A Russian Soldier Asked Me What Have You Got To Say About Auschwitz (Ep. 3)

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Join us as we delve into the captivating story of a German officer during World War II. This video highlights his journey from a young artillery officer to a high-ranking staff officer in the Wehrmacht. We’ll explore the key themes of duty, survival, and the moral dilemmas faced by soldiers in the chaos of war. Through excerpts, historical insights, and expert commentary, gain a deeper understanding of what it was like to serve on the front lines of history's deadliest conflict.
This is part 3
Entire playlist: • Memoirs Of A German So...
Part 1: • I Was An Officer In Th...
Part 2: • Our SS Troops Were Sho...
Part 3: • A Russian Soldier Aske...
Part 4: • We Studied War Tactics...
Part 5: • I Crossed The Polish B...
Part 6: • At Dunkirk The Allied ...
Part 7: • 87th Infantry Division...
Part 8: • In Moscow The Frostbit...
Part 9: • Italians And Russians ...
Part 10: • Breslau Was A German F...
Part 11: • I Was Captured And Tak...
Part 12: • When I Entered Moscow ...
Part 13: • I Began My 5th Year In...
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[@LanceRomanceF4E]

I lived in an apartment in Germany in the 1970’s owned by an older woman and her son who was a police officer. Willy spoke English. I was helping them move furniture down to the basement when I saw a picture of her husband on a desk in a German Army officer’s uniform. On the wall was a framed color picture with Hitler accepting flowers from a group of young women. The picture was from Das Weld magazine and I asked Willy about it since anything glorifying Hitler was illegal. He said that was a personal memento as his mother was one of the young ladies in the picture taken in 1934. His father was killed on the eastern front in 1943 near Moscow. He doesn’t remember his father, he was too young when he was killed in action. His mother was able to leave Berlin before the Russians captured the city. She taught me my first German words and loved Americans. She asked me questions about our culture, movies and New York City. That was her dream - to live in NYC. My father was a pilot at Ramstein AB and we gave her our cigarette rations as no one in our family smoked. The only time I saw her angry is when I told her we were going to visit Dachau on a school field trip. She was horrified that I would want to see that concentration camp and asked why. “History,” was my only reply which she seemed to accept. After four years living in Germany I came to love the people, the country and the culture. Don’t think for one minute that you would not have served in the German military as a young man in 1939. They were men of the times.

[@bailey9208]

Thousands did not serve in the military. They knew Hitler was their demise.

[@admiralradish]

Also fantastic channel. You are narrating books i read when i was a teenager.

[@arostwocents]

Surprisingly... It's AI voice 😮 narrators will soon be out of work

[@coolekikker4454]

Do you remember what the title of this book is?

[@germanswede1781]

@@arostwocentsNo this is not AI. This is Nigel Patterson. He has done several WWII audiobooks

[@rodzor]

​@@coolekikker4454Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier by Siegfried Knappe😋

[@tski3458]

Thank you for posting these

[@arostwocents]

The AI voice here is really fantastic, you can only tell its not a real voice very rarely. Why do so many channels have such a terrible AI voice when you can have ones as great as this?

[@devadattajoardar1562]

How did you know that? How can one know it's an AI voice? I'm interested. Want to know.

[@wulfsorenson8859]

@@devadattajoardar1562this is not AI

[@germanswede1781]

This is not AI. This is Nigel Patterson. He’s done several ww2 audiobooks

[@TheBbpresident]

He is pronouncing some names wrong, some that you should. E.g. in the first part at the very beginning the state name "Ohio". How can you pronounce that wrong as a native speaker?

[@WW2Stories1]

Thank you for watching the video. This is part 3 of an entire serie, watch the rest here: Entire playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PL1p7uWYlKNaBWqkJzRZ2uaNOLwcD9-sDb Part 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6KwkGZ7rrird5I Part 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYfGpWymfNd3oNU Part 3: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIuxm4CwaNqSf8U Part 4: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHzciZStYrqfp5o Part 5: kzbin.info/www/bejne/laSYqIyOoqt9jbs Part 6: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHu9nWptqLOWfsU Part 7: kzbin.info/www/bejne/baqll5tsq52db5o Part 8: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaDcZJSbl8eMr6c Part 9: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnLLi3-JnLljo5I Part 10: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nV7TZouMmZyZbbc Part 11: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKCZZXyYl96rhKc Part 12: kzbin.info/www/bejne/apecknuhlsSGZq8 Part 13: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZmXeYitnLtoqtU

[@arostwocents]

Is this series in the correct order? It goes from captivity after Berlin to Dunkirk?

[@joksimradovic4040]

Yeah, all these innocnet Germans. Not even one of them knew...clowns. That is why almost none of them never even saw prison.

[@123pangolin]

Please credit the writer

[@jimknowlton342]

What part of this is an AI narrated bootleg version of copyrighted material do you not understand??

[@rodzor]

​@@jimknowlton342it's actually Nigel Patterson and the writer is Siegfried Knappe and the book is called Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier

[@GenesisSurovov]

The Russians did not have no issue with the camps they come across as was normal in Russia so they would not have brought it up in an interrigation

[@donaldedgar1004]

This is interesting historically and should be kept in a collection of war stories so the russ never rapped and killed too much just the women and kids in prussia which looked horrible on camera But I’m sure the Germans never treated the Russians very well at least thebruss never killed those German soldiers

[@arostwocents]

A true hero, one of the last Europeans who fought for European culture, interests and people and not America

[@arostwocents]

And now, thanks to America and her masters, European culture has changed irrevocably and will be Muslim within three generations. A true tragedy. The final defeat of Europe and of white culture. We civilised the world yet give up our own homelands so the rich and corporations, aided by fascist governments and criminal NGOs, flood us with mass migration for cheap labour and to take away living standards and services. The post war social contract is already completely gone. Everything our relatives fought for, lost in a few years due to the greed of people who already have more money than they could ever spend.

[@GalAxy-u9s]

Who? The Nazi?

[@miketrusky476]

Odd how many Germans left Germany to start a new life in America from 1776 to today. 😅

[@thewarwickbear]

He was no Nazi. Just a German soldier

[@robijnbruinsma4489]

A true hero who fought for Europe? Men like him, “ordinary” German soldiers, carried of about a honderd thousand of my Dutch fellow citizens to die in concentration camps and through slave labour. They stole our food in the western part of the country in the winter of 1944/1945 leading to death by starvation of more than ten thousand. The day we were finally liberated from this plague was one of the greatest days in our history.