Hearing this man speak is incredible. How priveleged we truly are. Anyone reading this comment is truly priveleged to be alive and in their current condition. 40-50 lice in any given hour crawling around on your body while working on miserable sleep, no food, under constant abuse and stress, while facing severe privations from even the simplest amenities and facing the vast unknowingness and uncertainty of basic survival... where the will to live was found I will never understand... I hope he had a wonderful life after enduring such hardship.
My great uncle survived a Russian POW camp. He said that in the spring all the new buds of the trees inside the enclosure were eaten and that as far as you could reach past the barbed wire the new grass was eaten away.
What a guy! even now you can see the strong life force he still has. His will to continue living is humbling - minus 30 inside!!! he must have gone outside to get warm!
Hearing a lady in the background referencing a jellybean for a stool example cracked me up which helped break up the picture my brain was painting in my head.
and what happened to Russian POWs to were released and sent back to Russia? They were in Gulags alongside him, this video is about one man in the army, non-political, he's not an officer, he was not in any decision making processes, so talking about the Genocide in Russia is not relevant in this story, and even if it were, you skimmed over a lot of details and summed it up in one sentence, no ordinary human in Europe was safe at that time, German, Russian, Jews every human suffered from the Ideologically politically charged war. But yo have to let the individual speak about his experience without putting the weight of war crimes on one soldier from one side.
@@joelmonkley6177 the battle of Stalingrad lasted for the best part of six months, after a long approach march by the 6 th Army,so they suffered plenty of casualties just getting there and wounded and sick continued to be evacuated until the airfields were finally captured. The exact figure of captives at the surrender was about 90,000 and some of them did not get released until 1955,so that's where the figure of 5,000 comes from. That's 90,000 to 5,000 over 12 years.
@@broed731 that's about right conditions got a lot better for them but unfortunately little to late for thousands most died from disease such as typhus.
From the comments on this video, you can see that people in the 21st Century are pretty ignorant of WWII in that they believe “every German citizen, man, woman, child, infant” and every soldier was a Hitler loving, baby murdering, Nazi. That’s an example of historical revisionism. Most German soldiers were not responsible for massive war crimes. In fact most did their jobs as any soldier would. Yes there were horrible atrocities on the Eastern Front, some committed by Heer (Army) troops, especially those employed against partisans. But it was police and special units that followed the Army and rounded up innocents for camps or execution. When people believe every German soldier lived to kill anyone not German they clearly have a warped idea of history. This man survived because he wanted to live, despite thinking he wanted to kill himself if he was captured. As he said, “God must have wanted me to live”. Clearly the man has faith in the God of the Bible.
Real? So Jesus fraternized with a Nazi murderer, with a "master man"?! In this article, the Nazi crimes against humanity are simply negated. The fact that such a thing has become socially acceptable should give every citizen of the world food for thought. Wirklich? Jesus hat sich also mit einem Nazi-Mörder, mit einem "Herrenmenschen" verbrüdert?! In diesem Beitrag werden die Nazi-Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ganz einfach negiert. Dass so etwas Salonfähig geworden ist, sollte jedem Bürger dieser Welt zu denken geben.
@@CrvenkapicaIVZNG So every German POW is a war criminal automatically without proof. Yes, he was a soldier who was in the German army without much choice because he was a German. That could also be a very real possibility.
Never forget these fine men all gave a oath of fealty not to Germany, nor to its Constitution but personally to Adolph Hitler. They were bound to honor that oath until Hitler's death.
A military dog in German army was receiving 50 times more food than a Russian pow in German hands in 1941.About Jews soldiers in Russian army pow to Germans: Citation:”A brutal death awaited Jews identified among the captives,” says Afroim Fraiman, a prisoner of the Peski camp near Pskov: “They could be dipped in cold water, then left naked outside in the frost till they froze to death. Another Red Army Jew, betrayed by a collaborator, was tied to a car and dragged in circles along the ground. The Germans watched his torment and laughed. The quickest death for a Jewish prisoner in this camp was if the guards set the dogs on him and he got savaged to death.” According to various estimates, up to 85,000 Soviet soldiers of Jewish ethnicity ended up in German captivity. Only a few hundred managed to survive and return”
Imagine there was no toilet in train... What they did to Soviet POW's? In best way they were killed instantly or walk into KZ. Not to mention almost 1 million Soviet POW in 1941. who starved to death because Germans didn't fed them at all. Soviets did the best: leave them alive to build what they destroyed in war.
@@broed731 This is an outright lie. The systematic starvation of both the Russian prisoners and the civilian population was a done deal of the German Reich leadership. Even before the first German soldier has entered Russian soil. It was planned because the germans were too expensive to shoot the Russians. The Germans simply wanted to save ammunition. Das ist eine glatte Lüge. Das systematische verhungern lassen, sowohl der russischen Gefangenen, wie auch der Zivilbevölkerung, das war beschlossene Sache der deutschen Reichsführung. Schon bevor der erste deutsche Soldat russischen Boden betreten hat. Es war geplant, weil den deutschen die Kugeln für die Erschießung der Russen zu teuer waren. Die Deutschen wollten ganz einfach Munition sparen.
More prisoners starved to death under the americans than anyone else in the war, and they had the food to give. And that was just the beginning, the civilians who died after the war from starvation in american held territory was even worse. No one else had this problem in peace time, even the soviets who had the most to be angry about.
@@LTPottenger your telling facts it was American death camps and they should be ashamed the yanks they had food to give but let them suffer no shelter food medical aid
The British found that out in 1940 there were two massacres of British POWs then also many wounded were left on the beach in Dunkirk were given short shrift, with a Bayonet.
What did he expect beeping a POW? Why did he come to Russia in the first place? He is complaining about his captivity in Siberia, but should be thankful that Russians were merciful and didn't shoot him on the spot for his atrocious actions that he did in Russia.
I’m amazed at how all of he audience thinks the Russians were grand and wonderful victors. Gross ignorance! The average German soldier was not a Nazi nor was every Russian soldier a communist. Few German soldiers ever saw a death camp and few Russian soldiers took prisoners to Siberia. But….I’ll believe the Soviet cruelty exceeded that of the Germans. The Russian hatred for the invaders was perhaps justified but cruelty against other human beings in the name of political ideology is worthy of damnation to the deepest hell.
He stated that he wanted to commit suicide rather than be captured. He then stated that he was unable to access his gun as it was beyond his reach. He then surrendered to the Russian soldiers. If he had genuinely wanted to commit suicide all he had to do was to run and the Russians soldiers would have shot him. This man's excuse for surrendering to the Russians and not committing suicide is questionable. As a result the remainder of this man's testimony must also be considered questionable regarding his time as a p o w in Russia
Some Americans on the streets and internet comments say that all Nazi soldiers captured by american armed forces after January 1 1945 had won the lottery. After January 1 1945, all Axis forces which had surrendered to Soviet forces had also won the lottery. Why? Soviets had plenty of food stock and plenty of blankets which they offered to surrendering Nazi soldiers and Axis soldiers. Some members of American armed forces in two month long battles in the Hurtgen forests and other battlefields where frustrated with Nazi land mines which impeded the progress of British forces and American armies towards Berlin. Seeing American servicemen maimed by land mines had upset a few western soldiers. In retaliation, every house in villages and small towns of the Hurtgen forests were burned down by western allies. Possibly, the German villages were feeding Nazi soldiers. I would like to add that, when any Nazi soldier or Axis soldier surrendered to the Soviet forces and allied Poles advancing westwards after january 1, 1945, they were handed lots of food as soon as they surrendered. Why? because German Americans like Charles Lindbergh were ready to cry "I cry foul, Our Nazi German brothers are being not well fed." After january 1, 1945, the Soviet military officers and prison guards in POW camps started over-feeding Nazi new prisoners of war, just to satisfy German Americans. That time before formation of Israel, there were a million very vocal Charles Lindbergs in America, fighting for human rights of Nazi soldiers.They had access to a new Soviet army and Soviet equipped Polish army which are extremely well dressed and well armed and had unlimited food stock to feed Nazi POE prisoners. Most German soldiers surrendered after January 1st 1945. Lots of nonsense comments because of lack of knowledge: By Jan 1, 1945, the Soviets were well stocked by the time Operation Bagraton unfolded. After December 1, 1944, the Red army was feeding everyone well, and were spending tons on money to increase logistical food support to the Soviet armies and Soviet POW prisons in all of 1944 and 1945. So, by January 1, 1945, the Soviet army was a well dressed army, and fed fed army with sufficient ready to eat meals and hot meals to everyone including civilians and including in POW prisons. The Soviet armies by January 1, 1945 was a well stocked army Soviet POW officials used to give full meals along with a couple of Soviet copies of Spam boiled ham to Nazi prisoners of war, as well as other Axis prisoners. . When Operation Bagration was launched by Soviet military to de-mine 50,000 Nazi installed land mines in the eastern front, the Soviets were spending tons of money on food and equipment of Soviet armed forces and on their POW prisons. American and western forces were unable to de-mine the 60,000 Nazi installed land mines on the western front, which slowed down the western advance towards Berlin. Along with that, the Soviet armies and prison camps were suddenly very well stocked with food and medicine. It was like the difference between day and night, from the messy conditions in Stalingrad in 1942 or 1943. Having said that, the Nazi soldiers who surrendered in 1942 or 1943 in Stalingrad may have gone hungry, as logistical support was bad for both sides. By January 1st 1945, the Soviets used to give multiple cans of boiled ham (copies of Spam boiled ham), Soviet produced, to German prisoners of war and Axis prisoners of war, along with ready meals meant for Soviet soldiers. The logistical situation in Stalingrad was bad 2 years earlier in the war, in terms of food and medicine for the Soviets. these weren't the best, we all agree. Despite shortge in 1942 1943 in Stalingrad, the Soviet nurses tried to be nice by sharing their rations or medicine with Axis prisoners of war. Soviet commandants used to suddeenly come up with food in Stalingrad, as Soviet nurses occasionally complained that a group of Axis soldiers in 1943 did not receive breakfast or lunch, when nurses visited them near Stalingrad in 1943. American propaganda starts at the grass-roots level, with no control from the White House::. The Average American says, "Had we de-mined all 60,000 Nazi land mines in the western front of Germany starting from France, and the Hurtgen forests, all Germans would have welcomed us into Germany with Garlands." The average American is not brainwashed by the government. But they say the same thing, "Had we reached Berlin first, Hitler and the Nazis would have welcomed western soldies with garlands made of shoes."
This man has beat some incredible odds.
Hearing this man speak is incredible. How priveleged we truly are. Anyone reading this comment is truly priveleged to be alive and in their current condition. 40-50 lice in any given hour crawling around on your body while working on miserable sleep, no food, under constant abuse and stress, while facing severe privations from even the simplest amenities and facing the vast unknowingness and uncertainty of basic survival... where the will to live was found I will never understand... I hope he had a wonderful life after enduring such hardship.
My great uncle survived a Russian POW camp. He said that in the spring all the new buds of the trees inside the enclosure were eaten and that as far as you could reach past the barbed wire the new grass was eaten away.
What a guy! even now you can see the strong life force he still has. His will to continue living is humbling - minus 30 inside!!! he must have gone outside to get warm!
I agree! Don't know that too many of us today would survive what they did back then.
Hearing a lady in the background referencing a jellybean for a stool example cracked me up which helped break up the picture my brain was painting in my head.
This guy looks in pretty good shape for an older gentleman and what he went through
I'd like to speak to this man. Amazing survival story.
Really cool
Just think what they did to Russian POW's, he was lucky to get home.
and what happened to Russian POWs to were released and sent back to Russia? They were in Gulags alongside him, this video is about one man in the army, non-political, he's not an officer, he was not in any decision making processes, so talking about the Genocide in Russia is not relevant in this story, and even if it were, you skimmed over a lot of details and summed it up in one sentence, no ordinary human in Europe was safe at that time, German, Russian, Jews every human suffered from the Ideologically politically charged war.
But yo have to let the individual speak about his experience without putting the weight of war crimes on one soldier from one side.
There was ~ 800,000 german pows sent to Ussr. l read 5000 or so eventually made it home. That is beyond horrific
That is for Stalingrad
@@pnwesterner6220 your right that's for Stalingrad but there was 200 000 in the 6 army what's the percentage
@@joelmonkley6177 the battle of Stalingrad lasted for the best part of six months, after a long approach march by the 6 th Army,so they suffered plenty of casualties just getting there and wounded and sick continued to be evacuated until the airfields were finally captured. The exact figure of captives at the surrender was about 90,000 and some of them did not get released until 1955,so that's where the figure of 5,000 comes from. That's 90,000 to 5,000 over 12 years.
In total its about 2.5 million german pows in USSR and about 400,000 died or so
@@broed731 that's about right conditions got a lot better for them but unfortunately little to late for thousands most died from disease such as typhus.
Ich liebe diesen kerl .
From the comments on this video, you can see that people in the 21st Century are pretty ignorant of WWII in that they believe “every German citizen, man, woman, child, infant” and every soldier was a Hitler loving, baby murdering, Nazi. That’s an example of historical revisionism. Most German soldiers were not responsible for massive war crimes. In fact most did their jobs as any soldier would. Yes there were horrible atrocities on the Eastern Front, some committed by Heer (Army) troops, especially those employed against partisans. But it was police and special units that followed the Army and rounded up innocents for camps or execution. When people believe every German soldier lived to kill anyone not German they clearly have a warped idea of history. This man survived because he wanted to live, despite thinking he wanted to kill himself if he was captured. As he said, “God must have wanted me to live”. Clearly the man has faith in the God of the Bible.
There are very less documentary or stories on situation endured by German POWs in Soviet union
Jesus walked with this man and still does 💒👌✌️
Real? So Jesus fraternized with a Nazi murderer, with a "master man"?! In this article, the Nazi crimes against humanity are simply negated. The fact that such a thing has become socially acceptable should give every citizen of the world food for thought.
Wirklich? Jesus hat sich also mit einem Nazi-Mörder, mit einem "Herrenmenschen" verbrüdert?! In diesem Beitrag werden die Nazi-Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ganz einfach negiert. Dass so etwas Salonfähig geworden ist, sollte jedem Bürger dieser Welt zu denken geben.
@@CrvenkapicaIVZNG So every German POW is a war criminal automatically without proof. Yes, he was a soldier who was in the German army without much choice because he was a German. That could also be a very real possibility.
Never forget these fine men all gave a oath of fealty not to Germany, nor to its Constitution but personally to Adolph Hitler. They were bound to honor that oath until Hitler's death.
I guess my life ain't really as bad as I think.
A military dog in German army was receiving 50 times more food than a Russian pow in German hands in 1941.About Jews soldiers in Russian army pow to Germans:
Citation:”A brutal death awaited Jews identified among the captives,” says Afroim Fraiman, a prisoner of the Peski camp near Pskov: “They could be dipped in cold water, then left naked outside in the frost till they froze to death. Another Red Army Jew, betrayed by a collaborator, was tied to a car and dragged in circles along the ground. The Germans watched his torment and laughed. The quickest death for a Jewish prisoner in this camp was if the guards set the dogs on him and he got savaged to death.”
According to various estimates, up to 85,000 Soviet soldiers of Jewish ethnicity ended up in German captivity. Only a few hundred managed to survive and return”
Jews created communism. Jewish bolshiveks mass murdered tens of millions of people across eastern europe.
Imagine there was no toilet in train... What they did to Soviet POW's? In best way they were killed instantly or walk into KZ. Not to mention almost 1 million Soviet POW in 1941. who starved to death because Germans didn't fed them at all. Soviets did the best: leave them alive to build what they destroyed in war.
the toilet was a hole in the floor or a bucket.
Most of them starved , as the germany didnt have enough food or shelter to even take care of their own soldiers much less russians
Well said .
@@broed731 This is an outright lie. The systematic starvation of both the Russian prisoners and the civilian population was a done deal of the German Reich leadership. Even before the first German soldier has entered Russian soil. It was planned because the germans were too expensive to shoot the Russians. The Germans simply wanted to save ammunition.
Das ist eine glatte Lüge. Das systematische verhungern lassen, sowohl der russischen Gefangenen, wie auch der Zivilbevölkerung, das war beschlossene Sache der deutschen Reichsführung. Schon bevor der erste deutsche Soldat russischen Boden betreten hat. Es war geplant, weil den deutschen die Kugeln für die Erschießung der Russen zu teuer waren. Die Deutschen wollten ganz einfach Munition sparen.
In 1941 a dog in German army had food ration 50 times bigger than what a Russian pow received.
yea...you gotta have subtitles.....
There are subtitles
what did the germans do to the russains
What a stupid comparison
I keep forgetting the the Germans were Angels !
More prisoners starved to death under the americans than anyone else in the war, and they had the food to give. And that was just the beginning, the civilians who died after the war from starvation in american held territory was even worse. No one else had this problem in peace time, even the soviets who had the most to be angry about.
Show me your proof@@LTPottenger
@@davegreenwood1663 You can google morgenthau plan for yourself, but you won't bother you don't want the truth.
@@LTPottenger your telling facts it was American death camps and they should be ashamed the yanks they had food to give but let them suffer no shelter food medical aid
The British found that out in 1940 there were two massacres of British POWs then also many wounded were left on the beach in Dunkirk were given short shrift, with a Bayonet.
What did he expect beeping a POW? Why did he come to Russia in the first place? He is complaining about his captivity in Siberia, but should be thankful that Russians were merciful and didn't shoot him on the spot for his atrocious actions that he did in Russia.
I’m amazed at how all of he audience thinks the Russians were grand and wonderful victors. Gross ignorance! The average German soldier was not a Nazi nor was every Russian soldier a communist. Few German soldiers ever saw a death camp and few Russian soldiers took prisoners to Siberia. But….I’ll believe the Soviet cruelty exceeded that of the Germans. The Russian hatred for the invaders was perhaps justified but cruelty against other human beings in the name of political ideology is worthy of damnation to the deepest hell.
He stated that he wanted to commit suicide rather than be captured. He then stated that he was unable to access his gun as it was beyond his reach. He then surrendered to the Russian soldiers. If he had genuinely wanted to commit suicide all he had to do was to run and the Russians soldiers would have shot him. This man's excuse for surrendering to the Russians and not committing suicide is questionable. As a result the remainder of this man's testimony must also be considered questionable regarding his time as a p o w in Russia
No mercy Mr. Kraut. The mayhem and death your country reigned upon the world was shameful.
Wow
Some Americans on the streets and internet comments say that all Nazi soldiers captured by american armed forces after January 1 1945 had won the lottery. After January 1 1945, all Axis forces which had surrendered to Soviet forces had also won the lottery. Why? Soviets had plenty of food stock and plenty of blankets which they offered to surrendering Nazi soldiers and Axis soldiers. Some members of American armed forces in two month long battles in the Hurtgen forests and other battlefields where frustrated with Nazi land mines which impeded the progress of British forces and American armies towards Berlin. Seeing American servicemen maimed by land mines had upset a few western soldiers. In retaliation, every house in villages and small towns of the Hurtgen forests were burned down by western allies. Possibly, the German villages were feeding Nazi soldiers. I would like to add that, when any Nazi soldier or Axis soldier surrendered to the Soviet forces and allied Poles advancing westwards after january 1, 1945, they were handed lots of food as soon as they surrendered. Why? because German Americans like Charles Lindbergh were ready to cry "I cry foul, Our Nazi German brothers are being not well fed." After january 1, 1945, the Soviet military officers and prison guards in POW camps started over-feeding Nazi new prisoners of war, just to satisfy German Americans. That time before formation of Israel, there were a million very vocal Charles Lindbergs in America, fighting for human rights of Nazi soldiers.They had access to a new Soviet army and Soviet equipped Polish army which are extremely well dressed and well armed and had unlimited food stock to feed Nazi POE prisoners. Most German soldiers surrendered after January 1st 1945. Lots of nonsense comments because of lack of knowledge: By Jan 1, 1945, the Soviets were well stocked by the time Operation Bagraton unfolded. After December 1, 1944, the Red army was feeding everyone well, and were spending tons on money to increase logistical food support to the Soviet armies and Soviet POW prisons in all of 1944 and 1945. So, by January 1, 1945, the Soviet army was a well dressed army, and fed fed army with sufficient ready to eat meals and hot meals to everyone including civilians and including in POW prisons. The Soviet armies by January 1, 1945 was a well stocked army Soviet POW officials used to give full meals along with a couple of Soviet copies of Spam boiled ham to Nazi prisoners of war, as well as other Axis prisoners. . When Operation Bagration was launched by Soviet military to de-mine 50,000 Nazi installed land mines in the eastern front, the Soviets were spending tons of money on food and equipment of Soviet armed forces and on their POW prisons. American and western forces were unable to de-mine the 60,000 Nazi installed land mines on the western front, which slowed down the western advance towards Berlin. Along with that, the Soviet armies and prison camps were suddenly very well stocked with food and medicine. It was like the difference between day and night, from the messy conditions in Stalingrad in 1942 or 1943. Having said that, the Nazi soldiers who surrendered in 1942 or 1943 in Stalingrad may have gone hungry, as logistical support was bad for both sides. By January 1st 1945, the Soviets used to give multiple cans of boiled ham (copies of Spam boiled ham), Soviet produced, to German prisoners of war and Axis prisoners of war, along with ready meals meant for Soviet soldiers. The logistical situation in Stalingrad was bad 2 years earlier in the war, in terms of food and medicine for the Soviets. these weren't the best, we all agree. Despite shortge in 1942 1943 in Stalingrad, the Soviet nurses tried to be nice by sharing their rations or medicine with Axis prisoners of war. Soviet commandants used to suddeenly come up with food in Stalingrad, as Soviet nurses occasionally complained that a group of Axis soldiers in 1943 did not receive breakfast or lunch, when nurses visited them near Stalingrad in 1943. American propaganda starts at the grass-roots level, with no control from the White House::. The Average American says, "Had we de-mined all 60,000 Nazi land mines in the western front of Germany starting from France, and the Hurtgen forests, all Germans would have welcomed us into Germany with Garlands." The average American is not brainwashed by the government. But they say the same thing, "Had we reached Berlin first, Hitler and the Nazis would have welcomed western soldies with garlands made of shoes."
Garlands of shoes? Shoes from Treblinka, Belzac, and Sobibor.
Lol..