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@@Styx8314 like the fbi or police today deciding something you said was wrong therefore a lie and therefore a crime, not being positive enough was considered being opposed to the government ask showed you to be a criminal.
Your site is outstanding! The human experience, war and pain, are so well summed up in the Lieutenant's writing. I look forward to seeing more. Thank you.
I think you are doing something really valuable in posting these diaries. Tolstoy wrote War and Peace to illustrate the point (according to him) that history is not made by strategies of statesmen in palaces but by the conflux of ordinary human beings acting from a myriad of motivations. The whole novel is a compilation of individual motivations set into the theatre of war (and peace). You are continuing in Tolstoy's footsteps!!! Thanks.
Mein Onkel Kurt Oberfeldwebel Infanterie war in Russland und wusste schon 1942 der Krieg ist verloren! Durch die falschen Befehle der Generäle ! Weil viele von denen kein Mut hatten den Führer die Stirn zu bieten ! Und deshalb wurden viele junge Soldaten verheizt ! Danke für das Interessante Video 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Gruß aus Brandenburg 🇩🇪 Udo Grimm
I wonder if there is some way you could find a picture of the soldiers who write these diaries. I am fascinated and touched by what they write and would like to see their faces.
Germany started the war. Germany could have surrendered. When I listen to these diary readings I understand that even if you weren’t indoctrinated, and especially if you weren’t a Nazi , it was your life on the line to so much as utter a discouraging word. There is no difference between a soldier who believes ardently and the soldier who doesn’t agree at all, they were soldiers
I wish after 80+ years people would stop saying Wehrmacht when they should be in this case saying Heer. Yes he was a part of the Wehrmacht, armed forces,but the three branches of said group were vastly different and not just because the Heer (army or ground forces) didn’t fly planes ( Luftwaffe/Air Force or serve on navel vessels like a man in the Kriegsmarine(navy) would. They had different codes and values their respective leaders often butting heads.
He complained about the bombing of Germany and it cities. Forgetting about England Stalingrad and every country they over ran an looted. I don't feel his pain or pity
Germans are great warriors no doubt about it but you can't fight allied country's on two fronts the east and the west conspire to defeat you and it's not about warriors it's about technology, and you Germans are responsible for the military industry in America before you Europeans and Japanese the military was very small in America now we are only known for our military complexe.
As he laments "if only we had the army we had in 1941". That simply wasn't possible because the Wehrmacht had everything going for it in 1941 and still got decimated. They threw everything they had at the Soviets, Barbarossa started with 75% of The entire German military. In spite of absolutely horrific losses the Red Army (and the Soviet Union) survived and the war of attrition, that Germany was totally unprepared for, commenced and it was ultimately and unfortunately for them all the way back to Berlin which took almost 4 years. The leadership was betting on a quick lightning victory, instead reality stepped in. The German Army grew big-headed and over confident as a result of easy victories in the West in 1940. Following is the truth of exactly why disgruntled and delusional Wehrmacht warriors were dwelling in fantasy land regarding their hopes and dreams. ▶ The following are copied from: 'When Titans Clashed - How the Red Army Stopped Hitler' (2015, David Glantz & Johnathan House) ISBN 978-0-7006-2121-7 Col. David Glantz (ret.) was co-founder of the 'Foreign Military Studies Office', Ft. Leavenworth, KS; his specific emphasis was the Soviet Red Army and Slavic studies. Excerpts about Barbarossa commencing 22 June '41 ➡ p72 (The German onslaught) . . . By this time battle and wear and tear had severely reduced the combat strength of German forces, particularly the Panzer - Grenadiers in the Panzer and motorized divisions defending the outer encirclement line east of Smolensk which were not structured for strenuous defensive operations. Similar attrition took a serious toll on the tank strength of the Panzer groups and divisions. The 18th Panzer division had only 12 operational tanks by the time it forced the Soviet 16th Army out of Smolensk on 23 July, and the tank strength of Guderian's II Panzer Group fell from 953 on 22 June (the start of Barbarossa in '41) to 286 on 29 July, just in one month of engagements. ➡ pp 125,126 (Rebuilding the Wehrmacht) . . . Barbarossa had proved almost as destructive for the German army and Luftwaffe as for their red counterparts. The German forces had become seriously overextended even before the Russian winter and the Moscow counteroffensive had struck them. Army Group Center had suffered the most. By January '42 thinly clad, shellshocked and disoriented troops tended to panic at the mere sound of approaching Soviet tanks. First, malnutrition, exposure and battle produced both physical and mental casualties and the losses in men and material far exceeded replacements. At the end of January '42, Army Group Center was 187,000 troops short of its authorized strength and it suffered an additional 40,000 in February. The retreat from Moscow meant abandoning large amounts of equipment that might otherwise have been repaired or salvaged. On 31 January, Army Group Center's shortages totaled 4,262 antitank guns, 5,890 mortars, and 3,361 large artillery pieces. The Luftwaffe had written off 4,900 aircraft as destroyed during Barbarossa. By the end of March '42 the 16 Panzer divisions in Russia had only 140 functioning tanks, the equivalent of one such division, between them. Germany had neither the manpower nor the production capacity to make up for these losses. In December '41, an additional 282,000 conscripts entered the Army but they all needed training and two thirds of them had been taken from the armaments industry. German factories experienced great difficulties in making up for the lost manpower. Forced laborers from Russia were supposed to replace agricultural workers who were shifted to the factories, but due to the general transportation shortages and the abuse that prisoners had suffered at German hands, they were largely unavailable. The weakened survivors who arrived in Germany fell prey to typhus epidemic and never received sufficient rations to work effectively. This labor shortage, combined with fuel problems, raw material deficiencies, and the continued competition between the armed services almost brought German production to a standstill during December '41 and January '42. On 10 January '42, Hitler issued a new set of production priorities subordinating his plans for new mechanized and expeditionary forces to the immediate need to replace equipment for the field armies. This order marked the belated recognition that Germany had become engaged in a long conflict of attrition. On 21 March '42, he officially dedicated the entire economy to war requirements. … These reforms took time, however, and the Wehrmacht never was able to fully re-equip after the disastrous battles advancing to and retreating from Moscow.
Enjoy handy playlists with all the stories of the soldiers!
ua-cam.com/play/PLME26KOruKR3xPuLzIorw0d1RTk7KYoJf.html Waffen SS. Diaries and memories of German soldiers.
ua-cam.com/play/PLME26KOruKR3CTzfue93twWQ7k_d4yOzc.html Personal Diaries and Memoirs of Soldiers.
It's a good thing the gestapo never got ahold of his work.
You’ve read too much propaganda
Yes, negative thoughts were punished if they could be proven.
@@jackjones9460 I wonder how one could 'prove' a thought. Iam sure the gestapo had a way.
@@Styx8314 like the fbi or police today deciding something you said was wrong therefore a lie and therefore a crime, not being positive enough was considered being opposed to the government ask showed you to be a criminal.
I just discovered this channel and I absolutely love it. It's one of the best channel . Thank you for all your hard work.
Really enjoyed listening. It almost puts me there in place and time. Thanks!
Your site is outstanding! The human experience, war and pain, are so well summed up in the Lieutenant's writing. I look forward to seeing more. Thank you.
I think you are doing something really valuable in posting these diaries. Tolstoy wrote War and Peace to illustrate the point (according to him) that history is not made by strategies of statesmen in palaces but by the conflux of ordinary human beings acting from a myriad of motivations. The whole novel is a compilation of individual motivations set into the theatre of war (and peace). You are continuing in Tolstoy's footsteps!!! Thanks.
This man had a very good grasp of the overall situation.
This man knows more about Politics than the whole of the World
Mein Onkel Kurt Oberfeldwebel Infanterie war in Russland und wusste schon 1942 der Krieg ist verloren!
Durch die falschen Befehle der Generäle ! Weil viele von denen kein Mut hatten den Führer die Stirn zu bieten ! Und deshalb wurden viele junge Soldaten verheizt ! Danke für das Interessante Video 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Gruß aus Brandenburg 🇩🇪 Udo Grimm
I wonder if there is some way you could find a picture of the soldiers who write these diaries. I am fascinated and touched by what they write and would like to see their faces.
Excellent!! Where is part 2?
What did you expect. Starting a war of IGNORANCE 😢
Great 👍
Germany started the war. Germany could have surrendered. When I listen to these diary readings I understand that even if you weren’t indoctrinated, and especially if you weren’t a Nazi , it was your life on the line to so much as utter a discouraging word. There is no difference between a soldier who believes ardently and the soldier who doesn’t agree at all, they were soldiers
Hope to see you all soon
Wonderful job on these videos...also I think people that think Ukraine can beat Russia should watch this
"bom dia a todos da auto eletrica serafim froteira oeste. praia das areias brancas ROSARIO DO SUL RS BRASIL." 👍👍👍""
He says the bombing made them depressed…….well now you know how your victims felt
That soldier saw the writing on the wall.
Yet anther solder who understood, he was a pawn.
Its sad...
Yup mostly young dudes fighting each other for their lame arse leaders
Happening again there now almost like that piece of Mother Earth is perpetually cursed
@@TheRealShawnCrowe ...THERE'S SOMETHING TO WHAT YOU ARE SAYING-(!)
Are this diaries real?
Realized y today is such a crummy day today it's 6/13/2023.
I wish after 80+ years people would stop saying Wehrmacht when they should be in this case saying Heer. Yes he was a part of the Wehrmacht, armed forces,but the three branches of said group were vastly different and not just because the Heer (army or ground forces) didn’t fly planes ( Luftwaffe/Air Force or serve on navel vessels like a man in the Kriegsmarine(navy) would. They had different codes and values their respective leaders often butting heads.
The German army showed no mercy. They got their ass handed to them at Stalingrad. Nobody deserved more than then
It served them right for all the atrocities they did to the Russian people.
They would be so pissed of the demographics of Berlin 😅
"boa tarde da auto eletrica serafim froteira oeste. praia das areias brancas ROSARIO DO SUL RS BRASIL." 👍👍👍""
"1943 is the darkest year in German history"
1944: "Hold my pilsner"...😢
1945: You ain't seen nuthin yet
He complained about the bombing of Germany and it cities. Forgetting about England Stalingrad and every country they over ran an looted. I don't feel his pain or pity
Madness
A good man
There is a way that seems right to a human but that way leads to death.
Don't learn from the past could be more apt to do it again don't like it don't like it at all 2023
I do not believe this is written by a German more than likely some modern day wunderkind!
The photos are the most fake part. Rub your eyes and look again.
Germany was lucky, they surrendered before the US perfected the A bomb.
Why the worry about their property at home?. That's the least of there problems, lol.screw the properties,save your Asses!!!
☆☆☆☆☆
Again, I've already heard this one on another channel, how come???
Are you guys copying each other?
So many Jews!
caught between americanism and boleshivism
Germans are great warriors no doubt about it but you can't fight allied country's on two fronts the east and the west conspire to defeat you and it's not about warriors it's about technology, and you Germans are responsible for the military industry in America before you Europeans and Japanese the military was very small in America now we are only known for our military complexe.
Con gress
June 6 1944, was the beginning of the end for Germany
Respectfully, I disagree. Dec '41 was the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.
@@johnpoirier2398 that's when the allies invaded Normandy
Too bad Japan attacked USA instead of USSR; Axis might have won the war.
Juden propaganda
Schreibe keinen Quatsch
und lese irgend ein Geschichtsbuch!
As he laments "if only we had the army we had in 1941". That simply wasn't possible because the Wehrmacht had everything going for it in 1941 and still got decimated. They threw everything they had at the Soviets, Barbarossa started with 75% of The entire German military. In spite of absolutely horrific losses the Red Army (and the Soviet Union) survived and the war of attrition, that Germany was totally unprepared for, commenced and it was ultimately and unfortunately for them all the way back to Berlin which took almost 4 years. The leadership was betting on a quick lightning victory, instead reality stepped in. The German Army grew big-headed and over confident as a result of easy victories in the West in 1940. Following is the truth of exactly why disgruntled and delusional Wehrmacht warriors were dwelling in fantasy land regarding their hopes and dreams.
▶ The following are copied from:
'When Titans Clashed - How the Red Army Stopped Hitler' (2015, David Glantz & Johnathan House)
ISBN 978-0-7006-2121-7
Col. David Glantz (ret.) was co-founder of the 'Foreign Military Studies Office', Ft. Leavenworth, KS; his specific emphasis was the Soviet Red Army and Slavic studies.
Excerpts about Barbarossa commencing 22 June '41
➡ p72 (The German onslaught)
. . . By this time battle and wear and tear had severely reduced the combat strength of German forces, particularly the Panzer - Grenadiers in the Panzer and motorized divisions defending the outer encirclement line east of Smolensk which were not structured for strenuous defensive operations. Similar attrition took a serious toll on the tank strength of the Panzer groups and divisions. The 18th Panzer division had only 12 operational tanks by the time it forced the Soviet 16th Army out of Smolensk on 23 July, and the tank strength of Guderian's II Panzer Group fell from 953 on 22 June (the start of Barbarossa in '41) to 286 on 29 July, just in one month of engagements.
➡ pp 125,126 (Rebuilding the Wehrmacht)
. . . Barbarossa had proved almost as destructive for the German army and Luftwaffe as for their red counterparts. The German forces had become seriously overextended even before the Russian winter and the Moscow counteroffensive had struck them.
Army Group Center had suffered the most. By January '42 thinly clad, shellshocked and disoriented troops tended to panic at the mere sound of approaching Soviet tanks. First, malnutrition, exposure and battle produced both physical and mental casualties and the losses in men and material far exceeded replacements. At the end of January '42, Army Group Center was 187,000 troops short of its authorized strength and it suffered an additional 40,000 in February. The retreat from Moscow meant abandoning large amounts of equipment that might otherwise have been repaired or salvaged. On 31 January, Army Group Center's shortages totaled 4,262 antitank guns, 5,890 mortars, and 3,361 large artillery pieces. The Luftwaffe had written off 4,900 aircraft as destroyed during Barbarossa. By the end of March '42 the 16 Panzer divisions in Russia had only 140 functioning tanks, the equivalent of one such division, between them.
Germany had neither the manpower nor the production capacity to make up for these losses. In December '41, an additional 282,000 conscripts entered the Army but they all needed training and two thirds of them had been taken from the armaments industry. German factories experienced great difficulties in making up for the lost manpower. Forced laborers from Russia were supposed to replace agricultural workers who were shifted to the factories, but due to the general transportation shortages and the abuse that prisoners had suffered at German hands, they were largely unavailable. The weakened survivors who arrived in Germany fell prey to typhus epidemic and never received sufficient rations to work effectively.
This labor shortage, combined with fuel problems, raw material deficiencies, and the continued competition between the armed services almost brought German production to a standstill during December '41 and January '42. On 10 January '42, Hitler issued a new set of production priorities subordinating his plans for new mechanized and expeditionary forces to the immediate need to replace equipment for the field armies. This order marked the belated recognition that Germany had become engaged in a long conflict of attrition. On 21 March '42, he officially dedicated the entire economy to war requirements.
… These reforms took time, however, and the Wehrmacht never was able to fully re-equip after the disastrous battles advancing to and retreating from Moscow.