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Damn! It was just getting Good! It goes without saying, but I can't Wait for the next Chapter in this saga. I really want to know what happens, as all of us do! Thank you for all the Great narration and emotion told by the writer of this diary. What a legacy of human tragedy! Thank You!
He was airlifted out on Jan 10, 1943. The very day the Soviets launched their assault from the west of the pocket. The main airfield fell on Jan 17th. He was lucky. And by the sounds, notwithstanding his courage, judging by the diary, the officers had a better deal of it than the enlisted men.
a good friend of my family was Fritz Gurgusson,german airforce commander in the 80's. His father was a submarine captain during ww1,he survived the whole war from day one in a submarine on action.He died in a boating accident in america after the war
My grandfather was wounded in stalingrad and flown put with one of the last german planes. He was serious wounded with shrapnel in the head and left the Wehrmacht. He was reordered to serve in the Volksturm. As he saw the young boys barley equipped wirh the training "here is the trigger there the enemy" That was the moment for him he and a other veteran decide to shoot a ss officer stole a motorcycle and drove west to the americans.
"The matter was getting serious." No sh*t. As a Viet Nam combat veteran, I can tell you two things concerning war: One gets very religious, very quickly. The other is you become a smoker even faster. Our food boxes contained small packs of cigarettes. They didn't last too long.
Por supuesto que en la guerra " no hay ateos ". .. Y si, todo sirve : desde comida, cigarrillos, metanfetaminas ( el Pervitin alemán ) ... Es la guerra, Me Outlet : TODOS PIERDEN 🤷👍🇦🇷
Speaking of snipers, one of my father's recurring nightmares had to do with a sniper. Dad was a Lt. in the U.S. Army in WW-2. I had to reconstruct the story; dad wouldn't talk much about things like this. It seems that somewhere in France he was talking to a soldier when the soldier was hit in the head by a bullet from a German sniper. Dad often woke up screaming, "Get the son-of-a-bitch in the trees!" Can you imagine? --Old Guy
My poor stepfather was a B-24 Liberator pilot in the Second World War. He had nightmares all of his life. Growing up around him wasn't easy. Only after I did military service did I understand a little bit about what he went through. He also drank too much to deal with his PTSD and survivor's guilt. Everyone, some more than others, gets damaged by war. I hope he found peace in the afterlife.
Are you buff enough to have discovered that the Nazi powergrab got underhand support from the 1918 allied conglomerate ? A desired war by the 1918 allies who still had unfinished business with Germany. The Nazis goosestepped into the most crafty trap laid in history , by allies who pretended to be washed out and ready for the pluck ,while having unlimited cannon fodder and resources to fight two worldwars at once if needed. The victors wouldn't change this bloody history even if they could. Certainly not the Zionists for whom this was the road to Israel.
Thank you for providing this vid. There wasn’t a single photo I’ve seen before. Since I was young I’ve watched every documentary I could on WW II, 90% of which was the American point of view and/or history. So far YT is the only place I can find that provides the German perspective and first hand knowledge as well as their photo documentation. As an American, I believe it’s important to get both perspectives or we can’t learn the horrors and difficulties both armies and civilians endured no matter what war theater that’s occurred in Earths history. Again, thank you for the work you put into creating this vid and posting it for us.
@MilitaryClubHISTORY I don't think ANY soldiers alive today that would NOT salute with full respect! I know I would, REGARDLESS the side they fought on!
@@Cyd98 Well said.I suppose if the dates of the wars were put on a graph you could see a cycle.I think Russia versus USA is coming very soon,and later with China the big threat.
Very intresting to hear from a diary like that. He was lucky to get out alive airlifted considering the losses they had on planes flying out in january 1943.
He was very lucky indeed, the last flight out of Stalingrad were two weeks later. And when the final Soviet offensive opened up on january 10, it quickly turned into a rout for the German defenders.
@@wolfu597it got to the stage where only injured soldiers who could be returned to combat were airlifted out, the rest left behind who were to badly wounded were never going to become a drain on the soviets and were shot wherever they were found, just as the Germans would have done.
My grandfather was an logistic officer, who fought to Japanese in Kuomintang airforce during WW2. He didn't share too much to his children about the war and he passed way when I was five. Only a Japanese style scroll painting and a Katana left which he confiscated from Japanese when war was over.
I lived across the street from a Hungarian family when I grew up. Their grandfather had lost an eye at Stalingrad. He always used to say “Never underestimate the Russians!”
It was such a common force of habit to underestimate Eastern nations for Germans that time. during their Eastern Campaign. They thought they were gonna fight uneducated, stupid, undisciplined trolls but too soon did they realize the reality was completely different from what they had been told back in Germany. Well trained, patriotic and hardcore soldiers.
@@julianciahaconsulting8663 I think in that case, the Russians underestimated the Ukrainians. But to your point, the West should not underestimate Russia's ability to respond. However, I think Russia is making a deal with the wrong ally. Russia could have embraced the West, now it's in bed with China and China will do to Russia what Russia was afraid the West would do to it.
The Sixth Army could have made it out if Hitler was not so insistent on keeping them at Stalingrad. Maybe if General Paulus took the initiative and started evacuating the army while he still could, plenty of lives could have been saved. I get that doing so might have gotten him shot for insubordination. Saving thousands of lives might have been worth it.
Why do care about bunch of professional facsist murderers, At least they paid little bit for the cruelty they did to others, life pass faster than you beleive, and while there are many good humanitarian people the hell with blood suckers like hitler and khomeini..
F those Nazzis... You forgot what they have been doing all those years, or you need a reminder, open some pics with huge trenches how this brave soldiers shot civilians ,kids ,babies and dropped them in those trenches... You may say it was the SS that was doing that,bit you know that's a lie, the Wehrmacht also is responsible for killing millions of POW , mass rapes, massacres...they started the war , find letters from the beginning of the war before the crying started and listen their arrogance about the war and the crimes they were doing
@@josefkopacz1144 he should've think more with his head and be less obedient, but I guess that was his potential... He beat Chuikov once with long distance weapons, but a good general will see his weakness and adapt, like Chuikov did.
There was no saving the sixth. When Operation Uranus was launched germany occupied 90% of stalingrad. Hitler declared war on the USA because the Wehrmacht thought they wore down the USSR to its final reserves and were about to strike a near final blow to the red army . Uranus came out of nowhere as a surprise attack. Germany consistently underestimated the Red Army's ability to reconstitute itself after catastrophic defeats. Over and over again they were able to rebound. Uranus was so well designed there was no way to relieve or break the encirclement to save the sixth army.
The author touched on how frostbite took its toll of the still ill equipped German troops fighting in Stalingrad and the lack of doctors and medical supplies to treat the wounded. If not one of the lucky ones flown out of the pocket it must have truly been a hell on earth fir the survivors.
As for "ill-equipped". The Germans planned to win the war in one swift campaign. General Galder wrote in his diary two weeks after they started the war "the war is won". Germans always considered themselves as etwas kolossal. So why bother about winter clothes and other trifles? They had winter clothes - but only for rather small number of divisions they planned to station in the conquered land for occupying duties. And very suddenly they found out that the war is very far from being won. Essentially they made the same mistake as Napoleon did when he demanded peace on his terms after the won Borodino battle. Remember, what was the answer of the Russian commander General Kutusov to his envoy? "What? We only started to fight!"
That was an insightful read! There was a bit about the villagers laughing at the Germans before the Soviet had completed the encirclement. The villagers had known! The officers certainly had much better diet than did the men.
I also think that the villagers already knew everything. The gap between German officers and soldiers is huge.In any case, this diary shows it very clearly.
@@jeffjefferson-re4pe the frontline combat officers didn’t have a good diet but but staff officers in the rear had far better rations then frontlines, did you watch the video, the officer in the video says it explicitly
This gives me really good insight on how officers lived in contrast to regular Wehrmacht. I'm surprised they had time to set up temporary homes and furnish them for Christmas given all the chaos of that battle. This is also the first time I've ever heard anything about Romanians inside the city after the encirclement was complete.
Just a disclaimer, I know this is the case for WW1, but I just assume it's also for WW2, but officers basically got the nicest dugouts and furnishings because they had the absolute highest chance of being killed in action. Unlike in movies, officers held a company together and were the first out in battle. They went out on every assignment, held the most responsibility and (in WW1) they had just about a 50% mortality rate, not including being injured. They were also big targets for snipers and machine gunners, because if the officer's gone, then the company doesn't have the stability it once had.
No, but they where destroyed on the southern flank and they also had an army on the northern flank with the Italians which was destroyed in Operation Saturn@@caryblack5985
I remember Opa telling me a story about a German POW who asked after the war when can we go home? The Soviet replied when you fix what you broke. Opa was fortunate enough to surrender before being sent back to the East having fought there. He never spoke of the war until the last few years of his life. Day to day soldier stuff he would talk about.
It was such bs having soldiers do mine clearance and labourer hard jobs to rebuild the USSR. Many died due to disease over working. 91000 taken pow at Stalingrad.. ONLY 5 thousand made it out minus the generals and general staff not many men..
These are valuable. Thank you. Narration well done. It's important to humanize all soldiers, very few were sadistic maniacs. Just ended up there like anyone could've been.
The Germans who occupied Russia were not all well behaved. Many German soldiers rounded up all the Jews they could; then led them to slaughter. Just like they did in EVERY country they occupied! and led them to slaughter. Then ravaged the possessions of their dead victims.
He literally gave the command to execute 2 13 year olds for spying and cursed the fact that they were low on ammo because he wanted to kill. He was a prick tbh
Thank you, not the best translation, but the content seems gen, and gives an insight into the conditions and personalities involved. My very best to you and yours. Leona.
David Glantz wrote the best books regarding the Battle of Stalingrad. His Stalingrad trilogy desribes each phase of the battle of Stalingrad in great detail. The trilogy is 4-books long, with the final part taking 2-full book volumes to complete. Anyone wishing to learn exactly what happened, from one day to the next, as the fighting played out during the Battle of Stalingrad. You will not find anything better written about the Battle of Stalingrad, ever.
A highly interesting report. Three members of my family (my great uncles) participated in this great war. Unfortunately, heroic death befell all three. Today, we can only imagine what these men experienced. Nevertheless, I am very proud of my great uncles. Best regards to everyone from Germany! 🇩🇪🇩🇪
An important role in this case played the Battle of Demyansk early that year. This was exactly that case when Wehrmacht could be supplied with food, ammo or medicaments for a relatively long time. Bad luck for Germans Demyansk strenghtened Görings Faith that his Luftwaffe ..,"kann es sicher schaffen", but Luftwaffe suffered heavy losses during that time and in the end there was no air supply from falling from the sky. That must off been brutal desperation.....
The number of people who say that they have great uncles or grandfathers or old work colleagues who were one of the 5,000 German survivors of Stalingrad is amazing. I'm not saying that everyone is lying but people can write whatever they want to online.
I used to work as an engineer renovating ww2 German Panzer tanks for museums. The whole team were either Stalingrad survivors or stranded at the Battle of the Bulge which was a strange coincidence as a few years earlier I myself was evacuated from Dunkirk and later involved in the disastrous operation Market Garden. All in all I felt lucky. The stories my father told me about his involvement in the Charge in the Crimea make me shudder. He died in his sleep in 2012. RIP Dad.
Stalingrad was the most important battle of all of World War 2. It was clear after Stalingrad that the Germans were in over their heads in Russia, that they weren't going to win. Until that point, the Germans were still confident, as evidenced by this diary.
You can see why the Germans got absolutely crushed: 700,000 Soviets are moving to surround them and they send a few regiments to support the Romanians and try to slow their advance lol.
It was because of bad Intel. The Germans did not understand how large the encirclement was until several days after it began. One of the reasons they were told to hold the city as a fortress was because it was believed that the red army was mostly beaten and couldn’t form a sizable counter offensive. It wasn’t realized how much American aid had rebuilt the soviets until it was too late
While all this is going on, the Soviets are really trying to destroy ArmyGroupCenter in Operation Mars. Zhukov was the top commander, and he was running Operation Mars. Mars was also supposed to pop off before Operation Uranus, but, Zhukov had to delay, so Vasilevsky jumped off first. The Soviet forces taking part in Mars were larger than those given for Uranus as well. It was a major loss for Zhukov and the stavka. They were lucky that Uranus ended up doing so well; it was a perfect distraction from the Mars disaster. No one really knew about Mars until the 90s
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Orator presented the documentary very well. Class A research project. Rough combat operations on both sides. After the fall of Stalingrad. The Russians had the upper hand till war's end. They had 10 fold the man power.
My grandfather got injured by shrapnel from a grenade this ended his time fighting in ww2 Luckily he made a full recovery and raised me up from a young boy he was a really good man. Miss him
How could you blame the Romanian soldiers for deserting? Also, the author was one extremely lucky guy to get out when he did. The 2 boys shot as spies; not so much😢
This guy had it pretty good, because he had many good days. He almost sounded like a foodie or food critic. He fought in between his eating experiences! I’m glad they didn’t have UA-cam back then, because he would’ve had a selfie for sure!
That’s exactly right he said he could supply the army even though they were encircled as the other generals begged to break out. Had they broke out the Russian may have sent them packing rather than invading Europe. But I find that unlikely
No, he didn't. The decision to supply the cauldron by air was taken by Hitler on the assurance of the Wolf's Lair Luftwaffe Chief of Staff, General Hans Jeschonnek. Goering was in Berlin and was not consulted on the matter. Knowing the calculations made were wrong, and the airlift wouldn't work, and whether he should have spoke up after the Fuhrer had made his decision, we can't judge. However, although he wielded great power in the regime, Goring was never 100% sure he wasn't being sidelined or stitched up by other ambitious upstarts (especially when they were bunkered with Hitler for months underground, chewing their nails, conducting day-to-day War stuff, keeping the boss happy, whilst Goring was off on personal jaunts round Occupied Europe in his armoured train, "collecting" fine art and treasure. Even a boor like that would realise there might be some raised eyebrows at his leisure pursuits whilst the war hadn't yet been won, he knew that no-one was immune to being excluded by Hitler if whispers were loud enough, so he may have decided to keep his mouth shut - it wasn't HIS advice the Fuhrer followed, why should he anger his leader by contradicting it? Better to let the person who managed to get Hitler to sign up for it tell him he had given duff advice - and that would inevitably lead to another potential rival getting the boot from Fuhrer HQ in disgrace. Goring was a lot of things, but he wasn't stupid. (Of course, he should have stepped up and acted in the interests of the trapped men, but old Hermann was only loyal to one person's interests - Hermann Goring)
An interesting video. Recently I read "with Paulus at Stalingrad," by Wilhelm Adam & Otto Ruehle, Translated by Tony Le Tissier. "Russia's War" by Richard Overy and "When Titans Clash" by David M Glantz & Jonathan M. House are also excellent references.
I reckon only about 5000~ ever returned to Germany after the war, that being at least almost a decade after and only to east Germany as well. How many of those men who were mentally/spiritually able to return to civilian life only god knows.
As a WW2 history buff, I can say this channel is really interesting. Having said that I must also call for one 'correction' of sorts. The name Adolf should always be said with the German pronunciation 'Ahh-dolf' not the Americanized 'A-dolf'. One should try to aim for accuracy when it comes to the names in history.
Radrook The allies of the Germans did fight well, trying to protect the 6th army flank. Unfortunately for them, they had hardly any anti tank or artillery to resist the Russian juggernaut.
In order to close the deal on Stalingrad they removed German troops/tanks from the flanks leaving them exposed. The Germans just didn't think the Russians had that many troops to perform the encirlement given how many divisions they were throwing in defense of Stalingrad.
Military club, did a lot of your videos get erased? I thought I believe it was your account that had the few dozen part diary on a German corporal during Barbarossa
I wonder if that was necessary to kill those two unarmed children. Could have just kept them in prison for a month until the intel they gathered got obsolete, and let them go. I mean, I understand that that was the war and all that, but you got to remain human on some basic level under all circumstances.
I would love to read diaries from so many different time periods of human history, like pilgrims, like witch hunts, like black death, like haunted houses, ect, but they dont seem to be easily obtainable or even available?
That's because only a select educated rich elite could read or write (and even then, not all of them), writing materials were expensive, and life was really hand-to-mouth for the vast majority, so no "ordinary" person was keeping a diary - that only really became not unusual at the start of the 20th Century (and has now probably gone forever, other than nonsense Blogs and Social Media bragging etc). Be very wary of any "diaries" you may get which are more than about 100 years old, they are probably nonsense made-up many years after the fact, to reinforce the author's particular view of history.
There is a book titled Wheels of Terror written by Sven Hassel a Dane in a Nazi tank battalion mostly based on his exploits in the war. I warn you, reading it will give you nightmares for the graphic descriptions.
War is the terrible action between human beings.....it doesn't start at one nation hating another ...but rather with politicians at the top...from observing o the last 2years with COVID ...it doesn't seem too difficult to set people against each other
The Wehrmacht was not anti-jewish by itself ... only if there were fanatic nazis between them . The star of David is also used by the german brewers since 200 centuries, nothing to do concerning jewish religion. RIP all victims of this senseless war and ideologies.
In May/June 1942 Stalingrad was basically an open city and could have been taken without too much effort, however Hitler diverted/divided his forces sending Von Paulus towards Von Kleist and Baku and once he returned weeks later it was a far far different story. This dividing of his forces cost us the war. CONCENTRATION OF POWER/FORCES ON STRATEGIC POINTS wins wars.
You are so right! The same thing is true in a fist fight. You slam your opponent when his guard is down as hard as you can until he is overwhelmed. You don't start attacking a different area that is less vulnerable because your opponent might be able to recover and end up attacking your weaknesses. That's exactly what Hitler did because he was arrogant and he failed because of his own hubris.
No the overextending his army well past his supply lines lost him the war. Germany really had no choice they had to capitulate the Soviets quickly or they would mobilize their forces and Germany didn’t have the manpower nor resources to fight an extended war with them.
On November 29th an officer that was not attached to headquarters was aware that there were 37 divisions divided into six armies surrounding them. That seems a bit too prescient.
The content is very good and exciting, a personal look into the job of a soldier who believes all that is handed to him , I give it a 8/10. Had the narrator been German, it would have sounded true. As there is another "Diary of a German Soldier" and they use a German narrator so it sounds true to form. Please redo this video, so we, the viewers dont have to use ChatGPT to redo the dialog in German ;) otherwise its very good, but not with an english voice. Nothering against the narrator, he is very good its just not apropos for the content. - thanks
Don’t get me wrong, the Allies who stormed the beaches of Normandy were heroic and faced hardships of their own.. but can you imagine if we had gone up against them had the Nazis NOT been fighting in the East with their best forces? As a German soldier said, “in the West, it is proper sport, but in the East, it is unmitigated horror”
@@stephenstokes9117 in a war for the survival for not only your country but your people’s existence children unfortunately get dragged into conflicts. I wish Germany could have made the decision to not start the war
@@ecuadorexpat8558 WRONG! 90,000 Germans surrenered and were sent off to Siberian POW camps. Of those 90,000 only 5,000 survived to return to Germany in the earl 1950's!!!
Actually, much of the narration/translation seems to be literal....word for word...and thus does not truly reflect the intnt and substance of the diarist's writings. The result is very stilted, and unnatural, in English
No actually a large part of the then Soviet Union and even now Russia is actually Asian. Unless you study Russian culture you would not know that but about 30 or 40 million residents of mostly southern and Eastern Russia are Asian
Note how this German officer shows absolutely no remorse about executing two 13-year-old boys, and just a few paragraphs later he sets up his little Christmas angels and his candles and launches into this high-spirited monologue about missing his "little paradise in Munich"... One Soviet author wrote that, "Thugs tend to be sentimental." I've actually encountered a similar attitude among some present-day Europeans -- they bemoan the pianos that Soviet troopers used for firewood in their country's capital, but they don't have any feelings for the villages that their country's Nazi volunteers torched in the Eastern Front.
@@ranting.russian the russians raped a little girl to death its in a soviet soldiers dairy he said a company or a platoon could have been on the thing a girl turned into a women a women turned into a corpse that's what he wrote about the gang rape that resulted in death while the mom lays wounded saying soldier kill me look how melancholy he's described that soviet soldiers were known for gang raping girls 8 to 80 years old it's in german medical records because of all the pregnancies and abortions and penicillin that had to be Givin out for syfilis so don't talk about cruelty you can research this o and buy the way get out of Ukraine this isn't ww2 anymore you can't invade a sovereign country but your the same criminal soviet union watered down with slight democracy and I pray for the Ukrainen women that have to encounter russian invading beasts
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The voice is great, awesome video
Damn! It was just getting Good! It goes without saying, but I can't Wait for the next Chapter in this saga. I really want to know what happens, as all of us do!
Thank you for all the Great narration and emotion told by the writer of this diary. What a legacy of human tragedy! Thank You!
@@mattclements1348 In German will also a good Language!😍
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How come this soldier ate so well?
He was airlifted out on Jan 10, 1943. The very day the Soviets launched their assault from the west of the pocket. The main airfield fell on Jan 17th. He was lucky. And by the sounds, notwithstanding his courage, judging by the diary, the officers had a better deal of it than the enlisted men.
If he hadn’t been wounded, he might not have seen his wife and kids until the 1950’s…Stalingrad was truly an apocalypse
@@markp652 The vast majority of the soldiers died and never able to go home
90,000 men were taken prisoner, only 6,000 ever returned to Germany.
Couldn’t even imagine being in this situation no matter what side
The worst thing to happen to me this year? I got served cold coffee, I shut my mouth and drank it.
@@robgray7019Jesus you live a good life if that’s the worst that has happened to you
@@robgray7019missed my bus by seconds and had to wait 30 minutes on the next one, my world collapsed !
a good friend of my family was Fritz Gurgusson,german airforce commander in the 80's.
His father was a submarine captain during ww1,he survived the whole war from day one in a submarine on action.He died in a boating accident in america after the war
Ironic
Ironic 💀 !! Thanks !
WWI?
@a.rodimtsev9446 Both the Brits and Germans used subs in WW1. U-boats had their beginnings in 1915.
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Excellent ... and no bloody music in the background as well.
Whatttt you don’t like terrible distracting music in the background?
bloody based that
@@5GTrevor Can u translate that into a proper sentence ... ?
My grandfather was wounded in stalingrad and flown put with one of the last german planes. He was serious wounded with shrapnel in the head and left the Wehrmacht.
He was reordered to serve in the Volksturm. As he saw the young boys barley equipped wirh the training "here is the trigger there the enemy" That was the moment for him he and a other veteran decide to shoot a ss officer stole a motorcycle and drove west to the americans.
Wise decision !
If I had a Nickel…..
Good for him! The SS were vermin and led their country to ruin.
Traitor
I wonder when or if the Russian soldiers from today will do the same...
"The matter was getting serious." No sh*t. As a Viet Nam combat veteran, I can tell you two things concerning war: One gets very religious, very quickly. The other is you become a smoker even faster. Our food boxes contained small packs of cigarettes. They didn't last too long.
I believe there was a saying in World War I: "No atheists in the trenches!"
....and Heroin addicts aswell !!!
Nothing changes anything as fast as conflict. 👍
Por supuesto que en la guerra " no hay ateos ". .. Y si, todo sirve : desde comida, cigarrillos, metanfetaminas ( el Pervitin alemán ) ...
Es la guerra, Me Outlet : TODOS PIERDEN 🤷👍🇦🇷
The Vietcong did nothing wrong.
Speaking of snipers, one of my father's recurring nightmares had to do with a sniper. Dad was a Lt. in the U.S. Army in WW-2. I had to reconstruct the story; dad wouldn't talk much about things like this. It seems that somewhere in France he was talking to a soldier when the soldier was hit in the head by a bullet from a German sniper. Dad often woke up screaming, "Get the son-of-a-bitch in the trees!" Can you imagine? --Old Guy
It's hard to imagine. You definitely won't forget this for the rest of your days... Yes, veterans rarely talk about the real horrors of war.
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY My late uncle was a Lancaster bomb aimer. I never heard him talk about it.
@@jamesprice4647 This means that he witnessed terrible events...
My poor stepfather was a B-24 Liberator pilot in the Second World War. He had nightmares all of his life. Growing up around him wasn't easy. Only after I did military service did I understand a little bit about what he went through. He also drank too much to deal with his PTSD and survivor's guilt. Everyone, some more than others, gets damaged by war. I hope he found peace in the afterlife.
@@susandalton7889 Much respect for your stepfather for his military service. RIP soldier !
This is the best presentation yet! Outstanding narration, and the content is compelling. thank you, friend!
Fantastic video. I’ve been a WW2 buff my entire life. Something this refreshing is rare.
Are you buff enough to have discovered that the Nazi powergrab got underhand support from the 1918 allied conglomerate ?
A desired war by the 1918 allies who still had unfinished business with Germany. The Nazis goosestepped into the most crafty trap laid in history , by allies who pretended to be washed out and ready for the pluck ,while having unlimited cannon fodder and resources to fight two worldwars at once if needed. The victors wouldn't change this bloody history even if they could.
Certainly not the Zionists for whom this was the road to Israel.
Thank you for providing this vid. There wasn’t a single photo I’ve seen before. Since I was young I’ve watched every documentary I could on WW II, 90% of which was the American point of view and/or history. So far YT is the only place I can find that provides the German perspective and first hand knowledge as well as their photo documentation. As an American, I believe it’s important to get both perspectives or we can’t learn the horrors and difficulties both armies and civilians endured no matter what war theater that’s occurred in Earths history. Again, thank you for the work you put into creating this vid and posting it for us.
I was a Combat Medic in the Infantry for 8yrs. I can say this about these men. NEVER will such men be seen again!
Those were tough times with tough men.
@MilitaryClubHISTORY I don't think ANY soldiers alive today that would NOT salute with full respect! I know I would, REGARDLESS the side they fought on!
History’s a cycle, you never know. The next one might be worse
@@Cyd98 Well said.I suppose if the dates of the wars were put on a graph you could see a cycle.I think Russia versus USA is coming very soon,and later with China the big threat.
This is 10x more fascinating than the other WW youtube docs. Thanks!
Fascinating to hear this account of daily life in the Stalingrad cauldron.
Very intresting to hear from a diary like that. He was lucky to get out alive airlifted considering the losses they had on planes flying out in january 1943.
He was very lucky indeed, the last flight out of Stalingrad were two weeks later. And when the final Soviet offensive opened up on january 10, it quickly turned into a rout for the German defenders.
@@wolfu597it got to the stage where only injured soldiers who could be returned to combat were airlifted out, the rest left behind who were to badly wounded were never going to become a drain on the soviets and were shot wherever they were found, just as the Germans would have done.
My grandfather was an logistic officer, who fought to Japanese in Kuomintang airforce during WW2. He didn't share too much to his children about the war and he passed way when I was five. Only a Japanese style scroll painting and a Katana left which he confiscated from Japanese when war was over.
He was a brave man. Respect for your dad fighting the invading japs
a* logistics. Illiterate.
I lived across the street from a Hungarian family when I grew up. Their grandfather had lost an eye at Stalingrad. He always used to say “Never underestimate the Russians!”
It was such a common force of habit to underestimate Eastern nations for Germans that time. during their Eastern Campaign. They thought they were gonna fight uneducated, stupid, undisciplined trolls but too soon did they realize the reality was completely different from what they had been told back in Germany. Well trained, patriotic and hardcore soldiers.
Exactly what i have been saying to people who think the ukraine is winning the war against russia.
Never underestimate anyone.
@@julianciahaconsulting8663 I think in that case, the Russians underestimated the Ukrainians. But to your point, the West should not underestimate Russia's ability to respond. However, I think Russia is making a deal with the wrong ally. Russia could have embraced the West, now it's in bed with China and China will do to Russia what Russia was afraid the West would do to it.
@@johnds1963I agree. Xi is to Putin what AH was to Stalin. That would be another bloody slugfest. Probably worst, if that's even possible.
Fantastic quality, like ALWAYS 😎😎. Thank-you for making these😊.
I visited Volgograd in September 2014. The main museum is fascinating as is Paulus's headquarters in the basement of the GUM department store.
Excellent video. Keep the voice very easy to follow as I drive across America. I am a over-the-road truck driver
Thanks! I'm glad you liked the video!
That sounds great, moving down the road and listening to a documentary.
God bless OTR truckers
@@Rostov_red_beard Thank you
Thank you for keeping Americans supplied.
The Sixth Army could have made it out if Hitler was not so insistent on keeping them at Stalingrad. Maybe if General Paulus took the initiative and started evacuating the army while he still could, plenty of lives could have been saved. I get that doing so might have gotten him shot for insubordination. Saving thousands of lives might have been worth it.
Why do care about bunch of professional facsist murderers, At least they paid little bit for the cruelty they did to others, life pass faster than you beleive, and while there are many good humanitarian people the hell with blood suckers like hitler and khomeini..
F those Nazzis... You forgot what they have been doing all those years, or you need a reminder, open some pics with huge trenches how this brave soldiers shot civilians ,kids ,babies and dropped them in those trenches... You may say it was the SS that was doing that,bit you know that's a lie, the Wehrmacht also is responsible for killing millions of POW , mass rapes, massacres...they started the war , find letters from the beginning of the war before the crying started and listen their arrogance about the war and the crimes they were doing
General Paulus wasn't a good tactician should never had been put in command at best an incompetent staff officer.
@@josefkopacz1144 he should've think more with his head and be less obedient, but I guess that was his potential... He beat Chuikov once with long distance weapons, but a good general will see his weakness and adapt, like Chuikov did.
There was no saving the sixth. When Operation Uranus was launched germany occupied 90% of stalingrad. Hitler declared war on the USA because the Wehrmacht thought they wore down the USSR to its final reserves and were about to strike a near final blow to the red army . Uranus came out of nowhere as a surprise attack. Germany consistently underestimated the Red Army's ability to reconstitute itself after catastrophic defeats. Over and over again they were able to rebound. Uranus was so well designed there was no way to relieve or break the encirclement to save the sixth army.
The author touched on how frostbite took its toll of the still ill equipped German troops fighting in Stalingrad and the lack of doctors and medical supplies to treat the wounded. If not one of the lucky ones flown out of the pocket it must have truly been a hell on earth fir the survivors.
You have no idea
That's what happens when your an arrogant and murderous army!
As for "ill-equipped". The Germans planned to win the war in one swift campaign. General Galder wrote in his diary two weeks after they started the war "the war is won". Germans always considered themselves as etwas kolossal. So why bother about winter clothes and other trifles? They had winter clothes - but only for rather small number of divisions they planned to station in the conquered land for occupying duties. And very suddenly they found out that the war is very far from being won. Essentially they made the same mistake as Napoleon did when he demanded peace on his terms after the won Borodino battle. Remember, what was the answer of the Russian commander General Kutusov to his envoy? "What? We only started to fight!"
Excellent videos. Great revelation, both the photographs and the diaries
Thanks! I am glad that you like my work!
Imagine a situation so horrific, that if you got severely injured and airlifted out, you were one of the lucky ones.
That was an insightful read! There was a bit about the villagers laughing at the Germans before the Soviet had completed the encirclement. The villagers had known! The officers certainly had much better diet than did the men.
I also think that the villagers already knew everything. The gap between German officers and soldiers is huge.In any case, this diary shows it very clearly.
Officers and men had the same diet, which is to say nothing much.
@@jeffjefferson-re4pe It was the officer lamenting having to get rid of his champagne supplies. The average soldier did not have the same problem
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY I believe the diary of the German corporal had also commented on the foreknowledge of the villagers.
@@jeffjefferson-re4pe the frontline combat officers didn’t have a good diet but but staff officers in the rear had far better rations then frontlines, did you watch the video, the officer in the video says it explicitly
Love how the JU-52 is pronounced in the audio
16:14 & adjutant
None of those boys wanted to be there. They were made to go there. The man with the mustache bears all responsibility.
@@MD21037Not all responsibility. Many of these soldiers committed unspeakable acts against civilians. They have some ownership.
@@backagain5216 You missed tbe point, totally. Go back to smoking your peace pipe.
Lmao read a book @@MD21037
This gives me really good insight on how officers lived in contrast to regular Wehrmacht. I'm surprised they had time to set up temporary homes and furnish them for Christmas given all the chaos of that battle.
This is also the first time I've ever heard anything about Romanians inside the city after the encirclement was complete.
Many Romanians who were not captured or killed in the attack retreated into the Stalingrad pocket.
I am amazed at how well-off the officers were.
@@caryblack5985 They must have cursed that fateful decision.
Just a disclaimer, I know this is the case for WW1, but I just assume it's also for WW2, but officers basically got the nicest dugouts and furnishings because they had the absolute highest chance of being killed in action. Unlike in movies, officers held a company together and were the first out in battle. They went out on every assignment, held the most responsibility and (in WW1) they had just about a 50% mortality rate, not including being injured. They were also big targets for snipers and machine gunners, because if the officer's gone, then the company doesn't have the stability it once had.
No, but they where destroyed on the southern flank and they also had an army on the northern flank with the Italians which was destroyed in Operation Saturn@@caryblack5985
I appreciate the German soldier always referring to his wife as "my lovely wife".
I hope he survived the war to be reunited with his wife and family.
Didn't you watch the video?!
I remember Opa telling me a story about a German POW who asked after the war when can we go home? The Soviet replied when you fix what you broke. Opa was fortunate enough to surrender before being sent back to the East having fought there. He never spoke of the war until the last few years of his life. Day to day soldier stuff he would talk about.
It was such bs having soldiers do mine clearance and labourer hard jobs to rebuild the USSR. Many died due to disease over working. 91000 taken pow at Stalingrad.. ONLY 5 thousand made it out minus the generals and general staff not many men..
Watch Other losses!
@@deneshbhaskar8650 BS? It’s called justice
@@МихаилЧерников-п2т No it isn't.
@@deneshbhaskar8650 The commies were (and are) savages.
These accounts certainly give a different viewpoint inside a German WW2 fighter. I'm enjoying these stories very much!.
These are valuable. Thank you. Narration well done. It's important to humanize all soldiers, very few were sadistic maniacs. Just ended up there like anyone could've been.
The Germans who occupied Russia were not all well behaved. Many German soldiers rounded up all the Jews they could; then led them to slaughter. Just like they did in EVERY country they occupied! and led them to slaughter. Then ravaged the possessions of their dead victims.
He literally gave the command to execute 2 13 year olds for spying and cursed the fact that they were low on ammo because he wanted to kill. He was a prick tbh
Thank you, not the best translation, but the content seems gen, and gives an insight into the conditions and personalities involved. My very best to you and yours. Leona.
Thanks! We will try even harder!
Tremendous insight into the conditions.
My uncle lost a hand and was fortunately flown out there , and my father became fieldnephritis on easternfront during the hard wintertime of 1944....
Excellent work. Original and authentic historical content.
Well narrated. Anyone who hasn't already seen it should watch 'Stalingrad' (1993) for an accurate film about the battle
Yep, great film
A great film and sound track .
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it's AI narrated...don't..praise...the computer... lol
Also a book I would recommend is simply titled ‘Stalingrad’ by Antony Beevon.
Great post! Glad he made it out of Stalingrad.
Thank you for this content.A perspective from the other side so as to speak.The horrors of war are on all sides.May we never forget!
The two boys were doomed. Obey their soviet masters or die, get caught, die, escape, die.
Thanks for the diary. It is outstanding information.
In french, we have an old proverb : "qui sème le vent, récolte la tempête" (who sows the wind, reap the storm).
In America we have an old proverb too: "He who smelt it, dealt it"
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English: sow the wind, reap the whirlwind
We have a proverb 👉Versailles
In Mexico. " siembra tormentas y cosecharas tempestades"
this is the single coolest genre of youtube video possible
Your contribution of your historical collections to the public are awesome FJB
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Biden doesnt disrespect vets and those in the military you putz.@Buffalobills-fh2be
@@connierenna-xf9umBiden doesnt disrespect vets and those in the military you putz
David Glantz wrote the best books regarding the Battle of Stalingrad. His Stalingrad trilogy desribes each phase of the battle of Stalingrad in great detail. The trilogy is 4-books long, with the final part taking 2-full book volumes to complete.
Anyone wishing to learn exactly what happened, from one day to the next, as the fighting played out during the Battle of Stalingrad. You will not find anything better written about the Battle of Stalingrad, ever.
@@tomhoffa2681 BS . All his sources are listed. Even Putin said he was right.
this series is a revelation.
can't see how its a secret or something Godlike...
A highly interesting report. Three members of my family (my great uncles) participated in this great war. Unfortunately, heroic death befell all three. Today, we can only imagine what these men experienced. Nevertheless, I am very proud of my great uncles. Best regards to everyone from Germany! 🇩🇪🇩🇪
I absolutely love listening to these, put my earbuds in and go to work lol.
Thanks! Have a good work for you!
@MilitaryClubHISTORY thanks, definitely helped. I eneded up listening to this until it was done. Then finished my things lol
An important role in this case played the Battle of Demyansk early that year. This was exactly that case when Wehrmacht could be supplied with food, ammo or medicaments for a relatively long time. Bad luck for Germans Demyansk strenghtened Görings Faith that his Luftwaffe ..,"kann es sicher schaffen", but Luftwaffe suffered heavy losses during that time and in the end there was no air supply from falling from the sky. That must off been brutal desperation.....
The number of people who say that they have great uncles or grandfathers or old work colleagues who were one of the 5,000 German survivors of Stalingrad is amazing. I'm not saying that everyone is lying but people can write whatever they want to online.
I used to work as an engineer renovating ww2 German Panzer tanks for museums. The whole team were either Stalingrad survivors or stranded at the Battle of the Bulge which was a strange coincidence as a few years earlier I myself was evacuated from Dunkirk and later involved in the disastrous operation Market Garden. All in all I felt lucky. The stories my father told me about his involvement in the Charge in the Crimea make me shudder. He died in his sleep in 2012. RIP Dad.
@@TheNelster72 How old are you?
@@TheNelster72I’m glad we still have old timers such as yourself still kicking!
These are quality documentaries. Great work.
Interesting to hear it from the German side and how they spun this loss.
Stalingrad was the most important battle of all of World War 2. It was clear after Stalingrad that the Germans were in over their heads in Russia, that they weren't going to win. Until that point, the Germans were still confident, as evidenced by this diary.
After Kursk, the Germans lost the initiative in the east. So said Guderian.
You can see why the Germans got absolutely crushed: 700,000 Soviets are moving to surround them and they send a few regiments to support the Romanians and try to slow their advance lol.
thats what happens when people believe their own propaganda and think they are superior to others
It was because of bad Intel. The Germans did not understand how large the encirclement was until several days after it began.
One of the reasons they were told to hold the city as a fortress was because it was believed that the red army was mostly beaten and couldn’t form a sizable counter offensive. It wasn’t realized how much American aid had rebuilt the soviets until it was too late
While all this is going on, the Soviets are really trying to destroy ArmyGroupCenter in Operation Mars. Zhukov was the top commander, and he was running Operation Mars. Mars was also supposed to pop off before Operation Uranus, but, Zhukov had to delay, so Vasilevsky jumped off first. The Soviet forces taking part in Mars were larger than those given for Uranus as well.
It was a major loss for Zhukov and the stavka. They were lucky that Uranus ended up doing so well; it was a perfect distraction from the Mars disaster. No one really knew about Mars until the 90s
Thank u I live these diaries
Thank you! It's a pleasure to read. I will try to please you more often. I like them too!))
There has probably never been a hell on earth like it for pure scale alone
Great video thanks for your effort.terrible time for the 6th army war is hell
But they did start it
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Orator presented the documentary very well. Class A research project. Rough combat operations on both sides. After the fall of Stalingrad. The Russians had the upper hand till war's end. They had 10 fold the man power.
Thank you! I will try to continue to meet your expectations!
Whith germany all "good"europa
A lot of lies❗❗❗🤡🤡🤡🤡🤮
Und... natürlich noch mehr verdamte Lüge, wie immer
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY yes, the USSR won the war and had a shocking amount of deaths. Horrific.
My grandfather got injured by shrapnel from a grenade this ended his time fighting in ww2
Luckily he made a full recovery and raised me up from a young boy he was a really good man. Miss him
How could you blame the Romanian soldiers for deserting? Also, the author was one extremely lucky guy to get out when he did. The 2 boys shot as spies; not so much😢
This guy had it pretty good, because he had many good days. He almost sounded like a foodie or food critic. He fought in between his eating experiences! I’m glad they didn’t have UA-cam back then, because he would’ve had a selfie for sure!
The best of men dealing with the worst of situations.
They suffered because the ego of Goering was as big as his girth. Promised what he knew he could not deliver
That’s exactly right he said he could supply the army even though they were encircled as the other generals begged to break out. Had they broke out the Russian may have sent them packing rather than invading Europe. But I find that unlikely
No, he didn't. The decision to supply the cauldron by air was taken by Hitler on the assurance of the Wolf's Lair Luftwaffe Chief of Staff, General Hans Jeschonnek. Goering was in Berlin and was not consulted on the matter. Knowing the calculations made were wrong, and the airlift wouldn't work, and whether he should have spoke up after the Fuhrer had made his decision, we can't judge.
However, although he wielded great power in the regime, Goring was never 100% sure he wasn't being sidelined or stitched up by other ambitious upstarts (especially when they were bunkered with Hitler for months underground, chewing their nails, conducting day-to-day War stuff, keeping the boss happy, whilst Goring was off on personal jaunts round Occupied Europe in his armoured train, "collecting" fine art and treasure. Even a boor like that would realise there might be some raised eyebrows at his leisure pursuits whilst the war hadn't yet been won, he knew that no-one was immune to being excluded by Hitler if whispers were loud enough, so he may have decided to keep his mouth shut - it wasn't HIS advice the Fuhrer followed, why should he anger his leader by contradicting it?
Better to let the person who managed to get Hitler to sign up for it tell him he had given duff advice - and that would inevitably lead to another potential rival getting the boot from Fuhrer HQ in disgrace. Goring was a lot of things, but he wasn't stupid.
(Of course, he should have stepped up and acted in the interests of the trapped men, but old Hermann was only loyal to one person's interests - Hermann Goring)
An interesting video. Recently I read "with Paulus at Stalingrad," by Wilhelm Adam & Otto Ruehle, Translated by Tony Le Tissier. "Russia's War" by Richard Overy and "When Titans Clash" by David M Glantz & Jonathan M. House are also excellent references.
Million of Men served in the Army divided to Army Groups and Divisions. And only a Handful of them survived at the end. That is mindblowing.
I reckon only about 5000~ ever returned to Germany after the war, that being at least almost a decade after and only to east Germany as well. How many of those men who were mentally/spiritually able to return to civilian life only god knows.
As a WW2 history buff, I can say this channel is really interesting. Having said that I must also call for one 'correction' of sorts. The name Adolf should always be said with the German pronunciation 'Ahh-dolf' not the Americanized 'A-dolf'. One should try to aim for accuracy when it comes to the names in history.
Great battlefield memoirs.
Excellent video 👍🏻
That was outstanding. He was one of the lucky ones to be airlifted out in January 1943 and lived a full life through to 1998.
While Stalingrad was going on my Uncle Claude was in Algeria and Tunisia at bat against the German Heer.
They counted on Romanians, Hungarians, and Italians to protect them from being surrounded.
Radrook
The allies of the Germans did fight well, trying to protect the 6th army flank.
Unfortunately for them, they had hardly any anti tank or artillery to resist the Russian juggernaut.
In order to close the deal on Stalingrad they removed German troops/tanks from the flanks leaving them exposed. The Germans just didn't think the Russians had that many troops to perform the encirlement given how many divisions they were throwing in defense of Stalingrad.
Big Mistake,,,,
That was a bad idea.
I liked it. I like written history like that. I think there is much to learn.
I think it is called 'anecdotal history' ; when an incident is described by people who were present at the time...
he's lamenting having to burn his books, kill his geese and drain his champaigne. WTF, after how many they have slaughtered.
Look who he was fighting the raping russians
Great video, as always! 👏🏽😎
Eating Goose while his men had rations 200g Bread a day... And even got out,.. is there any justice in this world,...
It was his own goose… also he got shot lmao what was he supposed to do
DAMN! I WISH this letters and UA-cam channel would have partnered with the Time Ghost Army's presentations! This is amazing!
New voice is much much better
I’ll be more inclined to listen and subscribe now
Thanks! I am glad that you liked our work!)
Star of David on Christmas tree? @12:51
It’s Christian symbol as well.
Awesome thanks for your efforts and sharing your experience with us
Military club, did a lot of your videos get erased? I thought I believe it was your account that had the few dozen part diary on a German corporal during Barbarossa
Good narration!
I wonder if that was necessary to kill those two unarmed children. Could have just kept them in prison for a month until the intel they gathered got obsolete, and let them go. I mean, I understand that that was the war and all that, but you got to remain human on some basic level under all circumstances.
I would love to read diaries from so many different time periods of human history, like pilgrims, like witch hunts, like black death, like haunted houses, ect, but they dont seem to be easily obtainable or even available?
That's because only a select educated rich elite could read or write (and even then, not all of them), writing materials were expensive, and life was really hand-to-mouth for the vast majority, so no "ordinary" person was keeping a diary - that only really became not unusual at the start of the 20th Century (and has now probably gone forever, other than nonsense Blogs and Social Media bragging etc). Be very wary of any "diaries" you may get which are more than about 100 years old, they are probably nonsense made-up many years after the fact, to reinforce the author's particular view of history.
There is a book titled Wheels of Terror written by Sven Hassel a Dane in a Nazi tank battalion mostly based on his exploits in the war. I warn you, reading it will give you nightmares for the graphic descriptions.
@@jamesalexander3530thanx for the info.
Toughest battle of WW2
Hell on earth 😢
at 7:21 the early T34 76 would the drivers position be right in the middle of that broken compartment?? is anyone else seing this??
War is the terrible action between human beings.....it doesn't start at one nation hating another ...but rather with politicians at the top...from observing o the last 2years with COVID ...it doesn't seem too difficult to set people against each other
At least this solder survived and continued his life.
That Christmas tree had a Star of David on it. A bit of irony there?
Yeah thats bizarre.
The Wehrmacht was not anti-jewish by itself ... only if there were fanatic nazis between them . The star of David is also used by the german brewers since 200 centuries, nothing to do concerning jewish religion. RIP all victims of this senseless war and ideologies.
I’ve always wondered why they celebrated the birthday of the King of the Jews
@@Dulcimertunes”King of the Jews” is a Christian construct.
How about a bit of bullsh*t!
In May/June 1942 Stalingrad was basically an open city and could have been taken without too much effort, however Hitler diverted/divided his forces sending Von Paulus towards Von Kleist and Baku and once he returned weeks later it was a far far different story. This dividing of his forces cost us the war. CONCENTRATION OF POWER/FORCES ON STRATEGIC POINTS wins wars.
You are so right! The same thing is true in a fist fight. You slam your opponent when his guard is down as hard as you can until he is overwhelmed. You don't start attacking a different area that is less vulnerable because your opponent might be able to recover and end up attacking your weaknesses. That's exactly what Hitler did because he was arrogant and he failed because of his own hubris.
No the overextending his army well past his supply lines lost him the war. Germany really had no choice they had to capitulate the Soviets quickly or they would mobilize their forces and Germany didn’t have the manpower nor resources to fight an extended war with them.
Ohhhh poor NAZI. I will be thinking of you next time I take a shit.
On November 29th an officer that was not attached to headquarters was aware that there were 37 divisions divided into six armies surrounding them. That seems a bit too prescient.
he found out later thats how many it was most likely
Great narration, thank you.
Kalach - the last sound is /ch/ as in 'chair', not /k/
The content is very good and exciting, a personal look into the job of a soldier who believes all that is handed to him , I give it a 8/10. Had the narrator been German, it would have sounded true. As there is another "Diary of a German Soldier" and they use a German narrator so it sounds true to form. Please redo this video, so we, the viewers dont have to use ChatGPT to redo the dialog in German ;) otherwise its very good, but not with an english voice. Nothering against the narrator, he is very good its just not apropos for the content. - thanks
Don’t get me wrong, the Allies who stormed the beaches of Normandy were heroic and faced hardships of their own.. but can you imagine if we had gone up against them had the Nazis NOT been fighting in the East with their best forces? As a German soldier said, “in the West, it is proper sport, but in the East, it is unmitigated horror”
So sad that they killed the two thirteen year old Russians, instead of taking them as prisoners after they were captured!😢
My stomach dropped when hearing that, also terrible that the red army knowing this would use children.
@@stephenstokes9117 It was a war of Annihilation. The Soviets damn near sent EVEYONE. If they weren't Frontline they were partisans.
The Germans used children as well to protect Berlin from the Red Army in 1945. They also gassed millions of children too.
@@stephenstokes9117 in a war for the survival for not only your country but your people’s existence children unfortunately get dragged into conflicts. I wish Germany could have made the decision to not start the war
@@RoCK3rAD Germany starting the war was because they knew the soviets were preparing to invade them.
Very interesting. Keep it up.
My father survived Stalingrad..my uncle Bruno was captured by the Russians and never seen again ..
Only 10% survived
@@Dulcimertunes 90 000 survived
@@ecuadorexpat8558 WRONG! 90,000 Germans surrenered and were sent off to Siberian POW camps. Of those 90,000 only 5,000 survived to return to Germany in the earl 1950's!!!
Much better narration; doesn’t sound computer generated as earlier ones do
Actually, much of the narration/translation seems to be literal....word for word...and thus does not truly reflect the intnt and substance of the diarist's writings. The result is very stilted, and unnatural, in English
Note to Europeans. Even though you are all superior it is still better to avoid invading Russia
In 22:22 is that a Japanese soldier fighting in Stalingrad?
No actually a large part of the then Soviet Union and even now Russia is actually Asian. Unless you study Russian culture you would not know that but about 30 or 40 million residents of mostly southern and Eastern Russia are Asian
Note how this German officer shows absolutely no remorse about executing two 13-year-old boys, and just a few paragraphs later he sets up his little Christmas angels and his candles and launches into this high-spirited monologue about missing his "little paradise in Munich"... One Soviet author wrote that, "Thugs tend to be sentimental." I've actually encountered a similar attitude among some present-day Europeans -- they bemoan the pianos that Soviet troopers used for firewood in their country's capital, but they don't have any feelings for the villages that their country's Nazi volunteers torched in the Eastern Front.
The Soviets never carried out atrocities? The Red Army raped and murdered it's way across Europe.
Why should've he shown remorse? Only because of the age? Why can't he miss his little paradise? Stop acting like you got the moral high-ground
@@aeae3314 A sane person shouldn't find it so easy to kill children and then live with it. That isn't a "moral high ground," it's sheer human decency.
@@ranting.russian the russians raped a little girl to death its in a soviet soldiers dairy he said a company or a platoon could have been on the thing a girl turned into a women a women turned into a corpse that's what he wrote about the gang rape that resulted in death while the mom lays wounded saying soldier kill me look how melancholy he's described that soviet soldiers were known for gang raping girls 8 to 80 years old it's in german medical records because of all the pregnancies and abortions and penicillin that had to be Givin out for syfilis so don't talk about cruelty you can research this o and buy the way get out of Ukraine this isn't ww2 anymore you can't invade a sovereign country but your the same criminal soviet union watered down with slight democracy and I pray for the Ukrainen women that have to encounter russian invading beasts
@@ranting.russian you can't allow for 'moral high ground' under conditions like they had