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.
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY Same goes for me, this was pure gem. I just have to say though I do not like listening to your "story" videos where its not someone real. When I see in the beginning of the vid that it is a real diary of someone real, hell, that's when you know you got some real shit coming up...
Look into the book "forgotten soldier" Guy Sajer. He was from Strasbourg, French mother, German father. He served in the Gross Deutschland division. His account of the battles for Kharkov and Belgorod are some of the best I've read.
@@asullivan4047 Better than risking limb and life so that Dick Cheney and his cronies can make a few quick bucks. Seriously, Patton was right. And Eisenhower should have done something and not wait for his retirement speech to wring his hands and throw a tantrum.
I appreciate that you give your source for these stories. There’s a similar channel on RUclips that refuses to do this which makes everyone really suspicious about the use of AI for the stories.
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Special thanks to the veteran soldier. Sharing personal information/combat experiences thru diaries/memoirs. Enabling historians to replicate those stories for future generations to appreciate the hard ships/sacrifices suffered by the military forces. Fighting/perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often times possible. Yet still advanced forward regardless of the consequences. True grit style determination to succeed!!! By mid 1943 the war on all fronts were slowly being re taken by allied forces. Due to vital supply & infantry shortages. Catastrophic military decisions enforced by the disillusioned/arrogant leadership in Berlin. That didn't seem to care about the predicaments/casualties pertaining to the military forces personnel.
Your format of short videos is great.....some other channel has some tasty stuff but the videos are about an hour long or more. Better to break the stories up into short installments no longer than 15 to 30 minutes.
Thank you for providing background information about what we are listening to. I found another channel that recites soldiers memoirs but provides no explanation or authorship whatsoever and the titles often do not match the story at all. I'm not sure they're even real memoirs. Pretty easy to fake these days.
In the 1970s, I had a chance to work with a Norweigian fellow in Germany. He had fought as a volunteer in the SS Frundsberg division and I was able to hear a very similiar tale of terrible defeat at Falaise and then the long perilous trek back to Germany. Who knows, my friend Helmut might have been one of the stragglers in this story.
Back in the early nineties, I worked with a guy on the Railway and after a year, or so and having got to know each other, he confided in the fact that he’d served with “Das Reich” and had been taken prisoner in Normandy in ‘44! He wasn’t the only man living locally, who’d stayed in England after the War either, there were several of them and they’d all married local girls and raised families....and I liked that thing....from war to peace, integration and assimilation......that’s how the wheel should turn?
He joined the army of the country that occupied his country. That's pretty much the definition of a traitor. Very few Norwegians would disagree with that statement.@@Hunterfinn625
Obersturmfuhrer Erich Heller of Das Reich has a similar story, led a company of 100 men across France and Belgium at night before rejoining German lines. Erich Heller, captured by American troops January 1945 in the Ardennes.
Bro wat is the prompt u use for some of these great pics if not a.I then still I appreciate the effort of puttin them in . Would be awesome if had a synth player and would do sound effects for certain parts in the backlike bombs
Privilaged to have served with The Canadian Forces: emphasis on peacekeeping and excellent training. Part of the training that stuck was non-involvement of civilians in conflicts...their policy over the wars and years. We had lessons on the rules of Land Warfare.
It seems that after Stalingrad the Germans improved their uniforms (no more high boots). After that the SS almost always had camouflaged uniforms. The Wermarcht converted also to a certain extent; but a less complicated pattern. The Italians had the first camouflage pattern on fabric, on their tents.
damsonjackson884 It was mostly just SS formations who wore camouflage. In fact they were the first soldiers to do so. The US marine corps. followed suit afterwards.
@@silversurfer640The so called "Flecktarn" was designed and implemented by the Waffen SS 1935-1937. These units were the first units ever being equipped with camouflage uniforms. America after joining WWII in Dec 1941 began to create their own camouflage pattern, base was the German Flecktarn...
It was the Waffen SS who invented the modern camouflage uniform, Sturmbahnfuhrer Dr Wim Brandt. Later uniforms even contained a dye to stop infra red night sites. So far ahead of the times.
It would have been nice to know the writer's rank. Apparently, he was a low ranking officer, but you should have mentioned it if known or stated that it was unknown. Very sloppy.
Just finished it on audible! Great book! There's one I do like more however. It's called Blood Red Snow! It's also the diary of a German soldier on the eastern front. Total hell on earth!
These stores have been given to museum's after they were found, and person's have passed away. Great work with your research. M'C . Some were given to historian's not everyone who was German was proud of what went on during the war. JDP Underhill 9 27/2023
The little 2 on the collar shows that they are men of the 2nd SS-VT regiment “Germania”, which would go onto form the nucleus of the 2nd SS division, “Das Reich”.
It seems (to me, at least) that this channel have too many "memories" and "diaries". I wonder what is the source of these usually rare material... Am I the only one?
i love the coverage but a senseless waste of life, reminds of all war and now in ukraine needllessly death were was all the talks of peace as in history i sigh
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY dont i know it, i joined the brittish army and the russians they were the enemy from shooting targets and planes to the brainwashing. thank feck im am now older and i can smell the shite before i see it
Waffen SS is OK if they did not commit atrocities. I may have had relatives among them. That is the stupidity of war---brothers and cousins fighting brothers and cousins.
jinmo2821 Sadly in many cases that was true. Even many of them who had fought in North Africa weren't, particularly good. Certainly nowhere near as good as many German formations.
Why do you always ever see documentaries on the German armed forces of the Second World War? Because they were the best trained army ever to be fielded in modern times!!! Fighter pilots with over 200 kills! Yet you only needed 3 in the USAF to be called an ACE 😂😂😂 they lost so the victors write history
Yea the victors write history, also the victors incorparated german soliders and high command and allowed them to write their history. In reallity they were not that good, and even if, they quickly failed to change as the allies adapted. Best example is the afrika corps. Genius rommel? Nope, just increadebly incompetend british generals. Once they sorted their issues out the germans lost. Same on eastern and western front. The german doctrin basicly was, risk a lot and hope to win quickly if not its basicly over. Also this entire "german tec is so insane" is increadebly wrong and biased and often bad history. Examples, jet fighters and "stealthbombers"...
yeah those were smart brits. why risk their lifes in a skirmish when the war was already won? since german and british treated each others POWs relatively well this was absolutely the right call.
Half of what you read is rubbish, there were just as many Germans that gave up just as easily. though I do think the average German was a better soldier than the Brit or Yank.
@@johnbeavin9170 didn't 400k brits run away from Dunkirk instead of standing and fighting. And the west advertised it as the greatest or massive feat of boat rescue. Always glorifying oneself, even if it was cowardice.
@@marqsee7948 is it your opinion that the speaker of the house controls the house of parliament. He Is merely a referee for debates. The rcmp and crime minister are responsible for vetting and security. This is nothing more than another example of stupidity and ignorance by the fascist fiberals.
@@marqsee7948 Jewish lobby pressure was too hard to bear, so they caved in. The foreign SS division the Ukrainian guest was part of, had never been accused of any war crimes during the Nuremberg trials. But who cares? The popular view is, SS = war criminals.
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.
You could read 10 of these diaries per day and I would listen to them all. Thank you!
It's a pleasure to read! But unfortunately, I just don't have time to make videos in such quantity)) Although I really like doing it!
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY Same goes for me, this was pure gem. I just have to say though I do not like listening to your "story" videos where its not someone real. When I see in the beginning of the vid that it is a real diary of someone real, hell, that's when you know you got some real shit coming up...
@@MW432-7... are they REALLY real? Just asking.
Look into the book "forgotten soldier" Guy Sajer. He was from Strasbourg, French mother, German father. He served in the Gross Deutschland division. His account of the battles for Kharkov and Belgorod are some of the best I've read.
Saving your men, on any side, is the greatest deed a leader can do.
Unfortunately risking life and limb for a lost cause.
@@asullivan4047 Better than risking limb and life so that Dick Cheney and his cronies can make a few quick bucks. Seriously, Patton was right. And Eisenhower should have done something and not wait for his retirement speech to wring his hands and throw a tantrum.
He warned us of America turning into an industrial war machine.
Excellent series. Well illustrated, well narrated and gives a soldier's eye view of the realities of combat. In that sense, makes it more human.
The narration is just wonderful and the stories are very well told. Thanks to Military Club for these memoirs I can lesson to them for hours!
Thank you for your kind words! I am pleased to read this, and I will strive to increase the number of videos on the channel.
Your series are quite remarkable! The detail is so interesting and the 'real-life' commentary too. Many thanks.
Excellent narration of an intense story….well done!
Soldiers are soldiers. They fight for and support each other.
I appreciate that you give your source for these stories. There’s a similar channel on RUclips that refuses to do this which makes everyone really suspicious about the use of AI for the stories.
And wich source is it?
Where are these sources?
Sources in the description
Think you’re talking about Helmut Horner. You can buy his book.
Regardless of being German he was still a good leader of his men.All were good soldiers.
The Germans were the best!
@@Wolf-hh4rvund das lassen wir uns von den Siegern auch nicht verbieten das zu sagen!
@@Wolf-hh4rv...AND YET THEY STILL LOST-!!!
@@daleburrell6273 Outnumbered and out of fuel
And what about death camps ??????little bi...
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Special thanks to the veteran soldier. Sharing personal information/combat experiences thru diaries/memoirs. Enabling historians to replicate those stories for future generations to appreciate the hard ships/sacrifices suffered by the military forces. Fighting/perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often times possible. Yet still advanced forward regardless of the consequences. True grit style determination to succeed!!! By mid 1943 the war on all fronts were slowly being re taken by allied forces. Due to vital supply & infantry shortages. Catastrophic military decisions enforced by the disillusioned/arrogant leadership in Berlin. That didn't seem to care about the predicaments/casualties pertaining to the military forces personnel.
Excellent video thank you so much .
I truly enjoy your oral diaries of these soldiers!
Always informative !
Your format of short videos is great.....some other channel has some tasty stuff but the videos are about an hour long or more. Better to break the stories up into short installments no longer than 15 to 30 minutes.
Sounds like this man showed compassion to POWs. Much respect.
On the thumbnail are soldier's from Leibstandarte AH division on the Eastern front
It is quite possible)) The main thing is to convey the atmosphere of those events.
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY Yep,I understand
Thank you for providing background information about what we are listening to. I found another channel that recites soldiers memoirs but provides no explanation or authorship whatsoever and the titles often do not match the story at all. I'm not sure they're even real memoirs. Pretty easy to fake these days.
Brilliant story and photos fantastic thanks
He was a good writer too. It told a good, descriptive story that was fun to follow
In the 1970s, I had a chance to work with a Norweigian fellow in Germany. He had fought as a volunteer in the SS Frundsberg division and I was able to hear a very similiar tale of terrible defeat at Falaise and then the long perilous trek back to Germany. Who knows, my friend Helmut might have been one of the stragglers in this story.
Back in the early nineties, I worked with a guy on the Railway and after a year, or so and having got to know each other, he confided in the fact that he’d served with “Das Reich” and had been taken prisoner in Normandy in ‘44! He wasn’t the only man living locally, who’d stayed in England after the War either, there were several of them and they’d all married local girls and raised families....and I liked that thing....from war to peace, integration and assimilation......that’s how the wheel should turn?
He was a traitor to his own country. Zero sympathy.
@@davea8346Different time. Easy to judge 70 odd years later.
He joined the army of the country that occupied his country. That's pretty much the definition of a traitor. Very few Norwegians would disagree with that statement.@@Hunterfinn625
@@davea8346 I don't disagree with you. But obviously some Norwegians felt a need to form a division for whatever reason,
Obersturmfuhrer Erich Heller of Das Reich has a similar story, led a company of 100 men across France and Belgium at night before rejoining German lines.
Erich Heller, captured by American troops January 1945 in the Ardennes.
Thanks!
Thank you for your support!
i find still pictures are better to understand than movies. very good
Enjoyed it. 👌🏻👍🏻
Wonder who exactly the SS man is referring to when he speaks about American “storm-troopers” - airborne, rangers or other regiments?
I love your videos mate keep them going please please please. From Australia ❤🎉
I'm an Australian Army veteran I second your comment 😊
Bro wat is the prompt u use for some of these great pics if not a.I then still I appreciate the effort of puttin them in . Would be awesome if had a synth player and would do sound effects for certain parts in the backlike bombs
Brilliant story, very well told 👏🏼🫶🏽
great memory. I have desire to hear more ww2 memories especially from axis soldiers
Privilaged to have served with The Canadian Forces: emphasis on peacekeeping and excellent training. Part of the training that stuck was non-involvement of civilians in conflicts...their policy over the wars and years. We had lessons on the rules of Land Warfare.
What's that got to do with this video?
I didn't realize the German soldiers used a lot of camouflage uniforms. Thanks for the video.
It seems that after Stalingrad the Germans improved their uniforms (no more high boots).
After that the SS almost always had camouflaged uniforms. The Wermarcht converted also to a certain extent; but a less complicated pattern.
The Italians had the first camouflage pattern on fabric, on their tents.
damsonjackson884
It was mostly just SS formations who wore camouflage.
In fact they were the first soldiers to do so.
The US marine corps. followed suit afterwards.
@@silversurfer640The so called "Flecktarn" was designed and implemented by the Waffen SS 1935-1937. These units were the first units ever being equipped with camouflage uniforms. America after joining WWII in Dec 1941 began to create their own camouflage pattern, base was the German Flecktarn...
It was the Waffen SS who invented the modern camouflage uniform, Sturmbahnfuhrer Dr Wim Brandt.
Later uniforms even contained a dye to stop infra red night sites.
So far ahead of the times.
@@KFC1948
It sure was 🤞
Some of the photos in here are questionable as in 3.38 which shows British airborne captives. This was more than likely taken during Market Garden.
Fascinating!!!
Where can i find the original memoirs of the soldiers? In paperbook or in PDF :)
Damn ! Eastern Front Vets and still in the West !! 😮✊💪💥
Great Commentary!
Very nice.
We’re only now really learning about the 2nd World War in truth.
It would have been nice to know the writer's rank. Apparently, he was a low ranking officer, but you should have mentioned it if known or stated that it was unknown. Very sloppy.
Has anyone read " The forgotten soldier" ?
Just finished it on audible! Great book! There's one I do like more however. It's called Blood Red Snow! It's also the diary of a German soldier on the eastern front. Total hell on earth!
From the start I felt this soldier and I would have a very friendly understanding of the honour between enemies. A very human diary. 🌏🕊️
excellent....
These stores have been given to museum's after they were found, and person's have passed away. Great work with your research. M'C . Some were given to historian's not everyone who was German was proud of what went on during the war. JDP Underhill 9 27/2023
Where are the sources for these videos?
In the description
I have never seen an SS with a small 2 next to it before. It was in that picture where they were eating something. Very interesting pictures.
I'd like to know about that as well.
The little 2 on the collar shows that they are men of the 2nd SS-VT regiment “Germania”, which would go onto form the nucleus of the 2nd SS division, “Das Reich”.
@@FlyingFishProductions very interesting, thanks for that information.
Could not look up on Google Earth because I could not understand the town names. Maybe spell a few central to your videos.
Thank you.
I wonder who he is referring to as " Storm Troopers" ?
These are Soviet Ilyushin Il-2 aircraft.
That narrator has a great voice.
Thanks! This makes us very happy. Feedback from subscribers is very important.
10:25 Dude on the left is literally the Chad meme guy
Lol you are right
Why don’t you do the battle of France memoirs?
I wonder who he meant by stormtroopers?
I think he’s talking about the fighter-bombers.
Probably SturmVogel, allied Fighter Bombers.
Ah yes makes sense
Interesting how you saw more German soldiers with cigarettes on the western front...
It seems (to me, at least) that this channel have too many "memories" and "diaries".
I wonder what is the source of these usually rare material...
Am I the only one?
Agreed. I am suspicious of the so-called "diaries" of so many Germans suddenly being everywhere.
i love the coverage but a senseless waste of life, reminds of all war and now in ukraine needllessly death were was all the talks of peace as in history i sigh
Unfortunately, humanity does not learn from its mistakes...
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY dont i know it, i joined the brittish army and the russians they were the enemy from shooting targets and planes to the brainwashing. thank feck im am now older and i can smell the shite before i see it
All wars are waste of life. Ukraine is no exception.
Please provide Panzerlied song...
Sounds like a tough gig
Not if you had been a veteran of the Eastern front like the ones he referenced that he was with.
I thought Pieper was Totenkompf?
No. 1st SS Division
Actually he was commander of 12th Hitlerjugend SS.
Peiper was in the first SS division, leibstandarte Adolf Hitler.
Libstandardt 1st ss
WE have burnt him in 76 ah ah ah
Soldier from 0:00 to 0:17 appears to have a Soviet SVT40. Interesting.
Surprising weakness of the Anglo-American troops??
Like Adolf Galland said, "to die was nothing to us".
Muito bom!
Ah yes, the BEF (Back Every Friday). Churchill's bravest.
Waffen SS is OK if they did not commit atrocities. I may have had relatives among them. That is the stupidity of war---brothers and cousins fighting brothers and cousins.
The SS - Alibi of a nation
The British soldiers of WW II were mostly rabbles. It's true.
Poor guys.
jinmo2821
Sadly in many cases that was true.
Even many of them who had fought in North Africa weren't, particularly good.
Certainly nowhere near as good as many German formations.
Murderers ...................
God Bless Ukraine!😅
Why do you always ever see documentaries on the German armed forces of the Second World War? Because they were the best trained army ever to be fielded in modern times!!! Fighter pilots with over 200 kills! Yet you only needed 3 in the USAF to be called an ACE 😂😂😂 they lost so the victors write history
Yea the victors write history, also the victors incorparated german soliders and high command and allowed them to write their history. In reallity they were not that good, and even if, they quickly failed to change as the allies adapted. Best example is the afrika corps. Genius rommel? Nope, just increadebly incompetend british generals. Once they sorted their issues out the germans lost. Same on eastern and western front. The german doctrin basicly was, risk a lot and hope to win quickly if not its basicly over. Also this entire "german tec is so insane" is increadebly wrong and biased and often bad history. Examples, jet fighters and "stealthbombers"...
Sorry, but there’s no way the luftwaffe were as good pilots as british anyway. We beat them in the Battle of Britain.
@@TheGreatest1974 because every shot british pilot just goes into the next plane while every german pilot is caputred in england?
@@pietpanzerpanzer5335 I doubt that many ‘shot’ men were getting back into aircraft. Not after being shot by 20mm cannon.
@@TheGreatest1974 shot down not literally shot
Like to treasure white bread toilet paper oh mine
Those brits gave up easily
The contrary, read the book
"A bridge too far" by C. Ryan!
yeah those were smart brits. why risk their lifes in a skirmish when the war was already won?
since german and british treated each others POWs relatively well this was absolutely the right call.
Half of what you read is rubbish, there were just as many Germans that gave up just as easily. though I do think the average German was a better soldier than the Brit or Yank.
@@johnbeavin9170 didn't 400k brits run away from Dunkirk instead of standing and fighting. And the west advertised it as the greatest or massive feat of boat rescue. Always glorifying oneself, even if it was cowardice.
@@blorblor5438 Both became POW's after wild battles, not
before...
AI - Fake
Back to Z Fatherland ja Wunderbar ja
He was not a german soldier,he was SS,which was the military arm of the NAZI party.
Wir Deutschen haben Europa vor den Bolschewistenpack retten wollen, ebenso vor den verbrecherischen Yankees!
@@truthadvocacy they were a PMC and were part of the NAZI party,every member had to sware alligence to hitler personally.
Stop. Telling. Lies
Were any of the survivors a recent guest of crime minister turdeau.
no. And you mean the Speaker of the House's surprise, and previously unintroduced, guest. He lost his job over it.
@@marqsee7948 is it your opinion that the speaker of the house controls the house of parliament. He Is merely a referee for debates. The rcmp and crime minister are responsible for vetting and security. This is nothing more than another example of stupidity and ignorance by the fascist fiberals.
@@marqsee7948 Jewish lobby pressure was too hard to bear, so they caved in.
The foreign SS division the Ukrainian guest was part of, had never been accused of any war crimes during the Nuremberg trials.
But who cares? The popular view is, SS = war criminals.
First time i have seen a scope on the German ak47 aslant rife??