Why Hadn't The Soviets Given Up Already?

[@MrVroomhas]

Thanks! War diaries sneakily have become 40% of my content intake

[@jimsummers2574]

Exactly the same thing here. Listen every night before I crash. I haven't missed one yet

[@flintsky7706]

Same, I use it to sleep.

[@fasteddie8782]

Me too

[@tristondoyle9286]

I listen to it while at work. Days have been going by fast since I found this channel.

[@frankcompagnone8550]

Outstanding.. it's a great alternative

[@conceptalfa]

Thanks !!!👍👍👍

[@bennyboy2023]

Incredible stories this man told.. captivating from start to finish. Thanks for uploading.

[@kearnsdouglase]

amazing. I like the writing style and upper level word usage

[@vcv6560]

What a writer this person would have been in peace. How anyone from either side survived psychologically is beyond me.

[@ilokivi]

Reminded of something written by Spike Milligan, while serving with the Royal Artillery in Italy in 1943-4 before being wounded: 'God made gentle souls as well as strong ones; alas for the war effort, I turned out to be the gentle one.'

[@johndurrer7869]

Oh please, these people didn’t know what suffering was. They never had to deal with being part of the LGBTQ movement, that was true horror. Imagine how these weak men would’ve crumbled if they heard a micro-aggression or were misgendered. They don’t know pain

[@sickcommode-odragon4193]

I often think that listening to this channel. They’re brilliant writers compared to our generation. I wonder if they were anything special for their time?

[@harryfineberg5075]

If only the damn reds didn't insist on firing back it would be so much easier. 😂

[@artorito1]

jajajajajajajajajajaj.

[@AlejandroHernandez-fe8cq]

Wonderful content thank you for posting 👍

[@willhovell9019]

Fascinating. I can't help feeling a sort of schadenfreude hearing of the suffering of the troops of the murderous Nazi armies, that turned ordinary Germans into such barbaric thugs. Starving to death Soviet prisoners of war in their 100s of thousands, amongst the estimated 27 million Soviet people that died in the conflict

[@MrVroomhas]

You can mostly thank Stalin for that

[@krakrtreacysr907]

Thats because the british and french had been bombing all suppiy depots and lines that fed all those prisoners,,, germans will eat first thats just a fact.. stalin killed 21 million of his own before the war ,,so your numbers are skewed. remember Katyn??? Where there is one there is much more... dont fall for the propaganda

[@charliebrownie4158]

It's difficult to worry about them compared to the worse things they brought to everyone. Especially to my family. They didn't even quit when the Red Army entered Berlin the response from their military there wasn't being delivered by nothing it was their family members who brought the hell to Russia and Slavic peoples. The traitors who joined the Nazis had worse. You should see Come and See when people in Nazi outfits thinks saying we're not German were your brothers this didn't and wouldn't have saved them. I could imagine what was in the movie was far tamer than what actually happened.

[@ericscottstevens]

May be more than 27 million.

[@mirquellasantos2716]

If you truly think that Russians, Poles, Jews, gypsies, POW's and so on were Germany only victims, well you are pretty much mistaken. To my surprise I just found out that way before WW2 Germans had concentration camps in Africa. Yes, you can say that Africans were their first victims. Germans back then were evil to the core.

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting and informative. Excellent photography picture 📷 enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Class A professional research project!!! Special thanks to veteran soldiers/civilians sharing 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. Had the disillusioned fureur not change the original invasion plans for Moscow. General Zhukov wouldn't have had the opportunity to reorganize his demoralized military forces. Along with reinforcing the perimeters of Moscow. Denying general Guderian the opportunity to invade/conquer the Kremlin. A year after 1942 Russian military forces stopped & then slowly repulsed their German invaders.

[@maxinefreeman8858]

I remember as a kid during the Cold War we were told that the Bomb might be dropped any time. We didn't see the Russian people on tv. One reporter had been in Moscow. He claimed he'd been able to speak very briefly to a couple of Russians. He said they were told to fear us. He said it was the Germans that they hated because of what they did when they invaded Russia. This was in the early 60's so it hadn't been that many years since it happened.

[@jacquesstrapp3219]

I remember looking out across the iron curtain and thinking it would outlast me. I am extremely happy I was wrong. Unfortunately, it appears I might not have been completely wrong.

[@Stevesautopartsify]

What these men went through daily makes my life seem pathetic!

[@rcmrcm3370]

You are eating children instead of doing good?

[@RogerThat787]

Thanks for sharing, now please stop paoting this stupid nonsense. But, hey congratulations you win the low hanging fruit comment award. Congratulations and let your next comment reach rhe 3rd grade level. Good luck Comrade.

[@diecheneydie]

You think they had it tough? Please don't read about the Jews they slaughtered during the invasion. It might upset you.

[@mygaffer]

People adapt to their circumstances.

[@andrewm478]

​@@diecheneydie So why aren't you watching and commenting on a video about that, instead?

[@davidmikolaj9319]

I very much APPRECIATE , these accounts , narration of one , or a small few of individuals , who had notable substance in a Frame of TIME . Likened to know how lives after EXTREME SITUATIONS , BRUTAL COMBAT , & UNMANAGEABLE DEATH , like in your Face kind of THING , we as HUMANS MUST DO , DO , DO , EXTRA NORMAL SACRIFISE JUST DO IT !!!!!!!!!! .

[@mickcraven980]

"War in its harshest form." Very intense.

[@jordantheallmighty]

at 20:38 what is the phrase the author yells to the "red officer" in the fox hole before fragging him?

[@achokaracho7021]

I think its "Ruki Vverh!" what means "Hands up" , most knew a few words because they were taught them by the leadership. e.g. hands up, forward (Dawai) etc

[@jordantheallmighty]

@@achokaracho7021 thanks, that makes sense

[@jamessadler5073]

The delusion beggars belief. You march in to a country, see the occupants as subhuman and expect not to get the fight of your life. The red army soldiers have him in their hands and let him go, not a mention of the quarter given.

[@PvtSchlock]

Faith based positions need not have any relationship with provable reality. Ideology and political formula are faith based positions.

[@panzergarden1232]

Anyone else getting addicted to these diaries?

[@mauriceclark4870]

Must have been quiet. A shock to Germans. When they. Started to lose and go into retreat. Underestimated. Russians. Fatal. Mistake. Costly. !!!

[@ralphshelley9586]

Weather! Payback!

[@lukemoloney3675]

.h😅 😅6

[@elvynjones2489]

That poor gascist fool thinks the worst is over. Hell, it hasn't even started.

[@Ian_sothejokeworks]

These stories show how, for the common soldier, war is the same for all sides. It's tragic that we visit these horrors upon one another, for the glory of men who will never see it, and will kill themselves the moment they see their immense comfort coming to an end.

[@jasondrew5768]

German iron will cannot defeat logistics and superior allied war production!

[@charlesscottkelly]

This is why they need to show the full horror of war on TV, but stopped doing so, so the public will be ignorant and go along with the next military campaign they want.

[@hjorthh]

This sounds more like a book

[@theoldman8877]

Some one dropped the ball on quoting temperature 40' c is a hot day 105'f, freezing is 0'c or 32'f.

[@sststr]

Yeah, obviously -40, and later there's a 35 that should be a -35. It's a weird miss. Yet another reason to fancy this is a robotic recording and not a human - surely a human would have realized 35 to 40C in the Russian winter is obvious non-sense and would have fixed the error in the recording. A robot has no idea and just carries on obliviously. Presumably it treated the '-' in the text was a dash instead of a negative sign, with no ability to comprehend the context and do the right thing with the symbol.

[@ChancreSaurusRex]

@@sststr-40C is -40F. These are realistic lower end temps on the Russian plains in the winter.

[@markrix]

Our American children need to learn these stories, damn the book banners

[@ToudaHell]

Not just Americans. Damn the Cold War. I didn't learn any details about the eastern front until a few years ago. The west really didn't want to teach us how amazing the defense of Russia was in the WWII and how much it contributed to winning the war in Europe. Aka. The Russians were the reason the war was won at all. Even the Japanese were afraid of them.

[@andrewm478]

@@ToudaHell Nuclear bomb

[@ToudaHell]

@andrewm478 on the same day as the soviets start their invasion of Japan mainland. At that time, it's no sane person wouldn't be afraid of the Russians.

[@maxinefreeman8858]

​@@andrewm478 A few weeks ago I couldn't believe a few people on tv were talking about how people would be able to live through a nuclear attack. They must've got shutdown. I was raised during the Cold War. The way to survive a nuclear attack is for it to NEVER happen.

[@MichaelJirochVisualArtist]

Where in the world are you getting these beautiful thumbnails to advertise the video? The resolution in definitely NOT 1940s. I have to assume they are AI. Are they?

[@Mike23443]

To answer the question from the title: The ones who gave up were executed 10 kilometers ago by the guys you're fighting.

[@Go_for_it652]

Oct 1941 was the turning point on the eastern front .

[@joegeezer6375]

Greatest army the world has witnessed fighting a 2 front war and executing the finest of generals in Rommel. Proof order following is insanity even for the most logical and brightest among us.

[@trickydicky2908]

Imagine being invaded by an army of snobs.

[@michaelochido3244]

....The Germans were surprised to find libraries,culture and books in the cities in Russia....apart from General winter,limited manpower,supply line problems and Corporal Hitlers interference,one other enemy for the Germans was their snobbish hubris and arrogance....since to them the Russians were subhumans,they did not expect any resistance...a chinese proverb opines... a rat will even fight the cat if backed against the wall.

[@Li-vc4bb]

😂

[@daverobinson6110]

It seems that the lessons of Napoleon's march into Russia is once again lost on another invader.

[@enejkelecija7377]

Every time I have a “bad day “ I listen to this and immediately am thankful that I live in a first world country in 2023.

[@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0]

They had no choice. It was a war of annihilation

[@bluecollar58]

I find it hard to believe they couldn’t match up that chicken scratch writing with his or not.

[@18andcloudy]

Not a peep of why he's even fighting, even though they were always the aggressors. Perhaps scared to even journal dissent, but also clear evidence of not seeming to care, or being so easily cajoled to enact an imperial end without question.

[@tyedrichill8097]

It's kind of hilarious. They talk of defending this and that but they're the invaders in a foreign land

[@charliebrownie4158]

Because they knew what Napoleon learned about Russian winter.

[@ToudaHell]

Actually they probably learned more from the failed Finland invasion in 39 or 40. The tiny Finnish army beat back the Russian Bear in the winter.

[@bottlethrower1544]

Is the narrator AI? If it is, its amazing

[@mikedx2706]

It's a British voice actor who reads all these wartime diaries. He is very good at it.

[@sststr]

Yes, it surely is. It has its problems here and there, but it's good enough for the purpose, as books like these are unlikely to ever get a proper audio narration otherwise.

[@mikelezcurra810]

I wonder the same thing. Sometimes it reads certain things in very odd ways.

[@sststr]

@@mikedx2706 Two reasons why I say it is a robot and not a real person: 1) absolutely no breaths anywhere in the reading, and the voice is too perfectly constant throughout, and 2) some of the mispronunciations are too absurd to be believable from a real person, and I don't mean foreign words or names, even basic English words sometimes are too weirdly wrong to believe it is a native English speaker from any country. Now the lack of breaths could be explained away by suggesting they were edited out, although that would be an enormous amount of work to do and still doesn't account for the unbelievable constancy of the voice. And if they are going to go through the extraordinary workload of editing out breaths, it would be weird to not also do the far less amount of work to edit in corrections for the occasional bizarre mispronunciations of basic English words (there was one I listened to the other day where the word 'baroque' was given a pronunciation so wildly wrong it took me a moment to even figure out what word it was supposed to be). As some who is recording audiobooks myself on my channel and am doing the entire process as a solo operation from start to finish, I feel quite confident that this is not a human voice actor. I would be genuinely shocked if it were.

[@sststr]

Another point in favor of robot voice rather than human narrator, as pointed out by someone else elsewhere in the comment section - the temperatures are read wrong. 35 and 40, instead of negative 35 and negative 40. A robotic voice would see the '-' as a dash rather than a negative sign, and so disregarded it, while a human reader would know that 35 or 40C in the Russian winter is obviously wrong and the dash was indeed a negative sign that required the 'negative' to be said in the recording.

[@ShreddedCheese111]

Any sources?

[@mauriceclark4870]

I used to love. Night shoots. In Germany. Especially. Moonless nights. Using. Tracer bullets. Someone would send up parashute flair. Then all hell. Would break loose. Till flair went out back to total darkness !!!!!

[@bigdogzone3177]

THis is probably from a sven Hassel book ?

[@Beauloqs]

.....no, Porta, Tiny and the Legionares 'exploits' where better written.

[@Starsky1413]

Hell on earth. The eastern front was obviously thoroughly savage. The writer is an SS soldier

[@advisorsandy2068]

Wow I'm amazed what chat gpt can now do .

[@shawndyer8140]

I am glad to hear what they were thinking. I have 45:54 wonder ed since a child how and why doi the German s keep going.

[@Paulftate]

America 1st ....... maga baby maga 👍

[@beevict9537]

Did I hear correctly: the Russians captured him, then let him go after emptying his pockets and giving him a few kicks? That is absolutely mind boggling!

[@mickcraven980]

Crazy, right? They were in a hurry and must have thought him dead based on his appearance.

[@larryyeadeke2953]

Who knows how much of this is true.

[@mickcraven980]

@larryyeadeke2953 Maybe TIKhistory would do a deep-dive?

[@larryyeadeke2953]

@@mickcraven980 Yeah, this could be this guys "version" of what happened. I mean it's interesting but some of it sounds like baloney.

[@Skandalos]

I thought he played dead.

[@richardbailey202]

By December, 1941 the German high command, and the Landsers alike, realized that the USSR could not be defeated.

[@jurgschupbach3059]

Lend Lease mostly cheap Credits for Pick Up Trucks they would die for it

[@patrickbrowne3947]

Thank you to the Russian people … things would be so much different without your colossal sacrifice in overcoming fascism .

[@savidge08]

Nothing wrong with Fascism, it’s the Nazis that were horrible

[@mdkell4261]

I thought everyone complained that the Americans/Allies in the West used too much arty and air pwr so the soldier wouldn't have to do as much. The dang Soviets made an Art out of Mass Artillery/bombs/mortars etc.. It's the weather and distance that added difficulty to the East. And an Austrian corporal's insanity....

[@WorldWar2Stories]

PLAYLIST OF EPISODES SO FAR : kzbin.info/aero/PLyuEmb1VavZBYp7n4IlzjEQb9JXdyCuM- Good day, Ladies And Gentleman. This is part 5.

[@Bob.W.]

Do you have any more coming with Hans Holler of the 21st Panzer? I think it was early August, 1944 southeast of Caen when you last posted. Thx.

[@WorldWar2Stories]

@@Bob.W. yes, will rejoin back to him after this series i think.

[@Bob.W.]

@@WorldWar2Stories thanks much.

[@angusmackaskill3035]

Part of a bigger plan

[@maxinefreeman8858]

The only books I know that parents want banned are porn. One black father was reading from a book at the school board meeting. One man told him to stop reading because he didn't want to hear it. So the book was supposed to be in middle school libraries. I heard it, was porn.

[@tkyap2524]

Gave up when they had the resources to push on despite the cost?

[@RogerThat787]

This is AI reading this for anyone who wants to know

[@sststr]

It seems to have fooled quite a few people, but there are enough tell-tale signs if you really know what to listen for.

[@glenvonasek3888]

Are all the posters here bots?

[@glenvonasek3888]

I ask that because it doesn't seem like the posters realize that these stories are AI generated. And if the stories are AI generated, why not all the people commenting about the stories also "not human".

[@nathansnyder763]

Hans Roth wrote the diary. He died in 1944. I dont think he was AI.

[@chrisleblanc581]

Because they had the population, and the USA armed them.

[@beitno3029]

An officer with my last name was mentioned as KIA in this diary. That was interesting as my name is unique

[@thinkingagain5966]

The forbearers of ur surname dies in the war?

[@Beauloqs]

Hardly

[@timblackwood1531]

So like all other Armies of the past now to the Ukrainians have woken the Bear and will feel his claws tearing their flesh.

[@kamale8874]

If Germans are winning like this how the hell germans were

[@mikedx2706]

This video shows the wisdom of the current Ukrainian Army's attacks on the invading Russians' logistics system in Crimea and southern Russia. Winter is coming to Ukraine in a few months and the Orcs will eventually be out of food, ammo, petrol and clothing.

[@jiridrapal7512]

This bullshit I listened to form you last winter too... And it didn't turn out true.

[@rcmrcm3370]

Hahaha, those mushrooms you ate from Amsterdam...

[@Digmen1]

Its a shame the voice over is a posh British accent

[@00029percent]

Just stand there as defeated Russians from duty for 800 years. So why bother with that.

[@xisotopex]

fighting to the last man is... stupid. was it supposed to be motivational? that it would somehow get people to fight harder? no need for that, the fear of surrendering to the ruzzians was far more motivational...

[@genataylor460]

His story demonstrates why Germany lost the war. Hitler's insane opening the eastern front instead of finishing off England first was his biggest mistake which cost him the war. He was very close to finishing off Great Britain, and abandoning that when he did to attack Russia cost him the war. The Russians were fighting for their lives and the existence of their nation. Stalin made good use of the fact and knowledge of how barberic the German army was, not to say the Russians were any better. As they say, politics make for strange bed fellows - so obviously does war. We did so much to help the Soviets since the eastern front took so many Germans off the western front, never losing sight that after WWII, should Germany be defeated, Russia would be as much of an enemy as Germany was. Churchill warned of that at the time.

[@aadilansari5997]

Bull shit Germany was running out of Crude supplies, they had to get from USSR, before USSR realised that Germany was vulnerable without Soviet Raw materials. Germany had no choice but to attack USSR.

[@sonnybooth5235]

What a bunch of bullshit.

[@Theearthtraveler]

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[@joegeezer6375]

Only victors of WW2 was Ivan. Have a look around your AO in 2023!

[@christopher480]

Why HAVEN'T you learned grammar yet?

[@wdobni]

lots of violence....but that's the whole point of war....to inflict the maximum amount of violence as cheaply and efficiently as possible.....much like the way we process swine at food factory farms today i like these audiotape presentations but the violence begins after a short time to be just more ghastly violence that really has no meaning since it is distant and invisible and abstract and otherly i really appreciate hearing the german side of the war for a change ... the nazi soldier was more or less trapped and doomed to a grisly short life long before he left germany .... and yet i myself am an anticommunist who has a natural sympathy with other anticommunists since i regard communism as even more ghastly than nazism if only because it is so pervasive and entrenched in the modern world

[@Geniusthecat]

Patton was right, we fought for the wrong side and now were gonna pay for it. They would've never got anywhere near Berlin if we didn't hand them millions in armor and weapons. God help those poor people in the Ukraine. The world would be a better place today if we had chosen different sides.

[@tyedrichill8097]

Wait. What. We should have joined the Nazis?

[@James-yg4xu]

I do not like Russians and I do not like Germans but from these stories I can see that Germans were better than Russians in some ways. Germans should not have treated the Jewish people the way they did but Russians were as bad if not worse. I agree with Patton that we should take care of them while we had the army there to do so

[@ddegn]

I find myself rooting for the lice.

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

Extra points if you can spell "xenophobe"!

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

​@@ddegnDon't EVER root for the lice.

[@mirquellasantos2716]

I truly like today's Germans but hated the old ones cause they vast majority were evil. I don't have any love for Russians but I do appreciate and thank them for their courage and for saving the world. Soviets vs Germans- who were more evil? Germans of course. Germans were so evil that they tortured and gassed millions of babies and small children. And if you think that Jews, Poles, gypsies..... were their only victims, you are super mistaken. Way before WW2 they had concentration camps in Africa so practically Africans were their first victims.

[@rcmrcm3370]

You must find it hard to fight in those KKK robes.

[@tomsmithie3917]

The soviets hadn't given up because they still had some paper to issue more conscription notices.

[@LawtonDigital]

It's right to hear these words - though the author is a vile and disgusting human being. We must never forget.

[@andrewm478]

He did what anybody would do in his shoes, he wasn't special. "Evil" is a way to cope with what happened to these poor stupid brainwashed individuals. 'Evil'... get real, he wasn't born Freddy Kruger.

[@marksummers463]

Please delete the GDs in this video, HIGHLY offensive! Stopped listening at that oint, THANKS!

[@Jimmyjames738]

That’s pretty Roman of them. They’ve lost almost half of their territory and sustained huge losses. “Tis but a scratchkin”.

[@mrlodwick]

[@artorito1]

it is very funny part of human nature to self pitty. these soldiers killed and murdred thousand or more russian women and children and they still feel sorry for themself, being killed. i personally hope they went straight to hell.

[@andrewm478]

Thankfully, God forgives.