The Human Side of War - German Paratroopers' Remarkable Act of Kindness during WWII

Did you know the scene in The Eagle Has Landed where German paratroopers help Jewish people is based on a true story? In the Netherlands, in 1944, paratroopers shared their rations with Jewish children, risking their lives to defy SS guards. A powerful reminder of humanity's strength even in the darkest times. #TheEagleHasLanded #WWII #History #Humanity #Courage #Defiance #TrueStory #FactCheck

[@j.t.867]

My father was saved by a german soldier during ww2, in the netherlands. He was 2 at the time, and fell in a canal. The soldier jumped after him and saved him

[@stevecooper7883]

Wermacht especially were just Germans who happened to serve in their nation's army. Most were very honorable men I'm sure, many conscripts, just as British or American soldiers were. I can even imagine many SS soldiers rescuing a civilian in need though on the Western front due to cultural respect for peoples of Western Europe as opposed to the dynamics of the Eastern Front.

[@davidrummler4064]

Netherlands is only the Region. There are living germans (dutch/deutsch) "and" french/wallons. Die Kirche in den Dünen? :D

[@Freyia935]

@@davidrummler4064 Wdym only region? where germans live? Eastern europe and many places had many pockets of Germans before the war.

[@davidrummler4064]

@@Freyia935 netherduits is only a dialect. But discussing in english is annoying. I mean: german, germanic, dutch, deutsch, anglesaxon, saxon.. And Yeah... Siebenbürgen and central Asia are good examples, but whats you question? ^^

[@bigl161985]

I remember this movie the German guy died on the water mill😂😂

[@manueltome-p4e]

Similar story happened with the top tanker Kurt Kniespel. In a railway station he saw a soldier punching a soviet pow and intervened in behalf of the prisoner. For that defying act he would latter miss medals and promotions.

[@stormshadow5283]

And how did the Soviets repay this kindness? 😊

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

I was going to post this, thanks

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

My Polish grandfather was demoted several times because he would become a filthy Communist and his wife was saved by a German soldier who entered, by himself the church where she was praying and encouraged her to leave.

[@francoislognoz9962]

Top tankist

[@maximilianbourgh8345]

@@stormshadow5283probably the Gulag regardless. 😊

[@vincentxu4709]

Even though this isn’t European world war related, it still is a story about humanity My grandpa was born in 1937 Guangxi. In 1939, the Japanese launched an attack in South Guangxi. He and his family had to hide in the mountains and trying to avoid any Japanese at all cost. The Operation Ichi Go had occurred in 1944, being one of the biggest offensive of the second sino Japanese war. The Japanese launched attacks on Changsha, hengyang, and then Guilin where my grandpa lives nearby. The Japanese connected the land of southern Guangxi and Guilin which the Japanese soldiers can freely raid cities and villages in their occupied land. My grandpa and his family had to go to another place to hide but was stopped by 2 Japanese soldiers which they checked their backpacks incase of any weapons, they didn’t find any weapons so they let them go.

[@theroidragedtrex7908]

Your grandfather is VERY lucky

[@vincentxu4709]

@ Fr, the chances of those would be 10%

[@fameasser123]

Operation Kuroskai-kun. Very interesting to hear this, but also sad at the same time that Ichigo was fighting for the wrong side this time.

[@preshlock]

my grandpa was on a mortar crew on the West Front in the US Army. During a German counter attack in December 1944 {shortly before the Ardennes Offensive} his unit was overrun while he shot twice in the stomach and captured. Sadly he passed away before I was born but my dad said he was properly cared for by the Germans.

[@timtycholis6907]

My dad's oldest brother was shot down over Germany RCAF. His plane went down but he and the pilot survived the initial crash. My dad's brother eventually succumbed to his wounds, but according to the pilot he was well cared for. He was actually in a hospital ran by nuns. He passed away December 24th 1943.

[@a.m.7165]

During the battle of Hürtgen forest there was a german doctor named Günter Stüttgen. He organized several ceasefires, despite facing prosecution and possible execution, to care for the wounded of both sides. He even worked together with american field medics and later handed over his field hospital to the american forces and continued working under american supervision, for which he was sentenced to death in absence. He was forgotten for a long time but american veterans remembered "The german doctor" that cared for them. So american historians found out who he was and in 1996 he was honored in Harrisburg for his acts of humanity. He said "There were no germans or americans in that days, just humans that had to face the horrors brought upon them." He died in 2003.

[@definitely_not_Hirohito]

Only Soviet POWs and people of minorities that were already targeted, Allied POWs were very well treated by Germany.

[@Airland_combat]

The Wehrmacht and SS always fought with each other. However, that became clearly obvious during the battle of Castle Itter

[@thatfunkyduck]

The word "however" can be removed from your comment

[@Airland_combat]

@@thatfunkyduck Bro went full Grammer Nazi

[@thatfunkyduck]

@@Airland_combat I swear, it was incidental!! I wasn't grammar SS, I was just Grammar Wehrmacht!!

[@Airland_combat]

@@thatfunkyduck 💀

[@Airland_combat]

@@Skagosi Look up Wehrmacht on Google. Tell me what it says. Because I recall the Wehrmacht was the entire German armed forces consisting of the Kriegsmarine, Heer, and Luftwaffe.

[@tobiasfreitag2182]

When the us army closed in on the city of salzburg in spring of '45 the comander of the local wehrmacht garison, Oberst Hans Lepperdinger, send a message to the SS comander in the area, requesting them to intercept a non-existent force moving thru the mountains south of the city so that they where not in the way of him surrendering his forces and the city to the US forces moving in from the north. Also the comander of this US force, the 42. (Rainbow) Division, Harry J. Collins, was later honored by the citizens of salzburg, made him a honorary citizen of the city, and he is now buried in the citys oldest cemetery (more than 1000 years old) in a very prominent spot, with a memorial plague telling of his deeds.

[@Sky-Lan3]

Also German army around that time started to really dislike the prideful SS soldiers

[@moritztabor1678]

Hör auf dir Geschichten aus den Fingern zu sagen, welche nicht stimmen

[@SenhorMag]

@@moritztabor1678es stimmt aber, es wären nicht die allierten die sagen scheisse SS sondern die wehrmacht

[@zeuovelightning3510]

The Ss Arent Soldiers but Paramilitary ​@@moritztabor1678

[@commandercorl1544]

in 1944, the divide between the wehrmacht and ss was blurring, and depending on the month, the wehrmacht soldiers would've been doing the infamous "roman" salute, rather than the normal one depicted in the video. the wehrmacht's "dislike" of the ss is mostly a post-war myth.

[@Tearex_01]

@@moritztabor1678Wehrmacht mostly followed Prussian traditions and customs, they rarely did any genocides and they also saluted the Prussian way not the Nazi salute. While SS where entirely opposite to them...

[@xshandy5812]

The Wehrmacht never liked the SS

[@envitech02]

I agree

[@xshandy5812]

@@envitech02 You can even disagree. My comment is not a opinion but a historical fact.

[@ahmetozkan438]

inter service rivalry at best, ''oh no it was the ss not us''

[@JohnDoe-yq9rt]

@@xshandy5812not true at all

[@calogerohuygens4430]

​@@ahmetozkan438 not at all. Before 1943 the German army wasn't completely politicized, a lot of officers were disrespectful of SS rearguard and annoyed by their meddling in operational area. Particularly those old officers from Prussian nobility were disgusted to the point they were uncooperative or plainly opposed to civilians harassment. There are a lot of reported incidents and clashes between SS and army.

[@joshuauriarte452]

Many German soilders who did not know about the camps were horrified as these camps were unknown by most troops. Whole transporting was known, many didnt know it was to their death.

[@karelkieslich6772]

Well, they may have not known about the camps but the vast majority knew about the 2 million Jews shot by bullets in 1941-1942 in the East (Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Baltics and western Russia) because they were directly involved in it. This is how the Holocaust began and the camps were basically “just” a technological innovation because shooting people over pits was unpleasant for the Germans involved. But they certainly all knew about the scale of the Holocaust because the large massacres of Baby Yar etc were well on display for everyone. Many then after the war claimed they didn’t know about the camps, which may or may not have been true, but it’s hard to believe they were truly horrified since they participated in or witnessed so much shooting, starving of millions Soviet POWs and massive death and destruction they brought into Eastern Europe… They very well knew they were pursuing a war of extermination, the open goal of which was the death of tens of millions of Eastern Europeans…

[@dudebro91-fn7rz]

Yet you gleefully support the country who's guards staffed those camps .

[@DarkMattered]

the jewish genocide was well known by everybody in germany. in the heer and ss the mein kampf was a mandatory read, and that book presents the nsdap ideology fully. furthermore the heer was required to do an oath directly to the fuhrer after 1943, replacing the normal army salute with the roman one. many genocides and death marches were committed within the full supervision of wehrmacht personnel and many more served as guards for POW/ labour camps. so i think they pretty much all knew what was going on

[@Z3ZP]

They knew. After Kristallnacht the animosity among general populus of germany towards Jews was at a level that many would’ve just killed them on their own soil if given any slight cause. It is also preposterous to think that the soldiers of the country committing the genocide would be clueless, when there were rumors almost around the entire world by -44.

[@robertreynolds580]

@@dudebro91-fn7rz Vacuous statement. Ukraine found its people being murdered by Soviets and Germans.

[@muddhammer7834]

The Eagle has Landed

[@cj4857]

The follow up novel is brilliant as well

[@charlesb228]

The Fallschirmjäger were probably the most hardened of the German military. That and probably the Gebirgsjäger, the SS were not real combat troops. Though the Waffen SS were, but they were fanatics as well.

[@archmagosdominusbelisarius8836]

Most battle hardened were the ss panzer divisions and the grossdeutschland division

[@jiridrapal7512]

FJ were Luftwaffe and their main cadre was the most fanatical of all service branches. Only young volunteers who were ideologically pure could join them pre war.

[@CoIdHeat]

Pretty much like the NKVD. They were big at terrororizing (the SS largely the civilians to counter partisan activity and the NKVD against their own troops) but their combat efficiency was limited. I only know of few Waffen SS divisions who actually became very capable units in the later war.

[@clovergrass9439]

Fanatic at defending Europe.

[@DarkMattered]

"the ss werent real combat troops" how about the waffen SS the COMBAT branch of the SS. and how about the multiple german and foreign volunteer units that fought on both the western and eastern front. comparing wehrmacht/ ss by "fanatical" standards is a blatant stupidity as both served for the same common goal and had the same purpose

[@takam3c]

DVD持ってる。昔の戦争映画は本当に面白いしカッコイイ。もちろん戦争を肯定はしない。

[@Rheinlander1904-uc5od]

I know what you mean, I also really like war movies about the time and I am really interested in military tactics and technology - nonetheless war is horrible.

[@dukejordan8147]

Imagine if Germany won WW2, but there was a civil war between the SS and the werchmart.

[@stevecooper7883]

Well after Germany's surrender in WW2 that basically did happen with the Wermacht helping allied forces root out the remaining SS fanatics holding out in the Alps.

[@McBurnside6380]

The Wermacht committed many war crimes. The idea of a clean Wermacht is a total myth. There are many documented incidents and the number almost equals those committed by Waffen SS

[@nl-oc9ew]

Ah yes. Another fool believing the myth of the clean wehrmacht.

[@fuoco1365]

I mean there was a constant struggle to try and replace Hitler with a new calmer leader. People seemed to constantly want Rommel to take power for a good portion of time even though he made it very clear he wasn't interested. And then someone after being tortured and questioned randomly said Rommels name and so they forced Rommel to commit suicide anyways

[@Freyia935]

@@fuoco1365 There wasnt a struggle to replace Hitler, the germans loved the man and were vey loyal due to what he did for Germany. Rommel was not forced to commit suicide, he was seen as a suspect in a plot, and figured that he had no chance to prove his innocence and committed suicide.

[@adunreathcooper]

They were paratroopers, not nazis. This is a fantastic movie. Michael Caine at his best.

[@Z3ZP]

Yea not every soldier supported the nazi party, no matter their service branch. Went as high up as Rommel, who allegedly despised the nazis in secret, but was a fierce patriot and a loved his fatherland of Germany.

[@cj4857]

Taken from a novel by Jack Higgins, the follow-up novel is brilliant as well

[@georgewilkie3580]

Those that don't believe there were German WW2 Soldiers that were good Men, please just GOOGLE, "KURT KNISPEL" KNISPEL was the best Panzer Tank ACE the Panzer Divisions had. There was just one other ACE that compared to KNISPEL.. Whitmann. However, KNISPEL was never awarded the KNIGHTS CROSS, and received very little publicity because he was actually an anti-Nazi. The NAZIS looked the other way because KNISPEL was their Top Combat Ace. KNISPEL saw a German POW Guard beating up a Russian POW. KNISPEL ran over and knocked out the German Guard with only one punch. He was reprimanded, but that was all! KNISPEL was the Top Ace and considered a Hero by the general public. But, he was disgusted by the Nazi regime. Again, those interested merely GOOGLE the name ...KURT KNISPEL. And, there were many others like Kurt. So, hell yeah! There were some very good and noble German Troops.

[@projektkobra2247]

Hear hear!....See my comment about him above a German "Oddball" from Kellys Heroes!..LOL...dont go by the wiki article..it says practically nothing of his skill.

[@kimeggert3829]

The escape of almost all Danish jews (more than 7000) to neutral Sweden, was a succes because of a German warned warned the Danish politicians and resistant movement, so they had time to organise the escape to Sweden, the German navy was ordered to look the other way , when the jews were "smuggled" to Sweden

[@PrinzEugen80]

I am from Austria and so i know good that the Wehrmacht didnt like the SS. And the fighting SS units also hated the SS guards in the KZs. Long time the SS guards werent allowed to wear german Abzeichen because everybody knew that they are criminals.

[@jiridrapal7512]

Frontline troops commited as many war crimes and attrocities on balkan and eastern front as any SS eisetzegruppen

[@clovergrass9439]

Sure buddy.

[@sigi285550]

If you read memoirs from concentration camps you would knew the Austrians were the worst.

[@Eddneton94]

@@sigi285550 ah yes, between the 23 flavours of hell its important that 2 of them served smaller portions for lunch

[@theguy1458]

Even in the darkest times,There's Still a shed of lights.....

[@brendavirgin201]

One of My fave films

[@kidultvideo1504]

동감합니다 😊

[@PhilouCapitaine]

C'est surtout dans l'obscurité crasse et profonde que l'on peut voir briller les âmes bienvaillantes et honorables !

[@marcojustino4400]

A grande maioria dos soldados alemães eram honrados.

[@almirCCR]

No ! Remember the eastfront

[@daveanderson3805]

What happened to the paratroopers afterwards? You don't go and show up Himmlers boys without consequences. Although, the paras were Gorings boys, and Goring hated Himmler. Interesting.

[@trevormillar1576]

They were sent on a suicide mission to kidnap or assassinate Churchill in England. They all died. And the "Churchill" they were after was a double, the real one was in Tehran meeting Roosevelt and Stalin.

[@normanhines5189]

Not all German soldiers were Nazis. That's why loyalty is a secondary virtue; it depends upon what one is loyal to.

[@DarkMattered]

so thats why they all gave an oath to hitler pledging their loyalty to him

[@UnderpaidKraken]

@@DarkMattered You’re pretty slow, aren’t you buddy?

[@normanberg9940]

And even if they were a nasti it doesn't mean they were all automatically savages. Imagine saying all Republicans or all Democrats are bloodthirsty. See how stupid that sounds? That's how you breed hatred for your enemy. No different to what the nastis did. You have also been indoctrinated.

[@enovos3138]

​@UnderpaidKraken what did he say?

[@damiansaucedo9951]

Then in Vietnam, Hugh Thompson landed his helicopter between American forces and scared civilians and ordered his men to aim at their fellow soldiers if they tried to intervene with the civilian's evacuation.

[@woody4269]

Love t movie. So well made. Originally, a novel by one of my favourite authors..Jack Higgins.

[@cj4857]

The follow-up novel is great

[@woody4269]

@cj4857 totally. Forgot t title name though. Google will fix that. I've got everything he's written. My fav would be 'Solo'.

[@cj4857]

@woody4269 'The Eagle has flown'

[@woody4269]

@cj4857 good man. Thank u.

[@guntherlotze5040]

MaYBE My very good colleague and friend Karl Damm (Paratrooper, Frontschwein, Silver close combat clasp & EK I for attending the Gran Sasso Command action/ +2008) was one of the brave guys. Captured in the battle of the bulge. Exactly the same story he told!!!!

[@eugenekoivisto9444]

My great grandpa was sent to military prison and labor camp during ww2, when an officer saw him giving food to soviet prisoners. The officer wanted to execute him for aiding the enemy, but grandpa’s nco talked him out of it.

[@robertj.thirlby8166]

Great film !

[@ralfe2212]

Some wrong spots there. The soldier running to keep the Luftwaffe members from leaving the train couldn't recognize Caine's rank, but he salutes the Iron Cross on Caine's neck. The soldier's gorget patches are regular "Wehrmacht", not SS. The skull sign on the german officer's cap shows he is a member of the "SS-Totenkopfverbände", a part of the S . The movie starts about at the end of 1943 - at this time the "Totenkopfverbände" had had a lot of changes in organization. A part of them were responsible for running the concentration camps, deporting and killing people. His rank insignia shows he is a "SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS". That is the 3rd highest rank in the SS, only the "SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer" and then the "Reichführer SS" (Himmler) superior. What in all hell would he do there at the train station? The train station sign reads "Nachschub Bahnhof Ost Polen" - which translates to "Supply Station East Poland" .. lol .. no. One more thing about the skull sign: In real video clips of WWII and in a lot of movies you will see german tank crews wearing black uniforms and the skull on their gorget patches. They are not SS, the uniform's color and the skull has been a traditionell sign of the german Wehrmacht tank crews.

[@projektkobra2247]

You and I would get SO smashed at a bar talking WW2 stuff!...LOL...But sorry, the video is talking about the actual incident in Holland...not the film clip...

[@ralfe2212]

@@projektkobra2247 well, the creator of this clip pulled an occurence in the Netherlands (so he says) and dragged it on the clip, which I think is really far fetched, cause Netherlands there, Russia here. The scene was build by the script writer to show the character of Michael Caines figur and is a basis for his behavior during his actions. You could pull similar occurences from all around the war ridden countries and drag it over the movie "The pianist" (2002 movie), where a german officer helps a jew musician and claim this would base on real incidents. Nevertheless, my references to the uniforms are all correct. And in a bar .. cheers to you, mate.

[@steveneasterling8832]

Human Monsters dealt with by brave men.

[@abntemplar82]

yea trying to intimidate a paratrooper at any level is kind of stupid. those guys are crazy, especially back then.

[@apsbhamra6853]

Anyone who has spent some time with us or served with us knows that it never works well for anyone who tries to intimidate paratroopers 😂

[@erikguth4830]

Absolutely amazing.

[@dailyqwikbytes]

Wermacht and SS were most certainly not the same thing. For the most part, Wermacht were just German citizens who were willingly or unwillingly (draftees) serving their country. Learn history.

[@timtycholis6907]

I'm pretty sure even Waffen SS would have second thoughts going against paratroopers.....these most likely were the SS that just served in the camps

[@vladinica6003]

film name ?

[@venkmanny4100]

Don't fck with a Fallschirmjäger. I'm serious, just don't.

[@frankcastillo8609]

My favorite war movie

[@anasali1542]

Patton was so damn right when he said we fought the wrong enemy

[@niallmcdonaghcosolicitors1201]

No he Wasn't the Germans under nazis were cruel and vicious and had to be stopped and defeated. Stopping the Russians then became the objective and is still necessary today

[@reynaldoflores4522]

You forgot to mention that the paratroopers who defied the SS guards were all arrested and sent off to serve harsh sentences in a prison camp. Part of their work was to search and defuse enemy mines. Most of them died shortly after.

[@pghwhpffw9051]

Chatgpt written it, it always makes such summaries

[@stevencorsoe9575]

There are nazis and there are Germans...and the German soldiers had a special kind of hate for this kind of evil...

[@darrengilbert7438]

In that movie, those guards were wearing wehrmacht collar tabs. Only the officer was wearing SS insignia. It's incorrect to call them SS guards.

[@ipfreely679]

The voice over is talking about the actual incident, not the 1 in the film, he says at the start the scene is based on what he is describing

[@jacoboreyes3160]

Source?

[@nastynate4916]

I thought it was really cool of the set designers to include prop StuGs and Panther silhouettes on the train

[@mikeymanjirosano9992]

Movie name

[@almirCCR]

Ha lee

[@wolfgang6517]

What exactly is the source for this story?

[@PauloRicardo-p3g]

Qual o nome do filme?

[@donnash5813]

The Eagle has Landed

[@aeliusromanus9338]

A águia pousou. Bom filme.

[@Windowsdoorsmaker]

​@@donnash5813🎉

[@archmagosdominusbelisarius8836]

He said it..

[@future_guardian5_gaming]

i’ve heard this story many times but is there a source or any evidence of this

[@DominionSorcerer]

There were individual soldiers who did things like this, never entire units.

[@Jimmydb]

Google it

[@Mongo-4570]

No, the story when the German army and American army fought together against an SS unit holding a castle Converted into a prisoner of war camp for french political prisoners The Germans and Americans worked together and defeated the SS At that castle And Freed the french prisoners

[@wolfgang6517]

Been looking for it. Soo far it seems made up

[@lesnik2656]

No one (intelligent, at least) dared to mess with the Fallschrimjaegern.

[@iltonwhite]

This scene is a loose recreation of an incident involving a Wehrmacht tank commander named Kurt Knispel, who witnessed an SS officer beating a Russian pow, Knispel took it upon himself to put a halt to the preceedings by punching the officer. Knispel was a tank ace, who was very much overlooked and turned down for many awards, due to his lack of respect for authority and outspoken views on the Nazi regime.

[@misterbig9025]

I told you, Germans are good people!

[@philipnestor5034]

They might’ve shared their food with the Jewish children but it didn’t stop them from being sent on to be exterminated.

[@tomservo5347]

So what do you do? Resist and get sent likewise?

[@stevecooper7883]

Keep in mind that this was also the Western Front where the paratroopers would be far more likely to see the Jewish detainees as Dutchmen and thus similar to their own civilians. Cultural context matters as only the SS would be fanatical enough to primarily see the prisoners as "vermin" due to their religion first and not as people from a similar nation to their own.

[@BowHunter87]

It’s not even real dude.

[@leroywareproductions2497]

Listen to the story. It really happened ​@@BowHunter87

[@UnusSedLeo-w5l]

Uniforms are so wrong here😂

[@NickAndriadze]

This further reinforces my belief that the actual soldiers, the fighting backbone of Germany, weren't the real monsters, but instead, the members of the SS.

[@ignaciojunqueraquintana7488]

Un incidente similar tuvo como protagonista al as de panzers alemán Kurt Knispel.

[@R33C3.]

Only the SS knew about the camps. Most of the Wehrmacht had no knowledge of them.

[@fredericgledel2285]

on the eastern front the Wehrmacht cannot deny knowledge of atrocities, and often participate.

[@weeksweeks9552]

Clean Wehrmacht theory has been debunked. Most Germans (soldiers and civilians) know about the camps

[@Eddneton94]

@@fredericgledel2285 "the sky is blue" "ok, but mars is red"

[@wolfgang6517]

You do realise the wehrmacht took part in the Holocaust right?

[@cozartrasta228]

tell me the movie

[@ipfreely679]

The name is literally plastered across the screen at the start of the vid

[@archmagosdominusbelisarius8836]

The movie

[@Dannyedelman4231]

By 1943, the soldiers that were not in deep with the nazis knew that hitler was no good but couldn't do much because of the officer corp

[@Sean-q4f4v]

0:30 Hey Look! Its John Cena!

[@CineMilitary]

🤣LMAO

[@HollysHeart999]

For context, Fallschirmjäger were Wermacht german military, SS or Schutz Staffel were the Nazi Party defacto military/ Hitler Elite honor guard so to speak, throughout most of the Nazi rule the Wermacht did not like the SS one bit, especially the common soldiery, they saw the SS as pig head fanatics. Sure there were plenty of soldiers that believed the Nazi cause an German superiority, but a large portion despised the SS, that why scene's similar to this were somewhat common especially near the end of the war.

[@tiger056789]

What's the clip at the end

[@CineMilitary]

It's a scene from the movie itself

[@NunyaBiznas-v6y]

So, like, what's the follow up after the soldiers and kids parted ways?

[@_spooT]

Not just about being human. The German Armed Forces didn't like the SS one bit. No one likes them in general.

[@skunkape5918]

Germans are God's chosen people ☦❤🕊

[@TsathogguaFTW]

As a German I have to contradict.

[@skunkape5918]

@@TsathogguaFTW well the rest of them are

[@riff2072]

Ask the people of Kondomari and Kandanos on Crete what they think about the German Paratroopers. You may get a different end that you have in your story.

[@shanemills3879]

They look orange on my screen....I'd suggest this guy is from one of the paramilitary Polizei Units.....if he were Feldgendarmerie , he'd be wearing his Gorget

[@tomservo5347]

The yellow litzen-does that denote military police? The German Army at the time had hundreds of niche specialists.

[@archmagosdominusbelisarius8836]

​@historicmilitaria1944yellow was signals, golden yellow was cavalry/recon

[@patrav5542]

Does not any one see the scene is not in Holland. It is filmed i Finland not far from Russia. All the trains are finish state railroad. They run on wider tracks than in Holland. The finish army had lot of German war eqiupment after the 2nd world war. Logical place to set up the scenery with loded Stug III and so.🇫🇮

[@projektkobra2247]

I know a lot of weird facts about WW2..like a lot of guys probably...Those parkas they are wearing (same ones from Where Eagles Dare), the ACTUAL ones...they had a standing order to always wear the white (snow) part inside while not in combat in order to keep that side clean. I could be wrong, but I think I only just kind of realize that they are wearing them white side out HERE, to show the paratroopers as "the good guys".

[@Szarko32c]

His name is John Cena!

[@seesmann638]

events like this really happenned look up Karl Plagge or Anton Schmid

[@DominionSorcerer]

It's an overexaggerating to say "events" like _this_ happened, what you see in this clip is an entire group of Fallschirmjägers doing what individual soldiers did.

[@Highfalutinloyd]

@@DominionSorcererread about Albert Battel; his Army unit blocked the SS from “deporting” about 100 Jews, threatening to fire on the SS if they tried to cross a bridge. It wasn’t just him, it was his commander and all the men under his direct command. They all did the right thing, even though it took an individual to step up and give the order. Sometimes people just need that extra push.

[@sunzi42]

Also: the paratroopers were the actual elite forces of Germany and they knew it.

[@Your_Eagle_One]

The Luftwaffe in general was not very fanatic and displayered act of chivalry relatively often

[@trevormillar1576]

In the book, the girl got away.

[@selvamoorthy9322]

A shocking scene from "The eagle has landed" starred by Sir Michael Cain

[@DasMikee41]

Yeah I doubt that.

[@clovergrass9439]

Transported to where...?

[@mr.shepherd_1776]

Never knew Erica and others were DnD fans 😮

[@chalk9760]

am i the only one here who thinks the music is extremely out of place

[@8bitgamer85]

Did the Jewish children the Fallschirmjäger paratroopers rescued at the train station survived the war?

[@netkonepoznat6805]

Well, it hasn't been done in 41'

[@WillsWindow]

Too few among many.

[@questlove_satx]

and they all ended up in Mauthausen

[@colinm2056]

Just imagine a group of isreali soldiers encountering a group of Palestinian people...

[@archmagosdominusbelisarius8836]

Stop everyone is sick of your shi. No one cares about israel and the terrorists they are fighting

[@jonobrien1339]

It's a nice story but there is zero evidence to verify it, ive researched it.

[@08karlos]

This Scene but Different AI Robot Narrator is in 26 videos with EXACTLY the same script..... Can you suspend your emotion and Think Why BIG Nose.

[@achimensslen6353]

Sorry I owed Sharon 300 dollars I've only got 250 left. Gambling weren't ya😊

[@ThomasPrior-wv6zn]

not all were in human

[@SKGaming-mn2hg]

Bro is cooked

[@SoulAir]

Its a similar dynamic to Milley and Trump cabinet. One worked his way up, the other is the most loyal to the furher

[@andrewnicholson4811]

most german soldiers were not nazis....

[@irvinelawrence2733]

While the incident and numerous clashes with Nazi SS troops vs German soldiers/paratroopers- Uboat sailors also... This is a "Black Ops" covert type mission and the Paratroopers were not German...anyhow... Nuhboddi ain ask me nuttan 🥴

[@tommiatkins3443]

In 2025, who's going to stand up to the US national guard or the army as they file the millions on to the carts? Nobody. They'll just listen to talking heads on TV discussing it and late night comedy shows satirising it.

[@joeystokes1921]

Yeah, but that's the Wehrmacht. They were cool with fighting for Germany, but they didn't fully suscribe to the aryan belief.

[@rajamansorrajazainal3957]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@baldwiniv5339]

"Extermination camps"

[@S62bhas]

Amen Praise The Lord In Jesus Name Amen

[@iddqds]

I have had a original poster of it. Now lost.

[@Martin-qd9ok]

Every country has their evil ones 🤔😶‍🌫️🫣🥴Ergo, Timshel Israel 🙏🇮🇱🇮🇪🙏✨♥️