My German father-in-law told me he traveled by train 18 hours one way to Hamburg to get a sack of potato’s after the war. He said it was a brutal trip but they needed the food. Also end of the war he was 17, he was given a panzer Faust and told to attack the Americans. He told me he leaned it up against a tree a slowly walked away. The war was over for him. 3 days it took him to get home by foot avoiding the Americans and Russians. I wish he was still alive. He had some fascinating stories. He was from the Falkenau area of Germany. Bohemian if I remember correctly.
My FIL was an American of German descent he served in the American Army. He first served as a translator. After a small injury he was transfered to be an ambulance driver. As a driver his ambulance was bombed and he received injuries enough to be sent stateside. He had a head injury that required several surgeries and his left arm was shattered below the elbow. He spent 2 years in the military hospital and left mostly recovered. Sadly he was left handed so the damage was more debilitating that it otherwise might have been. He really didn't talk about the war except in generalities.
I felt the same as this guy in Oct 1969 when I was discharged......no more military, no more orders.....no more ass kissers trying to make rank by trashing their buddies......no more working for idiots ......
Did you sign up or were you Drafted. If drafted, you might have a point, If you signed up, you have only yourself to complain to. Same thing if you were drafted and did more than 1 tour.
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My oma had 4 brothers in the weirmacht. 2 fought and died with the 6th center one fought and died in a noname town on the front near kursk. One captured by the Americans and brought to Oklahoma. Erich. Years later veitnam happened and 3 of 4 of my omas sons were drafted. All of which survived. You could imagine her fear for her sons. I miss her
I'm glad her brothers perished cause they tortured and massacred innocent people including children. All Wehrmacht and SS soldiers committed atrocities. I'm so happy her sons survived in Vietnam cause I know Americans committed atrocities but never to the level of Germans.
My family are Germans from Russia, referred to as Volga Germans. Growing up and attending school in the 50s, my parents told us to tell people we were Russian, because of the hatred towards Germans. I remember traveling to our hometown, seeing signs stating no german spoke here (at stores). Of course over time that changed. For my Grandma that was difficult because at the time she only spoke German. Decades have passed and no longer asks anymore about your family's background. It amazes me how people do not know how their family came to America . They knew nothing of their family's history. I have encouraged my grandchildren to ask their Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles questions about their family. I feel it's important to know our history. By understanding were they came from helps to understand them as a person, because of cultural differences.
You Brits have killed tens of millions over the centuries. And now you are eaten alive by the Paki, Afghan, Arab and African hordes flooding your silly island. There will no English left in a hundred years😂.
Interesting and informative. Had it not been for the Marshall plan.. Those devastated German cities probably would have stayed that way for many decades. Quite a devastated culture shock for returning ( Pow's ) 😱😱😱😱.
The Marshall Plan was brilliant. It kept US factories and farms running flat out, and mitigated the resentment of the conquered. And it showed what economic systems worked, and what didn't.
Well spoken and informative. Also quite luckey that this soldiers family, three brothers that fought in three different fronts, his parents and younger siblings all survived the war, even though their home was flattened by bombs.
I am old enough to have a father and uncles that fought the Germans and the Japanese. I saw first had the aftermath, physical and emotional, What the American Solders saw when the war ended. Millions killed, Civilians, Old people, Children, Infants. I have no sympathy for this German Solder, or his family, or his nation. My one uncle, he fought across Europe as a tanker, Became an MP when the fighting stopped. His feelings were that Germany should have been completely and utterly dissolved. A large part to Poland, another large part to France, an the rest decided between all the other European nations that Suffered directly under Nazi Rule. He believe that they lost the right to claim any nation status. I do not how much of the death camps he saw, but he always had that look that said he was not going to talk about it.
Way way way too many ads! Other than that, outstanding! I love what you have done here with all of this work. It is great to hear things from the point of people on the front Lines rather than a man who sat behind a desk, through the whole war. Keep up the good work!
I was super surprised by the places he lived after the war, Oerlinghausen is in Lippe district, which is where my family originates. My last name is Lipsmire (originally Lipsmeyer), with the Lip being a common beginning to a lot of place names in the area. It comes from the Lippe River but there are cities in the region named Lippstadt, etc. to this day I’m told I have relatives who own a farm they’ve been on outside of Paderborn likely for hundreds of years, as Meyer was a name given to tenant farmers essentially and German last names originated 500+ years ago I believe
When I hear that German soldiers survived WW2 I get upset. Why? Those monsters smashed the heads of millions of babies and children into rocks. And don't get me wrong all and I mean all German soldiers (Wehrmacht and SS) committed atrocities. However, I'm glad this one survived cause he truly repented.
He was lucky that his brothers also survived. The Brits were especially good at using famine as a weapon to control matters. My Irish forbearers came to the US during the famine. It happened in the Middle East and in India during WW2. Winston just wasn't into feeding the natives.
As a descendant of Irishmen from Antrim, I know well the famine in Ireland of which you speak, but I must point out that the famine in India to which you refer was NOT by decision of Churchill. nor any of the British government of the time, but was a result of the actions of the Japanese Army, which had caused massive damage to the lands in the region. In fact, the British government mase strenuous efforts to send food to the area that was affected by famine.
@@BigAl53750 starting in 1765, there have been a number of famines in British INdia, with victims usually numbering in the millions, the last one the Bengal famine of 1943. While there are arguments about causes and effects, fact is that British wartime priorities were to supply the homeland at the expense of the local population.' INdia has not experienced any famines since its independence in 1947. Feel free to draw your own conclusions.
@@lindaholtzman5374 it totally doesn't need to be sympathized with, but it does need to be understood. The fact is most modern Nazis know damn well that theyre wrong, but they feel they can gain a social benefit by towing the line, theyre uninterested in compassion for compassions sake but if you let them know that the wages of their sin is white guilt, maybe they'll shut the fuck up 😂
To never forget, we must understand everyone caught up in the conflict, no matter how much we disagree with their beliefs. The memoirs of a soldier can help us understand what was happening on the ground.
Have you been listening to all of the diaries? It seems not many were on board with what happened and were forced into service. For many, the brainwashing done to these people, for many, their entire life, is what motivated them. I would not condemn an entire people for what some of their government did. No matter where you're from, you're country has done something you disagree with and wouldn't want to be held accountable for.
If you’re going to damn Germany forever because they were duped into following Nazism, on whatever level, then to be consistent, you must also damn every nation that has ever subsumed the individual human rights of anybody, at any time in their history. This would of course make everyone alive damned forever simply for being born, as there is no nation or culture that does not bear this stain in their history. A totally unsupportable position, no matter how you look at it.
My German father-in-law told me he traveled by train 18 hours one way to Hamburg to get a sack of potato’s after the war. He said it was a brutal trip but they needed the food. Also end of the war he was 17, he was given a panzer Faust and told to attack the Americans. He told me he leaned it up against a tree a slowly walked away. The war was over for him. 3 days it took him to get home by foot avoiding the Americans and Russians. I wish he was still alive. He had some fascinating stories. He was from the Falkenau area of Germany. Bohemian if I remember correctly.
This Brit salutes him for his care and love for his family.
most forget. most of those fighting and dying, were typically good people. yes. there were awful Germans. but there were awful Americans also.
We are TOO LATE to record the most iconic stories. We have only these tales to make some sense out of this Global War .
These tales of woe are a serious reminder to everyone of how vital it is that we think for ourselves.
My FIL was an American of German descent he served in the American Army. He first served as a translator. After a small injury he was transfered to be an ambulance driver. As a driver his ambulance was bombed and he received injuries enough to be sent stateside. He had a head injury that required several surgeries and his left arm was shattered below the elbow. He spent 2 years in the military hospital and left mostly recovered. Sadly he was left handed so the damage was more debilitating that it otherwise might have been. He really didn't talk about the war except in generalities.
He was a true hero who fought for the right side not for the evil side. God bless.....
On a French graveyard in Vietnam. "Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by. That here, obedient to their laws, we lie"
I felt the same as this guy in Oct 1969 when I was discharged......no more military, no more orders.....no more ass kissers trying to make rank by trashing their buddies......no more working for idiots ......
It really is quite liberating.
Did you sign up or were you Drafted. If drafted, you might have a point, If you signed up, you have only yourself to complain to. Same thing if you were drafted and did more than 1 tour.
A Mind in Prison. A Memoir of a Son and Soldier of the Third Reich. Author is Bruno Manz.
Thank you
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It doesn't help that the person who posts these does not provide this information. I suppose there are some copyriight concerns.@@sapereaude6274
@@sapereaude6274they are not AI generated, however they do use a text to speech AI program in lieu of a human reader.
My oma had 4 brothers in the weirmacht. 2 fought and died with the 6th center one fought and died in a noname town on the front near kursk. One captured by the Americans and brought to Oklahoma. Erich. Years later veitnam happened and 3 of 4 of my omas sons were drafted. All of which survived. You could imagine her fear for her sons. I miss her
I'm glad her brothers perished cause they tortured and massacred innocent people including children. All Wehrmacht and SS soldiers committed atrocities. I'm so happy her sons survived in Vietnam cause I know Americans committed atrocities but never to the level of Germans.
Thank you for all your hard work xxx
My family are Germans from Russia, referred to as Volga Germans. Growing up and attending school in the 50s, my parents told us to tell people we were Russian, because of the hatred towards Germans. I remember traveling to our hometown, seeing signs stating no german spoke here (at stores). Of course over time that changed. For my Grandma that was difficult because at the time she only spoke German. Decades have passed and no longer asks anymore about your family's background. It amazes me how people do not know how their family came to America . They knew nothing of their family's history. I have encouraged my grandchildren to ask their Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles questions about their family. I feel it's important to know our history. By understanding were they came from helps to understand them as a person, because of cultural differences.
I wonder what these would sound like with an accent of the current place and soldiers.
They're all turning the snitches on each other.😂
We Brits always had the upper hand in the North Sea.
You Brits have killed tens of millions over the centuries. And now you are eaten alive by the Paki, Afghan, Arab and African hordes flooding your silly island. There will no English left in a hundred years😂.
Interesting and informative. Had it not been for the Marshall plan.. Those devastated German cities probably would have stayed that way for many decades. Quite a devastated culture shock for returning ( Pow's ) 😱😱😱😱.
The Marshall Plan was brilliant. It kept US factories and farms running flat out, and mitigated the resentment of the conquered. And it showed what economic systems worked, and what didn't.
Well spoken and informative. Also quite luckey that this soldiers family, three brothers that fought in three different fronts, his parents and younger siblings all survived the war, even though their home was flattened by bombs.
I am old enough to have a father and uncles that fought the Germans and the Japanese. I saw first had the aftermath, physical and emotional, What the American Solders saw when the war ended. Millions killed, Civilians, Old people, Children, Infants. I have no sympathy for this German Solder, or his family, or his nation. My one uncle, he fought across Europe as a tanker, Became an MP when the fighting stopped. His feelings were that Germany should have been completely and utterly dissolved. A large part to Poland, another large part to France, an the rest decided between all the other European nations that Suffered directly under Nazi Rule. He believe that they lost the right to claim any nation status. I do not how much of the death camps he saw, but he always had that look that said he was not going to talk about it.
Way way way too many ads!
Other than that, outstanding! I love what you have done here with all of this work. It is great to hear things from the point of people on the front Lines rather than a man who sat behind a desk, through the whole war.
Keep up the good work!
This diary shows the mental anguish of one trying to serve an evil regime honorably.
It is not unlike the direction America is headed today. We are on the precipice.
I was super surprised by the places he lived after the war, Oerlinghausen is in Lippe district, which is where my family originates. My last name is Lipsmire (originally Lipsmeyer), with the Lip being a common beginning to a lot of place names in the area. It comes from the Lippe River but there are cities in the region named Lippstadt, etc. to this day I’m told I have relatives who own a farm they’ve been on outside of Paderborn likely for hundreds of years, as Meyer was a name given to tenant farmers essentially and German last names originated 500+ years ago I believe
I greatly appreciated hearing this soldier's story - he was clearly an educated man, a thinking man of considerable sensitivity.
and gullible.
R.I.P Roper.
🕯️🙏
A tragic figure....
When I hear that German soldiers survived WW2 I get upset. Why? Those monsters smashed the heads of millions of babies and children into rocks. And don't get me wrong all and I mean all German soldiers (Wehrmacht and SS) committed atrocities. However, I'm glad this one survived cause he truly repented.
Navik was where swedish Iron ore was shipped to Germany
I too would have thrown away the useless gas mask
I refuse to believe any of these are real without citations.
He was lucky that his brothers also survived.
The Brits were especially good at using famine as a weapon to control matters. My Irish forbearers came to the US during the famine. It happened in the Middle East and in India during WW2. Winston just wasn't into feeding the natives.
As a descendant of Irishmen from Antrim, I know well the famine in Ireland of which you speak, but I must point out that the famine in India to which you refer was NOT by decision of Churchill. nor any of the British government of the time, but was a result of the actions of the Japanese Army, which had caused massive damage to the lands in the region. In fact, the British government mase strenuous efforts to send food to the area that was affected by famine.
Historically, very accurate your comment. The British were bastards.
@@BigAl53750 starting in 1765, there have been a number of famines in British INdia, with victims usually numbering in the millions, the last one the Bengal famine of 1943. While there are arguments about causes and effects, fact is that British wartime priorities were to supply the homeland at the expense of the local population.'
INdia has not experienced any famines since its independence in 1947. Feel free to draw your own conclusions.
Davenport iowa DAD JOKE of the day
[Q] What is the difference between, punctuation and PUNCTUALITY?
[A] only TIME will tell?
You'd feel totally conned and ripped off fighting in Russia 3000kms from home when you could have been defending your loved ones at home ..
My grandfather was one of those british soldiers at Trondheim. They may have crossed paths there.
My Jewish family doesn't forget
Yeah, it’s a little hard to be sympathetic.
@@lindaholtzman5374chill man this guy had folks murdered. No need to mock the dead. Bad luck bro.
@@lindaholtzman5374 it totally doesn't need to be sympathized with, but it does need to be understood. The fact is most modern Nazis know damn well that theyre wrong, but they feel they can gain a social benefit by towing the line, theyre uninterested in compassion for compassions sake but if you let them know that the wages of their sin is white guilt, maybe they'll shut the fuck up 😂
To never forget, we must understand everyone caught up in the conflict, no matter how much we disagree with their beliefs. The memoirs of a soldier can help us understand what was happening on the ground.
War is devastation in many ways.
4:07 -- Scheisskerl
When “reading” these first hand accounts of WW2, we Must Ask for REFERENCES: the name of the book or papers from which it’s derived would be Nice.
never forget never forgive dam germany for ever
Have you been listening to all of the diaries? It seems not many were on board with what happened and were forced into service. For many, the brainwashing done to these people, for many, their entire life, is what motivated them. I would not condemn an entire people for what some of their government did. No matter where you're from, you're country has done something you disagree with and wouldn't want to be held accountable for.
If you’re going to damn Germany forever because they were duped into following Nazism, on whatever level, then to be consistent, you must also damn every nation that has ever subsumed the individual human rights of anybody, at any time in their history.
This would of course make everyone alive damned forever simply for being born, as there is no nation or culture that does not bear this stain in their history.
A totally unsupportable position, no matter how you look at it.
Never forget yes, but the Germans of today are not the Germans of WWII, at least not the Germans I have met.
"we're involved in the struggle of life and death against international "jewelry"???
Funny AI voice!!!🧐🤔😃
No, I thought I heard the word pronounced correctly.
This is all German propaganda.
What goes around comes around, wajajaja