Opening The Graves Of The German Soldiers Of Stalingrad

[@danielb7660]

My neighbor was in the first wave of Omaha Beach on D-Day. I met a German soldier from WW2 who was in Stalingrad, got wounded in September 42 and was evacuated to Germany. I met him walking home from junior hs in 1977. I introduced Mr. Koch and Mr. Arroyo. These two old warriors would talk late into the summer nights having a few beers remembering the horrors of war and long lost friends. They were no longer enemies, they became survivors from the Hell that is war. I listened to them speak it was all consuming both in the terrors told and the lifelessness in their voices. They weren't in Jess's backyard anymore but back in time. These poor men in Stalingrad. So needless.

[@BodyChamp96]

I would move to hear those conversations I wish there was a way for you to record them

[@smokeykitty6023]

​@@BodyChamp96 I was thinking the same thing.

[@raymondcoache7442]

My great uncle Friedrick was lost in Stalingrad while serving in the German army. It truly was hell on earth

[@gibraltersteamboatco888]

And why were he and his friends there?

[@martywhitaker85]

​@gibraltersteamboatco888 why ask stupid questions?

[@gibraltersteamboatco888]

​@@martywhitaker85 Frierick is an odd spelling, didn't know if he was a foreign volunteer. But your reply tells all.

[@martywhitaker85]

@gibraltersteamboatco888 check your own spelling champ.

[@TheLifeEvents]

Do you have any pictures? Those poor people, both sides. Must have been hell!

[@emilioalcazar-su9vi]

Their valour always Will inspire me..the incredibly tough call of duty.. remember them..

[@alkroenker7478]

2 of my uncles were killed KIA/MIA there. My father named me after them. Alois Heinrich Kroenker.

[@davidharris7235]

Sure it's not Alois Hitler?

[@TheLifeEvents]

Those poor lads, must have been hell. please tell me more. Pictures?

[@privateer177666]

3 of my Uncles are MIA/KIA in service of the German Army. They were East Prussian.

[@ROCKGUITARIST62]

Sorry for your loss 😢

[@thomaskristensen3201]

Thats was happening when you come to others peoples countrys whit Guns ​@@ROCKGUITARIST62

[@ChesterWortham]

They had to be good soilders

[@Depak1959]

And?

[@JoeCarroll-tr5hw]

One day The world will know the truth about this crime against the German 🇩🇪 nation.

[@danielcires1515]

My grandpa was caught there. He came back after 5 years

[@lidelong5513]

Mine only in 1959 and I had no chance to see him because he died of the results of Russian gulag before I was born

[@thomasweatherford5125]

So sad that some families never knew of their loved ones’ whereabouts both military and civilian. I fear we’re going to repeat the lessons we stopped paying attention to.

[@RobertBoereboom]

That's all well n good, your worried bout Germanics,wat about poor Russian ppl murdered by the faithful leaders orders.its war ....learn history

[@krakrtreacysr907]

@@thomasweatherford5125 true

[@smokeykitty6023]

I am worried for America now.

[@thomasweatherford5125]

@@smokeykitty6023 - me too

[@jamesflaherty8739]

​@@smokeykitty6023Our soldiers are fine. It is the Russian soldiers that are fighting for nothing and losing slowly but surely.

[@gregthompson3274]

Regarding the fact that loved ones in Germany didn't know the fate of soldiers,the only word they needed to know was the word Stalingrad

[@Edge51]

So nice to have a real voice and not AI

[@erniepienaar6528]

and also no hard music!

[@eddiejones2121]

The Hell where youth and laughter goes

[@michaelshanahan4042]

It must have been Hell on Earth

[@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul]

Worse than Verdun. If that's possible.

[@jamesflaherty8739]

I seriously doubt that. But it was definitely no picnic, especially for the Germans.

[@Russellw.-rm5zb]

The sufferings of the Eastern Front, were multiplied by the callousness of the Soviet Government, so many civilians perished in Stalingrad, because of Stalin's insistence, that civilians were to remain in contested cities, to help in their defense. Any who attempted to evacuate, were subject to the same treatment, as retreating soldiers, execution by the N. K. V. D.! Russian reinforcements were sent into the Caldron of Stalingrad, without weapons, simply being told "If you want a rifle, take one from the Germans". The life expectancy, for a new Russian soldier, in Stalingrad, was 20 minutes! Unsurprisingly, the estimate of the loss of Russian soldiers in Stalingrad, was at least, a million, or more!

[@МаринаКислая-у5ф]

Ну от куда вы берёте такую чушь.Эвакуация всегда шла по мере.возможности.Не все жители успели эвакуироваться. Город миллионник.Кто успел,тот эвакуировался.Кто нет,тот был в подвале. Ну мозги иногда включайте.Да в холодных подвалах погибли мирные жители, которые НЕ УСПЕЛИ ЭВАКУИРОВАТЬСЯ.Был холод,обстрелы,взрывы.Там был ад.Детей,мирных жителей мне жаль,6ю армию не жалко.

[@mmm091000]

@@МаринаКислая-у5ф👏👍

[@chrisscott1633]

Stalingrad..Gives me COLD DARK SHIVERS ...

[@Crashed131963]

Russians were brave fighters not good fighters. No winning side lost more soldiers than the losing side in the history of warfare . Not once but Twice ! First fighting the Finland winter war than fighting the Germans . Germany lost 5 million soldiers to Russia's 10 million. Finland lost 26,000 to Russia's 160,000 soldiers. Sorry maybe the vietnam war. The US lost the war but killed over a million Vietcong while losing 55,000 US soldiers .

[@МаринаКислая-у5ф]

​@@Crashed131963Войска вермахта потеряло более 7 млн. солдат. У немцев было намного больше, и лучше вооружение.Сильные потери были со стороны советских войск если учесть худшее вооружение .Ещё учесть черту характера русского человека-не бояться умереть во имя чего-то. У.многих ошибочное мнение,что русские берут своей массой.Поверте ,у нас не так много людей. До 41 г.СССР проживало 174 млн.Если учесть Германию и её союзников, то численность не в пользу СССР. Если вы насчёт Вьетнама,то какая разница,война США-это смело орудовать ковровыми бомбардировками.Но Вьетнам не победили.Города берёт пехота.

[@andrewfischer8564]

i thought you were going to open up german graves?

[@Karl-nv5ok]

You must be dumb to write a comment like this one

[@cplmark29]

so sad, so sad that many people are lost to war cause of one man.

[@Paul-s1h]

After all this today Germany is mostly Muslim.

[@depleteduraniumcowboy3516]

A simple web search proves this is pure BS. Get good, Ivan.

[@gabyspan940]

@@depleteduraniumcowboy3516 in 2024 10% of population was muslim...and that not a small figure

[@depleteduraniumcowboy3516]

@@gabyspan940 You get that OP said MOSTLY? 90% isn't, that is 9 times the figure you say is not small.

[@gabyspan940]

@@depleteduraniumcowboy3516 it doesnt matter, since 8 to 10 million germans are muslims and that is concerning to say the least, it counts even more since many more million germans are indifferent to their future

[@Shelldrake489]

So, we’re not opening the graves at stalingrad ?

[@RBAILEY57]

War is always about the husbands, fathers, brothers, sons and uncles who never come home.

[@masudashizue777]

To think that all these fine men would have probably lived long, happy lives if it were not for that horrible, useless war.

[@brianingarfill1773]

Question: I have read several books claiming that when the russian armies liberated the German POW camps they shipped between 200-300K British, American and Commonwealth troupes back to russia to be used as slave labour and REFUSED to repatriate them back to their homelands. HAVE YOU ANY INFORMATION ON THIS?

[@40intrepid]

It was because they were Jewish.

[@christopherfritz3840]

I remember when this topic was released. Late 80's I think. It was mixed up with the whole 'Vietnam POW'S left behind' narrative. Both were dismissed as conspiracy theories..

[@milescaughey1829]

I beleive it was over 300 never returned American Airmen and soldiers. It was in the Senate Selects Committee on POW/MIA report chaired by John McCain and John Kerry,. . . We left 508 American POWS in N Vietnam and over 300 in Cambodia and Laos. The foggy memory of it is why we still have POW/MIA flags flying!

[@jamesflaherty8739]

Russia did keep some American POW's who landed their bombers in Russia after bombing Japan. RIP

[@ericscottstevens]

Grandfather flew with many JU52 and HE111 supply missions into the city. Air drops were the initial priority with supplies pushed out the open cargo doors and contents landing and apparent no movement below. Unless troops came out at night to claim the contents so they could not attract enemy fire or already were dead so the Soviets claim everything. . He was not a JU52 crewman but a Stuka gunner with StG 151 at Nikolayev where it was convenient to reassigned him to Verbindungskommando (S) 4

[@teejay2556]

Misleading title

[@sharonwhiteley6510]

I often wonder why members of the German high command weren't charged for murder of their own troops by refusing a retreat when it was possible. In the mid 1970s, we worked with an older German who was part of the walk back from Russia consisting of 1.1M troops. He would say IT WAS HELL ON EARTH.

[@LeonardGarcia-yn2ej]

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[@artinio]

For what they came there ?For young people it was great journey what became their graves ...

[@masterblaster6230]

That was the Hell getting up from the depth. Stalingrad was the Devil City. Nothing compares in horror.

[@brucealmighty9877]

Fantastic journalism 👏

[@Crashed131963]

If Germany stop with the peaceful takeover of Austria and Czechoslovakia they would have been fine . Poland was a step too far for England and France . Declaring War on Russia and the United States was pure insanity .

[@odysseus2656]

Germany's economy was cratering. They kept looting other nations to keep their socialist system solvent.

[@scavenger9579]

The soviet were amassing troops and getting ready to attack the germans, they attacked first

[@8989griff]

True… the US was waaaay too much to take on with also fighting Russia on the East.

[@Crashed131963]

@@8989griff The US on its own in the 1940s had a much larger population and manufacturing capacity than Germany . Also the US did not need to import resources for WAR they had what they needed .

[@thegreatdeception2563]

My Grandfather Fritz Peupelmann lost His leg there,made it home to Berlin.

[@StuartAhrens-b4n]

My father had a brother called Ernst and was never found. After seeing this I hope this never happened to him. My father gave me his name as my middle name. 🇩🇪 After WW2 Dad came to Australia and made a good life for him self.But Dad tryed to find him. But we never received any response. Just that he was MIA never came back.🇩🇪🥇🙊🙈🙉🇦🇺🦘

[@chrismair8161]

90 Thousand went into Prisoner of WAR to the Soviets. 5 Thousand were allowed to come home. By all accounts a quarter million were captured. The Soviets had a good reason to do this as None of the slavic captives were kept alive. They could breed. This was a WAR. To this day a country called the US is trying hard to be a World Police Officer. You can't ask a whole lineage to simply forget. I would like to explore Vienna and the Yukon. A Chance to see beautiful Art and a chance to see where there could be Hope in the worst conditions. One day Men will let the Women write history as they suffered the most.

[@marcelomarcelo2695]

Salve a Grande Alemanha Ocultista e Esoterica

[@smokeykitty6023]

Too late. Nazis found out that the Aryans aren't superior.

[@janlindtner305]

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[@thomaskristensen3201]

UK KIA world war two 384.000 KIA Russia 10 millions and 18 millions civillians .

[@aloisweberf8569]

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[@RandySchaff-mu5gq]

Four great uncles somewhere in Russia now.

[@smokeykitty6023]

I'm sorry your family will never know. It was a brutal, barbaric war.

[@МаринаКислая-у5ф]

Очень приятно смотреть на безмысленный поход на город моих предков.Немцев не жаль.Нацистам туда дорога,кресты....,кресты....

[@christopherfritz3840]

Hello, hello from the USA. I hope NOW that Trump has been reelected that the fighting in Ukraine will END soon 👏 Is it true that most Russian households have a German helmet kept as a reminder of the sacrifices spent in the Great Patriotic War?

[@milescaughey1829]

Yet we have NOW a million deaths and casualties of Ukrainians and Russians. MY heart is sad for ALL thier losses!

[@smokeykitty6023]

I am sorry for your family's loss. It was a horrific war started by a mad man. God, help America now.

[@moobaz8675]

I love your content but struggle to listen to the narrative. It's too disjointed. Sorry to rain on your parade but for me it's a bit off puttting.

[@ruthmoreau6419]

I agree. I struggle to understand the narrator in parts as his accent is off putting to me. I have heard this narrator before and my opinion hasn't changed.

[@smokeykitty6023]

As I've gotten older I've learned to just slow down the playback speed and that helps a lot. He's doing his best. He probably wouldn't understand some crazy American accents.

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