I Will Not Lie About What We Did In Russia

[@WorldWar2Stories]

PLAYLIST OF EPISODES SO FAR : kzbin.info/aero/PLyuEmb1VavZBYp7n4IlzjEQb9JXdyCuM- Hi Ladies And Gentleman. This is part 3

[@howardweiner]

Yc0 znus

[@williamberry8895]

Join the Marines and fight some Nazis or Russians besides KZbin and PlayStation. You'll wish for boredom

[@mrmrmrcaf7801]

My great-grandfather, born in 1902, fought for Romania at Stalingrad and was on the machine gun in the front line when the Russians launched Operation Uranus and stormed the Axis lines... the Russians sent so many soldiers to their deaths as my grandfather was shooting and crying... countless people died there, my grandfather was lucky that he was the driver of an ammunition truck and had the keys in his pocket and when he was sent to bring ammunition from the truck, he took off and fled to Romania together with his brothers of war , he knew that Russians will win . I remember perfectly when he was telling us, every time he thought about those times, tears flowed. His name was Costica Vladescu. , as I write this I am looking at his war decorations. He died in 2000 at the age of 98 and until his death he was lucid and always told us stories about the war.

[@greasyflight6609]

The Germans failed to equip the Romanians with effective anti tank weapons and when the Soviet pincer movement was launched against the German Sixth Army it was over...the Russian tanks swept over German flanks covered by Romanians and Italians...they were outmatched...and dissolved.

[@alandavis9644]

You need to document as much of his stories as you possibly can. They could be valuable in 100 years,, his memory will live on.

[@greasyflight6609]

History is important...and fascinating@@alandavis9644

[@curtbowers7817]

Very interesting story. I could listen to experiences like his for hours

[@dirtboy896]

@@greasyflight6609yes, and the tanks literally ran them over in their snow dug outs. Pure savagery and brutality.

[@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733]

Makes me think of the current front line in almost the same place with almost the same tactics being used. Except, drones now fall on their heads.

[@alandavis9644]

Agreed

[@bigbcor]

@@barryb7682wow are you misinformed. Germany put up the biggest effort to deny aide. The UK and US have given way more. Followed by Poland.

[@egghead55425]

no, now shells go off in the air, not after they hit the dirt and so are far more lethal.

[@alandavis9644]

@@egghead55425 you think air burst are a new invention? Altitude fusing was invented in WW2.

[@TheYeti308]

Thank You !@@bigbcor

[@trickydicky2908]

I just love how he indignantly bitches about how the Russians defended their land. His side was heroic, their side, fanatic. Go figure.

[@PepWan]

They treated the Russian pow’s horribly.

[@scrimshaw7470]

It's almost like perspective changes a few things

[@bigbcor]

@@PepWanand? The Russians treated their pows bad as well. Both Germany and Russia also treated civilians bad. The only more terrible thing Germany did in WW2 was invade Russia which Russia now did to Ukraine.

[@PepWan]

Accept The Soviets liberated 98%ish of the concentration camps and lost about 22million people in that war.

[@PepWan]

No doubt the Soviets under Stalin after the war became murderous psychos and killed quite a number of Christian’s and others. Parton would later say we fought the wrong one’s or something similar

[@warwarneverchanges4937]

Listening to the description of the fights around Zaporizjzja again after about 80 yrars the fights is now again active in the same area, as he describes one of the bloodiest forrests and swamps of this planet, thousands of souls must wanter those swamps.

[@eviloverlordsean]

These are amazing narratives! I'm pulling together a college course on the Eastern Front, and this material is so amazing as background...

[@austin_springer]

Source: Eastern Inferno: The Journals of a German Panzerjäger on the Eastern Front, 1941-43, edited by Christine Alexander.

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

History may not repeat - but it sure as hell rhymes..

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

Sad, bitter lol!

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Thank you for sharing....was a truthful introduction of wars times in Eastern front....thank you for sharing

[@daveyvane]

My great grandfather was a German WW1 machine gunner. He lived on a Ohio farm in the 1960s. He was in his 80s and somewhat senile. He would sit in the rocker, gazing at the waves of corn and count waves of Russians.

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

My great-grandfather was a Bavarian monarchist who emigrated to the U.S. He said if Bavaria was still a kingdom, Hitler would have been content to be king of Bavaria. Not sure myself...

[@mdkell4261]

​@bigmeechx3 Mr Shickelgrueber was from northwest Austria wasn't he?

[@anonymanonymous9763]

That explains why so many of you Americans are nazi sympathizers.

[@richardkeilig4062]

Pray for peace, freedom, and no wars.

[@bb-ballistics1706]

Clearly praying is useless as wars are still happening and always will.

[@alandavis9644]

I fear Kyiv is in for more of this. If you fail to learn your history you are condemned to repeat it.

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

Human Bravery Never Ceases To Amaze. How Much Different Could OUR Shared Past's Have Been?. Speaking To Family Veterans There Was Hardly Time To THINK.

[@mattharrell6880]

So much for the clean Wehrmacht lie. They knew exactly what they were doing and did it willingly.

[@patmckeane6588]

Nothing worse than what the ivans did to their own military and civilian

[@luke8329]

War's a racket - Major General Smedley Butler.

[@grantsmythe8625]

There are people who want to make excuses for the Wehrmacht's atrocities by saying that "Stalin did it too." If your only excuse is "Stalin...." you've sunk to the bottom of the cesspool.

[@gordonfrickers5592]

@@patmckeane6588 True but that still does not justify the German atrocities.

[@camerongates5752]

@@patmckeane6588this is false.

[@wdobni]

a lot of this material is better than hemingway's novels for which he won the nobel prize

[@dejavu666wampas9]

I’ve read quite a bit of Hemingway, and I totally agree.

[@johnc.6645]

The narrator on this series is really excellent.

[@Chatta-Ortega]

He sounds like Sting.

[@djmechwarrior]

He sounds like A.I. Some pronunciation and cadence is really strange and robotic

[@4362mont]

It is a.i.

[@dejavu666wampas9]

At least it’s better than the old computer sounding voice.

[@USSLIBERTYREMEMBERER]

AI repro of mark felton

[@lesbooth2837]

Funny fact, Stalin had to cancel the dog bomb program. The soldiers would refuse to send their dogs under the tanks.

[@Planeiron]

MY uncles were cooks in ww2 in Europe, a family friend drove an ambulance he could not read or write but he could remember trees roads landmarks, he guided a Tank regiment through France in his ambulance, was awarded a silver star...A story no one knows about it was kept quiet and should be

[@anfrankogezamartincic1161]

Everybody knows about generals,no one talks about an ambulance driver (exept his name is Ernest Hemingway)

[@curtbowers7817]

Who’d have ever thought. An ambulance guiding Tanks! And a Silver Star for it, amazing

[@rickwilliams1204]

Every one was a cook in the German army

[@jenkor513]

​@anfrankogezamartincic1161 Ernest Hemmingway was an ambulance driver in WWI. He was helping provide food, at a roadside stand, in Italy I think. There was an attack, Hemingway was injured and he helped an injured soldier get away and get medical help. Hemingway received the silver cross from Italy (maybe it was france). No driving involved

[@anfrankogezamartincic1161]

@@jenkor513 who cares, all protagonists are very dead for a very long time. Let's think about tomorrow

[@NickPenlee]

Most wars seem to 'sing from the same songsheet'. It's the common soldier who endures the horrors, whilst the High Command sit back, enjoy their cigars, brandy and caviar whilst barking orders at their underlings. Can you imagine Goering enduring those hardships in Russia! War, like life, is only truly enjoyed by the rich.

[@curtbowers7817]

Yes Goering just kept getting fatter

[@daveyvane]

Goring was a WW1 ace

[@bayougtr]

Many of them fought in WW1, were wounded or maimed. Both Axis & Allies

[@MGTOW-nn9ls]

Hans appears to be absolutely brainwashed. He imagine himself playing in movie and everyone admire his bravery and service to the country. A it bit psychopathic

[@Darthdoodoo]

Which active duty service doesn't see themselves that way? The brainwashing is required for soldiers to sacrifice their lives cuz the pay isnt enough

[@pauldietz1325]

He does not survive the war, and these diaries were not rewritten by him afterwards, as other diaries were.

[@ramO-jp8tp]

With the video title, him calling the soviets brave for attempting to cross the bridge while getting slaughtered and saying everyone is just trying to survive after that? did you even watch the video.

[@pikiwiki]

Yes he drank the kool aid that was being passed around at the time. Certainly an effect of the new radios that were being given to the population so they could listen to the speeches given by Hitler in the comfort of their own homes

[@patkearney9320]

This is the way of war for young men today same thing.

[@donalttoddkiscaden9932]

Outstanding presentation!

[@michaelwilliams7907]

In the 1990s I was working and living in the DC area near silver springs MD. I met a female Russian doctor, dr Bela Shestapalova she had her own clinic in SS MD. I got to meet her father. A Russian who fought from Stalingrad to Berlin humping his morter tube and plate. All the way from Stalingrad to Berlin. He said he never got as much as a scratch. When his unit found out he was a Jew , he got to carry the mortar for the rest of the war. Not a scratch he said ???? I believe him. Some people beat all odds in this life ??? What stories he told.

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting and informative. Excellent photography picture 📷 enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Class A research project. Special thanks to veteran/civilians sharing personal information/combat experiences making this documentary more authentic and possible. Fighting/perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible. Yet still advanced forward regardless of the consequences. That's true grit style determination to succeed. A shout out to the often forgotten medical 🚑 personal. Doctors/nurses/orderlies/stretcher bearers. Risking life and limb tending to the wounded. Very unprofessional conduct conducting civilian atrocities 😈. Giving the Russian military forces more incentives to battle all the harder.

[@arthurpowell3074]

This is made up garbage using bits and pieces of real and fictional tales. In August 41 the Germans were on the offensive and weren't digging defensive trenches anywhere that large numbers of Reds would have been attacking...

[@ColdBrewLobster]

Spooky final statement. "There will be a terrible atonement."

[@lordemed1]

And totally deserved by Germany and its citizens.

[@justinrichardson4456]

​@@lordemed1they were fighting BOLSHEVISM. That's exactly what we are facing now in the west.

[@pikiwiki]

@@lordemed1 So agreed. Because they believed what they were told by their government. Why couldn't they have just resisted?

[@WiseOwl_1408]

​@@pikiwikimost people don't like killing their neighbors. Things spiral over the years and it's out of control.

[@beezelsub]

@@justinrichardson4456 no. If just fighting communism the Soviets would have deserted and switched sides. They were genociding maniacs creating room for living space.

[@MrVroomhas]

Thanks for sharing!

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

The absolute and devastating irony of that final line. Goddamn.

[@sleepyjoe2090]

Wait for these to drop everyday!

[@johnschofield9496]

The horrors of war are equally shared among most combatants !

[@christophercarrier2902]

Equally?

[@sparrowprince3432]

It amazes me how powerful the Nazis were. From the opening of WW2 until mid 1943, they swept all forces before them. The tide only turned after Kursk, not Stalingrad. So that’s nearly 4 years of continual military successes. This is key to understanding Hitler’s grasp on the German ppl. He delivered. Both domestically and internationally.

[@MrKlipstar]

December,1941 Batlle of Moscow....🫣

[@snapdragon6601]

I can get onboard with that assessment. While the diary entries I've listened to from German soldiers mentioned that Stalingrad was a great shock to them, the real turning point was Kursk. That was when things went from merely being temporary setbacks to a slow and steady retreat all the way to Berlin.

[@Brslld]

What the hell are you talking about? Fall blau is Germany's last chance at fighting another large scale mobile war in the East. The failure of taking the Caucasus oil fields was the beginning of the end for the Germans, followed by the 1942-1943 Soviet Winter offensives that inflicted nearly a million casualties on the Axis side. Any person who thinks Kursk should be the "turning point" needs to read more on hsitory instead of sticking to tank-level history.

[@sparrowprince3432]

@@Brslld But despite the failure of Fall Blau and massive casualties, the line still held. The Germans still administered large swaths of Soviet territory well into 1943 and still possessed the strength to launch a strategic offensive campaign with Citadel. Had the Allies not invaded on D-Day, the war with Russia would have lasted far longer, with Germany having enough time to incorporate new weapons into the eastern front, starting with the Sturmgewehr-44 and Me-262 jet fighter. Behind the scenes, Stalin was demanding the Allies open a second theater because he could not withstand the Germans alone, indefinitely. Even in the latest stage of the war, when bled white and faced against the greatest armada ever assembled in history (Overlord) and the whole might of an enraged Red Army, and the hopelessly superior industrial capabilities of the Allies, it still took an entire year for both sides to reach Germany itself. And what's more, Germany surprised the entire world with the Ardennes offensive, showing Hitler still had some offensive strength left so very late in the war. Based on all of that, I'm convinced the Soviet Union would not have won fighting Nazi Germany alone like it had before the summer of 1944.

[@Brslld]

@@sparrowprince3432 Its great to read all of that, but do you not know what: "turning point" is? Germany went from the Master of Europe and Launching a massive summer offensive that Destroyed and Soviet defenses from Rostov to Maikop and Azov to the Don into a losing Empire after Stalingrad. The fact that they had enough resources to launch desperate offensive with unrealistic goals is irrelevant. Even if the Bulge and Kursk became a German victory they will still lose. Fall Blau was their last cry to knock the soviets out, it was the last time they controlled the battlefield. Now its just a matter of time before they collapse

[@IAmNumber4000]

The German POWs in Russia deserved what they got.

[@bold58]

If Hitler had just been satisfied with the Ukraine and Kiev the people of this city probably would have accepted the Germans as they viewed the Germans better than the Russians . He could have fortified it strongly instead of stretching himself too thin pressing too far into Russia and trying to take Moscow .

[@garypulliam3421]

True. And if he had treated conquered peoples better, they would have fought for him by the millions instead of against him by the millions.

[@MVProfits]

The "easy" victories in the West made them sooooo arrogant. They didn't think of making even temporary allies of many of the population that hated Stalin's regime, and that welcomed Germans as liberators, nor even of having Japan attack from the other side. They acted so brutally that people rallied Stalin.

[@rosesprog1722]

The soviets were almost ready, if the Germans had not moved first, they would have been crushed, one example: the Soviets had more tanks than the rest of the world combined and good ones. If the Germans hadn't invaded, all Europe might have been under communist rule.

[@pac9764]

You wish Germans won the war??? And lived with National Socialism?

[@Snafuski]

This soldier describing the food they are eating is an amazing detail ... By the wathe "Casino" mentioned in the end refers to the military refectory, not a place for gambling.

[@djkimvlogger9762]

Love this story’s

[@TruthismoreSimple]

feels like a "clickbaity" historical fiction novel...

[@Grandizer8989]

I want to read every book, see every picture, and visit every battlefield on the Eastern Front. Since it’s impossible, KZbin will have to do.

[@jrodowens]

You should play Gates of Hell: Ostfront

[@Maconnaith]

Wouldn't advise it today seeing as they are again front lines

[@michaelking9818]

No it’s not impossible

[@Brslld]

Just read Glantz and House

[@Chrisamos412]

Pure hell.

[@ghimmy47]

A "partisan" was anyone handy to pick.

[@Jackass461]

Respect and blessings upon the last heroes of Europe.

[@kayvan671]

Was auch immer... 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@rosesprog1722]

@@kayvan671 Every single German soldier I saw interviewed said the same thing, all of them: they were defending western Europe against a Soviet invasion, and they succeeded.

[@kayvan671]

@@rosesprog1722 My grandfather not (And he also served on he Eastern front) And they were not succeesful ... 😂 Half of Europe would later fall to the Communists

[@rosesprog1722]

@@kayvan671 Of course certainty is difficult to achieve when it comes to those events, the data we can be absolutely sure of is still very limited even 80 years after the fact but as I said, all my sources, including every interview I saw of soldiers who were there and the testimonies of Jodl and Keitel at the Nuremberg trials all said the same thing: they were fighting to protect Germany but also Europe and if they hadn't intervened, the Soviets would not have inherited half of Europe but would have conquered all of it, a resounding success, at least for them. As to Eastern Europe, the Soviets hadn't conquered it either, it was Churchill, in a stunning betrayal of all sides AND behind Roosevelt's back who divided Europe between himself and Stalin, in a secret deal called "The Percentages Agreement" which might have remained secret if not for Stalin telling Churchill to keep the piece of paper they had used, as a souvenir. That very piece of paper was later found and can now be seen on the wiki page of "The Percentages Agreement", look it up. So if not for Churchill, the Soviets would probably have gotten less of what Germany had fought to protect, and was destroyed for. Name me an army that could have survived that long with the US pounding on one side, and the Soviets on the other. The Germans were indeed mighty warriors but under these circumstances, they didn't have a chance, no one would.

[@rcmrcm3370]

Hehehe, How to white wash. Einstadtgrupen.

[@bundeswehr7676]

einsatzgruppe

[@kenbrown2540]

If you mean the narrator, he wasn't in an Einsatzgruppe.

[@Neillybob63]

@@kenbrown2540 Well of course not, according to these delusional fanatics, nobody was in an Einsatzgruppe.... it's almost as if the millions of Jews, POW's and Commissars just rounded themselves up, dug the graves and shot themselves.....

[@JoseP-hj5zo]

The ingenuity of the Soviet defenses in Kiev . No wonder the current Ukro offensive has stalled now a days . Russians cementing the deadly legacy of their great grandfathers .

[@tarquinftangftangolebiscui8606]

Some film footage would have been nice, even a selection of photographs.

[@markpavlowski7223]

Take it reading books is 'alien' to you...not do well in school...??...however have a nice day...

[@tarquinftangftangolebiscui8606]

@@markpavlowski7223 Actually, I started reading about this subject in 1973, and I am still reading about it now. I have read books that you have never heard about, and probably never will. But I guess that you know everything from what you have watched on TV, like most of your ignorant generation. Obviously, English grammar is alien to you, did you actually go to school?

[@tarquinftangftangolebiscui8606]

[@tarquinftangftangolebiscui8606]

Thank you.

[@gj1234567899999]

German soldier: “just shooting 5 beautiful Russian girls for no reason. Oh well”

[@ColdBrewLobster]

And when they don't return to the Russians, their families die the same way.

[@lamwen03]

Not for 'no reason'. The reason was to stop partisan activity. Who knows if it ever worked, or how much? The girls didn't know, or care. Young , beautiful Russian girls. Was it a release for them, I wonder?

[@mirquellasantos2716]

Germans being Germans.......

[@sebastianmelmoth9100]

@@lamwen03 I doubt they were eager to die at the hands of Naiz thugs

[@anandnairkollam]

One if mist important reasons Germans lost in ussr was that they turned into monsters while the people initially expected them to be liberators. If they had befriended the general population in occupied territories, they wouldn't have had to worry about their rear.

[@conceptalfa]

👍👍👍!!!

[@REZNAP]

I absolutely love this channel, thank you so much! *Is this your voice or is it "AI" ?

[@Beauloqs]

AI given the butchery of place names

[@Swellington_]

hes read a bunch of books,I dont think its AI but it might be,although Im almost certain its a person,just go to the the first chapter of this and if its a person he'll introduce himself

[@jonbbbb]

I'm pretty sure it's AI based on some of the errors I've heard that virtually no real human would make. Sometimes he reads numbered footnotes in a strange way. I've heard him read years like 1947 as "one thousand nine hundred and forty seven." Occasionally he'll read one sentence and seamlessly switch to a completely different sentence, like a copy/paste error that missed part of a line. The other thing is that it's remarkably consistent, probably more so than a real person could do. Very good quality overall.

[@jeffblacky]

My grand uncle from the Waffen SS Was a driver , he carted men , supplies and occasionally partisans to get shot He never said guilty or not It was the way it was

[@AndrewKieran]

He was a killer

[@mkyhou1160]

@@AndrewKieranbetter to kill than be killed

[@lordemed1]

He should be ashamed for what he did.

[@SCMSD]

@@lordemed1 No he should not. Partisans are unauthorised combatants under the Geneva conventions -- any country is legally allowed to execute them per the convention. Its also important to note that the soviet union refused to sign the Geneva convention, make of that what you will.

[@jeffblacky]

@@lordemed1 he never said he was

[@kristelvidhi5038]

To think all this trouble could've been spared if Hitler had focused more on the Middle East instead, if he wanted oil so bad.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@ kristelvidhi5038 Post WW1 It was the Brits and French who controlled the Middle East. Middle East did not have very much oil extraction until after WW2. The Brits had a few oil wells in Iraq, France had a few in Syria and either (?) in Egypt. Post WW2, It was the oilmen in Texas, USA who invested the money to drill for oil in the Persian Gulf region -- The Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

[@IAmNumber4000]

Whenever some nationalist weirdo tries to claim “The Wehrmacht didn’t do it, it was all the fault of the SS!” Remind them that this is how it went down: SS: “Hey we need you to kill every civilian in your path” Wehrmacht: “Ok”

[@bummpyhead1647]

Now, if they only told the truth about what the invading and occupation forces did in Germany.

[@Neillybob63]

IKR? Those poor, poor Germans never did ANYTHING to ANYONE to deserve that kind of treatment, now did they?

[@anthonykology1728]

sow the wind....reap the whirlwind....still fighting in Eastern Europe

[@theecentralscrutinizer9978]

It's a great listen, however the Author sure mentions "Geneva Convention" a lot for being Waffen SS....... Neither the Soviets,nor the Brits, nor the Americans started that War.

[@blackhawk7r221]

The Soviets invaded Poland in Sep of ‘39 from the east, while the Germans invaded from the west. The Germans were just a hell of a lot better so took vastly more territory.

[@vasiliyshukshin7466]

@@blackhawk7r221 Soviets entered Poland two weeks (17th of Sept.) after the British and the French declared war on Germany (3rd of Sept.), so by no means have they started it.

[@blackhawk7r221]

@@vasiliyshukshin7466 As I said, the Soviets invaded from the east in September of 1939. Aggressors against an innocent nation.

[@vasiliyshukshin7466]

@@blackhawk7r221 Poland was far from innocent. In fact it was one of the more predatory nations of the interwar period, lopping chunks off Lithuania and Czechoslovakia.

[@andrewruddy962]

​​@@vasiliyshukshin7466, what you say is true. Poland has lots of unsettled imperial grudges. Ukraine watch your arse. Hungarians, Poles, Austrians and Russians will take much of your territory. Language and ethnicity will be the the new decider. In the 19/20 century borders changed frequently.

[@chadparsons50]

Seems dead to conscience.

[@markcreemore4915]

You have to start posting who's diaries these are taken from.

[@Baulder13]

Can we get sources in the descriptions please?

[@tyrone4u559]

War is hell

[@timblackwood1531]

Don't watch "Come and see" it will disturb you and never leave your thoughts. This video is nothing compared to that film. 😔😔

[@Neillybob63]

I agree.... a completely devastating movie... best (worst?) movie about WW2 ever made.

[@zedicus11]

I wish we had more info on the bio, providence of the diary. How does this translate? Is it AI driven. Good stories, those Germans write better than most, in any situation

[@christophercarrier2902]

Helmut Hörner. I’m not sure why everyone thinks everything is AI now!

[@pikiwiki]

@@christophercarrier2902 right. AI has become another excuse for not believing in anything

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@ christophercarrier2902 This playlist (14th in series See the channel) is a WW2 diary by Hans Roth. His grandchildren published the diary in 2010 as ""Eastern Inferno..."

[@travisthomas1009]

no excuses for what they did.

[@danieljeyn9847]

Any way this could be a downloadable podcast so I could listen on my phone?

[@rcmrcm3370]

Buy premium service

[@Swellington_]

audible cost 15 bucks a month,and 1 free download but you can listen to several good audiobooks from the eastern front for free,and offline

[@danieljeyn9847]

I'm interested in downloading this as a podcast and using my podcast app. I don't use KZbin on my phone because it requires leaving the screen on and I can't put it in my pocket. Podcasts allow the screen to be off to just listen.

[@jesuszamora6949]

... Milkbeards? That's a new one.

[@vrvaughn]

The arrogance of these German soldiers is mind boggling…

[@TheYeti308]

ivan's a wonderful fellow .

[@bikesnippets]

You can twll thay this "memoir" is fabricated by the writer. He talks about strategic level decisions he couldn't have possibly known about.

[@superturkeylegs]

In other diaries, he mentions contacting other officers he knew. One cites a letter he wrote to a former CO in 1976.

[@pikiwiki]

The description of Russian defenses sounds exactly like what is happening today

[@johncole3010]

Exactly, did you catch that Russians that retreated were shot on the Commissars order

[@WiseOwl_1408]

They seem to use a ton of artillery.

[@kadevohn]

is this all from Blood Red Snow?

[@martinarreguy2984]

A blood thirsty hyena, calling a blood thirsty hyena, a blood thirsty hyena. What a paradix!

[@Neillybob63]

Love the spelling error - intentional or not.... says it all.

[@paulgitaukinuthia3916]

I wonder whether Soldiers who fought in the Second World War received a monthly salary or conscription to the Military was based on solely voluntary grounds.

[@a5cent]

All Wehrmacht soldiers received a salary. Type in "Wehrmacht sold" into Google to see how much.

[@danieliglesias1669]

Wow…the Nazis as liberators again?…. I dislike the communist intensely. I lived as a young boy in Fidel Castro’s Communist Cuba before my my parents were able to escape to freedom in the US. I know what it is to be afraid to even express any thought that might be taken as “contra-revolutionary”, possibly snitched on by the local Committee For The Defense of The Revolution. Then possibly sent to one of Castro’s prisons or worse, a firing squad. But to label an invading Nazi army “liberators”is shameful and embarrassing. I feel awful for the Russian people of that era. It was either Stalin’s murderous Communist tyranny or the Nazis. Tough choice. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. 🤔🇨🇺🇺🇸

[@rosesprog1722]

The Bolsheviks were much more brutal with the peasants than the Nazis ever were. As for the liberator thing, it was perfectly normal for people who had suffered under the Bolsheviks to see the Germans as liberators, looking at those event with modern preconceived ideas will never give a fair portrait of the situation. If you're interested there is a video here on YT called "Dr. Ingrid Rimland talks about when the Germans invaded Ukraine" it's about people who were there.

[@Neillybob63]

@@rosesprog1722 Big fan of the 'liberating' Einsatzgruppen, I see...... stay classy!

[@rosesprog1722]

@@Neillybob63 Oh, so you hate the Cubans, the Soviets, the Nazis, the Canadians... anyone else?

[@DontKnow-hr5my]

33:34 this is a little Sus, no german soldier would say "Nazi-Swastikas"

[@donaldlyons17]

Am I the only one who thought since the whole place likely had bombs no one should be living in it? To me that seems totally crazy....

[@RichardMacdonald-nd6ne]

Horror war is hell

[@paulbrasier372]

I'll never understand why Germany was aloud to be a country again after WW2.

[@rosesprog1722]

Clearly you have no idea what the partisans did to the German soldiers when they took some prisoners, of course they killed them all but they tortured them horribly first and then, they hung them from trees in front of the advancing German troops to make sure they would find them and most had their genitals stuffed in their mouths. As to the pretty girls, dressed as civilians they went to German headquarters and said they wanted to talk to officers, walked in their office, closed the door, shot them and just walked away, THEY were the most dangerous, no one suspected them. You should research the facts a little before saying such stupid things.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

Only as DIVIDED AND OCCUPIED country

[@georgecurly5965]

Pitty the reading stops on September 14. It would be interesting if it continued past September 29 and we could hear about the Babi Yar massacres during which in total 100.000 to 150.000 Jews and other civilians were massacred by the German Nazis and their enthusiastic Ukrainian helpers. No wander the Russian inhabitants of Donbas or Crimea do not want to live under the control of the current Kiev regime that is in many ways rooted in its Nazi past.

[@rosesprog1722]

Babi Yar was supposed to be 33,771 Jews but no trace was ever found and the Bolshevik past was much worse than the Nazi, you should read books.

[@Neillybob63]

@@rosesprog1722 ... and you should take your psych meds ("no trace was ever found..."). Wow.... just wow!

[@gwydkins8252]

Rip peach tree

[@douglasjones2570]

What book is this from?

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@ douglasjones2570 Wartime diary of Hans Roth. His grandchildren published it in 2010 as "Eastern Inferno: ...."

[@douglasjones2570]

@@here_we_go_again2571 Thank you!

[@travhammer]

"For whom u felt compation." And yet, u breath.

[@rowbearly6128]

Try to spell like a grown up. "You", "compassion", "breathe". I mean, seriously, do you have to wear a special helmet when you leave the house?

[@travhammer]

@@rowbearly6128 I would like to meet with in on a

[@travhammer]

maybe in the arena of, toe to toe. donitrave, Columbia SC. I'm easy to find...be sure and whine again to MODs

[@travhammer]

should'a known....A Pogue@@rowbearly6128

[@travhammer]

if u baarly row, why not get a b oat motor. row nearly. cordial 'nough fer u rowbelly

[@Ausumist]

Why did they shoot the girls in the beginning? Were they common Russian civilians?

[@Brslld]

He's SS probably.

[@rosesprog1722]

They were partisans, armed civilians who shot the German soldiers in the back while they were fighting the Red Army in front of them. These militias, if they wear nothing to identify them as fighters were prohibited by the Geneva conventions but Stalin refused to sign the conventions so no one in Soviet Russia had any rules to obey, and they didn't, they were brutal with the Germans. As to the cute girls, they could easily walk into German headquarters, walk into an office, kill the officer and just walk away, unsuspected. They were the most dangerous so although it is never easy for any man to shoot a pretty girl, when your survival is at risk, it's the only thing to do, that's why it's not a war crime to kill civilians who shoot at the military.

[@Brslld]

@@rosesprog1722 Absolutely based and patriotic girls, makes me wonder why the german women never did the same to the Bolshevik hordes corrupting their homeland

[@rosesprog1722]

@@Brslld German women were not allowed to fight in the military, they could fill administrative, nursing and guard jobs, no more. Partisans were all recruited among the local population, they knew the territory and they could easily blend in with the locals. Invading armies cannot have partisan militias, they don't even speak the language!

[@spencercurran5114]

Are these episodes original or are they excerpts from a longer work

[@mirquellasantos2716]

Stalin was a monster still he looked like a saint if you compare him to Germans. I was disgusted with the holocaust and concentration camps but to my surprise I just found out that Germans had concentration camps in Africa way before WW2. So you can say that Africans were their first victims.

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

The Russians had concentration camps as well.

[@mirquellasantos2716]

@@jed-henrywitkowski6470 In Africa... sorry but Russia never colonized Africa. Also Russia didn't have concentration camps it had- Gulag- hard prisons in Siberia where many perished but still were better than German camp concentrations. The death rate in Russian Gulags was 36% while German concentration camps was 67% meaning that Germans were more evil.

[@gregorde]

Concentration camps are not necessarily the same thing as extermination camps, although we tend to call the Nazi death camps “concentration camps.” A concentration camp really is just a camp where people are gathered together, usually for political reasons. They can be humane or inhumane.

[@mirquellasantos2716]

Noooo, you are not going to confuse me nor make excuses for those monsters. I know what concentration camps were especially the ones built by the Germans. German concentration camps were extermination camps too cause they needed to get rid of the sick slaves-prisoners.

[@josephpadula2283]

The Ussr ones were not humane. Stalin and Mao killed more of their own citizens then the Nazi Bastards did of their enemy .

[@BobBelson]

Sad War is hell

[@grantsmythe8625]

Yes, it is and yet young men are forever in love with the idea of war, at least until they get to the combat zone where the bullets and bombs are doing their work.

[@ag-om6nr]

Çould this have been Karma ?

[@leeanderironside1898]

It was forbodden to keep diary’s in the German army !

[@kayvan671]

No, it wasn't.

[@leeanderironside1898]

@@kayvan671 hello , thank you for your reply ! I got the comment from the memoirs of a German soldier , but of course I stand to be corrected !

[@leeanderironside1898]

Back again , I was curious and googled the diary thing , it stated that it was officially forbidden but some soldiers kept them anyway , I recall from the book I read their mail was censored too

[@rosesprog1722]

@@leeanderironside1898 In WW1 all armies forbid diaries and all mail was censured, if the people at home had know the truth, no one would have volunteered, it was probably the same in WW2. They say that in wars, the first casualty is the truth, and that's true.

[@leeanderironside1898]

@@rosesprog1722 thank you for your reply ,…… sadly truth is a casualty in peace time too , who among us is clever enough to cut through the “ news “ and can tell what is true and what is false ?

[@josephpadula2283]

What happened to the last episode when he got back to Germany ? It ended suddenly. Why back to start of the war?

[@Baulder13]

Who the hell even knows if this is even real journal entries. This channel gives no sources at all and the narrator is a little too consistent in their delivery for my ears. It almost sounds like they ran Kenneth Branagh's narration of CNN's "Cold War" through AI and recreated his voice to produce this.

[@kenbrown2540]

That's where Helmut's journal ended. He never published any postwar writings. So now the channel has found another war journal to share. Stick around and we'll be back and forth to the beginning and end of the war as long as there are interesting journals to read, I'd imagine.

[@rosstisbury1626]

very sad hardly anyone knows . . or really cares, preferring the kids comic book version.

[@whowhy9023]

Russian tactics are still the same… Meat waves.

[@RingwelskiJacek]

39:30 Germany did not sign the Geneva convention agreement before ww2...

[@here_we_go_again2571]

Tribute to The Algorithm! (S14, E03?)

[@apuuvah]

With the "strong leaders" russians don't need enemies.

[@CTimmerman]

Why did Hitler betray Stalin after they so peacefully shared Poland together?

[@jaromor8808]

he did not trust him

[@metanoian965]

Germans had always claimed Eastern Europe for their Lebensraum. There was no secret about this. The NAZTY Party had been preaching this to their German peasants louder and stronger from 1933. Ostsiedlung ! The German Peasants land in the Ost where their hard work would produce food for the industrial Reich zombies. Germans tried this during WW i. Promising the Bandera psychopath's Gang a Ukrainian nation state if they co operated with German military. This failed due to the usual German MO. Greed and oppression of the local farmers. Tried interwar, 1920 - 1939, by sabotaging Polish attempts to rebuild a Polish State. 1940 was another attempt at Lebensraum. Murdering Rus Slavs during or after theft was part of the plan for German peasant settlements - Ostsiedlung.

[@crystalbluepersuasion1027]

Stalin was also planning on stabbing Hitler in the back but Hitler beat him to it. Two really fine fellows

[@tobokanisebele8919]

​@@crystalbluepersuasion1027 Did Stalin really want to attack Germany though? For what reason? Russia needed nothing from Germany. It was Hitler who was obsessed with Russia. Stalin was happy with murdering his own people. That's why he was shocked when Barbarosa was launched..

[@vasiliyshukshin7466]

For the same reason he betrayed the Poles after they so peacefully shared Czechoslovakia together, I guess.

[@scottsmith7051]

2023 and no change in russian tactics....

[@carausiuscaesar5672]

I am proud to say the Canadian Army defended north Germany from the Soviet savages in April-May 1945 while the German Army disintegrated.🇨🇦

[@apuuvah]

Respect! Canadians DO like their Freedom, as do us Finns.

[@Maconnaith]

​@apuuvah Canada ... freedom??? 1. They are not a fully independent country, the British king is their head of state. 2. If you saw ANYTHING in Canada during Covid, you would know that Canada is not a free country. The tactic of freezing the Bank accounts of people protesting against the government so that they lose their livelihoods or forcing medical procedures on people is more akin to the communist ussr or nazi Germany than a free country. Not to mention their euthanasia programme

[@Coolerman565]

Would they be the Soviet savages that took Berlin you clown?

[@colmcmillan173]

What? Did the Canadian Rednecks protect the German savages from just retribution? So the Canadian savages are accomplices of the German savages.

[@kayvan671]

​@@colmcmillan173 Calm tf down

[@MegaRiffraff]

👍🏻

[@peterb888]

Yet .when in Africa and Bosnia they didnt touch muslims .

[@givemeabreakdoc]

And the US should have finished the job in 1945. Could have saved 10 of millions of lives and tens of trillions of dollars.

[@lawrencetomlinson761]

My German instructor was an ex SS Tank commander in 1970 while I was stationed in Kitzingen. His hate for Russians was always evident in discussions about the war. He commented that we should have joined surviving Germans and gone into Russia. I told him that would never have happened as Americans like my Dad and his brother who fought on both fronts knew who our enemies were that started that war.

[@givemeabreakdoc]

@@lawrencetomlinson761 he was right, as was Patton, but there was absolutely zero political will to do anything about Russia, after 4 long years of war. Hence, we’ve spent tens of trillions on a Cold War that will never end.

[@lindenwatson846]

They might of been honourable soldiers, and the rest of it, what I can't understand is how they all just followed blindly into the greatest catastrophe in the history of their country.

[@jesuszamora6949]

It's easy to see the greater picture for us. These guys really only could see the enemy in front of them.

[@garypulliam3421]

@jesuszamora6949 Horseshit. They were blind with greed ... blinded by nationalism. They just KNEW they were going to win that war and write the history. Their history would have been as clean as new bed sheets. But it didn't work out like they idealized it would. Their leaders were inept, contrary to what they had thought in the beginning. Then they began having their "oh, shit" moments as denial turned into reality. They are guilty of willfully, wontonfully, and blindly following the illegal orders of their leadership. NO EXCUSES!

[@Neillybob63]

@@jesuszamora6949 What are you talking about? The only "enemy in front of them" was their own psychotic government and their own gullibility (believing they were 'The Master Race') and they didn't see a god damned thing until it was far, far too late.

[@stevenmogdis9895]

My first ad was at 1:03

[@ianlang6058]

extensive manu-eevers

[@northboundw5248]

and yet the Russians will vehemetly deny what they did in return.

[@colmcmillan173]

Anyone will deny the propaganda lies.

[@northboundw5248]

@@colmcmillan173 cope harder vatnik

[@kayvan671]

​@@colmcmillan173 Ok

[@davidcunningham2074]

traumatic

[@skipschauer5535]

You will be held accountable to the Most High God.....

[@geraldkriss1120]

G.K. I disagree with General Patton. We had two enemies- National Socialism and Communism. These Socialisms are not opposites- they are two sides of the same coin. They are opposites of our Constitutional Republic. By undermining our most successful Generals and drawing down our forces in Europe our government created the excuse that the west could not drive on to the Polish border. If the Soviets decided to confront the West, the West could have sunk their Navy in a few Weeks, obtained Air superiority in a month or so and their overextended army would be in trouble. Even though the Soviets had about a 50 percent superiority in land forces,our force multiplier would have driven them back to their own border. Keep in mind that Eastern Europe is enemy territory for the Soviets. We created our own problem due to infighting stupidity and naivete.

[@SeattlePioneer]

Hitler was SURE he could easily defeat the Soviet Union as well. The decision to accept totalitarian USSR as an ally, which decided them to attack our mutual enemies until both Germany and Japan, was the smart decision. So was avoiding war with the USSR after WWII. The Communists were no better than Hitler or the Japanese military, but they were OUR SOBs.

[@Evan-iq8hd]

Sounds exactly like what Hitler tried and failed. Your scenario would've just ended with Russians in London.

[@camerongates5752]

That’s a lie. 1st they went for the developmentally disabled, 2nd they went for the communists, then they went for the Jews. Hitler saw exterminating communists as Germany’s top priority before his “Final Solution.” So to say socialism/communism is in any way similar to Nazism is silly.

[@jb-xc4oh]

Dream on. The Russians ground to dust the finest and most professional army the world has ever seen. Eighty per cent of all German KIA's were on the Eastern front against Russia. They would have made short work of of the Western allies had push come to shove.

[@SeattlePioneer]

@@jb-xc4oh > The Russians held off a cocksure, overconfident and undersupplied Germany invading army, and after numerous horrendous defeats, learned how to pulverize the German army in turn, assisted by massive allied supplies of everything needed for war except bodies and guts. The Brits defeated the German air force in 1940, and then learned how to defeat the German Uboats after taking massive losses, but defeat them they did. The United States and the Brits defeated the Africa Corp and took them prisoners, except for Rommel. The United States and the Brits used massive air and artillery to pulverize the German army, and was smart enough to work in harmony with the Red Army to divide and defeat the German army. Thus the finest and most professional army the world has ever seen (as German officers recalled it after the war) was ground to dust, pulverized and defeated absolutely. Sounds like a profound error of judgement to me.