The Soviet Field of Honor in Leusden, Netherlands
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2022
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I live in the Netherlands and I honestly forgot that we have a Soviet field of honor here. Thanks for this video!
Most western Europeans today don't even consider Russians as European. Says a lot, smh.
for those wondering what the first sign said in the beginning (0:10)
Soviet field of honor
On June 22, 1941 Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union. From this point on the germans had a war on two fronts. The Red Army made a decisive contribution to defeating the Nazis after years of fighting on the eastern front. The sacrifices were enormous: during the second world war the Soviet Union would eventually lose 26 million military personnel and civilians.
After the war it was decided to make a separate field of honor to the soldiers of the Soviet Union who had lost their lives or whose bodies were already buried in The Netherlands. The place chosen for this was Leusden. After all, already 101 soviet soldiers who died in Kamp Amersfoort because of hunger, decease, abuse or were executed in a nearby camp (picture left) had been buried there.
Human remains of 691 soviet soldiers who had died after being a prisoner of war in Germany were transported from a town in Limburg called Margraten. Another 73 soldiers and forced laborers from several other places in The Netherlands were reburied here on this soviet field of honor.
the soviet field of honor was opend on November 18th 1948 by the minister of war W.F. Schokking. In total 865 victims of war rest here. Since 1956, the war graves foundation has been taking care of the maintenance
please excuse me for any grammar or spelling issues you may find, its just a quick translate made as best as i could haha
Thank you!
I have adopted a grave at this cemetery, nice to see that you have visited this place
Beautifully well done narration on this series in general btw - I don’t comment often but I started watching your channel since I discovered you on your collab with Mr Beat and I’ve really enjoyed these series
Great job, VTH. You’ve honed these in to ride the line between a visual experience and an audible experience perfectly.
Thank you for acknowledging the sacrifice the Russians made during the war.
I'm Dutch and I did not know about this despite being very interested in the history of world war 2. What's more, my brother actually lives in Amersfoort. I think I'll pay this cemetery a visit.
Thanks for uploading!
Excellent video!! Thanks for the great content 🙏🏼
Another interesting look at something I didn't know about. Keep knocking it out of the park Chris 👍
Thanks for the video
for further reading (or watching as it may) on the topic of Soviet POWs in Germany after the war, look up Operation Keelhaul, especially the 3 videos by TIK.
yeah-its interesting seeing the mix of different nationalities, but also sad, because their countries didnt have cemeteries to put them in.
It’s an extra wrinkle of irony that in their mythology of the “aryan racial history” (which was entirely made up) the very people to whom they traced themselves genetically in their collective imagination- the non-Slavic people of the caucuses - were treated as subhuman by their regime by virtue of being Soviet citizens at the time. The people of Armenia, Abkhazia and Georgia especially
not genetically, but "by blood" which was something not entirely biological, but also "spiritual" to them (nazi ideology gets really weird and it evolved though time too), meanwhile the science of genetics (or proto-genetics at the time) was completely rejected by them. oh, you can only imagine what would happen if they knew what we now know about the genetics of European peoples and the origins of the Proto-Indo-Europeans (which they referred to as "Aryans")
Happy to see you visited, I emailed you about this cemetery when you were planning your visit to the Netherlands. Great to see you followed my advice
Great video! Hope you'll visit Belgium too if you have time!
This trip was in May and my first few episodes that I posted were from Belgium
Very interesting!
Top notch content as always! Are you planning on visiting Germany in the future? I would personally love to see some content regarding the last battles of ww2, maybe the battle of hurtgen forest or perhaps something on the siegfried line.
Keep up the great work!
I'll be in those locations in November :) In the meantime I do have one video up from the Reichswald Forest CWGC Cemetery in Kleve, and another video coming soon about two Americans killed by an SA trooper in Germany.
Alright, I look forward to it! I must have missed the one on Reichswald, I'll be sure to watch it.
Thanks!
Damn I've never heard of this burial sight, very interesting. Nice to see you in my country by the way, if you come to the city Enschede, there is a lot to uncover there with the jewish council, one of the few who worked against the Germans.
Oh and, koninkrijk der Nederlanden sounded so funny 😂
looking for the best history books any recommendations? time period doesn't have to be specific.
What is the guitar music?
Спасибо за видео!
I live close to the dutch border, I knew nothing of a soviet field of honour so far west.
Soldiers follow orders. We honor the fallen, no matter their country.
Not every order should be followed
@@PUARockstar yes, i for example cant understand how a B 17 bomber or Lancaster crew would follow the order to bomb a city full of civilianz
Take special notice of the Soviet (Georgian) soldiers that died in May 1945, and the date of their death.
They died fighting the Germans on Texel, where they initially served the Germans as garrison troops. After a very bloody uprising, a very bloody German retaliation followed. This fighting lasted till May 20, well after the German surrender, and only after Canadians showed up.
Do you have a source for this? There aren't to my knowledge any KIAs in this cemetery. My understanding is those Georgians are buried in Oudeschild. Here's where the dead from Texel are buried www.tracesofwar.com/sights/392/Georgian-War-Cemetery-Loladse.htm
@@VloggingThroughHistory It would seem I was mistaken. I thought they got moved to Amersfoort at some point not too long ago. Seeing the dates on the headstones I certainly assumed this was them.
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain
Onze Sovjethelden!
Say what you will about the USSR but ww2 wouldn’t have been won without them
The soviets were all that stood between the nazis and complete victory. Long live the memory of Stalin and those who sacrificed their lives for defeating fascism
Neeederrrrlandd oohh nedeerrlandd
Beetje een rare comment op een video van een massa executie
@@keanorde ja dat is waar
@@keanorde I usually call it disdainful hilarity where something is inappropriate to the situation at hand that you can’t help but chuckle or grin in discomfort… but yeah kinda weird to start belting out an anthem rn my dude
@@averongodoffire8098 its not they anthem btw
@@averongodoffire8098 but yeah i see how dumb it was to post it here
GEKOLONISEERD 🇳🇱
Stop
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