Operation Barbarossa: Newly Discovered Diaries Reveal The Brutal Reality Of War On The Eastern Front
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- čas přidán 20. 04. 2023
- 'Brutal Reality of Eastern Front Exposed by Lost German Diaries'
On 22 June 1941, Hitler's Germany launched ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the attack of the Soviet Union, the largest invasion in military history. In June 2019, twelve dusty notebooks and a wealth of loose paperwork were discovered in Germany; the diaries of Oberleutnant Wilhelm Sander, a young officer in the 11th Panzer-Regiment who took part in the enormous campaign. On every single day Sander, in a brutally honest manner, elaborately recorded his experiences, impressions and the events he witnessed.
Now transcribed and translated for the first time, they offer a brutally honest, intimate and fascinating view into the murderous and unforgiving nature of war on the Eastern Front from the summer of 1941 to the eventual German retreat in the terrible winter of 1941/1942, while offering a unique glimpse into the world of thought of a highly politicised officer of the German Wehrmacht and member of the NSDAP.
Follow the path of Leutnant Friedrich Sander, a Panzer officer in the German Wehrmacht during Operation Barbarossa, the attack on the Soviet Union.
In the first part of a two-part film, we follow Leutnant Sander on the strenuous, and costly race towards Leningrad and learn about the murderous and terrifying goals of the German campaign in the east.
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The wait is over... PART TWO of Barbarossa: The Lost Diaries has just been made available 👉
We are all adults stop blurring the images
If it wasn't history; one can hardly comprehend the stupidity of war that causes so much suffering for no gain at all but a descent into barbarism.
My granddad fought in Stalingrad with the 14th Panzer Division, he was captured and came home in 1953. Het died in 2015 at the age of 95. Before he died he told me that wanted to be cremated and not buried as he never wanted to feel the cold soil again.
The real German stories are far superior to the fictional Hollywood garbage . Part 1 is Fascinating.
Censorship sucks
Minor detail: when the Soviet Union attacked Poland, Great Britain and France forgot to declare war on Stalin...
My father was In Barbarossa, was wounded by a Russian sniper in the leg, he fell in the snow and both his feet froze and gangrene took one foot and half of another. He spent the rest of the war in his hometown of Emden getting bombed at night by the British and by day by 5h3 Americans. Survived the war, married my mother and emigrated to the USA where my mother had relatives who sponsered them. Lived to age 86 ….mom to age 98. Both had good lives here in the USA.
It's insane to think that a soldier was upset that a population he was invading was upset he was there
CZcams IS BLURRING MORE PHOTOS
My Dad fought in Patton's Third Army, 4th Armored Division from the end of July, 1944 until the end of the war. He then stayed on as part of the American occupation forces until February of 1946. He saw it all, from the race across France to the Battle of the Bulge, into southern Germany with a quick stop to help liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp and then onto Czechoslovakia. We knew some of the horror that he had seen and been a part of. Buchenwald came back to haunt him in the early 1980's when some idiot was on a TV talk show and was telling the audience that the Holocaust never happened. I had been working nights and woke up to him yelling at the TV with tears in his eyes. He was yelling "No, NO! I WAS THERE!" When I came into the TV room to see what was going on, he looked at me and said, "Kelly, I was THERE! The bodies were stacked like logs Kelly! Kelly, THE OVENS WERE STILL WARM!!" That last sentence will stay with me until I die - "The ovens were still warm!" In the 25 years that I hung out with my Dad, I never saw him cry, and after that outburst, I never saw him cry again. War is a dirty, haunting business. Only the ones who never fought in one think it's somehow glorious...
It’s crazy to me how people read about the death and destruction of war, and watch the movies yet never realize how difficult the loss of life is. Not just seeing it but the sounds and smells. Having someone begging you to help them and you know nothing you do can save them. Telling them anything you think can comfort them and knowing they are already dead. What haunts me is the look on someone’s face. As a medic they believe that you are going to save them and they have that hope when you are there. Only those who don’t know death want war.
The logistics involved in Barbarossa were absolutely INSANE!!!!
Hey guys, due to popular demand we have reuploaded the first part of our Barbarossa: Lost Diaries series! Let us know in the comments if you enjoyed and would like to see more of these kinds of documentaries.
These personal diaries paint a far more detailed picture of what it was like to be in that war than some dry map movement accounts you often see in WWII documentaries. It also gives us an inside in what was going on in these soldier's minds in these campaigns.
I've been an amateur WWII history fanatic since the 1980's and have been watching the same information over and over, and still enjoy those documentaries, but the diaries are new to me and fascinating. Showing the film and reading the diaries like this is a great idea and I hope to see many more.
Watched this when it first came out and am glad to see it back. One of the best history documentaries on CZcams and I can’t wait for part 2!
My great grandmother that died just 3 years ago, was in Leningrad during the siege and starvation. Life has brought us apart so I could not ask her in detail during my adult years, how was this time in person, but I have been told by my dad and grandmother about her time there. She suffered immensely as did people in the city, some even went as far as cannibalism, as the hunger sometimes makes people insane with it. Seeing dead bodies on the streets was just another normal day, people collapsed. To the last day she died she never allowed anyone or herself to waste a crop of bread. She miraculously survived and was captured by Germans and sent to Berlin for forced labour. It's insane, literally every Russian and Soviet family was affected by this war, EVERY single one.
I can't imagine ever having this kind of pride and bravado in invading another country, killing those who dare defend that country and doing so with such righteous arrogance
"Fear the defeated Germans! If they failed to drown the world in blood, they will flood it with their tears..."