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  • (Part 7) Welcome to the last Part of our journey to the Battlegrounds of World War II, where courage, sacrifice, and resilience defined the spirit of a generation. In this tale, we delve deep into the remarkable odyssey of a young soldier, tracing his path from humble beginnings to the driver's seat of a fearsome Tiger 1 tank within the Wehrmacht Heavy Panzer battalions by the tender age of eighteen.
    As the war rages on, our protagonist finds himself thrust into the heart of the conflict, facing the brutal realities of combat on the Eastern Front. Experience the gripping narrative of survival amidst the chaos of the Battle of Halbe in April 1945, where against all odds, our hero emerges as a beacon of hope amid the encroaching darkness.
    But it is during the daring breakout from a Red Army encirclement that his true mettle is tested. Leading his comrades with unwavering resolve, he spearheads audacious attempts to escape the clutches of the enemy, displaying a courage that defies description.
    Through archival footage, firsthand accounts, and expert analysis, our documentary offers a unique perspective on the experiences of those who served during the tumultuous final days of the war. Witness the personal sacrifices made, the challenges overcome, and the indomitable human spirit that prevailed in the face of overwhelming adversity.
    Join us as we uncover the untold stories of heroism and camaraderie that shaped the course of history. Subscribe now and embark on a journey through the crucible of war, where every battle fought, and every life lost, is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit #america #japan #germany #ww2 #audiobook
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  • @WW2LiveHistory298
    @WW2LiveHistory298  3 місяці тому +70

    Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Part 7 of Memoir of a panther tank commander once a tiger tank driver. Join us as we follow the gripping narrative of a young individual during World War II. From leaving school at fifteen to commanding a Panther tank with the 21st Panzer Division, this story is one of resilience, sacrifice, and determination. Experience the intense battles, including the harrowing Battle of Halbe and the daring breakout from encirclement, as our protagonist navigates the tumultuous final days of the war. Stay tuned as we delve into the personal sacrifices and unwavering courage that define this extraordinary journey.
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    Link of Part 1 ua-cam.com/video/UGpcTP_Cxf0/v-deo.htmlsi=zvl65bxheYiNLLxw
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    Link of Part 4 ua-cam.com/video/WA3byacGtT8/v-deo.htmlsi=62Ho3IkhGwX7JjCY
    Link of Part 5 ua-cam.com/video/F3nQAOjd-T8/v-deo.htmlsi=bS3RkDO66F38LFZ0
    Link of Part 6 ua-cam.com/video/h4H071f2khk/v-deo.htmlsi=5KORJoV0Qwp-0Bj_

    • @Palanibert
      @Palanibert 3 місяці тому +2

      Hi Live History, is the narrator of this video historian Mark Felton?

    • @RodWick
      @RodWick 3 місяці тому +2

      I remember my time in the US sector of occupied W Germany. It's like an ancient memory now.

    • @sjonnieplayfull5859
      @sjonnieplayfull5859 2 місяці тому +3

      ​@@Palanibert could be that this is his second channel, I heard Mark about it, and I think he also narrates audiobooks. I thought I recognized the voice too.
      Could be a different guy sounding like him

  • @bertsteele139
    @bertsteele139 3 місяці тому +159

    I am American, but I grew up in Germany as an army brat. I moved there at 12 in ‘74 and lived there until I joined the army then was stationed there until ‘91. Many of the German girls I dated as a teen had fathers or grandfathers who fought in the war and weren’t to happy about them dating an American. But later in the ‘80s as an American soldier the older Germans attitude towards me had changed. It was a more respectful, like we shared a bond as soldiers.

    • @MartenKrueger-sx4me
      @MartenKrueger-sx4me 3 місяці тому +11

      My father and grandfather were German soldiers...during the 2 war, my father and I live in America, I was born here...I think he still lives in lowa..

    • @Evilroco
      @Evilroco 3 місяці тому +5

      After I left the Army I worked in Germany ( Bavaria ) ,just after Easter one year an association of ex soldiers had a huge reunion in the area for a couple of weeks every trail had groups of elderly gents walking ,often falling into step wearing plus 4's .
      I enjoyed several evenings with groups of them ,we swapped stories mainly about stupid sh1t and I had no problem with them loudly calling me "Tommy" whenever we met , I'm glad I got to meet so many from both sides of that conflict while they with us.

    • @runningfromabear8354
      @runningfromabear8354 2 місяці тому +8

      I was a British army brat and my parents were living in Germany when I was born but my mother didn't want me to be born in Germany. When I hadn't arrived by my due date, my father got leave and drove my mother and older sister to Scotland to be near family when I was born. They didn't make it to Scotland, I was born in London with a good view of the Thames. Unfortunately my father had to be back on base so my mother didn't get to spend any time with family. They left the hospital against advisement and drove back.
      When I was a kid, at the playground off base the other Germany mothers took issue with my mother. They were convinced she was Turkish because of her olive skin, dark brown eyes and dark brown hair. They asked my mother if she was an au pair/nanny because the 3 of us daughters took after our father, blonde hair and blue eyes. I suppose they never saw my father and didn't realize my mother's mother was a pale red head, she just took after her father. And they gossiped about her shaving her armpits and legs.
      I really didn't like those women as a kid. My mother kept up a brave face but she was clearly upset. She didn't speak German very well but she understood exactly what they were saying and so did me and my sisters. They really didn't believe her that she was Scottish. Turkish, Pakistani, Iranian, Afghanistan etc... seemed like on a daily basis they had a new theory and derogatory things to say about her in German, anything they said in English was pleasant.

    • @willie417
      @willie417 2 місяці тому +4

      @@MartenKrueger-sx4me you don't know where he or if he's still living?

    • @brett76544
      @brett76544 2 місяці тому +1

      My first father-in-law was Gestapo and married later in life due to his first wife being hung in Italy escaping Yugoslavia. He died at 99 and I was there for the burial. Second after the first wife died was in the national youth movement. You would not believe who treated me better. the second I cannot remember when he died.

  • @dragon10drm
    @dragon10drm 3 місяці тому +107

    Sad. My father in law was drafted into the German Army during the last months of the war. He was disabled at birth and tried to enlist earlier but was rejected. Towards the end, the Germans didn't care about his deformed feet. He earned the Iron Cross 2nd Class fighting the Russians, but his entire family was killed in Berlin. My mother in law did her national service in the German Army during WWII as a personnel and finance clerk. Of her unit of 42, only her and one other survived, most being killed by the US Army Air Corp B24s in Dec 1944. All of her family survived, although her father, who had been drafted into the German Army during both WWI and WWII, was captured by the Russians and was imprisoned in Siberia until 1955. I still remember as a kid in the late 50s and 60s in Western Europe, seeing destroyed vehicles and buildings still being cleaned up. Anyone who thinks war is great is stupid and sick.

    • @robertbates6057
      @robertbates6057 2 місяці тому +1

      Damn lunatic Hitler. If he had been of sound mind, would have realized he would lose attacking RU AND declaring war on the US. So many deaths due to a crazy man. He wasn't the only one though.

    • @mariahoulihan9483
      @mariahoulihan9483 2 місяці тому +3

      it was the same here though.. seeing destroyed vehicles and buildings laying around.. from bombings. I remember seeing a burnt out tank.. and there was no fighting ON these shores.. UK.. on a street corner on a visit to london in 1961. As late as the 1980s places like Shad Thames.. now luxury buildings in Wapping in East London was a bomb site from the war. It took a long long time to rebuild. Iam now 68 and my parents were young during the war. They brought us up with a sort of make do and mend attitude to living and I have a hard job shaking some of it off still. I cannot, for instance, look at a piece of second hand furniture without thinking how i could do it it.. alter it or improve it for my own use. As I am older I don't now.. no energy as I am disabled. .but the idea is stil there. I wouldn;t dream for ionstance of just throwing out a worn out pair of pj bottoms.. they get turned into oil rags for my car or other dirty jobs such as cleaning windows.. lol.. cannot help it.. its how we were brought up. I think its a legacy of parents who came through the war years. I never waste food either. My brother is the same. I am sure it was a lot worse on mainland Europe and other theatres of war. We had the home front and on rationing here and the bombings. men away etc.. the entire country working towards the one goal.. defeat Hitler. plus losing people of course. At least we were not occupied, although the Channel Islands were and were not enslaved like so many were. Its hard to believe, isn't it.. that it even happened.. but happen it did. A friend of mine.. I never knew him .. he passed away before I met her, British lady.. had a German father who fough tin WWII for Germany. He was shot int he stomoch in a fight I think in Northern France and left for dead. his unit wiped out. He lost consciousness. Some time later some Americans came along the road and he moved and was shot again by a GI.. to fionbish him off. He passed out. Some time later.. still laying there but ont dead a British Unit came along and they gave him medical aid and evacuated him to be treated. He ended up in England as a POW. All his family were wiped out in Germany and some time after the war the POWs got the chance to be repatriated or stay.. he chose to stay. a couple of weeks later, and he had found work on a farm in Kent, he was walking near the White Cliffs of Dover and met a nice girl and her Mother.. he ended up marrying the girl and she was my friend's Mother. they had 5 children together and were very happy. He apparently said he owed this country everything.. not least his life and it hard not to think it wasn't his time to go despite being shot twice in the stomoch. He wasn't even disabled by it as time went on and he made a full recovery. He did find distant relatives and delighted in packing his family up in a camper an and they were go on road trips to Germany and Austria where they lived. All his immediately family had been killed though. War.. terrible business to say the least.

    • @drmachinewerke1
      @drmachinewerke1 2 місяці тому +2

      Old men start wars . Maybe that should be remembered

    • @user-eq7mw1ej2u
      @user-eq7mw1ej2u 2 місяці тому +4

      My mom was 15 when the Americans arrived in Munich. She met my dad a few years after the war and moved to America in 1952. She said when she left there were still large sections of the city in rubble from the bombings. She always told me that war is never good. Caused nothing but misery.

    • @RaptorFromWeegee
      @RaptorFromWeegee 2 місяці тому +1

      @@drmachinewerke1 You mean old democrats

  • @user-eq7mw1ej2u
    @user-eq7mw1ej2u 2 місяці тому +174

    My mom was a young German teenager when the Americans arrived in Munich. She told me people were happy to see them come as they were all sick of the war by 1945. She said the Americans overall treated them good. Whenever an American soldier broke the law by stealing or raping a woman etc…they would arrest him and put him in prison. The stories they heard from the East of Russians raping any woman they saw no matter the age wasn’t played out under American occupation. While some Germans resented the American occupation the majority was glad it was the Americans and not the Russians occupying them.

    • @jcoker423
      @jcoker423 2 місяці тому +1

      Every German story I read was that the GI's were the best. Russ stole and raped. French stole and bartered, Brits were stand-off.
      And I'm not a Yank or German.

    • @donepearce
      @donepearce 2 місяці тому +1

      It's a shame then that the Germans chose to act like the Russians rather than the Americans. It was the Germans who chose to rape Europe and kill millions. The ones who made first contact with the Americans clearly avoided the punishment they deserved.

    • @richsmith7200
      @richsmith7200 2 місяці тому +10

      I was a US soldier in the early eighties. I firmly believe that our 'occupation' was basically keeping the Russians out while rebuilding was underway. My family is of German/Norwegian/English heritage. My neighbors are Ukrainian. In Southern California, you'll find a wide variety of the human species.

    • @knoll9812
      @knoll9812 2 місяці тому +1

      @@richsmith7200 in the eighties not an occupation. USA and getting same side

    • @micheal49
      @micheal49 2 місяці тому +14

      So much so. I was in Germany in the seventies. It was clear that many of the war generation held hate or resentment. But there was only one (an old man) who confronted me directly, screaming in my face how all Americans were evil and this and that. When he finally wound down, I said (in reasonable German) "We should have left you for the Russians."
      His face turned stark white and he scuttled off as quickly as he could.

  • @DarkMatterX1
    @DarkMatterX1 3 місяці тому +102

    There's always one thing that runs a common string through all these stories. I've listened to dozens. No matter where the particular German was fighting. No matter how grievous their losses at the hands of the allies. No matter how long they had been at war, and everything they'd seen personally or heard from compatriots. In every single story of a surrender or capture. It is always present. The staggeringly flabbergasted recognition of American logistics, as if they hadn't seen it up against them from all sides since 1941. It really is ever-present, and always palpable.

    • @henryzellman
      @henryzellman 2 місяці тому +18

      Amateurs argue tactics, professionals discuss logistics.

    • @stephenvoss6092
      @stephenvoss6092 2 місяці тому +10

      We made stuff, at the time we had a lot of oil. The war in the pacific may have been avoided if the Japanese had stayed out of the rest of china and not gotten american oil cut off. We had plenty of food were the world leaders in food processing. The coca cola corporations literally was able to build to make American soldiers had coca cola for a nickel anywhere therer was a GI. American troops did not need meth to stay awake they had coffee and plenty of it. American troops had meat and plenty of it. Chrysler made tanks, Ford made tanks, Chevrolet built aircraft engines. American fighters were not great at first but Americans knew how to make long range bombers better than anyone. A german joke was that german tanks could kill 10 american tanks for every 1 german tank but the Americans could build 11 tanks for every german tank.

    • @hansmoss7395
      @hansmoss7395 2 місяці тому +1

      The WW2 is big business for the film industry and publishers.
      31,000 books were published covering the war in Europe.
      Now they are running out of material und come up with these diaries that all sound the same.
      These stories were written by professional. A soldier in combat would not have the time, skill nor desire to write this.

    • @davewang202
      @davewang202 2 місяці тому +1

      @@hansmoss7395 Some of these stories also sound too incredible, as in the break-out diary, where nearly everyone else gets wiped out except the protagonist (the diary writer). Then again, I was thinking, it's because the guy survived, that he got to write the incredible diary to begin with. So I'm not quite sure anymore. In any case, it sounds entertaining - kinda entertaining proto-history, it *could* be real, but not exactly iron clad.

    • @tacfoley4443
      @tacfoley4443 2 місяці тому +7

      My Uncle Micky [Wehrmacht - 1938 - February 1945] was in Normandy during the invasion and its aftermath. His question flabbergasted me when I first heard it at around the age of ten or so. 'Where were all the American horses?' There were none, of course.

  • @joevignolor4u949
    @joevignolor4u949 3 місяці тому +516

    The Americans didn't make the same mistakes after WWII that were made after WWI. Instead of punishing the Germans and Japanese and inflicting hardship on them, we helped them rebuild their countries, fix their economies and reform their cultures. As such these two former enemies are now América's allies that are peaceful, prosperous democratic societies that no longer threaten their neighbors.

    • @JohnnieAshton
      @JohnnieAshton 3 місяці тому +60

      The British economist John Maynard Keynes, was the main reason this happened. He wrote what would happen with the rise of Germany in 1925, and his book ~The Economic consequences of the Peace~ He also put forwards an alternative way to make Countries economies prosper, at the Bretton Woods Conference, July 1944.

    • @joostprins3381
      @joostprins3381 3 місяці тому +1

      After WW 1 it were the French who abused their power, resulting in utter disgust to the French from the Germans. The US didn’t have any influence in humiliating the Germans after WW1.

    • @CrisostomoIbarra3835
      @CrisostomoIbarra3835 3 місяці тому +14

      Perhaps american liberal democracy allowed for a better choice to be selected among many options.

    • @paddle_shift
      @paddle_shift 3 місяці тому +72

      The Americans "mistake" after WW1 was their inability to convince the allies in Europe that their Versailled Treaty was a huge mistake. The Americans never signed on to the Versaille treaty.

    • @Hibernicus1968
      @Hibernicus1968 3 місяці тому +28

      That mistake was almost made. Read up on the Morgenthau Plan, which would have basically destroyed postwar Germany's industrial capacity. The plan was drawn up before the end of the war, and when its details became known it was used by Joseph Goebbels to help motivate the Germans to greater resistance. The Morgenthau Plan had its opponents in the U.S. which included Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, and others, but FDR was initially supportive of it. Churchill opposed it, and it's thanks in part to resistance to the idea from Churchill's government that it didn't go forward. FDR finally disowned the Morgenthau Plan when it proved unpopular with the American public as well. Thankfully sanity prevailed.

  • @mikeseigle5560
    @mikeseigle5560 3 місяці тому +123

    The Americans had a harder time hating the Germans. Many Americans shared a common last name with Germans. So in the back of the mind of German-Americans was the idea that the Germans were potentially relatives. America did not suffer under the Germans like the rest of Europe. So, the occupation was much less harsh.

    • @catinthehat906
      @catinthehat906 3 місяці тому +20

      19th Century immigration from Germany to the USA was huge, particularly in the 1880's and 1890's, they integrated so well that people forget how many Americans have German ancestry.

    • @SMGJohn
      @SMGJohn 3 місяці тому +15

      The americans also did not have their entire country torched up like half of Europe and particularly USSR.
      Even all of the Northern parts of Finland was torched by the Germans on their retreats, the Fins ended up having better views of invading Soviet Union because of this, thanks Schmitler!

    • @jed-henrywitkowski6470
      @jed-henrywitkowski6470 3 місяці тому +1

      @@catinthehat906 That's about when my brother-in-law's family came over. A granddaughter of a Polish Officer is the wife of a man who may have had relatives who were at war with ours, less than 90 years ago, which is an interesting thought to me.

    • @FuckGoogle2
      @FuckGoogle2 3 місяці тому +1

      @@SMGJohn I seriously doubt that, first of all I'd done the same having been sold out by an ally and second the finns had executed their own commies en masse not long before this during their civil war, them holding yet more commies in high regard is doubtful.

    • @FuckGoogle2
      @FuckGoogle2 3 місяці тому +1

      The american public wanted the US to enter WW1 on Germanys side, no doubt leading to a less humiliating peace and the resentment among germans that led them down that dark path.

  • @GM-fh5jp
    @GM-fh5jp 3 місяці тому +51

    Tough days for humanity in Europe.
    How lucky I feel to only know it as history.
    Thanks for this fine production.

    • @Yolbosun
      @Yolbosun 3 місяці тому +4

      Oh
      I’m thinking if cooler heads don’t start talking
      You’re going to see war
      Soon

    • @sjonnieplayfull5859
      @sjonnieplayfull5859 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@Yolbosunwell, Putin is not going to hand over control to anyone for the next twelve years, so....
      And he's not trying to calm Medvedev, Lavrov and Peskov
      How many western politicians or figureheads can you name who say "We are already at war with Russia" ?
      The only guys saying Russia is at war with Nato are Russian fangirls

    • @dpelpal
      @dpelpal 2 місяці тому

      ​@@Yolbosun Russian army is the joke of the world. They can't even take 10% of the second poorest country in Europe. 😂

    • @elizabethmartin4328
      @elizabethmartin4328 Місяць тому

      We are in it for yrs. They are w /in . . . . Get ready.

  • @janicepalesch9221
    @janicepalesch9221 2 місяці тому +26

    This was deeply moving and consonant with what I felt when I lived in Germany in the mid-1960's. My husband was in the US Army, and we visited his relatives who had stayed behind in Germany after he and hos parents has emigrated to the US. Everywhere we went, no Germans talked about WWII, none admitted to having fought in the German Army. But, you know that they had to have been part of the War effort. I didn't think about any of that when I lived there. I was too young and too inexperienced with life. It was only after we came back stateside that I started wondering how it must have felt to have not only been defeated in battle, but to be occupied by a foreign country. My grandparents, who also came from Germany and who left all of their family behind, never spoke about their feelings of any of it. But they must have struggled emotionally during the War, especially when their own daughter (born in Germany) married an American in the US Army. Life is a strange thing.
    Underneath it all - any tragedy, all obstacles, no matter who we are or where we live - we all have the same dreams, the same hopes, the same fears. It's too bad that we don't recognize that much sooner.

    • @floycewhite6991
      @floycewhite6991 2 місяці тому +2

      You forget the South was defeated in war and occupied, and, with certain exceptions such as Atlanta, was maintained as an underdeveloped source of cheap labor until WWII.

    • @michaelmartin9022
      @michaelmartin9022 2 місяці тому +1

      There's footage of a German comedian (so you know this is no laughing matter) showing up the "I had nothing to do with the war" crowd by shouting "Hip hip" "Hurray!" twice, and then "Sieg" to which the audience all goes "Hiel!"

    • @daviddgm5527
      @daviddgm5527 Місяць тому +1

      @@michaelmartin9022
      I don't know if this is true or apocryphal:
      Robin Williams: I was at a German talk show once (and they asked) "Why do you think there isn't so much comedy in Germany?"
      And I said: "Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?"

    • @elizabethmartin4328
      @elizabethmartin4328 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@daviddgm5527 sehr gut from Texas.

  • @daviddavid5880
    @daviddavid5880 3 місяці тому +42

    Sweet Lord what a grim end. These stories make you want to go have a cry.
    Thanks for posting this. I need a drink....

  • @Idahoguy10157
    @Idahoguy10157 2 місяці тому +12

    My father was a WW2 vet. Served on a landing ship. Was part of the invasion of southern France follow by the battle of Okinawa. He never showed hatred for Germans or Japanese. Despite having a brother who died in the war.

    • @greenflagracing7067
      @greenflagracing7067 2 місяці тому +4

      My mother lost a brother (USA) in 1942 in the Philippines to the Japanese who also tried to kill my father who served in the USN. She hated Hirohito to the day she died and "made in Japan" was a curse. No one in their generation owned a Japanese car.

  • @embeddedude737
    @embeddedude737 3 місяці тому +23

    If this is true, this guy is a very good writer. I almost could feel myself in his shoes.

    • @simbee3634
      @simbee3634 2 місяці тому +1

      It's "The Last Panther" - a work of fiction.

  • @arailway8809
    @arailway8809 3 місяці тому +30

    Thank you very much.
    While reconstruction was ongoing for three more hard years,
    it is good to see it beginning in 1945. His wounds actually
    gave him a softer view than was common in Germany at
    that time.

    • @Maxfr8
      @Maxfr8 3 місяці тому +3

      It definitely made them reflect.

    • @knoll9812
      @knoll9812 2 місяці тому +1

      I think the US view of Germans softened pretty quick after the war.
      Part of it is that Germans are disciplined regarding authority. They had been told they had lost and that they now had to get in with rebuilding and they did that.

  • @photudiodan4648
    @photudiodan4648 3 місяці тому +16

    A sunk and buried tank that they walked away from. Watching Mark Felton, I know that many have been found. Wonder if this one ever was?

  • @sailordude2094
    @sailordude2094 6 днів тому +1

    Wow, what a story. Thanks!

  • @Jsmith2024
    @Jsmith2024 3 місяці тому +36

    What an amazing and sensitive story. Thank you for sharing it.

  • @jamiecook3966
    @jamiecook3966 3 місяці тому +52

    I am from Canada my dad was in the HMCS and his last posting was the Duke of York, he fought the Germans, when we could get him to talk about the War, he never had any ill will or bad feeling toward them. We need to take ALL of our countries back from these corrupt Politicians and their supporting media. So, we never go to War like this again. What is going on in Ukraine is wrong the young men die on both sides while fat bloated Politicians and bankers get rich, this all needs to end.

    • @jakebarnes1950
      @jakebarnes1950 3 місяці тому +11

      You are 100% Correct. One thing to remember is that Russia invaded the Ukraine, would any country just do nothing if they were invaded?

    • @jamiecook3966
      @jamiecook3966 3 місяці тому +1

      @jakebarnes1950 Yes, you are very correct. What people forget the crimea and the Don Bass region are primarily Russian citizens. They don't even speak Ukrainian. Ukraine launched an assault on this area around twenty fourteen after they voted to join the Soviet Union. Angela Merkel, around 2016, came up with the Minsk record.
      It was an agreement between Ukraine and Russia for them. To stop balming the Don Boss. They broke this agreement and continued shelling them until finally russia invaded. If you look at a map of Ukraine, you will see the lines are pretty much static. Russia does not want to invade anymore into the country. There's a lot of evil over there from foreign corporations trying to buy up sections of Ukraine. I'm not arguing with you. I have followed this closely. And just telling you about things that have been dropped from the news, take care

    • @Yolbosun
      @Yolbosun 3 місяці тому +3

      @@jakebarnes1950invaded??
      Jake
      Check your premises
      Go back to at least 2013
      You might see that the state department overthrew a democracy

    • @jakebarnes1950
      @jakebarnes1950 3 місяці тому +4

      @@Yolbosun John your reply has no logic or premise on my comment! Yes the CIA did many things. Nothing to do with my previous comment. Nice try to deflect, are you commenting for or from Moscow!

    • @Yolbosun
      @Yolbosun 3 місяці тому +2

      @@jakebarnes1950 🤡

  • @brianford1346
    @brianford1346 3 місяці тому +66

    Germans were one thing, Nazis were something else.

    • @patrickkelly6691
      @patrickkelly6691 3 місяці тому +10

      The divide was nothing like that clear- most of them were supporters till 1945

    • @AlanMydland-fq2vs
      @AlanMydland-fq2vs 3 місяці тому +1

      absolutely❤

    • @brianford1346
      @brianford1346 3 місяці тому +18

      @patrickkelly6691 in a fascist or a socialist or communist society it is very hard to say you disagree with government/leadership and remain breathing.

    • @AlanMydland-fq2vs
      @AlanMydland-fq2vs 3 місяці тому +9

      @@brianford1346 america now look out

    • @WielkaStopa-qh1rr
      @WielkaStopa-qh1rr 3 місяці тому +1

      No, especially new generation raised by nazis as nazi followers. Are you really believe in "clean Wehrmacht myth" or "ordinary men" myth? Check this out. Think almost every German on East had his direct part in mass murders. They were happy to be master race and expecting getting land with slaves after a war and extermination.

  • @Grubnar
    @Grubnar 2 місяці тому +10

    I wonder if that Panther they scuttled was ever recovered, or if it is still there. That thing belongs in a museum!

    • @kromevony1446
      @kromevony1446 2 місяці тому +2

      Ok indie we get it... And i agree.

  • @user-nm1nq7dz7c
    @user-nm1nq7dz7c 2 місяці тому +5

    During the Viet Nam war a prominent American comedian was anti war, he was asked how he would end the war. Easy he said, parachute a bunch of German and Japenese bankers into Hanoi and let them explain to the N Vietnamese what happens to countries who lose a war to the US.

  • @PaulSmith-pz9eq
    @PaulSmith-pz9eq 2 місяці тому +4

    What a beautiful narration. Made me tear up. I was born in 1953 so I wasn’t involved with this .

  • @CaptainAmaziiing
    @CaptainAmaziiing 3 місяці тому +19

    I have my Opa's war diary It's nowhere near as detailed as this account, but it's wild to try to imagine all the places he went, starting on the Poland/ Russia border the day Hitler declared war Stalin. His entry that day, in caps just says "KRIEG GEGEN RUSSLAND", then he marches right into the Battle of Brody, before marching all over Eastern Europe. Got leave for X-mas 41, left the diary behind and was shipped out to Stalingrad. I never got that diary.

    • @craigthomas2497
      @craigthomas2497 2 місяці тому +1

      The process of turning ones diary into a memoir is detailed. As the writer contemplates the events in the diary details are remembered (sometimes wrongly) and they go from draft to draft. As such a memoir will be more of a storytelling than a diary.

  • @brianperkins4155
    @brianperkins4155 3 місяці тому +5

    Wow! What a story.

  • @greenwave819
    @greenwave819 3 місяці тому +5

    this is excellent!

  • @grahamgodfrey4593
    @grahamgodfrey4593 2 місяці тому +1

    I thought I would listen for a minute or so instead I listened to it entirely, riveting

  • @markw4263
    @markw4263 3 місяці тому +15

    A good original source story. Don't know its background but it sounds very good and original.

  • @alanbrooke3237
    @alanbrooke3237 2 місяці тому +3

    My mother's father's father moved to Canada in 1881, during the war his brothers fought in Europe. My great uncle Franz said he hoped that he hadn't killed a family member. My father's mother left Poland in 1920.

  • @rconger24
    @rconger24 3 місяці тому +4

    How heartbreaking!
    Those poor souls.

  • @brachio1000
    @brachio1000 2 місяці тому +4

    A short story, in essence, a good one.

  • @stojan5312
    @stojan5312 3 місяці тому +2

    Masterfully written, superbly read!

  • @ericgoldstein4734
    @ericgoldstein4734 3 місяці тому +20

    I’ve listened to quite a few from this series now. I find them very interesting; I hear the sadness in their writings about what they’ve lost and yet… I have not heard a single word or regret about the violence and devastation they inflicted throughout Europe and the Middle East, about their cowardice in rounding up and murdering millions upon millions of civilian men women and children; the rape, and torture they performed. Their theft of their victims’ possessions in the millions - both in their own country and countries they invaded. These voices that express insight and sadness, seem to have no insight whatsoever into themselves, or regret at the underlying cowardice and ethical vacuum that existed in themselves. No doubt their reminiscences would be very different had they won.

    • @emmetjames3
      @emmetjames3 2 місяці тому +1

      The ex-wehrmacht vets I drank with during my occupation service said in their cups the only thing Hitler did wrong was lose, but they were not Nazis or privy to SS offenses.

    • @robertbates6057
      @robertbates6057 2 місяці тому +1

      @@emmetjames3 Then should they be subject to the same genocide they inflicted on others? Get real! They knew.

    • @EvilMAiq
      @EvilMAiq 2 місяці тому +1

      And the Japanese were worse. Never forget the Baatan Death March or the Rape of Nanking.

    • @davidsharpness9990
      @davidsharpness9990 2 місяці тому +1

      Zombies make zombies...a kinda midas touch, or vampire bat...just watched The Enemy Below, some philosophy, war innate in all humanity, no hope-this said in beginning...then at the end, Mitchum saves the Uboat Captain, and his doctor says there is hope...but now were at the beginning again, Ukraine, Gaza, elseware...takes a zombie to make a zombie...DARPA has it to cure bio weapons one needs to make and test bioweapons, along with the two edged sword of nuclear weapons...GOT has that take, the Frost King touching the Dragon pulled by chains from the ice lake-panzer like...🤔

    • @michaelmartin9022
      @michaelmartin9022 2 місяці тому +1

      I wish Brits would start to see the empire the same way.

  • @Glen.Danielsen
    @Glen.Danielsen 2 місяці тому +13

    Dr. Mark Felton is a master narrator / story teller. 🙏🏽

    • @demef758
      @demef758 2 місяці тому +2

      T'ain't Dr. Felton, son.

    • @Glen.Danielsen
      @Glen.Danielsen 2 місяці тому +1

      @@demef758 Actually ‘tis, friend and brother. We disagree a wee.

    • @nightjarflying
      @nightjarflying 2 місяці тому +1

      It isn't Felton

    • @Glen.Danielsen
      @Glen.Danielsen 2 місяці тому +1

      @@nightjarflying No Night, we part company on this minuscule matter. ☝🏽

    • @nightjarflying
      @nightjarflying 2 місяці тому +2

      @@Glen.DanielsenThat's fine, but you're a Yank & Yanks are very, very bad at picking up subtleties of non-American English accents. Even Yanks who've done LDS church work abroad are essentially clueless - mixing up Irish & Scots accents, confusing voices.
      Felton uses a different cadence to what you hear here, but only Brits will pick it up as Britain is an amazing patchwork of accents/dialects that varies from town to town To put it bluntly, Americans don't listen closely because they're not attuned to doing so from an early age.

  • @SanoyNimbus
    @SanoyNimbus 2 місяці тому

    Wow! Thanks for the reading ...

  • @draganjagodic4056
    @draganjagodic4056 2 місяці тому +3

    How come I didn't notice Your channel before? Subscribed.
    Especially appreciate, that You are not twisting pronunciation, to make it unnaturally "German".
    Excellent, respectful narration. Will try to catch up with previous episodes.

    • @michaelmartin9022
      @michaelmartin9022 2 місяці тому

      Always cringy when English-speaking UA-camrs try to get foreign words "right". Just anglicise it, we know what you mean!

  • @JohnKendall-je4rx
    @JohnKendall-je4rx Місяць тому +2

    I'm Mennonite and wonder how many Germans remember the help we did as an outreach after WW 2. Tons of meat from American farmers was canned and sent to European countries effected by the war.

    • @billkaldem5099
      @billkaldem5099 Місяць тому +1

      None that will admit remembering. We’re the bad guys now.

  • @Westsideswimcoach
    @Westsideswimcoach 3 місяці тому +14

    Sadly. History will repeat itself. Europe and Middle East

    • @deafsmith1006
      @deafsmith1006 2 місяці тому

      "Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again". - Cross of Iron 1977

  • @Westsideswimcoach
    @Westsideswimcoach 3 місяці тому +2

    Wow!!! This is the most amazing story I have heard from this series. Thank you for this.

  • @RaptorFromWeegee
    @RaptorFromWeegee 2 місяці тому +4

    First time I visited Europe was June of 1978. Spent my first night in Normandy France in that town with the tapestry who's name I can't remember or spell, you know the one, right?
    They had this huge cathedral with the whole top blown off. They were working on it. Dad told me there were many such public buildings in Europe, wrecked from WWII, and they still hadn't been rebuilt. He was in the Navy during the war.

  • @scasey1960
    @scasey1960 2 місяці тому +4

    War is always the same. Today, these stories are broadcast on social media with supporting videos.

  • @binaway
    @binaway 2 місяці тому +5

    My father saw a barricade across a road in Eastern Germany. Made of logs and manned by Hitler youth. The POW's told the HY to go home as Hitler was Kaput. Armed only with rifles they insisted they would stop the Russians. From a large distance the POW's had already seen a line of tanks heading their way. Dad thought they had no idea they were going die when the tanks arrived.

  • @ifrancus9623
    @ifrancus9623 3 місяці тому +22

    Many ww2 memoirs can be found for free on audiobooks with fine human narration from your local or state library system .

    • @rocistone6570
      @rocistone6570 3 місяці тому

      I don't know which is more comical. The idiotic fake reading voice, or the notion that you expect this generation of Americans to read anything longer than whatever text you can manage to fit on the screen of some overpriced handheld phone. These techno-brats now think it is owed to them to have someone or something read to them because they can't be bothered to read or think or do much of anything else, on their own. Now they can have someone else do it for them. Even if it is far worse than simply reading words on a printed page all by themselves--The poor little spoiled children.

  • @michaelbread5906
    @michaelbread5906 2 місяці тому +1

    This is a horrifying tale!

  • @thomasrussell7135
    @thomasrussell7135 3 місяці тому +10

    Welcome to Humanity we have choice Thank You O Lord choose the narrow road with trips and stumbles

  • @redpillcoach1855
    @redpillcoach1855 3 місяці тому +2

    Murders and struggle snuggles happen in war. That is one of the many reasons war is to avoided at almost all costs.

    • @christopherconard2831
      @christopherconard2831 2 місяці тому

      Check the history of the war. Yes, it happens, but with Soviet troops it was almost policy. They considered capturing a woman as a bonus like capturing a food depot. They women were used and discarded at similar speed.

  • @Steven-ef3us
    @Steven-ef3us Місяць тому +1

    Nice video

  • @MrHws5mp
    @MrHws5mp 2 місяці тому +2

    How the hell do you even begin to process your feelings in a situation like that?

  • @mikeflynn248
    @mikeflynn248 3 місяці тому +6

    French Field Marshall Foch famously said, "Germans are hatched from cannon balls"!

    • @TonyZoster
      @TonyZoster 2 місяці тому +1

      The French have invaded the territory that became the state of Germany more often than the state of Germany invaded France. Of the two times Germany invaded France each time other countries saved the French back side.

    • @michaelmartin9022
      @michaelmartin9022 2 місяці тому

      ​@@TonyZosterPretty sure it's at least three. The Prussians almost reached Paris!

    • @danielfinn9460
      @danielfinn9460 Місяць тому

      I pity the storks who have to deliver the cannon balls!

  • @thecocktailian2091
    @thecocktailian2091 2 місяці тому +1

    There are few things more valuable to this world than first hand accounts. Always a privilege to take in and carry them forward.

    • @greenflagracing7067
      @greenflagracing7067 2 місяці тому +1

      also, there are fewer things less valuable to the world than first hand accounts of people with reputations to protect or make or blame to lay.

  • @samhackney5977
    @samhackney5977 2 місяці тому +3

    The mistake you speak of after WWl where the German were severely punished was not something the US wanted. We tried to convince the British and French that this was a mistake but they were adamant that the Germans must pay high reparations. This decision was instrumental in why Hitler came to power.

  • @jacob4920
    @jacob4920 2 місяці тому +4

    The contrast between the Allied/American side stands in sharp contrast to the "rumors" these stories give us of how the Soviets operated their side of the Elbe. Clearly, the Russians were more about vengeance and victory, than in patching up old wounds. And given what Russia went through in the war, this is understandable. But still very regrettable.

    • @andyb3712
      @andyb3712 2 місяці тому +1

      You don't get to judge.

    • @jacob4920
      @jacob4920 2 місяці тому +1

      @@andyb3712 By whose law does that reasoning apply? Just curious.
      Also, there's no judgment here. The difference between East and West Germany, and its stark history during the Cold War, is pretty well known by everyone.
      And the reasoning behind it is also quite understandable. If the United States ever got invaded by anyone, the retribution would probably also be pretty historic and terrible.

    • @floycewhite6991
      @floycewhite6991 2 місяці тому +1

      @@jacob4920 We are being invaded. The invaders are being set up as the bad guys.

    • @michaelmartin9022
      @michaelmartin9022 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@jacob4920There's Americans born since the war who think Japan and Germany should have been "punished" far worse than they were... by the guys who were actually there

    • @user-jw6ok4to6p
      @user-jw6ok4to6p 2 місяці тому +1

      History belongs to those that lived its pages. The Germans uniquely created a moral vacuum where morals melt away under the harsh ardent glare of the sun.

  • @remedy-1879
    @remedy-1879 3 місяці тому +5

    A lot of people forget the regular German army weren’t nazis, but soldiers who not only fought the British, Australians, Canadians, Americans but the whole Soviet army. This was an incredible story.

    • @robbygee2539
      @robbygee2539 3 місяці тому +2

      Truth.

    • @WielkaStopa-qh1rr
      @WielkaStopa-qh1rr 3 місяці тому +3

      Yeah esp murdering others and pretending chivalry and then after an end pretending having clean hands

    • @WielkaStopa-qh1rr
      @WielkaStopa-qh1rr 3 місяці тому +1

      nazi army led by nazis for nazi coutry doing nazi crimes - and nothing to do wih nazis ha ha ha nazi ethos training salut, 1/3 officers were nazis, young men were from nazi H*jugend, older higher bras were 'prussians' militarists worse than a nazis

  • @thegrantkennedy
    @thegrantkennedy 3 місяці тому +9

    The author refers to the person who shot him as a “kettenhund.” Could someone give me the correct spelling so I can look up what he’s talking about? Please and thank you

    • @brittking3990
      @brittking3990 3 місяці тому +7

      A kettenhund is a watch dog…but in this case he is referring to a German MP…military police.

    • @christopherconard2831
      @christopherconard2831 2 місяці тому +5

      It's a reference to the gorget they wore as a symbol of their position. A neck piece originally designed as protection for the throat, though later only symbolic. Germans gave the military police who wore them the nickname "guard dogs" because it looked like a dog's collar.
      They were often used as enforcers for the military, especially the SS, to keep control. They became especially hated towards the end of the war when they became the executioners in the roaming bands of "courts" that hunted both retreating soldiers and civilians who refused to join the volkssturm.

    • @TonyZoster
      @TonyZoster 2 місяці тому +2

      The term was applied to the German military policy. As I understand it they wore some kind of chain around their necks.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldgendarmerie
      Uniform of a Feldgendarm during World War II, including the distinctive gorget. That will explain the term to you. kettenhund = chain dog.

  • @RonOside
    @RonOside 3 місяці тому +24

    It wasn't personal to Americans. They didn't have the hate. About 10% of American soldiers were 1st and 2nd Generation Americans of German origin. The Germans dealt with other Germans in American uniforms. The stress was minimized. The Germans were largely happy it was over and they were in American hands.

    • @jed-henrywitkowski6470
      @jed-henrywitkowski6470 3 місяці тому +3

      True. Even though I am of Polish origin and second-generation American, I look at this part of our (Europid) Race's history more objectively than first-generation Americans and immigrants. Perhaps, I could be more sensitive, or at least more empathetic than I am towards the matter. On a lighter note, a local Greek-American who is the first gen and tells with pride, how the men in his parents village held off the vaunted Fallschirmjager with old rifels and pitch forks.

    • @insideoutsideupsidedown2218
      @insideoutsideupsidedown2218 3 місяці тому +2

      Tell that to the merchant shipping sector.

    • @rdelrosso1973
      @rdelrosso1973 3 місяці тому +2

      In his book "Why The Allies Won", British Historian Sir Richard Overy says that when the Allies invaded Italy on July 9th 1943 ("Operation Husky"), about one-third of the American Troops were Italian-Americans!
      Maybe that's why Italian Troops (and Italy) surrendered three months later, in October 1943.
      Of course, the German Troops in Italy did not surrender until May 7th, 1945!

    • @telesniper2
      @telesniper2 3 місяці тому +4

      Nah, the US Government sent Americans of German descent to the Pacific whenever they could

    • @RonOside
      @RonOside 2 місяці тому +1

      @@telesniper2 When they were not fluent in both languages they sent them to the Pacific. Translation is Nuance.

  • @oldstyle-Danish-exmil.officer
    @oldstyle-Danish-exmil.officer 3 місяці тому +17

    Sorry mr. elias idisagree , as an old Danish prof soldier with many UNO-peace making/peacekeeping missions behind me , one time experirncenced the faith of s hostage,brutallly teated(torture) i still believe: every living existencr, plante or animal mudt br treated with Respect and Dignity, also friend and especially foe!!
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  • @sadjaxx
    @sadjaxx 2 місяці тому +2

    The poor girl, all the poor girls.

  • @grimdesaye6534
    @grimdesaye6534 3 місяці тому +13

    We should never had let the USSR make any gains. Stupid thing to do we have been paying for this for years and will continue to do so :(

    • @JLee-rt6ve
      @JLee-rt6ve 2 місяці тому +2

      You obviously don't know much history. The American people were tired of war, and they certainly weren't willing to go fight for countries they didn't, for the most part, know much about. Heck, it took Pearl Harbor to get the isolationists to change their tune and even get the US into the war. Even now, the Republicans don't want to help Ukraine.

    • @ozzyphil74
      @ozzyphil74 2 місяці тому +2

      They paid 20 million for those gains. You were not in a position to make them or not make them do anything. Do not for one moment think WW2 could have been won without the Soviets. They killed most of the Germans that fell in WW2... I believe 9 out of every 10

    • @knoll9812
      @knoll9812 2 місяці тому +2

      Agree
      Stalin duped Roosevelt in the last years of the war.
      Unconditional surrender was a Stalin inspired decision.
      Meant that Germans fought to the end and would not seek to do a deal with allies to protect from Russians.
      Once it was obvious that Russia was going to subjugate Poland then western aid should have stopped. Russia would still have been able to defeat Germany but Russian army in Berlin would have not been in a strong position to carry on the war.
      Also no reason why Russia should occupy any part of Germany as they had never been that far into Europe.

    • @ozzyphil74
      @ozzyphil74 2 місяці тому +3

      @@knoll9812 Lol. There is nothing the US (the only all that mattered) could have done to alter the outcome we got. The Germans still resisted fiercely and any surrender with terms meant nothing if the Soviets didn't agree with it and kept on coming. Short of war with the Soviets, nothing was going to stop them.
      And why should the Soviets not lay Germany to waste? Had the Germans and their allies spared the Soviets and their citizens?

    • @newtboys
      @newtboys 2 місяці тому +2

      Ha! The Russians won the war. We were damned fortunate to claim our sector in Berlin inside Ostpreußen.

  • @jaewok5G
    @jaewok5G 2 місяці тому +2

    that tank sunken by the river might still be there … i wonder if he found out what her name was.

  • @robertbohnaker9898
    @robertbohnaker9898 2 місяці тому +1

    The Glory of War….

  • @balancedactguy
    @balancedactguy 3 місяці тому +4

    Other Channels narrate the words from military Diaries and show a variety of pictures from the war, Why doesn't his channel do the same instead of just one still picture for more than 20 minutes. How hard can that be to do so?

    • @appaloosa42
      @appaloosa42 Місяць тому +1

      You try, see how much time the research and editing takes.

    • @balancedactguy
      @balancedactguy Місяць тому +1

      ​@@appaloosa42 If I wanted to produce a QUALITY Product....like SO MANY OTHERS... ...I WOULD!

  • @deplorablecovfefe9489
    @deplorablecovfefe9489 Місяць тому

    Had to laugh when apparently, a TANK took a minute to sink...you would think it would never float for a second!

  • @babawui
    @babawui Місяць тому +1

    If he had handed over the item to the drunkard he would have not have been injured, and consequently been able to return to the girl before she was killed.

  • @edwardkuenzi5751
    @edwardkuenzi5751 3 місяці тому +5

    This story is fictional, but it was well written.

  • @fsilber330
    @fsilber330 2 місяці тому +3

    So what sight was truly astonishing?

  • @Kenneth-qd3js
    @Kenneth-qd3js 2 місяці тому +1

    The Japanese were also surprised by their treatment by the Americans

  • @jreese46
    @jreese46 3 місяці тому +1

    A familiar voice.

  • @DavidISHERWOOD-iu1xn
    @DavidISHERWOOD-iu1xn 3 місяці тому +7

    Ketten Hund German MPS 2:48 who had a metal gorget around the neck nick named Chaìned Dogs

    • @EndingSimple
      @EndingSimple 3 місяці тому

      Those were German army military police. They were greatly hated by the regular army because towards the end they were used to hunt down and kill deserters on the spot on their own initiative. Many innocent Germany soldiers were killed by them.

  • @spacehonky6315
    @spacehonky6315 2 місяці тому +1

    He describes the drunk man that shot him as "kettenhund". Anyone know what that means?

  • @frankhoffman3566
    @frankhoffman3566 2 місяці тому +3

    These are not diaries being recited. Whether Pacific or European theater, it's the same guy who wrote them.

  • @jguenther3049
    @jguenther3049 Місяць тому +1

    Sad.

  • @donnaaveni
    @donnaaveni 2 місяці тому +1

    Why don't we learn

  • @RonJohn63
    @RonJohn63 2 місяці тому +1

    Kettenhunde were German Military Police.

  • @andrewstrongman305
    @andrewstrongman305 3 місяці тому +7

    They weren't called P.A.K guns - they were Pak guns.

  • @Anna57646
    @Anna57646 2 місяці тому +2

    Is this person recounting a true story or is this a fictional narrative?

    • @user-jw6ok4to6p
      @user-jw6ok4to6p 2 місяці тому

      What do you think - given the detailed descriptions!

    • @Anna57646
      @Anna57646 2 місяці тому

      @@user-jw6ok4to6p just because they are detailed doesn’t mean they are accurate.

  • @Palanibert
    @Palanibert 3 місяці тому +1

    Is the narrator Mark Felton?

  • @rogerherron5948
    @rogerherron5948 2 місяці тому +1

    การสูญเสียชื่อที่ดีของฉันคือการสูญเสียเกียรติของฉันและความตายเป็นสิ่งที่ดีกว่า

  • @adamgrimsley6455
    @adamgrimsley6455 2 місяці тому

    LOUD! NOISES!

  • @fposmith
    @fposmith 2 місяці тому +1

    Look these are great stories. But this is a visual medium. To tell these stories with one static picture does it, and the viewers a disservice ! To tell a story on this type of medium, you should at least have a slide show if you are not going to post in video format. I know I will have my detractors, but in the end, they know I'm right !

    • @benjurqunov
      @benjurqunov 2 місяці тому

      How can a great story confirm special extra homosexual rights ?
      Those guys in the picture better not be illegal mexicans !

  • @ardalla535
    @ardalla535 3 місяці тому +5

    Ninety million people died during the reign of the 3rd Reich in direct consequence, not only of Adolph the Mad, but of the support given to him by the German people without which he would have been nothing. Japan and Italy would not have entered the war unless they thought Germany had their backs. Japan and Italy both knew they could not fight the whole world by themselves.
    And yet, here we have an account of German people and German soldiers smiling, glad the war is over, and rebuilding their bombed out cities. A war THEY caused. One might consider, in revenge for German atrocities in eastern Europe, Stalin would have ordered all Germans encountered on the way to Berlin were to be shot on sight. He didn't issue those orders; he had his reasons. In hindsight, it makes sense, of course. He needed all the Germans he could get to populate the Soviet Zone and create the GDR. You can't populate a new country with corpses. So there was no justice for those 90 million dead. Today the Germans are healthy and rich -- and 90 million people are still as dead and forgotten as ever. No one even thinks of them; the only consideration given is for the 6 million Jews. Everything else is forgotten.

    • @lamelama22
      @lamelama22 3 місяці тому +3

      Japan's "entering the war" or attacking the USA had nothing to do with "Germany having their backs" as you stated and just made up. Japan was the first one to start the war, invading China years before Germany invaded Poland, hell they invaded before Hitler even took power and started rearming Germany and before they had a treaty. They attacked the USA without consulting or even informing Germany; and that decision was supposedly made independent of Germany's situation. In fact, Germany's top politicians were really angered by this betrayal, and did not want to declare war on the US and wanted to stay out of Japan's war.
      However, Hitler personally overrode all of his advisors and declared war on the US in a speech, because he was nuts and believed in his superiority. If he hadn't, the US would not have joined in against Germany, and would have been only fighting Japan. Japan felt they needed to attack the US due to its embargo on oil and other materials & goods, and to take over the greater Pacific theater, and assumed that 1 crippling blow at Pearl Harbor would be enough to basically keep the US from retaliating or reinforcing the Philippines and just accept that they lost and effectively that would be the end of the war against the US.
      However, you are probably right that if the Nazis didn't exist (in which case the Italian Fascists probably also don't exist in this alternate timeline), then Japan *might* not have attacked all of the European colonies in Asia or the US; since the UK, French, (German), and Dutch governments would then all actually be able to respond with their full force and large navies. Imperial Japan may still have done so, thinking that the distance would be enough for them to get entrenched, and they needed all of the raw materials from those lands.

    • @jeanbrown8295
      @jeanbrown8295 3 місяці тому +1

      I agree with you,the Germans of that time did know what was happening in their country ,and they still supported Hitler,there was some who resisted,but not many.Hitler lost the war because he was stupid enough to invade Russia.Not as clever as he thought he was.

    • @WielkaStopa-qh1rr
      @WielkaStopa-qh1rr 3 місяці тому +1

      @@lamelama22 You forgot japanese attack to western colonies

    • @TeaParty1776
      @TeaParty1776 2 місяці тому +1

      @@lamelama22 German philosophical idealism and statism spread to Japan in the early 20th century, ending the Japanese respect for the Enlightenment. War was coming, one way or another.

    • @TonyZoster
      @TonyZoster 2 місяці тому +1

      31.8.2: Casualties of World War II
      Some 75 million people died in World War II, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians, many of whom died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation.
      A conservative accounting shows 25 million people died in the Asia Pacific War. About six million were combatants, mostly Chinese and Japanese. That leaves 19 million noncombatant deaths.
      According to the census of June 16, 1933, the Jewish population of Germany, including the Saar region (which at that time was still under the administration of the League of Nations), was approximately 505,000 people out of a total population of 67 million, or somewhat less than 0.75 percent. That number represented a reduction from the estimated 523,000 Jews living in Germany in January 1933; the decrease was due in part to emigration following the Nazi takeover in January. (An estimated 37,000 Jews emigrated from Germany during 1933.)
      encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/germany-jewish-population-in-1933
      The majority of Jews in prewar Europe resided in eastern Europe. The largest Jewish communities in this area were in Poland, with about 3,000,000 Jews (9.5%); the European part of the Soviet Union, with 2,525,000 (3.4%); and Romania, with 756,000 (4.2%). The Jewish population in the three Baltic states totaled 255,000: 95,600 in Latvia, 155,000 in Lithuania, and 4,560 in Estonia. Here, Jews comprised 4.9%, 7.6%, and 0.4% of each country's population, respectively, and 5% of the region's total population.
      encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-population-of-europe-in-1933-population-data-by-country
      WW II Deaths by Country
      Country Military Deaths Total Civilian and Military Deaths
      Soviet Union 8,800,000 24,000,000
      United Kingdom 383,600 450,700
      United States 416,800 418,500
      Germany 5,533,000 8,800,000
      China 3-4,000,000 20,000,000
      Japan 2,120,000 3,100,000
      www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-worldwide-deaths-world-war

  • @user-qs2ge1yb7b
    @user-qs2ge1yb7b 2 місяці тому +2

    Orator learn to pronounce words correctly; what is an Elb? The ELBE has an E on the end, say it!

  • @michaelbolig8486
    @michaelbolig8486 3 місяці тому +7

    The mispronounced words is bizarre

    • @matthewnewton8812
      @matthewnewton8812 3 місяці тому +6

      Shouldn’t surprise you. The technology is still pretty new. It’s rather impressive, actually, I think. It can do exclamation, quotation, onomatopoeia, and mimics speech cadences pretty well. It’s pretty damn impressive I think. But not perfect.

    • @toastnjam7384
      @toastnjam7384 3 місяці тому +3

      @@matthewnewton8812
      Yes, it gotten so much better compared to what it used to sound like. I can live with the occasional mispronunciation.

    • @richardalonzo4717
      @richardalonzo4717 3 місяці тому +1

      Yeah, specially from a doctor.

  • @normanwells2755
    @normanwells2755 3 місяці тому +5

    I wonder if this is a true story or just made up for an entertaining tale?

    • @jerryw6699
      @jerryw6699 3 місяці тому +3

      pretty much fiction, probably based on many individual stories, dramatized a bit.

  • @MikeTratnik
    @MikeTratnik 3 місяці тому +2

    L

  • @bartfart2123
    @bartfart2123 3 місяці тому +2

    sadly this is a fabrication , albeit entertaining

    • @SteveBagnall-gh1fu
      @SteveBagnall-gh1fu 3 місяці тому +2

      It's a Mark Felton production so it will be well researched and produced, he is very thorough in all he does.

  • @TonyZoster
    @TonyZoster 2 місяці тому +2

    Oh dear oh dear. All those US American comments can be summed up thus " we are god's gift to humanity and the Germans should be grateful that we occupied their country."
    The reality is quite different.
    The miserable living conditions and the rigidities of Allied occupation prevented the return to normal economic life. The rebuilding of Germany was necessary for the economic revival of Europe. West Germany alone remained the largest market and the prime exporter of capital goods on the continent. It was the precise aim of the Marshall Plan to mobilise German industrial might for European reconstruction.
    Then there was the US fear of communism spreading. The Soviets were on the river Elbe. One of the results of the defeat of Germany was the rise of the Soviet Union to become a world power . A power much more dangerous that Nazi Germany ever was. Britain after WWII was in decline and Its empire falling apart. The US needed new allies against the Soviet threat. The only ones that fitted that bill were the defeated enemies. They had to be brought on side.
    Those were the reasons why the US changed its postwar policies . It needed to assist the defeated enemies to recover to have allies in the potential struggle against the Soviets.
    There were no altruistic reasons on the part of the US merely reasons of self interest.
    West Germany and Japan had only two choices play along or starve. Both made a good fist of doing what they were told.

  • @kmd5551
    @kmd5551 3 місяці тому

    AI generation

  • @zackschooley5858
    @zackschooley5858 3 місяці тому +9

    If only these German soldiers could’ve seen the camps, the Japanese Americans were locked in

    • @jrt818
      @jrt818 3 місяці тому +11

      Since more Japanese-Americans came out of the camps then went in, I suspect it was more insult than injury.

    • @Doo_Doo_Patrol
      @Doo_Doo_Patrol 3 місяці тому +1

      Are you in the ABP, (What aboutism) party. America Bad. Nitwit.

    • @zackschooley5858
      @zackschooley5858 3 місяці тому +1

      @@jrt818
      Japanese Americans lost their homes and businesses. No, they weren’t put death But your lives were destroyed

    • @jerryw6699
      @jerryw6699 3 місяці тому +1

      oh, how horrible, while the japs beheaded thousands in the East, and the Germans murdered Jews by the millions, how dare anybody play the race card. GDI

    • @ernestgalvan9037
      @ernestgalvan9037 3 місяці тому +2

      @@jrt818they came out with their lives, yes.. but they lost everything else; homes, businesses,

  • @mikeprusky603
    @mikeprusky603 3 місяці тому +4

    you don't comprehend the nature of UA-cam. it's not a format for static photos backgrounding narration. it works for video; i.e. moving images. the narration will work if and only if , you put it over action. bottom line: SHOW us, DON'T tell us !

    • @billmalec
      @billmalec 3 місяці тому +19

      You don't understand the idea of listening and... Envisioning.

    • @batcollins3714
      @batcollins3714 3 місяці тому +5

      He is teaching is about his war. Teachers don't show movies. Learn how to listen without needing cartoons to keep you interested.

    • @daveyr7454
      @daveyr7454 3 місяці тому +1

      On the contrary. UA-cam is an excellent platform for narration as well as music, with still photography.
      It’s not all about video, it is about using one’s imagination to envision in one’s minds eye, or to experience emotion through sound.

  • @benelias3556
    @benelias3556 3 місяці тому +16

    The fair treatment of German pows makes me sick. It was like they were put into a hotel wasting precious medical resources on saving German soldiers makes me sick

    • @WW2LiveHistory298
      @WW2LiveHistory298  3 місяці тому +99

      Sir, It's understandable to have concerns about resource allocation during times of war, but it's important to remember that the fair treatment of prisoners of war is a reflection of our values and respect for international law. Additionally, upholding medical standards for all individuals, regardless of nationality, aligns with the principles of medical ethics and humanity.

    • @killerdoritoWA
      @killerdoritoWA 3 місяці тому +83

      My architecture professor was a member of the Hitler Youth. He was forcibly conscripted. Captured by US troops, he was impressed by his humane treatment that he later emigrated to the US and joined the Army. He then fought for his adopted country during Korean War. So you see, in addition to adhering to international law, the humane fair treatment of POWs is how you win wars, keep the relative peace, and forge forgiveness and lasting alliances.

    • @avenaoat
      @avenaoat 3 місяці тому +6

      @@killerdoritoWA Hungarian joke: Cohn was questioned which Army wanted to serve, the Soviet or the American? Cohn answered: He wantet to serve in the Soviet Army? Why? Cohn answered: The Prisonar of War, the prisonar of the war...........

    • @CRuf-qw4yv
      @CRuf-qw4yv 3 місяці тому +22

      Compassion, not revehge, is the greatest healer. Yes, these people were misled, but it seems to be America has been assigned to restore dignity to the world and its people. Of course that was a different era and we, as Americans, still have a ways to go to set examples for humanity.

    • @TauntYou
      @TauntYou 3 місяці тому +26

      I'm proud to be part of a society -- and to have served in its armed forces -- where respecting human rights and needs sets us apart from our enemies. To do otherwise makes us no better than the least of mankind and not a world many of us could embrace.

  • @RivhardDavenport
    @RivhardDavenport 3 місяці тому +1

    THE AMERICANS ENJOYED GERMANY AFTER THE WAR!!!! THEY LIKED THE PRETTY GIRLS, THE GOOD BEER AND WINE AND PRETZELS, CHOCOLATE, AND THE EXCHANGE RATE WAS PERFECT FOR BUYING UP THINGS. ALSO FOR AMERICANS EVERYTHING WAS TAX FREE!!!

    • @TeaParty1776
      @TeaParty1776 2 місяці тому +1

      so?

    • @TonyZoster
      @TonyZoster 2 місяці тому +1

      I wonder what the locals thought of the party guests? But it it best to asked them after they left after that by now 77 year long party! ( i read that there still US troops in Germany in 2024)

    • @catherineskis
      @catherineskis Місяць тому

      Oh yes, Why have the conquering nation remain behind! How dare they stay ensuring the USSR won't conquer Germany too. Fast forward to 2021. In the 20th century the Americans accomplished The Berlin Airlift but Biden Couldn't/Wouldn't solve the problem of the "Supply Chain" in the 21st Century. Can't wait to vote for Biden!

  •  3 місяці тому +3

    could you buy weed?

    • @MitchRuth
      @MitchRuth 3 місяці тому +2

      Now that is some history that I’d love to know. My guess is weed was in low supply in the 3rd Reich.

    • @billko9201
      @billko9201 Місяць тому

      Grow up!

    •  Місяць тому

      @@billko9201 but weeds solves all medical issues