Bidermann, like many other German soldiers calls the Panzerschreck "The Stovepipe" because of the large amount of smoke and dust it gives off when firing. An interesting fact I learnt recently. Anyway, enjoy the vid Gents and Ladies! Here is the full playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLyuEmb1VavZAVYcenOHk2T5y-eLjKiQGR.html
@@bottlethrower1544 The author mentions in the original manuscript that his writings was never meant to be published but shared with the surviving comrades of his regiment I believe
panzerfaust was the feart weapon, anyone could handle it even boys of 14- cheap and made by the thousands, Look at the Sherman tank in the city centre in Bastogne one little hole, 5 crew dead, and tank in flames, Rhonsons right?
I have read and listened to numerous German accounts of the war in the east, both from Wehrmacht and SS soldiers. The one common theme, is that they all recount their fear of the uncivilised and barbaric behaviour of the Russian soldiers, toward German soldiers and civilians. Not one of the German authors has ever mentioned the atrocities they heaped on Russian POWs and civilians. None of these authors has ever admitted to stealing the food and clothing of Russian civilians, or turning them out of their own homes to freeze to death in the Russian winters. Not once has any of them mentioned how they deliberately starved Russian POWs to death. And, of course, none of them (especially ex - Wehrmacht soldiers) mention their part in the murder of Russian Jews: they always blame it on other SS units, Einsatzgruppen or local paramilitaries.
@@haroldbell213 if Ss troops got a sovjet commisar. was shot on the spot, so no archievment, 31 million Russian died, Terrible tally, but Western Allieds fighting wrong enemy, they paid dearly till 1989
The idea that the Wehrmacht was clean, and only parts of the SS were the ones responsible for Germany's horrific war crimes during their war of aggression against the Soviet Union, was a hoax launched and spread by the highest ranking German officers after their capture. The hoax was exposed decades ago. The German Wehrmacht fighting on the eastern front was complicit in all the German war crimes committed in Russia. This fact does not excuse Soviet atrocities against German armed forces and German civilians. These were Soviet war crimes. But there is a context that should not be ignored when discussing the brutality and murder on the eastern front. The context is that Nazi Germany launched a massive invasion of the Soviet Union.
Have you ever read or can recall a book about a panzer commander i think he was from the czech republic. He along with his group are surrounded by the russians and hiding in woods. I had just started the book on youtube but it was removed and i didnt think to note the name. I have been searching and searching to no avail. Any help would be much appreciated!
My late father-in-law fought on the eastern front. He spoke little of it. But remembered finding one icy winter day two dead Russian soldiers wearing warm woolen underclothes. He realized that the anti-Russian propaganda was bs. They faced a tough and well-equipped enemy. He was transferred to the western front. He said, it was unbelievable luck.
My father was in north Africa with Motty , from there he was sent to Italy ,then up to caseno After that they were sent back south until the end of the war, They asked my dad if he would go to sues to which the old man said no ,, because we were waiting to go to the land of Ozz unfortunately my uncle didn't fill the paperwork right My mom's brother was living in England because the old man was a blacksmith they let us go at that time we had a British passport,so 1953 (March)
@@Snafuski the Soviets were supplied with lots of useable but not great supplies because Stalin refused to be defeated...not that he cared about any of the people...he even sent his own son to the front lines
@@SarahHodgins Yes, but the Germans were not equipped for winter at all. And they bought the idea that the Russians were subhumans.... they were not. When push came to shove, they defended their country.
This is an excerpt from a book written by former German soldier Gottlob Herbert Bidermann. It is not fiction or AI generated, despite some very ignorant comments.
It would be nice to note the man's company, battalion, regiment and division in these stories. It would help track his unit's movement in the context of the battles and campaign.
During this time my grandfather Stabsgefreiter Georg Welak was in the 8Th PD 43rd Abt Panzerjager 1 company. He was the driver for Major Georg Amsel. It was during this time Maj Amsel won the German Cross in Gold and Opa was there with him when it happened. The Marder that they were assigned was dug in a defensive position. The Russian infantry overwhelmed the position and pushed the Panzerjagers and Panzergrenaders back into the wood line. Maj Amsel immediately assembled a counterattack plan to take back the Marder. Amsel my grandfather and the rest of the men raced back to the Marder. The fight was close. Everything was used. Fist, shovels knives pistols.. they pushed the Russians off the Marder and were quickly reinforced by the infantry. My grandfather always said he was “with” Amsel when he won that award. He never went into detail and after extensive research I found a personal account of the action.
So, and while I do not doubt Opa's Tapferkeit, the naked fact is that he and his adored, genius general were on the wrong side of history. Evil dictator Stalin's Russia did not invade the Vaterland. Barbarossa was not a noble crusade to "save Western Civilization." The Nazis were and are the bad guys, dude. Ironically enough, 80 years later, Herr Putler is violently reminding us of this inescapable fact. No German was more heroic during the war than those young people in der Weisse Rose. The Hausmeister who turned them in modestly claimed that he "had only done his duty," but what does duty to an evil cause and regime even mean?
As a German, I am so thankful that the Russian people defeated us at Stalingrad. My ancestors were a wicked, evil nation at this time. And the evil still exists in today’s society.
@@AbsalomMcVey-i1fSoldiers didn't and don't make national policy. Civilian politicians do. As a veteran of 32 years (8 enlisted, 24 commissioned) service, about a dozen wounds, and a total of 5 years, 8 months in combat, keep this in mind: Military force is an instrument of POLICY. WE don't make decisions about deploying forces ANYWHERE. That's done by POLITICIANS. When they say go, we go. When they say stop, we stop. So don't demonize ANY military personnel for invading or fighting anywhere they've been ordered to go. The ONLY FAULT that can possibly be laid at the feet of any normal soldier (or commissioned officer, within his sphere of influence) is the commission of war crimes. At that point it becomes a LEGAL matter. I suggest you get some firsthand experience and increase your knowledge before making such ridiculous condemnations.
Ah yes war crimes.most germans choose to ignore minor matter. None disobeyed the massive murder that the germans army meted out. After all it was war and all ends justified victory for the fatherland. Oppenheimer was commented when asked if he had any regrets regarding usage of atomic bomb. He replied his only regrett was nazi surrender before it could be used on germany.
Too bad that the assasination attempt didn't work ! It might have saved a whole bunch of heartache and misery . Hitler and Goebbels kept making announcements on the radio right up to the end that the women of Berlin had nothing to fear from the oncoming Russian troops and that they should stay in Berlin instead of fleeing to the west to fall on the mercy of the American army as opposed to falling into the hands of the Russian rapists . Terrible sensless irresponsibility right until the end !! The American army was not perfect but the incidence of abuse would have been about 85 per cent less.
I have listened to many of these; If the voice is not human I am surprised. To me it sounds elegant and real, and from an individual that thought they were doing good.
Not sorry for them. People of more than 600 villages were burned alive in their houses in Belarus alone. 2,5 million Belarussians died while Belarus was occupied by fascists (25% of the population). My father was born in 1941 and spent 3 years of his life in the woods. He could say the bad words earlier than he could say “mama”. The last 3 month before they were LIBERATED by Soviet Army they spent in the swamp because German forces cracked on partizans really hard at that time.
he recognized that he was doing the bidding of lies and cheaters who were safe and sound at home with their families while he was deprived of everything.
Stalin and Hitler never went to war themselves. And Stalin sent his son to the front lines. When he was caught and the Germans wanted to trade him for one of their captured generals, Stalin disowned his own son. Meanwhile millions of ordinary people suffered.
A very interesting presentation. Much of it seems to be an honest and accurate description. Two issues bother me. 1. He describes, I think accurately, the concern of what would happen when the Red Army reached the Reich. But what I do not hear is any recognition of the barbaric behavior of German troops in the Soviet Union. 2. There is extensive criticism of Hitler and the NAZUIs. This may have been honest, but we hear a lot of that from many Germans after the War. I wonder how much of that was the case when the War was going well.
@@wonkothesane7000 He is a good example of the German officer corps bought off by Hitler. His final payment was an estate in Poland. They were thus stuck with the monster they helped create. After the War, he and others tried to blame it all on Hitler.
A war without attrition with the Soviets non signing of the 1929 Geneva convention gave untold as well as unreported (even to this day) unspeakable sickening act's upon both captured,prisoner's,wounded persons,helpers including women and children add to that how the Soviet regime during the famine prior to WWII treated it's own people's who in many cases resorted to eat there own dead as all food stuffs inc' crops/livestock was taken away. Lastly, a clear agenda lays behind history taught post WWII just as it continues today into the 21 Century in all section's.
This entire audiobook was on youtube last year. He describes an incident where he was going to be court martialed because his men stole a goose. I find that a bit of a stretch because they mostly lived off the land as supply trains couldn't keep up. Of course, later the supply trains were few and far between. They hadn't much choice. Notice in this except they set fire to Riga. This was the scorched earth policy they practiced all the way from Moscow, Rostov, Kiev essentially everywhere they retreated. This war was hell on both sides and in particular for the peasants.
I wonder how they went about getting that food from the villagers and how the villagers were treated. We may feel sorry for the soldiers in their constant retreat but we must not forget the terrible atrocities that they committed.
Please consider showing a campaign map when reading these stories. I think you UA-cam Channel is very enlightening and it would be helpful to understand the geographical details.
the comments at 2.48 that organized retreat was eliminated from German tactical training is really interesting. I'd like to hear who was behind that and how Hitler latched onto it so much. I have heard disorganized retreat was the biggest loss of german tanks on east front. they broke down often due to complexity and when retreating at the last minute they had to be destroyed to keep from falling into enemy hands.
Hitler and Stalin had a similar stubbornness it seems... Once Soviets turned the tables, they used Germany's tactics against them... And I'm glad, because that war could have gone on much longer. Wanting to conquer Russia, is greedy to the point of stupid.
It might have been Frederick the Great who said, "victory goes to he who is willing to commit the last battalion to battle." I think the mad corporal held this philosophy hence he never knew when the war was hopelessly lost. After Kursk, the Wehrmacht was almost in constant retreat back to Germany. He should have given up all territorial gains in the East and committed his forces to the defense of Germany. He might have kept the Reds out of Germany. Maybe...who knows.
Hitler copied Stalins “Not one step back” mantra. It made more sense for Stalin than for the Wehrmacht who were very capable of strategic retreats. Falling back to more easily defended lines is effective. This is why the western allies didn’t even try to assassinate Hitler. Almost anyone who took his place would have been more effective.
@@JeffMathias but they are saying 1936 in the video. I'd be surprised if Hitler was micromanaging german army tactics at that point. I'd be curious what Guderian thought of it.
Being human, its difficult to not feel sympathy towards these nazi soldiers during the hour of their utter decimation. These diaries hardly portray their actions while they were on top of the lowly bolshevicks... who were "unter menshen" or "lowly beings" in their eyes and therefore not worthy of their higher aryan sympathies. But my sympathy is going to be reserved for people who didnt inflict the exact same horrors that theyre now themselves suffering.
@@unbearifiedbear1885That is the coping mechanism they had once they found out they had lost, typically developed in POW camps. They willingly served Hitler passionately and bought into his ideology of mass murder and scapegoating minorities. If you wear the uniform or engage in the pagentry then you qualify as a Nazi.
Still served the Nazis and fought for and according to the orders of the Nazis. And most, at least in the start, did largely support Hitler and the regime.
The part I will never understand and was actually surprised about is he talked about seeing the death trench’s the Jews had been shot in then does nothing but complain about how ruthless the Russians are it’s the pot calling the kettle black
The concentration camps contained more than Jews. Victims also we're not just the Jews. The ideal German did not include disabled, mentally I'll. The started by killing them in hospitals and trucks. Homosexual, atheist, political, etc were in concentration camps. Est 6 million non jew died in camps.
All kudos to the narrator here who is speaking at just the right mediocre speed in a clear, concise and expressive manner giving the audience time to receive, digest, ponder and breathe, to take it all in with a personal reflection of the big picture. I especially say much gratitude for that fact having just had to abandon an alternative history channel recital 10 minutes in for opposite characteristics.
The thumb nail for this video shows a German soldier with snow white teeth. He might have been to Turkey to have his teeth done on his leave and just come back?
US spam and radios went a long way too. all the russian factory workers producting t34s lived on US spam. it was so ubiquitous that it now refers to mass emailing that over whelms everyones mailbox.
@@senorpepper3405 Russian spy in Tokyo (Sorge?) Informed Stalin of impending pearl harbour attack enabling well equipped Siberian troops to entrain to the West just in time for major winter counter offensive against the exhausted Germans around Moscow
@@italianstallion9170 Probably lots of Mongolian genetics..."Asian hordes"...they turned the tide at Stalingrad once freed from Japanese overwatch...from what I remember. If the Japanese and Germans cooperated these forces would have stayed on Russias eastern flank...and maybe Moscow would have fallen...maybe. The German Army split their forces north and south 1942...greedy...wanted Caucausus oil and Moscow at once...dumb.
Even though it is possible to have sympathy for the ordinary German soldier it cant be denied that many people of the occupied countries (by the Soviets) such as Estonia welcomed the Germans as liberators. But they turned out to be just as bad and in some cases much worse than the Communists and they turned the people against them.
in most cases much worse. communists will let you live if you pretend to be down with their beliefs, theres nothing that can save if youre the wrong race in german territory
@@Daniel-hg7px The romanians liked that the nazis "dealt with" the jews and gypsies and the ukrainians hated the soviet union and liked the nazi solutions for jews and gypsies as well. The Ukrainians never got to see the "big plan" part of generalplan ost , you know the part where millions of ukrainians would be exterminated , then millions would be enslaved , then millions would be expelled beyond the german border also the germans were forbidden to engage local women sexually which locals also liked
Especially in Ukraine. The Baltic states were treated fairly well because they were considered of Germanic origin. Ukraine, bielorussa, and the rest were not so lucky.
Communist Russia killed several times more Jews than Hitler ever could. The fact you are spiteful towards the author shows you are no better than the Nazis. The irony…
In fact, the Russians didn’t discriminate who they killed. They starved more people alone than Nazism ever killed by all means combined. There is a reason we still fight communism to this day while Nazism is de facto extinct.
It is a computer generated voice. I’m not sure but I would venture to guess it’s old TTS code that uses Ai to learn and improve speech like many others now.
Too good to be that. Edit: No. I was wrong. The voice is computer generated. The giveaway is it reads "mm" as the two letters. No educated Englishman would do that. They would say "millimetres". I hope the computers run a better world now that they are taking over.
“We developed a new, but dangerous, technique.” Then describes basically a fake partial retreat…then shooting at the opposing troops who fell for it. Pretty sure that had been done countless times throughout history, and not exactly an amazing new technique.
Except it wasn't only a fake retreat, especially after the first day. The idea is to defend a terrain by infantry fire by night and artillery fire by day, to reduce the possibility of loses. Unlike a fake retreat, even if the enemy knows of it, like it did after the first day, it is still effective.
"Heavily supported by armor, aircraft and massive amounts of aid from the US..." This was the clue to the allied success in WW2. Without the US aid Stalin's Soviet Union would almost certainly have been crushed by the nazis.
The aid amounted to about 3% of all Soviet assets you muppet, and the aid didn't arrive in numbers until 1943, well after the German defeat at Stalingrad. The Germans were beaten by a better army and soldiers, nothing to do with anyone else outside of the opposing forces. 80% of all German losses happened on the Eastern Front, Britain and the USA were hiding away until the Soviets started the advance West.
WHERE WARS ARE WON OR LOST !! Wars are waged by older men In battle rooms in countries apart. Who call for greater firepower And troops for the combat chart. While out among the shattered flesh The dreams of all have turned gray. So young and determined their faces were Till on the battlefield they lay. Unable to overcome their pride The overseers cast their vote. For this or that or something else As the thunder of war sounds its note. Wherever wars are won or lost The soldiers fall like toys. Down through history it remains the same Most who pass are hardly more than boys. PEARL HARBOR Sunday, December the seventh, In the year of 1941, While most of Hawaii still slept, Came the planes of the Rising Sun. Waves of bombers and fighters flew, From the decks of the Japanese ships. While our planes were still on the ground, "Banzai" was spoken from their lips. The winds of war had been blowing Across the oceans of our earth, Though not till Pearl had been bombed, Did we realize what freedom’s worth. Wars are fought and won on two fronts, At home and on the battle line. Both are equally important, When war consumes our heart and mind. The attack brought us World War II, With death, pain and separation. All who had served were well aware Of their sacrifice for nation. FLY-BOYS World War I gave us the fly-boys Who flew by the seat of their pants. Many would never return from war While others survived by chance. Their planes were mostly canvas and wood Gasoline, bullets, bombs and poison gas. Every pilot carried his own pistol Wearing leathers, scarf and goggles of glass. Aviators had no Parachutes To escape their burning plane. Many were forced to jump to their death Or self inflect a bullet to the brain. Blimps where known as battleships of the sky The roar of their engines gave reason for fear. They flew so high they were hard to shoot down Hiding above clouds till their targets drew near. Tracer bullets for the first time were used In the guns of airplanes to set blimps a fire. The skies became man’s highway of death With duty and honor their driving desire. How many Fly-boys have we lost since then Those days of the Great War and more? Where do we get such brave souls of chance Who rise from the rest in the battles of war? By Tom Zart Most Published On The Web!!
They never tell us about the suicides after the battles are over and the solders have come home shouldn't they be incuded in the number of deaths in the tallys of totals deaths of ww2 so we wil never know the real cost of war
The 7 per cent was essential materials that were required to get raw materials needed to kick-start production and fuel the wheels on the soviet war machines they do get overlooked especially in the west If it wasn't for operation barbarossa I think we would be speaking German in most of Europe
German soldiers successfully destroyed hordes of Russians and win every possible battle. They were brave and dedicated, high moral. Only one question remains unanswered : why the war finished in Berlin …
1- Russia was too dam big, 2- there were too doggone many Russians, the Germans couldn't kill them fast enough, and 3- the Germans bit off more than they could chew- and the Germans choked on it!!!
Thank you for a clear, presentation. Refreshing to know what the narrator was actually saying ! - Thank you, for freedom from stupid, loud, inappropriate noise that drowns out human voice that is idiotic and chosen by a deaf and, without doubt, very dumb audio editor. So novel. So grown up. Adult, even. Wonderful
Hi ...good to see I'm not alone in really disliking the awful so-called background music that ruins so many otherwise good history documentaries. Well said.
These are clips from the audiobook "in deadly combat" by Herbert beiderman. Very selective clips. I highly suspect this to be another Russian propaganda channel.
Imagine having to face a people who've land you've bombed gassed and destroyed for years, and now they are on their way to do some atrocities to your land.
Man imagine that those criminals fought as hard and with the same zeal against the allies as they did killing civilians, children and stealing everything in sight.
Apparently he thought that, as the treaty-breakers and aggressors, they should have been kindly stalemated instead of defeated utterly with at least as much forceful rage and disregard of human rights as Hitler invoked when this soldier submitted his service to the madman's cause. 01:06:57 "...The code of honor held by the German infantry ... to sacrifice themselves for what they had been taught was right and just." As is now heard from Russians in their invasion of Ukraine, there are always these incredible mental gymnastics of justification, trying to talk themselves into believing that they are acting honorably and aren't really the invaders of someone else's homeland but have somehow been defending their own. This soldier is quite a testimony against himself, and revealing of the actual values of his comrades and his countrymen in their inability for accurate self-assessment.
This is just so much BS. This is supposedly a first hand account, but the writer uses modern day assessments and political information that a line soldier wouldn't have been even remotely aware of at the time. And what is so totally unconvincing is the complete failure to mention the Soviets' artillery. Granted that in Bagration artillery wasn't necessarily the defining factor, but no German who fought on the eastern front ever ignored the power, influence and fear of Soviet artillery
@@discobedient Yeah, 15 mins in, when it was the ever-present factor. In fact, Bagration wasn't presaged by a heavy artillery barrage, but that was so unusual that it would certainly have been mentioned for it's absence. BTW, I am pretty damned sure that German soldiers weren't permitted to keep diaries, for fear that cities would read them and realise how bad things were going. No, this whole series is just BS from start to finish. It's a good thing they're called War STORIES, because they're just straight up fiction.
@@pappap1702 I simply don't believe it. If these "Stories" were based on factual content then there would be some sort of attribution. That is how you do history. This is the sort of fantasy bs that schoolboys used to buy. It's the worst kind of "war porn" and completely without any merit because of it.
When you have 'Wehrmacht' in your video title, do you mean the Germany Army or the German Armed Forces (Army, Navy, Air Force)? It is the latter. Too many people call the German Army the Wehrmacht.
"Heavily heqvoly supported by armor, aircraft and massive aid from the United States" "In the same manner that we had inflicted it on them in 1941 and 1942 during the period of our gteat victories" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
If it is a bot reading this then the technology has come so far that it has replaced my skepticism with acceptance. As a vet that lost proper function of an eardrum along with a general hearing loss, I found the narration, the elocution, to be of a high quality--definitely easily understood, and better than most.
Pretty sure it's a bot - there are some very curious errors that no speaker of a European language should make (the mispronunciation of baroque towards the end is particularly telling). You'll note also a complete absence of any breathing. Sure, it is possible to have all breaths edited out, but that'd be an insane amount of work for an editor, especially on a recording of this length. Theoretically possible, but seems unlikely. The easy answer is that it's a bot doing the reading, and bots don't need to breathe. If they were going to go to the extraordinary lengths of editing out every single breath, you'd think they could edit in corrections for some of the absurd mispronunciations. But if it's a bot, there is no editing, they just feed it the script and then upload the output without editing. Probably without even listening to what the bot produced. But overall, it's still plenty good enough to convey the information despite the mistakes, so better to have a bot recording than no recording.
@@sststr At this point even the think tanks are obsolete (unless they carefully planned their manipulations to forestall obsolescence in their lifetime) and the world's most elite are relying on bots and AI to run the world while they enjoy their wars from a distance.
I like that this narrator pronounces every word intelligibly but I wish he had a harder edge to his voice to match better with the brutal events of war. Still these wartime diaries are gold for this fan of all facts, figures and events of WW2.
And this is why i have no respect for cowardish politicians and hope for the day will come we all be free from them tyrants and hypocrites that have no honour. peace. Вот почему я не уважаю трусливых политиков и надеюсь, что настанет день, когда мы все освободимся от этих тиранов и лицемеров, у которых нет чести. Мир.
Interesting and informative. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Class A research project!!! Orator presented the documentary very well. Rough combat operations on both sides. Fortunately for the Russian armies. The disillusioned amphetamine addict Hitler. Ordered General Guderian to head south instead of invading/conquering Moscow. Allowing it's citizens enough time to fortify it preventing the planned invasion. Also giving Moscow time to reorganize it's military forces. And slowly gained the advantage/forcing the German armies back to Berlin.
Better yet if the mad corporal had focused on peaceful development of Germany. More to your point, I think it's debatable if the Soviets would have ever surrendered. I think any occupation forces would have been bled white through partisan attacks.
2nd december 41 was the turning point , that day forward elements of the German Wehrmacht actually reached an area of the city called Kimki , which is on the outer ring road of the city ! they actually took bus and rail tickets as proof that they had managed to reach a Metro station which was then the last stop on the moscow underground system . Just 14 miles from red square , the unit was a armoured pioner section which had found an opening in the Russian defence , the next day the unit was pushed back by local peoples milita surported by 3 T34s , an opertunity was lost there !!!! the place is marked by huge red tank obstacles ! which are there today as reminder to the people ! i live in Moscow !!!
Movie stills. There is no way you would pack men that close to each other like that in a modern war with modern artillery. There would be a few yards of separation at least. Movie directors do not seem to know or care though, it 'looks better' with them all packed together like that, so thats how they film it. Despite the fact that if that was real life a single 105 mm artillery round would wipe out every man in the foreground if it landed in the middle of them!
Seems like it was a win win for Americans let the Russians fight the Germans for us weakening both our enemies. This sounds very familiar with the Ukraine war here in 2023.
The Soviet Union did a pact with the Nazis, shame on them, the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, is that the fault of the Western Allies? The Russians & the other Soviet states were compelled to fight invaders, that was not the fault of the the US or the UK. The Georgian psychopath Stalin left his country open to attack as he had purged his army & buried his head in the sands when warned about nazi intentions that his many spies had reported. They, like just about anyone else that served Stalin were shot as a reward for their warnings. Who are you kidding? 🎈
The Germans given the “grease laden soup” before being marched through Moscow were actually given a very spicy cabbage soup used by Russians as a laxative.
D-DAY, MIDWAY & NOW ? D-Day raised the curtain on the conflict That fore shadowed the end of Hitler's dream. The largest joint combat landing ever Though the blood from both sides flowed like a stream. When their boats hit the sand, their ramps went down And all within paid a visit to hell. They jumped out to do good for their country And to kill the enemy without fail. They fought the Germans, tides, winds and the waves In conditions not easily foreseen. By night the battle was in our favor With bravery, valor, death, and men who scream. The corpses littered the beach for five miles Though heroism had carried the day. With literally thousands dead or wounded Those who were left were determined to stay. They faced great odds and chose not to protest And won the war that put evil to shame. Most came home, married and raised their babies But those who could not we recall with pain. MIDWAY ** It was June the 4th 1942 As I was floating in the ocean alone The ship I had sailed on, sank to the bottom And I thought I would never again, see home. The Japanese fleet had steamed in from the east With the intentions of capturing Midway. Though they were stopped by American war ships Whose guns, bombs and torpedoes planes saved the day. All night long, I watched the fireworks of war And on the second day we turned up the heat. As big bombers from Hawaii dropped their loads On Japanese ships who soon chose to retreat. An imperial pilot came floating close by Who had been chewed on by the beasts of the sea. I couldn't help but feel passion for this is man Who had answered his call just like me. When it was over, I was plucked from the deep By men in a lifeboat just after the dawn. For two days I had watched the battle for, Midway Now it's quiet and the enemy has gone. NOW ?? It’s not a priest who gives us freedom of religion, It’s not a reporter who give us freedom of voice. It’s not any judge, lawyer, politician, preacher or teacher But the blood of a soldier that has sacrificed by choice. By Tom Zart Most Published Poet On The Web! Google = George Bush Tom Zart
Bidermann, like many other German soldiers calls the Panzerschreck "The Stovepipe" because of the large amount of smoke and dust it gives off when firing. An interesting fact I learnt recently. Anyway, enjoy the vid Gents and Ladies!
Here is the full playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLyuEmb1VavZAVYcenOHk2T5y-eLjKiQGR.html
When was this account first recorded and to whom was it given? Sounds like after the war, and like an interrogation
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The author mentions in the original manuscript that his writings was never meant to be published but shared with the surviving comrades of his regiment I believe
Grandma just got out of my bed. She surprised me last nite got in my bed and humped me all nite and momma kissed my butt hole all nite.
panzerfaust was the feart weapon, anyone could handle it even boys of 14- cheap and made by the thousands, Look at the Sherman tank in the city centre in Bastogne
one little hole, 5 crew dead, and tank in flames, Rhonsons right?
Maybe they used the stovepipes with the potato mashers ...
I have read and listened to numerous German accounts of the war in the east, both from Wehrmacht and SS soldiers. The one common theme, is that they all recount their fear of the uncivilised and barbaric behaviour of the Russian soldiers, toward German soldiers and civilians. Not one of the German authors has ever mentioned the atrocities they heaped on Russian POWs and civilians. None of these authors has ever admitted to stealing the food and clothing of Russian civilians, or turning them out of their own homes to freeze to death in the Russian winters. Not once has any of them mentioned how they deliberately starved Russian POWs to death. And, of course, none of them (especially ex - Wehrmacht soldiers) mention their part in the murder of Russian Jews: they always blame it on other SS units, Einsatzgruppen or local paramilitaries.
War is DIRTY, but overal the Wehrmacht where well trained and obediant. soldiers. well respected and feart....combatants
If the Russians captured SS troops they were savage. They put their hands in boiling water. Then pulled off the skin into like a pair of gloves.
@@haroldbell213 if Ss troops got a sovjet commisar. was shot on the spot, so no archievment, 31 million Russian died, Terrible tally, but Western Allieds fighting wrong enemy, they paid dearly till 1989
The idea that the Wehrmacht was clean, and only parts of the SS were the ones responsible for Germany's horrific war crimes during their war of aggression against the Soviet Union, was a hoax launched and spread by the highest ranking German officers after their capture. The hoax was exposed decades ago. The German Wehrmacht fighting on the eastern front was complicit in all the German war crimes committed in Russia. This fact does not excuse Soviet atrocities against German armed forces and German civilians. These were Soviet war crimes. But there is a context that should not be ignored when discussing the brutality and murder on the eastern front. The context is that Nazi Germany launched a massive invasion of the Soviet Union.
Have you ever read or can recall a book about a panzer commander i think he was from the czech republic. He along with his group are surrounded by the russians and hiding in woods. I had just started the book on youtube but it was removed and i didnt think to note the name. I have been searching and searching to no avail. Any help would be much appreciated!
These rear line general officers' pettiness reminds me of many of my company's management, regrettably.
That’s because it’s universal
@@budkingston3347 Absolutely
War, what is it good for
... And A Former President of Very Recent Time's 😂😂😂
@@markrix... " ABSOLUTELY NISHTY " Old Bean 🏴✌️🤫
My late father-in-law fought on the eastern front. He spoke little of it. But remembered finding one icy winter day two dead Russian soldiers wearing warm woolen underclothes. He realized that the anti-Russian propaganda was bs. They faced a tough and well-equipped enemy. He was transferred to the western front. He said, it was unbelievable luck.
My father was in north Africa with Motty , from there he was sent to Italy ,then up to caseno
After that they were sent back south until the end of the war,
They asked my dad if he would go to sues to which the old man said no ,, because we were waiting to go to the land of Ozz unfortunately my uncle didn't fill the paperwork right
My mom's brother was living in England because the old man was a blacksmith they let us go at that time we had a British passport,so 1953 (March)
@@Snafuski the Soviets were supplied with lots of useable but not great supplies because Stalin refused to be defeated...not that he cared about any of the people...he even sent his own son to the front lines
@@SarahHodgins Yes, but the Germans were not equipped for winter at all. And they bought the idea that the Russians were subhumans.... they were not. When push came to shove, they defended their country.
War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
You should put that to music
Uh Huh Uh Huh Uh Huh, say it it again, ABSOLUTELY NUTHIN!
Pfft you must've never played COD. War is great. You get to shoot a pistol, a rifle, throw grenades..
Unless your a jew
@@EternalSearcher It does provided UA-camrs with an awful lot of content
This is an excerpt from a book written by former German soldier Gottlob Herbert Bidermann. It is not fiction or AI generated, despite some very ignorant comments.
Is the voice AI?
Sounds like an AI version of Sting from The Police
@@Luvurenemy The voice certainly is A.I. generated!
It seems like the same voice on all the videos.@@neilcook9088
The voice and translation are AI generated
It would be nice to note the man's company, battalion, regiment and division in these stories. It would help track his unit's movement in the context of the battles and campaign.
Since they use the same narrator for all these accounts, they obviously sound the same. It makes it hard to figure out if one video follows another.
1st Battalion, 437th Grenadier Regiment, 132nd Infantry Division.
13th Unluckyest Bastard Company
They didnt credit the book why would they credit the human who wrote it
During this time my grandfather Stabsgefreiter Georg Welak was in the 8Th PD 43rd Abt Panzerjager 1 company. He was the driver for Major Georg Amsel. It was during this time Maj Amsel won the German Cross in Gold and Opa was there with him when it happened. The Marder that they were assigned was dug in a defensive position. The Russian infantry overwhelmed the position and pushed the Panzerjagers and Panzergrenaders back into the wood line. Maj Amsel immediately assembled a counterattack plan to take back the Marder. Amsel my grandfather and the rest of the men raced back to the Marder. The fight was close. Everything was used. Fist, shovels knives pistols.. they pushed the Russians off the Marder and were quickly reinforced by the infantry. My grandfather always said he was “with” Amsel when he won that award. He never went into detail and after extensive research I found a personal account of the action.
Thanks for sharing,
So, and while I do not doubt Opa's Tapferkeit, the naked fact is that he and his adored, genius general were on the wrong side of history. Evil dictator Stalin's Russia did not invade the Vaterland. Barbarossa was not a noble crusade to "save Western Civilization." The Nazis were and are the bad guys, dude. Ironically enough, 80 years later, Herr Putler is violently reminding us of this inescapable fact. No German was more heroic during the war than those young people in der Weisse Rose. The Hausmeister who turned them in modestly claimed that he "had only done his duty," but what does duty to an evil cause and regime even mean?
As a German, I am so thankful that the Russian people defeated us at Stalingrad. My ancestors were a wicked, evil nation at this time. And the evil still exists in today’s society.
@@eshelly4205 yes, shovels were all a lot of them had, it was not fighting the Germans were used to, getting decapitated by a shovel
These highly personal accounts of the war on Russia detail how horrific the struggle became for a soldier. Impossible to imagine the true suffering.
Ah yes. The true suffering of those poor Germans fighting for evil - for mastery of the world, and killing innocents all along the way.
@@AbsalomMcVey-i1fSoldiers didn't and don't make national policy. Civilian politicians do. As a veteran of 32 years (8 enlisted, 24 commissioned) service, about a dozen wounds, and a total of 5 years, 8 months in combat, keep this in mind: Military force is an instrument of POLICY. WE don't make decisions about deploying forces ANYWHERE. That's done by POLITICIANS. When they say go, we go. When they say stop, we stop.
So don't demonize ANY military personnel for invading or fighting anywhere they've been ordered to go.
The ONLY FAULT that can possibly be laid at the feet of any normal soldier (or commissioned officer, within his sphere of influence) is the commission of war crimes. At that point it becomes a LEGAL matter.
I suggest you get some firsthand experience and increase your knowledge before making such ridiculous condemnations.
Ah yes war crimes.most germans choose to ignore minor matter. None disobeyed the massive murder that the germans army meted out. After all it was war and all ends justified victory for the fatherland. Oppenheimer was commented when asked if he had any regrets regarding usage of atomic bomb. He replied his only regrett was nazi surrender before it could be used on germany.
@@AbsalomMcVey-i1f "...upon which the sun never sets." Mastery of the world, killing innocents..?
Very interesting. I never consider the assassination attempt on the morale of the soldiers.
Thank god for the Russians
Too bad that the assasination attempt didn't work !
It might have saved a whole bunch of heartache and misery .
Hitler and Goebbels kept making announcements on the radio right up to the end that the women of Berlin had nothing to fear from the oncoming Russian troops and that they should stay in Berlin instead of fleeing to the west to fall on the mercy of the American army as opposed to falling into the hands of the Russian rapists .
Terrible sensless irresponsibility right until the end !!
The American army was not perfect but the incidence of abuse would have been about 85 per cent less.
Uhm what? They said the exact opposite of what you claim @@bold58
Oscar Meyer, a German name. Actually, possibly one quarter of the American army was of German descent. Just a little irony.
guess what, the majority of Jews were Germans, especially in US. But tgey were smart enough not to be Nazis. @@presidenteden6498
I caught that as well....funny
not really...they had immigrated long ago
@@SarahHodgins Are you saying because they immigrated long ago they're no longer German?
@@memirandawong of course, they were no longer German. Do you think that General Eisenhower was German just because his grandmother was?
If anyone is interested, this is Operation Bagration.
looks like 1,200 miles of front (estonia to odessa). Like Minneapolis to Houston.
You swear to serve the country, not any dictator
I have listened to many of these; If the voice is not human I am surprised. To me it sounds elegant and real, and from an individual that thought they were doing good.
They were doing good.
Its sounds like a human voice to me.
Its a shame its not a German speaker the posh British accent spolis it.
🎼🎵🎶If you're going to the GULag and you know it clap your hands, If you're going to the GULag and you know it clap your hands ...
WITH HUGE HELP FROM THE USA ON 06/23/1944? IT SEEMS THAT EVERYTHING WAS THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
It was.
Not sorry for them. People of more than 600 villages were burned alive in their houses in Belarus alone. 2,5 million Belarussians died while Belarus was occupied by fascists (25% of the population). My father was born in 1941 and spent 3 years of his life in the woods. He could say the bad words earlier than he could say “mama”. The last 3 month before they were LIBERATED by Soviet Army they spent in the swamp because German forces cracked on partizans really hard at that time.
Liar. Communists? Liberators? Riiiiiiight…
he recognized that he was doing the bidding of lies and cheaters who were safe and sound at home with their families while he was deprived of everything.
Every conflict has it's REMFs.
Stalin and Hitler never went to war themselves. And Stalin sent his son to the front lines. When he was caught and the Germans wanted to trade him for one of their captured generals, Stalin disowned his own son. Meanwhile millions of ordinary people suffered.
@@SarahHodginsStalin executed and starved millions of his own people
A very interesting presentation. Much of it seems to be an honest and accurate description. Two issues bother me.
1. He describes, I think accurately, the concern of what would happen when the Red Army reached the Reich. But what I do not hear is any recognition of the barbaric behavior of German troops in the Soviet Union.
2. There is extensive criticism of Hitler and the NAZUIs. This may have been honest, but we hear a lot of that from many Germans after the War. I wonder how much of that was the case when the War was going well.
Excellent comment. My thoughts as well.
His story reminded me of all the crappy ww2 paperbacks I read as a kid.
@@wonkothesane7000 He is a good example of the German officer corps bought off by Hitler. His final payment was an estate in Poland. They were thus stuck with the monster they helped create. After the War, he and others tried to blame it all on Hitler.
A war without attrition with the Soviets non signing of the 1929 Geneva convention gave untold as well as unreported (even to this day) unspeakable sickening act's upon both captured,prisoner's,wounded persons,helpers including women and children add to that how the Soviet regime during the famine prior to WWII treated it's own people's who in many cases resorted to eat there own dead as all food stuffs inc' crops/livestock was taken away.
Lastly, a clear agenda lays behind history taught post WWII just as it continues today into the 21 Century in all section's.
This entire audiobook was on youtube last year. He describes an incident where he was going to be court martialed because his men stole a goose. I find that a bit of a stretch because they mostly lived off the land as supply trains couldn't keep up. Of course, later the supply trains were few and far between. They hadn't much choice. Notice in this except they set fire to Riga. This was the scorched earth policy they practiced all the way from Moscow, Rostov, Kiev essentially everywhere they retreated. This war was hell on both sides and in particular for the peasants.
@@scottw5315 There were no German soldiers prosecuted for stealing from Russians or Poles. If it was from a German family that is something different.
How about some maps to demonstrate the attacks??
The Russian losses were staggering. When they broke through, I'm sure they were near mad with rage. Such and awful time.
Pride goes before the fall
And, yes? So what?
Platatudes.
I wonder how they went about getting that food from the villagers and how the villagers were treated. We may feel sorry for the soldiers in their constant retreat but we must not forget the terrible atrocities that they committed.
No feelings of sympathy for the Nazi soldiers- they should not have been in Russia in the first place.
Why feel sorry for the racist, terrorist Nazis.
Blame Josef Stalin for not allowing the citizens to flee the city
@@jayo3074 Uncle Joe
@@jayo3074ahh yes Stalin forced the civilians to stay. So the German solders had to rape them
Please consider showing a campaign map when reading these stories. I think you UA-cam Channel is very enlightening and it would be helpful to understand the geographical details.
Oh this is good. Very good. I am glad I have found your channel.
Not being taught the value of a tacticle retreat would be a great Mark Felton short.
Tactical
@@JohnsonPadder what if he meant testicle?
the comments at 2.48 that organized retreat was eliminated from German tactical training is really interesting. I'd like to hear who was behind that and how Hitler latched onto it so much. I have heard disorganized retreat was the biggest loss of german tanks on east front. they broke down often due to complexity and when retreating at the last minute they had to be destroyed to keep from falling into enemy hands.
Hitler and Stalin had a similar stubbornness it seems... Once Soviets turned the tables, they used Germany's tactics against them... And I'm glad, because that war could have gone on much longer. Wanting to conquer Russia, is greedy to the point of stupid.
And lack of fuel too.
It might have been Frederick the Great who said, "victory goes to he who is willing to commit the last battalion to battle." I think the mad corporal held this philosophy hence he never knew when the war was hopelessly lost. After Kursk, the Wehrmacht was almost in constant retreat back to Germany. He should have given up all territorial gains in the East and committed his forces to the defense of Germany. He might have kept the Reds out of Germany. Maybe...who knows.
Hitler copied Stalins “Not one step back” mantra. It made more sense for Stalin than for the Wehrmacht who were very capable of strategic retreats. Falling back to more easily defended lines is effective.
This is why the western allies didn’t even try to assassinate Hitler. Almost anyone who took his place would have been more effective.
@@JeffMathias but they are saying 1936 in the video. I'd be surprised if Hitler was micromanaging german army tactics at that point. I'd be curious what Guderian thought of it.
Being human, its difficult to not feel sympathy towards these nazi soldiers during the hour of their utter decimation. These diaries hardly portray their actions while they were on top of the lowly bolshevicks... who were "unter menshen" or "lowly beings" in their eyes and therefore not worthy of their higher aryan sympathies.
But my sympathy is going to be reserved for people who didnt inflict the exact same horrors that theyre now themselves suffering.
How about how you white people treated 5:12 black people back then. To me you white people were no better than the Nazis.
White Americans were no angels.
The vast majority of German Soldiers *weren't* nazis
@@unbearifiedbear1885That is the coping mechanism they had once they found out they had lost, typically developed in POW camps. They willingly served Hitler passionately and bought into his ideology of mass murder and scapegoating minorities. If you wear the uniform or engage in the pagentry then you qualify as a Nazi.
Still served the Nazis and fought for and according to the orders of the Nazis.
And most, at least in the start, did largely support Hitler and the regime.
The part I will never understand and was actually surprised about is he talked about seeing the death trench’s the Jews had been shot in then does nothing but complain about how ruthless the Russians are it’s the pot calling the kettle black
The concentration camps contained more than Jews. Victims also we're not just the Jews. The ideal German did not include disabled, mentally I'll. The started by killing them in hospitals and trucks. Homosexual, atheist, political, etc were in concentration camps. Est 6 million non jew died in camps.
All kudos to the narrator here who is speaking at just the right mediocre speed in a clear, concise and expressive manner giving the audience time to receive, digest, ponder and breathe, to take it all in with a personal reflection of the big picture. I especially say much gratitude for that fact having just had to abandon an alternative history channel recital 10 minutes in for opposite characteristics.
No narrator. This is ai text to speach. Pretty good.
@@eddiih I'm wondering if people have ever used Ai to perform acoustic covers ? :) It's a crazy concept for sure :)
It's AI and butchering some words
The thumb nail for this video shows a German soldier with snow white teeth. He might have been to Turkey to have his teeth done on his leave and just come back?
What weapon won this war?!Without a doubt this war was won by US Army trucks
US spam and radios went a long way too. all the russian factory workers producting t34s lived on US spam. it was so ubiquitous that it now refers to mass emailing that over whelms everyones mailbox.
No single weapon won the war. The trucks and jeeps made a difference but the food was probably more valuable.
Army?
@@markprange2430 maybe it was navy trucks?
@@kennj321 Mostly it was Studebaker trucks
the gestapo would have been more useful as members of a MG team on the Eastern front...
The Geheime Stats Polizei would have been useful stopping Soviet bullets and saving Wehrmacht soldiers from being shot
Mongolian troops saved Moscow after the Russian troops surrendered enmass
Can I get a source on that?
@@senorpepper3405 Russian spy in Tokyo (Sorge?) Informed Stalin of impending pearl harbour attack enabling well equipped Siberian troops to entrain to the West just in time for major winter counter offensive against the exhausted Germans around Moscow
they were from Siberia and vladivostok weren't they.?
@@italianstallion9170 Probably lots of Mongolian genetics..."Asian hordes"...they turned the tide at Stalingrad once freed from Japanese overwatch...from what I remember. If the Japanese and Germans cooperated these forces would have stayed on Russias eastern flank...and maybe Moscow would have fallen...maybe. The German Army split their forces north and south 1942...greedy...wanted Caucausus oil and Moscow at once...dumb.
Yeah gonna need a source on that.
Even though it is possible to have sympathy for the ordinary German soldier it cant be denied that many people of the occupied countries (by the Soviets) such as Estonia welcomed the Germans as liberators. But they turned out to be just as bad and in some cases much worse than the Communists and they turned the people against them.
in most cases much worse. communists will let you live if you pretend to be down with their beliefs, theres nothing that can save if youre the wrong race in german territory
The very ideology that prompted the germans to invade made them unable to rally the populations against the communists.
@@Daniel-hg7px The romanians liked that the nazis "dealt with" the jews and gypsies and the ukrainians hated the soviet union and liked the nazi solutions for jews and gypsies as well. The Ukrainians never got to see the "big plan" part of generalplan ost , you know the part where millions of ukrainians would be exterminated , then millions would be enslaved , then millions would be expelled beyond the german border
also the germans were forbidden to engage local women sexually which locals also liked
That was also the case in Ukraine.
Especially in Ukraine. The Baltic states were treated fairly well because they were considered of Germanic origin. Ukraine, bielorussa, and the rest were not so lucky.
The Eastern Front of WWII was a war against the peasants, they suffered terribly under the German occupation.
The fact he cries about the soviets being ruthless while ignoring nazi war crimes makes me regret he survived
Communist Russia killed several times more Jews than Hitler ever could.
The fact you are spiteful towards the author shows you are no better than the Nazis. The irony…
In fact, the Russians didn’t discriminate who they killed. They starved more people alone than Nazism ever killed by all means combined. There is a reason we still fight communism to this day while Nazism is de facto extinct.
This is a really good series. Is this an AI voice? If so it’s very good. I just notice that numbers are read incorrectly from time to time.
I was wondering the same thing!
It is a computer generated voice. I’m not sure but I would venture to guess it’s old TTS code that uses Ai to learn and improve speech like many others now.
Too good to be that. Edit: No. I was wrong. The voice is computer generated. The giveaway is it reads "mm" as the two letters. No educated Englishman would do that. They would say "millimetres". I hope the computers run a better world now that they are taking over.
It has an accent that was a common accent heard in the movies of the 1930s and 1940s in the US. I believe it was called a "transatlantic accent".
Thankful for accounts such as this masterpiece
“We developed a new, but dangerous, technique.” Then describes basically a fake partial retreat…then shooting at the opposing troops who fell for it.
Pretty sure that had been done countless times throughout history, and not exactly an amazing new technique.
He's speaking ironically throughout
Basically, the technique was used by Daniel Morgan at the Battle of Cowpens in 1781. The British were routed.
Except it wasn't only a fake retreat, especially after the first day.
The idea is to defend a terrain by infantry fire by night and artillery fire by day, to reduce the possibility of loses.
Unlike a fake retreat, even if the enemy knows of it, like it did after the first day, it is still effective.
Hitler obviously wanted to destroy the German armies he never intended to win ww2😅
Imagine being on the western front knowing you are lucky to be there and not on the Eastern front
Let's hear it from a german on the importance of respecting basic human rights
"Heavily supported by armor, aircraft and massive amounts of aid from the US..." This was the clue to the allied success in WW2. Without the US aid Stalin's Soviet Union would almost certainly have been crushed by the nazis.
The aid amounted to about 3% of all Soviet assets you muppet, and the aid didn't arrive in numbers until 1943, well after the German defeat at Stalingrad.
The Germans were beaten by a better army and soldiers, nothing to do with anyone else outside of the opposing forces.
80% of all German losses happened on the Eastern Front, Britain and the USA were hiding away until the Soviets started the advance West.
Its refrehing to hear that these oppressive Germans had to suffer as well, what they did was totally unforgivable
name a war where soldiers didn't do something "totally unforgivable"
@@SarahHodgins Name a war where soldiers didn't do en masse rapes like the Wehrmacht did? Sure, nearly all the wars in modern history...
Tell me how I know you’re a brainwashed boomer.
WHERE WARS ARE WON OR LOST !!
Wars are waged by older men
In battle rooms in countries apart.
Who call for greater firepower
And troops for the combat chart.
While out among the shattered flesh
The dreams of all have turned gray.
So young and determined their faces were
Till on the battlefield they lay.
Unable to overcome their pride
The overseers cast their vote.
For this or that or something else
As the thunder of war sounds its note.
Wherever wars are won or lost
The soldiers fall like toys.
Down through history it remains the same
Most who pass are hardly more than boys.
PEARL HARBOR
Sunday, December the seventh,
In the year of 1941,
While most of Hawaii still slept,
Came the planes of the Rising Sun.
Waves of bombers and fighters flew,
From the decks of the Japanese ships.
While our planes were still on the ground,
"Banzai" was spoken from their lips.
The winds of war had been blowing
Across the oceans of our earth,
Though not till Pearl had been bombed,
Did we realize what freedom’s worth.
Wars are fought and won on two fronts,
At home and on the battle line.
Both are equally important,
When war consumes our heart and mind.
The attack brought us World War II,
With death, pain and separation.
All who had served were well aware
Of their sacrifice for nation.
FLY-BOYS
World War I gave us the fly-boys
Who flew by the seat of their pants.
Many would never return from war
While others survived by chance.
Their planes were mostly canvas and wood
Gasoline, bullets, bombs and poison gas.
Every pilot carried his own pistol
Wearing leathers, scarf and goggles of glass.
Aviators had no Parachutes
To escape their burning plane.
Many were forced to jump to their death
Or self inflect a bullet to the brain.
Blimps where known as battleships of the sky
The roar of their engines gave reason for fear.
They flew so high they were hard to shoot down
Hiding above clouds till their targets drew near.
Tracer bullets for the first time were used
In the guns of airplanes to set blimps a fire.
The skies became man’s highway of death
With duty and honor their driving desire.
How many Fly-boys have we lost since then
Those days of the Great War and more?
Where do we get such brave souls of chance
Who rise from the rest in the battles of war?
By Tom Zart
Most Published On The Web!!
They never tell us about the suicides after the battles are over and the solders have come home shouldn't they be incuded in the number of deaths in the tallys of totals deaths of ww2 so we wil never know the real cost of war
Matches pretty well with what "The Forgotten Soldier" had to tell.
"Massive amounts of aid" That myth again. The Soviets were given approximately 7% of their war needs from the Western allies. Hardly massive is it?
The 7 per cent was essential materials that were required to get raw materials needed to kick-start production and fuel the wheels on the soviet war machines they do get overlooked especially in the west If it wasn't for operation barbarossa I think we would be speaking German in most of Europe
I couldn't listen any further after he blamed the leader twice in the first two minutes.
Not a word of the attrocities the germans commited against The Jewish People in Ww 2.., and very litt,e about the crimes against Russian civilians
Should have stayed at home and had a good time.
War is not who is right but who is left
All of us are half right and half left.
I see what you did there xD
German soldiers successfully destroyed hordes of Russians and win every possible battle. They were brave and dedicated, high moral. Only one question remains unanswered : why the war finished in Berlin …
Mostly logistics and quantity. And later air power vs. the allies.
@@iddomargalit-friedman3897They never had a chance in hell.
They definitely didn't win every possible battle.
1- Russia was too dam big, 2- there were too doggone many Russians, the Germans couldn't kill them fast enough, and 3- the Germans bit off more than they could chew- and the Germans choked on it!!!
@@iddomargalit-friedman3897 Yes, by lack of oil. And they didn't change their organizations.
I will NEVER patronize TEMU!!!
Very quick and cheap
Hitler stubborn military blunder
Anyone know the full name of the author, or what this book is called? I wish the dude who runs this channel could post that in the descriptions.
Why don't you make note of who the soldier is or maybe info about him in the description?
Thank you for a clear, presentation. Refreshing to know what the narrator was actually saying !
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Thank you, for freedom from stupid, loud, inappropriate noise that drowns out human voice that is idiotic and chosen by a deaf and, without doubt, very dumb audio editor.
So novel. So grown up. Adult, even. Wonderful
Hi ...good to see I'm not alone in really disliking the awful so-called background music that ruins so many otherwise good history documentaries. Well said.
These are clips from the audiobook "in deadly combat" by Herbert beiderman. Very selective clips. I highly suspect this to be another Russian propaganda channel.
@@joem3999 It's not a Russia prop channel.
Almost every damn documentary on UA-cam loud music and extra un required sound effects
Thank you for showing this a lot of people view the german soldiers and monsters and killers, but they are human like everyone else.
Imagine having to face the fearsome stalin tank & the terrifying ISU152.
Imagine having to face a people who've land you've bombed gassed and destroyed for years, and now they are on their way to do some atrocities to your land.
Man imagine that those criminals fought as hard and with the same zeal against the allies as they did killing civilians, children and stealing everything in sight.
They could not have done it without that aid, the world today is affected by this loss.
Apparently he thought that, as the treaty-breakers and aggressors, they should have been kindly stalemated instead of defeated utterly with at least as much forceful rage and disregard of human rights as Hitler invoked when this soldier submitted his service to the madman's cause. 01:06:57 "...The code of honor held by the German infantry ... to sacrifice themselves for what they had been taught was right and just." As is now heard from Russians in their invasion of Ukraine, there are always these incredible mental gymnastics of justification, trying to talk themselves into believing that they are acting honorably and aren't really the invaders of someone else's homeland but have somehow been defending their own. This soldier is quite a testimony against himself, and revealing of the actual values of his comrades and his countrymen in their inability for accurate self-assessment.
This is just so much BS.
This is supposedly a first hand account, but the writer uses modern day assessments and political information that a line soldier wouldn't have been even remotely aware of at the time.
And what is so totally unconvincing is the complete failure to mention the Soviets' artillery. Granted that in Bagration artillery wasn't necessarily the defining factor, but no German who fought on the eastern front ever ignored the power, influence and fear of Soviet artillery
Soviet artillery and shelling is mentioned plenty of times, 15 mins in for example.
@@discobedient Yeah, 15 mins in, when it was the ever-present factor.
In fact, Bagration wasn't presaged by a heavy artillery barrage, but that was so unusual that it would certainly have been mentioned for it's absence.
BTW, I am pretty damned sure that German soldiers weren't permitted to keep diaries, for fear that cities would read them and realise how bad things were going.
No, this whole series is just BS from start to finish.
It's a good thing they're called War STORIES, because they're just straight up fiction.
Not sure about this one but many of this series were written long after the war from journals and diaries from the actual soldier who kept the diary.
@@pappap1702 I simply don't believe it. If these "Stories" were based on factual content then there would be some sort of attribution.
That is how you do history. This is the sort of fantasy bs that schoolboys used to buy. It's the worst kind of "war porn" and completely without any merit because of it.
Where are these quotes coming from? You never cite the sources, @WW2 Stories.
4:30 'xxx army core' - only in the age before the internet.
When you have 'Wehrmacht' in your video title, do you mean the Germany Army or the German Armed Forces (Army, Navy, Air Force)? It is the latter. Too many people call the German Army the Wehrmacht.
X X X army corps? that is supposed to be 30 my dear
400 kilometers is about 250 miles.
Literally only like 5% of the world still uses those archaic, nonsensical units.
@@JohnsonPadder I'm still using the cubit.
@@JohnsonPadder The most important 5%.
History about to repeat itself
Great video!
Gemans asked for it
There are literally more adverts than program it's gotten ridiculous how youtube is ruining programs by swamping them with useless adverts.
"Heavily heqvoly supported by armor, aircraft and massive aid from the United States"
"In the same manner that we had inflicted it on them in 1941 and 1942 during the period of our gteat victories"
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I ❤ the verb Crush....like a crouch crack ...🫣🤣
Seth McFarland on the right in the thumbnail.
Excellent pace and elocution.
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If it is a bot reading this then the technology has come so far that it has replaced my skepticism with acceptance. As a vet that lost proper function of an eardrum along with a general hearing loss, I found the narration, the elocution, to be of a high quality--definitely easily understood, and better than most.
Pretty sure it's a bot - there are some very curious errors that no speaker of a European language should make (the mispronunciation of baroque towards the end is particularly telling).
You'll note also a complete absence of any breathing. Sure, it is possible to have all breaths edited out, but that'd be an insane amount of work for an editor, especially on a recording of this length. Theoretically possible, but seems unlikely. The easy answer is that it's a bot doing the reading, and bots don't need to breathe.
If they were going to go to the extraordinary lengths of editing out every single breath, you'd think they could edit in corrections for some of the absurd mispronunciations. But if it's a bot, there is no editing, they just feed it the script and then upload the output without editing. Probably without even listening to what the bot produced.
But overall, it's still plenty good enough to convey the information despite the mistakes, so better to have a bot recording than no recording.
@@sststr At this point even the think tanks are obsolete (unless they carefully planned their manipulations to forestall obsolescence in their lifetime) and the world's most elite are relying on bots and AI to run the world while they enjoy their wars from a distance.
I like that this narrator pronounces every word intelligibly but I wish he had a harder edge to his voice to match better with the brutal events of war. Still these wartime diaries are gold for this fan of all facts, figures and events of WW2.
narration for videos is not easy...
A very professional presentation which gives a different view and understanding from the German perspective. Thank you ...…I am a Subscriber!
Is that a Black German soldier in the thumb nail?
My family hails from Vienna, both my grandmothers came to America in their early twenties just after ww2 ended (marrying American gi’s.)
this channel rocks
And this is why i have no respect for cowardish politicians and hope for the day will come we all be free from them tyrants and hypocrites that have no honour. peace.
Вот почему я не уважаю трусливых политиков и надеюсь, что настанет день, когда мы все освободимся от этих тиранов и лицемеров, у которых нет чести. Мир.
What is the source of these stories? It would be great to have some context in the description.
Interesting and informative. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Class A research project!!! Orator presented the documentary very well. Rough combat operations on both sides. Fortunately for the Russian armies. The disillusioned amphetamine addict Hitler. Ordered General Guderian to head south instead of invading/conquering Moscow. Allowing it's citizens enough time to fortify it preventing the planned invasion. Also giving Moscow time to reorganize it's military forces. And slowly gained the advantage/forcing the German armies back to Berlin.
Better yet if the mad corporal had focused on peaceful development of Germany. More to your point, I think it's debatable if the Soviets would have ever surrendered. I think any occupation forces would have been bled white through partisan attacks.
2nd december 41 was the turning point , that day forward elements of the German Wehrmacht actually reached an area of the city called Kimki , which is on the outer ring road of the city ! they actually took bus and rail tickets as proof that they had managed to reach a Metro station which was then the last stop on the moscow underground system . Just 14 miles from red square , the unit was a armoured pioner section which had found an opening in the Russian defence , the next day the unit was pushed back by local peoples milita surported by 3 T34s , an opertunity was lost there !!!! the place is marked by huge red tank obstacles ! which are there today as reminder to the people ! i live in Moscow !!!
Are these 2 photos authentic from the war? They look more like movie stills.
Movie stills. There is no way you would pack men that close to each other like that in a modern war with modern artillery. There would be a few yards of separation at least. Movie directors do not seem to know or care though, it 'looks better' with them all packed together like that, so thats how they film it. Despite the fact that if that was real life a single 105 mm artillery round would wipe out every man in the foreground if it landed in the middle of them!
I recognised some stills from the movie, enemy at the gates
Seems like it was a win win for Americans let the Russians fight the Germans for us weakening both our enemies. This sounds very familiar with the Ukraine war here in 2023.
The Soviet Union did a pact with the Nazis, shame on them, the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, is that the fault of the Western Allies? The Russians & the other Soviet states were compelled to fight invaders, that was not the fault of the the US or the UK. The Georgian psychopath Stalin left his country open to attack as he had purged his army & buried his head in the sands when warned about nazi intentions that his many spies had reported. They, like just about anyone else that served Stalin were shot as a reward for their warnings. Who are you kidding? 🎈
The Germans given the “grease laden soup” before being marched through Moscow were actually given a very spicy cabbage soup used by Russians as a laxative.
What was his first clue ?!?! 😂
D-DAY, MIDWAY & NOW ?
D-Day raised the curtain on the conflict
That fore shadowed the end of Hitler's dream.
The largest joint combat landing ever
Though the blood from both sides flowed like a stream.
When their boats hit the sand, their ramps went down
And all within paid a visit to hell.
They jumped out to do good for their country
And to kill the enemy without fail.
They fought the Germans, tides, winds and the waves
In conditions not easily foreseen.
By night the battle was in our favor
With bravery, valor, death, and men who scream.
The corpses littered the beach for five miles
Though heroism had carried the day.
With literally thousands dead or wounded
Those who were left were determined to stay.
They faced great odds and chose not to protest
And won the war that put evil to shame.
Most came home, married and raised their babies
But those who could not we recall with pain.
MIDWAY **
It was June the 4th 1942
As I was floating in the ocean alone
The ship I had sailed on, sank to the bottom
And I thought I would never again, see home.
The Japanese fleet had steamed in from the east
With the intentions of capturing Midway.
Though they were stopped by American war ships
Whose guns, bombs and torpedoes planes saved the day.
All night long, I watched the fireworks of war
And on the second day we turned up the heat.
As big bombers from Hawaii dropped their loads
On Japanese ships who soon chose to retreat.
An imperial pilot came floating close by
Who had been chewed on by the beasts of the sea.
I couldn't help but feel passion for this is man
Who had answered his call just like me.
When it was over, I was plucked from the deep
By men in a lifeboat just after the dawn.
For two days I had watched the battle for, Midway
Now it's quiet and the enemy has gone.
NOW ??
It’s not a priest who gives us freedom of religion,
It’s not a reporter who give us freedom of voice.
It’s not any judge, lawyer, politician, preacher or teacher
But the blood of a soldier that has sacrificed by choice.
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How did the East African in the thumbnail join Barbarossa?
I can’t help but to think about how the Ukrainian soldiers aer feeling
This was a movie that was ruined by the most awful overdubbing I've ever endured, second only to the Das Boot directors cut. In my opinion that is.
The only Woke Black in the Whermacht 😂 What a thumb nail 😂
This reminds me of the generals speech at the end of band of brothers
The photo looks like it's from the Stalingrad film but the bloke on the left doesn't look right.
I like the black German soldier in the thumbnail. Why not? Who cares if there was no such thing?
Germany was not superior they were just greedy. 😊
Revisionist view.
Scandalous.
Now in Ukraine new chance?
Far out.