Siberians Attacked Our Sentries In The Night With Blades

[@linscats]

I was taking care of an old German woman who had been a nurse during WW2. Even though she had dementia, she had lucid moments where once she told me, “I tended to the men they come back to Finland and they cry for their mutter.” I understood her to mean that these were the wounded and dying soldiers who were coming back from the Russian front.

[@johndurrer7869]

Zat ist not true. We great soldiers of da SS never cry for mutter. When we die we say fawk u mutter for not making us stronger for mein Fuhrer . Zah

[@rogerhinman5427]

As a former Army supply sergeant...don't piss off those who take care of your food and pay.

[@bruhism173]

That's just common knowledge

[@SanitysVoid]

Why don't you give advice on what not to do to piss off supply?

[@thegeneralist7527]

@SanitysVoid: NEVER complain directly to the person providing service. They are either doing the best they can or don't want to do the job or hate it. Complaining almost never provides results because they can either a) not help you anyway, or b) it will only piss them off and you'll get worse service. Two things you can do: 1. Find out which it is, can't provide service or won't provide service. If you provide support either way by showing sympathy for the predicament or support for the grievance, you will be "on their side", and this will often put you a little higher in the pecking order. 2. Problems always go UP the chain of command, but always have a recommended solution and options to resolve the issue. NEVER just dump a problem on the chain of command, it will just make you look stupid and/or lazy. If command needs the issue resolved they will work the problem through the chain of command. complimented

[@jimknowlton342]

Yes because they will heroically let you starve to death and be shot to pieces while they stay well behind the lines, out of spite.

[@Neillybob63]

So..... how many people did you deny food to and for how long did you delay someone's pay for the unforgivable crime of 'pissing you off'?

[@petesmusic6648]

Excellent episode 🙏 many thanks for the content and delivery 👏

[@thechurch5000]

I read about that Luftwaffe unit in the picture of this video they arrived to help out with the street fighting in Stalingrad and didn't last very long.

[@erichughes284]

Lol I can see why

[@bruhism173]

These are Luftwaffe soliders?

[@SanitysVoid]

@@bruhism173 They are. Re purposed for front line combat. It's what happens as the luftwaffa gets shot out of the sky, less planes flying means more people not having a job with the air planes.

[@bruhism173]

@@SanitysVoid im not sure about that but I know goring convinced Hitler to give him 200,000 Luftwaffe personal instead of sending them to reinforce the assault on stalingrad, that would have actually won that battle or prolonged the encirclement

[@warwarneverchanges4937]

Source? That looks like a staged picture of the "butcher of prauge" Reinhard Heydrich in his LF uniform, Why wear the tie into combat.

[@sarcasmo57]

Quite the adventures.

[@friendlyfire7861]

I refuse to believe any of these are real without citations.

[@alexdelacotte9031]

Especially when even the title is spelt wrong lol

[@jeffdundon9895]

wow..this one was like a piece of candy. ty

[@beerye9331]

Smooth intelligible voice and accent.

[@Bob.W.]

AI

[@ryanjfjrjrjrjrj]

It’s a voice bot bro

[@egay86292]

very schoolboy. makes me miss Hogwarts.

[@erichughes284]

Thank you I do have a little problem with numbers but im learning

[@erichughes284]

​@@ryanjfjrjrjrjrjI resent being called a bot

[@sgabig]

Never heard of a Siberian Reindeer Ski Brigade 🦌🎿

[@tonylipsmire5918]

Sounds like the most badace unit in all militaries

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

Look up how the Finnish beat TF outta the reds for a while.

[@capoislamort100]

Those bastards were the ones that saved Moscow from the Wehrmacht in the winter of Barbarossa.

[@anandnairkollam]

The cliffhanger though

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting and informative excellent photography picture 📷 enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Special thanks to veteran soldiers/civilians sharing personal information/combat experiences. Thru diaries/memoirs enabling historians to replicate those stories. For future generations like us to better appreciate the hard ships suffered by all those involved with the war. After the failed blitzkrieg invasion attempt to conquer Moscow. Allowing general Zhukov to reorganize his demoralized forces/fortify Moscow's perimeters. General Guderian hopes to set up his operational military operations command in the Kremlin. Were forever diminished. War on the Eastern Front was lost!!!

[@nordland2235]

Can you imagine how many German sentries got their throats cut in WWII?

[@bookaufman9643]

This guy obviously does not get along with a lot of people. He tends to blame all of them and there are some that sound like real idiots but I think he's part of the problem as well. This may be one of the first guys in these series who has rarely fired his rifle. It's strange that he even published his diary. Maybe things are going to pick up with him but I somehow don't think it'll be a lot of horrendous battles. We'll see.😊

[@necrowolf77]

I get the idea that this guys didn't get along with many people because he was too self reflecting and realized there was something wrong. He starter to undo part of his brainwashing so he didn't get along with the lower ranks, but he also didn't want to think too hard on it to not affect his growing position.

[@bookaufman9643]

@@necrowolf77 he didn't undo a lot of his brainwashing. Even at the end of the wore this guy is being selected for even more Nazi indoctrination because he's considered such a strong Nazi and a true believer. He just didn't believe as strongly in the Jewish part of the equation but we never really know how much of that part he did believe. I do suppose that part of his problem with getting along with other people was his self-reflection but many would say it was his self-obsession. I think you might have been difficult to get along with all politics aside.

[@sbyerley]

What are the REFERENCES: the name of the book or papers from which these stories are derived.

[@charlesjames1442]

Didn’t know about the genocide? There were over a thousand concentration camps.

[@maxinefreeman8858]

I listened to another story completely opposite from war. I thought the voice was familiar. It must've been a bot. It had a tone a little like this one.

[@timshelby2324]

50 km west of Murmansk ? I didn't know Germans were up there .

[@mattpierre891]

The "Total War" speech was made by Goebbels, not Goering.

[@carnetplank6259]

Yes he pronounced Goebbels like "Ger-bills" which is common but may be confusing

[@erichughes284]

I am fascinated by all the regional biases and prejudices within Germany

[@alphaomega938]

>puts antisemitism aside >immediately confused why the US enters the war to save Bolshevism

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

True. Imagine if they'd just exiled the Jews instead of outright f*cking ethnic cleansings. You know, like a bunch of nations did after and before.

[@erichughes284]

You must remember all he heard

[@erichughes284]

Was propaganda

[@dda40x1]

Like a 1930's cliffhanger.

[@warwarneverchanges4937]

Is that Reinhard Heydrich Im asuming the picture is staged cause of the tie

[@capoislamort100]

I believe This picture was of a soldier somewhere in Stalingrad in the summer of ‘42, he was later killed in combat.

[@rosscampbell1173]

I wish I had an MP 40😔

[@SanitysVoid]

Interesting that the Germans drafted luftwaffa personel into front line duty. They also uses navel personel. During the Iraq war the U.S. did the same with our navy. The war changed and the navey had extra men who leanred how to run supply and patrol.

[@barryrammer7906]

The USN Seabee were doing the most construction and patrols. They are construction battalions the are trained by Marines to fight. In fact they were the ones who used bulldozers to bury their adversaries alive and their trenches. You might have seen them before the tanks plowing them in.

[@charleshowie2074]

Luftwaffa lol

[@genekelly8467]

Germany had tons of sailors and naval officers-since the surface fleet was unable to operate (no fuel); they might as well have joined the army.@@charleshowie2074

[@brucemcdonald6677]

Absolute Bull, at no point did the Navy turn sailors into soldiers…idiot!

[@robertsettle2590]

​@@barryrammer7906....what movie is this from?

[@fumble_brewski5410]

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me. (Martin Niemöller, German Lutheran Pastor, 1892 - 1984)

[@otsoko66]

please quote it correctly: It's "First they came for the Communists ..." (because that's what they did)

[@SanitysVoid]

The same things are happening in the U.S. today.

[@fumble_brewski5410]

@@otsoko66 Actually, I did quote the passage correctly. The verses shown began circulating in the 1950's, and the version shown above is the one shown at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A longer (later) version by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a charity established by the British government, shows it as adding a paragraph with "First They Came for the Communists..." In the mind of the NSDAP, there was no difference between the two groups, so it's irrelevant. And I'm sure that this explanation won't satisfy your overweening sense of historical meticulousness, so let's just leave it at that. I have no interest in carrying on a dialogue with anyone on this subject.

[@fumble_brewski5410]

@@SanitysVoid So who, actually, is doing the "same things" in the U.S. today? Trump? Hardly. In fact, it looks as though he may be on his way to prison. Biden? Get real. The old geezer doesn't even know which day of the week it is. So, again, I ask you who's doing the same things today? Or are you just talking out of school, trying to sound like an intellectual?

[@spannaspinna]

@@SanitysVoidgarbage

[@jeffburkholder1353]

Doode!! It's a freakin' voice bot. Auto voce'.

[@kmd5551]

AI + voice bot

[@Nuru74]

It's Mark Felton reading. This is his second channel. If you follow his other channel you'd know this.

[@rosesprog1722]

@@Nuru74 Oh no, and now I have his stupid intro in my head and I can't get rid of it... and it's all because of you!!! : )

[@rosesprog1722]

There are some real narrative pearls in there, the kind that hook me so that I'm like: Wa, wa dee say... That I usually have to replay them two or three times before I calm down enough to listen to the rest. Here's one: "Life in the bunkers was so stressful that the inhabitants had difficulties keeping their irritation in check and Elders had their hands full maintaining peace. For me, the greatest hardship was the physical closeness of men and their smell, To this day, I have to turn my nose away when soldiers are marching by... Strangely, most inhabitants of the bunker did not complain about the smell but all suffered from the lack of privacy. The result was tensions that could erupt at any moment into open hostility; When one man felt annoyed by another, he yelled at him: "You stink to me." In spite of my own suffering, | noticed the expression with muted amusement and wondered to what extent human relations are subconsciously affected by smell (they are, a lot), It seemed to me that the graphic expression was less of a metaphor than the laners suspected! At any rate, as far as my nose was concerned, my discomfort was real, not metaphorical..." One could easily call it: Nose Shock, or PTSN, or Colateral Nostrils, or Foot Phobia, or Paranoiac Smell Disorder, or Chronic Nasal Incapacity, or COVIN 19, or Morbid Putridity, or Psychosomatic Odor Intolerance, anti-Nasalism, Crap Fixations, Boot Allergy, Ah man... Etc, etc...

[@ppumpkin3282]

I imagine it was worse in the trenches in WWI, two feet of mud, trench foot, lice, rats feeding off of dead bodies.

[@rosesprog1722]

@@ppumpkin3282 Oh absolutely, but if you were German, things were a little better. They had 30 feet deep bomb resistant concrete reinforced bunkers often with electricity, running cold water and the rain couldn't go in but like everybody else, they had lice, rats and stinking humans. : )

[@ohiofarmer5918]

As to how you discover propaganda in your own country, might I suggest first the videos from the artist Give Time's August on the album Silent War and also discover how Sweden handled the pandemic. The Amish did the same thing with some early loss of life, but a much lower death rate. Propaganda serves it's purpose in business and government or the perfect combination of life and death in my own family.....some of who I don't care if I ever see again That's as far as I go. Go and find out for yourself

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

His reaction to Goebbels' infamous 1943 Total War speech is extremely revealing in that he both calls it Goebbels' "greatest speech" and also completely neglects to mention the fact that Goebbels' argument for "total war" (as if the war thus far hadn't been barbaric enough) was the complicity of the German people in the crimes committed in their name, and the fear of "a terrible Soviet retribution."

[@yurinator4411]

Getting some bullshit vibes from this guy.

[@Pete-z6e]

As I from you.

[@erichughes284]

Idk he sounds legit to me

[@iddomargalit-friedman3897]

Why? Didn't get that

[@christopherconard2831]

Some of it does sound revisionist. As if he's trying to rationalize being a soldier, knowing to some extent what was going on, but still trying to justify supporting it. At least he admits to knowing about the camps. Though not the details. Many people's memoirs claim the first time they even got a clue wasn't until after the war. Possible, though not plausible. There was a collective agreed upon blindness where everyone pretends not to see anything or ask obvious questions. I've mentioned before another book by a former German soldier. He at least admits what he did. Though prior to writing he never dared tell anyone. After the war he was talking to some that had fought in the East. He asked if they ever saw the farms or work cities that the millions were supposedly sent to. They traveled back and forth across the land that they had resettled and were supposedly working to provide food for Germany. When did they ever see these Jewish, or Slavic, or any of the others deported people working these plantations? Clearly they were all dead.

[@barryb7682]

@@christopherconard2831 Just as EVERY person in the USA was aware of the American concentration camps and how the American citizens of German & Japanese ancestry who got sent to these camps lost everything they had, jobs, money, businesses, property and houses. Once set free, nothing was returned. Surely EVERY American knew about these camps and what was happening to the Americans sent there.... but seems Americans pretend they didn't know. Everyone knew, it was talked about Facebook and on CNN during the war. And that was at a time the media didn't with hold or censor stuff that was negative... like merchant ships being sunk in droves within sight of America's coast. Everyone knew right? Therefore, every American knew but didn't care. Saying one did not know about the American concentration camps and the unjustices is highly improbable, and therefore they supported these unjustices, right? Its all too easy to judge people without having walked in their shoes.

[@cristobalvalladares973]

Listening to this I'm left incredulous. How could von der Leyen imply that Russia as the enemy in WW2? Why portray Russia as the bad guy in the war? Nothing but admiration for the Russian fighting man.

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

A braindead sentiment, born of ignorance not malicious intent I'm sure.

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

Tons of Russians didn't care what was going on westward. Russians didn't care until Hitler crossed their border. Many of the most capable units were penal battalions forced into suicide missions. The Russians lost more men to bad tactics, poor preparation and terrible leadership than even the Germans or Japanese or Americans or British did. Possibly more than several of them combined. How many Russian units had no choice but to push forward or risk getting sent to a penal battalion? (The far more likely outcome of retreating, although many did get executed for it) ntm the terrible vehicles, the awful command structure full of just as many war criminals as the SNazis, and the manner in which the Russians conducted themselves during the war; Katyn, Finland, the r@pe of Berlin, the way they kept European art and gold and sent it to Moscow, whereas America had entire units dedicated to returning materials of European origin to their homes... was the common fighting man from Russia a decent fighter? I dunno, no one ever let them fight.

[@r3d5ive87]

Russia made a pact to start the war with Germany by both invading Poland.

[@OsmanOsmanHan]

“Russians” in this context means: Ukrainians, Central Asians, Northern Siberians, Caucasians, Tatars, Russians, etc.

[@jordanhicks5131]

Russians in ww2 would have fought with sticks without American supplies. The Russian military is a joke, I have zero respect for a mob of drunken thieves