We Killed Our Comrades For Food It Was A Massacre In The Mud

[@bw7754]

“Protection of the asbestos rag” 😂 poor guys faced death from anything

[@mo07r1]

Death in min or decades, your choice 🤣🤣🤣

[@markmaki4460]

An asbestos rag is only dangerous if you somehow manage to suspend many particles of it in the air, such as it is a visible cloud. I have used them often in laboratories without apprehension. Indeed, the process of removing asbestos from old buildings subjects more people to more danger from the asbestos than simply leaving it in place and arranging to safely dispose of it when the structure it is part of is demolished.

[@christopherconard2831]

​@@markmaki4460Another problem with asbestos is when combined with smoking. Something way more common in the 1940's. Cigarettes left the lungs far more vulnerable to the scaring from imbedded asbestos fibers. This is why mesothelioma started spiking in the 80's as those that were exposed to both began feeling the combined effect.

[@mrlodwick]

Thank you..

[@ridethecurve55]

I hope this wasn't the last reading of this book. It's gotten my attention from beginning to end. Thank You!

[@TheTrampmasters]

I wrote this book! I can send you a copy of you would like.

[@krakrtreacysr907]

​@@TheTrampmasters isn't this from the twighlights of the gods

[@TheTrampmasters]

@@krakrtreacysr907 dude shut up! Will be reporting if you continue to harass.

[@nunosilva7505]

@TheTrampmasters:You did? I enjoyed every word!!

[@ThePredator13579]

Blood Red Snow is the book

[@bobhamulak3646]

Such graphic detail. I could almost imagine being there, suffering and seeing what he describes. It's true that war is hell. Quite unpleasant!

[@Neillybob63]

'War is Hell'? As I recall, the Nazi's and their followers thought 'War Is The Best Thing Ever'.....until they started losing, that is.

[@willmax18]

Thank you for the new upload. Amazing content on your channel. I subbed a few uploads ago.

[@Sledgehammer3100]

Excellent video, deserves way more views.

[@TheBrettarcher]

arschen becker

[@alexvarouhas6051]

Fascinating, thank you for uploading

[@BenjahPhotography]

Incredibly well done video! Subscribed! Your page deserves way more views

[@krazyflipy5801]

Gee...that was intense. Thx for posting.

[@deanjericevic8912]

I like the pragmatic attitude that those German soldiers have that when that officious food guard tries to ward off the famished soldiers, a burst of machine gun fire- end of story for him!

[@fritzs1207]

i think The author is Günter K. Koschorrek from the 24 Panzer-Division ( he is still alive as of 2023 )

[@createdeccentricities6620]

He worries about how the Soviets treated German prisoners; has he no idea of the treatment his comrades meted out to the Russian troops THEY captured?

[@greasyflight6609]

An absolute horror

[@TheBrettarcher]

maybe because the Russian soldiers all died or and even if they survived the communist shot them or sent them to Siberia red army soldiers didnt havea chance rather like Russia today fighting for Putins Billionaires while eating shit and dying 'for motherland'

[@l3uIletpoints]

Totally agree. Being human, its difficult to not feel sympathy towards these nazi soldiers during the hour of their utter decimation. However, these diaries hardly portray the brutal nazi actions while they were on top of the lowly bolshevicks... who were "unter menshen" - lowly beings in their eyes and therefore not worthy of their higher aryan sympathies. Therefore, my sympathy is going to be reserved for people who didnt inflict the exact same horrors that they are now themselves suffering

[@LuvBorderCollies]

Aside from brutal treatment and conditions, the Germans did not or could not grow enough food. Of course they stole from occupied lands but it wasn't enough, and really not enough adding in hundreds of thousands of POWs.

[@benwilson6145]

@@LuvBorderCollies The Germans murdered over a million Russian POWs

[@wdobni]

this is a great narrator....diction is clear....modulation is even and adequately loud too many other narrators have unsteady voices that dip into soft low tones as they try to add 'interest' or 'emphasis'

[@AudieHolland]

It's an AI narrator. A really good one but like all AI voices, it does make notable mistakes in pronunciation at times. But far less often than your regular AI voice.

[@AudieHolland]

@@josephmountford2292 *Then I guess you listened to a different audio then this one. Probably the original audio book but for this video they used the AI version to not get sued.* AI narrators sound so good and natural nowadays and can mimick any person's voice so well that they're the audio 'deepfake' variant of the usual video deepfake. In the first few minutes, the narrator mentions: 'Including a 75 millimeters ATG.' then untill about 2:39, he keeps mentioning ATG and HMG about six times, exactly the same 'name.' A human narrator would have interspersed the abbreviated names with 'anti tank gun,' 'cannon' for the ATG or 'heavy machine gun' or simply 'machinegun' for the HMG. The following minutes untill 4:34 at least, the AI does vary the names like a human narrator would do. So why not untill 2:39? Because it's obviously an AI narrator. Starting from 4:52 "But where is he?" -'They must all be in the bunker,' Bittner answers from next door... The AI narrrator delivers in a very flat manner, no emotion or dramatic accents on specific words, as a human narrator would do. Starting from 5:11 "Only Fender and two other men are in the bunker the Leutnant has sent the rest off to the nearby foxhole." No pause in between 'bunker' and 'the Leutnant' as any human narrator would do. Any human narrator would put either a period or a colon in between bunker and the Leutnant. Only someone who is just learning to read out aloud in class may make this obvious beginner's mistake but then we're talking early Elementary School level of reading. And I agree it is an excellent narrator most of the times so when it makes these inexplicable mistakes, for a human that is, the only conclusion can be that it's an AI narrator. "I quickly light up a cigarette, and on my way out of the bunker when someone yells tank." Do I really have to explain to you that even a child would not simply and very flatly say 'tank.' If someone yells in the story, at least make it sound like someone yells 'Tank!' "TANK!" Maybe the author meant 'typewriter' instead of an actual tank? "At this range, if they all suddenly jump up and charge, things could get pretty awkward," he remarks nervously - no faults I could detect. Interrupting these thoughts is a sudden call from the hollow - again no faults detected "Pan, pan" - I think the word repeated is not exactly identical but almost identical sounding. One, there is no emotion or urgency put in these words at all. Two, I'm not even sure what language it is supposed to be. So I think there was an outright blunder made here where the original text was not scanned properly resulting in garbage. If I were a Russian trying to surrender, I would say 'please' - pozhaluysta, or 'comrade' - tovarishch, or 'don't shoot' - ne strelyay, or 'I surrender' - ya podchinyayus, or 'We surrender' - My sdayemsya, or 'stop' - ostanavlivat'sya.

[@josephmountford2292]

@@AudieHolland go to audible and listen to (even a preview) of Blood Red Snow… it is the same narrator. It isn’t ai.

[@AudieHolland]

@@josephmountford2292 Listen to those examples I gave you. In other videos, he sometimes pronounces (example) 1944 as One thousand nine hundred forty-four. The voice they used as the basis is an actual human narrator. Only in these videos it is not him, it's AI.

[@josephmountford2292]

@@AudieHolland take 2 minutes and check audible… it’s not ai, I know that it is your opinion, but the fact is that Nigel Patterson narrated this quite a few years back. Maybe you don’t like him as a narrator,.

[@stephenbrown9998]

Very good thank you

[@SanitysVoid]

Every NATO soldier needs to hear this story.

[@carausiuscaesar5672]

The win war weapon of this war were without a doubt US made army trucks.The Red Army of 1943 -1945 moved vigorously about the battlefield on American wheels.The Conquered Germans of Berlin were amazed at the mobile Soviets in their lend lease US trucks and jeeps.

[@paulramsey1255]

LIAR

[@Ira88881]

While the Germans were eating their transportation…dead horses.

[@mongolike513]

Mate they helped but the Russians supplied the flesh. Don’t kid yourself that you beat the Nazis when you have had Nazis running Washington for the last thirty years.

[@Ira88881]

@@ChrisSmith-lo2kp That’s a pisser to know! Later on, Studebaker became kind of a joke in the minds of the American consumer, for valid reasons or not.

[@ChrisSmith-lo2kp]

@@Ira88881 yes, history is ironic that way

[@alandavis9644]

Looking like we have a repeat of history.

[@websonic1000]

still no available English, French or US soldiers dairy found?

[@Timmy-en7qv]

My heart breaks for these warriors regardless of the uniform they wear. I wish I was there to help them with my exceptional courage and military skill. Instead "the system" has me relegated to serving as a school crossing guard. Distracted drivers are a menace. My bravery goes unnoticed. Still I proudly serve those thankless self entitled brats.

[@mikemines2931]

You bloody hero.

[@josephrobson2339]

Is this brilliant sattire? Or your average American?

[@Ryan-vg4wn]

​@@josephrobson2339just your average basement dweller

[@nazmul_khan_]

@@josephrobson2339what else were you expecting from someone named Timmy?!?😂

[@horsemeat5460]

What book is this? I know I’ve listened to it before and I remember liking it, I just can’t recall the name. Another good one is “until the eyes shut” by Andreas hartinger about his grandfather Hans karr

[@scottw5315]

Blood red snow

[@thee49-d3m]

Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front Gunter K. Koschorrek

[@krakrtreacysr907]

​@@thee49-d3m dang. I thought this was Twilight of the gods

[@fritzthecat3150]

Wouldn't that be considered plagiarism?

[@scottw5315]

@@fritzthecat3150 Could be copyright infringement. I'm not complaining.

[@vcv6560]

The officer from Kiev perhaps has a descendant who today will be manning a German provided tank and facing off against the Russians. War makes strange bedfellows.

[@ishitunot5152]

Perhaps and perhaps not

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

I sincerely doubt that officers descendents are loyal to Kiev 😂

[@dorrisday1518]

@@unbearifiedbear1885 My wife's father fought as a HIWI for the Germans in WW2, He was from Lviv. She is Ukrainian. The Holodomor was a famine caused by Ukrainians refusing to have their farms collectivized leading Stalin to send the army to take the harvest causing a famine killing 7-10 million from 1932-33. That is why a million or so Ukrainians fought for the Germans.

[@honved1]

The famine was caused by them Refusing to have their farms collectivised? 😂😂😂 that’s a creative way of victim blaming

[@honved1]

@@unbearifiedbear1885why?

[@Skipjack7814]

This is the second time ive heard about the 'laquered' ammo for the MG42. Bad idea!

[@LuvBorderCollies]

Works great in the AK-47 and SKS rifles. But the 7.62x39 cartridge was designed to extract much easier with its greater taper of the cartridge case. I've shot Romanian 8mm with steel cases made in the 1970s-80s and they work fine in the Mauser bolt action.

[@christopherconard2831]

When the choice is lacquered steel or nothing, you take steel. I've read there is an alternative to brass that works just as well, a gold alloy. But it's a bit more expensive. And probably isn't a good idea to issue soldiers with weapons that the ammo in the magazine is worth more than the rifle.

[@eduardotomaslagosmolina5271]

The germans run with the tail between the legs.

[@paulcarey191]

his rear end took a real pounding!... damn

[@ttrestle]

Just discovered your content, but my only complaint is that you do not organize your videos into playlists. Any chance you can create some playlists as I would like to stay on your channel automatically and playlists are a great service for doing that on KZbin. I believe it would help you gather more views and the small recognition. I recommend putting all of your videos of WW2 Stories, and the one master playlist with the newest upload at the top. I also recommend a separate playlist that is in chronological order by the date of the event not the date of the upload. There are other playlist ideas I’m sure, but those two would be the best at least. Really hope you can do that as it’s really simple and easy to organize, and it would help your channel grow. EDIT: corrected spelling

[@luke8329]

The channels go kaput if they do that. Happened many times, whole books were here unabridged.

[@ttrestle]

@@luke8329 no they don’t. Ever big channels have and update playlists. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@ppumpkin3282]

then go there. Its astonishing how people getting content for free are complaining and asking for more. @@ttrestle

[@ttrestle]

@@ppumpkin3282 huh? In no way did I ask for more content. I just asked if they could put the vids in a playlist folder. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Theearthtraveler]

Interesting about the ammo.

[@bldbar118]

WOW 😮

[@conceptalfa]

👍👍👍!!!

[@wodenviking]

Feet and Butt Hurt after watching this.

[@bikesnippets]

All very exciting, but highly unlikely that he remembered dialogue so clearly. Sounds like the Sven Hassel fakes.

[@jeffb8685]

I ve never heard a German say bloody hell.

[@Telechronic]

Ok. Let's just make this a game. (Which book are you reading from without citing it.) I say "Blood Red Snow" for this one. (Spoiler alert - the German soldiers never kill and eat each other.)

[@harryeisermann2784]

excellent

[@kmd5551]

Which AI do you use for this ?

[@lemmykilmister450]

Is this The Forgotten Soldier Guy Sajer?

[@blockboygames5956]

No. Not the same person.

[@cobraferrariwars]

Reminds me of "The Forgotten Soldier" by Sajer, another first-hand account. See also "Few Returned" by Corti which describes the cause of war. These books won't make a difference. See Corti: "Only God can castigate mankind. Only this way can war be explained. Even if we came through this, and found a way of making others, especially the culprits, understand what war is, there would still be wars in the future, in defiance of all human logic. In the past too, for that matter, man would never have wanted war, had it been in his power not to want it. To prevent war occurring therefore, mankind as a whole has to cease making it inevitable by accumulating before God one sin after another -- sins that at a certain point become an avalanche, which moves, and strikes, and engulfs."

[@karelianmghow9095]

Blood Red Snow by Günther Koschorrek.

[@greasyflight6609]

Good Book

[@chopperking007]

Soviets using german tactics in the end...

[@gredw6733]

Amazing account....spellbinding.

[@alandavis9644]

Studebaker trucks, Willis jeeps and 76 mm gun barrels were the material the US sent to Russia.

[@christopherconard2831]

When the Russians started moving towards Germany many were surprised to find identical trucks being captured. Both were Ford's.

[@alandavis9644]

@@christopherconard2831 the Russians are running most of their newer equipment with Cummins engines, vis a plant built over there. Gonna be a lot of salvage engines and Allison transmissions over there to be gotten. There is always ways to make money in disasters.

[@tompilkington7379]

Two t34s. I’m outa there too.

[@blockboygames5956]

Same. :)

[@l3uIletpoints]

Being human, its difficult to not feel sympathy towards these nazi soldiers during the hour of their utter decimation. However, these diaries hardly portray the brutal nazi actions while they were on top of the lowly bolshevicks... who were "unter menshen" - lowly beings in their eyes and therefore not worthy of their higher aryan sympathies. Therefore, my sympathy is going to be reserved for people who didnt inflict the exact same horrors that they are now themselves suffering

[@LuvBorderCollies]

Going back to the Dark Ages and Middle Ages, the western Europeans were not big fans of the Slavs. I suspect the barriers of terrain kept them from knowing each other very well. Then there's the big church split in the 1000's which really put a schism between East and West.

[@bb-ballistics1706]

Its crazy how the allies and the germans both agreed on one thing. And thats how bad the russians treated people especially their own soldiers, woman and children. Yes the Nazis were awful. But alot of the front line troops treated pows fairly unless they were ss. The craziest things about the Russians were the shooting of their own men if they didn't take part in suicidal attacks. The way they killed their own woman and children. The way they treated their own men if they had been captured or surrendered. And the way their winning troops were locked up for two years after the war because they had spent too much time in countries that weren't communists. Russia solders have testified about how 60-100 of them were ordered to rape german teenagers one after the other and then the girls and woman were shot. I fully understand why they wanted revenge on the germans. But to kill your own woman and children for simple been in a area that the germans held is madness. To shoot your own men for not wanting to charge on attack thats only outcome is certain death is mental. I also find it strange how the uk declared war on germany when they invaded poland but the allies didnt declare war on russia when the russias invade poland with the Germans. War is a strange thing .men pay the price for politicians words. Woman and children pay the price for simply been there.

[@christopherconard2831]

But Stalin promised to make Poland an independent nation with free and fair elections after the war. Just like he promised to leave Germany once a new government was established.

[@bb-ballistics1706]

@@christopherconard2831 he failed to mention the part where his men would massacre hundreds of polish officers and he also promised any Germans who surrendered would be treated well...

[@bustersmith5569]

Kruppka ,,,,......!!!!

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting and informative. Good presentation picture 📷 giving viewers a better understand what the orator was describing. Rough fierce combat operations on both sides. Special thanks to Gunter for sharing his personal combat operations experiences. Fighting/surviving making this documentary more authentic and possible.

[@henrymcn4870]

The nazi point of view. Who gives a **** what about the soviet anti nazi point of view

[@rationalbasis2172]

The picture doesn't tell you anything. It's most likely from 1943, before the general uniform change in 1944. This chapter concerns events in 1945, with badly equipped German troops. By that year, the troops of the type shown in the picture were mostly dead, wounded or prisoners.

[@colinjohn2708]

I notice is speaking in the present tense as if he is writing while it is happening or is he reflecting? ( he is speaking ...make that)

[@dhss333]

Total fiction on killing for food.

[@coachjester4735]

let me guess, because you were there right with your time machine, or is it because CNN told you it's not true.

[@dhss333]

@@coachjester4735 Neither: I have read stacks of Military History, seen interviews , spoke ( in Germany) to 3 surviving veterans of WW1 ( this in the 1970s) No mention, ever, of any of this. I have never had a TV so never see/hear CNN.

[@greasyflight6609]

@@dhss333 I have never heard of this...but I would not doubt in isolated incidents.

[@dianeduffcroop8158]

I totally believe that this could happen and not just in isolated cases. Unless you've never been starved and I mean really starved then you don't know the meaning of the word. I was abused as a child and part of that abuse was withholding food to the point where I was malnourished and I never properly grew to the right height and my bones never properly developed correctly due to lack of food. I finally snapped when I was 13 and I beat the shit out of my psychopath mother to get some food out of the locked refrigerator. When my father came home I took a whoopin like I never had before. A few months after that when I turned fourteen I left home and never returned. So think about what you're saying in your post from my perspective or a person like myself.

[@daveyvane]

Of course some people would kill for food.

[@marvwatkins7029]

A chapter?

[@matttilley8620]

The saddest aspect of all of this is the fact it is happening today, and will keep happening until we obliterate ourselves entirely. People fundamentally hate one another.

[@johnschlottman619]

Correction: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[@ninjawizard3865]

That's maybe because the forces that were behind WW1 and WW2 are still trying to achieve the same goal they have outlined.

[@sharelleclark2752]

I've only started listening to this but I would bet 1k he/they do not kill their own men unless its because they have been shot and clearly wouldn't survive so they put them out of the misery and pain and then use their food.I'm saying this as 99% of video's write a statement to try to get more view's but what REALLY ANNOYS me is when they show a picture but the picture isn't even in the video and if I am right about this 1 (HOPEFULLY I AM)IT IS SICK TO EVEN WRITE THAT,REMEMBERING HE IS SAYING SOLDIER'S KILLED THEIR OWN 😢

[@romanpernal7397]

He complains about the horses that are in bad shape ….calls them names but the horses saved them.

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

You blame anything in such situations, even that which maintains you

[@dianeduffcroop8158]

I've never been to war but have studied it did long enough to know that it truly is hell. But what really gets to me to my core is the poor animals that didn't ask for any of this.😢

[@rationalbasis2172]

Talks endlessly about Russian "atrocities" but never says anything either about German atrocities and the fact that it was Germany who invaded the Soviet Union (and a dozen other countries) with the intention of enslaving everyone.

[@paulcarey191]

its war he's expressing the scene, thats the way they talk as well, what you don't know is that germans were actually known for their humane treatment of animals of all kinds, more so than any other nation involved in this war, including america iv'e studied this stuff for real, not high school etc...the real stuff, dogs are not the only animals germans love, they are sympathetic towards all of them. Besides his rear end took a real pounding!!! lolol. your welcome for the education, hope you learned something.

[@rationalbasis2172]

@@paulcarey191 "I've studied this stuff for real." I'm willing to bet you've never said what you said in your comment in a bar in Warsaw or Belgrade, and lived. Anyone who's "studied this stuff for real" doesn't talk about "germans were actually known for their humane treatment of animals of all kinds, moreso than any other nation involved in this war." You just insulted every other nation involved in WW2, and praised the society of the primary aggressor. You're someone who hasn't studied this stuff for real, you haven't spent any time reading serious historians, you haven't spent time in military libraries in the stacks reading divisional histories, etc. You say the kind of stuff that an unserious person says about WW2. Deeply unserious.

[@LaHayeSaint]

I can well imagine Soviet troops taking their anger out on Russian women who had lived under occupation by German troops. This was probably the only way these women could survive. Yet, when the Political Commissars arrived, they would shoot anyone who had survived German occupation, and who were mistakenly deemed collaborators. How cruel can you get?

[@4june9140]

The EVIL stalin has a lot to answer for

[@budkingston3347]

It’s what communism does. It’s the religion for what homicidal maniacs do.

[@LuvBorderCollies]

Nothing has changed in the Russian brain as the overabundance of evidence is showing in Ukraine. Its pretty obvious why "the world" is not pushing Ukraine to talk so-called "peace" with Russia. Putin has exposed the Russian brute mentality for all the world to see.

[@kurtiskohn8912]

I couldn’t imagine living in a country who’s leaders openly murder any opposition including their own countrymen and the people are okay with it and don’t revolt. Patriotism seems to be a regional thing.

[@Neillybob63]

"How cruel can you get"? Well I suppose you could construct places such as Sobibor, Belzec and Treblinka..... that would be pretty cruel, don't you think?

[@barryrammer7906]

Otto and Joseph brave good men.

[@joehernande-721]

Ich mochte es me Duetche horen

[@billgrant9027]

Just think Donnie would prevented all this.

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

_"....Gorlami"_

[@holysquire8989]

I think all of these narratives were written by the same person.

[@danieluithol6350]

please pronounce Unteroffizier not on a French manner. Thats unkown in German.

[@danieluithol6350]

Here an example of the right pronounciation kzbin.info/www/bejne/l57Ofoyll9mbjqs

[@jenniferrahm3600]

I didnt know Bear Grylls was in a war. That thumbnail looks just like him.

[@wayinfront1]

The English word 'squadron' (German: geschwader) is pronounced SKWADRON, not 'shwadron'.

[@benwilson6145]

The narrator is English!

[@davidaxelos4678]

Your complaints to speaker, smarty!

[@RandomDeforge]

just curious, why is this entire channel so sympathetic towards the nazi invaders and doesn't bother to provide the perspectives of neither the western allied forces, nor those of the Soviets?

[@krakrtreacysr907]

If you listen to their memoirs youll learn that what you where taught in a govt. School has been horse shit.... Have you ever thought "if theres one Katyn, theres probably more"... The NKVD and SMESH where good at what they did, especially since no western reporters was there to say otherwise,,, dont be so fast to judge what you dont know

[@blockboygames5956]

Instead of dividing people, just listen to it as a human story of survival.

[@coachjester4735]

Your glass house looks a bit broken, maybe you should stop throwing stones... maybe one day we will hear the side of the Afghan, or Iraq forces and how they had to fight off the evil American invaders wouldn't that also be fair? just curious. This is not about sides, glory, good vs evil, there are no winners, only suffering in war on all sides, and the struggle to survive. Get perspective and maybe try a little empathy.

[@blockboygames5956]

@@coachjester4735 Absolutely agree. Well said.

[@krakrtreacysr907]

@@coachjester4735 bravo bravo well said

[@cal4207]

Shit happens sometimes

[@mikeshoemaker1909]

40:00 When you kicked that yellow eyed pony in the balls to get it moving what happened?