"Not One Step Back" Came The Order. We Would Be Flattened Instead

[@WorldWar2Stories]

PLAYLIST OF EPISODES SO FAR : kzbin.info/aero/PLyuEmb1VavZBYp7n4IlzjEQb9JXdyCuM- Good day, Ladies And Gentleman. This is part 6.

[@Sirilere]

Do you happen to know what unit he was with? He mentions casualties for the 75th Division area, but doesn't say that was his Division, or even if it was German or Russian.

[@liyuche2695]

Is this your voice?

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

Thank you for the play lists. I listen to them in the gym or going to sleep. Nice have a natural flow.

[@mikepaz8385]

Can you please put the episode number in the title? I get notifications about new videos but I don’t know if it’s from the series that I’m currently listening to. ( Fallshirmjaeger part two, German officer part three…….etc)

[@MrVroomhas]

These stories are more intense than any show or movie. Really puts things in perspective: thanks for sharing!

[@sststr]

It is a shame that Hollywood can't use historical accounts as-is and always feels compelled to modify them in all kinds of ways that inevitably make the story worse. Real history is way more intense than any "based on a true story" movie that Hollywood puts out.

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

Fiction can never compete with true stories. Historical re-enactments on Netflix etc always top the fiction shows. Literally no one can make this up.

[@WiseOwl_1408]

​@@sststrpropaganda isn't about showing reality

[@bertplank8011]

Some may be fabricated.....

[@conceptalfa]

Thanks again for today's story !!!👍👍👍 What a bloody one and cruel yesterday's was!!

[@aidenbeddall8638]

I listen to these everyday

[@robertsaget6918]

Well I listen to these every hour. In fact I have three different ones playing at the same time. This makes me a better listener.

[@bw7754]

“Living room warriors” Ahhh good to know they had a equivalent for keyboard warrior back then 😂

[@bookaufman9643]

I like the part where just the idea of getting a home leave has made every soldier overly careful and afraid of being injured. There's a philosophy that some soldiers have when they're in really bad situations and that is to understand that you're already dead. If you have any hope at all then the war will just spit you out as a ragged piece of meat but if you know that you're already dead then you have absolutely nothing to lose. If you're dead then nothing worse can happen to you and you just might make it through.

[@jimciancio9005]

Such a Fascinating Experience, it's Horrific for the actual ones involved in these diaries, but it's facts! And this is what makes it so hard to wait for the next chapter!!! It's definitely addictive for the ones paying attention to these stories, yet it's actual history and can't be denied. Love your work here at WW2 Stories 😊👍😉

[@richardthornhill4630]

His diary takes the glamor out of war for the foot soldier. No movie can accurately portray the smells, sights, hunger, sleeplessness, fatigue, and emotions of bloody combat and trench warfare.

[@sststr]

And most especially: the senseless randomness of warfare. How good a soldier someone is is mostly irrelevant. Artillery and aerial bombs don't care about your discipline, skill, courage, or anything else. And how you could have two people standing next to each other having a conversation, and one of them will be annihilated by a shell and the other one completely untouched. Just dumb luck to be the survivor. Or maybe being the survivor is the curse, given you have to live the rest of your life carrying those horrific sights and sounds, never to be forgotten. Regardless, it's brutal.

[@The_Greedy_Orphan]

Who's diary is this?

[@wm9904]

This is great content i listen everyday before i sleep

[@ridethecurve55]

Wow! Did not know of these aspects of conflict on the Eastern Front. Very Disturbing!

[@johnfarley4201]

Such wonderful narration. Humbling to listen and share the deep humanity talked about by those living at the front

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

Thank you for the play lists 👍🏻😀 makes your channel like a library!! Great Content, all your videos.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Another wonderful truth talking of a German soldier memories during WW2 3:36

[@danielgreen3715]

Good Narration cheers

[@alswann2702]

Thanks WW2! Keep 'em coming!!

[@mrlodwick]

Yes Sir !

[@JamalBellard]

Keep it coming 😮

[@donaldg.freeman2804]

Enjoy listening to these as I work from home. Its surreal to listen to this as the Ukraine-Russian war progresses and the names of the cities included in these diaries are repeated in the daily news. The behavior of the combatants sounds very similar as well. The desire for a vacation and the incredible casualties....

[@Man_fay_the_Bru]

Same bullshig propoganda you mean

[@fletchermunson6225]

These guys never ask themselves "Why am I in a foreign country killing people who are trying to keep their own country?" Did you notice the comment about using "Drastic measures" to get prisoners to talk? Nice.

[@V100-e5q]

You could ask Vietnam soldiers the same.

[@fletchermunson6225]

@@V100-e5q In case you dont have the attention span to read a book, there are several Yourtube videos that will explain that the Sough Vietnamese were invaded by the Communist north and at their request the US tried to assist them in expelling the Communist invaders. Leaving aside the wisdom our the US involvement in that war, of which I am not a fan, I'll put you down as a supporter of the Nazi government using it's army to invade it's neighbors and kill hundreds of thousands of people trying to defend their country from the invaders.

[@tgwcl6194]

Very true. Army going into oblivion. Pure strategic madness …..

[@samminderkhan7063]

You could say the same thing about American soldiers asking themselves why they were invading Iraq and killing tens of thousands of civilians, shock and awe!!😢

[@fletchermunson6225]

So, you equate the invasion of peaceful neighboring nations by Nazi German and the killing of millions of people in WWII to the invasion of Iraq. I guess you are ignorant of the fact that Sadam was in fact a petty Hitler clone attempting genocide on Kurds. Invading the peaceful neighboring country of Kuwait committing atrocities and of course copying a German specialty, using poison gas on his own people. Great analogy. @@samminderkhan7063

[@208transparency4]

More!!!

[@someonethatwatchesyoutube2953]

My father was a B17 bombadier late in the war so I’ve always had interest in it. How is it that I wasn’t aware until recently that the true awfulness of the war was on the eastern front? Strange how it isn’t given any coverage compared to the Western European theater.

[@enawikena]

Well that is "history", written by the winners of war. The anglo-american view is somewhat infantile honestly said.

[@ditto1958]

It actually gets a lot of attention on KZbin. Try TIK History for a huge amount of detailed coverage of the East. There have been quite a few new books over the past couple of decades. For years following the end of WW2 historians only had the German side of the story. When the Soviet Union collapsed a wealth of previously unavailable information became available.

[@genataylor460]

@@ditto1958 This man's story makes little mention of the worst parts of that front and the huge number of Russians who were slaughtered by the Germans.The Russians suffered, by far, the largest number of casualties during the war. The bravery they showed in defending their homeland brings little but admiration from me. As Churchill said during the war, we needed the Russians to defeat the Nazis, but had to be aware they would turn on the US as soon as the Nazis were defeated. And they did. Just as politics makes strange bed fellows, so does war.

[@Rustsamurai1]

Who has written these excellent stories?

[@thee49-d3m]

Hans Roth on Eastern Front, 6th. part

[@ShreddedCheese111]

Is there any context? Where is it from?

[@zackcantrell9689]

No one alive today can even imagine what fighting in a World War. Let’s hope and pray no one will ever have to live thru such a hellish nightmare.

[@ninjawizard3865]

With all these stories yes we can, can we know the real true scope of it all, no we cannot.

[@bigtinyhomeadventurebigtin5201]

Ukraine. Ironically in the same area

[@Man_fay_the_Bru]

While there’s America there will always be a chance of another one, it happens when there’s a bully on the block& they’ve been throwing there weight around for too long

[@Abandon_All_Hope]

Love these… I think it’s AI generated but I swear it sounds just like on of my favorite narrator’s voice. Nigel Paterson & one of his best narrations for those that may be interested is: Blood Red Snow by Gunter koscherek

[@thee49-d3m]

you're right, I remember it from 'blood red snow

[@sststr]

It's definitely a robotic voice, but it mostly does well enough and gives us narrations of books that probably wouldn't get an audiobook narration, at least not any time soon, so despite the occasional head-scratching error in the narration, it's still good to have these even so.

[@deltavee2]

Definitely human. During one narration he mentions a 2-month period between one narration and the one that follows it just as a fact, not an apology. He does have some interesting traits, though.

[@patsy02]

@@deltavee2 I think that was text-to-AI-voice too -- the giveaway being from a different video where a few basic French names and words were pronounced completely incorrectly for both French and English.

[@scaredy-cat]

He’s an unhappy soldier, without food, water, ammo and air cover, reinforcement, I’d wouldn’t be happy either

[@Kevin-iv3lv]

Love these. But wish for a little order or maps . But some of these are diary entries so it's understandable. " Does anybody realize the fur coats soldiers are wearing in the pictures would be greatly appreciated at the front". powerful quote.

[@bookaufman9643]

It's amazing how upset a German soldier can be at another soldier wanting to kill him. He genuinely believes that the people whose land he has invaded and whose citizens he is killing on a daily basis should be happy to have him there. It seems that he's greatly bothered by the Russians'lack of respect for the great German fighting man. This guy is also a complete and total Nazi and thinks very highly of the work that the SS and their flunkies are doing to round up the Jews. Thank God that these guys lost.

[@dennismwallentin296]

Collective brainwashing by propaganda the Nazi leveraged to maximum. If the political system control the medias then it's more possible to control the masses. The scary thing is that it still happening...

[@charleslloyd4253]

You earned this treatment. By sacrificing whole armies for a corporal.

[@nobeoddy1664]

jawohl

[@HistoryChannel1776]

They did it for the survival of Europe.

[@davidkarr4632]

These stories of what the soldiers saw everyday in the massacre of the Russian people and animals must have been horrific...The German soldiers that realized they had been sold out to a madman who never would have been successful in any other time in history, bitterly understand their lives meant less than Hitler's appetite for glory...I was in a war zone at 20 years old and I know what it did to me, but these young men were in constant fight or flight syndrome for years...Its incredibly maddening to imagine the hell of the Russian front of WW2.

[@ralphvon283]

When you think about it , it is surprising that those who were occupied by the Germans left a single German alive after the war.

[@ProjUltraZ]

this is from a book it had a red cover and Eastern Front was in the title he was in the 299th and it ends around bagration

[@LeveretteJamesClifford1955]

Thank God (literally) that Hitler was so stupid when it came to military matters. Stepping back, or a retreat, which is not a rout but an organized military withdrawal to fix lines, could have possibly saved many of his armies. General George Washington said better fade back and reorganize to fight another day than to face certain defeat. And so a much smaller Continental Army beat the much larger British army over time.

[@sststr]

It has to be observed that the Revolutionary War was fought with rather quite tiny units, often number just in the hundreds, and the terrain was extremely favorable to running and hiding to escape an unfavorable engagement. The Eastern Front of WW2 was millions of soldiers and most of the front line was basically just open plains with nowhere to hide if you ran. Also, aircraft are kind of a big deal, with recon and bombing/interdiction making life a lot more difficult for both sides, which obviously did not exist in the Revolution. Not that no-retreat is always a good idea in modern war, we saw what Manstein could still pull off as late as 1943 using highly fluid tactics at Kharkov, but the conditions of the 1770s and the 1940s are too dissimilar to suggest what works well in one century would work well in the other.

[@LeveretteJamesClifford1955]

@@sststr Not all were small units. There were some very big armies which fought each other and until Cowpens, the British had the most numbers. Cowpens did the British in.

[@kenbrown2540]

@@sststr Washington led as many as 80,000 men. At Saratoga we had 15,000 in the field. Yorktown was nearly 10,000.

[@sststr]

@@kenbrown2540 Numbers are tricky - as far as colonial regulars go, there were never more than 50K in active service at any given time, frequently far fewer, and 15K in one battle would be the upper limit achieved perhaps only that one time. The largest battle of the war (counting total troops from both sides), in Long Island, was only 10K on the colonial side, 20K on the British side. It's also worth noting that colonial forces at Saratoga didn't start out at 15K, they started with 9K, and grew to 15K over the course of 3 *weeks* of reinforcement. Regardless, outside of a handful of large battles (about three dozen of note, including naval battles), the overwhelming number of engagements (depending on what you count as a battle, anywhere from 230 to over 1500) would have been in the hundreds, or maybe the low thousands thousands at best. Not uncommonly even fewer than a hundred on each side, especially in the frontier areas. But that's colonial regulars. Add in Indian allies, and the numbers might get a bit larger. But colonial military leaders could not reliably command the Indians. They could bring them to a battle, but getting them to follow the plan would have been tricky, and their morale and loyalty could be questionable in many cases, so it's difficult to know how to count their numbers in contributing to battles. Although in most cases, the number of Indians would be even smaller than the regulars, dozens to hundreds, so while it might up the number, rarely would it up them by any meaningful degree. There were a few cases of significant numbers of Indians participating, but only a few. No, army sizes and the numbers engaged in any given battle are absolute peanuts compared to the eastern front in WW2.

[@MrWansty]

don,t forget 6000 french troops that fought with the usa or the french supplied weapons

[@douglasscovil3447]

these german soldiers really had some miserable and deadly experiences in Russia, but it's a good thing they did, because otherwise we would all be speaking german and living under a global dictatorship with no freedom for anyone.

[@HistoryChannel1776]

Instead Europe will be speaking African .

[@deltaboy767]

Every 10 minutes there is a God damn commercial that you cant skip. I mean i understand having ads, but one every 10 minutes is just too much.

[@patricksullivan436]

I know I'm ready to give up on KZbin I fucking hate adds

[@nobeoddy1664]

i know it's relatively high, but premium is worth having in order to bypass this aggravation if you are in YT a lot.

[@samiam619]

How is it that these Germans are the only ones to keep a diary with such detail? Are there no American, British diarists? Not that I mind these posts, but aren’t there others? Also, if a post is one in a series, why can’t WW2 Stories keep them together and number them…

[@SteveMHN]

They aren't real diaries, they are AI generated. I still find them addictive though.

[@jonathanblanchard6480]

Propaganda from ai or ai propaganda from the Engles...

[@thinkingagain5966]

​@SteveMHN this is the war diary of Hans Roth who was a part of the 6th German army and was KIA in 1943. It was recovered from his possessions and returned to his wife after the war. His granddaughter would later publish it in a book titled Eastern Inferno.

[@krazyflipy5801]

@@thinkingagain5966 This is what we are up against. In the AI era, people will no longer have any reliable history sources. Yes, seems like Hans Roth was a real person and this is his authentic diary. Give it a year or two - things will get tricky as hell...

[@angstyjay7162]

whats the source for all of these videos?

[@thee49-d3m]

Eastern Inferno: The Journals of a German Panzerjager on the Eastern Front 1941-43 by Hans Roth

[@joebloggs2862]

All self inflicted, karma game back.

[@TomRevere-vz7vf]

Good content too many ads

[@tomharrington1453]

He is talking about Voronezh

[@craigc6769]

Who's diary is this.? What is the source of this particular dialouge ?

[@thinkingagain5966]

Eastern Inferno

[@Geniusthecat]

Is this whole thing going backwards or is this the same guys ( Helmut and all) im trying to keep it all in order but im ready to loose my mind trying.

[@emoody6097]

Idk what happens but I hope this guy made it through the war

[@nobeoddy1664]

i trust the nazi never made it home

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting and informative. Good photography picture 📷 enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Professional class A 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 times possible. That's true grit style determination to succeed. Fighting/perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often times possible. That's true grit style determination. Had the arrogant/disillusioned hitler allowed his experienced/seasoned generals. Run the military operations & not constantly change successful advances. Perhaps Moscow could have been invaded/conquered. Thus a quick fall victory??? By mid 1942 General Zhukov reorganize his demoralized forces. Reinforced the perimeters of Moscow/preventing General Guderian any opportunity of entering the Kremlin.

[@waynesutherland-rs6ct]

the young die for the wealthy

[@therampanthamster]

So is the consensus that these aren't 'actual' memoirs but rather historically accurate, AI generated stories? I notice the channel rarely puts who these are written by which seems an odd oversight, if genuine. Or are the stories real but the voice generated?? I still really enjoy listening though.

[@Geniusthecat]

Can you imagine how wonderful life would be today if the Allies had fought w the right side. I often have dreams im a time traveler and im trying to take Hitler a modern history book so there'd be no mistakes, German casualties would be next to none. Attempts on A.H's life would be non existent. I always get woken up before i can explain to him who i am. So frustrating.

[@patricksullivan436]

Haha I always fantasized about the same thing and look at Europe today 😭

[@krazyflipy5801]

Gee..lemmesee... I guess we would have LOADS of "Gastarbeiter", live under absolute requirement of political correctness, totally controlled and censored media, no meaningful or real opposition, persecution of dissidents in many different ways and constant smaller scale wars on the outskirts of Europe...oh, wait...hahaha, ooops.

[@krazyflipy5801]

Or why not "COVID19". :D Aaaaall the way down to "Papiere, bitte!" and apartheid we went. Dear Young Global Leader pointing out a certain, well defined part of the population as The Problem on the idiot box and on people's hand held little control devices.

[@Fred-wy7bt]

Imagine if they made a decent TV series based on the writer, it would be a killer

[@markrix]

Yeah love the story is anyone else kind of confused with how these episodes are kind of broken up for example this one just like stops to mid-sentence

[@scottnyc6572]

We defeated the wrong enemy.

[@jesuszamora6949]

No. Had we not fought the Nazis then, the Nazis would have been the enemy in the Cold War, only this time controlling the whole of Europe and Russia, and far more fierce. The Cold War was an inevitability, however.

[@dennismwallentin296]

But we can argue that the Nazi German created the modern Russia by the war.

[@nauticalstar8363]

How do you figure that? Hitler will make you lick his boots and imposing his will on you.

[@davido4872]

You miss the Nazis?

[@jameshartsfield8585]

Can'tyou even give us his name?

[@boyd21]

😂🤣😂 what a comedy😂😂😂

[@MrVroomhas]

Due to this comment, you are being sent to the front line ;)

[@boyd21]

@@MrVroomhas is there anything that this guy has not done or can't do. He is better than Rambo. I drive a semi in the in the United States. I enjoy listening to a good comedy.

[@jhontynan4595]

When the allies stormed Normandy Beach they were facing 20% of the German army. If Hitler did not invade Russia, Normandy Beach would have been a disaster! They would have been facing the full strength of the German army and not one allied soldier would have made it to the Beach. There was no logic in trying to conquer Russia. He's better off trying to get the oil from conquering the Mideast. I grew up watching movies and documentaries on WWII. I'm no longer interested in the Allies point of view. These stories from the German perspective are awesome! German army and the Nazis are two different things. All the Nazi should fry in Hell but not the German soldier. He was fighting for his country as ordered to do so.

[@marksummers463]

Pls delete "in this GD sector" at 14:49. Highly offensive! Thanks!

[@spikeyflo]

Why?

[@kenbrown2540]

Wait... you're not offended by all the killing, including of civilians, but you want a blasphemy from a man who's been dead for 80 years deleted? He said "goddamn." It would be stupid to delete the man's actual words. Get over yourself.

[@ZoSoPage1977]

Need proof of these...otherwise it's just fiction.

[@nobeoddy1664]

i agree. hitler was actually clark gable wearing a fuhrer suit. gable's longest and most profitable role.

[@peckerwood780]

If you cut a worm in two pieces it will grow into 2 worms.

[@systemacosack1533]

I Like to listen this history storys...... But I can't understand that We humans didn't learn anything from it..... When I say this I mean in every way... War, economics, social & etnical interactions and so on.... So on!!!...... Same places, same battles, same sercumsances and many dead...... Just in higher technological level with more to all of us!!!!?????

[@Yourdoomawaitsyou]

Ive always wanted to smell a war dump , I bet they're rancid poops.