We Say Good Bye To America Where We Experienced Deepest Sorrow And Highest Joy

(Part 18) . Watch our video "We Say Good Bye To America Where We Experienced Deepest Sorrow And Highest Joy" and Immerse yourself in the gripping memoirs of an enlisted man in Germany's army who served on both Eastern and Western fronts, facing the harsh realities of war. Captured in 1944, his journey takes an unexpected turn as he finds himself in American hands, spending 14 months in POW camps across the United States.
Experience the highs and lows of life as a prisoner of war during ww2, from the challenges of a French POW camp to the comparatively comfortable but psychologically taxing sojourn in the United States. Join us as we uncover the emotional turmoil of coping with homesickness, accepting defeat, and confronting the shocking revelations about the lies and brutality of the Third Reich. This video series explores the resilience of the human spirit, offering poignant insights into maintaining dignity, pride, and hope in the face of adversity.
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[@WW2Tales]

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 18 ( Last Part ) of diary of an enlisted man in Germany's army, who served on both the Eastern and Western fronts and was wounded four times before being captured in 1944. After a highly unpleasant stay in a French POW camp, he was turned over to American authorities and sent to the U.S., where he spent a comparatively comfortable 14 months in several POW camps. Repatriated in 1948, He worked as a dental technician until his death. This is link of the playlist kzbin.info/aero/PLGjbe3ikd0XEB0tw8c5PNFvQWdL0-eYAy Link of part 1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGHFmoFrm5mShJY Link of part 2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKWUf3V-i7WBqLc Link of part 3 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaGTfq2ebrZorac Link of part 4 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpDPc6hvmJKqhck Link of part 5 kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4Gme3-ejraBnJI Link of part 6 kzbin.info/www/bejne/inXUdpiKZqeNgrM Link of part 7 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKm9dHeXqNSLrbc Link of part 8 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mp2aY5iwhLacj9E Link of part 9 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qp2mimV7q5agoLs Link of part 10 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGjWiIiIoa2GbZo Link of part 11 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ21gnabi6Z9i8k Link of part 12 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZmYfaWch8hgp8U Link of part 13 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fX27fml_ntqogtk Link of part 14 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqimpYOGp85pe8k Link of part 15 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4XNaqaKhJWLerM Link of part 16 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKTRk6p6e7Glm6M Link of part 17 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGKuZGaCrsmWjtE

[@cowhand6112]

Thanks for the playlist and saying which Part each video is.

[@joelspringman523]

We treated these bastards like kings. I can't believe they had the nerve to complain and play the victims!!!

[@jamesrogers47]

There are people who seem upset that he wasn't "appreciative" of the treatment he received as a POW of the United States and Britain. From what I took away from his story, he was as appreciative as one might reasonably expect any prisoner of war to be. A prison is still a prison no matter how well appointed it be. One's captors are still one's captors regardless of how kind and generous they may be. I have no doubt that he considered himself fortunate to have been a prisoner of the Americans and British as opposed to having suffered in the captivity of the French, or heavens forfend, that of the especially vengeful Soviets. He was a German who served his homeland for a government that led it to well deserved destruction and nearly half a century of partition. Even for those German soldiers who did not engage in war crimes, they bore the stigma of those who did.

[@jimbrown4234]

Yes, he was pleased to be a USA POW and of course he was loyal to Germany but by the end of his internment he should have very appreciative of how he was treated by the Americans versus how the Germans treated American POWs. BTW, the Russians treated German POWs better than the Germans treated Russian POWs with the Russians actually providing medical treatment. Yes the Russians often simply killed german soldiers surrendering but that was because they suffered so much by the Germans but German POWs actually had a higher survival rate than Russian POWs even with those of Stalingrad experiencing about 95% mortality. They mostly died due to starved and sick condition prior to surrendering. Yes the Russians raped German woman more than Germans did Russians but that was partly due to racial assume superiority. considering all, the French were the worst.

[@Albert-the-Astro]

Great comment.

[@sfelton8943]

Thank you for speaking!

[@MarciaDurkee]

Wonderful comment!!

[@010bobby]

What a shame he was not able to reunite with his POW buddies.. wonder what happened to them.. were they all able to go home?

[@mattalley4330]

What a deeply satisfying ending. His reunion with his family was heartwarming

[@jestice75]

What about Hocker and the rest of his friends?

[@mattalley4330]

What about them?

[@jestice75]

@@mattalley4330 The story is all about them surviving together. He hardly talks about his family, it's all about his comrades, then we only know 1 died and he didn't look up the rest.

[@mattalley4330]

@@jestice75 I dont know. He didnt say. I guess we may need to fill in some of the blanks on our own.

[@jestice75]

@@mattalley4330 He said Hocker was killed trying to escape a POW camp in France in 1946, and he never reconnected with the rest of his friends. Very unsatisfying.

[@jackjohnsen8506]

I was a US Army soldier, and was sent to Germany as a dental lab tech, in 1966. The land was back to normal, and people seemmed Happy again...

[@oldtop4682]

This hits home in a lot of ways. I was a soldier too, and this whole series is a walk through a soldier's life on the line. I served in Germany (as a US soldier) long after the war. I've had the honor to talk to men who served in both armies during that time (including my father). The stories from WWII never cease to amaze me. This person did his job, did it well, and had the balls to take that drive into a successful civilian career later. Most don't know how hard that is for a front line soldier to do. Massive props for this series!

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

You’re exactly right because after someone has been active duty in the military and especially Frontline infantry or tank units for 10 years or more it is really really hard to break out of that Wok because that’s what you’ve been doing for so long and somebody doesn’t even have to stay in 20 years. A dedicated soldier can get really adapted and take the military as an adopted family within 3 to 5 years.

[@ronclark9724]

My father who fought in Africa and Europe during the Second World War recalled when he returned to America there was rationing and a housing shortage. Since very few homes were build during the depression and during the war, many were sharing homes with their families or friends. Many of the soldiers and sailors that returned ended up building housing causing a housing boom. Where cities before stopped near the ends of the streetcar lines, cities spread into the suburbs beyond the street car lines with the growth of car ownership as the war industry returned to commercial enterprises.

[@mojo4jojo]

Thank you for the story, it's informative and important to know both sides of the story 👍

[@kevinohalloran7164]

Coffee and decorated cakes for their last dessert. Some of the German POWs must have said, "Look at all this! Are the Americans just f**king with us? Do they really have this kind of luxury?"

[@user-gy5lf2bi9l]

Love listening to ur stories

[@jjuniper274]

I don't think people know of the 45 German-American interment camps for families and individuals deemed "sympathetic" to Germany. It wasn't just Japanese.

[@augustuswayne9676]

I listen to every part of this diary . It is gripping .

[@WW2Tales]

Have a great weekend sir 😊

[@augustuswayne9676]

@@WW2Tales you too.

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography picture of the American( P.O.W. ) camp. Edible food/clean uniforms/livable accommodations.1000 fold better than a Russian style gulag camp.

[@tcarroll3954]

Another outstanding presentation. Thank you.

[@WW2Tales]

very kind of you sir

[@abettercab7585]

Your presentation taught me again that most people are reasonable people.

[@tsclly2377]

This series of German soldier stories is one of the most poignant, as it shows the re-education of the brainwashed soldier that is given the room and ability to see the gross faults of the regime that he has followed and anguish of being still loyal to hi country as a ethnic language speaking people.. One must note that this aspect of language has been proffered as 'the solution' to a major conflict where language has been bastardized ad a forced inferiority complex demanded by the aggressor, like it had been done 80 years ago..

[@davidwrobel8089]

Camp Upton, located on Long Island NY. Another point of interest is south in Yaphank NY, Camp Siegfield.

[@jimbrown4234]

An existentialist story that ends in an emotional void. Since he collected and edited his diaries to make this story he had time and experience to be reflective. I have no problem with his loyalty to Germany while a soldier and initially as a prisoner. It's natural to be loyal to ones country and to be suspicious of your enemy as a prisoner. What bothered me is his lack of appreciation of how humanly he was treated by the Americans and to a lesser extent the English. I know the French did not treat German prisoners humanly even if not as bad as what the Russians did. The Russians, however, suffered vastly more than the French both in the treatment of their prisoners and destruction and death in the Soviet Union. Considering how USA POWs were treated by the Germans he should have had better appreciation of his treatment. It is almost as if he is a whiner despite getting the lucky draw of being sent to the USA to serve most of his POW time. It is also disappointing he didn't manage to find more of those he was so close with as a POW. He ended up economically comfortable in his business and if you write a saga like this I would expect greater effort to find those who meant so much to him as a prisoner and re connection also to those in USA who treated him so kindly. At least a thank you card to the Peach farmer is due if not a visit in person to say thanks. In summary, very interesting saga of POW experience by a self centered person who fails to appreciate his luck of the draw.

[@jimbrown4234]

BTW, I hosted a German foreign exchange student and visited his family for a German Christmas. It was, snowing and we all sat in a living room near a nice fireplace aglow. In a corner sat an old man, the grand pa. Suddenly he looked out the window at the snow and blurted out something in Bavarian German. Asked what he said, the student's father said, "He claims he can sleep naked in the snow and live." Surprised at this comment, I asked what he meant. The father replied, "He was taken prisoner in Stalingrad and didn't get back to Germany until 1953 after Stalin died." I proclaimed he had a story to tell but was told no one in Germany want to talk about the war.

[@firstlast-dj5ou]

but the us and allied injustly and selfishly destroyed his country for.the sake of the onternational.finances and banks facts atested by Churchill himself.in his memoirs

[@Bob.W.]

Thanks. Listening now, should be the finale.

[@WW2Tales]

@Bob.W. Sir you are always welcome ,and yeah its the final part finally

[@bodyloverz30]

@@WW2Tales What about how officers were treated in US and Canada? Also, I hear that senior officers were put in grand Canadian estates.

[@davidlj53]

And went on.

[@welshpete12]

A remarkable document, that stands pare, with Das Boot as two of the most important accounts to come out of the second world war

[@ralphvon283]

Notes of a Russian Sniper by Vassii Zaitsev, is on Amazon, in paperback. Available in Spanish editions , and many other languages in addition to English.

[@currentbatches6205]

14:09 - FDR agreed with Stalin to repatriate all POWs to their 'homelands'; it is 20-20 hind-sight to see this as a tragedy. 22:24 - All the Brit workers were still on the Continent; work had to be done, and the German POWs bore more than a little of the guilt.

[@pappap1702]

This seems to be a different version of another audio by WW2 tales I heard earlier.

[@philduoos2961]

It seems to me that there are numerous diaries from many soldiers that are being made. I have a difficult time keeping them all in order.

[@Austrian_blood]

Glad of the happy ending. But why did the French keep their POW's so long; revenge? Degaulle was one tough nut. IMO

[@patricklemire9278]

It’s amazing they had no idea how bad the Russians camps were.

[@wycheholt1902]

Well, that was disappointing I want to know what happened to Hocker Brillar Schultz and all the other guys.

[@johnnyallen843]

These stories are recycled from several months ago, but with a new title.

[@jackkokot6243]

If They win the war, IM wonder what will be the story of POW,

[@chrislong3938]

I wonder how the politically motivated SS troops felt once they were here. Did they change their minds once they saw one could be happy without going to war? Perhaps a few did, and perhaps a few didn't. Were they separated from the Wehrmacht regular soldiers? I would be interested to know!

[@eottoe2001]

There were labor needs of course in the UK and France, but sending a lot of soldiers home when there was little or no food or shelter, no jobs, would make for some difficulties to people in charge of the occupation. We saw what happened in Iraq. Time was needed to de-radicalize the radicals. Time, age, and decent care would change that. A lot of these guys were kids when they enlisted or were drafted. If we had followed this model in the Mideast after 911, things might be better than they are now. When they were sent back they had good stories to tell. Jobs were starting to happen. The Soviets did everything wrong so that when these soldiers returned they were probably more grateful. There was a logic to it. You'll notice that there is an amazement that they were eating as well as the locals which said a lot to them. Again, it is a shame this was not how it was handled in the Mideast after 911.

[@billkramer2994]

What a crime this wasnt done by a German since its THEIR story! Whats next a Michigan - Ohio football game narrated by a Japanese? Talk about not knowing yr market!!

[@WW2Tales]

Sir we tried switching to other accents ,but majority of audience likes this particular British accent,we use it even for Japanese memoirs, regards

[@billkramer2994]

@@WW2Tales Be true to the topic, don't kowtow to the mob even they say they like what is incorrect! What's nxt "Das Boot" in Italian bec yr video is going into Italy??

[@lawrencetomlinson761]

It seems none cares as much as you. Make your own production and post it.

[@billkramer2994]

​@@lawrencetomlinson761 Lot of followers - aka "life losers" of lemmings going over the cliff who "settle" for shoddy products and services of today! I retired early and am financially independant by NOT being one of these life losers! As an age old truism says: "you deserve what you tolerate" America wasnt built by people who accepted shoddy anything!

[@edwardilowiecki8925]

OMG, 90% of these videos are about Germans thinking about food!!! Another narrator would be welcomed, please!!!

[@joslynandcarltonramsubhag1836]

I have been listening to many WWII stories/documentaries and just want to hear more and more. During this particular series I cannot help but keep reflecting on stories upon stories of what the innocent holocaust prisoners/survivors went through. It's all like a dream .... did human beings really went through these horrible ordeals by human beings like themselves? Millions? Anyhow ...I will continue to learn/listen..............

[@TomStettler-ch1gc]

8700000

[@chickenbroski99]

Wow this was very eye opening and touching. I listened to all 18 and the story is quite amazing. What a life.