This Country Is Endless... We Are Trapped...

This Country Is Endless... We Are Trapped...

[@WorldWar2Stories]

This video is part of this playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLyuEmb1VavZAVYcenOHk2T5y-eLjKiQGR I am going to add the appropriate playlist to all videos in the future. Enjoy!

[@partygrove5321]

What is the date of this one?

[@sharonwhiteley6510]

I wish they were numbered. As it is, you go from the beginning of the war to France and Russia with little rhyme or reason. Following different people. Why not put them in sequence?

[@qtrfoil]

Thanks for that!

[@kingofdubb2133]

Hi, thanks for all your really good uploads. I've been listening to the great playlist - Diary Of A Soldier Trapped On The Eastern Front - but after listening to part 7, I realised that part 8 & 9 are missing in the playlist - Are they on your channel? If not, are you going to upload them? Thanks

[@therealuncleowen2588]

I know it's an artificial voice but I can listen to these diaries for hours at a time. I just find WW2 so fascinating.

[@AdamAndreas-g5y]

You know the content is good when you can 👍 before consuming

[@roderickcampbell2105]

@user-es... Yes, I do that too but only for some creators. Some seem to bat 1.000 so it's better to like early than forget to like.

[@richardsimms251]

An excellent and articulate presentation RS. Canada

[@MrDaiseymay]

Hitler learned nothing from Napoleons adventure, despite modern weapons. At least Napoleon occupied Moskow. The trouble with motorised units is, they are useless without fuel, and supplies were OBVIOUSLY inadequate. One look at the Map, and scale of Russia, tells all.

[@laurentcherrier8492]

Hitler was just a Scilly and psychopathe person...

[@mauriceclark4870]

I worked with. Ex German. Tank driver he was. Caught in Ardennes. Shot up by typhoon. Taken prisoner. His home. Was blown to bits in Germany. He settled in England. Married. Local girl he said Russia was awful place. All extremes. Hot and cold. Climate. !!!!

[@PlayerToBeNamedLater1973]

The first time I went to Europe I flew into Paris and rented a car , intending to drive to Italy, Pompeii specifically , and visit all interesting places in between . Living in Indiana as I have all my life I was used to driving for 8 or 10 hours to get to DC , Atlanta, Norfolk, and other places my job requires me to go. I was surprised when I was coming to a national border every few hours in Europe. I knew the US was big but I didn't really expect the countries in Europe to be so small in comparison. In the time it used to take me to drive from Cincinnati to Salt Lake City I could cover most of the European continent and see several countries. I can't imagine what these Germans probably thought while crossing the USA by train . I was aware that Germany was greatly reduced in size after WW1 but I didn't realize just how much

[@dimsum435]

LOL,,, Old joke about American tourists, "It's Wednesday , it must be Holland"😂.

[@MD21037]

This story is from Gottlob Herbert Biderman's book, "In Deadly Combat"

[@johnharris7353]

Dnipro, Kiev, Odessa I see, modern day Ukraine. Good for an American.

[@CobinRain]

The action takes places more or less over the same ground as they are fighting over now…..

[@petesmusic6648]

Great channel I’ve subscribed , excellent work 👏👏👏

[@gglen2141]

I enjoy watching videos of WW2 veteran interviews. This is really good as it gives us a German perspective in the English language.

[@ericscottstevens]

The HEER entering Russia was quite alarmed by how privative the whole living existence was for that population. Russia was basically how Germans lived in pre 1900s. Scratch farming and hardscrabble habitation of the steppe. Soviet efforts of collectivizing really had not worked as the 1930s were lean in crop harvests due to weather. In a sudden migration desperate famers from all over Russia started migrating to Moscow looking for work in the city. Stalin realizing a looming crisis suddenly had people who were non Muscovites arrested who were arriving at the train stations, or seemed out of place walking through the streets in search of housing. Millions who were arrested disappeared after being apprehended and sent off to the gulags for promoting civil unrest.

[@robertmaybeth3434]

No wonder the Russians almost lost the war... Not even German occupation could be much worse than living under Joseph Stalin!

[@nick21614]

LOL farmers were migrating to work in factories because their farms were taken away from them. There was a famine because they gave the land to people that had no idea how to farm. Farming isn't a simple task it requires lots of knowledge passed down from generation to generation. The food shortages were because of communists policies and millions died because of it. Same thing happened in China and other communists countries. Weather had nothing to do with it.

[@jeffdundon9895]

normally I'm not a big commenter guy but it's easier to understand and sympathize with both the German and Russian perspective in turn when narrative is spoken in perfect English..probably odd but at least I'm honest. lol

[@PatrickMHoey]

Just finished binge watching Band of Brothers for my second if not third time. I’m sure the acts of war will exist until humankind is extinct, unfortunately, but ever since WW2, we can never claim to be ignorant to the vastness of stories from those on all sides, from the battlefield to home.

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

Famous photograph. Probably published for the first time in Signal. I saw it as a child and became possessed to learn everything I could about the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Now 64 and still reading books on the Second World War.

[@eshelly4205]

My Opa had this conversation with his CO Maj Amsel. Do you think we can capture Moscow. His answer was “Thats not the question, How can we hold it will be the problem” 43rd Abt Panzerjager 8PD

[@Aenntw]

Ich sehr danke dich für dieser storien, mein freund!

[@MiKeMiDNiTe-77]

Very good commentary I just wish more pics were used its hard to state at the same pic for so long

[@Dave-ty2qp]

I remember my first thought after my first fire fight. Who's the idiot that thought that this was a good idea. My experiences in combat did form my opinions of life, and I would prefer to forget about some of those moments, but then I realize that those were the important ones that made me the person I am. And over the years, I have come to like and respect myself as a human being.

[@maxinefreeman8858]

@Dave-ty2qp Thank you for your service.

[@Dave-ty2qp]

Thank you Maxine. It was an honor and priviledge to serve my country, and wonderful people such as yourself. @@maxinefreeman8858

[@alexbowman7582]

Perhaps around 20 years ago my German friend said to me your country stopped us from dealing with Russia.

[@neutzz2008]

This is awesome. I've always been a ww2 nerd, but it's eye opening getting a different perspective from the German soldiers perspective. I often find myself rooting for the solider in these readings regardless of the side they fought on. Attaching to the human is hard not to do when listening to these. Many of them had no idea of the atrocious going on within Germany, Poland and other SS occupied areas where many concentration camps resided. They were doing their duty as patriotic countrymen whilst trying to stay alive. 50 million lives were lost in this war. 20 million of that were Russian. Uncomprehendable to put it lightly. 8 million German troops wiped out and millions of other men were taken from our gene pool. It makes sense how we got to where we are today in the world. All the real men, at least 90% of them were exterminated in the two world wars. The simps and soft men ie the nerds became the majority in a short 20 years.

[@somethingelse4424]

A self hating nerd?

[@thatguy04444]

You've gotta remember, people rarely write down their crimes in their diary. The Kurt Meyer book on this channel is a great example. Convicted war criminal, war-crime denier, and unrepentant nazi. His book makes him sound like a hero.

[@tonyromano6220]

LOL rather thin theory!

[@tonyromano6220]

Your numbers are crap.

[@tonyromano6220]

@@thatguy04444Meyer was a hero!

[@shannoncole7051]

My favorite channel. Keep up the great work!,!! Also, do you have anything on the Brandonbergers?

[@WorldWar2Stories]

Not, yet no. I’ll have a look for something.

[@JanHoellwarth]

It’s “Brandenburgers”.

[@Elizabeth-rh1hl]

I think the accent of the narrator (British?) makes the writer more relatable to non-German ears. Interesting.

[@coffeenclinic]

All the horror and suffering! And all we really have to do is to just accept where the boundaries happen to be, whether we see them as “right” or “fair” or whatever. Each side has leadership who have convinced them to fight for emotional slogans, “the fatherland”, “to save Europe from Bolshevism”. How stupid we are.

[@bikesnippets]

We must never forget what the ordinary Soviet soldier and civilian did for the World. Over 80% of German losses in personnel and materiel occured on the Eastern Front. Also, interesting how these people never mention the mass murders they participated in. They make it sound so......false.

[@joemcgulligut7874]

We must never forget how the Soviet Union helped start WWII by agreeing with the Third Reich to carve up Eastern Europe in 1939; and with the help of Lend-Lease realized its aim of expanding westward.

[@robertwindedahl4919]

Obviously what we're seeing in Ukraine it hasn't changed very much in all these years since WWII with the thieving Russian soldiers making off with people's computers washing machines microwave ovens excetera they are truly barbaric people

[@ditto1958]

I’ve been a student of history, and of WWII since boyhood. These German diarists seem to be intelligent, yet they all seem to have serious morality issues. Very puzzling, and something I’m not sure I’ll ever understand. They generally fought by “Marquise of Queensberry Rules” when facing Britain and America, but became savages when fighting the Russians. Why? Racism?

[@ermining1]

Two evil powers using poor ppl to fight against each othr

[@fritschenmaier7028]

…Katy n

[@MostHigh777]

So I guess Germans didn't have maps they could look at before attacking?

[@ColinWind]

What text to speech software do you use for your videos? They sound great. Also, would it be possible for you to include the the title of the book and chapter these excerpts are pulled from?

[@boxsterman77]

Maybe they had a professional simply read the text. It's still done.

[@jimknowlton342]

​@@boxsterman77 what country does someone narrate 8mm mortar as "eight em em" mortar

[@25rsimp]

Or say the time as one thousand hours?

[@erichughes284]

For the wehrmacht it was like grabbing a pit bull by the tail.Even if you know your eventually going to be screwed you will hang on and keep spinning circles til you get dizzy and have to let go

[@mauriceclark4870]

Like it or not. Gives good. Idea what. Went on. If you didn't know. Already. Only. Book I've read. Was Stalingrad. That was grim !!!

[@rajans3993]

Excellent narrations.

[@mrlodwick]

Thank you.

[@MegaRiffraff]

👍🏻

[@Xobloot-qf2mj]

I would rather had been killed then having to write such a detailed storyline. As the amber sun rose above the gray black thick haze of the prior evenings thrashing we began to suckle a small fine crystal beaker of distilled spirits ....... Good Lord. Put a sock in it

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting and informative. Excellent photography picture 📷 enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Class A research project. Special thanks to the veteran soldiers sharing their personal information/combat experiences making this documentary more authentic and possible. Fighting/perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible.. Yet still advanced forward regardless of the consequences. That's true grit style determination to succeed. Yes 9 million square miles is endless for certain!!! After the failure to invade/conquer Moscow in 41. Zhukov had ample time to reorganize it's demoralized military forces. Reinforce Moscow's perimeters. 2 years later went on the offense. At a horrible staggering cost of human life. Unfortunately that's what called. " casualties of war ". That neither Berlin or Moscow had much concern about. Along with other disillusioned WW-1 allied/axis nations. " no cost is too great ".

[@conceptalfa]

👍👍👍!

[@M.C.Darkness]

What book is this from?

[@kentkagle7852]

Great narration fantastic real story ....war truly sucks, no matter what century the stories come from

[@russellblake9850]

can you put this into some context ? who's diary ? where ?? thx

[@scottlosey4978]

​@@PeterPi-wt2uchaha.....I was thinking the same thing mate!

[@Jamesy5725]

This narrator's voice really puts me in mind of Tom Courtenay.

[@ambrose1809]

Excellent AI voice. Not real. Shows through occasionally in some of the paragraph and chapter endings and the reading of royal names. One of these docs mentions "World War EYE" and did not sound ironic at all.

[@harryfineberg5075]

You might think that the master race would have realised how huge the ussr was by looking at a map beforehand, very slipshod.Expect better from said master race 😂😂

[@bw7754]

Calm down Fineberg.

[@LargeBasstafarian]

​@@bw7754😂

[@barryrammer7906]

General winter never loses.

[@dissident_sojourner]

Winter had nothing to do with it, Steiner. Mongolian horde power. Get 6th army’d! Bahaha

[@haroldcruz8550]

The funny thing is even when the Germans are almost in Moscow they barely reached a quarter of the Russian territory.

[@jeremylamovsky9868]

Wasn't this from "in deadly combat"? I listened to the audiobook. It's really very good, but I could do without another Kraut denying that Frontline troops like his knew anything of the atrocities for the rest of my life. You knew. I don't believe they were all antisemitic POS, there were too many to all be like that, but to say you didn't know is horse shit. Especially in the Ukraine like where this guy was (before being sent North after Sevastopol and fighting around Lake Ladoga until retreating years later) as well as other Baltic state

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

One must remember the atrocities committed by the SS and their Ukrainian and Baltic collaborators happened after the front line had advanced forward from where they happened. The soldiers were of course fully committed on the battlefield. As the war progressed from the summer of 1941 there would have been rumours circulating about massacres. I think the men of the Wehrmacht were consumed by the battles they fighting and by hopes to survive and see their families again. Four million of them didn’t. These men were conscripts and that needs to be fully appreciated.

[@maxinefreeman8858]

​@@Wolf-hh4rv I watched a documentary with some film done by one of the Germans. When they entered Ukraine they were welcomed. The Jews were pulled from their homes and beaten by the citizens of the town before they were killed by the Germans. They can't say they didn't know. Just like the people on the trains knew what was happening. The people that lived near those death camps knew. I seen in one documentary where General Eisenhower sent for the villagers to be brought there. He made them look at dead bodies piled up and the people standing there that were almost skeletons. Eisenhower said he wanted them to see so they couldn't deny that it happened. Eisenhower said they had to know.

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

@@maxinefreeman8858 killed by the “Germans”.. .. German army conscripts? No the Jews were killed by the SS and the people of Eastern Europe who seemed to really hate them for some reason.

[@luciuslomax336]

This guy should stick to the battle and forget the rationalizations. The Germans killed millions, I repeat millions, of Russian soldiers taken prisoner

[@haroldcruz8550]

The narrator just reads a German soldier's diary, the words are of the owner of the diary

[@luciuslomax336]

I know. I'm not talking about the guy reading, I'm talking about the German soldier who wrote this

[@ditto1958]

This seems to run through most of these German diaries. Although, the authors generally are not avid nazis, they still tend to have strange views on the morality of the things they are doing in Russia, a country Germany attacked without provocation. I’m not sure why.

[@luciuslomax336]

It's v very literary, very well done and very interesting. The Germans as a people continue to amaze me, then as now. But in this case wholly clueless.

[@JjjToken]

They were smart enough to not say anything to negative about Hitler or anything that might turn that pow status into a war crimes trial...

[@beebers99]

Didn't you already play this one?

[@gnosticbrian3980]

Odd that the author found no space to mention that 3 million Soviet soldiers captured in the early days of Barbarossa were corralled on the open step where they died from thirst and malnutrition.

[@waynevaughan9325]

Brilliant vid.

[@j.dragon651]

I can't keep track or the chronological order or who is who with all these.

[@TXJan0057]

The population of Russia in 1933 is listed as 168 million while that of Germany was 68 million.

[@simapark]

Not likely ,that will be the population of the whole Soviet Union not Russia.

[@AnEnemy100]

I do not trust this account though it is interesting. I’ve been watching police interrogations of murderers and it’s interesting how they seek to minimise their guilt.There are parallels here.

[@partygrove5321]

What is the date of this?

[@defenderoftheadverb]

"Dove"? Is that English?

[@cwcsquared]

What year?

[@blueduck9409]

This story would be much better if the narrator spoke in a German accent. I think all these war stories would be better if the people telling the story had the accent to match the story.

[@daleburrell6273]

Well, "ya CAN'T please EVERYBODY!!!" ...and I'm inclined to AGREE with you-(!)

[@myblueandme]

Were soldiers allowed to keep diary. A crucial record for the enemy if in case they got caught.

[@kevinh5349]

One reason so many officers in the attempt on Hitler's life were found out it because the Gestapo found diaries so many of them kept, with names, etc. they were great soldiers but lousy conspirators. And things related in this vid were based on actual events, but i think a lot of "fill in the blanks" occurred too. Just think of your own experiences. Relate them on a day to day basis ten or more years after they happened.

[@tundranomad]

Not positive, but I think all diaries and letters were confiscated and read for any strategic information. All forces would do this.

[@hodaka1000]

REPEAT ?

[@bobhooton6524]

I guess this from a non factual book, not from a soldiers diary, good though.

[@JudasPriestSUCKS]

lol,get a grip

[@adriancrossman1569]

Rubbish😮

[@JudasPriestSUCKS]

whY?