19 yr old son died in Afghanistan. Im in tears now and cant see the letters im tying, typing Watching this I feel for all these men, german, Russian whatever. Such terrible times, and the civilians is more tragedy.
I appreciate the service of your son to our nation. May you find peace and blessings for your family. It may not seem like it, but many of us give a darn about our nation and those that serve. We have one who served in the USMC and one now serving in the USAF. God bless.
@richardkeilig4062 thank you, my son was Marine Recon, 2nd light armored reconnaissance battalion. We're New Yorkers and we're there on 911. Thanks for your family's service as well. These kids are sharp.
He was differently a moral grey area. He sees the Nazis leaders as basically cronies appointed mostly for “loyalty,” not competence and that he is someone else’s country burning peasant families and grandmothers out of their homes right before winter with their crops wasted….and just keeps doing the things he knows are wrong. Not that he had much choice, so understandable, but not exactly praise-worthy….many do refuse to do things because they know it is wrong…including my great grandparents, who as young adults didn’t like where Germany was heading pre-WW1, and GTFO Germany for the US, and were rewarded with decades of peace and prosperity in German communities in the US, instead of living thru both wars in Germany.
As the brainwashing began to wear off, this young man was sharp enough to know that his people were played badly. Soldiers do as they are told, and Germany was not kind to those who resisted the Master Plan. It's easy to beat up on the German people, but we must remember that they were indoctrinated from birth. I well remember North Korean defectors when first seeing the wealth of the ROK were in total disbelief. They thought that everything in South Korea was a fabricated facade. You have to ask yourself how you would have turned out having been caught up in this insane asylum since infancy. 🤔
Listening to this man’s diary illustrates how easily we humans delude ourselves. How eagerly we follow incompetence political leaders who promise to make us”great again” while violating every principle that encourages greatness.
I stumbled upon this channel thinking I wouldn't enjoy the content, I am happy to say that I am incredibly impressed. It's always great to listen to the stories of the people that were there in the fight. Keep up the good work!
Having been so interested in the Second World War since childhood, It has been surreal hearing about the battles taking place in the same places today.
Reality....... ..☠️☠️..... " On February 29, 1944 the ' British Ministry of lnformation ' sent the following note to the higher British Clergy and to the BBC. ........Sir, l am directed by the Ministry to send you the following circular letter : It is often the duty of the good citizens and of the pious Christians to turn a blind eye on the peculiarities of those associated with us. But the time comes when such peculiarities, while still denied in public, must be taken into account when action by us is called for. We know the methods of rule employed by theBolshevik dictator in Russia itself from, for example, the writings and speaches of the Prime Minister himself during the last twenty years. We know how theRedArmy behaved in Poland in 1920 and in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Galicia, and Bessarabia only recently. We must, therefore, take into account how theRedArmy will certainly behave when it overruns Central Europe. Unless precautions are taken, the obviously inevitable horrors which will result will throw an undue stain in public opinion in this country. We cannot reform theBolsheviks but we can do our best to save them - and ourselves - from the consequences of their acts. The disclosures of the quarter of a century will render mere denials unconvincing. The only alternative to denial is to distract public attention from the whole subject. Experience has shown that the best distraction in is ' Atrocity Propaganda ' directed against the enemy. Unfortunately the public is no longer so susceptible as in the days of the " Corps Factory ", the " Mutilated Belgian Babies " and the " Crucified Canadians ". Your cooperation is therefore earnestly sought to distract public attention from the doings of theRedArmy by your wholehearted support of various charges against the Germans and Japanese which have been and will be put into circulation by the Ministry. Your expression of belief in such may convince others. I am, Sir, Your obediant servant ( Signed ) H.HEWET, Assistant secretary. The Ministry can enter into no correspondence of any kind with regard to this communication which should only be disclosed to responsible persons. " - pages 209-210, ' Allied Wartime Diplomacy ' by Edward J. Rozek. ☠️☠️ ......ATROCITY PROPAGANDA - " Atrocity propaganda is how we won the war. And we're only really beginning with it now ! We will continue this atrocity propaganda, we will escalate it until nobody will accept even a good word from the Germans, until all the sympathy they may still have abroad will have been destroyed and they themselves will be so confused that they will no longer know what they are doing. Once that has been achieved, once they begin to run down their own country and their own people, not reluctantly but with eagerness to please the victors, only then will our victory be complete. IT WILL NEVER BE FINAL. Re-education needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again - those indestructible weeds of historical TRUTH. " - SeftonDalmer (1904-1979), former British Chief of ' Black Propaganda ': Said after the German surrender in 1945 in a conversation with the German Professor of lnternation Law Dr.FriedrichGrimm. ☠️☠️☠️........ " Thanks to the terrible power of our International Banks, we have forced the Christians into wars without number. Wars have a special value forJews, since Christians massacre each other and make more room for usJews. Wars are theJews' Harvest, The Jewbanks grow fat on Christian wars. Over 100-million Christians have been swept off the face of the earth by wars, and the end is not yet." - rabbiReichorn, speaking at funeral of Grand rabbiSimeon Ben-Judah, France, 1869.☠️☠️ christiansfortruth.com/post-war-u-s-occupying-forces-believed-germany-justified-in-war-and-hitler-served-his-country-constructively ☠️☠️...Newspaper articles - ' NEW WORLD ORDER PLEDGED TO J E W S ", page 10, ' New York Times ', 6th October, 1940. 2.⚔️.. "The war now proposed is for the purpose of establishingJewish influence throughout the world. " - General George vanHornMosely, ' New York Tribune ', 29th, March, 1939. 3. ☠️☠️.... " JudeaDeclares War OnGermany " - JewsOf The World Unite In Action, ( FrontPage) DAILY EXPRESS, Friday, March 24, 1933. .....worldtruthvideos.website/v/zcJP84
No, not realistically. He thinks that Germany was in the right. Somehow he fails to understand all of the death and destruction they wreaked on everyone they came to. His idea that Germany deserved all they conquered, and didn’t deserve to be losing. Yes, later he criticizes the leadership. But he praises the goals and believes in the Arian superiority. He didn’t criticize these people until it became obvious they were going to lose the war. Just remember that.
He and others probably risked being court martialed and hanged or executed by firing squad, or arrested and thrown into a concentration camp for doing so, the truth definitely hurts.
Definitely an intelligent and free thinking man. An unexpected but refreshing surprise to learn some soldiers were smart enough to actually think for themselves! Likely dangerous to write that down. 3:00
Superlative Stuff! I've been a WWII aficionado since childhood. I've read amazing diaries from individual soldiers.Actually seeing these come to life with associated video is Awesome!
I like this video. I listen to all the war diaries but most of them are just a record of their war experiences- which I do find interesting. But this guy at least thinks about the reason that he’s there and who is to blame for the great horrors of the war.
He was a soldier @@buxtehude123 , he died on the battlefield at the steps of Stallingrad& awarded the Golden Cross posthumously. May all of your ancestors who've ever served in the military , RIH
From a distance, war on the horizon.Thank God I'm to old to get called up when world war 3 breaks out. It's the only time when age benefits a male in time of war, initially. If the war is going bad age becomes less relevant for call up reserves. 😢
This officer was an intelligent, fierce man and soldier. But would have been executed on the spot if anybody in the Gestapo would have read this diary.
@@whazzat8015 No, they had'nt. Soviets didn't want to exterminate other races because they were superior. The soviet prisons was composed by criminals, anti revolution and pro monarchy, there were no innocents there. Don't believe in western propaganda about USSR.
@@whazzat8015Not even….about 10% of the Germans troops taken prisoner in Russia were returned alive to Germany. In the reverse, the Russian troops captured by the Germans early in Operation Barbarossa….less than 1% survived to return home…99% were starved or died of exposure in months. So the Germans were much worse.
And right now in exactly the same place history is being repeated. "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."
yes he got the leadership correct, specially hitler a mediocre general at best who was a poor judge of characters. certainly not a people person. same was said of him after analyzing his old paintings, he drew objects and building well but not people.
He was finally able to give an honest impression of the German government and its members...He was accurate in his description of Himmler and the others who were responsible for every move the soldiers made...the dream of a fascist ideology was dying in Russia by the blood of the soldiers and civilians.
What interested me was his mentions of Funk, Ley and Roust among the Nazi leadership. I consider myself a student of WWII and I must say, I never would mention those 3 as major figures in the Nazi govt. Any thoughts.
@@gilmangus83 Funk ran the Reichsbank. Ley ran the Reich labour organization and was not only an embarrassing drunk but also a renowned embezzler of public funds. I have come across claims that gross exaggerations on the part of Funk and Ley about Germany's economic and industrial prowess had considerable influence on Hitler's willingness to go to war on two fronts... I don't think such claims can be refuted entirely. But once the war was in full swing, neither man had any power or influence that would even come near those exercised by the likes of Himmler, Goebbels or Bormann. Ley was pretty much sidelined right after the start of the hostilities and Funk kept running the central bank and shinning the gold bullions that were mined in the concentration camps.. As for Rust, he was the minister for science and education. Despite being a certifiable lunatic, he wasn't an important figure either. But in the diaries, the officer mentions that he gave a history lesson to the troops... Maybe before the war he had been a teacher or a lecturer of some sort and had come to despise Rust's ridiculous ideas about science and education in the Third Reich???
@@gilmangus83 , They're mentioned because of their (apparent) actuality those times, they're not icons of history to be known by students in our times. A difference of perspective.
The Ukrainians paint white crosses on their armored vehicles. Coincidence? Or perhaps sentiment towards the tradition of the SS Galizien composed of Ukrainians?
@@IkeVMAX4 You have no idea what is happening in Ukraine. You Westerners are very naive and uneducated, you don't understand politics, history and economics. You live in a materialistic socialism that will turn into a dictatorship. I was born in Poland when soft communism, i.e. a socialist system, reigned here. I know what it is and I know what the propaganda that the media is now fooling you with is. If you are curious about what really happened in Russia, start with Tsarina Catherine II, who came from a German family, and then find out what Bolshevism was, because the first victims of communism are Russians, and communism comes from Germany. The communist mafia overthrew satrap mafia. Admit your ignorance and start learning, and don't watch or listen to the mainstream, because you will be stupid. As for Ukraine, I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the crime of Ukrainians against Poles in Volhynia. Such brutality has never happened anywhere in the world.
@@IkeVMAX4 If you don't see the difference between the SS and modern Russia, then you might want to take an interest in the number of civilian casualties, and perhaps compare them with the number of casualties in Gaza...
Prfactist: I also noticed that similarity. I also remember a quote attributed to the philosopher George Santayana that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This was a paraphrased version of his original "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
He's almost certainly blatantly ripping the authors off. Feeds the books to AI sites and posts the audio to earn money. YT should crack down on these ripoff channels
@@barryb7682 With the greatest respect, how do you know if this narrator is AI driven? What clues and factors in the narration give it the AI generation? Thank you.
So, where exactly did you find this diary, or any of the other 'diaries' you feature on this channel? Is there a reason you withhold the names of the authors? Is there a reason you never give any citations in the video descriptions?
I found these channels interesting at first then too started to suspect their content of being fake, there are weird plot holes in some of these type of channel’s stories like one saying American soldiers were over weight
He mentions Oreal, where my brother in law fought and was captured. He was a captain and leather of a machine gun company. Most of his company was killed but he was captured and sent to Archangel near the Arctic circle as a pow. He only survived as a POW by saying he was a cook. Being near food meant he avoided the fate of most of his companions. How could I in 2023 have a brother in law fighting on Hitlers war. Well let me explain. My wife’s sister married a Doctor in Germany. His father was a doctor living in the Rhine Valley. His father had a son, but during the war his wife died. He remarried and my other brother in law father had another son by his much younger second wife, my brother in law. I was born in 1942 and remarried a much younger wife. So I am able to have a brother in law who fought in the Second world for Germany. That is why I am so interested in WW 11.
A diary always gives the best account of any historical situation. Whether it is war or not. Samuel Pepys gives a great account of life in London (for the upper class, unfortunately) during the sixteen hundreds.
Any idea of superiority is a faulty thought, anyone that goes that road hits the dead end. Pretty cold blooded officer I gotta give him that. Great job on the channel!
Agreed. Humility is a cornerstone of mental and spiritual health. As you say, when a person starts thinking of themselves as "superior" it ends badly. I've seen it many, many times.
@@daleburrell6273 I agree, Im also an American. But that idea is a stick with two ends. What happens when the economy collapses and we are in a depression? What will the people do with the idea of how can such an exceptional people get to such a point?
I think his ambivalence reflects upon the "Rah team go!" that all begin war with, Then the tragedy becomes revealed. "Got mit uns" He is dead right about how the Germans unified the Soviets after their self cannibalistic purges of their own diversity and whatever soul that could bring to an ideal. Stalinism was not Communist any more than National Socialism was Socialist. Both were a cover for Fascism , I can only hope that American "Freedom" is not used the same.
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography pictures 📷 enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Class A research project!!! Special thanks to the lieutenant sharing personal information/combat experiences. Making this documentary more authentic and possible. Fighting/perishing/surviving. Knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible. That's true grit style determination to succeed. Regardless of the consequences. Fighting must have been fiercely agonizingly brutal nightmarishly mind numbing 😈😈
I don't understand why we don't have the fate of the diary writer they must have his name I would think he said he was ranked and it seems like someone would know what happened to him I enjoyed and appreciated listening to his words. I want to know what happened to him.
@@49558201True though to be fair, that is a GREAT survival rate compared to the number of Russians POWs who survived German captivity after surrendering early in operation Barbarossa. Something like
I enjoyed the pictures of all the horse drawn wagons, guns, mounted soldiers; people think German army was highly mechanized but only 30-40% of there army was mechanized and they were highly dependant on horse drawn guns and supply and medical,, and train supply. which brings back comparisons to the American Civil War armies.
Also enjoyed all the diary entries of the Russian air force affect on the Eastern front; It is hardly ever mentioned, but the Russians produced 160,000 war planes in WW2. 20,000 more than British, and 40,000 more than Germany.; USA produced twice Russians number, an unbelievable feat.
The introductory description under the video, "We will look today at the diary of Lieutenant Brand, an officer of the Wehrmacht. His diary goes from June 28, 1943. The year he considers "the darkest year in all German history". And such observations are not unreasonable: the great military failures on the Eastern front accompanied by the massive bombardment of large German cities by British-American aviation. The result was huge civilian losses and severe destructions. The diary shows well the decline in soldiers' morale caused by these and related events. There was a visible shadow of disaster over Germany."
Tantamount how the backers of Terrorism live as they come up with the using people as human shields , that's been around since mankind came about !@@roysheaks1261
@@49558201 - There was fighting in Ukraine during WW II, they were on Russia's side. Ukraine was one of the most devastated areas in Europe during the Second World War. It was a principal battleground on the Eastern Front and endured years of occupation, destruction and death.
The Germans had the long opportunity to at least start constructing defensive belts. They did nothing for defense. For Germany It was a war fought on credit. So many lives and so much material was wasted and squandered on The Eastern Front. A dice role gone spectacularly wrong.
That's the way it works The Spartans only had war to sustain their approach. Put full effort into it, with full effect. Simper Fi to the wrong God. Oops, Cheer on Charon with loyal servant Cerebus.
It would be interesting to know the provenance of this diary. I’m surprised that an officer would document his criticism without concern for censorship or downright accusations of defeatism. If he did die on the Eastern Front, how was his diary found, and by whom, and come to be known?
What is ironic is the pain he described Germany and its people were suffering could be less than what the Germans did to many civilians and cities all over Europe by that time. Not to mention the horrendous crimes and atrocities they committed against defenseless people in all their cocentration camps. Also, the scorched earth campaign they used when slowly withdrawing from territories they occupied where they systematically killed so many civilian women, children, and old people. It is hard to feel sorry for this guy who wrote the diary and the German armies that were defeated in Russia and chased back into Germany.
I was stationed in Germany back in the 80s. I learned German. Germans who lived though it told me that everyone knew the war was lost in 43. Although totally illegal, they listened to the BBC. The BBC was totally honest in contrast to German radio news stations. German radio stations were persistently reporting up to the very end that victory was just around the corner. On the other hand the BBC reported, for instance, how the Bismarck was wrecking havoc on the British navy. Even the Wehrmacht listened to it.
Military Club has a total lack of cited sources for any of their material and whenever names are mentioned, google searches all lead back to this channel. Sus.
Most of my relatives were US Marines including my father. But we also had Navy, Army and Air Force. My brother broke his back while in the Navy. My paternal grandfather was wounded in WWI. Again, I’m so sorry for your loss. I hope you have a great day.
6 million civilian jews, not to mention political prisoners and mentally disabled and millions of Russian civilians at the hand of Germany and company, so what's your point?
@@CmdrMoosicvsLounge That's also not counting the British civilians from the Blitz and buzz bombs. Germans have no right to question the morality of bombing strategies of others.
I would say 1941, right after battle of moscow. But german loss at stalingrad was final nail in coffin, so jan 1943. Why they keep on fighting after that is beyond my understanding. They should have assassinated Hitler and negotiated peace with west.
@@BobbaFett312 thats easy to explain: Churchill and Stalin would not accept anything but unconditional surrender (starting '41 btw, i could go into detail but its another topic). but surrender meant splitting up Germany, meaning the end of the nation. the reason is simple, after WWI and subsequently WWII they wanted Germany gone, no 3rd chances. and Stalin wanted all of Europe...and without a functioning Germany that would be way easier to accomplish. there was no reasonable peace to be had...everthing else is just going through the motions. the military waited on the politicians, the politicians had no room for negotiations, only holding out and hoping the unconditional surrender demand would soften up as the war of attrition goes on. btw, there were multiple peace negotiation attempts. they get not prominently discussed, but are on record.
They could have surrendered without conditions. They may have also been able to negotiate conditions but hitler didn’t have the guts, intellect, or empathy for the people of his country (shocker) to blow his brains out a few years earlier. And the people of Germany didn’t have the courage or wisdom to assassinate him.
…The battle of Moscow where the Wehrmacht lost WWll , When at Karlshorst where the German High Command officially surrendered some reporters asked Marschall Keitel : “ Herr Marschall when did you know when Germany lost the War??? He answered.. “At the Battle of Moscow “…😑
When this Lieutenant was writing this he must not have known his superior was planning on "killing himself"🤔and abandoning them whilst they fought a losing war 🤮😡🤮😡🤮😡🤮😡
There is a book called the blood red snow about a German soldier. This reminds me of it a little. The wounded machine gunner. It would be a small world if that was him. He fought in Stalingrad got injured sent back and sent to the west again. Got injured sent back then was placed on Atlantic wall. Then retreated and later captured. To pick his brain all these years later…….
...the Germans can be doggone grateful that Harris didn't have a bomber fleet of 4,000 Lancasters: Harris would have turned Germany into a parking lot-(!)
Bomber Harris is a hero Plymouth, London, Coventry, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Endurererd countless nights under German bombs.... Harris, bless him, vowed to pay it back tenfold..... Over 1,000,000 Germans were actively engaged in anti aircraft batteries, fire control, and searchlight battalions. That's 1,000,000 that were kept from the Russian front. Not to mention the millions of tons of arms destroyed in factories Or unable to be moved because the railways were destroyed. Or even the hundreds of thousands of weapons workers forced from their burning homes. Harris, yes..... A hero.
This is so badass!!! I ❤️ studying WWII. This makes me want to work on a novel I been wanting to write ✍️. Maybe I'll try again tonight. I keep starting it, but only getting 10 or so pages in and scraping it.
Try to write for 30 minutes a night, or whatever, and keep going, whether you think what you write is good, bad or in between. Then the next day, read through that section, and make it a little better, and usually, briefer = better. Then write for 30 minutes again. Repeat edit/write 30 min until you feel it’s ready.
In 2018 I was touring part of Germany and in one of the small cities we visited a small palace that had been partly destroyed or damaged during WW II and had been restored, it was beautiful. The local guide we had was a young lady in her 20s' she was embittered by what the British did to her city at the end of the war when they bombed and literally destroyed the old city that had stood for a few hundred years for no real reason as it had no military value. She felt it was done in spite just to emotional hurt the Germans, just destroyed what was irreplaceable. And this destruction happened way before she was even born. Without a doubt lots of prized ancient buildings were destroyed in many cities thruout Europe what a pity. And of course all the human loss and misery. And all because of Hitler and his goons.
Talent applied to wrong direction. Gee, see what happened when he realized what he had done. Took the honorable way out. Look at how many Jews were killed under his command. Not mentioned a lot. see Tunisia for details.
Yes! That is so awesome that diaries can be obtained, curated, and narrated of this length. It just puts the listener right there in the thick of it! Thank You!
This guy (even though he's likely fictional) would have little in common with you or I. This is a guy who's opinion of the SS, the most fanatical of Nazis, was that they were "narrow minded". Today we'd call a person who thinks Chinese people sound funny or thinks gay people shouldn't get married are narrow minded. This guy thinks a group of people who think anyone who's not an Aryan is a subhuman and happily burns entire villages alive inside churches are "narrow minded".
@@MH-fb5krI think he’s just referring to the average soldier being human. We tend to dehumanize the enemy and sometimes accounts like this where you get an idea of a soldiers thoughts, hopes, fears for loved ones etc make them relatable.
Germany , truly is a beautiful Country . They , will never fall , they , are a big part of history . They , done very well in the things they , built . The first plane , submarine .
Except Germany did not quite have the first plane or submarine. The US Wright brothers built the first documented plane, and the submarine was invented by many countries, going back centuries. The US had man-powered submarines in the 1800s.
@mvegetaxachilles7211 No one is simping for Commies. But the Nazis, and the Germans they commanded killed many times the number of Civilians than they suffered in casualties.
The Spartans only had war to sustain their approach. Put full effort into it, with full effect. Simper Fi to the wrong God. Oops, Cheer on Charon with loyal servant Cerebus.
Many go into conflict full of piss and vinegar. He was not out for months, but years! Trust me, the time drags on, and the fatigue and stress take their toll. These men worked on very little sleep, food, or basic necessities. He not only had to function and survive, but he also had to train, lead, and care for numerous other troops. Armchair Genitals know little of life struggling with the enemy, elements, and horrific loss. Maybe you can join the military and show the rest of the world how its all done!
Yes. These are all scammer channels using fake AI-generated voices. But like cockroaches, hard to kill off. YT seems to turn a blind eye to this. That the author was apparently turned into fertilizer long-ago in Ukraine probably makes it difficult to claim copyright infringement.
My uncle Mike lost his brother during the bulge. He was also a combat infantryman like my uncle. When his brother was killed he said he hated all Germans and wanted to shoot them all. After the surrender he saw three guys later walking along a road. They had German uniform jackets on and civi pants. He ran them over with his armored vehicle. He said now the war is really over now for him.
My grand father served in the German army.He was a quite Guy. When he was drunk we took cover.But when I turned 8in 1977 I had enough in short.I attacked him.After that never any problems for me he was thé greatest opa.For him I was the favorite grandson.Jan I miss you You were in battles no keyboard warriors can imagine the battles a holes
After the Russians blew up the dam on that river, German soldiers heads were sticking out of the mud at the bare bottom exposed. Still had their helmets on!
Soviets were made to call their German enemy 'Hitlerites', and other names, everything except Socialists. It would have confused the proliterat, Communists.Both Stalinism and National Socialism were 90% the same. Only big difference is property ownership in Germany. This is called Collectivism, the political spectrum is not a line, it's a sphere going up, down, diagonal, and side to side. This is based on social, economic, political.....aspects.
Stalinism was not Communist any more than National Socialism was Socialist. Both were a cover for Fascism , I can only hope that American "Freedom" is not used the same.
Almost thought this video was fake but I see his sources lol. Idk just strange things said by the German Lt… like when he emphasized summer 1943 as major turning point in the war and all seemed hopelessly lost. This is a concept a lot of historians talk about yes; as to when the war actually turned to become unwinnable, but at the time it seems too prophetic of him. Sources are legit though I just don’t like ai voice form maybe idk.
I have listened to a few of these diaries posted on the tube from German soldiers and with all due respect it would seem in the early days that the war machine turned these young soldiers into egotistical arrogant yobs and tyrants with a self image of immortality and invincibility of which drastically changed from accounts when England and America bit back with a vengeance ! I'm not sure if I'm alone in these feelings either but listening to some other accounts from German soldiers of how British and Allied prisoners were viciously executed with a pure hatred and disregard for any laws and respectful moralities for human beings just filled me with that same hatred for those Germans for that brief moment that I listened and that is not healthy in 2023 and it doesn't really make sense. But hearing the accounts word for word from a diary with such hatred and vengeance with massacres and unjust "murders" to people who had already surrendered Just filled me with that hatred considering they were the ones who started it all and followed their disillusioned leader's plans to conquer the whole world and be victorious and create a superhuman race of a German empire. It's not healthy to feel such hatred so long after an event against the populations of these countries especially the young people who have no idea really As to the depth of atrocities that occurred but I guess it does display the fact that any wholesome good living citizen of any country can be changed by the warped thinking of war leaders and their machines of destruction.
Military propagandist machines are always hidden theirs defeated circumstances through decisiveness sentence ( everything goings according to plans )...it was informative and really talked 👄 about that bleak circumstances of Germany Wermakht armies on the USSR territories....
It is so sad that a people could be so hoodwinked into believing an obvious mentally flawed individual, showing such zeal during his rallies to then see old pictures of them with shoulders bowed walking among the ruins of their once beautiful cities. Could there be a lesson there?????
This officer sounds. Very depressed. They are. The Germans. In a meat grinder. And it's getting. Worse by the. Minute. After all there victories it comes to this. Was it worth it don't think so. !!!!
Yeah…it’s an interesting phenomena in German diaries or memoirs of WW2. Everyone says there were atrocities…but somehow they never saw any. For a couple..it might happen. But it is pretty much every single one. There is a old (80s) clip of a UK reporter asking a bunch of old German veterans at a reunion whether they witnessed any atrocities…and they had a montage of old guy after old guy all saying the same thing: “well, they happened…but I never saw one.”
The German soldiers were used to overtaking countries by a blitzkrieg of soldiers and equipment, like Poland and and France and Russia at the beginning of Barbarossa turned into a nightmare of muddy roads that turned into frozen and hardened land that was the beginning of the end for German Army. Even though they started to question the leadership of Hitler's actions.
In the footage where Hitler is meeting with the generals and other various leaders of his army, over the years, you can see them go from massive respect to hatred of the fact he is sending them to slaughter over mislaid plans. Of course, if they say anything they will immediately be killed. No wonder 40 attempts made it to him, but I always wonder HOW he survived all of those.
Enjoy handy playlists with all the stories of the soldiers!
ruclips.net/p/PLME26KOruKR3xPuLzIorw0d1RTk7KYoJf Waffen SS. Diaries and memories of German soldiers.
ruclips.net/p/PLME26KOruKR3CTzfue93twWQ7k_d4yOzc Personal Diaries and Memoirs of Soldiers.
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Have you tried to find out what happened to this soldier?
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My grandfather fought and was wounded in the battle of the bulge. We're American. My 19 yr old son died in Afghanistan. Im in tears now and cant see the letters im tying, typing
Watching this I feel for all these men, german, Russian whatever. Such terrible times, and the civilians is more tragedy.
My condolences. what is your son;s name?
May you continue to gain strength and find some solace in the loss of your son.
@@markbraswell6768 Christopher Shawn Baltazar Jr, Marine corps
I appreciate the service of your son to our nation. May you find peace and blessings for your family. It may not seem like it, but many of us give a darn about our nation and those that serve. We have one who served in the USMC and one now serving in the USAF. God bless.
@richardkeilig4062 thank you, my son was Marine Recon, 2nd light armored reconnaissance battalion. We're New Yorkers and we're there on 911. Thanks for your family's service as well. These kids are sharp.
You can only imagine this man’s thoughts. He is smart enough to know the outcome and human tragedy at hand and the waste of politicians.
He was differently a moral grey area. He sees the Nazis leaders as basically cronies appointed mostly for “loyalty,” not competence and that he is someone else’s country burning peasant families and grandmothers out of their homes right before winter with their crops wasted….and just keeps doing the things he knows are wrong.
Not that he had much choice, so understandable, but not exactly praise-worthy….many do refuse to do things because they know it is wrong…including my great grandparents, who as young adults didn’t like where Germany was heading pre-WW1, and GTFO Germany for the US, and were rewarded with decades of peace and prosperity in German communities in the US, instead of living thru both wars in Germany.
As the brainwashing began to wear off, this young man was sharp enough to know that his people were played badly. Soldiers do as they are told, and Germany was not kind to those who resisted the Master Plan. It's easy to beat up on the German people, but we must remember that they were indoctrinated from birth. I well remember North Korean defectors when first seeing the wealth of the ROK were in total disbelief. They thought that everything in South Korea was a fabricated facade. You have to ask yourself how you would have turned out having been caught up in this insane asylum since infancy. 🤔
Listening to this man’s diary illustrates how easily we humans delude ourselves. How eagerly we follow incompetence political leaders who promise to make us”great again” while violating every principle that encourages greatness.
I stumbled upon this channel thinking I wouldn't enjoy the content, I am happy to say that I am incredibly impressed. It's always great to listen to the stories of the people that were there in the fight. Keep up the good work!
Having been so interested in the Second World War since childhood, It has been surreal hearing about the battles taking place in the same places today.
Yep and that pile in the Whitehouse better keep his vegetable mouth shut b4 we end up in a mess
Reality....... ..☠️☠️..... " On February 29, 1944 the ' British Ministry of lnformation ' sent the following note to the higher British Clergy and to the BBC. ........Sir, l am directed by the Ministry to send you the following circular letter : It is often the duty of the good citizens and of the pious Christians to turn a blind eye on the peculiarities of those associated with us. But the time comes when such peculiarities, while still denied in public, must be taken into account when action by us is called for. We know the methods of rule employed by theBolshevik dictator in Russia itself from, for example, the writings and speaches of the Prime Minister himself during the last twenty years. We know how theRedArmy behaved in Poland in 1920 and in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Galicia, and Bessarabia only recently. We must, therefore, take into account how theRedArmy will certainly behave when it overruns Central Europe. Unless precautions are taken, the obviously inevitable horrors which will result will throw an undue stain in public opinion in this country. We cannot reform theBolsheviks but we can do our best to save them - and ourselves - from the consequences of their acts. The disclosures of the quarter of a century will render mere denials unconvincing. The only alternative to denial is to distract public attention from the whole subject. Experience has shown that the best distraction in is ' Atrocity Propaganda ' directed against the enemy. Unfortunately the public is no longer so susceptible as in the days of the " Corps Factory ", the " Mutilated Belgian Babies " and the " Crucified Canadians ". Your cooperation is therefore earnestly sought to distract public attention from the doings of theRedArmy by your wholehearted support of various charges against the Germans and Japanese which have been and will be put into circulation by the Ministry. Your expression of belief in such may convince others. I am, Sir, Your obediant servant ( Signed ) H.HEWET, Assistant secretary. The Ministry can enter into no correspondence of any kind with regard to this communication which should only be disclosed to responsible persons. " - pages 209-210, ' Allied Wartime Diplomacy ' by Edward J. Rozek.
☠️☠️ ......ATROCITY PROPAGANDA - " Atrocity propaganda is how we won the war. And we're only really beginning with it now ! We will continue this atrocity propaganda, we will escalate it until nobody will accept even a good word from the Germans, until all the sympathy they may still have abroad will have been destroyed and they themselves will be so confused that they will no longer know what they are doing. Once that has been achieved, once they begin to run down their own country and their own people, not reluctantly but with eagerness to please the victors, only then will our victory be complete. IT WILL NEVER BE FINAL. Re-education needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again - those indestructible weeds of historical TRUTH. " - SeftonDalmer (1904-1979), former British Chief of ' Black Propaganda ': Said after the German surrender in 1945 in a conversation with the German Professor of lnternation Law Dr.FriedrichGrimm. ☠️☠️☠️........ " Thanks to the terrible power of our International Banks, we have forced the Christians into wars without number. Wars have a special value forJews, since Christians massacre each other and make more room for usJews. Wars are theJews' Harvest, The Jewbanks grow fat on Christian wars. Over 100-million Christians have been swept off the face of the earth by wars, and the end is not yet." - rabbiReichorn, speaking at funeral of Grand rabbiSimeon Ben-Judah, France, 1869.☠️☠️ christiansfortruth.com/post-war-u-s-occupying-forces-believed-germany-justified-in-war-and-hitler-served-his-country-constructively ☠️☠️...Newspaper articles - ' NEW WORLD ORDER PLEDGED TO J E W S ", page 10, ' New York Times ', 6th October, 1940. 2.⚔️.. "The war now proposed is for the purpose of establishingJewish influence throughout the world. " - General George vanHornMosely, ' New York Tribune ', 29th, March, 1939. 3. ☠️☠️.... " JudeaDeclares War OnGermany " - JewsOf The World Unite In Action, ( FrontPage) DAILY EXPRESS, Friday, March 24, 1933. .....worldtruthvideos.website/v/zcJP84
We have the same arrogance and stupidity that lead to both pointless disastrous wars.
@@jerrymarbury9365agree! FJB!
Yeah...I forgot, what was that saying about learn from history or repeat it?
Of all the accounts I’ve heard so far this guy spoke the most sensibly and realistically 🤷🏽♂️💯
No, not realistically. He thinks that Germany was in the right. Somehow he fails to understand all of the death and destruction they wreaked on everyone they came to. His idea that Germany deserved all they conquered, and didn’t deserve to be losing. Yes, later he criticizes the leadership. But he praises the goals and believes in the Arian superiority. He didn’t criticize these people until it became obvious they were going to lose the war. Just remember that.
@@melgross bro I don’t need a recap I said what I said lol that’s your opinion REALISTICALLY tf🤣
@@silkkdread it’s pretty obvious.
He and others probably risked being court martialed and hanged or executed by firing squad, or arrested and thrown into a concentration camp for doing so, the truth definitely hurts.
@@melgross exactly
Definitely an intelligent and free thinking man. An unexpected but refreshing surprise to learn some soldiers were smart enough to actually think for themselves! Likely dangerous to write that down. 3:00
A lot of the soldiers were definitely free thinking, but the people in power had rules against them, thats dictatorship for you.
Excellent and visionary ideas from this officer. He rights with deep thought about people and country. Todays Germans must listen to him ! Maj gen IA
Superlative Stuff! I've been a WWII aficionado since childhood. I've read amazing diaries from individual soldiers.Actually seeing these come to life with associated video is Awesome!
So informative and real, a true privilege and joy for any armchair historian to listen to. Big thanks for all your efforts.
What is this reading and diary based on? Has the officer published the diary as a book? If so, where can one acquire this book?
I like this video. I listen to all the war diaries but most of them are just a record of their war experiences- which I do find interesting. But this guy at least thinks about the reason that he’s there and who is to blame for the great horrors of the war.
I had an ancestor, a Lieutenant in the 6th infantry , Johannes ' Hans' Elchlepp , RIP
Interesting. Do you have any letters or pictures? I love ww2 history
RIH
He was a soldier @@buxtehude123 , he died on the battlefield at the steps of Stallingrad& awarded the Golden Cross posthumously.
May all of your ancestors who've ever served in the military , RIH
From a distance, war on the horizon.Thank God I'm to old to get called up when world war 3 breaks out. It's the only time when age benefits a male in time of war, initially. If the war is going bad age becomes less relevant for call up reserves. 😢
Imagine finally getting to bath in a river and having to dodge fighter plane artillery as your trying to wash,unreal.
My 3 year old feels the same.
True absolution by Baptism works the same, as well.
@@whazzat8015Interesting philosophy !
Herman Goring was a spooky character , a remnant of the brutal air war during WW 1 ,band a well known use of opiates ! MORPHINE !
.....and the partisans.
This officer was an intelligent, fierce man and soldier. But would have been executed on the spot if anybody in the Gestapo would have read this diary.
Facts
@@Airborne80 Gestapo = NKVD
Both sides had same process. Soviet concentration camps just had worse weather
@@whazzat8015 No, they had'nt. Soviets didn't want to exterminate other races because they were superior. The soviet prisons was composed by criminals, anti revolution and pro monarchy, there were no innocents there. Don't believe in western propaganda about USSR.
@@whazzat8015Not even….about 10% of the Germans troops taken prisoner in Russia were returned alive to Germany. In the reverse, the Russian troops captured by the Germans early in Operation Barbarossa….less than 1% survived to return home…99% were starved or died of exposure in months. So the Germans were much worse.
You listened to this audio and felt that it could be attributed to an individual ...other than the bullshit AI that was used?
And right now in exactly the same place history is being repeated.
"What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun."
Very wise words
History doesn't repeat itself, human nature does!
The soldier's analysis of the top Nazi leadership is simply amazing, in particular what he has to say about von Ribbentrop...
yes he got the leadership correct, specially hitler a mediocre general at best who was a poor judge of characters. certainly not a people person. same was said of him after analyzing his old paintings, he drew objects and building well but not people.
He was finally able to give an honest impression of the German government and its members...He was accurate in his description of Himmler and the others who were responsible for every move the soldiers made...the dream of a fascist ideology was dying in Russia by the blood of the soldiers and civilians.
What interested me was his mentions of Funk, Ley and Roust among the Nazi leadership. I consider myself a student of WWII and I must say, I never would mention those 3 as major figures in the Nazi govt. Any thoughts.
@@gilmangus83 Funk ran the Reichsbank. Ley ran the Reich labour organization and was not only an embarrassing drunk but also a renowned embezzler of public funds. I have come across claims that gross exaggerations on the part of Funk and Ley about Germany's economic and industrial prowess had considerable influence on Hitler's willingness to go to war on two fronts... I don't think such claims can be refuted entirely. But once the war was in full swing, neither man had any power or influence that would even come near those exercised by the likes of Himmler, Goebbels or Bormann. Ley was pretty much sidelined right after the start of the hostilities and Funk kept running the central bank and shinning the gold bullions that were mined in the concentration camps..
As for Rust, he was the minister for science and education. Despite being a certifiable lunatic, he wasn't an important figure either. But in the diaries, the officer mentions that he gave a history lesson to the troops... Maybe before the war he had been a teacher or a lecturer of some sort and had come to despise Rust's ridiculous ideas about science and education in the Third Reich???
@@gilmangus83 , They're mentioned because of their (apparent) actuality those times, they're not icons of history to be known by students in our times. A difference of perspective.
It's crazy hearing about "Izyum" and "Petrovskaya." It's like listening to a news report of the current war.
The Ukrainians paint white crosses on their armored vehicles. Coincidence? Or perhaps sentiment towards the tradition of the SS Galizien composed of Ukrainians?
@@vlodeklukasz1065they tried to keep their independence back, just like now. Yes, SS did horrible things back then, just like Russians now.
@@IkeVMAX4 You have no idea what is happening in Ukraine. You Westerners are very naive and uneducated, you don't understand politics, history and economics. You live in a materialistic socialism that will turn into a dictatorship. I was born in Poland when soft communism, i.e. a socialist system, reigned here. I know what it is and I know what the propaganda that the media is now fooling you with is. If you are curious about what really happened in Russia, start with Tsarina Catherine II, who came from a German family, and then find out what Bolshevism was, because the first victims of communism are Russians, and communism comes from Germany. The communist mafia overthrew satrap mafia. Admit your ignorance and start learning, and don't watch or listen to the mainstream, because you will be stupid.
As for Ukraine, I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the crime of Ukrainians against Poles in Volhynia. Such brutality has never happened anywhere in the world.
@@IkeVMAX4 If you don't see the difference between the SS and modern Russia, then you might want to take an interest in the number of civilian casualties, and perhaps compare them with the number of casualties in Gaza...
Prfactist: I also noticed that similarity. I also remember a quote attributed to the philosopher George Santayana that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This was a paraphrased version of his original "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Would you please tell the viewers where you get your source material from? I for one would be interested. Thank you.
Yeah, me too: just the names of these books you are reading and their authors' names would be very helpful.
He's almost certainly blatantly ripping the authors off. Feeds the books to AI sites and posts the audio to earn money. YT should crack down on these ripoff channels
AI generated
@@barryb7682 With the greatest respect, how do you know if this narrator is AI driven? What clues and factors in the narration give it the AI generation? Thank you.
@@JuneJarka AI always states military time incorrectly. Dates too.
So, where exactly did you find this diary, or any of the other 'diaries' you feature on this channel? Is there a reason you withhold the names of the authors? Is there a reason you never give any citations in the video descriptions?
I found these channels interesting at first then too started to suspect their content of being fake, there are weird plot holes in some of these type of channel’s stories like one saying American soldiers were over weight
He mentions Oreal, where my brother in law fought and was captured. He was a captain and leather of a machine gun company. Most of his company was killed but he was captured and sent to Archangel near the Arctic circle as a pow. He only survived as a POW by saying he was a cook. Being near food meant he avoided the fate of most of his companions.
How could I in 2023 have a brother in law fighting on Hitlers war. Well let me explain. My wife’s sister married a Doctor in Germany. His father was a doctor living in the Rhine Valley. His father had a son, but during the war his wife died. He remarried and my other brother in law father had another son by his much younger second wife, my brother in law. I was born in 1942 and remarried a much younger wife. So I am able to have a brother in law who fought in the Second world for Germany. That is why I am so interested in WW 11.
He said a mysterious woman turns up all dressed in black in no-man's-land. That's fucking creepy bro
That was the wife of the "Grim Reaper, foreshadowing the Death which was to come for many of the combatants.
Yeah.... sounds like b.s. to me.
@@darrelneidiffer6777 concussions can definitely make you see shit
May have all been more poetic prose with numerous sources.
Still a compelling bit of writing
What? What woman?
There's nothing there, man.
The best diary I've heard!
A diary always gives the best account of any historical situation. Whether it is war or not. Samuel Pepys gives a great account of life in London (for the upper class, unfortunately) during the sixteen hundreds.
Any idea of superiority is a faulty thought, anyone that goes that road hits the dead end.
Pretty cold blooded officer I gotta give him that.
Great job on the channel!
The idea of exceptionalism will bring America to the same dead end
Agreed. Humility is a cornerstone of mental and spiritual health. As you say, when a person starts thinking of themselves as "superior" it ends badly. I've seen it many, many times.
@@arimoff...AMERICA REALLY IS "EXCEPTIONAL"- BECAUSE OF OUR FREEDOM!!!
@@daleburrell6273 I agree, Im also an American. But that idea is a stick with two ends. What happens when the economy collapses and we are in a depression? What will the people do with the idea of how can such an exceptional people get to such a point?
I think his ambivalence reflects upon the "Rah team go!" that all begin war with,
Then the tragedy becomes revealed. "Got mit uns"
He is dead right about how the Germans unified the Soviets after their self cannibalistic purges of their own diversity and whatever soul that could bring to an ideal.
Stalinism was not Communist any more than National Socialism was Socialist.
Both were a cover for Fascism , I can only hope that American "Freedom" is not used the same.
My goodness the part about mussolini sent shivers down my spine
Exactly what I was thinking. His estimated timeline is eery.
Musolini outcome should be the outcome for all the political class who dream of war but never ever participate
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography pictures 📷 enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Class A research project!!! Special thanks to the lieutenant sharing personal information/combat experiences. Making this documentary more authentic and possible. Fighting/perishing/surviving. Knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible. That's true grit style determination to succeed. Regardless of the consequences. Fighting must have been fiercely agonizingly brutal nightmarishly mind numbing 😈😈
I don't understand why we don't have the fate of the diary writer they must have his name I would think he said he was ranked and it seems like someone would know what happened to him I enjoyed and appreciated listening to his words. I want to know what happened to him.
Over 50,000 Germany POW's died in Russian camps , 5 years After the war , only about 5,000 came home .
@@49558201True though to be fair, that is a GREAT survival rate compared to the number of Russians POWs who survived German captivity after surrendering early in operation Barbarossa. Something like
That was heart wrenching!
Fantastic photos
I enjoyed the pictures of all the horse drawn wagons, guns, mounted soldiers; people think German army was highly mechanized but only 30-40% of there army was mechanized and they were highly dependant on horse drawn guns and supply and medical,, and train supply. which brings back comparisons to the American Civil War armies.
Why, in all these AI read stories, are large sections repeated? Do you make more for a longer video?
I love how he complains about how the allies have destroyed buildings
There are reasons why race horses wear blinkers
Also enjoyed all the diary entries of the Russian air force affect on the Eastern front; It is hardly ever mentioned, but the Russians produced 160,000 war planes in WW2. 20,000 more than British, and 40,000 more than Germany.; USA produced twice Russians number, an unbelievable feat.
Excellent channel - the hard work is evident; even the images seem largely unpublished. But, please identify the source material in the narrative.
The introductory description under the video, "We will look today at the diary of Lieutenant Brand, an officer of the Wehrmacht. His diary goes from June 28, 1943. The year he considers "the darkest year in all German history". And such observations are not unreasonable: the great military failures on the Eastern front accompanied by the massive bombardment of large German cities by British-American aviation. The result was huge civilian losses and severe destructions. The diary shows well the decline in soldiers' morale caused by these and related events. There was a visible shadow of disaster over Germany."
The best cc ever!!!
Very informative
it seems like certain passages were already spoken in earlier videos. I enjoy listening on a rainy day, but I'm tired of hearing things more than once
Heartbreaking. Politicians live in luxury while brave young men suffer and die. Disgusting.
…a worldwide phenomenon, to be sure.
Tantamount how the backers of Terrorism live as they come up with the using people as human shields , that's been around since mankind came about !@@roysheaks1261
1st WW , 10 million died , WW2 , 56 million died , WW3 ( currently on the verge , or already im fruition , a potential 2;to 3 billion !!?!
Amazing that I'm seeing the same place names in these video diaries that are being fought over in Ukraine today.
History repeats itself , in Blood .
@@49558201 - There was fighting in Ukraine during WW II, they were on Russia's side. Ukraine was one of the most devastated areas in Europe during the Second World War. It was a principal battleground on the Eastern Front and endured years of occupation, destruction and death.
The Germans had the long opportunity to at least start constructing defensive belts. They did nothing for defense. For Germany It was a war fought on credit. So many lives and so much material was wasted and squandered on The Eastern Front. A dice role gone spectacularly wrong.
He was very articulate but ate up with lack of knowing what his country was really doing
There may have been no way for him to know at that time. The jews hadnt created modern history yet.
That's the way it works
The Spartans only had war to sustain their approach.
Put full effort into it, with full effect. Simper Fi to the wrong God.
Oops, Cheer on Charon with loyal servant Cerebus.
Compliments to the voice reading the diary. Great melody, emphasis, articulation. .. wish this to be some standard at youtube.
It was an AI voice, there getting good.
Great video
It would be interesting to know the provenance of this diary. I’m surprised that an officer would document his criticism without concern for censorship or downright accusations of defeatism. If he did die on the Eastern Front, how was his diary found, and by whom, and come to be known?
This was excellent.
Excellent AI.
National socialism and communism , not so much different between these two dangerous philosophies
What is ironic is the pain he described Germany and its people were suffering could be less than what the Germans did to many civilians and cities all over Europe by that time. Not to mention the horrendous crimes and atrocities they committed against defenseless people in all their cocentration camps. Also, the scorched earth campaign they used when slowly withdrawing from territories they occupied where they systematically killed so many civilian women, children, and old people.
It is hard to feel sorry for this guy who wrote the diary and the German armies that were defeated in Russia and chased back into Germany.
This was very interesting 👌
The war was lost in '33.
This was just the denouement
I was stationed in Germany back in the 80s. I learned German. Germans who lived though it told me that everyone knew the war was lost in 43.
Although totally illegal, they listened to the BBC. The BBC was totally honest in contrast to German radio news stations. German radio stations were persistently reporting
up to the very end that victory was just around the corner. On the other hand the BBC reported, for instance, how the Bismarck was wrecking havoc on the British navy.
Even the Wehrmacht listened to it.
And now the mainstream media in the west constantly lies or distorts the news.
Link to source for this video?
Thank you so much for omitting music
Amen to that
This officer was disillusioned in summer 43 and they still had almost 2 more years to go, as I keep listening to this audiobook ...
How do we know if this is real, there is no references or actual names
Military Club has a total lack of cited sources for any of their material and whenever names are mentioned, google searches all lead back to this channel. Sus.
Most of my relatives were US Marines including my father. But we also had Navy, Army and Air Force. My brother broke his back while in the Navy. My paternal grandfather was wounded in WWI. Again, I’m so sorry for your loss. I hope you have a great day.
WW ii, German civilian deaths - Allied Strategic Bombings - 350, 000 - 500, 000.
And around 20 million Soviet civilians.
6 million civilian jews, not to mention political prisoners and mentally disabled and millions of Russian civilians at the hand of Germany and company, so what's your point?
@@CmdrMoosicvsLounge Numbers
@@CmdrMoosicvsLounge That's also not counting the British civilians from the Blitz and buzz bombs. Germans have no right to question the morality of bombing strategies of others.
@@brustar5152they forced this war on them, they did what what they had to do.
War was lost in 1942.....Such great amount of losses in the final years
I would say 1941, right after battle of moscow. But german loss at stalingrad was final nail in coffin, so jan 1943. Why they keep on fighting after that is beyond my understanding. They should have assassinated Hitler and negotiated peace with west.
@@BobbaFett312 Exactly as you have stated....wished bomb had gotten Hitler
@@BobbaFett312 thats easy to explain: Churchill and Stalin would not accept anything but unconditional surrender (starting '41 btw, i could go into detail but its another topic).
but surrender meant splitting up Germany, meaning the end of the nation. the reason is simple, after WWI and subsequently WWII they wanted Germany gone, no 3rd chances. and Stalin wanted all of Europe...and without a functioning Germany that would be way easier to accomplish.
there was no reasonable peace to be had...everthing else is just going through the motions. the military waited on the politicians, the politicians had no room for negotiations, only holding out and hoping the unconditional surrender demand would soften up as the war of attrition goes on.
btw, there were multiple peace negotiation attempts. they get not prominently discussed, but are on record.
They could have surrendered without conditions. They may have also been able to negotiate conditions but hitler didn’t have the guts, intellect, or empathy for the people of his country (shocker) to blow his brains out a few years earlier. And the people of Germany didn’t have the courage or wisdom to assassinate him.
…The battle of Moscow where the Wehrmacht lost WWll , When at Karlshorst where the German High Command officially surrendered some reporters asked Marschall Keitel : “ Herr Marschall when did you know when Germany lost the War??? He answered.. “At the Battle of Moscow “…😑
interesting, and disturbing, how some of the locations are relevant nowadays....again
Wow same location and eerily similar to current events...
same thing will happen in the end, too.
The west never learns which only makes russian paranoia more real
When this Lieutenant was writing this he must not have known his superior was planning on "killing himself"🤔and abandoning them whilst they fought a losing war 🤮😡🤮😡🤮😡🤮😡
There is a book called the blood red snow about a German soldier. This reminds me of it a little. The wounded machine gunner. It would be a small world if that was him. He fought in Stalingrad got injured sent back and sent to the west again. Got injured sent back then was placed on Atlantic wall. Then retreated and later captured. To pick his brain all these years later…….
Thanks!
Criticisms of bomber Harris are somewhat tempered when you hear it's effect on morale.
...the Germans can be doggone grateful that Harris didn't have a bomber fleet of 4,000 Lancasters: Harris would have turned Germany into a parking lot-(!)
I was thinking the same thing
I think Harris was not such a very empathetic person.
@@daleburrell6273 The British should be grateful Hitler allowed the British to escape Dunkirk
Bomber Harris is a hero
Plymouth, London, Coventry, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham,
Endurererd countless nights under German bombs....
Harris, bless him, vowed to pay it back tenfold.....
Over 1,000,000 Germans were actively engaged in anti aircraft batteries, fire control, and searchlight battalions.
That's 1,000,000 that were kept from the Russian front.
Not to mention the millions of tons of arms destroyed in factories
Or unable to be moved because the railways were destroyed.
Or even the hundreds of thousands of weapons workers forced from their burning homes.
Harris, yes..... A hero.
This is so badass!!! I ❤️ studying WWII. This makes me want to work on a novel I been wanting to write ✍️. Maybe I'll try again tonight. I keep starting it, but only getting 10 or so pages in and scraping it.
Try to write for 30 minutes a night, or whatever, and keep going, whether you think what you write is good, bad or in between. Then the next day, read through that section, and make it a little better, and usually, briefer = better. Then write for 30 minutes again. Repeat edit/write 30 min until you feel it’s ready.
@@Itried20takennames alright 👍. I might try that.
Quit while you're ahead.
If only 10 pages and no tears you have a lot of research to do.
Post what you have so far. I would like to read it.
@shawnastephens1536 I been slacking on that front. But I got you.
I would like to have seen these beautiful cities before they were bombed.
In 2018 I was touring part of Germany and in one of the small cities we visited a small palace that had been partly destroyed or damaged during WW II and had been restored, it was beautiful. The local guide we had was a young lady in her 20s' she was embittered by what the British did to her city at the end of the war when they bombed and literally destroyed the old city that had stood for a few hundred years for no real reason as it had no military value. She felt it was done in spite just to emotional hurt the Germans, just destroyed what was irreplaceable. And this destruction happened way before she was even born. Without a doubt lots of prized ancient buildings were destroyed in many cities thruout Europe what a pity. And of course all the human loss and misery. And all because of Hitler and his goons.
39:21 Erwin Romel gets mentioned here.
Guys is really famous to soldiers of Germany.
Rommel was famous to ALL military history buffs.
My father named me after him
Talent applied to wrong direction.
Gee, see what happened when he realized what he had done.
Took the honorable way out.
Look at how many Jews were killed under his command. Not mentioned a lot. see Tunisia for details.
Great photos
That's a lot of diaries just laying around, eh? Lucky to get them all in the one place, also! Hmmm!!
Yes! That is so awesome that diaries can be obtained, curated, and narrated of this length. It just puts the listener right there in the thick of it! Thank You!
I don’t buy it.
That particular diary exist cause I heard it in many other sites.
Not saying this one is made up, but it's been well documented that many ww2 diaries are fictional creations, no matter great words.
I, too, have questioned the authenticity of all of these WW2 stories/diaries that have started to spring up… I hope they’re authentic.
Great photographs…
You know it's crazy and people don't think when you're hearing a story from the enemy ! they're just like us..
Not exactly… the Allies didn’t start the war.
@@MH-fb5kr yea he does say he wants to destroy Britain.
This guy (even though he's likely fictional) would have little in common with you or I. This is a guy who's opinion of the SS, the most fanatical of Nazis, was that they were "narrow minded". Today we'd call a person who thinks Chinese people sound funny or thinks gay people shouldn't get married are narrow minded. This guy thinks a group of people who think anyone who's not an Aryan is a subhuman and happily burns entire villages alive inside churches are "narrow minded".
@@MH-fb5kr...YOU SUMMED IT UP PERFECTLY!!!
@@MH-fb5krI think he’s just referring to the average soldier being human. We tend to dehumanize the enemy and sometimes accounts like this where you get an idea of a soldiers thoughts, hopes, fears for loved ones etc make them relatable.
poor poor germany he says.
An interesting insight!
Germany , truly is a beautiful Country . They , will never fall , they , are a big part of history . They , done very well in the things they , built . The first plane , submarine .
Germany , fcked up the 20th century, fcked up the 21st century by bankrolling Putin .. quite a place, quite a history. 🙈
Except Germany did not quite have the first plane or submarine.
The US Wright brothers built the first documented plane, and the submarine was invented by many countries, going back centuries. The US had man-powered submarines in the 1800s.
"I will live forever"... kind of sums up something, eh?
I guess that invading other countries is just not a good idea and Germans found out the hard way.
Slava
@@ianwhitehead3086 What the hell is that?
Haha, really man? Since you don’t know he wants you 2 slava his knob…
Imagine simping for commies
@mvegetaxachilles7211 No one is simping for Commies. But the Nazis, and the Germans they commanded killed many times the number of Civilians than they suffered in casualties.
This officer is a one man panic attack . As a motivational speaker he would soon have even the Spartans running for their lives .
Yet.....he was absolutely accurate in his reflection and premonitions
Sorry, BS
The Spartans only had war to sustain their approach.
Put full effort into it, with full effect. Simper Fi to the wrong God.
Oops, Cheer on Charon with loyal servant Cerebus.
Many go into conflict full of piss and vinegar. He was not out for months, but years! Trust me, the time drags on, and the fatigue and stress take their toll. These men worked on very little sleep, food, or basic necessities. He not only had to function and survive, but he also had to train, lead, and care for numerous other troops. Armchair Genitals know little of life struggling with the enemy, elements, and horrific loss. Maybe you can join the military and show the rest of the world how its all done!
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I think I've already heard exactly the same story word by word at WW2 Stories channel, is this some kind of a copy???
Yes. These are all scammer channels using fake AI-generated voices. But like cockroaches, hard to kill off. YT seems to turn a blind eye to this. That the author was apparently turned into fertilizer long-ago in Ukraine probably makes it difficult to claim copyright infringement.
All familiar to me.
"Dreams are not to be thought of."
My uncle Mike lost his brother during the bulge. He was also a combat infantryman like my uncle. When his brother was killed he said he hated all Germans and wanted to shoot them all. After the surrender he saw three guys later walking along a road. They had German uniform jackets on and civi pants. He ran them over with his armored vehicle. He said now the war is really over now for him.
fkn cowardly move..
Your uncle sounds like a fuckin douche bag. Hope the memories of those cowardly actions haunted his crooked visions for life.
My grand father served in the German army.He was a quite Guy.
When he was drunk we took cover.But when I turned 8in 1977 I had enough in short.I attacked him.After that never any problems for me he was thé greatest opa.For him I was the favorite grandson.Jan I miss you You were in battles no keyboard warriors can imagine the battles a holes
Germany won the peace, that's more important.
Britain however, went into a decline losing it's empire and now its home soil to mass immigration.
Sources?
15 hours ago ? I heard this same recording a few weeks ago
wow. diaries. intelligent soldier.
This kicks all kinds of ass.
Particularly yours.
After the Russians blew up the dam on that river, German soldiers heads were sticking out of the mud at the bare bottom exposed. Still had their helmets on!
All was swallowed by the mud and no one ever came to retrieve them. Sad.
Soviets were made to call their German enemy 'Hitlerites', and other names, everything except Socialists. It would have confused the proliterat, Communists.Both Stalinism and National Socialism were 90% the same. Only big difference is property ownership in Germany. This is called Collectivism, the political spectrum is not a line, it's a sphere going up, down, diagonal, and side to side. This is based on social, economic, political.....aspects.
Only 90%? The only difference between Hitler and Stalin was length of mustache.
Stalinism was not Communist any more than National Socialism was Socialist.
Both were a cover for Fascism , I can only hope that American "Freedom" is not used the same.
@@whazzat8015 Either way, they were both forms of Collectivism.
American “Freedom” is already being used the same, judging from what’s in the White House.
I wonder how many other soldiers thought this
Le témoignage d'un militaire allemand orgueilleux qui rêvait aussi de mille ans de règne de L'Allemagne 🤬😱
Almost thought this video was fake but I see his sources lol. Idk just strange things said by the German Lt… like when he emphasized summer 1943 as major turning point in the war and all seemed hopelessly lost. This is a concept a lot of historians talk about yes; as to when the war actually turned to become unwinnable, but at the time it seems too prophetic of him. Sources are legit though I just don’t like ai voice form maybe idk.
I have listened to a few of these diaries posted on the tube from German soldiers and with all due respect it would seem in the early days that the war machine turned these young soldiers into egotistical arrogant yobs and tyrants with a self image of immortality and invincibility of which drastically changed from accounts when England and America bit back with a vengeance ! I'm not sure if I'm alone in these feelings either but listening to some other accounts from German soldiers of how British and Allied prisoners were viciously executed with a pure hatred and disregard for any laws and respectful moralities for human beings just filled me with that same hatred for those Germans for that brief moment that I listened and that is not healthy in 2023 and it doesn't really make sense. But hearing the accounts word for word from a diary with such hatred and vengeance with massacres and unjust "murders" to people who had already surrendered Just filled me with that hatred considering they were the ones who started it all and followed their disillusioned leader's plans to conquer the whole world and be victorious and create a superhuman race of a German empire. It's not healthy to feel such hatred so long after an event against the populations of these countries especially the young people who have no idea really As to the depth of atrocities that occurred but I guess it does display the fact that any wholesome good living citizen of any country can be changed by the warped thinking of war leaders and their machines of destruction.
The German army invaded on a 3,000 km front powered mainly by horses commanded by a corporal.
Military propagandist machines are always hidden theirs defeated circumstances through decisiveness sentence ( everything goings according to plans )...it was informative and really talked 👄 about that bleak circumstances of Germany Wermakht armies on the USSR territories....
Foolish and arrogant believing our own propaganda well said💯😟
It is so sad that a people could be so hoodwinked into believing an obvious mentally flawed individual, showing such zeal during his rallies to then see old pictures of them with shoulders bowed walking among the ruins of their once beautiful cities. Could there be a lesson there?????
Easy if you have control of propaganda and money. Look at the trumpanzees in the USA.
The misterious woman in black clothes turns up in nobody's land a few minutes before the start. Is she a spy?...I guess it is the grim reaper.
This officer sounds. Very depressed. They are. The Germans. In a meat grinder. And it's getting. Worse by the. Minute. After all there victories it comes to this. Was it worth it don't think so. !!!!
All the German soldiers were disciples of fascist Hitler.
We can rely on Goering🤣🤣🤣!
No mention of the atrocities
Yup. As if the Germans can do what they want, but the Russians (and British and Americans) are not allowed to fight back.
Yeah…it’s an interesting phenomena in German diaries or memoirs of WW2. Everyone says there were atrocities…but somehow they never saw any.
For a couple..it might happen. But it is pretty much every single one.
There is a old (80s) clip of a UK reporter asking a bunch of old German veterans at a reunion whether they witnessed any atrocities…and they had a montage of old guy after old guy all saying the same thing: “well, they happened…but I never saw one.”
The German soldiers were used to overtaking countries by a blitzkrieg of soldiers and equipment, like Poland and and France and Russia at the beginning of Barbarossa turned into a nightmare of muddy roads that turned into frozen and hardened land that was the beginning of the end for German Army. Even though they started to question the leadership of Hitler's actions.
In the footage where Hitler is meeting with the generals and other various leaders of his army, over the years, you can see them go from massive respect to hatred of the fact he is sending them to slaughter over mislaid plans. Of course, if they say anything they will immediately be killed. No wonder 40 attempts made it to him, but I always wonder HOW he survived all of those.