He is pretty good for AI. He is AI right? Doesn't do dates right sometimes. And stuff like VIPs he pronounces v-i-p-s. Not sure. Years sometimes one nine four one instead of nineteen forty one
In WWII my uncle was infantry. They were close to the tanks. A grenade hit the tank. Shrapnel tore his upper and lower jawbones away. He didn't awake until in a ship on the way home. He ended up in a hospital in Texas? They must have had good plastic surgeons as well as other surgeons. He never talked about it. If you ask anything about the war he'd only tell you what celebrities that came to the hospital to visit them. I didn't understand when younger. He always had the scruff beard that's popular now. My mother explained about it. The government gave him a pension. He did hard work at the sawmill. He never complained. Back in the late 70's he started losing some hearing. His daughter and my sister took him to the veteran's hospital, first time since the 40s. The young army doctor was shocked that he'd worked and raised 5 children. The doctor said his sinuses looked like a hot fire had been there. When his daughte looked in his trunk that the only thing anyone had seen was his Purple Heart medal. She started contacting military officials. There were other medals that he'd been awarded but never got. She also found out he was supposed to be given a much larger pension. They had never increased it from the late 40s and he'd never questioned it. He almost cried when looking at the medals. I still don't know the whole story. The medals were for acts he'd did before being hit. He lived to be almost 90. The last few years he would get confused sometimes and he'd think any man around him were German soldiers. My aunt died a few years before him. His children took care of him until he died. He always knew who we were except the spells of confusion. He had never talked about the war until then.
I am humbled by your words...Thank the All Mighty that We...the free people of the World...we're blessed with the Rightous such as your father.....No wonder...a faithful member...graced as the "Greatest Generation "....I served in the US Army for over 27 years and any and all of my efforts and achievements at that capacity of a Combat Soldier pale dimly in comparison to the Triumphs and sacrifices achieved by men of distinguished Caliber as example of your fathers humbled experience....Continue to tell his story...Our nation....more than ever...especially our youth....need to hear of these extraordinary feats....performed by the humbled....common heroes...that protect and defend OUR American Experience....Thankyou for allowing me to comment.
Yeah bro, agreed. You get tired after a while because we already know what happened in the big battles. I started recently liking these personal stories a lot
Most likely Panzerkampfwagen III crewmen as it was the backbone of the panzerwaffe. Entering the Soviet Union German tank crews soon found out these tanks were highly susceptible to attack from light artillery and mortar fire. However on the poignant side the Soviet engineers examining captured Panzerkampfwagen III ta nks (as well as the cousin STUG III assault guns) said it was one of the best engineered designs for engine reliability, transmission, and transfer case. They even wondered why the Germans just did not upscale this III design instead of the a totally new design of the difficult engineered Panther and Tiger. Despite the tradeoffs of safety to crews the Panzerkampfwagen III was able to drive the offensive onward in 1941 with their reliability.
The slave labor was the cause of many break downs. They workers were known to break teeth off of transmission gears.. The teeth were glued on to pass inspection.
40:00 Stari Bychaŭ now known as Bykhaw/Bykhov Belarus, southeast of Minsk. The route seems feasible to the linear format of this storyline but it is remote for sure. Bychaŭ is on a small tributary of the Dniper thus the crossing here now the P120 bridge exists there. The old bridge probably was pushed over into the river after 1945. East of Bychaŭ the road continues towards Voronino.
Thanks for your posting. Was trying to find the city they were talking about and Google wants to tell you all about "Starbucks" instead. Now, I have found it on a map !
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Rough fierce combat operations on both sides. Fighting/perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible. Yet still progressed forward. That’s true grit style determination to succeed. Special thanks to the veterans sharing their personal combat experiences. Making this documentary more authentic and possible.
I being an Indian that too in south most peninsular region, wonder so much about Europeans thirst for territories. Was it not enough. Your hunger never died down?. Even after your stomach was full. How u went along killings. Very filthy. What hitler was doing was exactly same as Britain, France, Portugese were doing in their past. Colonialism. Europeans were monsters. Thriving upon innocent, and weak. Cannibals.
So now the Nazis are “liberators” freeing the World of Communism! Of course! And the Russian people would “bring them eggs and butter” to thank them for getting rid of Stalin! Oh man….please!! I have no love for Communism. I lived under Castro’s Brand of Communism. There’s no worse tyranny. But to try to make Hitler and his armies into liberators is a lie and a fairytale. It’s a lie of monumental dimensions. It’s “disrespectful” even, to those who died on both sides of this useless war. Useless and shameful, as all war is. I don’t doubt that probably there was a portion of German soldiers who were there fighting for The Fuhrer, The Leader, Hitler, that were there because they had no choice, that were there fighting because they were drafted. But…at least to me, this seems like an attempt to make the Nazis into something they were not. Not only were the German soldiers “liberators” loved by those whom they invaded but, Hitler was a good guy, invading countries just to free them from whatever oppression their government was forcing on them. Oh sure! Germany invaded Russia just to get rid of Communism. Sure! They also invaded France to, do what? Liberate the French people from having a good time!? I feel like I’m reading a “Marvel alternate universe” comic book about the Nazis and their leader, Mr Personality, Herr Hitler. So now we are supposed to believe Hitler and his minions were “the good guys”!? The Leader and his goodie two shoes Nazis. Saving the World from Oppression and Tyranny. Of course, why not? Please give me a bleeping break! 🤔🇨🇺🇺🇸
They never mention that looting and robbing Farmers was bad publicity, the reason many of them never came home it's because of the way they treated humanity other way in
Isnt it strange that all the German soldiers memoirs never mention how they all loved Hitler when they were winning and more importantly never mention how many atrocities they commited especially in Russia .They were all decent fine soldiers who respected the Geneva convention and of course never knew anything at all about the holocaust of the jews.
Yeah and the jews are helping palestinians in the 80 years plus ongoing occupation and genocide. Nothing learnt. When I hear holocaust i first think of whats currently being done to the palestinian people, who are actually semitic. And yet there's only international lobbying for trying and erase them. Speak of "respected and decent" peoples.
The Geman army actively cooperated . with and supported the Einsatzgruppen in parts of Russia and Poland. They also carried out many reprisals against partisans which involved similar atrocities.
Who is the narrator for these? I'm guessing because I recognize the voice as Ryan Cartwright, a British actor who had played the character named Mr. Hooker on the television series Mad Men. This is simply a guess, but the voice is distinctive...
@@bool3234I'm not talking about the Holocaust in the death camps, I'm talking about the genocides of the Eastern front. The German army committed genocide on the Eastern front and this was generally known among the people who fought there. In fact, the war in the east had the specific plan and aim to kill and/or starve both the captured enemy soldiers and the civilian population, while at the same time, the Holocaust by bullets was also taking place there. These are all generally accepted historical facts.The idea that the Wehrmacht was not involved in this genocide and that it was just the SS doing it is a myth that was debunked ages ago. This guy fought on the Eastern front and he knew it was a genocide. The fact that he doesn't mention it doesn't mean that he wasn't involved, it means he's whitewashing his narrative by nit mentioning the war crimes. If you don't believe me, study what modern history says about the war in the east and about the clean Wehrmacht myth. To further illustrate the whitewashing: this channel has stories on it from an SS officer whose division committed a massacre in Oradour sur Glane in France and the story covers this period and doesn't mention it. Are we to believe he didn't know?? These aren't innocent stories, they are stories written by war criminals who hide their crimes while writing about the period in which they committed them.
@@bool3234They may not have known the full details of the concentration camps, but they all knew something very, very dark had happened. They knew their government was pumping out virulently anti-Semitic propaganda, speeches and films, then that Jews were criminalized and made second-class citizens, made to wear stars, beaten or attacked on the streets, then with synagogues and Jewish businesses burned, and finally rounded up one night up and taken “someplace”….and none ever returned. Even a slow child wouldn’t see that set of facts and believe “oh, all the Jewish residents in town must have decided to emigrate suddenly and are living happily somewhere.” They knew, and were either fine with it, or too selfish or disinterested to do anything, with few exceptions.
I think the vast majority of German soldiers had been convinced that fighting the USSR, communism and Jews was a struggle between two cultures and political ideals and that only one people and country would survive. They were willing to be far more violent and destructive in the east. But I also believe the vast majority would not have approved mass starvation and killing of prisoners, civilians, Jews, gypsies etc. I want to believe it. I am an American largely of German descent.
@@oldguysdoingstuff6216 First of all: I don't think that there's anything wrong with Germans as a people. They just went through some horrible circumstances and then voted for a man who manipulated them. This could have happened with any people. However, that doesn't take away the personal responsibility of the individuals involved. I hope that you will do some historical research to find out how much the typical soldier was involved in the war crimes. And maybe some more research on how easy it is to manipulate people into committing horrible crimes. The Milgram experiment is a very clear example. I'm afraid you won't like the results, but I think it's more important to be realistic, rather than hopeful. The sad truth is that most of the people who committed the horrible crimes were psychopaths or something like that. They were normal people who committed horrendous crimes. Just have a look at all the research and I think that you will find this out for yourselves.
@@michaelclairforet5031 What I recommend is finding a detail map of the period using search engines. It's what I do. It helps if you've studied German for half a year, and also learned how to phonetically pronounce Cyrillic words. For example, you would know that the "S" in Stary Bychov would start with a cyrillic C as that is the S sound. Another clue is the various names of the towns given, and the units named (i.e. Baranovichi; 3rd Panzer; 4th Panzer) - this permits a reasonably informed guess that the author was with Panzergruppe Guderian - 24th Panzer Corps. Guderian's attack followed a fairly narrow path through Baranovichi to the Beresina, then to the northern Dnieper. Should be relatively easy to find a map of this phase of the campaign - especially if you own Guderian's work "Panzer Leader," which has Guderian's own hand drawn maps (which are quite excellent).
@@rationalbasis2172 What are you talking about, I was responding to the guy that got the 1st comment on the video. You do realize that WW2 ended in the 40’s right…
@@rationalbasis2172 Obviously you can’t read or either you ignored my response, I was responding as the person that had the 2nd comment on the video. Learn to read
Napoleon conquered Moscow? Napoleon marched into Moscow, which was evacuated empty before him, then it was burned down during his occupation, taking away the place where the Grand Armée could've stayed through the bitter Russian winter. What followed was a terrible winter retreat, when most of the remaining part of his Grand Armée had perished. This was a lesson ignored by Napoleon's 20th Century follower, a certain A. H.
He still conquered it. His army marched in there, took it, and remained unopposed for a period of time (a couple of months if I remember rightly). That's conquering. He may not have held it for very long but he did indeed conquer it.
@@Aethelhald Ah Aethelhad, we are arguing over incredibly fine points. You insist on the word "conquer", I remind you the utter destruction of Napoleon's forces, from which he never recovered fully.
I think the Grand Armée waited until mid October to withdraw from Moscow. It proved a horrific decision. The withdrawal was orderly until the harassment raids started creating havoc on their organization.
A Different ideology a different leader and leadership and beating the Communist that way in 39 would have been a better proposition for Europe to fight Stalin. It would be a different world today, if only. Slava Ukraine, ✌🏻☘️
Yes, for example a different ideology than imperialist capitalism might have prevented Britain from giving Nazi Germany gigantic loans, from negating the Versailles treaty, and then giving away two whole countries to them.
There's a good reason the nazis suffered a crushing defeat in the steppes. The nazis had no business in the soviet union. The nazi satanism was greater than that bolshevism of the soviets.
Barbarossa being delayed for like a month because of the Nazi invasions of Greece and Yugoslavia would have severe detrimental near future consequences for the Germans, vital aspects not often factored into account.
This prognosis has with recent revelations been disproven. The Wehrmacht was simply not ready for such a huge task and also the exceptionally cold winter ever recorded had kept the surface water abnormally high for June . In fact there was talk of further delaying the launch of Barbarossa but the water receded just in time and further good weather forecasts made it possible to launch on 22nd of June
@@permindersidhu1280 Don't you love it when people who don't know jack squat about history share their ideas and make pronouncements about how things would have turned out if a few things had been different? Yea, me too.
You are exactly right. Mussolini's surprise invasion of Greece and subsequent failure leading to the Germans having to come to the rescue in order for the British not to gain a foothold most likely contributed to the failure are the Germans to take Moscow in 1941.
Narrator never encountered Minard's map. Google (because I can post with a link--the post will get deleted): The Minard Map - “The best statistical graphic ever drawn” Also, Al Jaffee covered Napoleon's retreat in his book, _Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions_ . He shows Napoleon on horseback, retreating from Moscow, and a lieutenant asks him, "Are we retreating from Moscow, mon general?" Napoleon answers, "No, we are advancing on Paris, mon idiot!"
Napoleon conquered Moscow. Exactly. Many people don't know this. Germany capturing Moscow wouldn't have knocked the USSR out of the war. It's a critical point.
Yes he did, but to no use.The Russian army and tsar Aleksej (Alexander) I could just wait until Napoleon had no supplies left to stay in Moscow. They didn´t need Moscow strategically. Moscow by then had not been the Russian capital for about a 100 years, since Peter the Great built Saint Petersburg. Napoleons army met disaster.
A whole lot of Napoleon's troops were not French. And he lost a hell of a lot of those troops so nothing to be proud of there. @@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control
I was 10 throwing rocks at cruel English soldiers in the North of Ireland I grew to manhood on them streets and rocks became guns, then decades in prisons. Do you truly believe my struggle was not justified.
@@patkearney9320Nineteen is young. During the Vietnam War a boy would graduate from high school in May. Draft board notified them. We're still a rural mountain area. By June they were in the army. They would give them a 30 days furlough around November? They were in Vietnam by the first of the New Year. Most of them had their 19th birthday in Vietnam. They found out that their squirrel hunting skills paid off. They knew how to walk quietly in the jungle and to be quiet. I think some of the city boys had to learn how to do that. I call them boys because that's what they were. They came home as men. As a grandmother I look at my 3 grandsons. They ended the draft after Vietnam. Now the way things are being done there's many that don't want to join the military. It's being run by jokers.
At the end of the 16th century, it was the center of the property of the great Lithuanian hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz , who in 1611 ordered to "build" the embankments of the castle rising on the bank of the Dnieper River , which was granted by King Sigismund III Vasa . Hetman's intentions were that Bychów was to be the main center of the ordination he wanted to establish (unsuccessfully). Intensive expansion of the fortifications was carried out on the order of Chodkiewicz in the years 1611-1619 [2] , but the final shape of the fortifications was given by the Grand Marshal of Lithuania Jan Stanisław Sapiehawhich came into his possession around 1624 thanks to his marriage to Anna Scholastyka, daughter of Chodkiewicz. In 1628, Jan Stanisław Sapieha modernized the bastion fortifications surrounding the city and completed the construction of the castle by erecting a tower with a golden cross next to it [2] . As a consequence, the city became a stronghold of the Old Dutch system surrounded by modern fortifications ( an earth rampart reinforced with 5 bastions and 6 ravelins ). The castle, located in the depths of the city, had separate fortifications - stone walls and an earth rampart with bastions surrounding them, but compared to the city fortifications, the castle had less defensive significance and was primarily intended to be an administrative and representative center [2 ]. To defend Bychów, if necessary, the Sapiehas enlisted mercenary troops of up to 1,000 men, usually supported from their private treasury, and strong artillery was gathered in the local arsenal. Thanks to this, one of the strongest fortresses in the north-eastern part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was established, along with Słuck and Lachowicz . Siege in 1648 Edit In 1648, the fortress in Bychów repulsed the siege of the Cossacks under the command of F. Harkusza. Siege in 1654 Edit Bychów in the mid-seventeenth century During the summer campaign of the Polish-Russian war, Bychów found itself in 1654 in a zone of operations numbering about 20,000. soldiers of the Cossack corps commanded by Colonel Ivan Zolotarenko . After the occupation of Nowe BychówOn September 8, 1654, the Cossacks laid siege to Bychów, which was to become the main center of the areas they controlled. The fortress crew consisted of: 2,000 townspeople, 600 mercenaries, 200 hajduks, 100 dragoons, 300 nobles and about 1,000 Jews, the artillery consisted of 4 heavy and 26 field guns. The defenders of Bychów did not limit themselves to defensive actions and during the siege lasting from September 8 to November 26, 1654, they made numerous raids on the positions of the Cossacks, inflicting heavy losses on them. Zolotarenko did not dare to take any assault on the city at that time and limited himself to a blockade, hoping that the defenders, cut off from the rear and deprived of hope for relief, would finally decide to capitulate. Failures, heavy losses inflicted by defenders,winter quarters to Nowy Bychów, located about 20 kilometers to the south [3] . On December 28, Samuel Oskierka's volunteer units reached Bychów [4] . This defense echoed loudly in the then Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and King Jan Kazimierz , in order to reward the townspeople for their brave attitude, on 31 May 1655 freed Bychów from taxes for twenty years. Siege in 1655 Edit In view of the concentration of the army of the Republic of Poland on the siege of Mogilev from February 16, 1655, at the turn of April and May 1655, the Cossack troops of Ivan Zołotarenko left Nowy Bychów and in mid-May began the second siege of Bychów, whose garrison in the spring of 1655 was reinforced by Kazimierz Leon Sapieha with new dragoon and infantry regiments , partly paid from the treasury of the Commonwealth. The city rejected the offer of capitulation and put up fierce resistance to the Cossacks. Due to the specter of a prolonged siege near Bychów, only Colonel Borżno Jachno Korobko remained with part of the infantry, blocking the garrison. Even a three-week stay of 10,000 soldiers under it did not contribute to the capture of the fortress. Alexey Trubetsky corpsin July and August 1655, because the defenders heroically repelled subsequent attacks, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. During this siege, on October 17, 1655, Ivan Zołotoreńko himself was killed by the fire of the defenders [5] . The Sejm of 1655 issued the constitution " Securitas Bychowa ", in which it was decided to strengthen the garrison of this castle, maintained by the Lithuanian sub-chancellor Kazimierz Leon Sapieha - with 300 German infantry soldiers, paid from the state treasury of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the city was exempted from taxes for 20 years. Siege in 1659 Edit In June 1659, Moscow troops under the command of Ivan Ivanovich Łabanov Rostowski and Semyon Zmiyev began a siege of the fortress, which, however, they were unable to capture for several months. Until December 1659, Stary Bychów remained an invincible fortress, constituting the only enclave of the Commonwealth's power on the Dnieper, and the attitude of its crew became an example for subsequent generations for decades. The fortress was taken over by the Moscow army as a result of treason only on December 14, 1659 [6] . Cossack Colonel Ivan Nieczaj, who commanded the defence , was sent to Siberia by the Russians. However, in the winter of 1660/61, the fortress was recaptured by Polish troops led by Stefan Czarniecki . Siege in 1707 Edit During the Northern War, the fortress - owned by Kazimierz Jan Sapieha , who was a supporter of Stanisław Leszczyński - was captured by General Krzysztof Sienicki of the Bończa coat of arms . Later, Sienicki went over to the side of the Swedish king Charles XII , so the fortress was besieged in 1707 (1709?) and captured by the Russian army. After these events, the castle located within the fortress was rebuilt into a baroque palace with a clock tower. In 1772, after the First Partition of Poland, the city was occupied by Russia. In 1917, Bychów was the prison of the Russian government of Kerensky for Russian generals, including Kornilov Lavra , Anton Denikin . After the Treaty of Riga in 1921, Bychów found itself in the USSR . In September 1941, the Germans shot 4,000 Jews from Bychów and the surrounding area near the city, on the Dniepr River.
@@williamtell5365 Napoleon was utterly defeated at Moscow. He only marched in initially - but I think you know that. Thanks for trying to gaslight history. Great job.
@@sethabel4315 you're simply wrong on facts. The Russian army was broken and unable to defend the city. The option of abandoning the city was really the only option, and worked out sufficiently for the Russians as the Grand Armee was not prepared logistically and above all fell from disease. History is hard and takes time. Do the work. Learn it.
While Napoleon conquered Moscow, he wasn't able to keep it. Hitler made the fatal mistake of declaring war against the United States. So the USA supplied weapons and materials to Russia. These poor fellows probably didn't know that when they were fighting Russia.
Roosevelt, who was a hardcore communist sympathizer (and his administration was crawling with communist agents), started supplying the USSR since June 1941 when Barbarossa began. The first shipment of US war material arrived in August 1941, six months before the US officially entered the war. This was a violation of the US Neutrality Act. Roosevelt lied to Congress and the American people, who were overwhelmingly against getting involved in another European war. Americans did not like either Nazism or communism and didn't see a point to taking sides.
Napoleon didn't really conquer Moscow. Most of the government and military, plus the wealthy and any others that could, fled from the city. I don't think there was any sort of formal surrender of the city. Certainly not of the country of Russia itself. And being near the limit of his resources, he and his army just sat around for a few months, also looting and pillaging, until it was too late to leave before winter set in. Their winter retreat was a deadly experience for much of his army.
@@williamtell5365 Especially with basically medieval medical and nutritional knowledge. People were climbing into dead horses to survive the cold, etc., etc.
When I see total flat land I think that would be a bad place to have battles. My ancestors came to the mountains in the late 1700's. I think I'd like guerilla warfare. Of course foxholes can be dug in warm weather.
It’s always a weird idea to keep in your head that when you listen to these diaries you hope the nazi writing them survived. Always have to remember they were people too.
He was so, so stupid. It's really amazing that he made it to the end of the war, and was allowed to go out on his own terms. He should have been taken out years before that.
12 members of my father family been killed in Ukraine in 1941. I hope this German soldier still in hell along if his family down to 7th generation. I m shock to see that some of comments have a putty to this killers. What a shame!
This channel is great but god dammit chill with the ads. Thats so ridiculous how many there are and honestly a but greedy if you ask me. I understand the need to make money off the channel but thers many other ways other than making people consider not listening due to the constant advertisements. Its like every couple minutes man, cmon. Just drop some merch or something if you need to monetize your content. Great stories though, but hell im trying to work while listening and im getting pissed that i gotta go to my phone to skip the fucking ads every 2 minutes
I have become addicted to the narrator's voice. Great job!
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He is pretty good for AI. He is AI right? Doesn't do dates right sometimes. And stuff like VIPs he pronounces v-i-p-s. Not sure. Years sometimes one nine four one instead of nineteen forty one
@@oldguysdoingstuff6216 interesting I didn't realize it was AI. I thought the way he was saying Leiutenant was a German pronunciation..
AI for sure but pretty decent AI
I wish these were numbered and labeled,so we could follow a particular story.
Absolutely. And the narrative voice is always the same. That makes it hard to keep track of different stories.
I think this is a particularly good one. Enjoy!
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The longer ones are definitely my favorite
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Thank you , I have listened to several and I have enjoyed them all....
In WWII my uncle was infantry. They were close to the tanks. A grenade hit the tank. Shrapnel tore his upper and lower jawbones away. He didn't awake until in a ship on the way home. He ended up in a hospital in Texas? They must have had good plastic surgeons as well as other surgeons. He never talked about it. If you ask anything about the war he'd only tell you what celebrities that came to the hospital to visit them. I didn't understand when younger. He always had the scruff beard that's popular now. My mother explained about it. The government gave him a pension. He did hard work at the sawmill. He never complained. Back in the late 70's he started losing some hearing. His daughter and my sister took him to the veteran's hospital, first time since the 40s. The young army doctor was shocked that he'd worked and raised 5 children. The doctor said his sinuses looked like a hot fire had been there. When his daughte looked in his trunk that the only thing anyone had seen was his Purple Heart medal. She started contacting military officials. There were other medals that he'd been awarded but never got. She also found out he was supposed to be given a much larger pension. They had never increased it from the late 40s and he'd never questioned it. He almost cried when looking at the medals. I still don't know the whole story. The medals were for acts he'd did before being hit. He lived to be almost 90. The last few years he would get confused sometimes and he'd think any man around him were German soldiers. My aunt died a few years before him. His children took care of him until he died. He always knew who we were except the spells of confusion. He had never talked about the war until then.
Thank you so much for sharing. Your story reminds me of those in my family. Such people!
I am humbled by your words...Thank the All Mighty that We...the free people of the World...we're blessed with the Rightous such as your father.....No wonder...a faithful member...graced as the "Greatest Generation "....I served in the US Army for over 27 years and any and all of my efforts and achievements at that capacity of a Combat Soldier pale dimly in comparison to the Triumphs and sacrifices achieved by men of distinguished Caliber as example of your fathers humbled experience....Continue to tell his story...Our nation....more than ever...especially our youth....need to hear of these extraordinary feats....performed by the humbled....common heroes...that protect and defend OUR American Experience....Thankyou for allowing me to comment.
"Those who live without knowing what happened before they were born remain perpetually a child"
Marcus Tullius Cicero - 106 BC - 43 BC
Deep
@@inquisitorgramaticus2250 especially for a 2,000 year old statement that's forever relevant.
And those who believe they know what happened before they were born, without actually knowing, remain infantile.
Yet there are many who do know what had happened before, but believe they can avoid a similar outcome.
This is the best way to get my history fix. Imean were hearing it first hand as it happened and I can't get enough of these stories. Thank you
Yeah bro, agreed. You get tired after a while because we already know what happened in the big battles. I started recently liking these personal stories a lot
Thank you so much for creating and posting this fascinating content
That was an incredible story!
Epic! Such insights froem the common soldier give me goose bumps. Thank you very much and such a stunning and perfect narrator voice.
Most likely Panzerkampfwagen III crewmen as it was the backbone of the panzerwaffe. Entering the Soviet Union German tank crews soon found out these tanks were highly susceptible to attack from light artillery and mortar fire. However on the poignant side the Soviet engineers examining captured Panzerkampfwagen III ta nks (as well as the cousin STUG III assault guns) said it was one of the best engineered designs for engine reliability, transmission, and transfer case. They even wondered why the Germans just did not upscale this III design instead of the a totally new design of the difficult engineered Panther and Tiger. Despite the tradeoffs of safety to crews the Panzerkampfwagen III was able to drive the offensive onward in 1941 with their reliability.
The slave labor was partially why a lot of them broke down. They sabotaged lots of tanks.
Says right in the first 5 minutes of the audiobook that they were Pz IVs.
@@rationalbasis2172 Actually no, he said they were reinforced by three Panzer IVs. I'm sure the narrator is crewing a Pz III or a Pz-38T
The slave labor was the cause of many break downs. They workers were known to break teeth off of transmission gears.. The teeth were glued on to pass inspection.
Man made himself a *twenty egg* omelette 😂❤
40:00 Stari Bychaŭ now known as Bykhaw/Bykhov Belarus, southeast of Minsk. The route seems feasible to the linear format of this storyline but it is remote for sure.
Bychaŭ is on a small tributary of the Dniper thus the crossing here now the P120 bridge exists there. The old bridge probably was pushed over into the river after 1945. East of Bychaŭ the road continues towards Voronino.
Thanks for your posting. Was trying to find the city they were talking about and Google wants to tell you all about "Starbucks" instead. Now, I have found it on a map !
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Rough fierce combat operations on both sides. Fighting/perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible. Yet still progressed forward. That’s true grit style determination to succeed. Special thanks to the veterans sharing their personal combat experiences. Making this documentary more authentic and possible.
I being an Indian that too in south most peninsular region, wonder so much about Europeans thirst for territories. Was it not enough. Your hunger never died down?. Even after your stomach was full. How u went along killings. Very filthy. What hitler was doing was exactly same as Britain, France, Portugese were doing in their past. Colonialism. Europeans were monsters. Thriving upon innocent, and weak. Cannibals.
And the best part... they lost. While this one isn't the best visually, I'm shocked at how many photos and video footage I've not seen before
So now the Nazis are “liberators” freeing the World of Communism! Of course! And the Russian people would “bring them eggs and butter” to thank them for getting rid of Stalin!
Oh man….please!!
I have no love for Communism. I lived under Castro’s Brand of Communism. There’s no worse tyranny. But to try to make Hitler and his armies into liberators is a lie and a fairytale. It’s a lie of monumental dimensions. It’s “disrespectful” even, to those who died on both sides of this useless war. Useless and shameful, as all war is. I don’t doubt that probably there was a portion of German soldiers who were there fighting for The Fuhrer, The Leader, Hitler, that were there because they had no choice, that were there fighting because they were drafted. But…at least to me, this seems like an attempt to make the Nazis into something they were not. Not only were the German soldiers “liberators” loved by those whom they invaded but, Hitler was a good guy, invading countries just to free them from whatever oppression their government was forcing on them. Oh sure! Germany invaded Russia just to get rid of Communism. Sure! They also invaded France to, do what? Liberate the French people from having a good time!? I feel like I’m reading a “Marvel alternate universe” comic book about the Nazis and their leader, Mr Personality, Herr Hitler. So now we are supposed to believe Hitler and his minions were “the good guys”!?
The Leader and his goodie two shoes Nazis. Saving the World from Oppression and Tyranny. Of course, why not?
Please give me a bleeping break!
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These diaries are priceless, absolutely captivating.
They never mention that looting and robbing Farmers was bad publicity, the reason many of them never came home it's because of the way they treated humanity other way in
when he ate the 20 egg omlette and then threw it up. I know that feel man.
Isnt it strange that all the German soldiers memoirs never mention how they all loved Hitler when they were winning and more importantly never mention how many atrocities they commited especially in Russia .They were all decent fine soldiers who respected the Geneva convention and of course never knew anything at all about the holocaust of the jews.
Yeah and the jews are helping palestinians in the 80 years plus ongoing occupation and genocide. Nothing learnt. When I hear holocaust i first think of whats currently being done to the palestinian people, who are actually semitic. And yet there's only international lobbying for trying and erase them. Speak of "respected and decent" peoples.
They all did like the famous monkey 🙈🙉🙊
They also never mention Hitler's space programme, nuclear weapons, and base in Antarctica. Weird!!!!
The Geman army actively cooperated . with and supported the Einsatzgruppen in parts of Russia and Poland. They also carried out many reprisals against partisans which involved similar atrocities.
Who is the narrator for these? I'm guessing because I recognize the voice as Ryan Cartwright, a British actor who had played the character named Mr. Hooker on the television series Mad Men. This is simply a guess, but the voice is distinctive...
another commenter says its AI
Listen how it says 250 - 300m at 1:04:48 ? Sounds AI to me but the best I’ve heard yet.
@@SalticidaeFan If that's an AI voice, then sign me up! It's the best AI voice I've heard so far!
He sounds kind of like the dude from Mortis Media.
Please don't forget that this man was fighting in a war of annihilation and genocide and he knew it.
The vast majority of german soldiers were unaware of the atrocities that were being committed in concentration camps until after the war.
@@bool3234I'm not talking about the Holocaust in the death camps, I'm talking about the genocides of the Eastern front.
The German army committed genocide on the Eastern front and this was generally known among the people who fought there. In fact, the war in the east had the specific plan and aim to kill and/or starve both the captured enemy soldiers and the civilian population, while at the same time, the Holocaust by bullets was also taking place there.
These are all generally accepted historical facts.The idea that the Wehrmacht was not involved in this genocide and that it was just the SS doing it is a myth that was debunked ages ago.
This guy fought on the Eastern front and he knew it was a genocide. The fact that he doesn't mention it doesn't mean that he wasn't involved, it means he's whitewashing his narrative by nit mentioning the war crimes.
If you don't believe me, study what modern history says about the war in the east and about the clean Wehrmacht myth.
To further illustrate the whitewashing: this channel has stories on it from an SS officer whose division committed a massacre in Oradour sur Glane in France and the story covers this period and doesn't mention it. Are we to believe he didn't know??
These aren't innocent stories, they are stories written by war criminals who hide their crimes while writing about the period in which they committed them.
@@bool3234They may not have known the full details of the concentration camps, but they all knew something very, very dark had happened.
They knew their government was pumping out virulently anti-Semitic propaganda, speeches and films, then that Jews were criminalized and made second-class citizens, made to wear stars, beaten or attacked on the streets, then with synagogues and Jewish businesses burned, and finally rounded up one night up and taken “someplace”….and none ever returned.
Even a slow child wouldn’t see that set of facts and believe “oh, all the Jewish residents in town must have decided to emigrate suddenly and are living happily somewhere.” They knew, and were either fine with it, or too selfish or disinterested to do anything, with few exceptions.
I think the vast majority of German soldiers had been convinced that fighting the USSR, communism and Jews was a struggle between two cultures and political ideals and that only one people and country would survive. They were willing to be far more violent and destructive in the east. But I also believe the vast majority would not have approved mass starvation and killing of prisoners, civilians, Jews, gypsies etc. I want to believe it. I am an American largely of German descent.
@@oldguysdoingstuff6216 First of all: I don't think that there's anything wrong with Germans as a people. They just went through some horrible circumstances and then voted for a man who manipulated them. This could have happened with any people.
However, that doesn't take away the personal responsibility of the individuals involved.
I hope that you will do some historical research to find out how much the typical soldier was involved in the war crimes. And maybe some more research on how easy it is to manipulate people into committing horrible crimes. The Milgram experiment is a very clear example.
I'm afraid you won't like the results, but I think it's more important to be realistic, rather than hopeful.
The sad truth is that most of the people who committed the horrible crimes were psychopaths or something like that. They were normal people who committed horrendous crimes. Just have a look at all the research and I think that you will find this out for yourselves.
You might want to add a map or two instead of just one picture. It would make it much better
I agree. Maybe a map, and five or six rotating photos: just to look at something while listening... 👍
You could look these up yourself, you know.
@@rationalbasis2172 German names and pronunciation aren’t on Ukrainian or Russian maps
@@michaelclairforet5031 What I recommend is finding a detail map of the period using search engines. It's what I do. It helps if you've studied German for half a year, and also learned how to phonetically pronounce Cyrillic words. For example, you would know that the "S" in Stary Bychov would start with a cyrillic C as that is the S sound. Another clue is the various names of the towns given, and the units named (i.e. Baranovichi; 3rd Panzer; 4th Panzer) - this permits a reasonably informed guess that the author was with Panzergruppe Guderian - 24th Panzer Corps. Guderian's attack followed a fairly narrow path through Baranovichi to the Beresina, then to the northern Dnieper. Should be relatively easy to find a map of this phase of the campaign - especially if you own Guderian's work "Panzer Leader," which has Guderian's own hand drawn maps (which are quite excellent).
I've been looking at maps and have usually been able to find rivers, towns, etc
If I wasn’t a full time worker
I would’ve taken that spot, but I only just got off of work to look at the comments. Awesome man
You would have worked for the Nazis to enslave humanity (and yourself)?
@@rationalbasis2172 What are you talking about, I was responding to the guy that got the 1st comment on the video.
You do realize that WW2 ended in the 40’s right…
@@Leyirs You're the one who said "I would've taken that spot." Not me.
@@rationalbasis2172 Obviously you can’t read or either you ignored my response, I was responding as the person that had the 2nd comment on the video.
Learn to read
I really enjoyed this one!
Napoleon conquered Moscow? Napoleon marched into Moscow, which was evacuated empty before him, then it was burned down during his occupation, taking away the place where the Grand Armée could've stayed through the bitter Russian winter. What followed was a terrible winter retreat, when most of the remaining part of his Grand Armée had perished. This was a lesson ignored by Napoleon's 20th Century follower, a certain A. H.
He still conquered it. His army marched in there, took it, and remained unopposed for a period of time (a couple of months if I remember rightly).
That's conquering. He may not have held it for very long but he did indeed conquer it.
@@Aethelhald Ah Aethelhad, we are arguing over incredibly fine points. You insist on the word "conquer", I remind you the utter destruction of Napoleon's forces, from which he never recovered fully.
I think the Grand Armée waited until mid October to withdraw from Moscow. It proved a horrific decision. The withdrawal was orderly until the harassment raids started creating havoc on their organization.
More or Napoleons troops died or deserted during the summer advance towards Moscow than they did during they're winter retreat away from it.
@@michaelbruns449 Most of those troops who deserted were from allied nations formations. They had a much shorter walk back home to central Europe.
A very nice story .
Far too many ads to enjoy this fascinating story
A Different ideology a different leader and leadership and beating the Communist that way in 39 would have been a better proposition for Europe to fight Stalin. It would be a different world today, if only. Slava Ukraine, ✌🏻☘️
Russia is not Communist today. The Soviet Union no longer exists.
Yes, for example a different ideology than imperialist capitalism might have prevented Britain from giving Nazi Germany gigantic loans, from negating the Versailles treaty, and then giving away two whole countries to them.
There's a good reason the nazis suffered a crushing defeat in the steppes. The nazis had no business in the soviet union. The nazi satanism was greater than that bolshevism of the soviets.
Barbarossa being delayed for like a month because of the Nazi invasions of Greece and Yugoslavia would have severe detrimental near future consequences for the Germans, vital aspects not often factored into account.
This prognosis has with recent revelations been disproven. The Wehrmacht was simply not ready for such a huge task and also the exceptionally cold winter ever recorded had kept the surface water abnormally high for June . In fact there was talk of further delaying the launch of Barbarossa but the water receded just in time and further good weather forecasts made it possible to launch on 22nd of June
@@permindersidhu1280really, then how did they basically walk over Greece and Yugoslavia in a few weeks at most?
@@permindersidhu1280 Don't you love it when people who don't know jack squat about history share their ideas and make pronouncements about how things would have turned out if a few things had been different? Yea, me too.
You are exactly right. Mussolini's surprise invasion of Greece and subsequent failure leading to the Germans having to come to the rescue in order for the British not to gain a foothold most likely contributed to the failure are the Germans to take Moscow in 1941.
@michaelbruns449
Only the Serbs put up a fight . The Slovenes ,Croats and Bosnian Muslims welcomed them with Hitler straight arm salutes .
Narrator never encountered Minard's map. Google (because I can post with a link--the post will get deleted):
The Minard Map - “The best statistical graphic ever drawn”
Also, Al Jaffee covered Napoleon's retreat in his book, _Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions_ . He shows Napoleon on horseback, retreating from Moscow, and a lieutenant asks him, "Are we retreating from Moscow, mon general?" Napoleon answers, "No, we are advancing on Paris, mon idiot!"
Great today. Thank you for letting us know a little of what these soldiers went through.
Not a scintilla of empathy for Nazis.
@rationalbasis2172 they do kinda remind me of the modern antifa movment.
@@chrisrogers5614 If antifascists remind you of fascists, all I can tell you buddy is you don't really understand anything at all.
They're all burning in hell now.
I hope you have got some understanding for their millions victimes too, not
just for these nazi fanatics!
Napoleon conquered Moscow. Exactly. Many people don't know this. Germany capturing Moscow wouldn't have knocked the USSR out of the war. It's a critical point.
Maybe not, but I understood most train tracks connected via Moscow.
@@ppumpkin3282 so that's an interesting question because capturing Moscow would have created a logistics nightmare for USSR. That's true.
Napoleon entered a burning (self-created) Moscow. There was no prize to be had.
Yes he did, but to no use.The Russian army and tsar Aleksej (Alexander) I could just wait until Napoleon had no supplies left to stay in Moscow. They didn´t need Moscow strategically. Moscow by then had not been the Russian capital for about a 100 years, since Peter the Great built Saint Petersburg. Napoleons army met disaster.
Does anyone remember the thumbnail movie's name with the two brothers
Standing up on top of a Tank is a good target and the fastest way to the cemetery.
Moscow conquered Napoleon...he slunk back home defeated...
When you think about it, France did a better job of driving into Russia...
...and they did it from all the way over in France lol.
A whole lot of Napoleon's troops were not French. And he lost a hell of a lot of those troops so nothing to be proud of there. @@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control
No more brother wars.
Imagine experiencing all this when you are just 19!
What has age got to do with it? Doesn't make it better or worse.
I was 10 throwing rocks at cruel English soldiers in the North of Ireland I grew to manhood on them streets and rocks became guns, then decades in prisons. Do you truly believe my struggle was not justified.
@@patkearney9320Nineteen is young. During the Vietnam War a boy would graduate from high school in May. Draft board notified them. We're still a rural mountain area. By June they were in the army. They would give them a 30 days furlough around November? They were in Vietnam by the first of the New Year. Most of them had their 19th birthday in Vietnam. They found out that their squirrel hunting skills paid off. They knew how to walk quietly in the jungle and to be quiet. I think some of the city boys had to learn how to do that. I call them boys because that's what they were. They came home as men. As a grandmother I look at my 3 grandsons. They ended the draft after Vietnam. Now the way things are being done there's many that don't want to join the military. It's being run by jokers.
Too many commercials
Is this from a diary of an actual German tank commander ?
Is this Mark Felton narrating?
No, it is not Mark narrating.
@@sassyt1545Do you know who it is?
@@grahamfreeman2252 Ryan Cartwright
@@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft thanks
I would like to find "stary-bi-chow" on a map.
Bykhaw, Belarus
At the end of the 16th century, it was the center of the property of the great Lithuanian hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz , who in 1611 ordered to "build" the embankments of the castle rising on the bank of the Dnieper River , which was granted by King Sigismund III Vasa . Hetman's intentions were that Bychów was to be the main center of the ordination he wanted to establish (unsuccessfully). Intensive expansion of the fortifications was carried out on the order of Chodkiewicz in the years 1611-1619 [2] , but the final shape of the fortifications was given by the Grand Marshal of Lithuania Jan Stanisław Sapiehawhich came into his possession around 1624 thanks to his marriage to Anna Scholastyka, daughter of Chodkiewicz. In 1628, Jan Stanisław Sapieha modernized the bastion fortifications surrounding the city and completed the construction of the castle by erecting a tower with a golden cross next to it [2] . As a consequence, the city became a stronghold of the Old Dutch system surrounded by modern fortifications ( an earth rampart reinforced with 5 bastions and 6 ravelins ). The castle, located in the depths of the city, had separate fortifications - stone walls and an earth rampart with bastions surrounding them, but compared to the city fortifications, the castle had less defensive significance and was primarily intended to be an administrative and representative center [2 ]. To defend Bychów, if necessary, the Sapiehas enlisted mercenary troops of up to 1,000 men, usually supported from their private treasury, and strong artillery was gathered in the local arsenal. Thanks to this, one of the strongest fortresses in the north-eastern part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was established, along with Słuck and Lachowicz .
Siege in 1648
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In 1648, the fortress in Bychów repulsed the siege of the Cossacks under the command of F. Harkusza.
Siege in 1654
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Bychów in the mid-seventeenth century
During the summer campaign of the Polish-Russian war, Bychów found itself in 1654 in a zone of operations numbering about 20,000. soldiers of the Cossack corps commanded by Colonel Ivan Zolotarenko . After the occupation of Nowe BychówOn September 8, 1654, the Cossacks laid siege to Bychów, which was to become the main center of the areas they controlled. The fortress crew consisted of: 2,000 townspeople, 600 mercenaries, 200 hajduks, 100 dragoons, 300 nobles and about 1,000 Jews, the artillery consisted of 4 heavy and 26 field guns. The defenders of Bychów did not limit themselves to defensive actions and during the siege lasting from September 8 to November 26, 1654, they made numerous raids on the positions of the Cossacks, inflicting heavy losses on them. Zolotarenko did not dare to take any assault on the city at that time and limited himself to a blockade, hoping that the defenders, cut off from the rear and deprived of hope for relief, would finally decide to capitulate. Failures, heavy losses inflicted by defenders,winter quarters to Nowy Bychów, located about 20 kilometers to the south [3] . On December 28, Samuel Oskierka's volunteer units reached Bychów [4] .
This defense echoed loudly in the then Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and King Jan Kazimierz , in order to reward the townspeople for their brave attitude, on 31 May 1655 freed Bychów from taxes for twenty years.
Siege in 1655
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In view of the concentration of the army of the Republic of Poland on the siege of Mogilev from February 16, 1655, at the turn of April and May 1655, the Cossack troops of Ivan Zołotarenko left Nowy Bychów and in mid-May began the second siege of Bychów, whose garrison in the spring of 1655 was reinforced by Kazimierz Leon Sapieha with new dragoon and infantry regiments , partly paid from the treasury of the Commonwealth. The city rejected the offer of capitulation and put up fierce resistance to the Cossacks. Due to the specter of a prolonged siege near Bychów, only Colonel Borżno Jachno Korobko remained with part of the infantry, blocking the garrison. Even a three-week stay of 10,000 soldiers under it did not contribute to the capture of the fortress. Alexey Trubetsky corpsin July and August 1655, because the defenders heroically repelled subsequent attacks, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. During this siege, on October 17, 1655, Ivan Zołotoreńko himself was killed by the fire of the defenders [5] .
The Sejm of 1655 issued the constitution " Securitas Bychowa ", in which it was decided to strengthen the garrison of this castle, maintained by the Lithuanian sub-chancellor Kazimierz Leon Sapieha - with 300 German infantry soldiers, paid from the state treasury of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the city was exempted from taxes for 20 years.
Siege in 1659
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In June 1659, Moscow troops under the command of Ivan Ivanovich Łabanov Rostowski and Semyon Zmiyev began a siege of the fortress, which, however, they were unable to capture for several months. Until December 1659, Stary Bychów remained an invincible fortress, constituting the only enclave of the Commonwealth's power on the Dnieper, and the attitude of its crew became an example for subsequent generations for decades. The fortress was taken over by the Moscow army as a result of treason only on December 14, 1659 [6] . Cossack Colonel Ivan Nieczaj, who commanded the defence , was sent to Siberia by the Russians. However, in the winter of 1660/61, the fortress was recaptured by Polish troops led by Stefan Czarniecki .
Siege in 1707
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During the Northern War, the fortress - owned by Kazimierz Jan Sapieha , who was a supporter of Stanisław Leszczyński - was captured by General Krzysztof Sienicki of the Bończa coat of arms . Later, Sienicki went over to the side of the Swedish king Charles XII , so the fortress was besieged in 1707 (1709?) and captured by the Russian army.
After these events, the castle located within the fortress was rebuilt into a baroque palace with a clock tower.
In 1772, after the First Partition of Poland, the city was occupied by Russia.
In 1917, Bychów was the prison of the Russian government of Kerensky for Russian generals, including Kornilov Lavra , Anton Denikin .
After the Treaty of Riga in 1921, Bychów found itself in the USSR .
In September 1941, the Germans shot 4,000 Jews from Bychów and the surrounding area near the city, on the Dniepr River.
I'm the first to comment and like this video
bravo!
Lol
I have read his book bro. Thank you.
It's funny they thought Napoleon conquered Moscow. I wouldn't say "conquered" is the right word.
But it is. Napoleon fought his way into Moscow. The point is correct and instructive.
@@williamtell5365 Napoleon was utterly defeated at Moscow. He only marched in initially - but I think you know that. Thanks for trying to gaslight history. Great job.
@@sethabel4315 you're simply wrong on facts. The Russian army was broken and unable to defend the city. The option of abandoning the city was really the only option, and worked out sufficiently for the Russians as the Grand Armee was not prepared logistically and above all fell from disease. History is hard and takes time. Do the work. Learn it.
@@williamtell5365 we just believe different facts.. face it
@@williamtell5365 do you believe the battle of Borodino ever happened? Or was it a made up myth?
Napoleon captured Moscow, but he couldn't hold it. He had 500,000 casualties mostly due to disease and weather.
While Napoleon conquered Moscow, he wasn't able to keep it. Hitler made the fatal mistake of declaring war against the United States. So the USA supplied weapons and materials to Russia. These poor fellows probably didn't know that when they were fighting Russia.
Roosevelt, who was a hardcore communist sympathizer (and his administration was crawling with communist agents), started supplying the USSR since June 1941 when Barbarossa began. The first shipment of US war material arrived in August 1941, six months before the US officially entered the war. This was a violation of the US Neutrality Act. Roosevelt lied to Congress and the American people, who were overwhelmingly against getting involved in another European war. Americans did not like either Nazism or communism and didn't see a point to taking sides.
Panzer 2 seem to have done better than leopard 2 in ukraine
Napoleon didn't really conquer Moscow. Most of the government and military, plus the wealthy and any others that could, fled from the city. I don't think there was any sort of formal surrender of the city. Certainly not of the country of Russia itself. And being near the limit of his resources, he and his army just sat around for a few months, also looting and pillaging, until it was too late to leave before winter set in. Their winter retreat was a deadly experience for much of his army.
He did really conquer Moscow. That is the whole point.
Reading about Napoleon's retreat from Moscow is some of the most harrowing stuff I've ever read. Bad, bad times.
@@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz Yes and a big lesson how disease and lack of supplies can ruin an army worse than combat
@@williamtell5365 Especially with basically medieval medical and nutritional knowledge. People were climbing into dead horses to survive the cold, etc., etc.
When I see total flat land I think that would be a bad place to have battles. My ancestors came to the mountains in the late 1700's. I think I'd like guerilla warfare. Of course foxholes can be dug in warm weather.
Hitler did compare himself to Napoleon
Russian during napoleonic war did not have American bankroll their effort
No, but they had the British to bankroll their war. The British didn't do much bleeding during the Napoleonic wars, but their Allies did.
It’s always a weird idea to keep in your head that when you listen to these diaries you hope the nazi writing them survived. Always have to remember they were people too.
Also, many/most of them weren't Nazis.
Hell no
Tanks need petrol to move and get stuck in mud.
"The Pripyat Swamp"
Get out of here stalker
With 'that madman Hitler'at the helm,never.
One of the biggest myths of the war. Hitler wasn't mad, and the 'Wehrmacht didn't lose because of him'.
He was so, so stupid. It's really amazing that he made it to the end of the war, and was allowed to go out on his own terms. He should have been taken out years before that.
12 members of my father family been killed in Ukraine in 1941. I hope this German soldier still in hell along if his family down to 7th generation. I m shock to see that some of comments have a putty to this killers. What a shame!
Who had a shittier retreat germany from russia or usa from Afghanistan?
At least the Germans blew up most of the equipment they left behind.
This channel is great but god dammit chill with the ads. Thats so ridiculous how many there are and honestly a but greedy if you ask me. I understand the need to make money off the channel but thers many other ways other than making people consider not listening due to the constant advertisements.
Its like every couple minutes man, cmon. Just drop some merch or something if you need to monetize your content. Great stories though, but hell im trying to work while listening and im getting pissed that i gotta go to my phone to skip the fucking ads every 2 minutes
You could pay UA-cam to have an ad free account you know. Ads are the price to pay for free access. It doesn't bother everyone.