I expereinced once -40-43°C for a week in norhtern Russia, where the infrastructure is used to cold weather. I seriously can NOT imagine how soldiers, with lack of modern technology and equipment managed to battle in those conditions. For anyone who, most probably, never experienced such temperatures and who just like me before, sees it as "another number": when it hits -25-30° you think to yourself "can't get colder than this. I'm freezing instantly when I go outside and breathig is painfull because of all the cold air". But once it hits -40ish and lower it feels like it's cold FROM ANOTHER UNIVERSE, with different physics than what we are used to! And then cities exist which hit -50° every winter... geez...
Both of my grandpas survived the whole eastern campain. One as a frontline medic (wounded several times) and the other i grew up with as luitenatn major of an east prussian infantrie batallion at the northern front. Both did not talk much about it.
I grew up knowing some (3) German serviceman who were interned in Ireland during WW2, Luftwaffe and Kreigsmarine and they said many many interesting thing's not found in History, the lack of rotation at rhe front was considered the worst. These fella's had it good in Ireland, lot's of food, beer, whiskey and passes alone to the local community, cinema's, coffee shop's, date's and they stayed in Ireland and married, my Aunt's told me that German lad's were especially popular and sought. One school friends father Mr Bruen had returned home to Germany to find every family member and many friends deceased. Brother Eastern Front, Sister working a frontline Aid Station, nursing, his parents when Kiel was hit, the harbour surrounds. Nothing and No-One, All Gone, Bad Memories, A & The Jungen. The Absolute Confidence German's had in '30's. He was an electrician who gardened and I at 8 worked at the local nursery for plants, raspberry canes, strawberries, and then gooseberry shrubs, a few years old saplings. Incredibly hot where I am today, 40+c, burning Sun ☀️. No Aircon and an old stone and brick cottage filled with ghost's. Every lives here dies here, doesn't bother me like fruit fly. Got an infestation of boring fruit flies and all fruits had to be felled, orange, fig, 3 40 year's old wine grape trestles, a single root and trunk of vine thick as a loaf of bread, chopped, gone, the Valencia Orange, thinnest peel i ever seen on an orange 🍊. I eat them skin and all.
My grandfather was able to return alive from the Don with Valenki, too. He was from Italy with A.m.i.r. the real drama was when Italy betrayed Germany. He had two options: continue to fight with germans or work labor in Poland. He opted for the second. After the freedom arrived a couple of days before the Reds, he returned again at home stolen again Velenki. It's sad to see that history didn't teach. I am scared that sooner or later we could live another war. I pray God to save humanity from this craziness.
@paxalotin he was lucky. My grandfather was scared by Reds. With his stolen clothes, he surely could be killed. But my grandfather was smart. He was bilingual italian and german. He was a good-looking man able to talk to the women (he was saved many times by women), he was a mountain man, a hunter, and he was able to walk from Poland to italian Tyrol without finding problems. He was like a wolf and survived thanks to his knowledge of the wild mountains.
@@walsch80Sound's like my Italian uncle Angelo, he knows EVERYTHING that is edible in forest's, how to snare rabbits and hares, which mushrooms are edible......He even claims to have cooked and eaten Dodo!
@jmlsenn5829 Against the atomic weapons and technology, we could die at 99,9%. Nowadays, thinking a war against Russia and NATO in Europe is just a craziness.
I was out in -17 F at 4 am riding my bike and it is scary that you can literally freeze like an Ice cube - 46 C is supposedly -51 F - I just would not think that is livable - you have to have really big hands for blood flow - it's terrifying actually
@TotalFreedomTTT-pk9st I mean it's not that bad with decent clothing and fire, it is definitely not something I enjoy for prolonged periods. For 1-2 days you can make it through OK, although you must be extremely careful. Anything longer than that and you're going to have some pretty serious issues.
How the hell did they keep track of millions of troops and equipment and where everyone was and where everyone was going and without constant friendly fire casualties?
@@samstone446 It's called having a belief in the cause you're fighting for Did you expect him to write nice things about the men he's putting holes into ? 😂
@@pero33403steg is maybe but lich is very german there is a city also called "lichtenstein" and a village close to germany where i lived in the netherlands is called "lichten-voorde" lich comes from liech and liech is very much germand at same time it could be 2 etnic ancestral lines really coming toghether in the last name stegg could be stek in the ancient version more seeming to the region languages and germany had a lot of etnic emmigration flows from the south last 1000 years and families bloodlines do survive croatia is not far from germany There was a bloodline retraced of 2000 years old of the ancient faraoh so it could be he is teutonic AND croatian heritage .. croatia is right next to italy and there are slots in germany where it is only 4 hours of driving towards italy hence croatia is right next to it so it could explain this some croatians moved up in the last centuries or even earlier ..
Just recently PBS had a great documentary that I had never seen before, about the use of trains by Germany and Russia in Operation Barbarossa. This documentary totally opened my eyes to a critically important dimension of why the mighty German army was defeated and destroyed in Russia. Most people know, the Russian track gauge was wider than the German rail gauge by about 80 mm or 3 inches. This meant that German trains could not run on Russian track. This played a much larger part in Germany's defeat than most people realize. Hitler's massive blunder was in assuming that he could simply seize all the Russian train engines, rolling stock and rail systems with little effort. However he did not foresee the Russian "Scorched Earth" strategy of totally destroying all the engines and rails and everything else as they retreated, leaving nothing for the Germans. As a result a massive logistics pile of ammunition, food, and winter clothing destined for the support of the German army in the winter of 1941, ended up in Poland with no way of shipping it deep into Russia by rail. Trucks had to be used instead which was vastly inferior to trains. It was a total catastrophe brought about by HItler's total stupidity and arrogance in not fully understanding and planning for the massive importance of the train system.
If it's a private diary that they got permission to read from, there won't be information about it on the internet. My grandfather's photographs and notebooks are also not anywhere on the internet. Those things are kept and preserved by the families. There are published memoirs, diaries etc., but many of the most important things I've heard from my grandfather or other old men and women, both telling me and listening to them talking about things themselves. An extreme contrast to the lies we were told in school, especially when the so-called "Wehrmachtsausstellung" or "Schindler's List" were forced upon us. There were always contradictions and obviously false claims and teachers etc. or other indoctrinators usually resorted to shouting and labelling, because they didn't know how to respond. All the wars in my lifetime were justified by lies. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria..., or, before I was born, Vietnam etc.. The leaders of the US and Britain always justified their wars with lies and never ever were they held responsible for their crimes. How can there be democracy without honesty, truth and justice? Does anyone honestly believe the leaders in the "free West" are acting in the interest of their respective people? To me it seems that the exact opposite is happening and honest people who would want to change that are kept from rising in the parties, smeared with false accusations or "taken care of" in other ways. Look at the people in the state department and what they are doing and it's obvious whose interests they serve. The congressmen and senators are unable to protect the border an citizens, but send billions to Ukraine and Israel, so that more innocents can die? The Covid lies and vaccine fraud and deception are obvious, but they are acting as if everything was in order. The people in power are weak and cowardly. They will cling to power and rather let everything crash and collapse. They fear justice and are too lacking in character and honour to take responsibility or to speak the truth. The people whose puppets they are, would rather let the US break apart or decline faster and faster, than give up using the military and economic power of America for their own goals. They'll bleed them dry and switch to another tool (host). When there were monarchs, they at least had an interest to think ahead and plan for longer than four years. The bribed and blackmailed puppets that "lead" us and the media that often refuses to report honestly make it impossible for democracy to work. If elected officials are not forced to fulfill the things they were elected for, often doing the exact opposite, how can that be called democratic, how can one say the interests and will of the people are represented, when the opposite is done in reality? Election fraud and letting illegals vote are bad enough, but "post-election fraud" is worse. To make things worse, they have worsened the economic situation to such a degree that most people are too busy with staying afloat to assess the state of society adequately. They lack the time or their health conditions often keep them occupied and unable to take interest, let alone deal with other things. Probably it would be best to start from the local level to reorganise and step by the replace corrupted institutions. It doubt the problem can be solved by just electing a different president. Even the most honest man couldn't remove all the corruption and overcome all the traitors and sellouts on his own. To clearly adress the problems it is also necessary to get rid of PC and say things as they are.
@@christophgriener9852 Cool story, bro. Back to the original post, the video maker could also just say "I got permission from so and so to share this with you" and that would answer the question.
The dedication to a horribly misguided philosophy and cause is sobering and oddly admirable in its own strange way. This soldier and perhaps most Germans could not comprehend the vastness of Russia, the resolve of the Russian people, the ferocity of the Russian winter, and, perhaps most importantly, the latent industrial capacity of America which was about to be unleashed upon them. What a terrible waste.
The hun tried fighting like men possesed.- 46* below is no joke.yeah, coming from the wet tropics 38*above 90/ percent humidity 45- below would be extremely harrowing given the length and depth of a bitter and often fatal Winter... The darkest chapter in human history!!!. Lest We Forget.
@@darkawakening01 FFS. Get your panties un-bunched. "Tommy" sure as hell isn't a derogatory term for the Brits, as far as I'm concerned. Kipling certainly didn't see it that way, and we appreciate our friends the Tommies, here in the U.S. We also appreciate Germans who don't identify too closely with those who unleashed hell on Earth under the thrall of a madman. We have common enemies these days. Politicians. Direct your anger appropriately.
@@45CaliberCure Dont think you can be proud as an american, bombing and killing millions of germans to bring them "democracy", treating their soldiers like cows in fields (eg Rheinwiesen), instead as prisoners of war, like germany with all allies til end of war do. Moving more of 450.000 of german US-Prisoners of War NOT to germany at the end of war, but send them directly for years of slavery to france, england, belgian in their coal mines, or to russia in their gulags. Do you know that? Plundering of the whole country and theft of all patents, automatic arrest for everyone - not only for members of the NSDAP. Did germany do the same in any occupied country? WHY US do that? Hundreds of thousands starved or froze to death mainly because of the U.S. occupation rules after the war. Why was this necessary? Or other question: How many homes have been destroyed or people even wounded in the U.S. by German weapons?? ZERO! Where does these hatred come from? For German politicians and soldiers, a show trial with the IMT and other US-Trials were organized, in which the verdicts had already been determined ... were indicted and convicted of crimes committed by ALL Allies themselves. And all the verdicts of that time never be reviewed or even reversed by any German government - for all eternity. Signed with the so called 2+4 contract 1990. You know that too? You don't believe what I wrote? Take a deep look at the books eg of the canadian historian James Bacque eg "Other Losses" or Arnold Krammer "Undue Process"-"Nazi Prisoners of War in America" and u maybe can see the light of truth? P.S. To hand over the mass murderer Stalin to all of Eastern Europe for over 45 years, not to forget. GREAT JOB, WELL DONE - due all (Western-)ALLIES of the WWII.
Atillia the hun,what the hell is wrong with that,man I am 76 years old,was in Viet Nam at 19,I grew up fast,but why is everyone on this stupid internet,so thin skinned,amazing!Get a life!
The US National Archives (Library of Congress) has an outstanding collection of daily German situation maps for the eastern front. They're very detailed & show the position of every German division & major unit in Russia. Best of all, you can download them in high resolution.
I find it strange that you can salute the invaders who were part of the nazi system that tortured and executed 6 million innocent people and slaughtered millions of other civilians.
@@oldergeologist These 2 tables from me up here are STRANGE TOO, but not for u @oldergeologist right? maybe you will wake up one day and been more interested at the truth than leftist propaganda and pay more attention at their atrocity against defencless humans - or not!
Mind, meanwhile German troopers enjoyed live and red wine in France. Fate can be horribly unfair. Besides, Knight`s Cross , Iron Cross and German Cross are different and not to be confused.
4:52 "We are soldiers. We are loyal to the oath. Not to names." Lol! What oath was that again? The one where you swore personal allegiance to one name in particular, Adolf Hitler?
Thanks for this historian exegese and verifications. We should learn from it quickly before sleepwalking into WW3. The war nowadays is much worser , cause nobody can hide from the drones any more ...
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg are you kidding? They sent every soviet soldier in Siberia:)))) writing diaries in gulag? They didn't had paper or pencils...even for the nkvd killers
@@KolyaUrtz you forgot the 0 take less drugs. You are not smarter than what isnalready proven by all serious scientists, even many russian ones. If you look at the Total popolations of both nations, it cant be a 1 vs 1. Simple maths
In the first years of the war in russia, no prisoners were taken by the Red Army or the Partisans. All of them were murdered in cold blood. If you had a iron cross, there were more mutilation and brutal torture before you die are guaranteed, thats for sure. Have some sources about massacres of German prisoners or places marked with Red Cross in the first weeks after the attack on Russia began in July 1941. The Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1929) was never accepted by Stalin because he wanted to provoke the escalation of all his wars. But the Germans had signed it and ordered it until the end of the war. What was certainly not always adhered to by all German soldiers and their allies, that's for sure ... and probably understandable.
@@faktennichtglauben7202 by the end of the war 95% of russian pows in german camps died, for german pows in russian camps the number is around 15%...so go figure
the soldiers , even small officers don't have the big picture. They only know what sourrounds them. Another point is that sometimes when you are so deep in brown matter as those guys were, you don't accept it is for nothing and your friends suffer and die for nothing else than the leader's insanity . So end up beliveing that there must be something bigger that justifies all.
@@KolyaUrtz hahahahh good joke, the russian were outnumbering the germans and finsihed the war with around 28.980.000 losses. this amount was taken from the soviet archives in the 90 when western historian had finally acces to the for some time. dependenig on the sources the german to soviet losses were from 1-5 up to 1-9. mostly seen is a 1 -7 ratio from 4 million german losses to 28 million russian ones
@@deathtrooper7760 1. Russians for the first time in the war outnumbered germans in mid to late 1943...long after russians completely turned the war in their favor. 2. The fact that you are taking total deaths where 80% of them are civilians and are trying to push it as military deaths tells me and everyone here everything we need to know about your pathetic knowledge.
“Under Lend-Lease, the United States provided more than one-third of all the explosives used by the Soviet Union during the war. The United States and the British Commonwealth provided 55 percent of all the aluminum the Soviet Union used during the war and more than 80 percent of the copper. Lend-Lease also sent aviation fuel equivalent to 57 percent of what the Soviet Union itself produced. Much of the American fuel was added to lower-grade Soviet fuel to produce the high-octane fuel needed by modern military aircraft. The Lend-Lease program also provided more than 35,000 radio sets and 32,000 motorcycles. When the war ended, almost 33 percent of all the Red Army's vehicles had been provided through Lend-Lease. More than 20,000 Katyusha mobile multiple-rocket launchers were mounted on the chassis of American Studebaker trucks. In addition, the Lend-Lease program propped up the Soviet railway system, which played a fundamental role in moving and supplying troops. The program sent nearly 2,000 locomotives and innumerable boxcars to the Soviet Union. In addition, almost half of all the rails used by the Soviet Union during the war came through Lend-Lease.”
There was a big debate about it and one high command general predicted it to go the way it did and he suggested to prepare defenses and let the Soviets attack. Hitler felt however that the Soviet would then be unstoppable and roll over all of Europe. The sheer amount of men and equipment destroyed in the first year seems to prove him right.
@@LawrenceofIsrael the General in charge of Logistics certainly warned about the potential disaster of Impossible Logistics to sustain the offensive beyond a set time/distance parameters. And he was correct.
So what. Whatever is written in this diary, they were defeted, they lost on the battlefield . Germans lost this fight . Russian and Polish flag over Brandenburger Tor in Berlin Germans flags in Moscov on the ground.
what doesnt? its an actual diary, by an actual real person. do you have any knowledge of the eastern front at all, or the fact that lots of soldiers back then kept diaries?
Its 'der Krieg' and we never say "ja, ja" in a beginning of a sentence, except thats what your little sister sais, when you order her to finally do the dishes.
@@BojanPeric-kq9et Perhaps think of it this way. 1. We maintain a considerable troop strength in South Korea which has, so far, saved us from being embroiled in WWIII and has allowed South Korea to build a booming economy. 2. We have maintained and continue to maintain troop strength in Western Europe which has, so far, prevented an outbreak of WWIII as well as provided stability for our allies to rebuild their war torn countries and become good trading partners with us. 3. The US maintains military basis around the world. A huge civilian benefit to these bases is the policing of the seas to help counteract pirating. On the internet there is no distance whatsoever. Every place is the same place. In the physical world 3,000 miles sounds like a great distance but with modern technology it no longer is.
are you serious? are you really that dumb? you can look the person up. do you think that service records didnt survive WWII until now? you obviously have never done any historical research yet you feel compelled to comment on something you know nothing about. why is that?@@oldergeologist
All published parts of the diary are in order:
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I expereinced once -40-43°C for a week in norhtern Russia, where the infrastructure is used to cold weather. I seriously can NOT imagine how soldiers, with lack of modern technology and equipment managed to battle in those conditions.
For anyone who, most probably, never experienced such temperatures and who just like me before, sees it as "another number": when it hits -25-30° you think to yourself "can't get colder than this. I'm freezing instantly when I go outside and breathig is painfull because of all the cold air". But once it hits -40ish and lower it feels like it's cold FROM ANOTHER UNIVERSE, with different physics than what we are used to!
And then cities exist which hit -50° every winter... geez...
Yeah Fairbanks is one of those cities. It is uncomfortable but you can become accustomed to it fairly easily.
My diary would’ve read: “How in the hell did I end up here?”
It’s incredible how any of them survived at all! It’s really mind-boggling!
Both of my grandpas survived the whole eastern campain. One as a frontline medic (wounded several times) and the other i grew up with as luitenatn major of an east prussian infantrie batallion at the northern front. Both did not talk much about it.
They fought for the freedom of Europe. They knew the importance of their work.
@@TheWaller🤘🤘🤔🙄
@@TheWaller???????
@@TheWaller what are you yapping about
I grew up knowing some (3) German serviceman who were interned in Ireland during WW2, Luftwaffe and Kreigsmarine and they said many many interesting thing's not found in History, the lack of rotation at rhe front was considered the worst. These fella's had it good in Ireland, lot's of food, beer, whiskey and passes alone to the local community, cinema's, coffee shop's, date's and they stayed in Ireland and married, my Aunt's told me that German lad's were especially popular and sought. One school friends father Mr Bruen had returned home to Germany to find every family member and many friends deceased. Brother Eastern Front, Sister working a frontline Aid Station, nursing, his parents when Kiel was hit, the harbour surrounds. Nothing and No-One, All Gone, Bad Memories, A & The Jungen. The Absolute Confidence German's had in '30's. He was an electrician who gardened and I at 8 worked at the local nursery for plants, raspberry canes, strawberries, and then gooseberry shrubs, a few years old saplings. Incredibly hot where I am today, 40+c, burning Sun ☀️. No Aircon and an old stone and brick cottage filled with ghost's. Every lives here dies here, doesn't bother me like fruit fly. Got an infestation of boring fruit flies and all fruits had to be felled, orange, fig, 3 40 year's old wine grape trestles, a single root and trunk of vine thick as a loaf of bread, chopped, gone, the Valencia Orange, thinnest peel i ever seen on an orange 🍊. I eat them skin and all.
My grandfather was able to return alive from the Don with Valenki, too. He was from Italy with A.m.i.r. the real drama was when Italy betrayed Germany. He had two options: continue to fight with germans or work labor in Poland. He opted for the second. After the freedom arrived a couple of days before the Reds, he returned again at home stolen again Velenki. It's sad to see that history didn't teach. I am scared that sooner or later we could live another war. I pray God to save humanity from this craziness.
@paxalotin he was lucky. My grandfather was scared by Reds. With his stolen clothes, he surely could be killed. But my grandfather was smart. He was bilingual italian and german. He was a good-looking man able to talk to the women (he was saved many times by women), he was a mountain man, a hunter, and he was able to walk from Poland to italian Tyrol without finding problems. He was like a wolf and survived thanks to his knowledge of the wild mountains.
@@walsch80Sound's like my Italian uncle Angelo, he knows EVERYTHING that is edible in forest's, how to snare rabbits and hares, which mushrooms are edible......He even claims to have cooked and eaten Dodo!
@@walsch80they dont make them like this anymore
@jmlsenn5829 Against the atomic weapons and technology, we could die at 99,9%. Nowadays, thinking a war against Russia and NATO in Europe is just a craziness.
As someone from central Alaska, -46C surely is no joke lol
Like yesterday here in Australia, + 42c!..... Boiling
I dont think it matters where youre from, -46 is nuts
@@NeilPundick truly
I was out in -17 F at 4 am riding my bike and it is scary that you can literally freeze like an Ice cube - 46 C is supposedly -51 F - I just would not think that is livable - you have to have really big hands for blood flow - it's terrifying actually
@TotalFreedomTTT-pk9st I mean it's not that bad with decent clothing and fire, it is definitely not something I enjoy for prolonged periods. For 1-2 days you can make it through OK, although you must be extremely careful. Anything longer than that and you're going to have some pretty serious issues.
Military Club's collection of diaries and journals is quite impressive. Kudos, MC!😊
How the hell did they keep track of millions of troops and equipment and where everyone was and where everyone was going and without constant friendly fire casualties?
Radio triangulation
They were Germans
"They" don't, each and every unit commander is responsible for this on an individual level.
thanks for posting❤
Such high spirits.. Pretty amazing.
Thanks for that very interesting diary entry. Regards Christian from Frankfurt, Germany
See: the troops got free exercise, recreation, and this at least some fun with cross country skiing! 😊
This is addicting
This fellow had quite the attitude and opinions.
Typical Teutonic.
@@samstone446
It's called having a belief in the cause you're fighting for
Did you expect him to write nice things about the men he's putting holes into ? 😂
@@samstone446 Steglich is a Croatian last name.
@@pero33403steg is maybe but lich is very german there is a city also called "lichtenstein" and a village close to germany where i lived in the netherlands is called "lichten-voorde" lich comes from liech and liech is very much germand at same time it could be 2 etnic ancestral lines really coming toghether in the last name stegg could be stek in the ancient version more seeming to the region languages and germany had a lot of etnic emmigration flows from the south last 1000 years and families bloodlines do survive croatia is not far from germany
There was a bloodline retraced of 2000 years old of the ancient faraoh so it could be he is teutonic AND croatian heritage .. croatia is right next to italy and there are slots in germany where it is only 4 hours of driving towards italy hence croatia is right next to it so it could explain this some croatians moved up in the last centuries or even earlier ..
Danke für das Tagebuch! On Apple Books there is a short diary by Ralf Becker about his time as a Russian prisoner of war in Siberia.
1st video ever where guys were 'vacationing'. How interesting
Just recently PBS had a great documentary that I had never seen before, about the use of trains by Germany and Russia in Operation Barbarossa. This documentary totally opened my eyes to a critically important dimension of why the mighty German army was defeated and destroyed in Russia. Most people know, the Russian track gauge was wider than the German rail gauge by about 80 mm or 3 inches. This meant that German trains could not run on Russian track. This played a much larger part in Germany's defeat than most people realize. Hitler's massive blunder was in assuming that he could simply seize all the Russian train engines, rolling stock and rail systems with little effort. However he did not foresee the Russian "Scorched Earth" strategy of totally destroying all the engines and rails and everything else as they retreated, leaving nothing for the Germans. As a result a massive logistics pile of ammunition, food, and winter clothing destined for the support of the German army in the winter of 1941, ended up in Poland with no way of shipping it deep into Russia by rail. Trucks had to be used instead which was vastly inferior to trains. It was a total catastrophe brought about by HItler's total stupidity and arrogance in not fully understanding and planning for the massive importance of the train system.
I've never thought about the train thing before. That makes a lot of sense.
Adolf wasn't especially intelligent
Lieutenant Neumann lost his Helmut to injury
The German news footage of the conditions when feet of snow suddenly thaw, then freeze and thaw again was an eye-opener.
That is not Hitlers problem. The Soviet track gauges should have been known to the Wehrmacht and Organization Todt.
Can you at least tell us the name of the source or book? There's no information anywhere about Steglich's diary.
If it's a private diary that they got permission to read from, there won't be information about it on the internet. My grandfather's photographs and notebooks are also not anywhere on the internet. Those things are kept and preserved by the families. There are published memoirs, diaries etc., but many of the most important things I've heard from my grandfather or other old men and women, both telling me and listening to them talking about things themselves. An extreme contrast to the lies we were told in school, especially when the so-called "Wehrmachtsausstellung" or "Schindler's List" were forced upon us. There were always contradictions and obviously false claims and teachers etc. or other indoctrinators usually resorted to shouting and labelling, because they didn't know how to respond.
All the wars in my lifetime were justified by lies. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria..., or, before I was born, Vietnam etc.. The leaders of the US and Britain always justified their wars with lies and never ever were they held responsible for their crimes. How can there be democracy without honesty, truth and justice? Does anyone honestly believe the leaders in the "free West" are acting in the interest of their respective people? To me it seems that the exact opposite is happening and honest people who would want to change that are kept from rising in the parties, smeared with false accusations or "taken care of" in other ways. Look at the people in the state department and what they are doing and it's obvious whose interests they serve. The congressmen and senators are unable to protect the border an citizens, but send billions to Ukraine and Israel, so that more innocents can die? The Covid lies and vaccine fraud and deception are obvious, but they are acting as if everything was in order.
The people in power are weak and cowardly. They will cling to power and rather let everything crash and collapse. They fear justice and are too lacking in character and honour to take responsibility or to speak the truth. The people whose puppets they are, would rather let the US break apart or decline faster and faster, than give up using the military and economic power of America for their own goals. They'll bleed them dry and switch to another tool (host).
When there were monarchs, they at least had an interest to think ahead and plan for longer than four years. The bribed and blackmailed puppets that "lead" us and the media that often refuses to report honestly make it impossible for democracy to work. If elected officials are not forced to fulfill the things they were elected for, often doing the exact opposite, how can that be called democratic, how can one say the interests and will of the people are represented, when the opposite is done in reality? Election fraud and letting illegals vote are bad enough, but "post-election fraud" is worse. To make things worse, they have worsened the economic situation to such a degree that most people are too busy with staying afloat to assess the state of society adequately. They lack the time or their health conditions often keep them occupied and unable to take interest, let alone deal with other things. Probably it would be best to start from the local level to reorganise and step by the replace corrupted institutions. It doubt the problem can be solved by just electing a different president. Even the most honest man couldn't remove all the corruption and overcome all the traitors and sellouts on his own. To clearly adress the problems it is also necessary to get rid of PC and say things as they are.
@@christophgriener9852 Cool story, bro. Back to the original post, the video maker could also just say "I got permission from so and so to share this with you" and that would answer the question.
@@christophgriener9852 Couldn't have said it better myself.
declaring war to russia and usa was the worst tactical decision.
hitler made MANY dumb decisions, but those two broke his neck
The dedication to a horribly misguided philosophy and cause is sobering and oddly admirable in its own strange way. This soldier and perhaps most Germans could not comprehend the vastness of Russia, the resolve of the Russian people, the ferocity of the Russian winter, and, perhaps most importantly, the latent industrial capacity of America which was about to be unleashed upon them. What a terrible waste.
There was no "resolve of the Russian people". They were slaves to the communists, who were anything but Russian.
The hun tried fighting like men possesed.- 46* below is no joke.yeah, coming from the wet tropics 38*above 90/ percent humidity 45- below would be extremely harrowing given the length and depth of a bitter and often fatal Winter... The darkest chapter in human history!!!. Lest We Forget.
"The hun".. Thanks for still using a derogatory term for us Germans, Tommy.
@@darkawakening01 FFS. Get your panties un-bunched. "Tommy" sure as hell isn't a derogatory term for the Brits, as far as I'm concerned. Kipling certainly didn't see it that way, and we appreciate our friends the Tommies, here in the U.S. We also appreciate Germans who don't identify too closely with those who unleashed hell on Earth under the thrall of a madman. We have common enemies these days. Politicians. Direct your anger appropriately.
@@45CaliberCure
Dont think you can be proud as an american, bombing and killing millions of germans to bring them "democracy", treating their soldiers like cows in fields (eg Rheinwiesen), instead as prisoners of war, like germany with all allies til end of war do. Moving more of 450.000 of german US-Prisoners of War NOT to germany at the end of war, but send them directly for years of slavery to france, england, belgian in their coal mines, or to russia in their gulags. Do you know that?
Plundering of the whole country and theft of all patents, automatic arrest for everyone - not only for members of the NSDAP. Did germany do the same in any occupied country? WHY US do that?
Hundreds of thousands starved or froze to death mainly because of the U.S. occupation rules after the war. Why was this necessary? Or other question: How many homes have been destroyed or people even wounded in the U.S. by German weapons?? ZERO! Where does these hatred come from?
For German politicians and soldiers, a show trial with the IMT and other US-Trials were organized, in which the verdicts had already been determined ... were indicted and convicted of crimes committed by ALL Allies themselves. And all the verdicts of that time never be reviewed or even reversed by any German government - for all eternity. Signed with the so called 2+4 contract 1990. You know that too?
You don't believe what I wrote?
Take a deep look at the books eg of the canadian historian James Bacque eg "Other Losses" or Arnold Krammer "Undue Process"-"Nazi Prisoners of War in America" and u maybe can see the light of truth?
P.S.
To hand over the mass murderer Stalin to all of Eastern Europe for over 45 years, not to forget.
GREAT JOB, WELL DONE - due all (Western-)ALLIES of the WWII.
Atillia the hun,what the hell is wrong with that,man I am 76 years old,was in Viet Nam at 19,I grew up fast,but why is everyone on this stupid internet,so thin skinned,amazing!Get a life!
Maps please 🙂
The US National Archives (Library of Congress) has an outstanding collection of daily German situation maps for the eastern front. They're very detailed & show the position of every German division & major unit in Russia. Best of all, you can download them in high resolution.
Sirji, I salute all the soldiers, who fought WW-1 and WW-2, on both the sides.
No. The Nazis were monsters. It's not all the same. There is no equivalency.
I find it strange that you can salute the invaders who were part of the nazi system that tortured and executed 6 million innocent people and slaughtered millions of other civilians.
@@oldergeologist
These 2 tables from me up here are STRANGE TOO, but not for u @oldergeologist right? maybe you will wake up one day and been more interested at the truth than leftist propaganda and pay more attention at their atrocity against defencless humans - or not!
At that temp your spit or blood would freeze before it hit the ground.
You Rock !
Il n'a jamais fait -46° devant Moscou ou Stalingrad rapports Allemands ou Russes.
Mind, meanwhile German troopers enjoyed live and red wine in France. Fate can be horribly unfair. Besides, Knight`s Cross , Iron Cross and German Cross are different and not to be confused.
Unfortunately this AI mispronounces the German names & words horribly.
Care to provide an example?
@@paulnichollsvoice Keitel f.e.
Wonder what he thought of his Fuher a couple years later
"-46 is not a joke" I dunno why but that sounds so extremely German to me, despite Germany changing since 1940's some things haven't changed a bit
those were his last words
No he survived you fool
He’s German and prefers vodka over schnapps 🤔
Steglich is a Croatian last name.
taste does not know boundaries - i am german and i prefer Scotch to Schnaps ;)
@@pero33403 It is not, it's a Sorbian name. Sorbs are western Slavs but have been part of Germany for a long time.
@@rainerschinkler7336 That might be true, I agree.
4:52 "We are soldiers. We are loyal to the oath. Not to names."
Lol! What oath was that again? The one where you swore personal allegiance to one name in particular, Adolf Hitler?
SS not Wehrmacht
Tell me you know nothing about the Wehrmacht, without telling me you don't know anything about the Wehrmacht.
@@LawrenceofIsrael they did swear an oath to the Führer
@@Gervasn who did?
@@LawrenceofIsrael from 1934 onwards all soldiers
How did that work out for your BFF Adolph?
Thank you for your job.
P.S. Not valEnki, but vAlenki.
there was a name in the oath ...
If those soldiers only knew that Adolf Hitler taking over planning the war would lead them straight to their deaths😂
Wait...the war was only supposed to last six weeks Komrade.
Esto lo quieren sentir los Franceses en este siglo. No tuvieron suficiente con Napoleón.
Thanks for this historian exegese and verifications. We should learn from it quickly before sleepwalking into WW3.
The war nowadays is much worser , cause nobody can hide from the drones any more ...
Funny how 80 years later nazis and russians are doing the same thing in ukraine. This time nazis cry and fascist in the west cry though.
Actually, just about all of it is from the German perspective. Very little from the Russian view.
You have books, just search them.
you're expecting russian perspective from a german officer's diary?
There's some amazing Soviet diaries
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg are you kidding? They sent every soviet soldier in Siberia:)))) writing diaries in gulag? They didn't had paper or pencils...even for the nkvd killers
@@electrolustable Some who were successful soldats, served survived and became political officer's had much more
The "Idiots" ended WWII.
Seems like the same stupid mentality lives on today...
Still the idiots sacrificed more than was neccessary in the early phase of the war
@@nerminerminerminermi ah yes...with the around 1 to 1 causalty ratio. You good?
@@KolyaUrtz you forgot the 0 take less drugs. You are not smarter than what isnalready proven by all serious scientists, even many russian ones. If you look at the Total popolations of both nations, it cant be a 1 vs 1. Simple maths
Read " blood red snow" incredible diary of a German on the eastern front
Those Iron Crosses were quickly disposed off when the Russians closed in .
In the first years of the war in russia, no prisoners were taken by the Red Army or the Partisans. All of them were murdered in cold blood. If you had a iron cross, there were more mutilation and brutal torture before you die are guaranteed, thats for sure. Have some sources about massacres of German prisoners or places marked with Red Cross in the first weeks after the attack on Russia began in July 1941.
The Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1929) was never accepted by Stalin because he wanted to provoke the escalation of all his wars. But the Germans had signed it and ordered it until the end of the war. What was certainly not always adhered to by all German soldiers and their allies, that's for sure ... and probably understandable.
@@faktennichtglauben7202 I guess if you fuck around with the bear you end up finding out.
I wonder where in the Geneva Convention it says about killing millions of civilians...
@@faktennichtglauben7202 by the end of the war 95% of russian pows in german camps died, for german pows in russian camps the number is around 15%...so go figure
It is fascinating to hear how this officer is indoctrinated and a total believer in the "Führer's" ideology.
the soldiers , even small officers don't have the big picture. They only know what sourrounds them. Another point is that sometimes when you are so deep in brown matter as those guys were, you don't accept it is for nothing and your friends suffer and die for nothing else than the leader's insanity . So end up beliveing that there must be something bigger that justifies all.
@@sib1982 did same apply for Enisatzgruppen?
"They were tactically incompetent", but at operational and strategic level they were quite good, as time will tell.😂
Having 10 times the men also helped
@@ShirosTamagotchi That never happened. "10 times more men" is postwar myth created by former German generals as the excuse for loss from "subhumans".
@@ShirosTamagotchi Russians were literally outnumbered and finished the war with about 1 to 1 causalty ratio
@@KolyaUrtz hahahahh good joke, the russian were outnumbering the germans and finsihed the war with around 28.980.000 losses. this amount was taken from the soviet archives in the 90 when western historian had finally acces to the for some time. dependenig on the sources the german to soviet losses were from 1-5 up to 1-9. mostly seen is a 1 -7 ratio from 4 million german losses to 28 million russian ones
@@deathtrooper7760 1. Russians for the first time in the war outnumbered germans in mid to late 1943...long after russians completely turned the war in their favor.
2. The fact that you are taking total deaths where 80% of them are civilians and are trying to push it as military deaths tells me and everyone here everything we need to know about your pathetic knowledge.
The Russians may have attacked like idiots but it was they who defeated the fascist Wehrmacht
Without the help of their allies and all the other fronts they wouldn't have.
if they weren't idiots might have won with less catastrophic losses.
Says a guy who really is an idiot and clearly has no idea of the history of the war on eastern front @@sib1982
That myths pops up every time. Stop playing the simpleton@@CaspCic
“Under Lend-Lease, the United States provided more than one-third of all the explosives used by the Soviet Union during the war. The United States and the British Commonwealth provided 55 percent of all the aluminum the Soviet Union used during the war and more than 80 percent of the copper.
Lend-Lease also sent aviation fuel equivalent to 57 percent of what the Soviet Union itself produced. Much of the American fuel was added to lower-grade Soviet fuel to produce the high-octane fuel needed by modern military aircraft.
The Lend-Lease program also provided more than 35,000 radio sets and 32,000 motorcycles. When the war ended, almost 33 percent of all the Red Army's vehicles had been provided through Lend-Lease. More than 20,000 Katyusha mobile multiple-rocket launchers were mounted on the chassis of American Studebaker trucks.
In addition, the Lend-Lease program propped up the Soviet railway system, which played a fundamental role in moving and supplying troops. The program sent nearly 2,000 locomotives and innumerable boxcars to the Soviet Union. In addition, almost half of all the rails used by the Soviet Union during the war came through Lend-Lease.”
Maybe, invading Russia wasn't a good idea?
Ask Napoleon.
Evidence Suggests, Low Success Percentage
There was a big debate about it and one high command general predicted it to go the way it did and he suggested to prepare defenses and let the Soviets attack.
Hitler felt however that the Soviet would then be unstoppable and roll over all of Europe.
The sheer amount of men and equipment destroyed in the first year seems to prove him right.
@@LawrenceofIsrael the General in charge of Logistics certainly warned about the potential disaster of Impossible Logistics to sustain the offensive beyond a set time/distance parameters. And he was correct.
Welches Russland?
So what. Whatever is written in this diary, they were defeted, they lost on the battlefield . Germans lost this fight . Russian and Polish flag over Brandenburger Tor in Berlin Germans flags in Moscov on the ground.
3:43 there's a german wearing wehrmacht collar tabs and ss sleeve eagle, probably reenactors or people from an old movie
Die besten der besten.
Doesn't sound authentic.
AI
Sounded like a college fraternity series of hijinks.
what doesnt? its an actual diary, by an actual real person. do you have any knowledge of the eastern front at all, or the fact that lots of soldiers back then kept diaries?
Interesting series. Not enough content from average German perspective
Deutscher Titel und englisches gesabel geht's noch????
Ist doch gut so. haben alle was davon.
"now we have skis, as many as eight of them!"
AAGH, skiing spider Nazis!!
You’re clever if nothing else.
the original is also quite funny, typical german humor
rojnie atakowali jak kompletni idioci ,a le to rosjanie pokonali hiterowców
I see, to much TV.
Bonsoir à vous très bon documentaire mais dommage qu'il ne soit pas en français 🌞
o7
ja ja, das Krieg is so much fun!
Its 'der Krieg' and we never say "ja, ja" in a beginning of a sentence, except thats what your little sister sais, when you order her to finally do the dishes.
@@CaspCic hat der echt Krieg gegendert? das Iwan
I don't know about you but I would never fight for a president like Biden. I would join the other side
I was under the impression that US soldiers do not fight for a president but rather to protect and support the US constitution.
I guess that's Republicans these days - always ready to betray their own country and fight for the enemy. It's not a nice sight, even to an outsider.
Donkey
@@georgesotiroff5080 protecting it 3000 miles away from borders?
@@BojanPeric-kq9et Perhaps think of it this way.
1. We maintain a considerable troop strength in South Korea which has, so far, saved us from being embroiled in WWIII and has allowed South Korea to build a booming economy.
2. We have maintained and continue to maintain troop strength in Western Europe which has, so far, prevented an outbreak of WWIII as well as provided stability for our allies to rebuild their war torn countries and become good trading partners with us.
3. The US maintains military basis around the world. A huge civilian benefit to these bases is the policing of the seas to help counteract pirating.
On the internet there is no distance whatsoever. Every place is the same place. In the physical world 3,000 miles sounds like a great distance but with modern technology it no longer is.
Germans weren't as smart as everyone thinks minus 31 isnt a frost
its degree "celsius".. You are not even aware how that measurement works are you
Ouch haha, you embarrassed yourself.
I think these videos are fake. They don’t sound real for a number of reasons. The producer should quote the source of the diary so we can check it.
like what reasons? the author of the diary is a real person.
How do you know it is a real person?
are you serious? are you really that dumb? you can look the person up. do you think that service records didnt survive WWII until now? you obviously have never done any historical research yet you feel compelled to comment on something you know nothing about. why is that?@@oldergeologist
@@oldergeologistHow do you know it is not?
aus welcher Landser Ausgabe stammt das?
fake !
USA propaganda
very propagandesk....