The British And American Armies Had Broken Our Counterattack

The British And American Armies Had Broken Our Counterattack
Disclaimer:The content of this video is based on the diaries of World War 2 soldiers, and the personal expressions of the author, and has no intent to incite or promote content that violates KZbin policies or any other rule or law.

[@richardthornhill4630]

The glory of war loses its glamour during combat.

[@ditto1958]

One common thread to all these stories, on this as well as other similar channels is that the Germans in them all seem to get seriously wounded often. And when they do, and when they survive, they then always get sent back to Germany weeks in cushy convalescent hospitals, followed by leave at home. There never seems to be any hurry on the part of the Army to get them back to the front, even as the Germans are retreating in both the Eastern and Western Fronts.

[@larrymartin3678]

It’s hard to tell what is accurate memory and what is creative writing. I’ve come to like these stories as fiction for the most part.

[@asullivan4047]

Perhaps a lot of embellishments also-??? 😱

[@TravelatorH8r]

The story is that he's training a bunch of 10 year old boys to protect Berlin and probably about 90% of them are going to die this is the truth

[@TravelatorH8r]

You can tell yourself it's fiction if it makes you feel better

[@larrymartin3678]

@@TravelatorH8r I don’t mean that I think the stories are all just pure fiction. But I don’t think people generally remember detailed conversations and precisely how things happened (while they were fighting for their lives) well enough to tell them as in these stories. They can give us some idea of what it must have been like though.

[@davrelltien7416]

Who was the author?

[@specom]

Damn, this guy is GETTIN' SOME!😅

[@brightman2011]

As usual, the video title in no way represents the actual video

[@erivej]

This is from an actual book by Erwin Bartmann.

[@ManiSRao-bt3xw]

Poison gas is my guess. .

[@genconsensus4205]

The title refers to the Ardennes offensive in late December 1944 the last chance mass counterattack against the American lines aiming to split the British and American armies. This is referred to as the Battle of the Bulge by Americans and is mentioned in the first 5 or so minutes of this episode.

[@TravelatorH8r]

I like to call the Battle of the Bulge the battle of the Ardennes part 2: it worked the first time

[@currentbatches6205]

1:11 - 7/21/44. If the Amis and the Brits had broken the counterattack, this is somewhere in Normandy, too early for the Cobra breakout. But there are no concentration camps in Normandy as the diarist had theorized earlier. Help us out here. 1:42 - He got lucky, more than once and to the world's detriment. 1:53 - So the earlier reference to the concentration camps is interesting in more than one way: 1) This diarist knows of the concentration camps; denied by many in Germany and in the East where they were located. 2) He also understood that had the gained the upper hand, there would be hell to pay. 2:00 - Nothing anywhere in the written record suggests Himmler had any advanced notice at all; pure BS. 4:54 - The Nazis lost the war on 9/1/39. It took until the fall of Stalingrad and Tunis to make clear you were now going to have to defend as best you could; never enough. And YOU wasted German and Allied blood and treasure for another year and a half to accept the inevitable. For shame! 7:18 - You'd be do more sympathy were you not SS. 7;55 - Live by bureaucracy, die by it. 13:39 - Worthy of the Babylon Bee! 15:00 - There were no "three special bombs"; assuming the intent was nuclear weapons. The Nozis lost the war on 9/1/39; the rest is commentary. The Nazis never got close to a controlled reaction, let alone even imagining the design of a nuclear weapon. 16:56 - Quartering troops is not a good idea; see the US Constitution. 18:05 - Shame on you. 21:57 - You got in a sucker-punch, the Allies returned with much more. As a Nazi officer commented in early '45: "Many more victories like that and the war is over'. 30:40 - The Red Army is approaching from the east; why didn't she decamp to the west while it was still possible? 33:37 - You didn't want anyone that abysmally stupid in your class. 45:12 - Parade-ground heroes. Pathetic, but by now, the Nazis had no other way to 'continue' the war.

[@specom]

Concentration camps are mentioned in the movie Casablanca, made in 1942. The Germans surely knew of them as prisons. The claim is that they didn't know they were death camps. Some weren't extermination centers, but had high death tolls due to starvation, disease, over work and sheer brutality by the guards. The existence of Dachau was no secret, only what was going going on there.

[@specom]

Pretty sure the "secret bombs" were poison gas, nerve agents or biological weapons. Churchill was pushing the whole war to use gas, but FDR and Ike told him to go play in the traffic. Hitler knew once he used gas all bets were off. He had been gassed in WWI.

[@seth101-hv4st]

I’m sure the people went out of their way to not know what was going on in the concentration camps.

[@mfaracing]

This is extremely interesting... if it's true. I mean the story of the 3 bombs.

[@somethingelse4878]

Maybe v1 or 2 not nuke unless there's been a coverup There are a few fake German ww2 books out atm

[@falconlips5474]

Wait I must have missed this part, what was it?

[@somethingelse4878]

@@falconlips5474 13:49 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKHZd5eXn86KbdEsi=P2zLxKVx7YmQUskN&t=829

[@mfaracing]

@@falconlips5474 I am sorry I didn't track the exact point in time in the video. It was when the narrator was having a family meal with his father, mother and brother Horst. His brother said that he (or someone close to him in the communication department where he was working) heard a telephone conversation between Hitler and Goering and that Goering asked permission to Hitler to use "those bombs". There is the conspiracy theory around that Germans already had the atom bomb. Who can prove it without doubts? I don't know.

[@mfaracing]

@@falconlips5474 OK, I found it. Minute 13:55 onwards.

[@TravelatorH8r]

Yes a lot of these stories are fiction but they're all based on the truth of what actually happened but I bet the actual truth it's probably much worse

[@PeteNThat]

BS title to video.