Generation War - Wehrmacht conflict with The SS

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[@JohnnysWarStories]

I took out the very end of this scene. Even though it's meaningful and powerful to the point of the scene it's a bit too harsh for youtube.

[@gumshoe1285]

Yeah makes sense man

[@JohnnysWarStories]

@Kyle R KZbin is a capricious mistress. 1000s of channels are crushed and created everyday. Sometimes it's a complete roll of the dice what they accept and don't accept.

[@alliesandaxis3402]

@@JohnnysWarStories yep

[@funkeystudiostv]

Understandable.

[@madwill6569]

*Bang* Enough said.

[@swift7493]

Note how the Wehrmacht Lieutenant salutes like a normal soldier, but the Sturmbannführer does the Hitler greeting.

[@JohnsonTheSecond]

Technically in German drill the "traditional" salute was the standard, at least in the Heer - The "Hitler greeting" was only required on special occasions or when without headwear. The series does get this wrong at another point, but perhaps the regulation wouldn't always be followed. Maybe inaccurate? but still a nice detail

[@vanlao6367]

@@JohnsonTheSecond the Hitler greeting only became standard after multiple assassination attempts were made against Hitler that made him very paranoid, so in order to not getting on the Furher's paranoid side and end up facing the wall, many personnels were "advised" to do the "Hitler's salute" to show their loyalty to the state.

[@22slmshdy]

Thats because one side is from nazi party and the other side is soldier.

[@John-rn1nm]

Well he is SS. Though it is still optional to use traditional salute to the Hitler salute, it's much more preferred to use the latter for the SS. The SS is after just part of the Nazi Party unlike the Wehrmacht who answers to the Reich government itself.

[@Benderswe1]

the wermacht didnt use the hiel hitler salute if i remember correctly the ss did

[@benpeters5851]

my grandmother grew up in France in ww2, Once we were talking about the German soldiers back in the 90s she said something that didn’t make much sense to me as a kid but after seeing this it makes a lot more sense is that she told me she could tell the difference between a Nazi and who was just an everyday German soldier, she said there was just something different about them.

[@lightzpy8049]

Difference between a megalomaniac psychopath and a man with honour and moral compass. That isn't to say all SS individuals where like that but many did or had very strong sense of nationalism more then the common soldier, and where happy to say the oath to one man instead of realising their idealistic world view was going to lead a despair for the innocent civilians most of the time, Im sure many lost their idealism in nazism and war especially the older ones with more nuance about how terrible and dire the ending was going to be when the tides started turning and they lost momentum. At that point Im sure many wanted to desert and for their own safety waited until the last minute if they survived.

[@Beaumont6]

Yes, my grandfather was a 17 year old boy who was drafted into the wehrmacht. He was a boy going through puberty and wanted to experience something he said. He was sent to the east and later to the Netherlands to fight, where he also met my grandmother. I don't blame him for what he did and had to do. He was one of the kindest man I have ever known.

[@drownindesigner]

@@Beaumont6 sounds cool

[@stephencarroll9935]

@@drownindesigner indeed

[@BayouBoy2443]

Reminds me of Otto from The Longest Holiday

[@talkaboutwacky]

I love how they defended her from those thugs. The guy playing the SS Officer really nailed his “indifference” of the massacring of civilians, eating candy like he’s just working a normal job.

[@chrisheckel3887]

Ten seconds later the SS officer shoots the little girl in the head

[@johnbowie3566]

@@Longinus-pd4btda ist ein großer Unterschied

[@tobykornreich2719]

@@Longinus-pd4bt Isn't it fascinating how everybody yells how evil Germany was, yet all countries did similar things you were never told about. I tend to not believe the history that has been twisted by "journalists" and "new"s agencies to fit their agenda. The propaganda of WW2 is almost on par with Iraq and Afghanistan. But I've labeled a theorist or some other defiling name simply because I can think rationally and don't believe everything I'm told without a second or original thought.

[@dmk351]

@@tobykornreich2719 not fascinating in the slightest. what is the most german thing of all? keeping proper records. even of unthinkable acts of evil.

[@tobykornreich2719]

@@dmk351 what's the most Western thing of all? Wiping, erasing "proper records" of our own evil and unthinkable acts from "history". We take history for 100% truth with no after thought.

[@jackster8976]

"We needed to show the world that not all of us were like him" -Henning Von Tresckow

[@marta9127]

Von Tresckow is not a good role model. He signed the order of Heuaktion - kidnapping Slavic children (Polish and Ukrainian) and sending them to Germany. He is not a hero!

[@klown839]

Yeah, right. There wasn’t a word of protest when Hitler was actually winning, during the initial years of the war. That pang of sudden German conscience is the result of seeing the writing on the wall by mid 1943. They only rebuke him because he LOST.

[@aerohk]

We fought the wrong enemy -Patton

[@wind2536]

@@aerohk Patton was right.

[@kooszondernaam]

That is lame. He was right and the world will know

[@Kingj411]

“How honorable for a German officer.” Dude signed the girl’s death warrant by saying that to a SS.

[@ari_a2764]

The girl was dead anyway he kind of insulted an SD officer which is risky enough. That didnt sign the death warrant. Being a jew alone was the death warrant

[@CatBack94]

Dude the little girls fate was already sealed

[@TheBrothersGoodwin]

Bruh, where do you think they were taking her?

[@colinwall8542]

@@TheBrothersGoodwin probably a camp or interrogation.

[@MrChewbone69]

He was mocking him

[@ssemergencyworld7362]

So many of you don’t seem to know what happens 10 seconds later. This show was brutal but incredible

[@leemperor44]

*Gives Shoka Kola A few moments later.. *Shoots

[@AspireTechYT]

After watching it last night, i know this doesn’t end well

[@bulkysinetv6262]

*Pif-Paf*

[@millsyinnz]

So what happens? I will never get to see this series, so you may as well spoil it.

[@eduardobilofelo]

@@millsyinnz the wehrmacht officer shoots the kid

[@bobafett1313]

I respect the German soldiers who kept their humanity. The SS were evil but the German’s were human too and I think many of us forget that.

[@borderlands10]

People love to ignore the fact that not every single German soldier in the Wehrmacht was evil, hell most hated the SS and what they were doing.

[@justsomeguyonyoutube3258]

Even though the Wehrmacht is not fully clean most of the Wehrmacht soldiers are clean but not some.

[@thesouthernvikingr5919]

No, many of us forget that we are all capable of the same evil. Why else do you think after the War many people suddenly said "I never wanted it!" or "It wasn't my choice!"? Humanity is divided between the people that choose good and choose evil, but we all know good from evil. Some "evil" people just get really filthy good at living without a conscience, such as these SS Nazi fuckers. I don't ask you to pardon my language, because my Dutch grandparents hid Jews and have had likely to deal with these types. All I know is my great-grandpa was nearly shot for hiding Jews. It was for another German officer who CHOSE to not proceed with the shooting that kept him from being killed. Because of that, I commend those who choose right over wrong and hate Nazis and the likes.

[@TechGently]

Over 30 years ago, I spoke to an elderly German coworker that was there during the war, she said "we didn't know", with shame in her voice. Generations later we German American's still get called "Nazi's". my family came over from Germany long before WWII.

[@MarekUtd]

Not all the germans were human. Plenty of Germany Army personnel did horrible things in the war, wasnt just the SS.

[@russelljohnson7067]

My mother in law's cousin was an ss soldier, he was captured in North Africa by the Americans and sent to the United States. After the war ended ,the German POW's were returned to Europe. When the German prisoners got off the transport ship , they had to remove their shirts and raise their arms . The Allies were searching for German soldiers that had an ss tattoo under their left arm .The ss soldiers were sent to coal mines in France

[@richardjames1812]

There were few SS in North Africa, he was among only a small number there. Not Waffen SS, but some sort of SD security unit in Tunisia.

[@bigvinnie3]

@@richardjames1812 I was going to say thee same thing.

[@Otoskire]

Good

[@lol-un6nl]

there was no SS in Africa

[@bigvinnie3]

@@lol-un6nl No Waffen-SS there was a tiny SD-Detachment there but they probably left by the fall of tunis. So ya I dont really buy this story.

[@sylokthedefiled3047]

Gosh, even the small detail such as a difference in salutes brings such a powerful emotion in this...

[@chr0min0id]

I didn’t even pay attention to that. Cool detail.

[@laaarsu]

Yep. It wasn't until after the July 20 plot that Hitler mandated the official salute to be the Nazi salute.

[@user-kn3fe3mc2v]

@@laaarsu Also known as the Roman salute.

[@anon6419]

@@user-kn3fe3mc2v yep. He took what's epic from a lot of cultures. Swastika being a good looking symbol and the power salute of the Romans.

[@collinthegamer510]

@@anon6419 aye

[@firingallcylinders2949]

I'd love another German series like this. I like to see other perspectives.

[@firingallcylinders2949]

@K LaCoste Yes it is.

[@JohnJohn-pe5kr]

You should watch Das Boot a german tv series on Hulu it’s a good show.

[@firingallcylinders2949]

@@JohnJohn-pe5kr The submarine movie?

[@VindensSaga]

It was a good serie. Been looking for it to see it again.

[@matthewgodfrey352]

You'll never see the truth while a certain tribe are the ones making the movies, regardless of the perspective shown

[@rfj1156]

Anybody who has seen Stalingrad (1993) may recognize the SS Officer as the man who played Otto (the one that shot himself in the movie) in the 1993 Stalingrad movie

[@eduzz4655]

He also appears in the Deutschland 1983, 86 and 89 series.

[@dritzzdarkwood4727]

Completely underrated movie.

[@rfj1156]

@@dritzzdarkwood4727 Stalingrad 1993? Fuck yeah it is. Its such a good film

[@miguelrojaslieber3088]

Claro que sí, la veo muchas veces y me encanta impecable película alemana 👏👏👏👏

[@jameslongstreet9259]

Nice catch...was to busy looking at the uniforms...😏

[@StoryTimeZE]

Might be insignificant, but I love the detail of the sturmbanfuher making a clicking sound to the Ukrainian auxiliary like he’s getting a dog or horses attention. Because even though they allowed Ukrainians into the auxiliary ranks of the SS as police or camp guards, they were still considered lesser and their appointments were more or less stays of execution.

[@dorotaknap7581]

Very true.

[@Acekorv]

SS were true nazis. True Fascists.

[@Ghost_of_Michael_Collins]

Couldn't have said it better myself. Had the Nazis won the war, these "auxiliaries" would have met the same fate as the Jews that they attack in this scene under the concept of Lebensraum.

[@luigimrlgaming9484]

I don’t think that’s how that worked. Nazism wasn’t just “Kill everything that isn’t German”, they had rankings for who got shot, who got enslaved, and who they could treat like human beings. English people were among the people they treated like human beings, still inferior to the German Aryans who were ‘master race’ but not as bad as the Slavs or the Jews. Slavs actually ranked above Jews and there’s plenty of SS units from Slavic countries which were probably made up of volunteers they considered to have enough ‘Germanic’ blood in them. When you factor Hitler’s background, his book starts making alot of sense since it’s probably what he heard throughout Vienna.

[@KrokLP]

Slovakia (while a puppet) was respected for fighting so bravely and Bulgaria was also an ally and treated like any other ally despite them not doing much on the Eastern Front. It also wasn't rigid. Racial science and history was very undeveloped back then and German-centric. During the war when they actually got to meet the different peoples of Europe, a lot of views changed. Like the Walloons recognized as Germanics or the Estonians becoming part of the "Aryan community" despite being Finno-Ugric. Nobody knew about the Indo-Europeans or Yamnaya back then, so most was guesswork or politically motivated

[@francisdoan]

Pointing the K98k at the kitty. bruh thats kitler

[@EukalyptusBonBon]

If Hitler found out about it he wold be dead

[@maxoforce2920]

Hitler would send his dog to get the cat

[@adriani.m4163]

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[@okidokiliteratureclub706]

@Atompunk nobody in the army gets punished for killing an animal. They burnt down entire villages for the assassination of a Reichsprotektor and killed all the men and sent the women to camps, killed all the pets and animals that were living there.

[@rithvikmuthyalapati9754]

@@maxoforce2920 Blondi the legend

[@leg3ND451]

The SS Officer is eating Sho-ka-kola; German energy Chocolate. Good stuff👍

[@Valtsuuu]

Lots of caffeine.

[@changhee95]

I realized that too. Heard it's like a prized delicacy to both the Germans and Americans

[@commanderadam1835]

@@Valtsuuu caffeine? Wasnt it cocaine or heroin also? Idk just asking

[@Valtsuuu]

@@commanderadam1835 Yes, caffeine. Germans had these tablets called Pervitin which is more commonly known as methamphetamine. I think scho ka kola never contained any "drugs".

[@changhee95]

I hear these are still being made today.

[@calogerohuygens4430]

These altercations happened really several times. Wermacht wasn't ''clean'' during that war but it was disciplined and annoyed by interference from SS and nazi party officials in operational area.

[@uioplkhj]

The myth of the clean wehrmacht still persists though. They carried out the Holocaust too.

[@calogerohuygens4430]

@@uioplkhj I wrote that too, but the point was enmity between army and party agencies (SS, SD, Gestapo and their auxiliary militia). Party and SS were a parallel state with a very unorthodox discipline in comparison of prussian military tradition, so old guard officers in particular were really shocked by their senseless violence and lack of morals.

[@Best.Of.Britian]

@@calogerohuygens4430 their was a prussian general during ww2 who openly defied hitler multiple times and got away with it. They really had no love for government

[@deathkorpsofkreig475]

The myth of the clean Wehrmacht is about as real as the humane Soviet myth, the Wehrmacht as the line goes were just following orders they obeyed because that is what you did, we with our modern sensibility can make the choice to disobey and be protected and even uphold the law the men back then didn't have such luxuries

[@simon6157]

Name one "Clean" military force in history.

[@pvtgandalf2609]

I once heard from a teacher at my high school that was teaching me in history. and he told me that this scene right here is based of a true event. So the story goes as I remember. There was a German Wehrmact division that have just recently arrived at a village. but there already was a SS einsatzgruppen there that was rounding up people that was supposed to be arrested and deported. and then the Wehrmact arrived. and then a SS corporal comes up and tells a Wehrmact officer that you guys are gonna help us rounding up these people. and the Officer refuses and tells him, we are not murders we are soldiers. what we do is war. we do not kill innocent Civilians. and right after that. An SS officer comes along and shoots the Wehrmact officer in the head from behind. and nobody does anything. Kinda similar to this scene. but Different. Just wanted to put that out there. It can also show how big of a status and power the SS really had.

[@the11sage]

Hitler obviously gave the SS all the power it wielded over other divisions of the army

[@jeffreyelliott713]

Compared to Soviet Russia Germans wouldn't usually execute an officer on the spot like that for insubordination especially with the bad blood between the Wehrmacht and the SS, the officer would of had to end up alone with them for any chance of them getting away with it

[@denisdiderot6779]

@@jeffreyelliott713 except the Soviets didn't do that either.

[@El_Presidente_5337]

Imagine the consequences if the wehrmacht soldiers bit the bullet and actually stood up for their officer by fighting back.

[@davidzuwe2820]

My grandfather was in Hitler Youth and was forced to fight with 16 in the war He told me that the most of the normal soldiers hated the SS people

[@raymondyee2008]

02:26 look at the body language of the SS General. That's already a hint of what's coming.

[@ill8485]

What about it

[@roskcity]

@@ill8485 interesting user name

[@benhood5492]

he's a Major

[@JohnsonTheSecond]

thats not a general

[@lizijie98]

His insignia is sturmbannfuhrer, basically equivalent to a major.

[@Chriskros1984]

The SS guy also played one of the leads in the original movie Stalingrad

[@AradSP]

Ironically enough, while here he's a cold blooded Nazi, there he was an anti-Nazi

[@JoseTorres-in4fs]

Didn’t he also portray Goebbels in inglorious Basterds and the Nuke Doctor from Man from UNCLE

[@b4nterontilt245]

Not SS

[@cyrosubod2317]

Yes he was in there too underrated movie

[@neggaballs3840]

it was him?

[@AparatorulPoporului]

My grandmother told me their family hosted german soldiers (3 officers) in their house in ww2 (Romania, Transilvania, central region), her family was not political or fascist related, they were normal ppl, they hosted them because they were the few families from the village with a house, idk from what arms they were (i think werhmacht acording to some sources, im not 100% sure), she told me they were kind and respectful, she said they not abused them or the civilians in their village, they gave chocolate to the kids, she said they were sad and they were crying some times when they were hearing explosions, a soldier from the group was playing the violin and they were firing their guns in the air (sometimes they drunk), because the russians army were coming from the east with the front, they were in retreat in Transilvania in that times, she was crying remembering them because she thinked they died in the battle later, because after not many days the russians were going fast to the west with the new romanian formed divisions after they turned arms against germany!

[@alerojas2952]

Thinked? Broken English.

[@Pine15]

@@alerojas2952 really? That's what you took from that story?

[@SPONGE.IS.EVERYTHING]

​@@alerojas2952 maybe he knows some languages that you don't even know how.

[@callmeyourmajesty09]

​​@@alerojas2952 shut up nerd

[@fjshsjvisnsks7251]

Its the same story with chocolate in Poland and whermaht soldiersin. My grandma didnt have the same good opinion on the soviet army thou.

[@Kenny-tl7ir]

Even the tiniest detail of the SS officer eating a chocolate bar increases the intensity of the anger against him by the audience

[@user-zy8jv2ji5p]

“Orders are orders” are a great way of justifying your actions which you want to do anyways, his saying it like he didn’t want to kill her but it was an order, but in reality he wanted to kill her and the order is just a excuse

[@nogodsucksatgames]

yes😭😭👍👍🇨🇵

[@magnusthered4973]

Also the fact if you refused an order from an ss officer they would most likely kill you

[@adriani.m4163]

Mein gut, vwat a Jerman Basteard !!!

[@kadenvolan3557]

More likely is you’d end up in a Strafbataillon (Penal Battalion), which were sent on suicide missions or mine clearing objectives.

[@ace_ofchaos9292]

Rommel disliked that…

[@bobbyricigliano2799]

Der Katzejager was using a postwar Czech rework K98 with the distinctive enlarged winter trigger guard. A minor detail, as this was a really good series overall.

[@liltoaster7308]

I was honestly wondering why his K98 looked like that. Good eye.

[@The95MA]

@@liltoaster7308 Der Katzejager = The Cat Hunter lmaooo good troll

[@althesmith]

Didn't most of those end up getting sold to Israel and rechambered for 7.62 Nato in the 50's?

[@bobbyricigliano2799]

@@althesmith There was a great deal of German arms and armament that went to Israel after WWII, from rifles to airplanes.

[@lappilappland3708]

@@liltoaster7308 The 98K is in the Germany Army still in use by the German guard battalion in Berlin, for Presenting.

[@koreancowboy42]

This is why I like watching war movies from BOTH SIDES. Not everyone wanted to fight and serve as an soldier. Along side this also goes to show the internal strife of Germany. Regular army soldier and SS. Two completely different parties.

[@pyotrbagration2438]

Clean Wehrmacht myth movie, nothing more.

[@mastluob2554]

You can never justify German barbarism

[@koreancowboy42]

@@pyotrbagration2438 as if you'd know what it was like on either side

[@pyotrbagration2438]

@@koreancowboy42 Right , in 2022 with information at our fingertips one google search away I have no idea. Silly me.

[@youri4097]

@@mastluob2554 thats true. And neither can you justify what the soviets did to the poles and germans...

[@kadenvolan3557]

Notice they different salutes? Great detail. SS Offiziere (Most definitely a party member) using the Nazi Salute while the Wehrmacht Offiziere is using the universal Military Salute.

[@billlam7756]

What about the cool tiny half Hitler salute "hi" lol

[@thomaskole9881]

When exactly is this scene supposed to take place? cause i vaguely recall reading that at some point, Hitler ordered the armed forces to use the nazi salute instead of the regular military salute (probably in an effort to exert even more ideological control over the military)

[@herrwill2442]

@@thomaskole9881 I think the scene takes place in 1941 or 42 and the order you mean was given in 1944.

[@clockwork2662]

That Ukrainian guy trying to take the poor girl had some nerve! After having a soldier point his rifle at him and even a lieutenant yelling orders to put her down, damn he sure knew the meaning of an SS officer's uniform

[@matthewriley7826]

Eventually he’d recognize an NKVD uniform for being a collaborator.

[@thechosenone1533]

The SS officer outranked both of them. So his orders to take the girl were valid until he told him to put her down.

[@ToyotaTechnical]

He probably didn't speak much German, which is why he was just staring. The Wehrmacht officer (older brother of the cute one) I think was trying to get his brother to think of Ukrainian words

[@thechosenone1533]

@@ToyotaTechnical Friedhelm (the younger brother) spoke Ukranian so that wasn't the reason he didn't drop it. He simply had orders from a higher level SS officer.

[@thechosenone1533]

@@ToyotaTechnical Friedhelm (the younger brother) spoke Ukranian so that wasn't the reason he didn't drop it. He simply had orders from a higher level SS officer.

[@CRanTheGreat]

Fun fact that SS officer is a member of the Sicherheitsdienst which was the SS intelligence agency.

[@matthewriley7826]

So much for “collecting intelligence” no wonder they lost.

[@alecjones4135]

@@matthewriley7826 if only they put the same amount of effort in to actually winning the war vs killing millions they might have achieved their long term objectives. /s

[@lappilappland3708]

And in the Rank of a Major...

[@einunbekannter498]

"SS" means "Schutzstaffel" which was officially indeed something like a "security department" of the NSDAP. But if I remember correctly their true purpose was to hunt down jews in germany and in (from the Wehrmacht) conquered regions during the 2nd world war and destroy them. The former intelligence agency was the so-called "Gestapo", abbreviation for "geheime Staatspolizei" which meant "secret police of the state".

[@cfam2438]

Yes the SD

[@SimulatedWarfare]

Finally a show gets the Uniforms right. The SD ( Sicherheitsdienst ) of the SS weapon color was Giftgrün "Poison Green", which you can see at the Shoulder Boards of the SS Officer.

[@muzic4lyfe2005]

This was absolutely one of the best mini series I've ever seen. Incredible acting, scenarios, casting, music, and storyline.

[@johnc4122]

Don’t forget: the “clean Wehrmacht” narrative is a total myth. However, it is also true that there were Wehrmacht soldiers and officers who were disgusted by the SS, and this scene is a good representation of that.

[@RealRotkohl]

This series just tries to humanize the Wehrmacht, not put them in a clean light, like many assume.

[@gregorylumban-gaol3889]

Fucking hell, can we just have a movie about the Battle of Castle Itter? None of this bullshit good guy Wehrmacht soldier because this doesn’t happen everywhere, only occasionally. Anyone wants a good Wehrmacht vs SS story, we need a move about Castle Itter.

[@JohnnysWarStories]

Would love that

[@RealRotkohl]

@@gregorylumban-gaol3889 I second this.

[@firingallcylinders2949]

Actually this series does a really good job portraying the humanity side of war. It doesn't sugar coat the Germans or portray them as good. It portrays them as humans caught on the wrong side of history.

[@randyblackburn9765]

I remember this scene and it is probably an accurate portrayal of SS Officers, heartless bastards . Where the Wehrmacht soldier was much like the GI , didn’t enjoy the job at task only desiring to return to their families and find them alive and well

[@Xingmey]

Many of these ss officers and troops were just as your GIs as well. And many from the Einsatzgruppen who shot hundreds of jews every day also hated their job and viewed themselves as the victims coz they had to do that horrible work. Its quite interesting how perspective can change on that subject.

[@delayanimation423]

@@Xingmey I'm not sure if that's true. They were trained to destroy any enemy of the Reich without questioning it and with no hesitation.

[@D88111]

If they were around today Germany would still be German

[@D88111]

@Leon O'Donoghue Burke Cringe race traitor

[@D88111]

@Leon O'Donoghue Burke Then your opinion means nothing you aren’t European and never will be lol

[@brettmeece8411]

"Generation War" or "Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter". One of the best mini series ive ever seen. The acting throughout was impeccable as well as characters portrayed. I wish there was more stuff like this coming out of Germany to show the other side. There are a ton of German WW2 interviews out there. I get they dojt want to glorify them, but telling the story through film would be a nice welcome to the genre.

[@imjusttired9524]

Where could I watch that? In english ofc. I've been searching for this mini series and yet I cannot find it.

[@muzic4lyfe2005]

I just watched the three episodes on KZbin....gotta say it was extremely well done, amazing all around

[@IBroLLyISePhIrOtH]

SD=Security Service from The SS not SS , SS is Schutzstaffel is almost the same

[@jet43]

Genau! Das ist Sicherheitsdienst.

[@TheNavalAviator]

The SD was part of the SS. It was a secret police whose job it was to capture or murder Jews and terrorize and murder any civilian opposition.

[@IBroLLyISePhIrOtH]

@@TheNavalAviator I know but SS is Schutzstaffel and SD Secret Service For SS like a right hand or the Marines In the Navy.

[@JohnSmith-tm5sh]

Though the Wehrmacht played a large part in the killing of Jews the SS was doing the bulk of it

[@captainyossarian388]

I was unaware of the special 'SD' section of the SS until I watched this. The worst of the worst.

[@historythings6939]

The SS was that dude that we all know that has the most punchable face😂

[@Xingmey]

Good thing that the guy smoking the cigarette later shoots him in episode 3 ;) Also that's Tim Schilling. He played many soldiers and young Nazis in recent movies. Like in Napola for example. And he always gets these 'well.... it sucks to be german soldier in ww2 and i jate doing this shit' roles. He is quite good at it

[@b4nterontilt245]

Not SS. He was SD which means even worse

[@Eshayzbra96]

@@b4nterontilt245 SD by extension was SS. It actually didn't matter which branch you belonged to, you were subjugated to the same policies even as a foreign volunteer brigade.

[@billybilly1284]

Nah just to you. Now get a life kid

[@klown839]

@@b4nterontilt245 You do realize the SD was simply the intelligence service of the SS, right? It's not some other organization.

[@machikr]

I cannot stomach this. This is too much for me, even acting. Thank you for taking the last scene out. What a crazy period that was.

[@user.Simeon_Maltsev]

And it still happens in Ukraine. But now they abuse russians.

[@johnc4122]

@@user.Simeon_Maltsev Stop. Be serious for a second my friend. You know that’s not true.

[@RAD1111able]

@@user.Simeon_Maltsev if you seriously believe that shit then check out what the Russians are doing in Crimea

[@user.Simeon_Maltsev]

@@RAD1111able beating someone for speaking russian is ok fo you? Or forcing saying there names in ukranian way? Naming one of "elite" ukranian division Edelweiss to honor nazi allies. Kidnapping people and torturing them by SBU. Shelling civilian districts every day. Just check civilian casulties in Ukraine and Donbass region. And youll see ho is terrorists...

[@ruthlesstruth8639]

@@RAD1111able What are Russians doing in Crimea? Same as everywhere else. Build schools, bridges, hospitals

[@hudstone4732]

this has aged like fine wine

[@Holret]

yeah, goes to show that even Ukranians were part of the greater evil. Completely complex of course.

[@rune.theocracy]

"This war will bring out the worst in us." Says Friedhelm Winter who by the end of this series will have been a tired but battle hardened veteran who has helped flush out partisans and executed innocent civilians

[@gumshoe1285]

I know that there actors but there pretty good at it too ( the civilians and auxiliary police I mean )

[@bag3lmonst3r72]

Why the hell did you cut off the final 15 seconds of this clip??? WTF that was critical to the entire scene

[@ahsansariyadi29]

KZbin censorship that is why

[@chadclark4014]

“A soldier is trained to kill, but we are not trained to murder.” - Hugh Thompson

[@typhoon_8086]

Very interesting the different perspectives and views between the Wehrmacht and SS Divisions

[@AndyP998]

Actually not Waffen SS but security SD department

[@thatonelocalauthority2809]

Except this isnt true. Most people like to propagate the idea that the Wehrmacht was clean and innocent. It wasn’t. It was equally as vile as the SS, SD and upper echelons of the NAZI party.

[@madwill6569]

I loved these show. We need more from the other side.

[@niklask9457]

Did you notice that scream at 1:14? Its the same scream from Spiderman 1 wenn Tobey tries ti save a Life in the burning house but instead its green goblin an he screams at spidey haha

[@matty6848]

Can’t remember the actor who plays the SS officer but he’s a brilliant actor.

[@yoyoyomartinjason4866]

Dude! You're extraordinary awesome

[@CrushinSatelites]

1:13 im pretty sure i heard that sound effect in the first Spiderman movie

[@brandonden795]

Could be like a Wilhem screan

[@sumaiyakausar9482]

Yes that spider man movie stole those effects from here 😏

[@pakhanmisha3296]

The Schutzstaffel was its own paramilitary organization which had infighting with the Wehrmacht. Many officers and soldiers of the Wehrmacht didn't like killing innocent jewish civilians, they had sympathy and wanted to spare them. Whilst the SS wanted to completely eliminate them, this is a good video representing how the Wehrmacht didn't want to kill people like that. They were just fighting and serving their nation.

[@MarcusRashford-tw2fo]

Some of them did like slaughtering Jewish civilians anyway in the Wehrmacht at least 50000 Jewish Red army POWS were weeded out and killed by the Wehrmacht and often worked together with the Einsatgruppen to shoot Jews in pits and ravines which resulted about 2 million Jews died in the Soviet Union

[@MarcusRashford-tw2fo]

The Myth of a clean Wehrmacht started to be challenged by historians from the 1960s to this present day from the Commissar order to the execution and killing of partisans to the deliberate maltreatment and murder of 3.3 million soviet pow and the murder of 10 million soviet civilians

[@MarcusRashford-tw2fo]

Your telling me the Wehrmacht didn’t spare up to 10 million Soviet women raped by the Wehrmacht itself while the 6th Army took part in a two day killing in Babi Yar ravine where 33000 Jews were murdered in two days.

[@pakhanmisha3296]

@@MarcusRashford-tw2fo Okay so the Babi Yar massacre was ordered by SS, the Wehrmacht didn't partake in that it was SS Squadrons who slaughtered Ukrainian neighborhoods.

[@MarcusRashford-tw2fo]

@@pakhanmisha3296 Generalmajor kurt eberhard ordered the massacre of Babi yar I didn’t mean the Wehrmacht carried out the shootings at Babi yar

[@WillieCuz]

I noticed they’ve changed the subtitles to exclude mention of Ukrainians in the current version.

[@vafler9668]

Hmmmmmm why??? Rhetorical question

[@imjusttired9524]

Hm that's interesting

[@DJNickyM4]

You should upload clips from the 1993 movie "Stalingrad"

[@lord.d1_]

You want a report? The Russian boy’s name was Kolya. And his name was GG Mueller. Like many others. You can still make up for this! **KICK** AAAAAAAAH!!!!

[@leemperor44]

Germany and Russia : gets blamed for having the worst dictators ever Austria and Georgia : Ima hed out

[@thunderbird1921]

I've heard many Germans online (even right-wing tradionalist ones who love the Empire) call Hitler "that scrawny Austrian painter". One of those Empire-loving traditionalists even edited a scene from a movie to make it look like he was shot and killed (with the video title "Austrian Painter but he gets shot").

[@armano4125]

Lmao good point

[@gamerdrache6076]

@@thunderbird1921 kaiser vs is not nationalist

[@alexsandresixarulize8616]

nah mao and pol pot was the worst dictator

[@capncake8837]

Oh my gosh. I watched the first few episodes of this show five years ago, but forgot what it was called and tried to find it again, but couldn’t. I didn’t understand what was happening then, but now I do.

[@staliniosifvissarionovich5588]

That SS officer was so kind, he spared the little girl and even gave her chocolate and copper candy.

[@Inkling777]

For reasons I cannot understand this video cuts of early. A few seconds later he shoots the girl.

[@RyzeShib]

SS is the type of sibling that hits the wermacht randomly then cries.

[@megatwingo]

Just a little correction: It was an SD officer. Not a SS officer. Hence the black "Kragenspiegel" without SS-runes and only an empty black field.

[@okidokiliteratureclub706]

@@megatwingo sd was part of the schutzstaffel. When it come to the right collar tabs the SS had many things to put there, like a key for the LSSAH AH, or a Scandinavian swastika for the Nordland division. It doesn't mean that if there're no SS runes it ain't SS. What's common about all the SS personnel uniforms was everything else. To the sleeve eagle to the rank tabs with Stars and streaks in a black background.

[@megatwingo]

@@okidokiliteratureclub706 Thanks for those informations!

[@deNNyTheWiseMAN1]

2:34 Pretty much signed his own death warrant.

[@Excalibur01]

Better die defying unreasonable orders than to follow orders that are wrong

[@germany456]

Great show

[@Luis_.-]

Adoro essa série!

[@kittycatcat6962]

Ukrainians were pretty brutal with the polish as well

[@Rum-grandpa]

But as germans we don't talk about the dark times

[@tedbed1389]

Thankfuly there were good germans to save everybody

[@aizatjunaidi69]

​@@Rum-grandpabro can i ask werhmact are the all german people or mixed with other country.cuz i know The nazi SS were national socialist

[@paprikaman1124]

They would later have an interesting conversation with the NKVD for being nazis

[@imjusttired9524]

​@@tedbed1389Nobody is calling them "good". There is no "good" or "bad". But but ukrainians murdered whole villages, and no one really speaks about that

[@theonefrancis696]

The best show seen from the German perspective. Loved their stories.

[@ThumbsHunter]

Glad that all worked out in the end.

[@fotppd1475]

This aged like wine.

[@KaiGermann]

Tom Schilling - one of the best German actors 😊

[@giammarcodalpont7803]

Well, this aged like wine

[@lorimeyers3839]

I watched this series on Netflix a few years ago. It was really good but it did get a little weird towards the end. But still, definitely worth watching.

[@benjiaa5266]

Great series. .

[@msf47]

The SS and those who served under them were absolute monsters

[@GB-mx3ze]

Not all but the most

[@vasnetsch1576]

1:54 And who do we all see with a bandage on his arm? how come, this can’t be true, these are poor Ukrainians

[@baneofbanes]

Tens of thousands of Russians fought for the Nazis as well.

[@Luk246]

Ну так ми 🤫🧏🏻‍♂️

[@Walker733]

My grandfather's division, the 36th of the Texas National Guard, produced the soldiers who fought alongside disaffected Wehrmarcht troops against SS officers at the Battle of Castle Itter

[@MrBaby400]

1:13 Isn't that the same scream you hear in Spider-Man 1 (Sam Raimi's film) when the Green Goblin sets a trap for Spider-Man in the burning building ?

[@NetanaI]

It’s funny how he didn’t hold his gun until other friendly soldiers came

[@baharchange]

Little did they know they would fight face to face in Castle Itter

[@Bullet_Tooth84]

Only the LT survives this movie 😉

[@Jo_Wardy]

Yeah wehrmacht were scared of SS

[@nazgulthedeathless9403]

Actually castle itter was the most popular battle between Wehrmacht and SS, in the final months of the war there were multiple small skirmishes between Wehrmacht and SS as the Germans realized they were losing but the SS were so brainwashed into believing Germany could never lose so the Wehrmacht finally started fighting back

[@noraswe]

@@nazgulthedeathless9403 lol what a load of bullshit , wehrmacht was in many ways worse then the SS , just read about the crmes on the eastern front.

[@nazgulthedeathless9403]

@@noraswe that may be true but that didn’t apply to all of Wehrmacht, the SS on the other hand..

[@CaptPoco]

I wonder if the guy wearing a skull on his uniform ever thought "am I the bad guy?"

[@dopepopeurban6129]

I have the feeling this scene would cause a massive shitstorm if this was released today…

[@Tasos04252]

Nothing more sexy than German uniforms.

[@huskyfaninmass1042]

I can think of a lot of more sexy things.

[@norwegianatheist3191]

except soviet uniforms of course.

[@tessaleroux7725]

Very nice.

[@Le42975]

They left the best part out.

[@cruzaider5339]

Damn sometimes I forget how good the Wehrmacht uniforms are

[@crossdeadking]

this is true friendship and respect for each other, we should all be good people like that

[@NationalismDjazair]

I think something happens after 10 seconds of this lol

[@staliniosifvissarionovich5588]

10 seconds later: gives shoka kola then shoot

[@grielzz]

Those who don't know : 😌🤝 Those who know : 💀☠️

[@hotspot131638837]

I like how they make you not sympathize w the character when he’s about to kill the cat and sticking up for hitler and than make you realize he’s just human and shit happened fast

[@shaunoakman5609]

Really want to see this series, what's it streaming on ??

[@likeaplatypus8909]

Netflix germany, if this is on netflix of other countries too you should search for "generation" war or "unsere mütter unsere väter"

[@shaunoakman5609]

@@likeaplatypus8909 cheers fella, much appreciated 👏

[@i-dislike-handles]

@@shaunoakman5609 I've been watching it on Amazon Prime Video, if you have that. I'm from the US so idk if it'll be different for your location

[@shaunoakman5609]

@@i-dislike-handles hi Alex, I've got prime, but still can't seem to find it ??

[@i-dislike-handles]

@@shaunoakman5609 If you aren't using it, use the Prime Video app. If you are and still can't find it then I don't know what else you can do

[@patrickazzarella6729]

This was a rarity after the Polish and French Campaign, Wehrmacht generals who complained about the killings by their own soldiers or the actions of the SS in Poland and France were ignored or removed, by 1941 the Wehrmacht actively aided in and supported the actions of SS a vast majority of the time. They were pardoned of crimes, and not to mention the Commissar Decree.

[@ONIscrooge]

No they didn't.

[@alecjones4135]

@@ONIscrooge yes they did.

[@ONIscrooge]

@@alecjones4135 No.

[@azerty97212]

@@ONIscrooge yes they really did

[@ONIscrooge]

@@azerty97212 I beg to differ.

[@thechosenone1533]

You can always trust KZbinrs to cut out the most important part of the scene.

[@babalarassrah]

nudity sexual scenes is ok, but not fake murders

[@edmund6392]

Imo this one of the best war movies out there. If you haven't seen it you need to.

[@dee46569]

So many didn’t know the difference between the Wehrmacht and the ss

[@b4nterontilt245]

it's not SS but SD here

[@76Schoeneberg30]

@@b4nterontilt245 SD is part of SS.

[@justacanadianguy07]

This shows that not every soldier was evil. Yes, many were, especially the SS, but regular soldiers had a sense of humanity.

[@aizatjunaidi69]

No the SS were good people if hitler did not start a war

[@dianaverano7878]

If those " good men" stood up against the AUSTRIAN furer, Hitler the foreigner for being non-GERMAN. world war 2 should have been prevented. What is evil? Is when good people allow a foreigner to rule them, dictate them all to massacre innocent people. We cant be good if we just follow orders from a racist, angry person like Hitler. We become just like who we follow.

[@rome316ae3]

It also shows that no allied soldiers were good either

[@jackp.richardson6415]

The Wehrmacht was a professional army, the SS was a political organization. After this scene the SS Officer shoots the girl, and Friedhelm and the other soldier are disgusted & horrified.

[@Arcaryon]

It is great to see so many actors who would later starr in Babylon Berlin.

[@athusk894]

I think I've heard that in Operation: Unthinkable, when the allied powers planned to invade the soviet union. They were planning to use some Wehrmacht divisions

[@Gottesanbeter10]

Yes because they knew how to fight them

[@Julius_The_Lego_Man]

This represents the difference between enemy and opponent.

[@baneofbanes]

The Wehrmacht played a pretty big role in the murder of civilians.

[@jimmyarmijo792]

Reading the comments, one person (although I did not read all comments) was close. They're actually SD men. More correctly Einzatgruppen commandos- Action Groups. They were originally created in the late 30s. For the occupation of Czechoslovakia. If you look carefully at the officer with the chocolate, his left cuff has SD patch. His nominal boss is Reinhard Heydrich. The Einzatgruppen were re-formed to follow the German army and shoot Polish intelligentsia, Communists, and Jews. Mostly Jews. Especially after the invasion of Russia in June, 1941. Eastern Poland, the Baltic States, Ukraine and Russia. They shot and killed well over a million people. The bullies were Ukrainian collboratos who knew where all the Jews lived in their communities. These murders were the forerunners to the extermination camps.

[@shockwave6213]

"When I was 7, my dad got laid off. So We went to the woods hunting. Only after the Führer came, my dad got work again" After WW1, Germany had lost its empire and was bankrupt. Its people were down and the "damned imperialist French" kept pushing harder and harder to make life miserable for the German people, taking food and heater fuels like coal as what most would agree is unjust war reparations, which caused famine and death by exposure. But then Hitler and his Nazis came and started uplifting the whole German economy and forcing out foreign influences. Openly spitting in the face of anyone who would dare kick the German people while they were down. Its things like that that make you understand why the German people followed him. Hitler was a monster. That is undeniable. But given proper historical context, you see their point of view was just as valid as anyone else's. You know damn well that France or Britain would have lashed out in the same way if they had lost the first world war and were being abused by occupational treaty enforcers.

[@FalconKalinius]

Very nice use of the chain of command.

[@radias2589]

I don't think he was ss. He was probably gestapo. They wear ss uniforms without the ss bolts in occupied territory. You can tell he's not ss because he does have the ss bolts in his collor tab. But maybe I'm missing something.

[@Wolf-wc1js]

He’s SD, the intelligence agency of the SS, separate from the Gestapo. look around 2:12, his left forearm has a patch labeled SD. the Gestapo, which was short for Geheime Staatspolizei, secret state police, was considered a sister organization to the SD but still different

[@fuxi9923]

@@Wolf-wc1js @Radias 258 you can also recognize a Gestapo officer’s uniform really easily cause it is deeply black, while an SD uniform is grey. A Gestapo uniform also has a rank symbol on the right shoulder collar, while an SD uniform only has such a symbol on the left one.

[@delayanimation423]

He's from the Sicherheitsdienst. Or SD for short. They are a Branch of the SS. Imagine like the CIA only in German and more cruel.

[@JohnsonTheSecond]

I thought SD patches were for Einsatzgruppe?

[@delayanimation423]

@@JohnsonTheSecond Einsatzgruppen had a special ring.

[@CRWize-xs5og]

What is the name of this movie/show and where can I see it?

[@naveensingh1164]

Generation war, it's available on Netflix UK.

[@vermas4654]

Wehrmacht: we commit warcrimes but we don't enjoy it. SS: we also commit warcrimes. AND we enjoy it

[@Arselpang]

That SS-Sturmbannführer also plays the war weary veteran soldier Otto in the brilliant movie Stalingrad.

[@gumshoe1285]

At 0:58 they both seem very confused at 1:31 they seemed very shocked at what's happening and then at 1:43 they are purely enraged and at 1:49 they mean serious business to the guy of don't put her down .this is something we must not forget that not all Germans where bad during the war and they definitely where my the cold hatred killers they're all made out to be . And in fact ( no offense ) the americans where always portrayed at some point in movies killing soldiers who are trying to surrender like in saving private ryan but there are examples here of "bad" Germans like the general at 2:27 who just doesn't seem to give a crap what happens but it makes ya think waht are the auxiliary police doing this huh?

[@baharchange]

This comment is underrated.

[@sarfarajkhan1806]

R u little crazy 😆😆?

[@newelllondon724]

The Wehrmacht and the SS were two separate armies and command structures They didn’t take or give orders to each other They even had a separate military justice system. The Hauptamt SS-HA Hollywood tends to forget this when making movies

[@StepanPazderka]

Really liked this series. It showed all those little details and did not just paint it black and white.

[@mmd488]

They cut the scene just before the SS guy shoots the girl in the head to the horror of our guys.

[@noobfromtheuk1113]

What a nice officer, I sure hope nothing bad happens to the girl.

[@42069TV]

Pretty sure she's safe and outlives the war.

[@Bullet_lover.1122]

What is the movie name

[@Jose-cy7od]

She got executed by the SS Officer seconds after

[@gamerdrache8741]

​​@@Jose-cy7od no shit