The HORRIFIC Executions Of The Soldiers Ran Over By German Tanks

Throughout the Second World War there were many executions carried out by the German Army and the SS. One of the most shocking series of executions took place in France in 1940, after the capture of a number of colonial soldiers. Near to the city of Lyon, the Senegalese colonial fighters who fought for the French Army were overpowered and they were then marched into a field by members of the SS and the Wehrmacht. Following them were two tanks/panzers.
Inside of the field, the officers were forced to lie down in the mud, but then the prisoners were told to run away from the tanks. As they tried to make a run for it, the tanks opened their machine guns on the prisoners. This event became known as the Chasselay Massacre, and it was a shocking and brutal execution of soldiers that took place inside of France.
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[@biggamerecords612]

The Soviets threw cold water on injured German soldiers and put them outside in freezing cold weather to let them freeze to death it's amazing how barbaric wars can be its almost unbelievable

[@ShadowEmpathy]

poor german soldiers :(

[@johnzubil2875]

not those honorable🤣🤣🤣 Wehrmacht soldiers.

[@cuthbertjolly4859]

@yesm2302 5 months ago Once you’ve declared yourself a master race and the rules of war don’t apply to you don’t cry when your enemy takes you up on it

[@woadblue]

​@@cuthbertjolly4859sure ok I don't necessarily disagree but I can guarantee you most of the German army were not actually Nazis and had no choice but to fight. Many of them didn't even know the extent of the exterminations being carried out by their own government. They lied to their own people to gain power and continued to do it to remain there.

[@hiyves9880]

Not all of them were terrible people you know

[@briansmaller7443]

One of my long lost British relatives was killed in the Le Paradis massacre. Sydney Arthur Smaller. He was 21 years old.

[@patriciarowe6685]

Thank you for posting this. It's scary to think what it would have been like if they had won the war.

[@artorito1]

well eventually they ate my dink,two million of german women were raped and 200,000 died under these action. I wouls say who cares

[@ccrider3435]

@@hardlines2635 Sounds like a cowardly thing to say.

[@patkearney9320]

Could it be worse than what we have today? History is cruel but there was many times war could have been avoided like today in Ukraine. When the system wish war it happens this is why I believe the God my Mother valued is testing us.

[@patkearney9320]

@@ccrider3435 please explain I have ran and lived in warzones and I know cowardice when I see it. Young men follow orders in a fire zone we are all coward's. Some through youth master fear they are still coward's. To me the coward is the ones who give orders and watch the cruelty then report you when it hits the fan. Please I ask you to explain I don't judge I am just the one who lives without a youth.

[@stansmith4054]

​@@hardlines2635Really? Are you daft? If Nazi Germany would have won, there would be no Slavs, Jews, mixed race people, etc because they would have all been executed! There would be no Britain and no France.

[@MrNaKillshots]

Do not surrender.

[@topnotch676]

Especially when fighting a ruthless adversary

[@MrNaKillshots]

@@thomasouaque1665 If it's a choice between fighting and dying or surrendering and dying, I'd take the first option.

[@MrNaKillshots]

@@thomasouaque1665 How?

[@brianbozo2447]

Its one thing to be barbaric in 1944 when troops become desensitized to human suffering but to carry out executions and barbaric acts within 2 weeks of invading France suggests more extreme sociopathy

[@jensenwilliam5434]

Such brutal crimes! How dumb war is. And is happening in Ukraine today!!!

[@patkearney9320]

Yes we learned nothing from millions dead and tortured peoples, we keep letting them do it wars the greatest money maker on earth. And governments keep stoking the fire, war is a lie we are told who we hate and can kill. And we keep doing it because it's the way of the human animal. Animals don't destroy like the human, and Putin is not the devil and Ukraine could have talked Russia before this twice Russia asked for peace talks, but no NATO and America needs a war because war is Americas only way out of the a broke bankrupt America.

[@thomasweatherford5125]

We just never learn the lessons from these wars.

[@snakejuce]

ROFL, dude conveniently disregards the oppression of the Palestinians which has been going on far longer than Ukraine. It's all good though, some are considered human, others are not, amirite? 🤦‍♂️

[@PrimericanIdol]

Maybe the Western demons should have taken Russia's security concerns seriously. FAFO.

[@LarsonPetty]

The Players change; the Game stays the same. Same as it ever was; same as it ever will be.

[@ub1953]

As a student of WW 2 am amazed at the unheard of events revealed by channels such as yours...continue to inform us.

[@twangshanty9559]

Dig deeper on this one, it smells like race bating.

[@johnzubil2875]

I've read many accounts of WEHRMACHT atrocities. One account read that you can't possibly have such a systematic and organized killing machine with just SS members. They were comprised of a small group not capable of that kind of volume. Of course it ony makes sense that the Wehrmacht participated. And they did. So now they will be exposed through social media.

[@hardlines2635]

If H had gone into north Africa first the world would be a lot better place.

[@Jeff-sp7bg]

Read up on what the Japanese did to the chinese. Makes the Germans look like amateurs

[@woodenseagull1899]

80+ years on. The Archives are continuingly giving ( weekly it seems ) of new evidence of indescribable barbarism. I often wonder what happened to the group of Canadian soldiers; as a young boy , waving them off on D day in the South of England.

[@jthomas4361]

Bullshit

[@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204]

RIP to the brave Senegalese warriors

[@chiapets2594]

To the Warriors of the Sentenalese Island Tribe that fought and won the war on their Island with sticks and bow and the Axis couldn't pierce their Island not even a foot their ships U-boats and panzers were getting blown up and sunken by the Sentenalese rocks and twigs. And their infantry couldn't make it past their now mines. What an amazing untouched tribe that won the war for the 🌍

[@pincermovement72]

This was due to the French after the First World War when France purposely put African troops in the Ruhr and fraternisation with white women was encouraged , taboo at the time and cut very deep in the psyche of the German people , not surprising that this happened.

[@heinz-dietersindhoff7344]

These men died for "la grand nation" that nation that colonized their homeland and abused them

[@patkearney9320]

Good bless all combat troops may they know peace and not know the pain.

[@Joe_Peroni]

☻👀

[@dojocho1894]

committing murder in war is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500

[@petercoleman2834]

It was not propaganda what the black and French troops did after ww1 and ww2, it is well documented that the French authorities knew what they were doing in post ww1 to german women and men,, the same again after ww2 all across the german territory

[@artorito1]

bool

[@artorito1]

black people in general are not savages

[@JohnSmith-un9jm]

@@artorito1 pretty close to being savages

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

@@artorito1they prove otherwise every day here in the US.

[@ShadowEmpathy]

yes, germans needded to do this

[@williesnyder2899]

No end to the depravity . . . . .

[@cliffsheffield2592]

Thanks!

[@rhenderson9234]

Not defending the Germans, but atrocities by all warring armies are common. Being trained to hate your enemies, being scared, seeing your friends wounded or killed turning off the rage isn't easy.

[@seanodwyer4322]

the Lord's Army in Congo nation areas seem too be interesting. Bring them too New Zealand too deal with the savage gangs/ demons there

[@komninoskamamis1098]

Their supposed enemy were the French army all together. If what you say is true and they hated the French then why treat only black soldiers in this inhumane way? Apparently there is something deeper inside a man's or a nation's soul

[@snakejuce]

Don't forget the NS party actually colluded with Zionist members for many decades prior to the Haavara agreement which sent them to Palestine...

[@pincermovement72]

Agreed our bombing on innocent civilians was horrific

[@martinlewis5248]

@@pincermovement72 so was theirs a lot more so if we lost what do you think would have happen to us. ie the U K

[@yesm2302]

Once you’ve declared yourself a master race and the rules of war don’t apply to you don’t cry when your enemy takes you up on it

[@taliabraver]

Exactly perfectly said

[@ccrider3435]

The idiotic part is: RACE = Climate + Diet. Pretty simple stuff. Imagine a worthless racist going off and you know he doesnt comprehend how earth forms diverse life forms over time.

[@yesm2302]

@@goldenhawk352 I’m not responding to this neonazi troll. In case anyone takes him seriously, read up on the horrific German mindset going into operation Barbarossa regarding the Slavic peoples, let alone the Jews. What was left was to be Lebensraum - living space for the master race.

[@TalibanSymphonyOrchestra]

The narrations I have listen to make me think that most ordinary german soldiers were not really into the whole master race thing. In any case, how would you have behaved in similar circumstances? Would you have rebelled, or ran away?

[@DaveMaroldahasatinydick]

The meth helped

[@darkhorse75be]

I dont remember where i read it but Germans apparently took out their anger on specifically Senegalese POW's after they discovered the mutilated bodies of German wounded soldiers. Dont forget that Africans were not mentioned in the Nurnberg racial laws and the ones living in Germany at the time (mixed race also) were left alone except if they posed a threat to the Nazi regime. So in my opinion the truth might be more complex...

[@johnzubil2875]

you sound like an apologist.

[@michaeldoolan7595]

The French did commit atrocities against German civilians after WW1 and after WW2. In Italy, French Morrocan troops raped local Italian women around Monte Cassino. Very few armies in war had a clean slate. Our Argyle and Sutherland highlanders were banned from Berlin because of atrocities against German civilians.

[@Occident.]

British Troops fired into the crowd at Croke park Dublin November 1921. during a Hurling game. Killing 13 including a player on the pitch..

[@AgentRafa]

Yes, but there's still a difference you clearly can't see...

[@charlesfaure1189]

The inability to tell the difference between bad and horrifically worse is the sure sign of a moral idiot.

[@DaveMaroldahasatinydick]

​@@AgentRafayep, apart from the Dublin thing.

[@PortlandsTransport]

How does a whole country turn into sadomasochistic psychotics?

[@Cybernaut76]

I dont know. We could ask the same question not only from Germans but also Japanese. They, too, turned into mass murdering monsters not long after WW1 was over. I think they did their first horrendous anti-Korean massacre in 1919 or 1920. And we know what they did after Great Kanto Earthquake and during battle of Nanking. Those are just a few examples.

[@crippleguy415]

Communism

[@katewalsh2408]

@@Cybernaut76 I

[@yesm2302]

Hans Frank’s son ( the nazi war criminal ) said in an interview that given power the Germans will commit horrible atrocities being it’s in their culture. It’s easy enough to look up - it was a biography of franks war crimes.

[@captmack007]

It's in their blood.

[@slee5714]

Did some of those German officers later on only receive a 3 or 4 year sentence ? How would they feel at the time if they were themselves left to run from tanks, machine gunned , wounded, and their bodies dumped in a mass grave ?

[@johncitizen3927]

Sadly, less than 4%, were punished.

[@Jeff-sp7bg]

My old neighbor was in ww2 in a German panzer division.

[@Garwfechan-ry5lk]

They also did the same to Canadians British and French soldiers captured in 1940

[@EddieED711]

Brit-ish are Germans, this realm is theirs. Those in Jerusalem are of Germanic tribes. Those tribes fight for dominance of the earth as they have integrated with other Europeans. They are the people taken from among the gentiles in the Bible and given the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 21:43, the same took the kingdom by force, Matthew 11:12. By integrating into all nations, even Rome as Romans. 30% of British people have German DNA, 17% of Americans, 49 million.

[@Alan_GA]

Some of the reasons why I have little or no empathy for what the Wehrmacht & SS went through in the Eastern front. When the situation presented itself these German forces were heartless beasts.

[@twinturbo1926]

nobody cares what you think

[@abrahammorrison6374]

Tanks a lot for this video.

[@pierreb4958]

Il faut pas oublier, qu il y a eu un, génocide en Vendée.

[@johnm249]

Joseph Stalin held German POWs in the gulags as slave labor until 1956. Russia was very Just to Germany

[@revelationhallministries7337]

My friend from WW2 told us at Bible Study he knew a fellow soldier who was ordered to match German POWs away but arrived to to he destination without any prisoners. It was overlooked by the American officers.

[@johnzubil2875]

yeah, just looking at your call sign I know your racist intentions.

[@charlieyellowstone8248]

@@johnzubil2875 Shut up

[@Jeff-sp7bg]

Not much they could do anyway. War is a terrible thing that's why we try to avoid it

[@patkearney9320]

The German people who had to flee for there lives suffered terrible slaughter to, there's a terrible video of a lorry driving over about 20 beaten and exhausted German folk its terrible. God bless all who suffered through cruelty.

[@DaveMaroldahasatinydick]

Well they started it

[@revelationhallministries7337]

Reichsmarshall (second in charge of Germany) Rudolph Hess stole a plane to fly to England to meet with an old friend who was a Duke. He wanted to stop the war before it got out of hand. Hitler preached that he wanted reunification of German colonies spread out around Europe. Poland was the last one to be annexed/conquered. Allies declared war on Hitler by their treaty agreement with Poland. General Electric and many others such as AT&T a subsidiary of IT&T funded the Reich by sending money to the NSDAP Swiss account. It was big business for the Illuminati who were being used by Satan to create a gigantic military world he could use to force/trick the world to worship him as God and later on use it to nuke Jesus when He returns to arrest Satan. Wall Street funded the Bolshevik Revolution and Stalin and crew were Freemasons who had changed their names anglisizing themselves to follow the plan designed in the 1800s by Albert Pike who wrote his letter to Mazzini in Rome. Even though Adolph outlawed Freemasonry he appointed Herman Goering as the new Reichsmarshall along with Reinhard Gehlen and Heinrich Himmler who were all Order of Malta members beside the American members of it: Frank Sinatra Antonin Scalia, Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Patrick Joseph Buchanan, Sammy Davis Junior (who is also in the Church of Satan in San Francisco along with General Michael Aquino [military disinformation] who took over leadership after the founder Antony Lavey {author of The Satanic Bible} died.The Knights Templar gave technical gifts to Japan in the 1800s {as depicted in The Last Sammerai with Tom Cruise}. General Yamashito buried the treasure in 162 tunnels in the Philippines and the Illuminati founded a trust for it - The Black Eagle Trust with McArthur as a trustee. Satan will use it to flood the world market bankrupting everyone for his takeover as described in Isaiah 12 and in Revelation.

[@kaveirinhaz]

History is always told by the winners and no matter how horrific these war undoubtedly crimes were, we must not forget that all parts commited warcrimes during both WW1 and WW2.

[@johnzubil2875]

ashamed to know it wasn't just the SS who committed atrocities. For all you Wehrmacht lovers, you can't stand hearing this. You're surprised that the Wehrmacht could possibly commit such evil. Open your eyes and ears. You just don't want to believe it.

[@kaveirinhaz]

@@johnzubil2875 I can guarantee you I'm not a Wehrmacht lover. Although there are far more reports of German atrocities, there are also evidences of Allied crimes and not only Russian. But I'm not defending anyone, just stating what all historical researchers and common sense dictates. In every fact there are always 3 truths: Both accounts by the intervenients and then there's the real truth, which may never be found if we only believe the account made by the victorious part.

[@waynevaughan9325]

Terrible i have never heard of this before a heinous crime.

[@georgec4917]

I heard of the Canadian massacre but had not heard of this one. These acts should not be forgotten.

[@snakejuce]

Wait till you find out the war crimes the Australians, the English, Canadians, and Americans committed in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, etc. And that's in our life time... something, of course, the world disregards and has amnesia about. And of course they have amnesia about it, the "other" is not even seen as human... The crimes they committed are absolutely disturbing.

[@woadblue]

​@@snakejuce have some class. Comparing atrocities is never wise.

[@rosesprog1722]

Looking relaxed and calm you say? He, he...

[@Musrusticus6890]

German civilians in various areas lost to Germany after WW1 were raped , beaten and murdered with shocking regularity, not least by the French. Whether the Germans were good bad or otherwise we should always remember that what they did they did after what had been earlier done to them.

[@DaveMaroldahasatinydick]

So two wrongs make a right then?

[@Mtmonaghan]

The Germans did it on a national industrial scale, it was state policy, an ideological doctrine, you bloody inept fool.

[@billpetersen298]

Start a horrible war, destroy France, lose, cry victim. Do it again, but more ruthlessly, lose, and learn?

[@sking3492]

​@@DaveMaroldahasatinydickExactly Richard.

[@AngusandAndrewfunguys]

Never heard so many repeated sentences before in a story. Must be a computer malfunction.

[@IsaacTui]

War really brings out the beast in all of us

[@deep6483]

All he had to say, disturbed reality

[@chrisfield9777]

Shocking!

[@davidcollins8574]

this left me a tad flat

[@FireManTTSOM]

Incredible evil man will commit out of hate.

[@williamhuang5407]

Guten gemacht!!

[@fermannermaner3385]

DIRTY KRAUT OR KRAUTE LOVER

[@PrimericanIdol]

Found the Nazi.

[@TalibanSymphonyOrchestra]

I can't deal with this dude's narration, not to mention the fact that brutalities were committed on all sides.

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

For some reason his voice is hard to take

[@georgeshearer1412]

I couldn't agree with you more.his pronouncation of names ect is terrible.😮

[@playonkorg]

No animal kills its kind for a thought.

[@kickinthegob]

This treatment was pretty universal. The allies didn't take prisoners during D-day either and there were executions of POW's. There was also widespread torture of German staff of work camps. Let's also not forget how the confessions were extracted from the Germans during the Nuremberg trials.

[@DaveMaroldahasatinydick]

You have lost me, the actions on D Day and at Nuremberg justify what the Germans did to the Senegalese Soldiers in 1940?

[@kickinthegob]

@@DaveMaroldahasatinydick That's not what I said. I said this behavior was universal. None of it was justifiable, but only one side was held accountable.

[@joshuablair252]

​@@kickinthegobthat's just how war is. Any war that has the ability to treat every POW with care is not a fair fight. If you're storming a position, you have no real way to keep prisoners, or time and resources to do so. Real war will drive great men to insanity. However, the standard for some countries was worse than others. The rate at which the United States tortured prisoners was in no way equal to the Soviets for example. We also need to remember that the United States was not invaded. I would absolutely torture the same soldiers that raped and killed my family. I don't care if who I torture is a baby faced 18 year old who just got to the battlefield last week. Im not going to pretend I would have any constraints. Also look up the rape of Nanking, when the Japanese invaded China. They made sure to rape, torture and kill every woman 300k women and children in China after the Chinese lost the battle for that city. There is a movie about it called the flowers of war. That was a bone chilling movie. I show this movie to people that believe the Japanese were better than the Nazis. The reason war is brutal beyond killing is because it gets personal.

[@LTCLGC61]

The allies did take prisoners on D-Day. There were some accounts of allied soldiers shooting surrendering Germans but that was the exception, not the rule.

[@Stobb0]

You mean “run over”…

[@solvingpolitics3172]

Every time I think I have viewed the depths of N @ zi depravity & evil a new video even worse pops up!

[@tonymercer7759]

Good doco but Dreadful grammar. It should be "the soldiers RUN over by German tanks"

[@alancrisp1582]

🤔 I will type this message very slowly. He mostly makes these videos with an American audience in mind !....

[@donethat6147]

should have been - to be exact

[@tonymercer7759]

@@donethat6147 No. The statement is currently still existing

[@johna7661]

I knew a farmer that walked to Russia, got wounded, went back to Germany, healed up and walked back to Russia. He was an honorable man and described the Russian tanks running over the trenches to kill the soldiers. Atrocities happen on all sides. I’m grateful I was not there

[@artorito1]

Russian soldiers were angels compare to nazis, in fact they broght back germans to humanity.

[@objectiveobserver2792]

@@artorito1gulag style

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

@@artorito1very few German prisoners of the Russians ever survived captivity

[@DaveMaroldahasatinydick]

Those who sow the wind....

[@joshuablair252]

​@@artorito1you're kidding right? When the Russians pushed Germans back to Germany, they made sure to rape every single German woman civilian they came across. They would torture them in the worst ways imaginable. The Russians also genocided all the Jews after WW1, the kulaks. There are hundreds of atrocities I can name, the Soviets were very much just as evil as the Nazis. They were allied with the Nazis while they both raped and destroyed Poland and Finland. Stalin wanted Finland for his 60th birthday. Hitler and Stalin were allied and wanted to take Europe together, but Stalin didn't trust Hitler. Then Hitler decided it was a good idea to take the Soviet union while the Soviet union was weakened from the war in Finland (250k deaths from 4 months of fighting) as well as Stalin had every single competent general executed. Hitler saw an opportunity to attack Soviet union while they were weak. Hitler almost won, it wasn't until America did a lend lease agreement with the Soviets to give them tanks, guns, gear, equipment food and ammo that they started to have a chance to successfully repel the invasion. The more you learn about the soviets the more you learn that we are lied to. Absolutely nothing I brought up is propaganda, it's historical fact and is confirmed by people I even meet to this day in my hometown that escaped the brutality of the Soviet union. Look up the holodomyr from Ukraine in the 30s, Stalin starved the entire country killing many tens of millions of Ukrainians. I know people in my town that tell stories of their families being forced to eat their own brothers, sisters and babies dead bodies in order to eat

[@stevenlangdon-griffiths293]

Terrible.

[@BrianHayter-zl2uc]

What a way to die, not good🙏🙏🙏

[@alancrisp1582]

🤔😷 Really?. I can think of other far more worse ways. Hope myself never to find out for sure !............😮

[@weird134]

In movies germans get runned by tanks. In real life allied soldiers get squashed by tanks.

[@beachbum433]

The Germans may well have learnt this method of execution from what their allies, the Japanese, did for 4 days in Nanjing 1937.

[@combtkid]

Why is there no evidence or proof of this atrocity shown in this vid - Only a stupid voice saying they did this & that ? Just alot of hearsay & anti German propaganda to me

[@mitchellculberson9336]

France de Laredo war on Germany September 3rd,1939.

[@martinstaunton9304]

Nécropole nationale de Chasselay (Tata Sénégalais du Chasselay)

[@elihu217qd5150]

dont fully blame soldiers...blame the creator of the endless propaganda they were fed.

[@alanwilkinson5152]

I wouldn't like to be where these murderers are today Alan Northern Ireland.

[@frederickwarren4158]

Yea. We know they committed atrocities but, not all. We did too! The Soviets definitely did! The Japanese did just as much or more but, it's always about the Germans! What about the Yugoslaves, etc. Partisan's from all countries? Look at the shit after the war with the population transfers and pow camps and the Gulags! Read up on the German pow and civilian deaths after the war.

[@deeppurple883]

I seen something similar in Czechoslovakia after the war, a truck running over civilians leg's after they were murdered. Shameful evil. I understand revenge and I don't agree with it, murder is murder. ✌️☘️

[@pdog1307]

Yes, that was Czechs running over the legs of murdered German civilians AFTER the war. From a BBC film A Savage Peace.

[@laurencetilley9194]

It should come of no surprise that once again, Germany is militarily supporting Ukrainian Neo-Nazi SS Azov battalion, we all saw images of the massacre they committed in the city of Mariupol, Ukraine in 2022

[@---rz5th]

How about witness to these crimes as you very one sided it would have to be proved in court. Germany knew the war was over by 1943, Henderdon haa good point.

[@aka99]

That’s quite true, but there were some black pow in nazi captivity alive

[@killforpeae69]

What BS

[@cranegantry868]

Too much bias in this. Get rid of the bias and you might have a good video.

[@wesleyhelm7208]

Look into the Gulf WAR .. FT. RILEY, Kan. - Using plows mounted on tanks and combat earthmovers, the U.S. Army division that broke through Saddam Hussein’s defensive front line buried thousands of Iraqi soldiers--some still alive and firing their weapons--in more than 70 miles of trenches, according to U.S. Army officials. In the first two days of ground fighting in Operation Desert Storm, three brigades of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division--”The Big Red One”--used the tactic to destroy trenches and bunkers being defended by more than 8,000 Iraqi soldiers, according to division estimates. While 2,000 surrendered, Iraqi dead and wounded as well as defiant soldiers still firing their weapons were buried beneath tons of sand, according to participants in the carefully planned and rehearsed assault. ADVERTISEMENT “Once we went through there, other than the ones who surrendered, there wasn’t anybody left,” said Capt. Bennie Williams, who was awarded the Silver Star for his role in the assault. A senior Army official in Washington said Wednesday that the use of earthmovers is standard procedure in breeching obstacles and minefields like those faced by U.S. forces in the Gulf War. The heavy equipment moves in ahead of armored and infantry units to level barriers and allow vehicles that follow to pass quickly through enemy defenses. The Army official said that any Iraqi troops who chose to remain in their earthen bunkers would have been buried and killed. “This is war. This isn’t a pickup basketball game,” the official said. Not a single American was killed during the attack on Feb. 24-25 near the tip of the diamond-shaped neutral zone that straddles the border between Saudi Arabia and Iraq. No Iraqi body count was possible after the assault. “For all I know, we could have killed thousands,” said Col. Anthony Moreno, commander of the 2nd Brigade, which led the assault on the heaviest defenses. A thinner line of trenches on Moreno’s left flank was attacked by the 1st Brigade, commanded by Col. Lon Maggart. Maggart estimated that his force buried about 650 Iraqi soldiers. Moreno and Maggart gave some of the first public details of the trench-line attack during a series of interviews with New York Newsday. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney made no mention of the 1st Division’s tactics in a recent interim report to Congress on Operation Desert Storm. In fact, the only mention of burying Iraqi troops came when Cheney acknowledged that 457 dead enemy soldiers were buried by U.S. forces at 56 sites during the ground war. In most cases, two M1-A1 tanks with plows shaped like giant teeth were assigned to each section of the trench line. The tanks took up positions on either side of the trenches, most of them three feet wide and six feet deep. Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Vulcan armored personnel carriers straddled the trench lines and fired into the Iraqi soldiers as the tanks covered them with mounds of sand. “I came through right after the lead company,” Moreno said. “What you saw was a bunch of buried trenches with peoples’ arms and things sticking out of them.” Every American in the assault was inside an armored vehicle, impervious to Iraqi small-arms fire. As the juggernaut rolled along, it had a dramatic effect on other Iraqi troops watching the operation. “As (Iraqi) soldiers saw what we were doing and how effective and fast we were doing it, they began jumping out of their holes and surrendering,” Moreno said. Moreno and Maggart said the tactic was used as a means of minimizing U.S. casualties. “I know burying people like that sounds pretty nasty,” Maggart said. “But it would be even nastier if we had to put our troops in the trenches and clean them out with bayonets.” Moreno acknowledged that the attack was at odds with Army doctrine that calls for--but does not require--troops to leave their armored vehicles to clean out the trenches or to bypass and isolate fortified positions. “This was not doctrine,” Moreno said. “My concept is to defeat the enemy with your power and equipment. We’re going to bludgeon them with every piece of equipment we’ve got. I’m not going to sacrifice the lives of my soldiers--it’s not cost-effective.” The 1st Division engineer, Lt. Col. Stephen Hawkins, who helped devise the tactic, said it was designed in part to terrorize the Iraqis into surrendering and to destroy defensive positions for troops who might reinforce the defensive line. “It caused an instant hands-up in many places,” Hawkins said. Both Hawkins and Maggart stressed that the assault tactic gave Iraqi forces an opportunity to surrender. But all the participants involved said the prime objective of the burial assault was to destroy the Iraqi defenders. The Pentagon has withheld details of the assault from both the House and Senate Armed Services committees, according to committee officials. Senate Chairman Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) said he was unaware of the burial of Iraqi troops during the assault. “It sounds to me like another example of the horrors of war,” said Nunn, who said he will seek additional information from the Pentagon. Burying the Iraqi trench lines was part of the bloodiest phase of the war for Iraqi troops as the 1st Division breached an 11-mile-wide gap in the front line. It was opened to permit the four divisions of the Army’s VII Corps safe passage for the brunt of the assault on the Iraq’s best troops, the Republican Guard.

[@thekingofspades6209]

First like, yea baby!

[@alancrisp1582]

😷 Wow first, how exciting for you. Your mom must be so proud of you?...

[@joepatriot6431]

Again, Why were there ANY German prisoners taken?

[@combtkid]

Watched the vid & saw no evidence presented only hearsay - A few images of captured French colonial troops, some German soldiers in action & some German tanks - only a stupid voice babbling on, presenting plenty of biased hearsay, on how bad the German army was

[@rockyrowlands3652]

Atrocities were committed by all sides.

[@crippleguy415]

Mi lie massacre was wrong too . Blood is on everyone's hands in war . Sad .

[@resnonverba137]

'Run over', not, 'Ran over'.

[@alancrisp1582]

Wow,I can see that you must have been the top of your class at school 🚸 ?...

[@resnonverba137]

@@alancrisp1582 It only takes a grasp of basic English. If you're that impressed, it speaks volumes about you.

[@browngreen933]

Today Germany loves its black citizens.

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

German women sure do. I served with more than one black guy married to German women.

[@peterwallace9764]

The damn (for want of more appropriate terminology) German & Nazi soldiers were never fully punished for the behaviour they forced on their POWs. Many more should have been blessed with ‘proper’ Justice. 🔫🔫😡🤬😡

[@davideddy2672]

The Ukrainian SS were given homes in Britain after WW2 …

[@Standswithabeer]

germans, russians; cut from the same cloth.

[@jthomas4361]

English people are decendants of Germans. Russians and Germans are genetically different

[@bradhanley8368]

Wrongo

[@PrimericanIdol]

Nope. Russians are the ones responsible for annihilating the Nazis AND pretty much totally transforming Germany into what it is now.

[@STE.B]

You'd think people would learn from the past. War is pointless, losing lives and destroying homes and businesses. Just look st Ukraine

[@davidvincent2758]

Racism at it’s worst 😡 Respect 🫡 🇫🇷 🇸🇳

[@user-gh7rz2ko7y]

Remember our history is always written by the victor! Not an excuse for war crimes, however how many of the victors where tried for war crimes?

[@reichhammer5523]

Your video is good, except that you sound a little too self righteous. You know that the Allies killed many prisoners , especially the Russian barbarians. You should narrate these videos in a neutral tone, not a judgmental one.

[@410142109]

War crimes are only committed by the losing side!.

[@JohnSmith-un9jm]

Not necessarily

[@von-Adler]

So the logical question is WHO TOLD THIS STORY ? I would question its legitimacy

[@yesm2302]

So the logical answer is what you are. Here’s a clue Fritz : read mein kampf. It’s ugly stuff, so people become monsters.

[@mickeycrilly1839]

Having studied the Second World War this is new to me?? We’re did this story come from ?? Information please

[@jimboramba]

I'm sure it happened, and this probably wasn't the only instance during WW2. There's a video online you can watch of ISIS running someone over with a tank, these things definitely do happen.

[@yesm2302]

@@jimboramba I’ve seen it. But it looked like the guy was flattened in a second. Didn’t seem to suffer much thankfully compared to other isis horrors

[@philipnestor5034]

My father was in the Polish Army fighting the Germans in Warsaw in September 1939 and later again in Northern France in 1940. He told me about seeing French black troops with shell shock screaming in trucks being driven away from the front lines. A lot of the black troops captured by the Germans were considered sub humans ( Untermenchen) and I had heard about Germans making the captured black French troops to lie down on the ground as the Germans ran over them with their tanks. My father knowing how Germans treated POWs, especially Poles, Jewish, Russian, blacks etc was able to escape capture two times from the Germans.

[@mikekennedy4572]

I had never heard of this sickening atrocity by the Germans until now. Rest in peace to the Senegalese soldiers who suffered at the hands of these perverted monsters.

[@bassboye8959]

That 1st photo, they were all very young men, Boys really. This could easily happen in the USA in this current climate. This country is in real trouble and getting worse. That's why all these WW 2, clips are roiling out. Same prevailing Nazi facist mind set Now running part of our government. Appalling. This is not what our grand parents and parents fought for. Absolutely disgraceful. Yet celebrated. 💩

[@Imraan997]

He winner write the history.

[@nazrulizam9264]

yeah right also dont forget colonial crimes commited by briish and the french towards colonial subjects

[@ChitownRon]

Do you have documented proof for reference to the story?

[@JohnSmith-un9jm]

A largely gay misleading narrative excluding the atrocities committed by black colonial troops in french occupied western Germany during the1923-25 period.

[@snakejuce]

Interesting, can you share some of your views on that. Idk much about this particularity.