I’ve been looking for new one since this morning. We’re spoiled by the quick releases! Now I can listen as I do yard work. For some reason, my wife and kids don’t share my love of historical war diaries😅
Don't feel bad. I once knew a super football fan. He took his wife & two little daughters to the Football Hall of Fame on their vacation. He said, "All they did was complain"! Kool huh? Can you imagine telling a six year old girl, "Look sweetheart, that's Johnny Unitases jersey"!
This is akin to a book on tape. I am a truck driver and have been listening the last few days. Makes the trips go faster and I learn something new. Thank you.
@@davidthelander1299 Any good books I should listen to? One I would recommend is "It doesn't take a hero" the autobiography of H. Norman Schwarzkopf. He was in charge of centcom during the first gulf War. 2 cool historical facts from the book. 1. His father was in charge of the NJ state police and investigated the Lindbergh kidnapping. 2. While in Vietnam in the 1960s Peter Arnett in the field had taken a picture of Schwarzkopf and another soldier carrying a wounded soldier off the field. Peter Arnett actually reported from live from Bahgdad for CNN during the first gulf war. There are many interesting stories in the book. One thing that is of personal interest to me is that Schwarzkopf's Sister actually attended college in Oberlin Ohio and while visiting her they went to the beach for the day. The closest beach would have been Lakeview beach in my hometown of Lorain ohio.
I can scarcely begin to describe in mere words my appreciation for this series. I have shared this with my friends that I judge to be intellectually awake. It's a shame we couldn't make all the Russians on the Ukrainian front to listen and absorb the journey of someone who, in time , began to understand how the propaganda had fueled an entire people , to an unjust, and unnecessary fervor. To see the futility of fighting a war , which in fact, will only benefit the powerful at the expense of the common soldier. It pains me to think that the state of education in Russia allows the intellectually lazy to ignore reality and March to their death. To commit atrocities in the name of a questionable cause, to die for a maniacal liar, and to lose against a righteous defender. Such a total and complete waste of lives.
Even the propaganda and hate politics in America make me worry for the future. Seeing my family members, who are not intellectuals, watch Fox News then become enraged is really alarming. It's as if 30 percent of the population was made mentally sick from the pandemic.
@@ryanreedgibsonFox news is no where the same as it was in the beginning, but the begining was so many years ago, Fox used to have this little known series known as "Married... With Children".
The State of education in Russia? It's not unusual to see a Russian man or woman with multiple degrees . Most Russians speak several languages.. the NATO's aggressive nature is behind the war in Ukraine. They shot a missile in to eastern Ukraine and blamed Russia. I knew better that have shelled that part of Ukraine since 2014 ..😮..you should educate yourself before demand some one else get educateed....😂
These are interesting from the german viewpoint. However, the germans do a bit of complaining as to their circumstances. They seem to forget they are in a foreign land and they caused much death and destruction to the French people. So, buck up Fritz and endure the battles of your own instigation.
True. They don't admit defeat but say the allies had unlimited men and equipment. And naturally, they leave out any mention of mistreatment of civilians or murders of allied soldiers. 156 Canadian soldiers were murdered in cold blood after surrendering June 7-8. Some bodies weren't found until the following spring when a Frenchwomen noticed the bulbs in her garden were sprouting all over, higgledy-piggledy. They dug into the beds and found the bodies of murdered Canadian soldiers who had all been shot in the back of the head. US Army authorities who investigated, recommended charging five SS officers with the murders. In the end, only Kurt Meyer was put on trial by Canada for 48 of the murders. Forty-five Canadians were murdered at the Chateau he and the other SS officers had commandeered. The other murders were scattered around Normandy. Meyer was court-martialed in December 1945, convicted of inciting his troops to execute Canadian prisoners, and sentenced to death. Meyer was scheduled to be shot on 7 January 1946. An execution site was selected and the firing party readied. Meyer initially refused to file for clemency, and he seemed to bitterly accept his upcoming death. "So, this is how my life will end," he said. "A volley will crack out in a sandpit somewhere and my body will disappear into a nameless grave." Meyer's wife appealed on his behalf. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the Canadian government. He served five years at Dorchester penitentiary in New Brunswick. While in prison it came out he was responsible for massacres of civilians in the Soviet Union. The Russians pressured Canada to release him to their custody to be tried for those murders as well. Eventually he transferred to a West German jail after the West German government petitioned the Allies for the return of all prisoners. His sentence was commuted to 14 years. In 1954 he was set free after serving only 9 years of his reduced sentence. After his release he was a major apologist for the SS claiming they committed no murders or massacres except for Oradour-sue-Glane.
@@blackpowder4016 They also Massacred British troops at Womhoult and La Paradise in 1940. ua-cam.com/video/ZYYUVraH8aM/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/n6wVUnoH4nE/v-deo.html And a German noted that he saw about 20 US paratroopers executed on D-Day. And not forgetting this. ua-cam.com/video/ny7yudLPweM/v-deo.html
As a veteran and an Able Sailor. I love this diaries! It's like you move into some kind of peace and quietness. Diaries from, soldiers, Sailors, Polar expeditions, and people that let loose on all the mental boarders we in our safe everyday world maintain. But to see and hear of people around the world that need to put all the civil nonsense away, and focus on what the real world is serving you on your trip though life. Stay strong and believe in your self, peace out ✌️🇩🇰
love this sdkfz variant with the high velocity 75mm AT gun fixed onto it. Well camouflaged too and if held in a fitting ambush position could be extremely potent against allied armour.
I do believe that this is Kurt Meyer because he is the only officer I know about who was run off the road and into a ditch aboard his motorcycle. That means he is one of the commanders of the Baby Division... the Hitler Youth division. I am among those who enjoy having these read to us. While I have read the thick book which is printed in two volumes, it is good to hear it. Story telling is an age old form of entertaining, informing, giving morality stories and scaring little children, going back before history began to be written down. All we need is a fire either a camp fire or a fire in the fireplace, with no other lights! Then all our eyes would be as big as saucers!
The channel says in the first comment this is the story of one Hans Holler. He must be a lower level officer, a platoon commander. Interesting perspective. These units took a real beating in the Normandy campaign. The SS divisions were guilty of some serious war crimes.
@@Chiller11amany bad things happened during the retreat as panic had set in among many,, however would you be surprised if i told you that fairly recently the KGB released documents showing stalins order to create entire battalions ,yes battalions,of NKVD killers to commit the very atrocities that you and most of the world think that the germans did,and to be dressed in german uniforms, usually leaving one or two souls to tell the story of who did it???? Dont believe me??? Look it up its a fact... I'm not just talking about the katyn massacre, but truly ya gotta ask yourself, if there is one katyn, could there be more???? My people weren't rapists They weren't killers and they weren't Nazis.,thery was anti communist,anti nazi,honatable SS soldiers.. despite what people think I'm very proud of them, one pay the ultimate price another amazingly escaped being murdered unlike many of his friends.. real History is usually hidden behind half truth
The British and Americans were too much for germany to resist, they really had no chance. From 1942 onwards germany was doomed, it was just a matter of when they would surrender not if. Canada also performed incredibly in ww2
Of course if the Werhmacht wasn't sending %90 of manpower East with materials then perhaps the story would be different. The Werhmacht was bleeding to death to the Eastern Front & the Western Front was considered as a subsidery Front from the main effort. Tbh if the Western Allies faced the full Werhmacht in the west then without a doubt we wouldn't be so smug about our contributions.
America was saved by, among other things, the broad moat of the Atlantic Ocean. In 1939, when Germany mopped the floor with Poland, the American military was less than 175,000 troops, versus the Wehrmacht’s breathtaking 5.5 million men under arms. It took America a full two+ years to arm up and train up our 12 million man military machine. And it took us at least that long to convert our consumer demand driven industrial base into what Eisenhower would later call the military industrial complex. Our 3,000 mile wide moat bought us the time that the Western European colonial nations did not have from ca. 1939 - 1942, when America lent its still quite feeble support to the disastrous Dieppe debacle, proving even then that America was nowhere near ready to take on Hitler and the Nazi war machine.
@@Chilliedogsyes, although the Soviets were extremely reliant on Western, especially American weapons, planes, tanks, food, clothing, and oil. Shockingly, the communists weren't great at producing things (sarcasm).
@kirilld6304 people forget that America was fighting a 2 front war. Russia was fighting a one front war at the time. Men in materials where pouring into the pacific theater . If American didn't have to worry about the pacific we could have hit France from multiple locations at the same time.
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography picture 📷 enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Class A research project!!! Special thanks to veteran soldiers.Sharing personal information/combat experiences making this documentary more authentic and possible. Fighting/perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible. Yet still advanced forward regardless of the consequences. That's true grit style determination to succeed. Fortunately for the approaching allies.the German defenders were rapidly running short. Of soldiers/hard ware/various needed supplies. Especially lack of Luftwaffe air support. The soldier whom the orator was speaking of. Had to have been a true battle hardened waffen s s warrior. After years of attack/retreat style combat missions.
It really does look like the British and Commonwealth troops had a far worse time than the American sector, they are hardly mentioned. From what I can gather, this was deliberate as their troops were so raw.
Virtually all the German armour was focussed on Caen, and also infantry. The fighting was far heavier on that sector and allowed the American Cobra breakout to succeed with only limited opposition.
It was the plan for the british to fight tank battles in the north and the americans to focus infantry in the south. Not going to get into an argument about who had it worse, it just made logistical sense as british tanks had a shorter way to come from the UK and more experience after the north africa campaign. British and commonwealth forces had some awful battles around caen with higher death rates than the somme, the americans experienced the same in the normandy hedgerows
@@Ukraineaissance2014 Do you really believe that American armour was shipped directly from the US to Normandy? I think you will find that it was landed in the UK before transhipment to the UK mulberry harbour - the one made for the US having been destroyed - but there was no tactical advantage using UK tanks as opposed to US. Just a distinct difference in training aand competence which led to the UK and Canadian armies being tasked with engaging the main German forces. F Ore try A N S
The Germans went thru absolute he**. I have a great admiration for the German soldiers, Soviet, British, American, Canadian, all the soldiers. Not so for the German government .
Of course, LtCol Rauch was surprised to see you again because he knew it was a suicide mission. He won his Knight's cross sending you and your men to your deaths.
I may be missing how these stories are presented but I wish I could hear each story to completion. Cool, but heart breaking stories of the people caught in the middle with no way out just like in the Ukraine today.
You could greatly increase this series by giving the various episodes numbers. A common name showing some continuity would also help. I just stumble on a video and if lucky and have saved a previous one in the series then piece it together. I’m sure that I have overlooked some.
It was informative, thrilled telling of real war stories occurred during WW2...showed the difficulties for separating of resistant guys and innocent civilian...even in thats special Foggy circumstances is not provoke of swiftness killing of enemy surrendered soldiers its highly cowards...sending them to military intelligences units after short politeness investigation about enemy situation in common battle zone with our regiment it enough..when German soldiers were took cared of comeflages of Guns, ditches, and vehicles it was obviously showed Allies aviation supermarcy over battlefields without Lowftwafa existence
If you’re using some sort of robot voice to read these (not saying that’s a problem at all), it might turn out better if you wrote out the numbers instead of leaving it all as-is… For instance, insert “twenty-two hundred hours” instead of the “22.00” that might be in the memoir… and “eleven thousand four hundred fifty-seven” instead of 11,457. I’ve noticed these weird speech patterns like “Twenty-two point zero zero” in a couple of videos, and wasn’t sure if it’d be as obvious to you when editing them, but I think that this might help… You could even control+f and search for 0-9 to quickly convert a whole document.
He calls the bridge over the Orne River Pegasus Bridge , Pegasus was the the badge of the British parachute unit that took the bridge. It was not so called then.
The defence put up by the german soldiers in Normandy and France was fantastic. In the end, 300.000 germans soldiers and 25.000 vehicles escaped from France. These soldiers will block the advance of the allies a few month later at german borders. The germans were masters of recovering from defeats very fast.
@krism1225: For your Information & Edification! The overall, accumulated attritional effect of the British & Canadian Forces’s offensives had then accounted for in excess of 70% of all German Armour, Artillery, Infantry & Support Units’ Casualties & Losses of the totally deployed German Land & Air Forces in Normandy in the Summer of 1944. These actions then paralleled the strategic processes & outcomes of the attritional Battles of the Somme & Verdun in 1916 & Third Ypres/Passchendaele in 1917! It bled the Germans out, by constantly & consistently applying tactical & operational pressure & aggression, that systematically paralyzed their (German Forces) ability, efficacy & effectiveness to respond; absorbed & dried up their reserves of all their available & irreplaceable manpower, munitions & materials’ resources! The continued outcomes of these attacks/offensive-operations by the British & Canadians were often very crude & attritional, but very predictable & ultimately proved effective in degrading & consequently defeating the German war machine in Normandy & the NW European Campaign in 1944-45!! NB. Regarding total German losses in the Normandy Campaign (Operation Overlord: 06/June/ to 21/Aug/1944 = 77 Days of Actual Total Combat Duration!), No exact, official, agreed & reconciled figures exist from either side but more conservative estimates put this amount totally at in excess of 400,000; killed, wounded, missing & captured military personnel & around 2,300 tanks & SP Guns. Around 150 tanks/SP Guns in total (From either Wehrmacht &/or Waffen SS Units) still in operational condition. Additionally, some 50,000 to 60,000 troops survived & escaped the Falaise Cauldron (Pocket), to be accounted for by German Military Authorities, as having crossed eastwards over the Seine River still in combat capable condition by this date (21/Aug/1944)!!
@krism1225: For your Information & Edification! The overall, accumulated attritional effect of the British & Canadian Forces’s planned offensives had then accounted for in excess of 70% of all German Armour, Artillery, Infantry & Support Units’ Casualties & Losses of the totally deployed German Land & Air Forces in Normandy in the Summer of 1944. These actions then paralleled the strategic processes & outcomes of the attritional Battles of the Somme & Verdun in 1916 & Third Ypres/Passchendaele in 1917! It bled the Germans out, by constantly & consistently applying tactical & operational pressure & aggression, that systematically paralyzed their (German Forces) ability, efficacy & effectiveness to respond; absorbed & dried up their reserves of all their available & irreplaceable manpower, munitions & materials’ resources! The continued outcomes of these attacks/offensive-operations by the British & Canadians were often very crude & attritional, but very predictable & ultimately proved effective in degrading & consequently defeating the German war machine in Normandy & the NW European Campaign in 1944-45!! NB. Regarding total German losses in the Normandy Campaign (Operation Overlord: 06/June/ to 21/Aug/1944 = 77 Days of Actual Total Combat Duration!), No exact, official, agreed & reconciled figures exist from either side but more conservative estimates put this amount totally at in excess of 400,000; killed, wounded, missing & captured military personnel & around 2,300 tanks & SP Guns. Around 150 tanks/SP Guns in total (From either Wehrmacht &/or Waffen SS Units) still in operational condition. Additionally, some 50,000 to 60,000 troops survived & escaped the Falaise Cauldron (Pocket), to be accounted for by German Military Authorities, as having crossed eastwards over the Seine River still in combat capable condition by this date (21/Aug/1944)!!
I wonder who did the translation for these diaries. The simple fact the writer conveniently uses Imperial measurements and U.S colloquialisms suggests a certain amount of licence in the memoirs.
Probably they were translated by Americans long ago, scanned using OCR (which sometimes reads 'm' as 'ni', for example) and not thoroughly edited before being read by voice software.
@@PatrolBoat-Riverine-Streetgang I don't know where you guys get your information. Do you think Americans wanted to island hop throughout the Pacific to defeat Japan? Did they want to storm the beaches of Normandy facing MG42s slinging 25 rounds/per second? What I mean by fanaticism is Germany engaged in a fighting retreat from at least Kursk in July 43. Then when their cities are being bombed out with the Russians at the Oder and the Allies pushing out from Normandy they still fought like, you know, fanatics. They should have welcomed the Allies in France and put all their forces in the east to stop the Russians. But, that is another story.
No that would be too easy, and may make you feel better, but this is a story of human struggle, of ordinary people in extra-ordinary situations. In fact the German officer here showed great courage and humanity despite the horrific experiences he endured
As I look at these cleverly camouflaged tanks in this picture, I wonder why the Russians dont try this presently in Ukraine. Dont get me wrong, I'm glad they're not smart enough...but it is a curiosity considering that today's drones & satellites make hiding all the more necessary.
Wooooooaoah there were british soldiers in westrrn europe? UA-cam comments told me it was only americans and SuperDuperStormtrooperEliteUbermensch canadians who could fly and the germans couldnt mention out loud without melting?
MEK65 or Marine Einsatz Kommando was the diver unit of the German equivalent of the British Royal Marines Commandos. The Dutch Resistance Group my Granddad belonged to fought behind enemy lines under INDIRECT Canadian command against German Parachute Regiment 6 for 6 days. Then was for 4,5 months (130 days) on the outer tip of the Western Front facing raids of MEK40. The after a brief parade were sent home to never hear from it again. One of the many WIA of a MEK40 raid received his Dutch wound badge in 1991 by mail. Some of those still a live received the Dutch Resistance Cross after 50 years in 1994. Because of being a Resistance member. Not for their 136 days active fighting under Allied command. You might think this is a made up story. Well all I can prove all by documents. And there is even actual film footage. But here is film footage of German MEK65 The unit mentioned in this story ua-cam.com/video/W3CRZeZycKU/v-deo.html
On the 6th of Sept.'44 an Engineer Section of 9 divers of SS.Rgt.Leibst.A.H. was assigned to II./723. Gren.Rgt. 'Bierenheide' to destroy the Beringen Bridge over the Albert Canal from Paal to Beringen. So there was a difference between divers from an Engineer unit and an other branch like this Naval unit.
- I can't stand your machine talker; why not get a person to narrate it? The "overwhelming firepower" of allied battleships and cruisers is passed-on without a pause as "Overwhe-lining"; he's "benumbed" and the machine voice reads "benun-bed". It's supremely irritating.
Because that would cost money. Maybe 100 dollars an hour, and this would take at least three hours to produce a 1 hour recording. So 300 dollars, every day, or zero dollars for AI.
Hello everyone please enjoy the story of Hans Holler!
Here is the playlist for series: ua-cam.com/play/PLyuEmb1VavZB6TqeRHQL1Qt41L4y9WXOB.html
Is an hour+ of some obscure German gun covered with leaves the best you can do? Why not some maps, some sort of variety, this is You tube after all.
Maps? Where are they? They blew up wrong bridge?😮
@@sondrajean955 Are you really that clueless.
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I’ve been looking for new one since this morning. We’re spoiled by the quick releases! Now I can listen as I do yard work. For some reason, my wife and kids don’t share my love of historical war diaries😅
Don't feel bad. I once knew a super football fan. He took his wife & two little daughters to the Football Hall of Fame on their vacation. He said, "All they did was complain"! Kool huh? Can you imagine telling a six year old girl, "Look sweetheart, that's Johnny Unitases jersey"!
Not only my wife and son complaining but you should see my neighbors faces hearing how the narrator praises the Nazis on these!!! 😳🤣😂
Yeah I know the feeling my woman don't care for the content eather.
This is akin to a book on tape. I am a truck driver and have been listening the last few days. Makes the trips go faster and I learn something new.
Thank you.
Drive safely! 🙂
As a fellow trucker, I love this series, and all audio books
@@archlich4489 Always, I have this insatiable want to live...😁
@@davidthelander1299 Any good books I should listen to?
One I would recommend is "It doesn't take a hero" the autobiography of H. Norman Schwarzkopf.
He was in charge of centcom during the first gulf War.
2 cool historical facts from the book.
1. His father was in charge of the NJ state police and investigated the Lindbergh kidnapping.
2. While in Vietnam in the 1960s Peter Arnett in the field had taken a picture of Schwarzkopf and another soldier carrying a wounded soldier off the field.
Peter Arnett actually reported from live from Bahgdad for CNN during the first gulf war.
There are many interesting stories in the book.
One thing that is of personal interest to me is that Schwarzkopf's Sister actually attended college in Oberlin Ohio and while visiting her they went to the beach for the day. The closest beach would have been Lakeview beach in my hometown of Lorain ohio.
EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT.
Im officially addicted. Plz keep them coming🖤
Awesome stories. So glad you narrate them and bring such life to an era we are all so unfamiliar with
I can scarcely begin to describe in mere words my appreciation for this series.
I have shared this with my friends that I judge to be intellectually awake.
It's a shame we couldn't make all the Russians on the Ukrainian front to listen and absorb the journey of someone who, in time , began to understand how the propaganda had fueled an entire people , to an unjust, and unnecessary fervor.
To see the futility of fighting a war , which in fact, will only benefit the powerful at the expense of the common soldier.
It pains me to think that the state of education in Russia allows the intellectually lazy to ignore reality and March to their death.
To commit atrocities in the name of a questionable cause, to die for a maniacal liar, and to lose against a righteous defender.
Such a total and complete waste of lives.
Even the propaganda and hate politics in America make me worry for the future. Seeing my family members, who are not intellectuals, watch Fox News then become enraged is really alarming. It's as if 30 percent of the population was made mentally sick from the pandemic.
@@ryanreedgibson as if hate only comes from one outlet?
Your comment indicates you believe it so.
@@ryanreedgibson This comment makes me think you too have been propagandized...
@@ryanreedgibsonFox news is no where the same as it was in the beginning, but the begining was so many years ago, Fox used to have this little known series known as "Married... With Children".
The State of education in Russia? It's not unusual to see a Russian man or woman with multiple degrees . Most Russians speak several languages.. the NATO's aggressive nature is behind the war in Ukraine. They shot a missile in to eastern Ukraine and blamed Russia. I knew better that have shelled that part of Ukraine since 2014 ..😮..you should educate yourself before demand some one else get educateed....😂
No country is a saint and no country is truly just and good as i grow older this statement proves itself true over and over.
These are interesting from the german viewpoint. However, the germans do a bit of complaining as to their circumstances. They seem to forget they are in a foreign land and they caused much death and destruction to the French people. So, buck up Fritz and endure the battles of your own instigation.
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True. They don't admit defeat but say the allies had unlimited men and equipment. And naturally, they leave out any mention of mistreatment of civilians or murders of allied soldiers. 156 Canadian soldiers were murdered in cold blood after surrendering June 7-8. Some bodies weren't found until the following spring when a Frenchwomen noticed the bulbs in her garden were sprouting all over, higgledy-piggledy. They dug into the beds and found the bodies of murdered Canadian soldiers who had all been shot in the back of the head.
US Army authorities who investigated, recommended charging five SS officers with the murders. In the end, only Kurt Meyer was put on trial by Canada for 48 of the murders. Forty-five Canadians were murdered at the Chateau he and the other SS officers had commandeered. The other murders were scattered around Normandy. Meyer was court-martialed in December 1945, convicted of inciting his troops to execute Canadian prisoners, and sentenced to death. Meyer was scheduled to be shot on 7 January 1946. An execution site was selected and the firing party readied. Meyer initially refused to file for clemency, and he seemed to bitterly accept his upcoming death. "So, this is how my life will end," he said. "A volley will crack out in a sandpit somewhere and my body will disappear into a nameless grave." Meyer's wife appealed on his behalf. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the Canadian government. He served five years at Dorchester penitentiary in New Brunswick. While in prison it came out he was responsible for massacres of civilians in the Soviet Union. The Russians pressured Canada to release him to their custody to be tried for those murders as well. Eventually he transferred to a West German jail after the West German government petitioned the Allies for the return of all prisoners. His sentence was commuted to 14 years. In 1954 he was set free after serving only 9 years of his reduced sentence. After his release he was a major apologist for the SS claiming they committed no murders or massacres except for Oradour-sue-Glane.
@@blackpowder4016 They also Massacred British troops at Womhoult and La Paradise in 1940.
ua-cam.com/video/ZYYUVraH8aM/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/n6wVUnoH4nE/v-deo.html
And a German noted that he saw about 20 US paratroopers executed on D-Day.
And not forgetting this.
ua-cam.com/video/ny7yudLPweM/v-deo.html
Woah another inspiring and insightful "nazi bad" comment 👍👍 did you just finish playing some call of duty bro?
@@TheIvanMilky Are you a child perchance 'bro'?
As a veteran and an Able Sailor. I love this diaries! It's like you move into some kind of peace and quietness.
Diaries from, soldiers, Sailors, Polar expeditions, and people that let loose on all the mental boarders we in our safe everyday world maintain. But to see and hear of people around the world that need to put all the civil nonsense away, and focus on what the real world is serving you on your trip though life. Stay strong and believe in your self, peace out ✌️🇩🇰
I'm liking this channel more and more. Thank you.
love this sdkfz variant with the high velocity 75mm AT gun fixed onto it. Well camouflaged too and if held in a fitting ambush position could be extremely potent against allied armour.
I really appreciate these videos!
This story was amazing. Thanks 👍
It would be great to have these nimbered and sourced.
i,m glad you made that moral choice about not actually shooting a prisoner , it is good to hear these better stories
I do believe that this is Kurt Meyer because he is the only officer I know about who was run off the road and into a ditch aboard his motorcycle. That means he is one of the commanders of the Baby Division... the Hitler Youth division. I am among those who enjoy having these read to us. While I have read the thick book which is printed in two volumes, it is good to hear it. Story telling is an age old form of entertaining, informing, giving morality stories and scaring little children, going back before history began to be written down. All we need is a fire either a camp fire or a fire in the fireplace, with no other lights! Then all our eyes would be as big as saucers!
it is not.
The channel says in the first comment this is the story of one Hans Holler. He must be a lower level officer, a platoon commander. Interesting perspective. These units took a real beating in the Normandy campaign. The SS divisions were guilty of some serious war crimes.
@@Chiller11 Thanks! I missed that.
Von Luck was mention as Regiment CO. Part of the 21st Panzer Division
@@Chiller11amany bad things happened during the retreat as panic had set in among many,, however would you be surprised if i told you that fairly recently the KGB released documents showing stalins order to create entire battalions ,yes battalions,of NKVD killers to commit the very atrocities that you and most of the world think that the germans did,and to be dressed in german uniforms, usually leaving one or two souls to tell the story of who did it???? Dont believe me??? Look it up its a fact... I'm not just talking about the katyn massacre, but truly ya gotta ask yourself, if there is one katyn, could there be more???? My people weren't rapists They weren't killers and they weren't Nazis.,thery was anti communist,anti nazi,honatable SS soldiers.. despite what people think I'm very proud of them, one pay the ultimate price another amazingly escaped being murdered unlike many of his friends.. real History is usually hidden behind half truth
The British and Americans were too much for germany to resist, they really had no chance. From 1942 onwards germany was doomed, it was just a matter of when they would surrender not if. Canada also performed incredibly in ww2
Of course if the Werhmacht wasn't sending %90 of manpower East with materials then perhaps the story would be different. The Werhmacht was bleeding to death to the Eastern Front & the Western Front was considered as a subsidery Front from the main effort. Tbh if the Western Allies faced the full Werhmacht in the west then without a doubt we wouldn't be so smug about our contributions.
America was saved by, among other things, the broad moat of the Atlantic Ocean. In 1939, when Germany mopped the floor with Poland, the American military was less than 175,000 troops, versus the Wehrmacht’s breathtaking 5.5 million men under arms.
It took America a full two+ years to arm up and train up our 12 million man military machine. And it took us at least that long to convert our consumer demand driven industrial base into what Eisenhower would later call the military industrial complex.
Our 3,000 mile wide moat bought us the time that the Western European colonial nations did not have from ca. 1939 - 1942, when America lent its still quite feeble support to the disastrous Dieppe debacle, proving even then that America was nowhere near ready to take on Hitler and the Nazi war machine.
@@scottyfox6376yes people forget about the biggest sacrifice for the allied victory: 27,000,000 soviets
@@Chilliedogsyes, although the Soviets were extremely reliant on Western, especially American weapons, planes, tanks, food, clothing, and oil. Shockingly, the communists weren't great at producing things (sarcasm).
@kirilld6304 people forget that America was fighting a 2 front war. Russia was fighting a one front war at the time. Men in materials where pouring into the pacific theater . If American didn't have to worry about the pacific we could have hit France from multiple locations at the same time.
It would be good to have maps of where they are at any particular point.
Im so glad nobody in America would ever follow a leader who promises he alone can fix the country and thier fellow citizens and the real enemy.
Appreciate this story as well.
Please keep up with the WW1 stories also; trying to get the word out about that site too.
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography picture 📷 enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Class A research project!!! Special thanks to veteran soldiers.Sharing personal information/combat experiences making this documentary more authentic and possible. Fighting/perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible. Yet still advanced forward regardless of the consequences. That's true grit style determination to succeed. Fortunately for the approaching allies.the German defenders were rapidly running short. Of soldiers/hard ware/various needed supplies. Especially lack of Luftwaffe air support. The soldier whom the orator was speaking of. Had to have been a true battle hardened waffen s s warrior. After years of attack/retreat style combat missions.
The 21st Panzer Division was not a SS division.
It really does look like the British and Commonwealth troops had a far worse time than the American sector, they are hardly mentioned. From what I can gather, this was deliberate as their troops were so raw.
Virtually all the German armour was focussed on Caen, and also infantry. The fighting was far heavier on that sector and allowed the American Cobra breakout to succeed with only limited opposition.
It was the plan for the british to fight tank battles in the north and the americans to focus infantry in the south. Not going to get into an argument about who had it worse, it just made logistical sense as british tanks had a shorter way to come from the UK and more experience after the north africa campaign. British and commonwealth forces had some awful battles around caen with higher death rates than the somme, the americans experienced the same in the normandy hedgerows
@@Ukraineaissance2014 Do you really believe that American armour was shipped directly from the US to Normandy? I think you will find that it was landed in the UK before transhipment to the UK mulberry harbour - the one made for the US having been destroyed - but there was no tactical advantage using UK tanks as opposed to US. Just a distinct difference in training aand competence which led to the UK and Canadian armies being tasked with engaging the main German forces.
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@@alecblunden8615 when did i mention anything about US shipping tanks directly to Normandy? Quotes please
@@alecblunden8615he never said anything about tanks being shipped directly to Normandy
The Germans went thru absolute he**. I have a great admiration for the German soldiers, Soviet, British, American, Canadian, all the soldiers. Not so for the German government .
Of course, LtCol Rauch was surprised to see you again because he knew it was a suicide mission. He won his Knight's cross sending you and your men to your deaths.
I may be missing how these stories are presented but I wish I could hear each story to completion. Cool, but heart breaking stories of the people caught in the middle with no way out just like in the Ukraine today.
Same here!
I love this series, but a bit of context would be helpful.
You could greatly increase this series by giving the various episodes numbers. A common name showing some continuity would also help. I just stumble on a video and if lucky and have saved a previous one in the series then piece it together. I’m sure that I have overlooked some.
The playlists help
It was informative, thrilled telling of real war stories occurred during WW2...showed the difficulties for separating of resistant guys and innocent civilian...even in thats special Foggy circumstances is not provoke of swiftness killing of enemy surrendered soldiers its highly cowards...sending them to military intelligences units after short politeness investigation about enemy situation in common battle zone with our regiment it enough..when German soldiers were took cared of comeflages of Guns, ditches, and vehicles it was obviously showed Allies aviation supermarcy over battlefields without Lowftwafa existence
That was fast! Nice for a hot, lazy, Sunday afternoon.
really find these stories facinating
WHAT VIDEO DOES THIS STORY START? WHICH ONES ARE CONNECTED?!?
I like this channel. I would just like to know, are these stories fiction or based on factual events?
Good question.
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Great stories
Well done.
Who are you talking to? Its an AI voice reading from a book.
The Germans were worn out troops.......the GIs were well fed and strong.
After listening to a couple of your videos they never come to a end
What is the name of the next one in this sequence? The three I have watched so far from June 6 to this one are enlightening and quite good.
The number of people are dwindling who have heard the sound of hundreds of heavy bombers flying overhead.
Way to go, frogmen!
Guys, there is a ww1 version too from same producer 😁
Great reason for picking up that PAK 40 gun. Because it was there!
Smart soldiers don't let anything potentially useful go to waste if they can manage it.
If you’re using some sort of robot voice to read these (not saying that’s a problem at all), it might turn out better if you wrote out the numbers instead of leaving it all as-is…
For instance, insert “twenty-two hundred hours” instead of the “22.00” that might be in the memoir… and “eleven thousand four hundred fifty-seven” instead of 11,457.
I’ve noticed these weird speech patterns like “Twenty-two point zero zero” in a couple of videos, and wasn’t sure if it’d be as obvious to you when editing them, but I think that this might help… You could even control+f and search for 0-9 to quickly convert a whole document.
Play stupid games, eventually you get squeezed into pulp.
All or Nothing!...... Nothing!!!.
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He calls the bridge over the Orne River Pegasus Bridge , Pegasus was the the badge of the British parachute unit that took the bridge. It was not so called then.
Presumably he survived the war so this diary could have been edited later for publication and makes it clear why the divers blew up the wrong bridges.
The defence put up by the german soldiers in Normandy and France was fantastic. In the end, 300.000 germans soldiers and 25.000 vehicles escaped from France. These soldiers will block the advance of the allies a few month later at german borders. The germans were masters of recovering from defeats very fast.
If we . the Americans , would have ad the A bomb sooner those arrogant loosers of two world wars would have ben dead.
There was /is nothing good about Germans ; their inhumanity to the human race is the worst ever known in human history...!
The Germans were so good that they lost not once but twice and both defeats were humiliating. You make no sense.
@krism1225: For your Information & Edification!
The overall, accumulated attritional effect of the British & Canadian Forces’s offensives had then accounted for in excess of 70% of all German Armour, Artillery, Infantry & Support Units’ Casualties & Losses of the totally deployed German Land & Air Forces in Normandy in the Summer of 1944. These actions then paralleled the strategic processes & outcomes of the attritional Battles of the Somme & Verdun in 1916 & Third Ypres/Passchendaele in 1917!
It bled the Germans out, by constantly & consistently applying tactical & operational pressure & aggression, that systematically paralyzed their (German Forces) ability, efficacy & effectiveness to respond; absorbed & dried up their reserves of all their available & irreplaceable manpower, munitions & materials’ resources!
The continued outcomes of these attacks/offensive-operations by the British & Canadians were often very crude & attritional, but very predictable & ultimately proved effective in degrading & consequently defeating the German war machine in Normandy & the NW European Campaign in 1944-45!!
NB. Regarding total German losses in the Normandy Campaign (Operation Overlord: 06/June/ to 21/Aug/1944 = 77 Days of Actual Total Combat Duration!), No exact, official, agreed & reconciled figures exist from either side but more conservative estimates put this amount totally at in excess of 400,000; killed, wounded, missing & captured military personnel & around 2,300 tanks & SP Guns. Around 150 tanks/SP Guns in total (From either Wehrmacht &/or Waffen SS Units) still in operational condition. Additionally, some 50,000 to 60,000 troops survived & escaped the Falaise Cauldron (Pocket), to be accounted for by German Military Authorities, as having crossed eastwards over the Seine River still in combat capable condition by this date (21/Aug/1944)!!
Ever more recently, this is all I look forward to. Ain't shit to be happy about anymore. 😏
You were real brave with a heavy 88mm gun tiger tank against a medium tank Sherman wi a low velocity gun
Coinciding maps would help, but very interesting
Do you have these on another platform as well? Ytube sucks
8 company, 192 panzergrenadier regiment, 21st panzer division.
@krism1225: For your Information & Edification!
The overall, accumulated attritional effect of the British & Canadian Forces’s planned offensives had then accounted for in excess of 70% of all German Armour, Artillery, Infantry & Support Units’ Casualties & Losses of the totally deployed German Land & Air Forces in Normandy in the Summer of 1944. These actions then paralleled the strategic processes & outcomes of the attritional Battles of the Somme & Verdun in 1916 & Third Ypres/Passchendaele in 1917!
It bled the Germans out, by constantly & consistently applying tactical & operational pressure & aggression, that systematically paralyzed their (German Forces) ability, efficacy & effectiveness to respond; absorbed & dried up their reserves of all their available & irreplaceable manpower, munitions & materials’ resources!
The continued outcomes of these attacks/offensive-operations by the British & Canadians were often very crude & attritional, but very predictable & ultimately proved effective in degrading & consequently defeating the German war machine in Normandy & the NW European Campaign in 1944-45!!
NB. Regarding total German losses in the Normandy Campaign (Operation Overlord: 06/June/ to 21/Aug/1944 = 77 Days of Actual Total Combat Duration!), No exact, official, agreed & reconciled figures exist from either side but more conservative estimates put this amount totally at in excess of 400,000; killed, wounded, missing & captured military personnel & around 2,300 tanks & SP Guns. Around 150 tanks/SP Guns in total (From either Wehrmacht &/or Waffen SS Units) still in operational condition. Additionally, some 50,000 to 60,000 troops survived & escaped the Falaise Cauldron (Pocket), to be accounted for by German Military Authorities, as having crossed eastwards over the Seine River still in combat capable condition by this date (21/Aug/1944)!!
Those bowl helmets as he calls them are British Para troops.
Poor Herring Was Smoking, Kippered. Yet We Held Hand's.
Germans did not know that bridge as Pegasus. It was named Pegasus AFTER the war.
IIRC it was explained in the previous episode.
The surprise bombings and accuracy of the bombardments were probably enabled by Bletchly park code breakers.
I wonder who did the translation for these diaries. The simple fact the writer conveniently uses Imperial measurements and U.S colloquialisms suggests a certain amount of licence in the memoirs.
Probably they were translated by Americans long ago, scanned using OCR (which sometimes reads 'm' as 'ni', for example) and not thoroughly edited before being read by voice software.
Agreed. The almost uniquely American “5am in the morning”
It must have been sickening for the German troops to witness more and more of their lines shrinking and the unknown future that lays ahead.
Yeah, True Justice MUST Seem Like That.
Yes, I am enjoying that part!
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cgyes bro Nazi bad way to go, thanks for another Disney take
@@TheIvanMilky Disney?, What's Disney?
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg you're an egg head you'll work it out
Why do you have to steal video frames from Saving Private Rhyne? Do you pay royalties?
This is a story of fanaticism.
Agreed. Has there ever been war without fanaticism?
Fighting under any flag is fanaticism.
@@PatrolBoat-Riverine-Streetgang I don't know where you guys get your information. Do you think Americans wanted to island hop throughout the Pacific to defeat Japan? Did they want to storm the beaches of Normandy facing MG42s slinging 25 rounds/per second? What I mean by fanaticism is Germany engaged in a fighting retreat from at least Kursk in July 43. Then when their cities are being bombed out with the Russians at the Oder and the Allies pushing out from Normandy they still fought like, you know, fanatics. They should have welcomed the Allies in France and put all their forces in the east to stop the Russians. But, that is another story.
No that would be too easy, and may make you feel better, but this is a story of human struggle, of ordinary people in extra-ordinary situations. In fact the German officer here showed great courage and humanity despite the horrific experiences he endured
@@scottw5315The trouble is,at that point,the Russians were on our side,and they were doing most of the bleeding.
I know I should not laugh but 😂
Can you make a video about the moment Germany surrender and living under occupation?
Ou on apprend que Monsieur Praud sait lire.😊
As I look at these cleverly camouflaged tanks in this picture, I wonder why the Russians dont try this presently in Ukraine. Dont get me wrong, I'm glad they're not smart enough...but it is a curiosity considering that today's drones & satellites make hiding all the more necessary.
Wooooooaoah there were british soldiers in westrrn europe? UA-cam comments told me it was only americans and SuperDuperStormtrooperEliteUbermensch canadians who could fly and the germans couldnt mention out loud without melting?
You wanted to join and fight
MEK65 or Marine Einsatz Kommando was the diver unit of the German equivalent of the British Royal Marines Commandos.
The Dutch Resistance Group my Granddad belonged to fought behind enemy lines under INDIRECT Canadian command against German Parachute Regiment 6 for 6 days.
Then was for 4,5 months (130 days) on the outer tip of the Western Front facing raids of MEK40.
The after a brief parade were sent home to never hear from it again.
One of the many WIA of a MEK40 raid received his Dutch wound badge in 1991 by mail.
Some of those still a live received the Dutch Resistance Cross after 50 years in 1994.
Because of being a Resistance member.
Not for their 136 days active fighting under Allied command.
You might think this is a made up story.
Well all I can prove all by documents.
And there is even actual film footage.
But here is film footage of German MEK65
The unit mentioned in this story
ua-cam.com/video/W3CRZeZycKU/v-deo.html
On the 6th of Sept.'44 an Engineer Section of 9 divers of SS.Rgt.Leibst.A.H. was assigned to II./723. Gren.Rgt. 'Bierenheide' to destroy the Beringen Bridge over the Albert Canal from Paal to Beringen.
So there was a difference between divers from an Engineer unit and an other branch like this Naval unit.
This sounds suspiciously like it has been written by an American.
Wasn’t so funny when the boot was on the other foot was it.
- I can't stand your machine talker; why not get a person to narrate it? The "overwhelming firepower" of allied battleships and cruisers is passed-on without a pause as "Overwhe-lining"; he's "benumbed" and the machine voice reads "benun-bed". It's supremely irritating.
Because that would cost money. Maybe 100 dollars an hour, and this would take at least three hours to produce a 1 hour recording. So 300 dollars, every day, or zero dollars for AI.
Still sucks... 😭
I’m not convinced it’s AI
27:56 *enthusiasm.
This is fiction based on fact?
Fact. A memoir.
@@Jin-Ro Does not make it fact.
cool that a Nazi had its head split in half by shrapnel so that the memoir writer put his hand into its brain. LOL
Put wartime map up instead of a stupid photo for one hour!
0:41 overwhelming
Why don't you read Marine At War instead of all these accounts from the losers?
I wish Germany had won.
Why?
Look around you!
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I looked. And I cannot agree with you.
@@larrytruelove8659 OK... bye.
Not saying I agree, but the wartime poster of white French men being controlled by bl*ck masters the nazis made did come to fruition.
I never knew the Germans got such a complete hammering in Normandy, they really lost the war there.
They lost the war on the Steppes of the Soviet Union.
They lost the moment they stepped off into Russia.
Germans were not only cowards but losers too.
Steppe. Singular. Steppes is not a word.
Imagine if Hitler stopped after the Czechoslovokia. Could've been a cool place.
......is this narrator some sort of AI?
Obviously.
Doesn’t sound AI to me