What Happened to German Soldiers after WWII?
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- Опубліковано 24 лют 2023
- Explore the little-known history of German forced labor after World War II. From Soviet labor camps to minesweeping in Western Europe, millions of German civilians and captured soldiers were used as forced labor by the Allies. The aftermath of war can be complex and far-reaching, and for many German soldiers, the end of World War II was just the beginning of a new struggle. Join us as we delve into this important and often-overlooked aspect of history.
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The winning side loses life. The losing side loses life, dignity, freedom, even their families. No one wins in a war
The spiral of hatred still moves on.....that's the problem of war...
Nothing good comes out of it
Not true, bankers and military armament entrepreneurs win big time.
@@MM22272 At what cost? 😔
@@krishnamohan5523 For the cost of death, research the profits of the bankers who loan money to the governments to buy the armaments. The loss of human life, however, is incalculable if one assumes that life is priceless. Obviously that was not believed back then.
Given the hundreds of thousands of unborn children that are butchered annually in Western countries, not much has changed.
@@MM22272 Of course human life is priceless coz one just can't buy it
64 and am still learning that humans are cruel every day.
Right? I had no idea the Germans were forced to do slave labor that’s crazy.. a few years back there was a guy who was found out to be a nazi, he was about 100 years old and they put him in prison
But don’t forget that anywhere you find mankind there is also kindness.
Cruel? They got what they deserved after starting two world wars and committing the Holocaust. Zero sympathy from my side and I am German. Actions have consequences.
no just the jouz and their creation Islam sionism communism nazism.....
That’s why Jesus had to come and die. Only way.
War is a waste. It's pathetic how easily we allow war to break out on a daily basis.
War only makes waste.
Well said. It sure is a waste. It is pointless because rarely is anything accomplished, people die, and many lives are ruined.
@@karenjohnson5634 One idiot supporting another idiot's statement.
But... War did give us tea bags and GPS...
Contrary to Popular Belief... War is the Fastest way for Technological innovation & Advancement.. As Humans will always Prioritize Survival!
True that.But sometimes it's unavoidable like the Israel Palestine one.Israel was forced to protect themselves.Sometimes u need to go to war to survive
That’s my grandfather after WW2 Spent 4 years in a Siberian coal mine. He was shipped home via train, thinking he was dead, like all the others. My grandmother described him as an angry bear, someone she did not recognize when he came home
He had nothing to search in Russia, .... or maybe ... Jews?
Awee that is so sad. Where did you live at the time in Germany. God bless you all
He didn't deserve to survive if he was a Nazi🤮
Stalin and Hitler and Putin made of the same murderous vibe.
GOD bless 🙏
My German third cousin spent years as a POW in Yugoslavia. He was no Nazi. He finally returned to Germany in 1958.
I'm sorry for your cousin fuck communist Yugoslavia!
Uh-huh , sure whatever you say !!
what country in Yugoslavia? Serbia? Croatia? Bosnia?
He was lucky.
I'm so tired of hearing people say that their relatives were not nazis during the war. It was always other soldiers who were nazis. Yet when I see videos of the rallies in Berlin and Nuremberg, I see hundreds of thousands of nazis yelling sieg heil!! What happened to those nazis??? 🤔
My grandpa was lucky, since he was captured by the british. He was indeed forced to work on a farm. But he was treated like a human being and returned home safely after a few years. His brother had no luck. He was captured by the russians and died in a siberian labor camp.
The Germans put the Soviets through hell so the Soviet revenge was understandable. The UK still has those who flinched at my German last name when I visited in 1985.
My family has been in America since 1880.. I did not take offence and understood her reaction.
@@corinnem.239 Yes, you're right. Germany gave a lot of other countries enough reasons for being hated, so their reactions were understandable. With that in mind I cannot be angry about the russians letting the brother of my grandpa die. At the same time I am deeply grateful to the British for not harming my grandpa.
When I was a teenager I remember him saying that we (the Germans) started an evil war and it shall be the duty of the upcoming generations to make sure this could never happen again. I think this attitude could have resulted from the way the British treated him in his time as a POW. So my conclusion is that taking revenge is something completely understandable, but mercyness may stop the spiral of hatred. But the latter is far more demanding.
@@corinnem.239 if your enemy treats you like trash if you do the same to them you are no better than them
@@kampfroboter6648 big lies russia attacked themselves also
@@corinnem.239 You have no blue eyes you aint german
I love how everyone says, “we shouldn’t have wars” Well DUH. But when people are being attacked there’s not much choice. Either defend yourself or let people take over.
Mhhh, actually the governments + MMS media is being used to influence us and make is believe that war is uninvitable. The Elite uses wars for their plans.
Nobody MUST attack anybody. We should elaborate the possibile conflicts with diplomacy being non violent paceful and understanding each other. Man has to change his soul. Or we won't last much.
So Germany should or should not have defended ethnic Germans in what had been Germany a few years before and was now Poland? And how is slavery an answer to either response?
Wow…….I never knew they were used as forced labor. Why have I never heard this before? And I’m surrounded by my husband and two sons who are all WWII history buffs. Also, My grandfather fought in the 45th, was a genuine war hero, helped free Dachau and was a POW (or a “guest of the fuhrer” as he used to call it) so I grew up with stories. Thanks for the info!
I love how everybody is afraid to call it slavery even though it was.
Could you please tell me more about
Look at ho lo caust pictures again...
Its all men 🤔
(German pows)
Winner of the war writes the history books.
Communist Stalin, was first to Auschwhich camp.
Eisenhower ordered American troops to halt,let Stalin reach first.
Worlds a stage.
Palestine is the keystone to trade between, Asia, Africa, Europe....
Thats the why, behind it all.
Promised land
or
Profit land ?
You should watch “Europa the last battle”. This movie/documentary will give you the full story of WWII, not just the narrative from the victors that everyone’s had forced down their throats. It will change your whole life when you hear how & why the whole war actually took off. We’ve all been lied to. But hey, history’s written by the winners🤷♂️
@@twiznizzlenore7822 I will.
My aunt’s house is built on the location of one of the German POW camps in Georgia. I always wondered what happened to all of the prisoners after the war. The site isn’t marked. I had to compare old maps to current ones in order to find it. There are stories about one of the prisoners. Apparently he was a concert pianist and the guy who ran the camp was a fan. People used to gather outside the fences to hear him play. I don’t know if it’s true but there are several accounts. I love history’s little hidden gems.
Nobody wins in War
Wrong. Keeping seeking wisdom.
The Allies defeated evil. That’s a win.
@@GrievousAngelo the lesser evil defeated the greater evil.
so it's peace
@@GrievousAngeloAmerica has committed more war crimes than Hitler ever did. America will fall one day the lied and invaded middle East for oil
Once the war really got underway, every nation eventually became brutal. No one was pure by the end.
These poor soldiers had no idea,what is planned behind closed doors,they were following orders, unfortunately the soldiers literally fell in to death trap from both sides,fighting the war for their own survival,it still goes on as we speak.
"It is only a war crime if you lose the war but if you win the war it is called Compensation"
A wise man
My grandpa was a POW in an American camp (Rheinwiesen) at the end of WW2. He never had anything positive to say about his time. Even though the USA signed the Geneva conventions they let their prisoners intentionally starve to death, shot them for fun (at night when the guards were drunk), beat them, robbed them, didn't provide any shelter, refused access for the red cross, etc., and no American soldier has ever been convicted for it. My grandpa could never get over his resentment for America and would probably not be happy to see me living here in the US nowadays. I always told him that he needs to forgive as much as Germans want to be forgiven for the crimes a lot of them committed during that time. War never brings the good in people.
Wild that Germans had resentment against Americans. Such projection.
What was he expecting? How would've he treated Americans if Germany won?
The German did not like being treated like the Jews were treated
I am impressed by your deep understanding, maturity, and an evidently well-balanced intellect in dealing with such an emotive subject that also had a direct impact on your family. I hope your family and the community you live in appreciate you. America or, for that matter, any country needs more like you.
@@LA97Luis what would you expect germany would do the same, the same goes for evey powers who fought in ww2 and 1 forced labour is no different from slavery and its nothing new not only to the western but the whole world. War is cruel
A lot of the POWs in Scotland didn't want to go home. A lot stayed after they were released.
Why?
@@jamesryan2720 probably because Germany was left a hellscape and Scotland is gorgeous lol.
The first 2 world wars reek of ulterior motives and disproportionate punishment. It sucks really.
Not minimizing crimes against humanity, but 90% of our schools barely touch on the Japanese (or the allies for that matter) atrocities, if at all. Even fewer talk about the Soviets. People still today think they're edgy communists preaching how Stalin was righteous. It's seriously mind blowing.
The nazis were only so easy to froth up in the first place because their country had essentially been nearly executed by sanctions. The irony in Hitler doing horribly evil things at times, but also potentially being the reason the gorgeous, powerful and peaceful German people exist today is just 🤌🤌
Same here in Canada. I'm sure school friends I grew up with in the 60's had some connection, German ones.
Deutschland was 90% destroyed, nobody wanted to go back to a cesspool. They're still finding bombs today
@@jamesryan2720Haggis
Crimes by the Allies, such an unspoken topic.
Using Germans to rebuild a continent they'd been responsible for destroying is a crime? I don't think so.
Germany played its Nazi game and paid the price.
The same rules should apply to the fascistic Russians currently losing their war in Ukraine. They will pay for what they've done.
@@markthompson1819 Germany may have started the second WW but was not responsible for it all alone.
Also no right can come from injustice.
Using Pow's for certain things is simply not permitted.
Oh and btw you think a collective punishment is in order?
If you truly believe in what you are saying, the US should be paying a lot, UK should be paying a lot, France should be paying a lot.
Are they paying? - No.
@@SuperJohnny99999 Crawl back under your rock now Little Markey!!
@@SuperJohnny99999 why us? They got dragged into it by japan and so they finished it
@@todd3285 Cant handle the truth or the double standard?
allies also commit war crimes but blame everything to hitler and germany a very so unspoken topic
Yes Indeed.
Also, at the Yalta conference, Stalin had also suggested that they summarily execute the top 5000 German officers. Astonishingly, Roosevelt agreed to this! It wasn't implemented because Churchill expressed outrage and abruptly left the table. Stalin then brought him back to the table by saying that he was only joking! Some joke eh.And Roosevelt's reaction??
What did you expect from a Democrat? Look at what they are doing to our country now!
Yeah after killing million of Bengali Indians churchil not agree on execution of German beasts
Rare stalin W
@@daglahane5876 stalin L criminal
@@myhonorwasloyalty lmao Stalin is a fucking genocidal revisionist criminal, but he was certainly right about killing nazis.
Germans shouldn't forget the atrocities committed by evil allies.
this was no atrocity. stop pretending german facists are victims
A little life lesson: Better to die struggling for freedom against tyranny, than be held to account for the same tyranny......
My mothers uncles did speak out and were one of the first prisoners in Dachau.
My dad was almost beaten to death on the way home from the university.
Many Germans died in camps, not just Jews.
Thanks a lot for the history lessons, not taught in schools.
How will they teach that the people talking so much about freedom have millions prisoners
This YT video did not even tell the truth about post-surrender Germany and its citizens. Mass rapes of German and Italian women and over 1.2 million P.O.W. Germans died in captivity between 1945 and 1948. Read the book "Other Losses". Know thy history.
@@madhusmitamallick155 No. Nazis were forced to build what they destroyed around Europe. Nothing controversial. Screw Nazis.
And it was only 77 year's ago kids today think Vietnam was ancient history lol
No it was learned in our homes as we took in German Refugees, relatives.
If this logic is correct, shouldn't Nato soldiers have rebuild most countries in the Middle East.
No, the Germans like the middle easterners, brought that upon themselves.
1. Win the war 2. Dictate the terms 3. Have the strength to enforce it.
They were not defeated.
@@PauloPereira-jj4jv yeah, they just merely managed to win
@@zarandadam1718a lot of the west’s wars in the Middle East were not close
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Oh come on…sure that applies to most normal crimes, but that doesn’t apply to the Nazis starving, beating, raping, gassing, shooting, humiliating, de-humanizing, torturing, dismembering, infecting, and murdering millions of people, including children!for no reason whatsoever…just because they were evil sadistic scums. Societal norms didn’t apply to those murderous thugs.
Shutup.
@@harmony3279 You need a snickers, pal. Who hurt you?
@@Chestnutcow brainwashing 😂
Three reichs don't make a wrong
I really find it important, that such atrocities are revealed, because we cant change history and we cant undo this crimes, but it is our duty to make sure they never happen again, from either side....
So, the allies were no different😂😂😂😂 ....
Just remember, that imperialist Britain, France and other European countries committed similar atrocities in their colonies but it was not a systematic murder on an industrial scale like the Germans. The British Raj used to tie Indians to the front of cannons and blow them apart.. the French used to roast people alive.. the French also tought the American Indians about scalping people to get a bounty. The Spanish were a class of their own.. in fact the Nazis planned to deport most European Jews to Poland and Madagascar. And the Vichy Government of France wanted to move the Jews to its African colonies.. but when these plans became unpractical due to the war, they came up with the ‘final solution’… most of Europe was horribly anti Semitic and even Roosevelt wanted to limit the number of Jews coming to America. Most of the atrocities committed by the Nazis in Russia was by Ukrainian, Lithuanian and Polish fascists who were part of the German SS battalions.
11 million vs 1 million... I don't know...
I don’t care about the Germans. To me it’s fair enough. Also like what 420 said! 🤛
This is the allies being generous and considerate.
@@preppychrisbou ..... Abusing women and captured men
This past event was one of the consequences faced by the German. But, after almost 87 years the leaders of super power countries never learnt from history. They are racing in producing more and more destructive and deadly super weapons 😢😢😢
The Japanese mostly got away with it. All they needed to do is to provide girls to service the conquering American soldiers. No laborers for Japan's victim countries.
Япония забыла о бомбах сброшенных америкой, Хиросима и Нагасаки.
Japan got off easy in that war. True.
@@user-oz2lv4pz3oall things considered those were relatively minor incidents
Yea the allies being the "good" guys.
The Germans tried to take over the world 🌍 not once but TWICE.
So they chose the f*** around and find out method, and they found out
Lol fair is fair buddy you want perfect and good go take a nap a dream harder you won't find it wake up just because you think something sounds good in you're head doesn't mean you should say it especially if you just looking for any reason to turn on the systems. There are no good guys only those that try harder than others. Nazis yeah given orders but could have stopped at anytime we all have a choice no matter what. Just like you have the choice to do you're research before you speak.
We didn't gas, shoot nor poison 6 million innocent people because of their religion so stfu you crybaby 🙄🤦🏼
You mean Commies.
Not 'The Allies' .
@@realMaverickBuckleyUSA and UK are commies since when?
And US hired nazis to work on nasa and have a perfect American life like they didn’t help with the murders that when on throughout the war 😂😂😂😂😂
I think they confiscated the German scientists that were working on rockets prior to the Nazis coming to power. From what I've read becoming a member of the Nazi party was fairly mandatory to keep employment and stave off the gastopo when in higher fields of study.
@@demonbane1000 no look up you’re history right before the trails began for the war crimes the US pardon many nazis so they could work on NASA space program… the top NASA scientist that helped developed the rockets and engines for the rockets had committed war crimes and actually helped in the genocide of millions learn you’re history good you can look it up and find out you’re self
Wernher Von Braun look him up
And?
@@GamerGod-fp1tj jaja you’re brave enough to say that online but face to face jaja I would drag you through the floor jaja
Stop with the sympathy for the German soldiers my father had to grow up without a dad his 2siblings and his mom had a very hard time surviving on a war pension the ss shot my grandfather in cold blood after he surrendered pinned down by gunfire in a ditch in Belgium so we had 3 generations of hurt and misery he never had the luxury of being taken prisoner 😢😢😢
Well said ppl got sympathy for germans Chinese Japanese??????
Why??? Our men in 🇬🇧 and Canada 🇨🇦 America 🇺🇸 Austalia SUFFERED WHAT THESE GERMANS CHINESE JAPANESE GAVE OUT TO OUR SOLDIERS ALSO INNOCENT PEOPLE AND ENJOYED DIONG IT.AND WERE SUPOSED TO FEEL SORRY FOR THE GERMANS?????
SS were the real evil ones. Others say most German soldiers during WWII were brainwashed and were not cruel like the SS. I believe that most German soldiers, unlike from the German government (SS, Gestapo, etc) were not extremely cruel, and the German government were very ideologically driven, committing most of the atrocities and war crimes for Nazi. I also heard stories where German soldiers just wanted to come home peacefully and did not want to participate in some of the war crime activities invited by the SS.
hitker mother was jiwish. he was too like stalin.
U talk nonsense. There are no winners either way during a war.
Sympathize the human, not the ideal. The ones who killed your grandfather were humans who lost their humanity, using their own ideals to justify the killing. The germans who never wanted to kill or be killed were forced to lest they themselves were shot.
In an abstract way, you are supporting dehumanizing humans ergo you didn't learn from history.
Pride has a very high price. Be careful how you treat others today, maybe what you will have to endure tomorrow. What goes around does come around. That is the priciple of a circle.
A million former SS soldiers joined the French Foreign Legion to avoid being sent back to Russia, they ended up in Indo China and got slaughtered at Dien Bien Phu.
Lol millions? Maybe few thousands at most...😂
@@Fabiiii76 yep, because most moved to America and became democrats..😂
@@franceleeparis37 😂😂😂 nah our nazis have been here in greater numbers since the Dixiecrats had their precious commodities taken
@@franceleeparis37wait... I thought the Dems were the "communists", "leftist" fools?
@@franceleeparis37 and then the democrats passed the civil rights bill, voting rights bill and was the party that elected the first black president 😂
And they are still asking, why they fought till the end.
Being held accountable can be scary
@@MrMacky-co6znnot every german was a war criminal or a national socialist but where forced to work themselves to death or the womans who were mass raped and murdered by the Soviets were sometimes no older than 13 did they deserve it?
They didn’t fight til the end. They just exterminated people til the end.
Right, they was rebuilding what they destroyed in 4 years of the war in Russia, not to mention 28,000,000 millions of the Soviet people killed, it's very hard to find a family in Russia who didn't lost their love ones
Stalin killed more Russians than Hitler did. Many of those losses were by their own side. History is written by......
lol
Was it Germany's fault for Stalin forcing stupid tactics to clog a meat grinder? Not saying Germany was at right, but don't go blaming one single factor for the results.
@@niftycage74 Good point. Russia could have won and lost far fewer causalities. But Stalin didn't just want to win. He wanted to grab as much of Europe as possible before the Western allies could. He just threw divisions at the Germans.
So will it be okay for Ukraine to do this to Russia when this current war is over?
Russia lost 20 million people in World War II. The German people had to expect that as a result if they had lost.
Russia was 😈 evil.
The Germans lost quite a few as well. Two wrongs do not make a right.
Я вас поправлю советский народ потерял 27 миллионов людей в этой проклятой войне
Actually the Russians were the bad guys. They treated the civilians horribly and killed and rapped women like no tomorrow. Not reported because they were on the Allied side. History is a lie.
The crime that the German drafted men committed were being born in Germany
Full Story:
As the Second World War came to an end, German soldiers who survived the horrors of the battlefield found themselves facing a new, unexpected reality. The victorious Allies, seeking to extract reparations from Germany, demanded that millions of Germans be put to work. At the Tehran Conference in 1943, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin set the bar high, demanding an astonishing 4 million German workers. Two years later, at the Yalta Conference, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed to the use of forced labor, paving the way for the exploitation of millions of Germans.
One of the largest groups of forced laborers were German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union, who were subjected to brutal conditions that resulted in up to 1 million casualties. In Poland, ethnic Germans were sent to labor camps as slave labor, while in Western Europe, even sick or unfit German prisoners were used to clear deadly minefields. The aftermath of war can be just as devastating as the war itself, and for some German soldiers, the end of World War II marked only the beginning of a new struggle as they were forced to endure years of forced labor and inhumane treatment.
My family was nazi so I know history is incorrect. Grandfather was Gehrig ok
A Canadian historian covered the pow question in some depth, seems the Brits and the commonwealth countries treated them fairly, their view was that they might be allies one fine day. The US army was basically overwhelmed and thus there was a lot of unnecessary suffering. The French and the Soviet were the cruelest and mostly spiteful. He drew material from former prisoners as well as allies personnel who dealt with them.
Some places were good to them. My older sister remembered seeing them playing baseball behind fences at the prison where they were kept in Texas...
About 2 million German POWs were repatriated from the USSR by the end of 1946. At that time, the UK and France held a larger number, about a million. That was the staus quo until about the end ofb1949. Not POWs of course... that would have violated the 3rd Geneva Convention. To avoid that, they were redesignated "surrendered enemy combatants" ... problem solved.
After the Germans Stalin ethnic cleansed 2 million polish citizens who were living in eastern Poland (Cresy).
Shame, still the humans have not learned to coexist peacefully, please give up selfishness, ego, animalistic instincts.
Shame yourself yo
Said by Indiegay Indian 😊
@@asiandvarma1603 you are proving his point...
@@imfrommars7362 nahh, do you think they are good people ? They hate own people, they kill own people, they attacking to own people from different religion, racist country racist people
its not all people. follow the money to understand who starts all wars, those people have not changed for 2000 years
They cleared the highly dangerous minefield that THEY PLANTED!
Yet the allies had tanks with chains to clear mines... Shocker. Very few think of least damage to human lives.
And if they said No I won't do this?
No one makes this widely known. Well the victors obviously did get to write their version of history. 😅😂
Ngl never liked the French and never will
I second this
Aye aye
امين
Fuck France
@Aegix just read a book on Frances empire.
dont see how you can call germans evil and then do exactly the same thing
Because they had caused the mess and destruction that they were made to clean up and rebuild in the first place. The people the Germans forced to work and tortured had done nothing wrong to start with, that's the difference.
My father in law was in second world war he was English soldier he was sent to construction camp he was shocked at what he saw died people looking like skeletons he said it will always haunt him,
It was not the same thing my great grandfather was there and survived the concentration camps were much harder
@@Please_allow_me I love how soldiers are drafted against their will as slaves and then when they lose their punishment is to again be made slaves, this time by the other side
@@cmdrfunk Hopefully its enough to teach future generations that if they go along with evil, and then lose, they won't get away with it consequence free. It might also encourage future generations to not elect a full on fascist dictator as well
Its kind of sad that this wasnt taught to me.
What happened to the Germans after the war was genocide.
Not just after war . Already in Winter 45 it began. Millions of German Refugees from east Germany died in Dresden Trainstation. Women children who Had nothing to so with any war crimes killed with Phosphor bombs. The whole Town burned. My grandmother Had marriage this day they have Seen from 80km distance. The whole Sky was Red.
And in the baltic sea the russians killed everyone who was a German. Just because they were German native language.
They have stolen Königsberg and killed all German.
Incorrect. What the Germans did was an attempted genocide. Germans lost another 500k to 2m post war. The Germans exterminated 6 million Jews in the Holocaust and started a war that cost 85 million lives.
No it wasn't
@@user-hb9rx4du2o of course it was. Millions lost her life
@@hrillingday They started it
I learned that not all german soldiers are bad and not all allies troops are good when i heard about US soldiers massacring in Vietnam, basically culling woman, child, elderly alike.
I read your comment and it reminded me how weird it is that people have to "learn" that. Im not angry, but imrealy curious. Did you beleve that the germa army was literally just millions of evil men? Thats alot of evil men. Lol
Sorry for typos, on mobile
Its easy for one to make claims about a war one wasnt involved in, my father was drafted and came home a complete mess mentally. He drifted around for a few years and then mentally fought for the rest of his life dealing with PTSD. His trauma over there was so severe that he gave us PTSD by his behaviors. Mental and physical abuse by a man whos reliving a terror and hes unaware of whos there while hes dealing with the episode. I remember being woke up at 13 years old to my father shaking me awake and he immediately handed me a hunting rifle and he then went outside yelling that he knows that your out there and started to fire into the darkness. We lived on 2 acres of land in a hollar on a dirt road. No one was there but i had to just stand there quietly. It was like night and day you could see the difference in his eyes. This happened some days more severe than others. The mental health of our troops were neglected, and this is still an issue we face today. You can judge if it makes you feel better i guess. But unless youve walked in their shoes you really have no clue on what your talking about.
@@Republican_Extremest Oh i'm sorry for your unfortunate suffering, the tragedy that happened to your parent impacted your life.
But that does not excuse anything, every soldier's experience in the war is traumatic and their excuse to commit heinous acts does not synogize well with most people.
Not saying that your parent deserve any of the treatment or how you were impacted by their mental state, just saying that regardless of how horrid it went, this should be noted down and memorized, not drowned it out by mentioning the soldier's feelings.
And yes, i'm saying this because we are in a more safe and tame environment compared to our ancestors, telling your experience with a war veteran does not soothe my negative opinion against the US Soldiers.
The word "Claim" is not really suitable considering it is literally documented as the "My Lai Massacre".
I have no resentment toward you but your feeling and opinion does not contradict facts about the Vietnam War.
@@Republican_Extremest Am i too needed to tell a heart wrenching story about how my grandparents who were actively involved in the war too impacted my life?
Or am i supposed to NOT have an opinion about horrible crimes that has been committed just because i am not one of the victim or the perpetrator.
@@Republican_Extremestyour dad deserved it. He was an invader and a mass murderor. Guilt was eating him up
After WWII the Allies leaders proved so much of what the enemies claimed about us to be true, and that they were no different in many things than the enemies we fought.
And few prisoners from Siberia came to India for shelter after walking more than 6000 km. What a brave heart ❤️
More likely out of desperation. Siberia was a death sentence
Any proof , I don't see any German settlement in india
Please don't use this as an excuse to move to Germany
After all what Germans have done in the East, their punishment wasn’t very harsh. Thousands cities and towns were destroyed and former German soldiers were working to restore them. Some of them even played in a movie called “Battle of Stalingrad”, playing themselves. 😂 Most of captured Germans made their way home in 1950s.
I think the east had worse problems than the Germans to worry about.
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And you heard this Storys in movie ? How you know what they have done in the east? And did you know they we're forced to go to Wehrmacht? Did you know that Hitler worked for the same Guys in the Background? Nazi means National Zionist
@@validavliyeva4524 Minus the ones that did not survive the labour camps.
My grandfather was a tiger commander and after being captured by the American forces, he was sent to usa to work in a army base up until 1947
German prisoners of war were treated equally sometimes worse by the allies
And the allies took pleasure in it
Proving they were as monstrous
But they wont tell you that at school
lie. usa and europe took all the high ranked nazis and gave them high up roles. not many nazis got persecuted, all saved by their brotherly west and lived happily ever after
After everything they did, they deserved worse.
Most of them were just conscripts and had no more choice than the allied conscripts. Such a waste of human life. Poor men.
That was wrong
Just as wrong as Germany using Jews for slaves
Two wrongs don't make a right
My God grant us wisdom
And the ability to use it wisely 😔
The Germans deported them (just like Poland wanted to send them all to Madagascar before the war) and when they did use them for labor while awaiting deportation they actually paid them (look it up the currencies still exist).
@@SaneAsylum so what? lol
rebuilding land you did genocide on is only fair. they worked which is honor. concentration camps by nazis were death camps. you get the difference?
There were German prisoners near where I lived in Ireland, they were allowed out at weekends, they could go to pub or cinema, two of them married local girls 😂
German are damn attractive thats why
How would you know about this?
@@bcchiriac4512 because its a fact
Same with Canada. The prisoners liked it so much here, they remained.
@@celtbell Not a good enough answer but ok.
What do you want me to do feel sorry for them, next time stay in your own boundary
If you are from a nato country you have no room to talk.
Germany lost a lot of territory after Versailles Treaty. There were millions of Germans living outside of Germany overnight due to arbitrary redrawing of their territory. The French were also occupying the Rhine.
Sorry, who violated whose borders first?
@@tassosplatis2143did you ever hear about World War I?
And how do you feel about Gaza? Puts a different light on it, huh? Most Germans never supported Hitler, btw.
they didnt mention the 7 million people who starved to death near the rhine
They followed a maniac then payed the price. Sounds fair
Ahhhh, yes. Donald Trump
Way more complicated than that simple statement...how do you know they didn't purposely build up Germany to counter communism...Germany was a free market yet fascist state...that's just 1 point out of 50...
At no time did a majority of Germans vote for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. This in contrast to the Gazans who supported Hamas by a clear majority. Good. Israel should be allowed to do whatever it needs then. Glad we are agreed.
6 triiillion lol
They put the mines there and tore up the countryside only right they should fix them.
A 20 year old private soldier, undoubtedly conscripted-did not do that. This was revenge.
My dad in 1945 was a 17 year old black kid in Lawrence Kansas. He drove a truck to a POW camp with German soldiers, he picked up a few pow workers to take to a railroad loading dock to work alongside black workers to load railcars. Dad said these soldiers were in the mess hall eating steak and eggs and cornbread while most of the regular black workers like dad hadnt eaten since yesterday's supper. When dad joined the Navy in 1948 he said he barely made minimum weight.
How awful for you poor dad. Thank you for sharing. Much appreciated.
That’s exactly how it was. The German prisoners could eat and be treated better than the American black soldier who were fighting for America.Now that’s a sad history.
That’s exactly how it was. The German prisoners could eat and be treated better than the American black soldier who were fighting for America.Now that’s a sad history.
Sounds like they ate better than most soldiers who fought in the war, and most civilians at the time.
It does not surprise me at all. Don’t forget that it was the evil era of segregation then. White Americans were no better than the nazis. They didn’t liberate Europe from fascism. In fact they promote it. The only reason they took part in world war 2 was because they needed allies against the mighty Japanese. Knowing that black soldiers died in the midst of it makes my blood boil. Americans and the rest of Europe knew what was happening to Jews ,and to other minorities under Hitler. Yet they did nothing. There is a God. Justice will prevail one day.
I guess it's not a war crime if you win the war. Fun fact: Ike unalived more Germans after the war than during the war.
German soldiers should be grateful to us for the rest of their lives that we did not keep them the same way they kept our captured soldiers. In Soviet captivity, they were poorly fed, but the Soviet soldiers who guarded them ate the same way, since there was famine in a country ravaged by war, they also received medical care.
I doubt it. The Russians absolutely hated the Germans. In the east, American soldiers rarely took prisoners due the way the Japanese treated our soldiers
What are you on about? German POWs were treated very poorly by the Russians. It was total war in the East, no side wanted to waste resources on prisoners. The Germans especially did not have the capacity to treat the Soviet POWs, they could hardly feed their own soldiers due to allied bombing of cities and logistics. A country in an all out war to the death which it is losing will likely kill its prisoners. I’m not saying it’s right it’s just objectively the best thing to do to save resources and manpower.
@@chibble3591 In fact, the Soviet Union kept them in pretty good conditions (as far as it was possible in a war-ravaged country). The Germans were fed, treated, and even provided with leisure time. For example, some camps had libraries. And now let's remember how the Allies kept German prisoners of war. The United States has introduced a new term - disarmed enemy forces. These are German prisoners of war who were not subject to detention under the terms of the Geneva Convention, they were starved, they did not receive medical care, they did not even have barracks. Moreover, if in the USSR German prisoners of war ate sparsely enough due to hunger in a war-ravaged country, and their guards ate the same way, then there were no problems with nutrition in the American army, but the disarmed enemy forces nevertheless continued to starve.
@MrMacky-co6zn they rarely took soldiers in the east, because the Japanese thought it was dishonorable to surrender.
They should work for 25 years and 4 million more to pay back war reparation to Poland, Greece, Serbia etc
And after 2 loses of word war.. still managed to be the European economic power house. Let it sink
They did it without the participation of those people
You forgot the 1 million German prisoners that Eisenhower deliberately starved to death in the summer of '45.
That is lie I know my WW2 HISTORY WHAT CARTOON DID YOU WATCH TO GET YOUR HISTORY 😂
@@user-pc2sb2tr9x Eisenhower, immediately after VE day signed an order stating that all German pows (protected from abuse by Geneva convention) were NO LONGER POWS, the were now called disarmed enemy combatants....AND NO LONGER PROTECTED by Geneva convention.
The US army then proceeded to starve it's millions of German pows.....1 million German pows died during rest of 1945 and were designated 'other losses' in army records
The book 'Other Losses' reports the details...you should be more careful before you demonstrate your ignorance and naivety.
@@user-pc2sb2tr9x
It's a fact. The reason you want it to be a lie is telling.
@@ryanpark2049Just state your source and prove him wrong then
@@lightscorer1320 my source? You can find that yourself. Germans POWs were encamped and starved to death. Look it up yourself. It's not that hard to believe that with the "its okay to punch a Nazi" world we live in that they decimated them as well? Are you smoking crack?
All of this needs to be in schools!
IMO this was a fair deal, considering the atrocities the Nazi regime committed across Europe. Churchill and Roosevelt were powerless to oppose Stalin’s end-of-war demands at Yalta. They greatly needed his cooperation to bring the war to an end…
That's the realities of war since the dawn of time. You would think we'd figure that out by now.
funny how this video doesn't mention that most of those pow's died, straight war crimes by the allies
There wasn’t anything complex about this, It’s called revenge.
Cheap labor and not wanting to put your own civilians in harms way is the real answer.
Revenge? So why we finns never got revenge for russia? Who attacked us before ww2?
You tacoid hypocrite comie sympatizer
Best served cold
@@myhonorwasloyalty was siding with nazis not enough for you lot?
These same people like to teach the World about "Human Rights"
Sounds reasonable to me.🤷🏼♀️
The Germans had to pay somehow for the huge damages they caused both in material as well in casualties.
Using them as work force was a VERY FAIR DECISION
@Hungarian_nationalist1914 They payed their crimes in advance with 27 million deaths caused by the Germans and their allies
@Hungarian_nationalist1914 The Hungarian Nazi boys neither
@@KK-rg1wzdont forget the italy and spain. All people Fell into the trap of the National Zionist.
Yeah, it sucks when you start a world war, then have to pay the price. Maybe you will think twice next time.
Start a ww out of nothing you say....
I have studied military history for more than 50 years, and spent 3 years in Berlin Brigade. The Germans tried to take over Europe twice in less than 30.years. They got what they deserved
Or maybe you will think in the next time to not make so harsh peace treaty. Allies deserved it
You should look into the beginnings of WW1. Search for "Germaniam esse delendam"...
There was a saying amongst the german troops near the end, they would say - enjoy the last days of the war while you still can , for the peace will be savage!
My german grandfather visited every few years his former english host family, they were farmers, until his death 1987. He loved english tea and breakfast.
And just think!?
How many wars are really going on right now! Around the world!!!😔😟
Meanwhile japanese : we're free baby
My father entered in 1946 right after, and his job was detonate bombs. He was a good father but had stress and ptsd. We didn't know until he got heart issues. Now I understand better why he could get angry at times. 😔 sad.
So basically the allies were hypocrites
The Germans killed 3.5 million Soviet prisoners of war.
The Soviets only killed a few hundred thousand German prisoners of war.
Right
I promise you our entire understanding of the war is skewed. The germans were never the enemy, communism was and we decided to save the zionist banking monopoly rather than team up with AH and face the bolsheviks down before they became the soviet union.
If it was about the freedom of poland why did we give it straight to the soviets? It was never about Poland.
Ur a psycho
Basically the 20th centuries was just a centurie of war balcan war ww1 ww2 and cold war
"Humans are so afraid of hell but at the same time eager of creating it for themselves"
- Random Comments I found
Thanks for the information.
Niebor who was a German girl that married americian G.I. after the war in 1946 came to the states...in 1960 Russia let one of her brothers that was a POW SINCE 45 FREE,HE CAME to U.S.. AND SAID ther other brother was worked to death in Russia...LIVED the rest of his life loving americia
German might and struggle was always ignored
Write a book about it...that seems to work wonders. Call it "My Struggle", but in German.
UA-cam:"DIE VERBORGENE GESCHICHTE" TEIL1 UND TEIL2///Die ersten 30Min reichen schon aus.
The so called Allie’s had the Tehran conference after illegally invading and occupying Iran. What reparation did they give to Iran? Let’s talk about double standards
They did not make it a glass parking lot
Boo hoo.
@@philgreene3617 American mentality 🐒
@@rebeccabrooksguest9833 Grandma you sound like you have got an action after 80 odd years!
they turn into the werewolf division is wat happened
We’ll that’s kinda what happens when you try to enslave the word
Youre talking about the Allies right?
Exactly tone guy 🎯🎯🎯
Churchill was a criminal to sign off on the forced labour of German POWs after the war, POWs are not criminals, they are not a commodity to be traded
But non europeans were? Germans had slaves in their colonies.
yes yes they were disgusting murdering grapests that should have been in jail until their final day
@@hainleysimpson1507No we didn't. Jew
@@strangeman1822 NAZI
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
what happened at the -Rheinwiesen- Concentration Camps, no USA ever will talk about...
the Allies were so appalled by the concentration camp and usage of force labor they proceeded to do the samething post war
@@kal1796 yeah it’s not like they had their entire livelihoods destroyed, property seized, on top of mistreatment which lead to 1k+ dying, think before you speak
@@hornet370 yup thats so close to the 11 million in germany, half wit
Your reading of history is highly selective
Not true Nazi hornet
Yes but the Germans did that to people who hadn't done anything. The allies did it to Germany who had caused the mess and destruction that they were made to clean up and rebuild, that is the difference.
Land of mine is a German movie about how the prisoners mostly young people to deactivate this mines, very sad movie but highly recommended.
One of the bloodiest history of mankind....People died, murdered suffered from hunger and persecuted...it only shows that man by nature is an animal.....
Just to grasp the power, they would inflict force, injustices and corruptions .....Rest in peace to those souls who suffered the wrath of wars....
The world is destined to suffer such wars which resulted to famine, death, destruction and annihilation....
But the history taught us how to unite and understand the word equality to have a better future and better world..
My question is : What happened with the german civilians in the Rheinwiesenlager?
This is the end result when you let serial killers control your mind and your government. Let’s hope mankind doesn’t repeat this awful mistake again!!!!!!
War is and always will be a lose lose situation. No one wins
I've never heard of this perspective as an American. It's so interesting that the victor writes the historical narrative.
Should I feel sorry for them or sth?you reap what you sow....
Children also used to clear mines
My Grandfather was not one of the Stupid Officers, he took off his Uniform and went to Switzerland just before the end because their were rumours amongst the higher ranks that they were going to loose the war no matter what.