My husband, being the son of a living German soldier, (U.S Iowa)... Has related some horrific stories, that both the German and Russians, suffered.. His Father after the (war, and Russian capture, Berlin) joined the French foreign legionnaires...served in Algeria, then in Korea ...helping with the fight against the Chinese,and the Koreans from the North...he hate communism...the point is ALL SOLIDERS, FROM ALL SIDES BECOME HEARTLESS, HARDENED BUTCHERS, IF ONLY TO SEE ANOTHER DAY So unless there,no one can point a moral finger! Salute Heinrich Kruger.
I think that there's a very good reason they're called "WW2 Stories". I am reasonably aware of all the first hand accounts of many of these periods, battles and campaigns, and I haven't come across a single one that matched any of these accounts. They're called stories because they are just that, STORIES. Until I see the actual diaries, the written accounts and the details of the writers/units, I'll continue to believe that these are just a way for some sad, wanna be Waffen SS types to live out their fantasies in public. If the producers wish to discuss this, and show their original source materiel, I'll be happy to withdraw this claim. So far I have seen absolutely nothing that convinces me.
Agree... Soldiers were not permitted to keep diaries in the Wehrmacht! Though some did, but they had to be very careful what they wrote, because the Party had their spies ... Some, like a fellow named Nöldeke, just jotted down notes in a calendar ... Many accounts have been published, they are in German of course. But careful listening and knowledge of German culture can help decipher some stuff between the lines.
@@davidcolin6519Thank you for providing a rational perspective. But, nonetheless everyone enjoys a good story, even told by an erstwhile enemy, indeed one worthy of dislike. The “truth” of the matter is beclouded, so even an undocumented rendering allows one conjure the horror we were blessed not to share.
@@sunzeneise I'm sorry, I don't agree. These are invented stories that purport to give eye witness accounts. They are not. They are stories that are not only inventions, they purport to be real. If there was an indication that they were fictional accounts, I'd be a lot happier, but there is no attempt to be truthful. That is not history, it is dishonest.
My grandpa was wounded in russia and survived the war as pow. He returned late and never spoke about his experiences there. Thank you very much for the goosebumping bringing insights.
I have watched at least ten of these interesting diaries. What strikes me is that nobody seems to feel that all this killing and dying is pointless. Everybody seems to feel the goals are all worth the suffering and dying. No proto hippie feelings. How can that be?
Those “proto hippy” feelings were not easily available to these fellas. You either died at the front or the “labor camps”. And less so at the eastern front, where death is constantly nibbling at their heels…and survival becomes everything. However, their legacy gave rise to increasing “proto hippie (or humanistic) sentiments” in western societies leading them toward the Liberal democracies they are today.
It was a different world. Until the end of ww2, the amount of food produced by the world was LESS than what was needed to feed everyone. You either had to be brutal and take it from others or submit to whoever you’re trading with (since you’re screwed if they stop shipping you food). You tend to not be in a happy mood when hungry. After ww2 though, and thanks to pesticide, we for the first time in history started producing more food than there are people.
Part of it is Bolshevism. The Russian people have always been treated terribly by their ruling class but Stalin took the cake...murdering more of his own people than all his predecessors combined. Stalin may well have murdered more people than Hitler. These common soldiers were fighting a genuine menace! The fact that THEY were a menace every bit as evil was known to the individual soldier in varying degrees and believed even less frequently. In the end, the Russians didn't murder nearly as many German civilians as the other way 'round but it seems not for lack of trying. No, there no romance in war, no heroic ballads to be sung. Only banality and death and on this front in particular, a near total annihilation of two entire evil states and many of the people within them, guilty and innocent.
I have Ukrainians living on my land. The older family members have stories from WW2. They were children at the time . Now they have Russians destroying their farms .
@@arni733 … I meant that it is hard to understand that we are making the same mistakes for the same stupid reasons even after all this time and after having learnt nothing from history. It is hard to take that truth.
It is always amusing to hear the aggressors write as if they are the suffering and the always-near-dead involuntarily, unwillingly. Every awful thing that happened to them here was purely by their choice to advance the cause of their nation's madman at any cost.
@@jone8626 I am writing from within a family with Germans who were quite brazen, lifelong supporters of Hitler’s philosophies of German superiority, for decades after the war, and other Germans living outside of Germany who had horrible things happen to them as a result of those same philosophies being championed. Needless to say, they could barely tolerate each other and avoided being at the same functions when possible. If you have read pre-war Churchill as Hitler was on the rise, go ahead and reconcile his statements then with your quote. Before you do that, though, provide the exact citation of title, page number, etc., for your quote. There are other problems with your analysis as well.
Do you think every American solder is responsible for every stupid decision made by stupid politicians or officers? When you are 18 and have no prospects for a job or an education and are told the military will give you both you can find yourself in a world of trouble.
@@jone8626 Norm Mac Donald? SNL alumnus? Really? So its always amusing modern day low grade "Reich Wing" apologists make excuses for Nazi Germany. Even in America's armed forces there was empathy for nazism. Before the war the nazis in America held a huge rally in NYC 20k plus people attended. Nobody has to conflate history on that lame notion that the winners write the story. We lost Vietnam. Period, the Republic of Vietnam is not writing conflated stories about that we all saw it and know it. The Russians lost Afghanistan like the British before them, the Achaemenid Empire, Macedonia, Seleucid Empire, Umayyad Caliphate, Mongol Empire, Timurid Empire, Mughal Empire and us. They the Taliban are not "re-writing" history. It's a bald faced fact. The Union didn't "rewrite" the civil war. Let's stop the pretense. If you embrace the ideology of a nation bent on not just subjugating other nations but destroying whole races of people that is your business. But please stop hiding behind the cowardice of empathy for people especially soldiers who turned their sociopathy into something "honorable". Don't forget the Heer the Wehrmacht was fighting to restore a sort of glory and spirit of the old "Prussian Empire". Resurrecting that ghost and the delusions therein. Easily led and Hitler was up to the exploitative task. Which shows all you gotta do is press the right buttons incant the right words. As far as Churchill he made no secret of his contempt for hitler and the Nazis. Are we going to ignore the fact that Russia and Nazis Germany were allies? What kind of dope would Stalin have been if he watched what Hitler was doing and didn't prepare for war? Only we sat back and let Hitler and Tojo make power moves.
I worked in Tomsk. When you live in - 50 you start to realise what such temperatures mean! The temperatures were the same for the Germans and the Soviets. The point is that the Soviets knew all about it.
I lived in Tomsk ! i thought Moscow was cold !!!! i must admit when i came home i could work outside in a teeshirt in january ! it does toughen you up ))))
What can I say ?. So interesting and great credit to the narrator his reading is just fabulous with a wonderful voice. I listen to this whilst editing photographs and am enthralled by them.
One thing that becomes apparent from listening and reading these books is just how unprepared for war Germany was, especially on the scale that they executed it; also just how deluded Hitler was in believing they were ready. No heavy bombers, no research into the UK's abilities on Land, Sea and especially Air, no research into Russia challenges - sheer scale of logistics, weather, the people. Sloppy. It was over before they started.
Germany was unprepared for war??? Wow... Ive heard some guff in my time but that takes the biscuit. Germany literally prepared for war for a decade, and for the first 2.5 years of it they were devastatingly effective, with world beating technology and armaments. Germany lost because america joined, and the industrial might of the United States proved decisive. Germany waged war with unprecedented success, and very, very nearly won it when their troops swam in the English Channel. having dominated the entire continent of Europe. They lost because the overstretched. that's all.
My son was in Iraq in winter. He did not have enough warm clothes from the army to keep warm. So I sent him UK winter underwear so he would stay warm. You would think that in a desert it would keep warm even in winter. But No, it is below freezing at night in the iraqi desert.
My FNG troops always thought I was kidding when I told them to bring their field jackets when we went to 29 Palms in August. I knew they were working nights and would need them. Sure nothing like below freezing but after 110 all day 40 degrees at night felt brutally cold. Especially as you tried to sleep during the daytime and all your blood vessels opened up to release the heat.
@@ColinMor-fj3qc It is. That’s why it’s actually bad to drink alcohol when cold. It expands the blood vessels releasing heat near the surface. Leading to hypothermia faster. Your vessels constrict when cold to retain core body heat.
I remember in 2007 on my birthday in Baghdad I had to guard some conex boxes that we hadn't finished unpacking on the way in on our 2nd deployment and it was drizzing and maybe 70 degrees and slightly breezy and that was maybe the coldest I've ever been in my life. And I'm from Wisconsin lol. Lot of freezing cold nights in Iraq that are actually in the high 70s. But we were never short on warm weather gear.
I wonder if the hundreds of thousands russian women and children they kicked out from the houses were also cold, but i guess not, they were already dead.
What text to speech software do you use for your videos? They sound great. Also, would it be possible for you to include the the title of the book and chapter these excerpts are pulled from?
@@rationalbasis2172it is text to speech. You can tell this from it says things like the 32D regiment, instead of the thirty second regiment. There are other signs as well such as saying “mm” instead of milimetre.
@@honved1 Which text to speech algorithm includes a slight lisp? If you did even the most minimal sort of research before opening your pie hole, there's a slight chance you might say fewer things which make you look like you say things without knowing what you are talking about. I'll give you a hint: First name Nigel.
They guy who suggested soaking the tobacco in horse urine clearly won that discussion, as it was the only realistic option. Corn schnapps or fig juice juice would be great, but wish in one hand and shit in the other. See which one fills up faster.
In not a single one of these accounts have any of them come close to admitting they were in the wrong, saw any massacres, were involved in any massacres, saw any rapes, were involved in any rapes, or did anything bad at all. It's a sanitized version denying any wrongdoing by a mass murdering army.
I do not disagree. All of this seems to be part of the much delayed reconning of German society with this war. Yes, these old soldier stories (these are recollections of old soldiers written between the 1960s and the 1980) are entirely from their own personal perspectives. This same series also features Russian perspectives. None of the participants of these battles are still alive. Their Nazi leadership seldom lived beyond the 1940s. It's the story telling of old soldiers. A welcome if sobering counter-point to Hogan's Heroes. All of this written by a man who LOVED "Inglorious Basterds".
Absolutely. I think these stories are entirely fictional. The Nazis are always winning, always helping their Soviet civilian victims, always the skillful fighters who invariably get the upper hand. They just forget to mention their conquest of Moscow, Leningrad and the entire Soviet Union. I should stop wasting my time on this fiction
That's because most of these are written by the guys up on the front lines. I've read many of these memoirs, and most of the ones in the east make it a point to discuss the absolute brutality of the combat there, to the extent of not taking prisoners, shooting "Partisans" out of hand, etc. Of course nobody admits to war crimes, you nugget; they didn't want to go to jail. However, the idea that the entire Wehrmacht was nothing more than a ravening army raping and looting its way across Russia is simply not correct. Remember, most of the German soldiers were simply men doing a nasty job. A lot of German soldiers were prosecuted for things like rapes and looting; they considered this a crime, and bad for discipline. Not excusing the atrocities the Germans did, you understand, but it's important to keep perspective.
Have you seen soviets admit this? No? Their army committed more mass killing and rapes than the Germans and Japanese combined and no one talks about it.
@@cammobunker "most of the German soldiers were simply men doing a nasty job". That is another excuse and falsehood. In Europe where I live very many people still dislike Germans. there remains a folk memory of the arrogance, the numerous insults, humiliations and other abuses including bullying and thefts committed by "German soldiers were simply men doing a nasty job". That is without including there brutality and murders, even the destruction of entire villages. Never forget the overwhelming majority of Germans willingly fought for Hitler and all the evils he stood for. While they thought Germany was winning they celebrated. Even after their first serious defeat, the Battle of Britain they failed to see much less act to avoid their impending doom. While I've no problems with anyone who peacefully politely disagrees with that I still say those people bought their fate upon themselves. There is though value in these recordings to help the uninitiated to understand, not everyone thinks the same way and there are people out there even today who will willingly kill you and your loved ones for their creed or in the case of Muslims, their 'religion'. Those Germans do not deserve our sympathy or a whitewash of their crimes which were to numerous to list. There is here a lesson from history. Failure to learn means history will inevitably repeat the lesson.
Following the action on Google maps, some of the place names are hard to find but the outlines of the Russian fortresses are still clearly visible. I wonder whether the persistent logistics failures stem from negligence of the Wehrmacht Prussian aristocracy, or the naive ambitions of their corporal-in-chief. The diversion of so many transportation resources, particularly rail, to the “necessity” of war crimes and crimes against humanity certainly played a part. The concerns of many company-grade officers for the wellbeing of their Landsers is a persistent theme in these series. Although they seldom had the power to affect real change, it is a welcome contrast to the general brutality of the Wehrmacht toward it’s own people.
I've been playing these nightly for 3 or more years, over 3 or more channels, all the AI Stewie voice. At least 5 very distinct people/experiences. Often wondered if they were fiction or published biography. A sniper during retreat (Italy? Hungary? Was extremely grisly for details of red army savagery), one mostly detailing the Kurland pocket, etc The other night was very disturbed when 2 deaths occured of men I've been hearing about and visualizing in my minds eye, one crushed alive by a T-34, another hung by one of those gorget wearing sonuvabitches for grabbing an armload of booze, chocolate and wurst from an apparent bait vehicle. Always had to chuckle hearing people upset about a TV character dying. I get it now. Couldn't get back to sleep
One thing. About being. In army. You do make friends. And some enemies but not often. Some men act. And talk. Tough but arnt really just put up a front. !!!!
My grand uncle on the eastern front would help with frozen dead bodies of Russians to shove under the tracks of tanks to help with traction in the ice Pretty hard core He told me this in 1995
Yes Fritz ... it GOT COLDER! All the while the crazy corporal was safe and warm plotting the murder of even more humans. One CRAZY clown. Least he didn't throw ketchup ... he just farted alot... WHOA!
Perhaps you could improve the narration by pronouncing the German technical terms correctly? E.g. "Knobelbecher" should be k-no-bell-ba-ccccchhhhh-air; "knobeln" means to shake the dices in a cup. That cup being made of leather so the stiff jackboots resembling that cup.
thank you. God Bless America. May We Never Forget
My husband, being the son of a living German soldier, (U.S Iowa)... Has related some horrific stories, that both the German and Russians, suffered.. His Father after the (war, and Russian capture, Berlin) joined the French foreign legionnaires...served in Algeria, then in Korea ...helping with the fight against the Chinese,and the Koreans from the North...he hate communism...the point is ALL SOLIDERS, FROM ALL SIDES BECOME HEARTLESS, HARDENED BUTCHERS, IF ONLY TO SEE ANOTHER DAY
So unless there,no one can point a moral finger!
Salute Heinrich Kruger.
this Irishman salutes Mister Kruger too.
"we were soldiers..."
Absolutely enjoying these stories from the soldiers on the line.
I think that there's a very good reason they're called "WW2 Stories". I am reasonably aware of all the first hand accounts of many of these periods, battles and campaigns, and I haven't come across a single one that matched any of these accounts.
They're called stories because they are just that, STORIES.
Until I see the actual diaries, the written accounts and the details of the writers/units, I'll continue to believe that these are just a way for some sad, wanna be Waffen SS types to live out their fantasies in public.
If the producers wish to discuss this, and show their original source materiel, I'll be happy to withdraw this claim.
So far I have seen absolutely nothing that convinces me.
Agree... Soldiers were not permitted to keep diaries in the Wehrmacht! Though some did, but they had to be very careful what they wrote, because the Party had their spies ... Some, like a fellow named Nöldeke, just jotted down notes in a calendar ... Many accounts have been published, they are in German of course. But careful listening and knowledge of German culture can help decipher some stuff between the lines.
@@davidcolin6519Thank you for providing a rational perspective. But, nonetheless everyone enjoys a good story, even told by an erstwhile enemy, indeed one worthy of dislike. The “truth” of the matter is beclouded, so even an undocumented rendering allows one conjure the horror we were blessed not to share.
@@sunzeneise I'm sorry, I don't agree. These are invented stories that purport to give eye witness accounts. They are not. They are stories that are not only inventions, they purport to be real.
If there was an indication that they were fictional accounts, I'd be a lot happier, but there is no attempt to be truthful. That is not history, it is dishonest.
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really enjoy these as I trudge through the fields in Thailand with my dogs.
We call them newhalfs now.
@@robertsaget6918 eh?
Best narrative voice in my humble opinion 🤙🏾
... Narrator's Voice Has a "TALLY HO OLD BEAN ... I'LL SEE YOU IN BLIGHTY.."... 🍿✌️🏴 0:55
My grandpa was wounded in russia and survived the war as pow. He returned late and never spoke about his experiences there. Thank you very much for the goosebumping bringing insights.
Thanks for sharing these facinating stories.
Great narration, pace and tone . Vielen danke!!!
Both the Germans and Japanese strived for excellence in everything they did. To this day Russia never has.
Germany’s excellence existed in her superlative tanks, guns, & morale. Russia’s excellence was in her victory
Great stories. Keep 'em coming.
I'm surprised. The. Civilian population. Was still their but where could they go. Only further into Russia.
And. Certain. Death. !!
What was it Hitler said. Just kick in the door and the whole mess will tumble. Down. The. Soviets. Proved that wrong. Tough nuts. !!!
Another great story. Thank you
I have watched at least ten of these interesting diaries. What strikes me is that nobody seems to feel that all this killing and dying is pointless. Everybody seems to feel the goals are all worth the suffering and dying. No proto hippie feelings. How can that be?
That’s called brainwash ….
Those “proto hippy” feelings were not easily available to these fellas. You either died at the front or the “labor camps”. And less so at the eastern front, where death is constantly nibbling at their heels…and survival becomes everything. However, their legacy gave rise to increasing “proto hippie (or humanistic) sentiments” in western societies leading them toward the Liberal democracies they are today.
It was a different world. Until the end of ww2, the amount of food produced by the world was LESS than what was needed to feed everyone. You either had to be brutal and take it from others or submit to whoever you’re trading with (since you’re screwed if they stop shipping you food). You tend to not be in a happy mood when hungry. After ww2 though, and thanks to pesticide, we for the first time in history started producing more food than there are people.
Part of it is Bolshevism. The Russian people have always been treated terribly by their ruling class but Stalin took the cake...murdering more of his own people than all his predecessors combined. Stalin may well have murdered more people than Hitler. These common soldiers were fighting a genuine menace! The fact that THEY were a menace every bit as evil was known to the individual soldier in varying degrees and believed even less frequently. In the end, the Russians didn't murder nearly as many German civilians as the other way 'round but it seems not for lack of trying. No, there no romance in war, no heroic ballads to be sung. Only banality and death and on this front in particular, a near total annihilation of two entire evil states and many of the people within them, guilty and innocent.
If they are all first person stories from German veterans then their point of view is fairly limited
I have Ukrainians living on my land.
The older family members have stories from WW2.
They were children at the time .
Now they have Russians destroying their farms .
The Ukrainians are suckers of the NeoCons.
Very good interesting history. Thank you.
you could be reading the phone book, I would listen.
HHahaha so true. Reminds me of the voice from the spy in inglorious bastards who holds up the wrong three fingers
The poster didn't narrate it. It's done by a professional narrator who has provided narration to a number of audiobooks including a range of subjects.
it is an AI
@@zacharyscott1264 ģ grew q
@@jkilla9934i think so too. He made the mistake of reading 10:00 as "one thousand"
Hard to imagine that 80 years later, the Ukraine is once again undergoing this horror again.
No its not hard to imagine you can turn on tv and see it live
@@arni733 … I meant that it is hard to understand that we are making the same mistakes for the same stupid reasons even after all this time and after having learnt nothing from history. It is hard to take that truth.
government is the problem, not the solution. remove government, remove war.
Real cause WW2: lack of prayer. Same for WW3. Pray daily the mega mighty holy Rosary!!!
Not even comparable wars
It is always amusing to hear the aggressors write as if they are the suffering and the always-near-dead involuntarily, unwillingly. Every awful thing that happened to them here was purely by their choice to advance the cause of their nation's madman at any cost.
@@jone8626 I am writing from within a family with Germans who were quite brazen, lifelong supporters of Hitler’s philosophies of German superiority, for decades after the war, and other Germans living outside of Germany who had horrible things happen to them as a result of those same philosophies being championed. Needless to say, they could barely tolerate each other and avoided being at the same functions when possible. If you have read pre-war Churchill as Hitler was on the rise, go ahead and reconcile his statements then with your quote. Before you do that, though, provide the exact citation of title, page number, etc., for your quote. There are other problems with your analysis as well.
Do you think every American solder is responsible for every stupid decision made by stupid politicians or officers? When you are 18 and have no prospects for a job or an education and are told the military will give you both you can find yourself in a world of trouble.
@@ReflectedMiles Thank you,
@@jone8626 Norm Mac Donald? SNL alumnus? Really? So its always amusing modern day low grade "Reich Wing" apologists make excuses for Nazi Germany. Even in America's armed forces there was empathy for nazism. Before the war the nazis in America held a huge rally in NYC 20k plus people attended. Nobody has to conflate history on that lame notion that the winners write the story. We lost Vietnam. Period, the Republic of Vietnam is not writing conflated stories about that we all saw it and know it. The Russians lost Afghanistan like the British before them, the Achaemenid Empire, Macedonia, Seleucid Empire, Umayyad Caliphate, Mongol Empire, Timurid Empire, Mughal Empire and us. They the Taliban are not "re-writing" history. It's a bald faced fact. The Union didn't "rewrite" the civil war. Let's stop the pretense. If you embrace the ideology of a nation bent on not just subjugating other nations but destroying whole races of people that is your business. But please stop hiding behind the cowardice of empathy for people especially soldiers who turned their sociopathy into something "honorable". Don't forget the Heer the
Wehrmacht was fighting to restore a sort of glory and spirit of the old "Prussian Empire". Resurrecting that ghost and the delusions therein. Easily led and Hitler was up to the exploitative task. Which shows all you gotta do is press the right buttons incant the right words. As far as Churchill he made no secret of his contempt for hitler and the Nazis. Are we going to ignore the fact that Russia and Nazis Germany were allies? What kind of dope would Stalin have been if he watched what Hitler was doing and didn't prepare for war? Only we sat back and let Hitler and Tojo make power moves.
Tartar people were deported through Chinese border and Siberia from Crimea. Muslim, Turkic people hated commies.
I worked in Tomsk. When you live in - 50 you start to realise what such temperatures mean! The temperatures were the same for the Germans and the Soviets. The point is that the Soviets knew all about it.
Very simple statement...very true
I lived in Tomsk ! i thought Moscow was cold !!!! i must admit when i came home i could work outside in a teeshirt in january ! it does toughen you up ))))
Only slightly spoiled by the odd well dodgy edit - I use to teach it for the BBC you understand.....
Awesome yarn. Keep 'em coming.
Please keep posting these everyday!! Only on the eastern front!!
What can I say ?. So interesting and great credit to the narrator his reading is just fabulous with a wonderful voice. I listen to this whilst editing photographs and am enthralled by them.
Thank you
One thing that becomes apparent from listening and reading these books is just how unprepared for war Germany was, especially on the scale that they executed it; also just how deluded Hitler was in believing they were ready. No heavy bombers, no research into the UK's abilities on Land, Sea and especially Air, no research into Russia challenges - sheer scale of logistics, weather, the people.
Sloppy. It was over before they started.
Germany was unprepared for war???
Wow...
Ive heard some guff in my time but that takes the biscuit.
Germany literally prepared for war for a decade, and for the first 2.5 years of it they were devastatingly effective, with world beating technology and armaments.
Germany lost because america joined, and the industrial might of the United States proved decisive.
Germany waged war with unprecedented success, and very, very nearly won it when their troops swam in the English Channel. having dominated the entire continent of Europe.
They lost because the overstretched. that's all.
So many adverts on this channel these days I looked and found another channel called military club with similar stories and no adverts.
Great work sir i enjoy allot
Fantastic German soldiers
It’s so interesting to hear these stories
My son was in Iraq in winter. He did not have enough warm clothes from the army to keep warm. So I sent him UK winter underwear so he would stay warm. You would think that in a desert it would keep warm even in winter. But No, it is below freezing at night in the iraqi desert.
It gets below freezing in the Sahara too. Humidity traps heat. Deserts are dry so heat just radiates away.
My FNG troops always thought I was kidding when I told them to bring their field jackets when we went to 29 Palms in August. I knew they were working nights and would need them. Sure nothing like below freezing but after 110 all day 40 degrees at night felt brutally cold. Especially as you tried to sleep during the daytime and all your blood vessels opened up to release the heat.
@@ColinMor-fj3qc It is. That’s why it’s actually bad to drink alcohol when cold. It expands the blood vessels releasing heat near the surface. Leading to hypothermia faster. Your vessels constrict when cold to retain core body heat.
I remember in 2007 on my birthday in Baghdad I had to guard some conex boxes that we hadn't finished unpacking on the way in on our 2nd deployment and it was drizzing and maybe 70 degrees and slightly breezy and that was maybe the coldest I've ever been in my life.
And I'm from Wisconsin lol. Lot of freezing cold nights in Iraq that are actually in the high 70s. But we were never short on warm weather gear.
obviously it gets cold in winter & night!
I wonder if the hundreds of thousands russian women and children they kicked out from the houses were also cold, but i guess not, they were already dead.
Just watched generation war again. Great show. Highly recommend it. (It’s the picture in the thumbnail). Awesome video man. Thank you!
What text to speech software do you use for your videos? They sound great. Also, would it be possible for you to include the the title of the book and chapter these excerpts are pulled from?
I believe Bidermann's book is called "In Deadly Combat"
It's not text to speech. The narrator is a well-known audiobook narrator who has done a number of works.
@@rationalbasis2172 What is the narrator's name?
@@rationalbasis2172it is text to speech. You can tell this from it says things like the 32D regiment, instead of the thirty second regiment. There are other signs as well such as saying “mm” instead of milimetre.
@@honved1 Which text to speech algorithm includes a slight lisp? If you did even the most minimal sort of research before opening your pie hole, there's a slight chance you might say fewer things which make you look like you say things without knowing what you are talking about. I'll give you a hint: First name Nigel.
Fascinating to listen to.
You could read my sister’s diary and I’d still listen.
They guy who suggested soaking the tobacco in horse urine clearly won that discussion, as it was the only realistic option. Corn schnapps or fig juice juice would be great, but wish in one hand and shit in the other. See which one fills up faster.
My father used to say. "Wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which one gets fullest fastest."
In not a single one of these accounts have any of them come close to admitting they were in the wrong, saw any massacres, were involved in any massacres, saw any rapes, were involved in any rapes, or did anything bad at all. It's a sanitized version denying any wrongdoing by a mass murdering army.
I do not disagree. All of this seems to be part of the much delayed reconning of German society with this war. Yes, these old soldier stories (these are recollections of old soldiers written between the 1960s and the 1980) are entirely from their own personal perspectives. This same series also features Russian perspectives. None of the participants of these battles are still alive. Their Nazi leadership seldom lived beyond the 1940s. It's the story telling of old soldiers. A welcome if sobering counter-point to Hogan's Heroes. All of this written by a man who LOVED "Inglorious Basterds".
Absolutely. I think these stories are entirely fictional. The Nazis are always winning, always helping their Soviet civilian victims, always the skillful fighters who invariably get the upper hand. They just forget to mention their conquest of Moscow, Leningrad and the entire Soviet Union. I should stop wasting my time on this fiction
That's because most of these are written by the guys up on the front lines. I've read many of these memoirs, and most of the ones in the east make it a point to discuss the absolute brutality of the combat there, to the extent of not taking prisoners, shooting "Partisans" out of hand, etc. Of course nobody admits to war crimes, you nugget; they didn't want to go to jail. However, the idea that the entire Wehrmacht was nothing more than a ravening army raping and looting its way across Russia is simply not correct. Remember, most of the German soldiers were simply men doing a nasty job. A lot of German soldiers were prosecuted for things like rapes and looting; they considered this a crime, and bad for discipline. Not excusing the atrocities the Germans did, you understand, but it's important to keep perspective.
Have you seen soviets admit this? No? Their army committed more mass killing and rapes than the Germans and Japanese combined and no one talks about it.
@@cammobunker "most of the German soldiers were simply men doing a nasty job". That is another excuse and falsehood. In Europe where I live very many people still dislike Germans. there remains a folk memory of the arrogance, the numerous insults, humiliations and other abuses including bullying and thefts committed by "German soldiers were simply men doing a nasty job". That is without including there brutality and murders, even the destruction of entire villages.
Never forget the overwhelming majority of Germans willingly fought for Hitler and all the evils he stood for. While they thought Germany was winning they celebrated.
Even after their first serious defeat, the Battle of Britain they failed to see much less act to avoid their impending doom.
While I've no problems with anyone who peacefully politely disagrees with that I still say those people bought their fate upon themselves.
There is though value in these recordings to help the uninitiated to understand, not everyone thinks the same way and there are people out there even today who will willingly kill you and your loved ones for their creed or in the case of Muslims, their 'religion'.
Those Germans do not deserve our sympathy or a whitewash of their crimes which were to numerous to list.
There is here a lesson from history. Failure to learn means history will inevitably repeat the lesson.
I know the feeling. In Iraq the heat was a more threatening foe than the ragged peasants who came out to snipe (poorly) at unlucky soldiers.
these strories are very interesting..i listen to them till i fall asleep...
1:24 two contemporary Russians that think that they won the war with no help, he surely meant martinsky bombers
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54:22
Following the action on Google maps, some of the place names are hard to find but the outlines of the Russian fortresses are still clearly visible.
I wonder whether the persistent logistics failures stem from negligence of the Wehrmacht Prussian aristocracy, or the naive ambitions of their corporal-in-chief. The diversion of so many transportation resources, particularly rail, to the “necessity” of war crimes and crimes against humanity certainly played a part.
The concerns of many company-grade officers for the wellbeing of their Landsers is a persistent theme in these series. Although they seldom had the power to affect real change, it is a welcome contrast to the general brutality of the Wehrmacht toward it’s own people.
Is this you doing the narration??
Sounds tough; sort of life I enjoy. Problems with General Winter.
Until the shells start flying.
You mean a life where all of your talents are contributed to enslaving humanity and yourself? Good on you!
would be nice to have the name and unit of the solider in the description! but really enjoying these thank you
I think so too.
I was thinking these were fiction.
The book is called "In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front" by Gottlob Herbert Bidermann.
One step forward 2 steps back....😂
I've been playing these nightly for 3 or more years, over 3 or more channels, all the AI Stewie voice. At least 5 very distinct people/experiences. Often wondered if they were fiction or published biography. A sniper during retreat (Italy? Hungary? Was extremely grisly for details of red army savagery), one mostly detailing the Kurland pocket, etc
The other night was very disturbed when 2 deaths occured of men I've been hearing about and visualizing in my minds eye, one crushed alive by a T-34, another hung by one of those gorget wearing sonuvabitches for grabbing an armload of booze, chocolate and wurst from an apparent bait vehicle.
Always had to chuckle hearing people upset about a TV character dying. I get it now. Couldn't get back to sleep
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WW2 stories, please cycle some different photos periodically so that my screen doesn’t get burned-in.
AI does a pretty good job. It makes a few mistakes, but not too many.
As with WW1, artillery was the number 1 killer. This soldier mentions numerous fellow soldiers killed in action by artillery fire.
In WW I, the number one killer was disease.
Now, in the Ukraine, the Ukrainians are be slaughtered by artillery directed by satellite in low earth orbit. The Russians can see all, and pinpoint.
Who’s diary is this from???
One thing. About being. In army. You do make friends. And some enemies but not often. Some men act. And talk. Tough but arnt really just put up a front. !!!!
What book is this series of stories from?
My grand uncle on the eastern front would help with frozen dead bodies of Russians to shove under the tracks of tanks to help with traction in the ice
Pretty hard core
He told me this in 1995
imagine knowing your son’s body is crushed into a gory slurry by the war machines of your invaders
@@seanbrogan5759 laugh , war is a bitch dude - besides they are dead , cant feel the tank treads
Yes Fritz ... it GOT COLDER! All the while the crazy corporal was safe and warm plotting the murder of even more humans. One CRAZY clown. Least he didn't throw ketchup ... he just farted alot... WHOA!
Pretty crazy to try to draw parallels my Great uncle was wounded by Leningrad
This is why the Germans lost. You can't fight without fuel.
No mention of how many civilians and animals they killed?
38:03 why did they have so much horse pee?
Where you shouldn't have been to begin with.
In this series does the main character ever say what division he's a part of?
132 Infantry Division
no because its all made up. all these videos are written by the same individual. listen to enough of them and you can tell.
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@@ronalddavis. And, you KNOW?
Hell nothing less
was nüme schwitzä giits jiitz fröschtlä ir chrööt
Sleeping on the open step summer uniforms no thanks
Thank goodness for harsh winters. The Nazis had to fail.
Now the left will try to destroy europe with its pathetic woke ness.
Well that and the fact the Russians took the attitude we can drown them in our people’s blood. They did but the cost to them was huge.
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This channel has taken all my attention away from Audiobooks 😊
They wouldn't have been there if it wasn't for institutional religion
On la in to
Perhaps you could improve the narration by pronouncing the German technical terms correctly?
E.g. "Knobelbecher" should be k-no-bell-ba-ccccchhhhh-air; "knobeln" means to shake the dices in a cup. That cup being made of leather so the stiff jackboots resembling that cup.
It a text to speech generator, a very good one at that but it’s these small errors that point it out
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