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for a historian,these stories from the ordinary soldiers and what they saw and went through are priceless. many thanks to the people who brought this together.
A lot of these soldiers and their families are now passing away so it makes sense they are coming out as the young are not interested so they sell or pass onto auction houses or house clearances
Thank you for the video. I also appreciated the war photos. The diary gives a great view of the naiveté of the common soldier. With the Gestapo involved I have to wonder if that was the reason he found himself on the Eastern Front. If so likely they would not tell him ... just do it. Prayers for all in the war ... we are such a rebellious and thick headed human race. God clearly tells us there are consequences to turning our back on him ... and he demonstrates it again and again in the Old Testament. God does not change. His justice is always in place. Still ... God is loving ALL the time. ALL the time God is loving. I pray the human race becomes so.
Yu just forget the famous "Gott mit uns" or... "God bless us". If there's a perfect sure thing after 2d WW is that religious commitments are tricky things. Lot of intellectuals from all countries definitevely broke what we called in france "l'esprit des lumieres" (spirit of light century" 18thcentury. After concentration camps.. Shoah... And nagasaki & hiroshima... Every human being have to think and build his own ethic. Religion has nowadays no place in our modern lives. We have to drop centuries of hypocrisy and lies... And religion as a nice shield / shelter under which wars are declared and lot of people died centuries long.
@@j-ch8787 I understand the frustration with evil mankind has visited on itself [and continues to do so]. It is tragic. Consider that the 1st reality one needs to look at is the question of whether God exists at all. To do this we must step aside from emotion and look at solid data. The Universe had a starting point in time. Reason applied to the universe discerns that rules/laws give it a clear order of things ... as opposed to chaos and simply random action. So how did this happen? Simple logic knows it had to be an enormously intelligent and powerful creator. I posit that getting to know that creator and what He shows us [as well as the reason He made us in the first place] is the 1st order of the day. The Old Testament prophets clearly reveal what He wants from us [Love]; and the direct consequences His justice enacts when He is ignored or replaced with man made idols. Little by little ... daily review chapter by chapter its well worth going through. He loved us into existence with Free Will. Every action we make has its consequence ... individually and collectivelly.
@@michaelpcooksey5096 Ok. Yur comment following mine is a typical answer in some environment which still are hook to religious believes. I know how yur thinking. Especially nowadays people are so confused in our complexified modern world that "religious old tricks" are still confortable. But am not of that part of humanity. Tks for yur post which looks for me as an american believer (my ancestors and gd parents were irish-Us... Catholic... Conservative... Far away from my own vision of the universe and creation of our world). God never had any sens, any meaning in my life since I was a teen becose of what I learned about humanity history... Beginning of the universe... What sciences and knowledges trhough centuries allowed us to understand about "how we slowly emerged from the beginning of universe" aso. People who are still hooked on religious principles and old sacred writings make me smile. That's their choice. I have mine. Have a nice dreamin' night...
Its soo sad these soldiers have no idea the horrors that their leaders have in store for them in just a little bit. And how easy it was for the people up top just to waste these regular soldiers lives for pretty much nothing. They didn't gain anything and lost everything in the end. Those up top too the cowards way out a lot of the times too.
If you can believe and trust this German soldier's diary , read the Bible about Jesus his talks and deeds and the miracles with same trusting mind. When there were more than two persons witnessing it's trustworthy. Writers about Jesus were Matthew Mark Luke John Peter Paul. Your future life depends on knowing about Jesus.
@@markmitin7397 Lol. There was no " German captivity" for a Soviet. If not getting shot on sight once they surrendered, Germans just sent a Soviet back to captured area in the rear to die... Or become a slave, then die..
A lot of German POWs were worked to death or never came back from Soviet Work camps. Which is better or worse Quick or Slow? Death is the final result but then who leaves this world alive.
Mein Onkel starb am 12.12.41 bei Leningrad. Er wurde 22 Jahre alt. Gefunden hat man ihn 45 Jahre später, er liegt dort auf einem deutschen Soldatenfriedhof.
2 brüdern meine Oma wären "verschundert" in Stalingrad. Dann zurück am Russlandfront wären sie beide "verlorene" / tot. Ein yunger (der war Dichter vor der Kriege) ist auch in Karelie Russland front verlorene in 41. Meine Familie kämpft gegen Adolf sehr spät also 80% sind tot in KL oder am Front. Nur meinem gross eltern, die emigrieren in 35 in frankreich, lebten noch in 45. Und die überleben kindern die, meine Oma nahrt während Yahren post 45, in die ganz kaput Deutschland. So vielen Tot personnen für nichts....
Yes, soldiers are someones brothers, sons, uncles......They will be sorely missed. Still more traumatic and unacceptable are devilish ghastly, pure evil warCRIMES like Dresden (his minions, those without conscience, just try to get away with it, never repent, let alone pay their due.....Truly *disastrous* for the totally discarded "survivors"....!).
@@timkbirchico8542 you have to make your enemy ...bad guy... So you can feel free to kill him. In fact, you are bad guy... and maybe your enemy is a real good guy.
Up to now and all the diaries I have read, this person seemed like the most sensible, sensitive and religious one. No wonder he had issues with the Gestapo. I hope he did survive the war.
Chat GPT definitely wrote this stuff dude.... I still watch/listen, because as you said, they're excellent. But this is almost certainly AI. This channels "soldiers" never give a name or precise unit. That's abnormal.
This soldier's diary simply shows that, in the end, he was human; despite political leanings, whether good or unbelievably evil, he still carried with him all of the fears & concerns that ANY soldier would have, regardless of nationality, allegiances or loyalties; so sad but oh so true☹️🇺🇸
In 1963, when I was in Junior High, I read a book "Diary of a German Soldier". It was not this young man though. It was a real story about a young private on the Russian front in a company of machine gunners. It was really well written and very authentic. Hopefully it might still be in print or used copies.
He wrote about how they were always exhausted, cold and hungry. When opportunities for sleep came they were never long enough. "Our sleep was leaden and dreamless." He hailed from the Alsace-Lorraine region, correct? I read that book too, about 20 years ago. Agreed, terrific read. I ran across it in the public library in Corvallis, OR.
all bullshit, more german lies, they are trying to portray themselves as regular folks to the rest of the world who KNOW them to be cold blooded murderers
He seemed like a nice kid. Hearing that a WWII German soldier was reading Shakespeare was rather surprising! I wonder what the deal was with the Gestapo? I hope he survived the war.
Great work, the photos are amazing. The young soldier at 4:47 looking at his K98 is definitely worth 1,000 words or maybe 10,000 words. Youth, fear, best friend and dreaded killing machine in one. Long live the Republic, FJB.
I love hearing these stories. I have family that moved from Düsseldorf. All my cousins and everyone now live in Bottrop in the Nordrhein-Westfalen. Anytime I hear about these areas it makes me think of my family. My great grandfather moved here after WWI. The rest of the family stayed in Germany. I still talk to my family in Germany and alot of them served in WWII. I tried asking my cousins about what they may have talked about and there is nothing. They tell me it was never talked about. My wife and I are going to Germany in the next year or two and they said they have pictures and stuff. I’m hoping they will share them with me when I visit but I don’t know yet. It seems they change the subject anytime I bring it up. I have a cousin serving in the Deutsches Heer in the Bundeswehr. He says the people in Germany gives more respect to the soccer players then they do the ones that serve. It’s totally different than that of the US. It’s weird though because my grandfather served during WWII and fought for the 6th armored division yet he had 5 brothers that served in the Wehrmacht. I’m not sure of the branches yet but they fought each other. I wonder if they ever knew. I didn’t get to talk to my grandfather because he passed when I was 13 and that was before I became interested in learning about the war.
Don’t embarrass your family because you are curious . Most German don’t like talking about the war. Certainly don’t dig too deep , you may have has relatives who served. As what though.? Many families know exactly what their relatives did but are ashamed of what they did for good reason.
I'm a 69yr old ex-Brit Squaddie BOAR, I once bivied in a German farmers Barn near Minden, BAOR could rub our supposed NATO partners up But We Brits paid top notch cash for compensation, I met the bloke one early morn on stag duty and he came over a sat in my foxhole with me and told me of his life, He had been captured by the Ruskie in Berlin as a 15yr old boy soldaten, and marched off to Russia until 1959, When he was put on a Train and sent back from Siberia to West Germany, From that day forward, I never questioned his Politics, But I honoured a fellow human
This is so unique, German Soldier gave Russian children bread at families evacuation from east Persia back to Berlin Germany before the war ended late 1944, my mother told me to go to that Russian officer who had a stack of bread in his arms to ask him for some rent. The officer and gave me three big slices. We were hungry, and it felt good.
there were no Russian children in Prussia or Persia. Russian children could not have been evacuated to Berlin. Your comment makes no sense, could you clarify?
@@timkbirchico8542 /all right I agree my message was not to clear my mother and my two sisters and me have moved from Berlin to east Prussia in 1941 to live with my Grandparents,because the bombing by the British and American Air Force was very heavy. by the end of 1944 Germans had to flee from the Russians and Poland soldiers coming from the east. So I hope this will clarify my not so clear prior. message.
Fact 1. All German soldiers swore an oath of personal allegiance to Adolf Hitler the leader of the Nazi party and the leader of the Nazi Third Reich and swore to always obey his orders. Fact 2. All German army soldiers wore Nazi insignia on their uniforms. Fact 3. All German army regiments flew flags with Nazi insignia. By any reasonable assessment that makes them Nazis. In relation to these Nazis, as you say just wanting to survive the war, I am absolutely certain the 26 million Russian men, women and children who died because of the the German Nazi invasion were just normal people and just wanted to survive the war as well ! They would have done so if the Germans hadn’t have invaded their country and murdered, raped and pillaged their way across Russia.
@@timkbirchico8542 yup. when the victories were rolling in they all gave the nazi salute. after the war (finally! 6 goddam years of monstrousness) no one was really a nazi, they just went along with it... "But my neighbour, they were nazis..."
I really can relate to his views on robbery. Look at the current state of the US with broad daylight store robbery and smash and grabs at retail markets
@@leojanuszewski1019 I don't care cry me a river that word has less meaning the more you say it. Nothing wrong with loving one's race, culture and heritage
@@leojanuszewski1019 you probably wouldn't mind being robbed from and not do anything about it, then be labeled a racist lol. Reminds me of the San Francisco minded people
@@MichaelLevine-n6y A.I. chatbots can write novels now, you know. Photos of each featured diary with handwritings on paper would give these stories much credibility.
I think a little suspect the existence of this and other diaries in these videos. No source, no names... How do we know they are "real"? Where did they come from...? Just asking.
I'd also like to learn more about the diary itself. Maybe see photos of it and learn where it was found, etc., and more about the soldier, to add authenticity to this video. (Our dad, a US soldier, picked up a German soldier's diary near the Anzio area. We still have it, but can't really return it, as our dad started writing in it where the German stopped! So basically overnight, it went from being a German diary to an American diary! I guess paper was scarce. The German didn't write much -- mostly just marked off the days, so it's no loss to history.)
@@scottw5315 Yes, a name and a complete address. The diary, is in a calendar format and also includes a map of the axis empire at the time, from France to parts of Russia, which is pretty interesting. I think my dad said that it was from a Pioneer group. I also thought about Croc Tear too as it's very legit, so it's possible. Thanks.
Paper was certainly scarce then. Printing a small booklet in april 1946 in the Netherlands was still difficult due to paper scarcity (as explicitly mentioned in the booklet).
The most important reasons why Germany lost WW2, USA GB. Russia was and still is double dealer's. Sneekey and untrustworthy in most dealings. People need to educate themselves about how Treaties work, some are so complicated it boggles the mind. Like how Britain and France didn't declare war on Russia like they did Germany. Even though Russia invaded Poland at the same time Germany did no one declared war on them because of the wording in the treaty between the countries involved. ✌🏻☘️
Stalin was more clever than Adolf. So, he moved his red army into Poland quietly AFTER the Germans busted the border gates and invaded with much fanfare and gusto. The Soviets made it look as a counter move to the German aggression to create “security buffer” to protect their borders, they also moved-in into the Baltic states and Finland(after the winter war). However, the real reason why the British and French didn’t declare war on Stalin as they did on Adolf is because Stalin was the Lesser Evil compared to what the Nazi had in mind. I think it was Churchill who said, “if the nazis were fighting the devil at the gates of hell, he would make a case for the Devil in the House of Commons”. It was a smart move!
@@ri-goblazt5894 Good observation, merging media and government into one gives us fascism. Sounds like today or it never really ended. The real power is above the government someone else pulls the strings.
@@ri-goblazt5894 58,000 ethnic Germans in Poland were slaughtered leading up to their invadion. Stalin had amassed the largest offensive military in history in the 1930s.
@@ernstwiltmann6 like paintings diaries are sometimes faked. Provenance refers to proof that something is real. These diaries often lack this provenance, without it we cannot be sure it is real. This applies to all wars and events including WW2. When it "feels off" and there is no provenance then one doubs the authenticity. By no means is this a reflection on Germans, it is a worldwide phenomena that is rather well known. I hope this settles it for you.
Should have learned from Napoleon You cannot invade Russia and win. Especially in winter. Land is too vast, land is too rugged with too few resources. Weather is brutal and Russia has too many people to throw at an invader. Also the chance of winning a two front war is none. Germany never really had a chance, especially once the USA entered the war which was inevitable considering that the U-boats HAD to sink American merchant ships to starve out Britain. Perhaps now with modern technology you might have a chance of successfully invading Russia (I wouldn't bet on it though) but not with the weaponry of 1941.
He’s definitely not a Nazi , although he may be too young to realize it at the time. He’s Catholic and seems devout, he’s educated, well read, freethinking with a sense of justice. If he’s writing the Gestapo to report an injustice, he may be waiting forever for a response . I seriously doubt his sense of justice and the Gestapo’s sense of justice are the same. 21:16
If you retranslate his words into German, you learn a little bit more. It looks like he was drafted at 18 years, after his secondary school diploma, sometime in summer 1941. He is also an altar server. Altar servers were normally excused from serving into the Hitler Youth, during church times. So plenty of catholic boys become Altar server to avoid the Hitler Youth service, and he is even considering becoming a priest. And when he is thinking about his future, becoming a priest, an engineer or going to Africa. I think he is talking about going to Africa as a missionary, this nothing a "Nazi" would even consider. Since the "Culture war" between the pope and the Prussian / German state (1870th), there was always a kind of mistrust between the state and the Catholics in Germany. And the Catholic Church didn't like the anti-religious attitude of the Nazis, and The Nazis didn't like that the Catholics had a second leader. In the summer of 1941 big parts of the Catholic Church clashed with the Nazi government about the euthanasia program, even publicly condemning it. As the result of it, many Catholics started to have doubts about the Nazis, but still wanted to be good patriots and served on in the Army.
@@pogonator1 I very much appreciate that you took as much time as you did to relay information to me. I speak English and French but just a little German. Your information helped me understand better. I did get some of this but you definitely expanded on my understanding. I didn’t know about alter boys being exempt from some Nazi youth group functions, thanks for that info. I’ll never understand why the church had one attitude about Nazi policy , especially in Germany but then after the war, the Vatican helped so many Nazis war criminals escape to South America through the “Rat Line”! The church should have dislike both the Nazis and the Communists. Hitler’s mother was Roman Catholic yet Hitler discouraged the people from any religion….other the Hitlerism and encouraging people to see Him as a Messiah! Thanks for the info. Sincerely, Doc
Who ever this guy is, he may be in for a bad time psychologically. He seems well educated possibly an academic. What’s the word…Erudite? He likes reading, Shakespeare, so he likely well read. However, if he keeps to himself and stays alone, thinking alone then he’s doomed. As I know what’s ahead of him, he doesn’t! He may enjoy Shakespeare but very soon the most important thing in his world will be the friend standing next to him…..These are the brothers we trust with our life and they trust you. The only thing a soldier fights for is the man standing next to him. So I hope the writer of this diary opens up, becomes a lot more sociable and starts making the best friends he will ever know!
Soldiers diaries have a sameness regardless of what side they are fighting on. Dying for a cause or living for a cause, what will the cause do for you if you lose, if you win?
Interesting: The closer he gets to the "enemy" the more he has to be afraid of his fellow countrymen. The gestapo sound like fun dinner guests. Either way; comments are needless....
Wondering why you would think he was captured? The fighting was brutal and prisoners were not taken unless there was a need. The arrogance of the boy is typical though. He is in another country and does not seem to understand he is the aggressor invading another nation. I also wonder at his piety given he is killing people for resisting his invasion.
He's a Time Traveler like Dr. Who 'cept he can't control his "Tardis" maybe more like "Land of the Lost" with the Pylons, and chessboard with the funky crystals! 😯🤔
Can you imagine how great it would be to find out you're being transferred to southern France when you've been through hell on the Eastern front? Especially in December when it's beginning to be ungodly cold? This guy sounds much different than most of these soldiers diaries, likely because he's not a traditional military man
That was probably the most interesting diary you have found for us I think the kad was heading for a nervous breakdown but it does confirm one thing that I have long suspected - namely that ordinary infantry DID know about the death squads. The scale if the Einsatzgruppen, killings were just too big and too close to the front to be a secret.
About Gestapo "came to me". Gestapo was directly forbidden to act in the army. As a matter of fact, exactly because of that there was an attempt on Hitler's life in 1944. Maybe, it was Geheime Feldpolizei - military police
Compared to most diaries of German military personnel, he seems likely to be voted as "The least military fanatic ". Religious. Worried about life with the Gestapo and government interference. Worried about the locals. Most unusual.
He sounds like a good German , and disappeared aged 19, so young, My great uncle was a corporal in WW1 and ws killed fighting Germans aged 19, it is such a waste of good young lives, Lives thrown away by incompetent military leaders and politicians , 19 is no age to die !
Sorry, cool subject, and would have loved to hear it, but that fake robot ai voice just broke the immersion. Such a valued subject and you can't even be naffed to talk about it yourself. AI just doesn't capture the emotion, sorry bro, or bot, or whatever your pronouns are. #dobetter #saynotoai
While no surprise, the diary, through this soldier's perspective, makes the war seem even more real to me, the casual viewer; moreover, this young soldier's humanity, at least early on, was quite evident, as he mingled with the Russian civilians & felt true sorrow for them...🇺🇸
How did we get this diary? I'm not doubting the observations, but I need some way of verifying it. He comments on the deaths of Jews at Riga; how did he know?
As a military historian and publisher who is up to date on current AI capabilities, I need sources to believe this. One image of the original manuscript would do it. BUT I admit this is a great business model for the channel.
Basic Training, fairly new recruits in first photos, but this soldier "wore in" and wrote some of the best, excellent diary entries as the war continued and died down..
one thing is certain. The bravest men prepared to give their life for Motherland/Fatherland to make the better world for their people (which was what they believed) died in that war, AND in many wars prior to WW2. From then on, its very hard to find a real alpha male. Thats why we nowadays have very strong women and weaklings for men. Some "conspiracy theorists" might say it was very very succeseful plan in order to rule the world... And by FURTHER dyings in Ukraine and other wars Alphas are probably erradicated by now. It was inconcieveable, in previous times, that enlisted ppl fleeing their homeland affraid of military service, BUT who could say now that he cant understand those "deserters". PS i am completely hooked on these diaries, especially if wrote by germans on eastern front. Especially if they were tankers.
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job making it easier for viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Class A research project!!! Special thanks to the German soldier who kept diaries that eventually were posted on this documentary. Sharing personal experiences making the documentary more authentic and possible. The Russian front was rude awakening. For German army combat soldiers finding out that the invasion/conquering of Moscow. Through a quick summer campaign. Thanks to the disillusioned amphetamine addict Hitler. Who constantly changed his seasoned experienced generals military operations. 20 miles from Moscow then order General Guderian to abandon invading/conquering the transportation hub of Moscow. Giving Russian general Zhukov enough time to fortify Moscow. Reorganize the demoralized defeated armies/slowly turn them into an excellent military force
The Germans had no choice but to abandon Moscow. Temps had plummeted to the coldest winter in over 70 years and the Germans had little winter gear so they were losing more soldiers to frostbite than combat. The final straw was when soviet spies confirmed that Japan would not be invading Russia in the East they sent several divisions of Siberian ski troops to the Moscow front and let them loose on the Germans who could not hold and were forced to retreat.
You should read the diary of a Belarussian girl, whose whole family has been assassinated by German soldiers. They raped girls, burnt alive people in their housings or in churches. Then the girl became sexual slave of a german officer, slave for everything. She decided to commit suicide the day of her 15th birthday and so did she. The diary was found out when Soviet army liberated Bielorussia in 1944, but no Western publisher did accept to translate it and to publish it. Of course they prefer people read diary of that kind of soldier, not hateful, but how can he believe he were good just by giving some bread his colleagues had stolen to other people. He can't see the reality of war. 35 millions of Soviet people died during WWII. ( Following nowadays US researchers)
That was interesting to say the least. I think it's very telling to get a sense of how poor the situation was for the Germans during the "good times"! Keep in mind folks, that diary ended 5 months before the battle of Stalingrad! Had the diary continued for a few more months, I could have even believed that the author became so desperately depressed that he just stopped writing. But given that the situation was at least tolerable, that is unlikely.
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Great and brave German soldiers. Down with Communists😊
Gteat stories excellent desdtip
Excellent stories
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for a historian,these stories from the ordinary soldiers and what they saw and went through are priceless. many thanks to the people who brought this together.
How confident are you in the authenticity of some of these diaries?
its fake
@@dewetmaartens359 There seems to be a lot of diary videos . Coming to light 75 years after the war.>>??
@@timkbirchico8542 Sure seems that way.
A lot of these soldiers and their families are now passing away so it makes sense they are coming out as the young are not interested so they sell or pass onto auction houses or house clearances
Imagine a diary of some guy in the germanic tribes in the war against the romans.
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Excellent writing from a caring German soilder
He wanted the front…he got it
Breathelessness and more breathelessness.
"it is better to share then to take" ........
Thank you for the video. I also appreciated the war photos. The diary gives a great view of the naiveté of the common soldier. With the Gestapo involved I have to wonder if that was the reason he found himself on the Eastern Front. If so likely they would not tell him ... just do it. Prayers for all in the war ... we are such a rebellious and thick headed human race. God clearly tells us there are consequences to turning our back on him ... and he demonstrates it again and again in the Old Testament. God does not change. His justice is always in place. Still ... God is loving ALL the time. ALL the time God is loving. I pray the human race becomes so.
Yu just forget the famous "Gott mit uns" or... "God bless us".
If there's a perfect sure thing after 2d WW is that religious commitments are tricky things. Lot of intellectuals from all countries definitevely broke what we called in france "l'esprit des lumieres" (spirit of light century" 18thcentury.
After concentration camps.. Shoah... And nagasaki & hiroshima... Every human being have to think and build his own ethic.
Religion has nowadays no place in our modern lives. We have to drop centuries of hypocrisy and lies... And religion as a nice shield / shelter under which wars are declared and lot of people died centuries long.
@@j-ch8787 I understand the frustration with evil mankind has visited on itself [and continues to do so]. It is tragic. Consider that the 1st reality one needs to look at is the question of whether God exists at all. To do this we must step aside from emotion and look at solid data. The Universe had a starting point in time. Reason applied to the universe discerns that rules/laws give it a clear order of things ... as opposed to chaos and simply random action. So how did this happen? Simple logic knows it had to be an enormously intelligent and powerful creator. I posit that getting to know that creator and what He shows us [as well as the reason He made us in the first place] is the 1st order of the day. The Old Testament prophets clearly reveal what He wants from us [Love]; and the direct consequences His justice enacts when He is ignored or replaced with man made idols. Little by little ... daily review chapter by chapter its well worth going through. He loved us into existence with Free Will. Every action we make has its consequence ... individually and collectivelly.
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Ok. Yur comment following mine is a typical answer in some environment which still are hook to religious believes. I know how yur thinking. Especially nowadays people are so confused in our complexified modern world that "religious old tricks" are still confortable.
But am not of that part of humanity.
Tks for yur post which looks for me as an american believer (my ancestors and gd parents were irish-Us... Catholic... Conservative... Far away from my own vision of the universe and creation of our world).
God never had any sens, any meaning in my life since I was a teen becose of what I learned about humanity history... Beginning of the universe... What sciences and knowledges trhough centuries allowed us to understand about "how we slowly emerged from the beginning of universe" aso.
People who are still hooked on religious principles and old sacred writings make me smile.
That's their choice. I have mine.
Have a nice dreamin' night...
''The morning will come
When the world is mine.
Tomorrow belongs to me!''
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Its soo sad these soldiers have no idea the horrors that their leaders have in store for them in just a little bit. And how easy it was for the people up top just to waste these regular soldiers lives for pretty much nothing. They didn't gain anything and lost everything in the end. Those up top too the cowards way out a lot of the times too.
You have in your site many such stories all taken from "diaries" most of them unauthenticated, which makes one wonder about their provenance.
The filth of humanity!!! Thanks for sharing.
What's that mean?
Who Russians? Germans? Jews?
Who's the filth?
great boots
If you can believe and trust this German soldier's diary , read the Bible about Jesus his talks and deeds and the miracles with same trusting mind.
When there were more than two persons witnessing it's trustworthy.
Writers about Jesus were Matthew Mark Luke John Peter Paul.
Your future life depends on knowing about Jesus.
The vast majority of the Wehrmacht were not nazis.
Excellent content!
Taken prisoner by the Soviets might as well be KIA.
Im pretty sure the Soviets viewed German capture with similar consequences..
More Soviets POW died in German captivity than Germans in Soviet captivity.
@@markmitin7397 Lol. There was no " German captivity" for a Soviet. If not getting shot on sight once they surrendered, Germans just sent a Soviet back to captured area in the rear to die... Or become a slave, then die..
@@markmitin7397 The Russian Air Force losses in the 1st year were 90%!!!
A lot of German POWs were worked to death or never came back from Soviet Work camps. Which is better or worse Quick or Slow? Death is the final result but then who leaves this world alive.
Mein Onkel starb am 12.12.41 bei Leningrad. Er wurde 22 Jahre alt. Gefunden hat man ihn 45 Jahre später, er liegt dort auf einem deutschen Soldatenfriedhof.
So ein junger und gesunder Mensch musste sterben. Das ist sehr traurig.
2 brüdern meine Oma wären "verschundert" in Stalingrad. Dann zurück am Russlandfront wären sie beide "verlorene" / tot. Ein yunger (der war Dichter vor der Kriege) ist auch in Karelie Russland front verlorene in 41.
Meine Familie kämpft gegen Adolf sehr spät also 80% sind tot in KL oder am Front. Nur meinem gross eltern, die emigrieren in 35 in frankreich, lebten noch in 45.
Und die überleben kindern die, meine Oma nahrt während Yahren post 45, in die ganz kaput Deutschland.
So vielen Tot personnen für nichts....
Yes, soldiers are someones brothers, sons, uncles......They will be sorely missed.
Still more traumatic and unacceptable are devilish ghastly, pure evil warCRIMES like Dresden (his minions, those without conscience, just try to get away with it, never repent, let alone pay their due.....Truly *disastrous* for the totally discarded "survivors"....!).
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As an Aussie, I can only say; "Poor bastard" So young and innocent full of life and years. Snuffed out. RIP son.
a strange usage of the word innocent.
@@timkbirchico8542 To each his own.
@@jason-hy8ci morality is a common sentiment
@@timkbirchico8542 you have to make your enemy ...bad guy...
So you can feel free to kill him.
In fact, you are bad guy...
and maybe your enemy is a real good guy.
@@จักษ์นาถะพินธุ wow. it seems you know me better than I do. will you be my guru?
Up to now and all the diaries I have read, this person seemed like the most sensible, sensitive and religious one. No wonder he had issues with the Gestapo. I hope he did survive the war.
Chat GPT definitely wrote this stuff dude....
I still watch/listen, because as you said, they're excellent.
But this is almost certainly AI. This channels "soldiers" never give a name or precise unit. That's abnormal.
@@ianmedford4855 thats not true a lot of them have the names
@Ian Medford yeah bro. But this is at least just entertainment
This poor guy was 1st infantry, 1st battalion, 1st company, it’s there but hit me as odd every thing was 1st.
@@flouisbailey 10th company, 1st infantry regiment, 1st infantry division. Says it at 0:36
This soldier's diary simply shows that, in the end, he was human; despite political leanings, whether good or unbelievably evil, he still carried with him all of the fears & concerns that ANY soldier would have, regardless of nationality, allegiances or loyalties; so sad but oh so true☹️🇺🇸
In 1963, when I was in Junior High, I read a book "Diary of a German Soldier". It was not this young man though. It was a real story about a young private on the Russian front in a company of machine gunners. It was really well written and very authentic. Hopefully it might still be in print or used copies.
He wrote about how they were always exhausted, cold and hungry. When opportunities for sleep came they were never long enough. "Our sleep was leaden and dreamless." He hailed from the Alsace-Lorraine region, correct? I read that book too, about 20 years ago. Agreed, terrific read. I ran across it in the public library in Corvallis, OR.
The author was Guy Sajer
Soldat is another good read.
Forgotten soldier by guy sajer
The Merchant of Venice - O_o.... That is a very anti-Jewish play, the Germans must have thought everyone hated Jews.
This guy wrote a letter complaining about things to the GESTAPO???
The honorable Gestapo actually had little to do with the military, at leadt in the upper ranks.
all bullshit, more german lies, they are trying to portray themselves as regular folks to the rest of the world who KNOW them to be cold blooded murderers
He seemed like a nice kid. Hearing that a WWII German soldier was reading Shakespeare was rather surprising! I wonder what the deal was with the Gestapo? I hope he survived the war.
Great work, the photos are amazing. The young soldier at 4:47 looking at his K98 is definitely worth 1,000 words or maybe 10,000 words. Youth, fear, best friend and dreaded killing machine in one. Long live the Republic, FJB.
FJB!!
FJB
Well said.
Yes, with the fentanyl made by Xina in Mexico, FJB 💩
He in the pocket of bad people, God save the Republic and all the people said FJB👀
I love hearing these stories. I have family that moved from Düsseldorf. All my cousins and everyone now live in Bottrop in the Nordrhein-Westfalen. Anytime I hear about these areas it makes me think of my family. My great grandfather moved here after WWI. The rest of the family stayed in Germany. I still talk to my family in Germany and alot of them served in WWII. I tried asking my cousins about what they may have talked about and there is nothing. They tell me it was never talked about. My wife and I are going to Germany in the next year or two and they said they have pictures and stuff. I’m hoping they will share them with me when I visit but I don’t know yet. It seems they change the subject anytime I bring it up. I have a cousin serving in the Deutsches Heer in the Bundeswehr. He says the people in Germany gives more respect to the soccer players then they do the ones that serve. It’s totally different than that of the US. It’s weird though because my grandfather served during WWII and fought for the 6th armored division yet he had 5 brothers that served in the Wehrmacht. I’m not sure of the branches yet but they fought each other. I wonder if they ever knew. I didn’t get to talk to my grandfather because he passed when I was 13 and that was before I became interested in learning about the war.
Don’t embarrass your family because you are curious . Most German don’t like talking about the war. Certainly don’t dig too deep , you may have has relatives who served. As what though.? Many families know exactly what their relatives did but are ashamed of what they did for good reason.
My grandfather died in the camp. He fell from the watch tower..
I'm a 69yr old ex-Brit Squaddie BOAR, I once bivied in a German farmers Barn near Minden, BAOR could rub our supposed NATO partners up But We Brits paid top notch cash for compensation, I met the bloke one early morn on stag duty and he came over a sat in my foxhole with me and told me of his life, He had been captured by the Ruskie in Berlin as a 15yr old boy soldaten, and marched off to Russia until 1959, When he was put on a Train and sent back from Siberia to West Germany, From that day forward, I never questioned his Politics, But I honoured a fellow human
This is so unique, German Soldier gave Russian children bread at families evacuation from east Persia back to Berlin Germany before the war ended late 1944, my mother told me to go to that Russian officer who had a stack of bread in his arms to ask him for some rent. The officer and gave me three big slices. We were hungry, and it felt good.
east Persia? do you mean east Prussia?
there were no Russian children in Prussia or Persia. Russian children could not have been evacuated to Berlin. Your comment makes no sense, could you clarify?
@@timkbirchico8542 very sorry Persia should have been Prussia or better East Prussia.
@@timkbirchico8542 /all right I agree my message was not to clear my mother and my two sisters and me have moved from Berlin to east Prussia in 1941 to live with my Grandparents,because the bombing by the British and American Air Force was very heavy. by the end of 1944 Germans had to flee from the Russians and Poland soldiers coming from the east. So I hope this will clarify my not so clear prior. message.
ironics is iff you a brute demon in this war you may come out allive.
When I listen and watch these diaries, I have to think of my brother 18 years old dying in a roast battle at Stalingrad. Damn Hitler.
24 million Russian civilians and military were murdered by wermacht troops in ww2.
you must be at least 90 years old.
"Roast"???...... They Ate Him???
@@timkbirchico8542 85 and ticking
Warum Hitler ? Paulus war der Verräter an die Soldaten ! Die Euphorie der jungen Soldaten war groß und wurden verheizt
I'm quite sure many German soldiers we're just normal people not natzis and just wanted to survive the war.
Different time's.
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Fact 1. All German soldiers swore an oath of personal allegiance to Adolf Hitler the leader of the Nazi party and the leader of the Nazi Third Reich and swore to always obey his orders. Fact 2. All German army soldiers wore Nazi insignia on their uniforms. Fact 3. All German army regiments flew flags with Nazi insignia. By any reasonable assessment that makes them Nazis. In relation to these Nazis, as you say just wanting to survive the war, I am absolutely certain the 26 million Russian men, women and children who died because of the the German Nazi invasion were just normal people and just wanted to survive the war as well ! They would have done so if the Germans hadn’t have invaded their country and murdered, raped and pillaged their way across Russia.
@@timkbirchico8542 yup. when the victories were rolling in they all gave the nazi salute. after the war (finally! 6 goddam years of monstrousness) no one was really a nazi, they just went along with it... "But my neighbour, they were nazis..."
@@Scriptorsilentum well said
I would say "most" of the Wermacht werent die hard nazi's. As opposed to Waffen SS that were more radical.
I really can relate to his views on robbery. Look at the current state of the US with broad daylight store robbery and smash and grabs at retail markets
Yeah its just left wing leaders letting the monkeys out of the cages to run loose in the streets.
If that's true then the Marxists are winning.
Hey it's racist to say such things...
@@leojanuszewski1019 I don't care cry me a river that word has less meaning the more you say it. Nothing wrong with loving one's race, culture and heritage
@@leojanuszewski1019 you probably wouldn't mind being robbed from and not do anything about it, then be labeled a racist lol. Reminds me of the San Francisco minded people
You know, these videos would be more authentic if pages from the source diaries were shown instead of stock WWII photographs.
hes a nazi apologist
How would photos of the diary pages lend authenticity?
@@MichaelLevine-n6y A.I. chatbots can write novels now, you know. Photos of each featured diary with handwritings on paper would give these stories much credibility.
Yes. Or at least cite the sources from which it came, because otherwise this is no better than fiction. In fact you kind of have to take it as that.
@@pj_ytmt-123 Such pages can be forged.
I think a little suspect the existence of this and other diaries in these videos.
No source, no names...
How do we know they are "real"? Where did they come from...?
Just asking.
Thanks for these again.
Thank you for watching my videos, it inspires me!
I'd also like to learn more about the diary itself. Maybe see photos of it and learn where it was found, etc., and more about the soldier, to add authenticity to this video. (Our dad, a US soldier, picked up a German soldier's diary near the Anzio area. We still have it, but can't really return it, as our dad started writing in it where the German stopped! So basically overnight, it went from being a German diary to an American diary! I guess paper was scarce. The German didn't write much -- mostly just marked off the days, so it's no loss to history.)
Is there a name? Crocodile Tear does research on the fate of dead soldiers. He has a youtube channel.
@@scottw5315 Yes, a name and a complete address. The diary, is in a calendar format and also includes a map of the axis empire at the time, from France to parts of Russia, which is pretty interesting. I think my dad said that it was from a Pioneer group. I also thought about Croc Tear too as it's very legit, so it's possible. Thanks.
Paper was certainly scarce then. Printing a small booklet in april 1946 in the Netherlands was still difficult due to paper scarcity (as explicitly mentioned in the booklet).
Great Job love your videos keep pushing.
Bet artillery took him out but maybe not cuz the book survived
What was his name? Do you know?
The most important reasons why Germany lost WW2, USA
GB. Russia was and still is double dealer's. Sneekey and untrustworthy in most dealings. People need to educate themselves about how Treaties work, some are so complicated it boggles the mind. Like how Britain and France didn't declare war on Russia like they did Germany. Even though Russia invaded Poland at the same time Germany did no one declared war on them because of the wording in the treaty between the countries involved. ✌🏻☘️
Once you realise communism and capitalism were - are controlled by the same people it all makes sense.
Stalin was more clever than Adolf. So, he moved his red army into Poland quietly AFTER the Germans busted the border gates and invaded with much fanfare and gusto. The Soviets made it look as a counter move to the German aggression to create “security buffer” to protect their borders, they also moved-in into the Baltic states and Finland(after the winter war).
However, the real reason why the British and French didn’t declare war on Stalin as they did on Adolf is because Stalin was the Lesser Evil compared to what the Nazi had in mind. I think it was Churchill who said, “if the nazis were fighting the devil at the gates of hell, he would make a case for the Devil in the House of Commons”. It was a smart move!
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Good observation, merging media and government into one gives us fascism. Sounds like today or it never really ended. The real power is above the government someone else pulls the strings.
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The real power is above the government we agree Bushwhacked, as above so below.
@@ri-goblazt5894 58,000 ethnic Germans in Poland were slaughtered leading up to their invadion. Stalin had amassed the largest offensive military in history in the 1930s.
Sounds like this soldier had a conscience and a belief in God..
Have been listening to these diaries for a while and something seems off. I suspect some of them are not real. I'm not blaming the channel.
Agreed, Im suspicious as well.
They are, because we Germans do not have a hive mind.
We actually have a huge range of character.
@@ernstwiltmann6 we are speaking about the provenance of diaries and not the character of Germans.
@@dewetmaartens359 I'm not sure what you mean by that, please elaborate.
@@ernstwiltmann6 like paintings diaries are sometimes faked. Provenance refers to proof that something is real. These diaries often lack this provenance, without it we cannot be sure it is real. This applies to all wars and events including WW2. When it "feels off" and there is no provenance then one doubs the authenticity. By no means is this a reflection on Germans, it is a worldwide phenomena that is rather well known. I hope this settles it for you.
Wouldn't you head a diary with name and dob etc? great channel 🏴
They were illegal to possess so no name.
Should have learned from Napoleon
You cannot invade Russia and win. Especially in winter.
Land is too vast, land is too rugged with too few resources. Weather is brutal and Russia has too many people to throw at an invader.
Also the chance of winning a two front war is none. Germany never really had a chance, especially once the USA entered the war which was inevitable considering that the U-boats HAD to sink American merchant ships to starve out Britain.
Perhaps now with modern technology you might have a chance of successfully invading Russia (I wouldn't bet on it though) but not with the weaponry of 1941.
I'm from Minnesota.the thought of fighting and living outside here is insane.
He’s definitely not a Nazi , although he may be too young to realize it at the time. He’s Catholic and seems devout, he’s educated, well read, freethinking with a sense of justice. If he’s writing the Gestapo to report an injustice, he may be waiting forever for a response . I seriously doubt his sense of justice and the Gestapo’s sense of justice are the same. 21:16
If you retranslate his words into German, you learn a little bit more.
It looks like he was drafted at 18 years, after his secondary school diploma, sometime in summer 1941. He is also an altar server. Altar servers were normally excused from serving into the Hitler Youth, during church times. So plenty of catholic boys become Altar server to avoid the Hitler Youth service, and he is even considering becoming a priest. And when he is thinking about his future, becoming a priest, an engineer or going to Africa. I think he is talking about going to Africa as a missionary, this nothing a "Nazi" would even consider.
Since the "Culture war" between the pope and the Prussian / German state (1870th), there was always a kind of mistrust between the state and the Catholics in Germany. And the Catholic Church didn't like the anti-religious attitude of the Nazis, and The Nazis didn't like that the Catholics had a second leader. In the summer of 1941 big parts of the Catholic Church clashed with the Nazi government about the euthanasia program, even publicly condemning it. As the result of it, many Catholics started to have doubts about the Nazis, but still wanted to be good patriots and served on in the Army.
@@pogonator1 I very much appreciate that you took as much time as you did to relay information to me. I speak English and French but just a little German. Your information helped me understand better. I did get some of this but you definitely expanded on my understanding.
I didn’t know about alter boys being exempt from some Nazi youth group functions, thanks for that info.
I’ll never understand why the church had one attitude about Nazi policy , especially in Germany but then after the war, the Vatican helped so many Nazis war criminals escape to South America through the “Rat Line”! The church should have dislike both the Nazis and the Communists. Hitler’s mother was Roman Catholic yet Hitler discouraged the people from any religion….other the Hitlerism and encouraging people to see Him as a Messiah!
Thanks for the info.
Sincerely,
Doc
Stalin? We are coming!!!
capitalists we are coming.
Graffiti on the Reichsbahn cattle car, yes. "From Paris to Moskau".
Who ever this guy is, he may be in for a bad time psychologically. He seems well educated possibly an academic. What’s the word…Erudite? He likes reading, Shakespeare, so he likely well read. However, if he keeps to himself and stays alone, thinking alone then he’s doomed. As I know what’s ahead of him, he doesn’t! He may enjoy Shakespeare but very soon the most important thing in his world will be the friend standing next to him…..These are the brothers we trust with our life and they trust you. The only thing a soldier fights for is the man standing next to him. So I hope the writer of this diary opens up, becomes a lot more sociable and starts making the best friends he will ever know!
Soldiers diaries have a sameness regardless of what side they are fighting on. Dying for a cause or living for a cause, what will the cause do for you if you lose, if you win?
Interesting: The closer he gets to the "enemy" the more he has to be afraid of his fellow countrymen. The gestapo sound like fun dinner guests. Either way; comments are needless....
This soldier has a good heart and a sense of decency. He would not get into Himmler,s SS. He would just not be evil enough.
Wondering why you would think he was captured? The fighting was brutal and prisoners were not taken unless there was a need. The arrogance of the boy is typical though. He is in another country and does not seem to understand he is the aggressor invading another nation. I also wonder at his piety given he is killing people for resisting his invasion.
Thanks for this
This would have been so, so much better with an actual human doing the narration.
❓QUESTION: the pictures in the video...I'm assuming they were inserted to accompany the excellent narration, not taken by the soldier?🇺🇸
Why does the narrator always sounds out of breath. Is he doing the narration whilst jogging? Great film mind but change the narrator. Annoying.
So wait, what was his name? His unit? Where was the diary found?
It's interesting to listen to but can you verify the source please?
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. What a complete waste of humanity and lives
Is this guy a soldier or what. Doesn't seem to be in battles, just traveling around???? I guess I should read more of the description
Maybe a Pioneer?? Just building things???
He's a Time Traveler like Dr. Who 'cept he can't control his "Tardis" maybe more like "Land of the Lost" with the Pylons, and chessboard with the funky crystals! 😯🤔
Construction Battalion.
'I assume that he was taken prisoner rather than killed.' Pretty much the same thing. Very few German prisoners ever made it home.
This applies only to soldiers captured in Stalingrad. Later, the survival rate of soldiers in captivity increased significantly.
Can you imagine how great it would be to find out you're being transferred to southern France when you've been through hell on the Eastern front? Especially in December when it's beginning to be ungodly cold? This guy sounds much different than most of these soldiers diaries, likely because he's not a traditional military man
The officer stole his shirt. Ain't the military grand. Very honourable people.
A Soviet prisoner taken by the German was KIA
That was probably the most interesting diary you have found for us
I think the kad was heading for a nervous breakdown but it does confirm one thing that I have long suspected - namely that ordinary infantry DID know about the death squads. The scale if the Einsatzgruppen, killings were just too big and too close to the front to be a secret.
They all knew it, of course. Not only the ordinary Wehrmacht soldiers, but also the Germans in Germany itself. It was no secret to them at all.
@@stokes8762 Absolutely not true.
About Gestapo "came to me". Gestapo was directly forbidden to act in the army. As a matter of fact, exactly because of that there was an attempt on Hitler's life in 1944. Maybe, it was Geheime Feldpolizei - military police
Compared to most diaries of German military personnel, he seems likely to be voted as "The least military fanatic ". Religious. Worried about life with the Gestapo and government interference. Worried about the locals. Most unusual.
Would it not be Elsenborn ? I shot there also.
He sounds like a good German , and disappeared aged 19, so young, My great uncle was a corporal in WW1 and ws killed fighting Germans aged 19, it is such a waste of good young lives, Lives thrown away by incompetent military leaders and politicians , 19 is no age to die !
Sorry, cool subject, and would have loved to hear it, but that fake robot ai voice just broke the immersion. Such a valued subject and you can't even be naffed to talk about it yourself. AI just doesn't capture the emotion, sorry bro, or bot, or whatever your pronouns are. #dobetter #saynotoai
I love the channel,👍
While no surprise, the diary, through this soldier's perspective, makes the war seem even more real to me, the casual viewer; moreover, this young soldier's humanity, at least early on, was quite evident, as he mingled with the Russian civilians & felt true sorrow for them...🇺🇸
How did we get this diary? I'm not doubting the observations, but I need some way of verifying it. He comments on the deaths of Jews at Riga; how did he know?
Your a little toughie!👍
Kelloggs corn flakes 500 grm s £2.25 , Tesco corn flakes 500 grms .75 p , need i say more?
He was a good man in a horrible place. He questioned and criticised war crimes right away. No wonder the Gestapo had issues with him.
He speaks of God, really???
Yeah dum dum, not all German soldiers were evil Concentration camp guards. What are you 10 years old?
What reason do you have for guessing he was captured?
Ein einfacher Deutscher Soldat, Landser. A simple German grunt. Be at Peace
Please post a link to where this can be independently verified. There are those who believe these are written by AI.
they are narrated by AI If it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck, chances are its a duck !
Oh spare us. AI, yeah the latest bugbear and here you are about the first sucker to believe in it.
As a military historian and publisher who is up to date on current AI capabilities, I need sources to believe this. One image of the original manuscript would do it. BUT I admit this is a great business model for the channel.
Is this the same as the gazpacho that the idiot MTG talked about. Tell me more and please include a bit about the peach tree dish as well.
How about a diary of the more than a million victims among russian civilians in Leningrad?
How could one man amongst many bring such suffering to the human race..
Basic Training, fairly new recruits in first photos, but this soldier "wore in" and wrote some of the best, excellent diary entries as the war continued and died down..
just like all Soldiers story's.
one thing is certain. The bravest men prepared to give their life for Motherland/Fatherland to make the better world for their people (which was what they believed) died in that war, AND in many wars prior to WW2. From then on, its very hard to find a real alpha male. Thats why we nowadays have very strong women and weaklings for men. Some "conspiracy theorists" might say it was very very succeseful plan in order to rule the world... And by FURTHER dyings in Ukraine and other wars Alphas are probably erradicated by now. It was inconcieveable, in previous times, that enlisted ppl fleeing their homeland affraid of military service, BUT who could say now that he cant understand those "deserters".
PS i am completely hooked on these diaries, especially if wrote by germans on eastern front. Especially if they were tankers.
Chief Hale!
Thank you.
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Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job making it easier for viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Class A research project!!! Special thanks to the German soldier who kept diaries that eventually were posted on this documentary. Sharing personal experiences making the documentary more authentic and possible. The Russian front was rude awakening. For German army combat soldiers finding out that the invasion/conquering of Moscow. Through a quick summer campaign. Thanks to the disillusioned amphetamine addict Hitler. Who constantly changed his seasoned experienced generals military operations. 20 miles from Moscow then order General Guderian to abandon invading/conquering the transportation hub of Moscow. Giving Russian general Zhukov enough time to fortify Moscow. Reorganize the demoralized defeated armies/slowly turn them into an excellent military force
The Germans had no choice but to abandon Moscow. Temps had plummeted to the coldest winter in over 70 years and the Germans had little winter gear so they were losing more soldiers to frostbite than combat. The final straw was when soviet spies confirmed that Japan would not be invading Russia in the East they sent several divisions of Siberian ski troops to the Moscow front and let them loose on the Germans who could not hold and were forced to retreat.
Hitler really fancied himself as a General.!!
Man in the past we can learn how not to be..we appreciate life more now i think
What did he mean about the peasant with the six cows and a horse?
Nice fake diary, written by Chat GPT
Great diary
Russia the area so huge too vast to capture then winter
War eh! What a downer, who’dve guessed.
You should read the diary of a Belarussian girl, whose whole family has been assassinated by German soldiers. They raped girls, burnt alive people in their housings or in churches. Then the girl became sexual slave of a german officer, slave for everything. She decided to commit suicide the day of her 15th birthday and so did she. The diary was found out when Soviet army liberated Bielorussia in 1944, but no Western publisher did accept to translate it and to publish it. Of course they prefer people read diary of that kind of soldier, not hateful, but how can he believe he were good just by giving some bread his colleagues had stolen to other people. He can't see the reality of war. 35 millions of Soviet people died during WWII. ( Following nowadays US researchers)
The soldier was Catholic.
That was interesting to say the least. I think it's very telling to get a sense of how poor the situation was for the Germans during the "good times"! Keep in mind folks, that diary ended 5 months before the battle of Stalingrad! Had the diary continued for a few more months, I could have even believed that the author became so desperately depressed that he just stopped writing. But given that the situation was at least tolerable, that is unlikely.
A Man with I conscience!
"Lüttich" = the name in German of the city of Liège (Belgium), in Dutch, it's called "Luik"; Elftenborn is a mispronuncement of "Elsenborn", also in Belgium.