Should I add subtitles in future videos? Please comment yes/no/your thoughts. Thanks! Here is the full playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLyuEmb1VavZAVYcenOHk2T5y-eLjKiQGR.html
@@jordonskyyes. I think it was called "permatine". Basically pure methamphetamine. After hearing some diaries of the Vermont soldiers, not all took it. They said it could cause erratic behavior in some. 👍.
@FinbarrOSleibhinHeer is German for Army. Other than the fewer Panzer/Panzer grenadier divisions, the rest of the Landseer (grunts) was walking or riding horses into Russia. Just like Napoleon s Army, except the weaponry of the Heer ( German Army) was infinitely more deadly. All of this is easy to find if you look it up, Listen to Sir Antony Beevor's books,,,, etc.
@@hardin369Make that 30times more After the WWII Russian estimate 25 millions Later on 40 million Simple truth is Bolsheviks did not keep it the record s On battlefield around Stalingrad each Russian soldier dies every half a hour
I Very much enjoyed your video. Even though it was about the German Axis Army. The way it way presented. In the first person talking about their numerous engagements vs the Soviet Red Army. It truly did make me feel compassion for the German Infantry Soldier. Who was in great detail talking about his own personal WW2 engagements vs the Rsd Army. Both my parents RIP were in the British Army in WW2. My late Father BD June 6 1921 in Yorkshire U.K in 1939 was only 18 yrs old. When he signed up with the British Eigth Army. My Father was gone from England until 1946. Duration of WW2 plus 6 months. Fighting in North Africa / Italy vs the German Army under Rommel. My Father always respected the German infantry. Saying they were well trained and hard fighters. My Mums Dad my Grandfather John Edington O.B.E, M.B.pE was a Warrarnt Officer in the British Royal Engineers in WW1. In WW2 he worked for M.I.6. My Mum told me how her Father said the German Army in WW1. They were tough fighters.💪🏻🙏🏻✨
People are people. WW2 could easily have ended in July of 1940 with better poiliticians. Germans and Western Europeans are pretty much the same people. Capitalist, Christian with very similar language roots. No one side was any better that the other. The Soviets on the other hand were a very different breed from a very different cultural and philosophical backround. WW2 from the Allied side was much more about $$$ than anythging else IMHO. My Father was a US Combat Marine in the central pacific as a member of the 4th Marine Division who made four landings in the Central Pacific. Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. Were it not for the dropping of the A-Bombs I and most of my counsins would never have been born as my father and two uncles were slatted to invade Japan. I do believe that most of WW2 was about $$$ and resources, not much else. Too many fine yound men died for basically corporations and bankers to make money on. Very sad stuff.
@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 "No one side was any better that the other" could you remind us which army in the west have killed millions of people for polotical reasons? I'm happy that all major cities in Germany were levelled to the ground just as a reminder of what they have done in Gernica, Varsaw, Amsterdam, London... without military justification! Members of my familly were arrested, tortured and then executed by a Luftwaffe unit few hours before the liberation by a Polish division, and there are endless examples of warcrimes commited by non-SS units.
@@PegaseFRAthat would be the German army. Who was fighting the allies, with whom we were we cozying up to one of the greatest murderers in history. I could remind you who that was. I'll give you a hint. They stopped before entering Warsaw so that the German army could put down the polish uprising there, thus helping to guarantee that the polish people got stabbed in the back. War is hell.
@@mschwage I know perfectly that, this is the reason why you have "which army in the WEST have killed millions of people" in my comment. Soviets were not member of the west, The war has started in sept 1939, the "Alliance" between US, UK and USSR in late 1941 with lend-lease. Having to choose between nazis and soviets for me is like having to choose plague and cholera both smell death! You are talking about Warsaw uprising, but we could talk about Katyn, we could talk about NKVD blowing up the dnipro dam in 1941 killing by flooding between 20000 and 100000 of their own citizens. In fact each time a soviet lover explain me that the USSR liberated europe from nazism thanks to their 20 something millions dead i always wonder how many of these millions were killed by the soviets themselves One thing that I will not forget, is that Soviets and Nazis were allied at the start of the war with there "non agression pact"
The narrator on this piece sounds identical to the main narrator on the UA-cam channel The telegraph. He has an excellent voice and is a pleasure to listen to. Clear, concise and easy to understand.
Ive read or studied alot about ww2 over the decades,I have read very little about Courland I dont know why it didnt get my attention sooner,Im completely riveted to anything i can find about Courland,Excellent video
In Latvia , we cherish Kurland Pocket. Thats where the last Latvian Waffen ss defenders fought communists even few days after war ended, they were so little but they killed so many of those pigs. While germans retreated because it wasnt theyre homeland and they didnt give a fuck
By far the saddest thing, the truly tragic thing, was that most of the Wehrmacht by late 1942 early 43 KNEW that the regime they fought under (not fought for, as the vast majority of German Troops were NOT card carrying members of "the Party") was the thing destroying Germany, and the question became one of survival, against the 'Reds' (Russians) on the one hand, the Allies (Brits/Yanks and everyone else) on the other while at 'Home' it was the Nazi's (Gestapo, People's Courts, Military Police) until the war ended.
16:14 “We believe that our presence on the northern flank of the Soviet army was all that was stopping a procession of red army tanks rolling across Europe.” Seems pretty dog gone brainwashed sentiment for a supposedly merit worthy soldier to elevate Russia to ‘harbingers of doom’ status when his army has bum-rushed dozens of sovereign states of late.
What is the source that’s being read please? The playlists don’t seem to follow one from the other. We don’t find out how he got captured. It’s frustrating.
They were great soldiers but they were completely defeated at the end. For many reasons, lack of fuel, food, ammunition, transportation, air support, the entire world against them, etc. My grandfather was a Waffen SS luitenant. He died on the eastern front in 1944. Never even seen a photo of him. However, his daughter and son, my father, came to America as orphans a few years after the war. Both got married and had very successful lives here. I'm proud of my grandfather's military service and sacrifice for his country and western civilization and completely don't care if some people have a problem with that.
@@JayTide they were undefeated, still holding their positions and only surrendered after the war was over my grandfather was also a member of the SchutzStaffel....but drafted as a 16yrs old boy at the end of the war and survived....wounded..... other Opa was a bit older and actually fought until nearly the end with Heeresgruppe Nord/Kurland
17:21 - This is a crucial point. Before condemning Hitler we must know, if there were enough ships and enough fuel available for an evacuation. He cannot allow something for which he hasn't the supplies. So instead of such a statment I'd rather like to know about the figures of ships and fuel as well as the planes of the Russians that cover the Eastern Sea. Please let's be more accurat in these history reports.
"Before condemning Hitler".. no sir. We could and should condem him at every opportunity. His pride and stupidity turned Germany into rubble and cost millions of life's. Only a complete moron would declare war on a country that you can't attack its industrial sectors the United States. AND invade the soviet union without any means to hold it during winter..
Interesting and informative.Excellent photography picture 📷 enabling the viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Orator presented the documentary very well. Class A research project. Rough fierce combat operations on both sides. One final time the disillusioned amphetamine addict Hitler. Wouldn't/couldn't face his own reality in the bunker. The war quickly in disarray and impossible to win. Special thanks to bidermann for his describing his seasoned military missions. Differentiating between facts from fiction. Unfortunately for the German armies their final suicidal attempts to stop the overwhelming Russian armies in Cortland were in vain.
The German Army did reap what they had shown in Russia on 1941 ,1942 ,1943 ; hundreds of Russia n villages were burned and the SS Einsatzcommando had murdered one million Jews by shooting them at close range. The Nazi death camps did not become the centers of mass murder until 1943. But it was the German army who paid the final price as we have seen.
@@cocot726. Race is not the same as culture. I am English and I have Danish friends. Whilst we all have white skin our national cultures are separate and very different. India has closer cultural ties to England than Denmark.
How a landser knew what Hitler was doing and thinking, and his overview of the general strategic situation....is a.....proof that much of this is effected with what the author read after the war, rather than what he experienced during it.
Clearly it's a mixture of firsthand experience and knowledge learned after the fact. Typical memoir. I prefer journals and diaries to memoirs but as long as the facts are accurately represented, one can still learn a lot from them.
"Why are you a n@zi sympathiser?" I can only answer for myself as to why I prefer German perspectives of the war. It's an exercise in dramatic irony and a horror film where you already know the twist is that (from the protagonists perspective) the evil wins. Listening to these tales I already know as they describe their victories that they will lose. Holding your breathe knowing you'll never break the surface. Yet through each episode our characters evolve and survive a series of events which one is unlikely to survive. These people where doomed to die and the world they knew collapsed. Looking at the whole it seems impossible anyone could survive and examined in detail it's a series of events which are survivable to a degree with great judgement and a little luck. The German story is a tale of hope against hopelessness and teaches us that the defeat you thought represented the destruction of good in the world turned out to be the victory of "good" over "evil". The Russians won but are they the good guys now? Maybe. Maybe not. What these stories teach us is to forget the picture and remember ourselves - all that really matters is saving ourselves and those next to us and the rest falls by the wayside. These are stories of misery and messages of hope... at least to me.
hope of surviving or seeing their mum again. Hope that they are honest about what they saw or did even if they justify it. You want a real horror show read/listen to the memoirs of Rudolph Rudolf Höss. What makes him so vile that I couldn't bring myself to finish it is - how he manages to cover the topic but say nothing at all. Idk you'd think if you did what he did to so many people you'd believe it and stand by it. At least Hitler had the decency to... himself in his own bunker. Hoss was a disgusting, self serving, spineless, duplicit, awful human being who's primary skill was avoiding responsibility for anything. You could listen to his version of what happened in Auchwitz and if you weren't paying attention or fell asleep you'd think it was a first class holiday and good fun for all.@@comankh
Recollections like this should be cautions: against war, against arrogance, against pride. Getting old gives time to see one’s own folly in ever having imagined oneself able to stand above or apart those of our times.
The German armed forces fought with determination and skill. Unfortunately, the regime on whose behalf they fought is the much bigger story. Accounts of bravery and valour cannot hope to overcome this grim and gruesome reality. Remember this always: German war plans called for the elimination, after victory, of more than 35 million Eastern Europeans. After victory, the western allies, through the Marshall Plan, rebuilt, fed and housed all the peoples of Europe who desired it. Therein lay the difference.As for the Soviets, they were as brutal as their German enemies. Indeed it can plausibly be argued even moreso. That said, at a certain level, and both Germans and Soviets reached it, increased levels of barbarism mean very little when both bring nothing but misery to people. European culture was and is best protected by peace and the respect for just and [roper law.
The Soviets were "brutal" because they attempted to shore up the prior historical invasion routes that the Western invaders used. They did subsidize the Eastern European nations far better than what the USA/Western imperialists did for Latin America, Southeast Asia, India and the Middle East. Not saying that Eastern Europe was a paradise but didn't the average Romanians, Poles, Czechs, Uzbeks and etc live far better than the masses of Filipinos, El Salvadorans, Mexicans, Colombians and other peoples under the US/Western banana republicanism who still eat out of garbage dumps to this day? Why did the French try to squash the people's wish for independence in Vietnam post WW II? Why did the Dutch try to squash the people's wish for independence in Indonesia post WW II? Rather brutally too. Yep, that simple we "western allies" the good guys, those Soviets "barbaric." Simple dimple black and white way of looking at the world.
In the decades to come, eight centuries of German presence in the Baltic states would be systematically erased. All of this stout defense would be for naught.
The guys that started the war in Europe and proceeded to exterminate 6 million civilians due to race alone was the wrong side to fight? Shit if a nation was pulling those shenanigans I'd gladly arrange for them to encounter unspeakable violence and wouldnt lose a wink of sleep.
No, we fought the right side. The nazis still needed to be destroyed. But we should’ve continued east. Especially considering the US had air superiority and the A-bomb.
Wehrmacht myth has been debunked by so many historians 😂😂 Ironically you can get more objective view from modern German world war 2 experts like Sonke Neitzel for example. Personally I won’t read too much into personal diary/experience of ex servicemen from either side, be a German lancer or a Red Army soldier. Their view were tinted with ideological biases or exaggeration of the achievement/victories on their respective side
The Germans needed that air craft carrier Graf Zeppelin off the baltic coast ready to unleash 60 stuka dive bombers on to a soviet tank strike and a few me 262 s at the nearest base ready to destroy Soviet fighters and bombing aircraft the germans were still capable of unleashing some critical damage on the reds they may of only managed to do it once but Graf zeppelin was a giant white elephant that needed to be tested on the red army
Jerry never learned how to launch craft of a carrier. Besides that the unfinished Graf Zepp had no crew, and all Stukas were following Rudel or skulking fearfully close to the ground at night. All 109s and 262s were fighting a losing battle against the 8th air force, sadly. Also Ivan had air superiority and I'm pretty sure kriegsmarine was using all it's oil to evacuate east Prussia from the mass vengeance rape which was about to befall it's entire population
The German army was magnificent, vastly outnumbered, outgunned, short of ammunition and fuel, they still managed to hold back the Red Army. The Wehrmacht must surely have been the greatest army since the legions of Rome.
The 3rd Reich ended in 13 years. Could be argued the Wehrmacht was actually the downfall of the nation. They only defeated 2 nations militarily - Poland and France. Thats it. Both by surprise attack. Otherwise the Wehrmacht were an abject failure. Now, the fighting men were impressive, and if that is your thinking, it has a modicum of merit. Comparison to the legions? Not even in the same dialogue. The Grande Armee was far more successful on the battlefield than the Wehrmacht. They too, died at the hands of the Russians, however.
No the confederate army was the best soldiers the world had ever knowed and fought for a glorious cause when they were finally overwhelmed the downfall of western civilization began
in oct 44 at the battle of Debrecen two soviet tank armies were smashed, which one would not expect so late in the war, but the men in this kessel are all heroes
At some point I have read what has been read here to me. The narrator is without a doubt a simply great reader or narrator of the stories. Otherwise I would not listen. Certainly by now the author of this war telling has finally lost the battle for life. Either that or they are fated to live forever. Imagine these men in their 90s and 100s and simply never dying walking around in whatever forests are left shooting paintball rifles at each other because they were born for the purposes of war?
It just would have delayed the inevitable. Germany was never going to be able to win a war of production against the U.S.S.R., The U.S. and the British Empire. Britain alone was outproducing Germany in fighter aircraft.
Some Estonian friends told me that the survivors of the Wehrmacht took off their German uniforms and put on Estonian ones and continued to fight the Soviet invaders for many years as guerillas and hit & run - long enough for the frustrated Soviets to threaten civilian populations with deportations and exterminations as reprisals and, finally, to threaten major Estonian cities with nuclear weapons! All those who surrendered and did not simply disappear south or west were never seen again.
Ahh, zero self-awareness. You're the nazis in this current scenario. How you felt about Germany invading in '41? That's how the rest of the civilized world feels about you now. White-Hot Hatred. I don't expect muscovite swine to possess empathy or critical thinking skills, it's simply in your DNA to be awful. Without the former soviet client-states doing the heavy lifting russia is worse than useless, putin actually realized this so he went for Ukraine. How's that 72 hr SMO going? Au revoir suka! “The United States … is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war.” -Stalin 1943
As this record confirms , this was a horrific battle with tragic losses of the Latvian civilians , the Allied soldiers , the property , and of course the horses . I can't think of any thing else of value that was lost at this battle . Oh wait , I almost forgot ,they must have lost many important court documents . Wait let me think , no, I can't think of any thing else of value that was lost .
Should I add subtitles in future videos? Please comment yes/no/your thoughts. Thanks!
Here is the full playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLyuEmb1VavZAVYcenOHk2T5y-eLjKiQGR.html
Yes, but make them solid. Just my opinion. These are incredible btw!
I like the subtitles just the way they are
You speak very clearly ...I don't think you need subtitles well done
Yes! Keep the subtitles
I understand you perfectly but it would be nice for the hearing impaired
Glad I found this channel it is excellent.
These are great! Thank you new sub I can picture it in my head the stories are so vivid and detailed. Very well done
WW2 Stories: Thank you for your hard work. Since I know English I don't need subtitles but other people do need it- so, yes.
WW2 Stories: Thank you very much for your hard work. Since I speak English I don't need subtitles but other people do- so yes.
Thank you.
Brilliant thanks 😊
People often think of the German Army and the Blitzkrieg tactic but the reality is, as shown here, that most units were on foot or used horses.
Fun fact loots took meth to stay awake and fight longer
You are talking to a bunch of ww2 nerds
@@jordonskyyes. I think it was called "permatine". Basically pure methamphetamine. After hearing some diaries of the Vermont soldiers, not all took it. They said it could cause erratic behavior in some. 👍.
@FinbarrOSleibhinHeer is German for Army. Other than the fewer Panzer/Panzer grenadier divisions, the rest of the Landseer (grunts) was walking or riding horses into Russia. Just like Napoleon s Army, except the weaponry of the Heer ( German Army) was infinitely more deadly. All of this is easy to find if you look it up, Listen to Sir Antony Beevor's books,,,, etc.
@mdkell4261 I think you mean pervitin
Great narration..I felt as if I was there…cheers
WoW . . . this was EXCELLENT . . . very intense ! ! !
I love these narratives. I dont think any army has ever suffered like the Wehrmacht in Russia I can almost feel my toes start to go numb. Good stuff!
It'd be a hard one between the Wehrmacht and Napoleon's retreat imo.
Red army suffered 3x times more....
@@hardin369 I'm guessing getting taken prisoner then not being fed is unpleasant
@@hardin369Make that 30times more After the WWII Russian estimate 25 millions Later on 40 million Simple truth is Bolsheviks did not keep it the record s On battlefield around Stalingrad each Russian soldier dies every half a hour
How this guy survived the Eastern Front for 3 years is amazing. I doubt many could claim that. Google him, highly decorated, wounded 5 times.
Soldiers luck
There has to be a special place in Hell for Heer Schoner who revealed his cowardice and psychopathy ! PLEASE
NO MORE BROTHERS WAR EVER AGAIN !!
His devotion to God and Our Lady carried him through to be a witness to what happened.
@@UhlankadettComplete bollocks.
@@Uhlankadettour Lady.... Lmfao😅
I Very much enjoyed your video. Even though it was about the German Axis Army. The way it way presented. In the first person talking about their numerous engagements vs the Soviet Red Army. It truly did make me feel compassion for the German Infantry Soldier. Who was in great detail talking about his own personal WW2 engagements vs the Rsd Army. Both my parents RIP were in the British Army in WW2. My late Father BD June 6 1921 in Yorkshire U.K in 1939 was only 18 yrs old. When he signed up with the British Eigth Army. My Father was gone from England until 1946. Duration of WW2 plus 6 months. Fighting in North Africa / Italy vs the German Army under Rommel. My Father always respected the German infantry. Saying they were well trained and hard fighters. My Mums Dad my Grandfather John Edington O.B.E, M.B.pE was a Warrarnt Officer in the British Royal Engineers in WW1. In WW2 he worked for M.I.6. My Mum told me how her Father said the German Army in WW1. They were tough fighters.💪🏻🙏🏻✨
People are people. WW2 could easily have ended in July of 1940 with better poiliticians. Germans and Western Europeans are pretty much the same people. Capitalist, Christian with very similar language roots. No one side was any better that the other. The Soviets on the other hand were a very different breed from a very different cultural and philosophical backround. WW2 from the Allied side was much more about $$$ than anythging else IMHO. My Father was a US Combat Marine in the central pacific as a member of the 4th Marine Division who made four landings in the Central Pacific. Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. Were it not for the dropping of the A-Bombs I and most of my counsins would never have been born as my father and two uncles were slatted to invade Japan. I do believe that most of WW2 was about $$$ and resources, not much else. Too many fine yound men died for basically corporations and bankers to make money on. Very sad stuff.
@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 "No one side was any better that the other" could you remind us which army in the west have killed millions of people for polotical reasons? I'm happy that all major cities in Germany were levelled to the ground just as a reminder of what they have done in Gernica, Varsaw, Amsterdam, London... without military justification!
Members of my familly were arrested, tortured and then executed by a Luftwaffe unit few hours before the liberation by a Polish division, and there are endless examples of warcrimes commited by non-SS units.
@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 "WW2 could easily have ended in July of 1940 with better poiliticians." How?
@@PegaseFRAthat would be the German army. Who was fighting the allies, with whom we were we cozying up to one of the greatest murderers in history. I could remind you who that was. I'll give you a hint. They stopped before entering Warsaw so that the German army could put down the polish uprising there, thus helping to guarantee that the polish people got stabbed in the back. War is hell.
@@mschwage I know perfectly that, this is the reason why you have "which army in the WEST have killed millions of people" in my comment. Soviets were not member of the west, The war has started in sept 1939, the "Alliance" between US, UK and USSR in late 1941 with lend-lease. Having to choose between nazis and soviets for me is like having to choose plague and cholera both smell death! You are talking about Warsaw uprising, but we could talk about Katyn, we could talk about NKVD blowing up the dnipro dam in 1941 killing by flooding between 20000 and 100000 of their own citizens. In fact each time a soviet lover explain me that the USSR liberated europe from nazism thanks to their 20 something millions dead i always wonder how many of these millions were killed by the soviets themselves
One thing that I will not forget, is that Soviets and Nazis were allied at the start of the war with there "non agression pact"
The narrator on this piece sounds identical to the main narrator on the UA-cam channel The telegraph. He has an excellent voice and is a pleasure to listen to. Clear, concise and easy to understand.
It's an AI voice, not a person...
@@francescoguzzetta Sounds like Tom Courteney
Sounds like Nigel Farage
@@parkestanley2436Not really. Thank god
@@basfinnis It's Nigel, last name I actually don't remember. But, you're right, not Farage 😀😀😀
This guy gives a very detailed and brilliant description of his experience. Thank God he and the Soviet soldier survived their encounter.
It's an AI Bot. That's why there are so many miscommunications and misinterpreted numbers.
that soviet soldierd now has grandkids that are murdering in ukraine
Awesome data. Thank you.
Guys a great narrator, really enjoy is telling of WW II stories! 👍
Brilliant narrative.
Ive read or studied alot about ww2 over the decades,I have read very little about Courland
I dont know why it didnt get my attention sooner,Im completely riveted to anything i can find about Courland,Excellent video
In Latvia , we cherish Kurland Pocket. Thats where the last Latvian Waffen ss defenders fought communists even few days after war ended, they were so little but they killed so many of those pigs. While germans retreated because it wasnt theyre homeland and they didnt give a fuck
Thanks WW2 stories for the videos ...and YES please! Lesson learned: Always sleep with your weapon.
Yes.
The Balts went through hell by the Russians.
This is very engrossing!
Usually I watch a YT video for only 10 or 15 minutes.
For this tremendous story, I watched the text and audio for 51 minutes.
Love this story and telling of it. Nice work my friend.
Yes to subtitles,please.Thank you.
Is this, "In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front? by Gottlob Herbert Bidermann?
why are most of the names of german officers not german? and after googling it nothing shows up? 31:41 Luftwaffe general Flugbyle?
By far the saddest thing, the truly tragic thing, was that most of the Wehrmacht by late 1942 early 43 KNEW that the regime they fought under (not fought for, as the vast majority of German Troops were NOT card carrying members of "the Party") was the thing destroying Germany, and the question became one of survival, against the 'Reds' (Russians) on the one hand, the Allies (Brits/Yanks and everyone else) on the other while at 'Home' it was the Nazi's (Gestapo, People's Courts, Military Police) until the war ended.
Í have his book,great read
By Demons Be Driven.
This is an entire memoir available on audiobook.I can't remember the name off hand but it is fantastic.
16:14 “We believe that our presence on the northern flank of the Soviet army was all that was stopping a procession of red army tanks rolling across Europe.”
Seems pretty dog gone brainwashed sentiment for a supposedly merit worthy soldier to elevate Russia to ‘harbingers of doom’ status when his army has bum-rushed dozens of sovereign states of late.
Wow, I'm reading this book at the moment.
In Deadly Combat by Gottlob Bindermann
Pepesha - is the name of Soviet gun he describes for us at 7:00 on
I feel bad for those poor horses
Animals and civilians are always Collateral damage to mankind. That's why we should never have wars.
Nothing more satisfying/nutritious then horse 🐎 meat goulash stew. While being pursued by the enemy. 😋😋
What is the source that’s being read please? The playlists don’t seem to follow one from the other. We don’t find out how he got captured. It’s frustrating.
Are these being read by a computer?
Magnificent soldiers! Best in the world. Undefeated in Courland.
They were great soldiers but they were completely defeated at the end. For many reasons, lack of fuel, food, ammunition, transportation, air support, the entire world against them, etc. My grandfather was a Waffen SS luitenant. He died on the eastern front in 1944. Never even seen a photo of him. However, his daughter and son, my father, came to America as orphans a few years after the war. Both got married and had very successful lives here. I'm proud of my grandfather's military service and sacrifice for his country and western civilization and completely don't care if some people have a problem with that.
@@JayTide You have every right to be proud. Salute your brave Grandfather.
@@JayTide I speak for the tens of millions of innocent dead when I say that I’m glad he died and the third reich failed =)
@@JayTide especially a waffen ss officer, the most despicable humans ever. Hope he burns in hell for eternity
@@JayTide they were undefeated, still holding their positions and only surrendered after the war was over
my grandfather was also a member of the SchutzStaffel....but drafted as a 16yrs old boy at the end of the war and survived....wounded.....
other Opa was a bit older and actually fought until nearly the end with Heeresgruppe Nord/Kurland
They should have brought it in June 44, on the flanks of Bagration. What a waste.
I think Guderian wanted them to defend the capital
Squire’s props in the thumbnail are very good.
I can highly recommend TIKs 6,5 hour video on the Courland pocket.
You Speak Clear enough, unless you are going for the deaf audience they are not needed. Great Stories!
17:21 - This is a crucial point. Before condemning Hitler we must know, if there were enough ships and enough fuel available for an evacuation. He cannot allow something for which he hasn't the supplies. So instead of such a statment I'd rather like to know about the figures of ships and fuel as well as the planes of the Russians that cover the Eastern Sea. Please let's be more accurat in these history reports.
"Before condemning Hitler".. no sir. We could and should condem him at every opportunity. His pride and stupidity turned Germany into rubble and cost millions of life's. Only a complete moron would declare war on a country that you can't attack its industrial sectors the United States. AND invade the soviet union without any means to hold it during winter..
In the subtitles they use the word “lancers”. This is a mistake, from the German word “Landser” meaning an ordinary soldier.
Yes, please keep subtitles.
Is this from a Book? This is so familiar sounding.
What’s the books name
Danke Jungens. 🤝🏻
His name Gottlob is loved by God or who love God but definitely the first one
I have the book. gonna dig it out and reread it
A great I situation in itself an un.atcha le army ! Tribute from.
I.dian Veterans
I am certain, PTSD WAS THE MAJOR DISEASE in Germany after Ww2.
3:00 ...Evacuation of Riga. I would point people to the Odessa Files book for a picture of that evacuation
No subtitles please. The screen is already cluttered.
What’s his name?
dried rhubarb as a horse feed alternate to barley
Interesting and informative.Excellent photography picture 📷 enabling the viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Orator presented the documentary very well. Class A research project. Rough fierce combat operations on both sides. One final time the disillusioned amphetamine addict Hitler. Wouldn't/couldn't face his own reality in the bunker. The war quickly in disarray and impossible to win. Special thanks to bidermann for his describing his seasoned military missions. Differentiating between facts from fiction. Unfortunately for the German armies their final suicidal attempts to stop the overwhelming Russian armies in Cortland were in vain.
The German Army did reap what they had shown in Russia on 1941 ,1942 ,1943 ; hundreds of Russia
n villages were burned and the SS Einsatzcommando had murdered one million Jews by shooting them at close range. The Nazi death camps did not become the centers of mass murder until 1943. But it was the German army who paid the final price as we have seen.
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These are chapters taken out of a book, just put the whole book on rather than being greedy and chopping up a book
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"The defense of European culture" more or less sums up the entire war.
What is European culture? Portuguese, Finnish, Welsh, Greek, Basque, etc etc. Europe has many diverse cultures, it`s not one culture.
@@davidbickle118ll of them, he meant culture because all europeans are similar in a way or other
@@cocot726 All humans are similar in one way or another. No continent has a single culture.
@@davidbickle118 Yes but racially they are similar a dane is similar to an englishmen racially but a chinese and a black would never be similar
@@cocot726. Race is not the same as culture. I am English and I have Danish friends. Whilst we all have white skin our national cultures are separate and very different. India has closer cultural ties to England than Denmark.
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How a landser knew what Hitler was doing and thinking, and his overview of the general strategic situation....is a.....proof that much of this is effected with what the author read after the war, rather than what he experienced during it.
Clearly it's a mixture of firsthand experience and knowledge learned after the fact. Typical memoir. I prefer journals and diaries to memoirs but as long as the facts are accurately represented, one can still learn a lot from them.
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"Why are you a n@zi sympathiser?" I can only answer for myself as to why I prefer German perspectives of the war. It's an exercise in dramatic irony and a horror film where you already know the twist is that (from the protagonists perspective) the evil wins. Listening to these tales I already know as they describe their victories that they will lose. Holding your breathe knowing you'll never break the surface. Yet through each episode our characters evolve and survive a series of events which one is unlikely to survive. These people where doomed to die and the world they knew collapsed. Looking at the whole it seems impossible anyone could survive and examined in detail it's a series of events which are survivable to a degree with great judgement and a little luck. The German story is a tale of hope against hopelessness and teaches us that the defeat you thought represented the destruction of good in the world turned out to be the victory of "good" over "evil". The Russians won but are they the good guys now? Maybe. Maybe not. What these stories teach us is to forget the picture and remember ourselves - all that really matters is saving ourselves and those next to us and the rest falls by the wayside. These are stories of misery and messages of hope... at least to me.
Well put! The drama one would get from following the losers is much more palpable. I dont have any sympathy for nazis, but i can have it for germans
Yeah, the German Army men were such humanitarians in Russia
agressive war. what hope?
hope of surviving or seeing their mum again. Hope that they are honest about what they saw or did even if they justify it. You want a real horror show read/listen to the memoirs of Rudolph Rudolf Höss.
What makes him so vile that I couldn't bring myself to finish it is - how he manages to cover the topic but say nothing at all. Idk you'd think if you did what he did to so many people you'd believe it and stand by it. At least Hitler had the decency to... himself in his own bunker.
Hoss was a disgusting, self serving, spineless, duplicit, awful human being who's primary skill was avoiding responsibility for anything. You could listen to his version of what happened in Auchwitz and if you weren't paying attention or fell asleep you'd think it was a first class holiday and good fun for all.@@comankh
Recollections like this should be cautions: against war, against arrogance, against pride. Getting old gives time to see one’s own folly in ever having imagined oneself able to stand above or apart those of our times.
About 41 minutes in. That is a very real very visceral feeling. I hate feeling sympathetic to nazis, but that is fucking real.
So the soldier who shot the painting was probably a Jew?
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Because only Jews hated Hitler.
Did he return that Madonna painting to their rightful owners? Thief.
Brave German soldiers...brave to the end
The German troops were cowards when confronted by the Allies. Why did they bury their uniforms?
The German armed forces fought with determination and skill. Unfortunately, the regime on whose behalf they fought is the much bigger story. Accounts of bravery and valour cannot hope to overcome this grim and gruesome reality. Remember this always: German war plans called for the elimination, after victory, of more than 35 million Eastern Europeans. After victory, the western allies, through the Marshall Plan, rebuilt, fed and housed all the peoples of Europe who desired it. Therein lay the difference.As for the Soviets, they were as brutal as their German enemies. Indeed it can plausibly be argued even moreso. That said, at a certain level, and both Germans and Soviets reached it, increased levels of barbarism mean very little when both bring nothing but misery to people. European culture was and is best protected by peace and the respect for just and [roper law.
THANK GOD these GUTLESS KRAUTS got exactly what they deserved !!!!!
"German" war plans mainly discovered and puplished by the ones who had a lot to explain and justify......
The Soviets were "brutal" because they attempted to shore up the prior historical invasion routes that the Western invaders used. They did subsidize the Eastern European nations far better than what the USA/Western imperialists did for Latin America, Southeast Asia, India and the Middle East. Not saying that Eastern Europe was a paradise but didn't the average Romanians, Poles, Czechs, Uzbeks and etc live far better than the masses of Filipinos, El Salvadorans, Mexicans, Colombians and other peoples under the US/Western banana republicanism who still eat out of garbage dumps to this day?
Why did the French try to squash the people's wish for independence in Vietnam post WW II? Why did the Dutch try to squash the people's wish for independence in Indonesia post WW II? Rather brutally too. Yep, that simple we "western allies" the good guys, those Soviets "barbaric." Simple dimple black and white way of looking at the world.
Excellent point both were just as evil. America saved free Europeans with the marshall plan.
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Obviously this narrator forgets which side caused the war with their dream of world domination.
In the decades to come, eight centuries of German presence in the Baltic states would be systematically erased. All of this stout defense would be for naught.
We fought the wrong side
Really…you would rather side with genocidal maniacs who’s ideology lead to extermination of millions of civilians? You’re a pos
The guys that started the war in Europe and proceeded to exterminate 6 million civilians due to race alone was the wrong side to fight? Shit if a nation was pulling those shenanigans I'd gladly arrange for them to encounter unspeakable violence and wouldnt lose a wink of sleep.
No, we fought the right side. The nazis still needed to be destroyed. But we should’ve continued east. Especially considering the US had air superiority and the A-bomb.
6 Millionen..! It’s not true! Churchill actually started the world war! There are countless lies…! Do a proper research….
@@TheDanielFisher91 it was a whole lot more than just 6 million.
Wehrmacht myth has been debunked by so many historians 😂😂 Ironically you can get more objective view from modern German world war 2 experts like Sonke Neitzel for example. Personally I won’t read too much into personal diary/experience of ex servicemen from either side, be a German lancer or a Red Army soldier. Their view were tinted with ideological biases or exaggeration of the achievement/victories on their respective side
😂😂Historians who only know their history from books? 😂😂 You’re so full of shi$ 😂
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The Germans needed that air craft carrier Graf Zeppelin off the baltic coast ready to unleash 60 stuka dive bombers on to a soviet tank strike and a few me 262 s at the nearest base ready to destroy Soviet fighters and bombing aircraft the germans were still capable of unleashing some critical damage on the reds they may of only managed to do it once but Graf zeppelin was a giant white elephant that needed to be tested on the red army
Jerry never learned how to launch craft of a carrier. Besides that the unfinished Graf Zepp had no crew, and all Stukas were following Rudel or skulking fearfully close to the ground at night. All 109s and 262s were fighting a losing battle against the 8th air force, sadly. Also Ivan had air superiority and I'm pretty sure kriegsmarine was using all it's oil to evacuate east Prussia from the mass vengeance rape which was about to befall it's entire population
I believe the carrier would have helped but probably wouldn't have lasted long due to heavy attacks
The German army was magnificent, vastly outnumbered, outgunned, short of ammunition and fuel, they still managed to hold back the Red Army. The Wehrmacht must surely have been the greatest army since the legions of Rome.
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The 3rd Reich ended in 13 years. Could be argued the Wehrmacht was actually the downfall of the nation. They only defeated 2 nations militarily - Poland and France. Thats it. Both by surprise attack. Otherwise the Wehrmacht were an abject failure. Now, the fighting men were impressive, and if that is your thinking, it has a modicum of merit. Comparison to the legions? Not even in the same dialogue. The Grande Armee was far more successful on the battlefield than the Wehrmacht. They too, died at the hands of the Russians, however.
If the Red Army ignores you, is that holding them back?
No the confederate army was the best soldiers the world had ever knowed and fought for a glorious cause when they were finally overwhelmed the downfall of western civilization began
“Worlds largest prison camp”
Love hearing the pain, fear and humiliation that the germans experienced. Good stuff!
in oct 44 at the battle of Debrecen two soviet tank armies were smashed, which one would not expect so late in the war, but the men in this kessel are all heroes
Undefeated, only betrayed.
Awwwwwww miserable marching?
At this very moment people are giving (wasting) their lives for a new madman: Putin. When do we ever learn?
He brought his people together and the international clique was threatened so they were utterly destroyed.
The idea of a priest blessing Nazi soldiers is quite obscene.
Why, were they not men too...
3rd reich was Christian
Red Army soldiers ironically call Couland German troops
German armed POW....locked on peninsula....😂🤔😄
Wasted all your ammo on jews? What came clear to you?
At some point I have read what has been read here to me. The narrator is without a doubt a simply great reader or narrator of the stories. Otherwise I would not listen. Certainly by now the author of this war telling has finally lost the battle for life. Either that or they are fated to live forever. Imagine these men in their 90s and 100s and simply never dying walking around in whatever forests are left shooting paintball rifles at each other because they were born for the purposes of war?
If the Corporal would of turned the army over to the Generals for decisions,the outcome would of been different
It just would have delayed the inevitable. Germany was never going to be able to win a war of production against the U.S.S.R., The U.S. and the British Empire. Britain alone was outproducing Germany in fighter aircraft.
how would the outcome be different?
do u have a more specific theory?
Really did you could win with horses 😅
Some Estonian friends told me that the survivors of the Wehrmacht took off their German uniforms and put on Estonian ones and continued to fight the Soviet invaders for many years as guerillas and hit & run - long enough for the frustrated Soviets to threaten civilian populations with deportations and exterminations as reprisals and, finally, to threaten major Estonian cities with nuclear weapons! All those who surrendered and did not simply disappear south or west were never seen again.
Germany lost
We owe them a ton… imagine if they didn’t work so hatd
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Ahh, zero self-awareness. You're the nazis in this current scenario. How you felt about Germany invading in '41? That's how the rest of the civilized world feels about you now. White-Hot Hatred. I don't expect muscovite swine to possess empathy or critical thinking skills, it's simply in your DNA to be awful. Without the former soviet client-states doing the heavy lifting russia is worse than useless, putin actually realized this so he went for Ukraine. How's that 72 hr SMO going? Au revoir suka!
“The United States … is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war.” -Stalin 1943
Russia is cool, Judaic communismo not so much
As this record confirms , this was a horrific battle with tragic losses of the Latvian civilians , the Allied soldiers , the property , and of course the horses . I can't think of any thing else of value that was lost at this battle . Oh wait , I almost forgot ,they must have lost many important court documents . Wait let me think , no, I can't think of any thing else of value that was lost .
Im from Latvia and , 15- 19th latvian waffen ss helped escort em from the Estonia thru all of Latvia to Liepajas docks where they retreated.
This is an entire memoir @8hrs.av