Part I | The Voices of 15 German World War Two Officers
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- Part I | STRICTLY NON-POLITICAL | Using footage from German Wehrmacht propaganda videos, The Nuremberg Trials and post-war interviews, I made a compilation of the voices of fifteen well known and high ranking German World War 2 officers. Watch Part II here: • Part II | The Voices o...
00:00 Intro
00:40 Erwin Rommel
01:31 Heinz Guderian
02:28 Erich von Manstein
03:15 Wilhelm Keitel
04:07 Erich Raeder
05:06 Gerd von Rundstedt
05:54 Joachim Peiper
06:47 Otto Skorzeny
07:43 Hermann Göring
08:37 Alfred Jodl
09:29 Paul Hausser
10:15 Albert Kesselring
11:00 Karl Dönitz
11:52 Friedrich Paulus
12:46 Erhard Milch - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Watch part II here: czcams.com/video/bFqCV1FXD5s/video.html
SERÍA GENIAL VIAJAR EN EL TIEMPO PARA DARLE EN PERSONA LOS ATAQUES DEL MUNDO CONTRA EL A LA PERFECCIÓN Y CON FECHAS, ASÍ ALEMANIA GANARÍA Y PEDIRÍA COMO PREMIO A IRMA HILDA GREESSE Y TAL VEZ ADEMÁS A ELIZABETH VOLQUENRAT Y A VIVIR COMO MILLONARIO SIENDO UN COMANDANTE DE LAS SS
Sad that Rommel didn't survived the war. A brilliant commander .
he commited suicide..
@@Gever_Gracio Indeed, but you have to remember his family was threatened with a concentration camp if he wouldn't commit suicide.
@@Gever_Gracio he was forced or his family dies
@@Gever_Gracio He was given the choice, commit suicide and your family is safe and your reputation and honor are safe or basically go to a Kangaroo court, your family will be arrested too, you will be hanged for treason and your legacy is destroyed. He was only offered suicide because he was that big of a propaganda star that it would have been severely demoralising for Germany if he had been involved in the plot to kill Hitler therefore having comitted treason and betrayed Germany. I'm pretty sure now they think he knew something was going on and didn't act in either way but people close to him did. I can't remember though but it's generally agreed that he wasn't actually involved just his name was brought up somewhere and Hitler had become extremely paranoid.
I don't know about you but I'd rather take cyanide than be hanged especially since I think for some of those involved they used the strangulation method rather than the snapping the vertebrae one.
Please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this though this is just off the top of my head what I remember.
@SECRETS UNCOVERED @SECRETS UNCOVERED I would maybe avoid quoting David Irving i think he fell out with historians for being a Nazi apologist, lying about sources about the Dresden bombings and also denies Hitler knowing about the Holocaust and the Holocaust. I'm not sure about the others but I was always taught that it was true they didn't really want to go to war with western Europe because they were more equal. Eastern Europe on the other hand were seen as untermensch and I was taught that they were always going to go to war with them. I wouldn't say they never wanted to go to war otherwise why would they have broken the Locarno treaty and invaded other countries. They weren't invaded. I understand that crimes were comitted on both sides but history does show that Germany was the agressor and not an innocent victim. In the case of Rommel specifically as I believe he was referred to at the start of your comment. I don't know if he would or wouldn't want war, he was a teacher I believe for some time of military tactics and had been a career soldier/officer so I can't imagine he would have been completely against it especially with the militaristic Second Reich he grew up in, the hatred for the Treaty of Versailles and the Stab In The Back Myth but I couldn't say anything for sure.
Do you have any conflicting historiography to help evaluate the points you have here with more evidence to support them?
Skorzeny has such a deep and gravelly voice, it matches his rough and scarred face
I found it interesting how different his voice sounded when he had been recently captured
@@Android3008 don't forget he was a heavy smoker and all those cigarettes affected his voice.
How did he got the scar?
@@albrecht205 it was an honorary fencing scar.
@@albrecht205 fencing match, it's a sign of honor and distinguishment among German and Austrian Fencers
Rommel) Sounds like I expected
Guderian) Sounds like I expected
Manstein) Thought he would sound deeper
Keitel) Very mean sounding
Raeder) Wut
Rundstedt) Sounds like a typical Prussian Nobel
Peiper) Movie villain
Skorzeny) Perfect Mortal Kombat announcer
Goring) Sounds like a Douche
Jodi) Sounds older then I thought
Hausser) Whatever
Kesselring) Whatever
Donitz) Thought he would sound deeper
Paulus) Seems normal
Milch) Whatever
To be fair Keitel was on trial for major war crimes and has just lost a war, I would be angry too.
@@genericpersonx333 should have thought of that before committing war crimes.
Don’t come at me saying “he was just following orders” bs.
Well Peiper was the guy responsible for the Malmedy massacre so no wonder he sounded like a villain.
@@ottovonbismarck1352 It’s only a war crime if you lose, the English, Americans and Soviets were well aware of that.
That’s why in the actual transcripts of the Nuremberg trials they picked charges that couldn’t be applied to the victors, for that reason the concentration camps were completely omitted.
@@PhilipTrouble did I deny that the allies also committed war crimes.
When doing whatabutism you already lost the argument.
Interesting piece of media history. Thank you for the compilation.
Rommel kann den Schwaben in sich nicht verstecken… XD
Is schwaben accent wie sprache rommel ?
@@ThePassionofaMagnificentLife serious question or Troll?
@@scottfox6993 nein is serious ich weiß Rommel komt von Baden Württemberg, Aber seine Sprache is für mich nichts echte Schwäbische accent von mein Regionen (Stuttgart)
@@ThePassionofaMagnificentLife Something tells me that you are neither from Stuttgard nor anywhere else near Germany
Ist das nicht eher sächsisch ?
Did you noticed...most of these guys lived above 80!!
And how did Paulus made it back alive it's a miracle.
Paulus would also have lived over 67 years if he were a non smoker. Cigatettes are the worst thing during that era.
Someone noticed how German sounded a bit different than and now?
So does British English then vs. now. Keep in mind audio recording devices weren’t as good back then, the voices were distorted. People also spoke so as to have the best audio on tape, overly clear and pronounced- a somewhat synthetic way of speaking.
I grew up in Germany in the 70s and 80s and early 90s. There's a difference even between German back then and German now. Not fundamentally so, but a lot of words have been adopted from English. I watch a lot of German news via CZcams and I've noticed sadly, that some Germans can't express themselves like we used to back then. So there will always be differences due to time in language.
@@kosikumah7249 ja unsere Sprache hat sich stark verändert.
Erich Kästner schreibt ganz anders als man sich heute ausdrücken würde.
Clear and straight military speach, as it is today in higher ranks
We also use way less dialects now. Even in the 70s and 80s the local dialects were way more pronounced, now people sound more and more similar. (Except Saxonian that has only gotten worse)
0:41 Erwin Rommel (1891 - 1944)
1:33 Heinz Guderian (1888 - 1954)
2:30 Erich von Manstein (1887 - 1973)
3:15 Wilhelm Keitel (1882 - 1946)
4:12 Erich Raeder (1876 - 1960)
5:13 Gerd von Rundstedt (1875 - 1953)
5:58 Joachim Peiper (1915 - 1976)
6:50 Otto Skorzeny (1908 - 1975)
7:50 Hermann Göring (1893 - 1946)
8:38 Alfred Jodl (1890 - 1946)
9:33 Paul Hausser (1880 - 1972)
10:21 Albert Kesselring (1885 - 1960)
11:03 Karl Dönitz (1891 - 1980)
11:56 Friedrich Paulus (1890 - 1957)
12:49 Erhard Milch (1892 - 1972)
Thank you for the video. I wanted to hear Manstein, I definitely didn't expect such a voice.
Very interesting! Thank you for publishing!
Damn Manstein sounds like a college boy
Lmao manstein doesn't sound like what I expected
😂😂
Agree
Von Mantein's voice surprised me a lot, i belived it would be strongest, but no.
Same here. Especially given his Prussian heritage. I thought it was gonna be booming and deep.
Rommel have realy good voice. 😄
thanks to the swabian accent eh
Yes it's a slighly swabian accent. I'm from Swabia and its weird to hear this accent. I think of my family gatherings. Like the accent too though.
@@lemonde3415 he is swabian so that explains the accent
Hausser surprised me. For a general with such a well-earned reputation for fearsomeness he sounded like a mid-level bureaucrat. Patton too had a high-pitched voice.
Hello traitorous, Marshall Bernadotte. You ruined the Batton Law, Terror Belli Decus Pacis and attacked your own emperor.
They didn't so the fighting themselves like Rommel
@@stomper5432 Hausser was well known for leading from the front. He lost an eye after directing troops at the front. Colonel General Hoth said he had an iron stamina and spent days at the front without rest despite being in his 60s and not being fully healed from the eye wound and others received in 1942.
@@crownprincesebastianjohano7069 oh....
Manstien was more surprising for me, the finest German Commander with a soft voice just doesn't fit right
thanks for these docos and the great work you have put in ,
Very good line-up but the voice of the top boss AH was omitted and I would be interested in Reinhard Heydrich and Michael Wittmann and Erich Hartmann voice too
If you put any forms of sounds or video of AH, it will soon be taken down by censoretube
czcams.com/video/Ykdsc5PSg7U/video.html
WW2 Aces interview
@ 1:25 is Major Erich Hartmann
I uploaded a second video, which includes your requests for Heydrich, Wittmann and Hartmann. Link: czcams.com/video/bFqCV1FXD5s/video.html
Erich Hartman - Eric Cartman....
Coincidence? I think not.
I hear Heydrich rarely made public speeches due to having a particularity high-pitched accent.
Rommel (authorative voice)
Guderian (sounds like a sarcastic reporter)
Manstein (voice didn't go well with puberty)
Keitel (kind of harsh tone -- sounds like a strict professor or an attorney)
Raeder (usual grandpa tone of voice)
Rundstedt (the tone of his voice sounds like his teacher ask him to read in front of the class)
Peiper (sounds like a serious and intelligent student)
Skorzeny (typical british tone of voice)
Goring (sounds like the old villain queen in snow white)
Jodl (sounds like a drunk russian)
Hausser (sounds like a chihuahua)
Kesselring (tone of voice sounds like a podcaster)
Donitz (sounds like he's worrying at something)
Paulus (voice sounds like a host delivering closing remarks)
Milch (impatient and fast speaker)
Lol
Lol
Of course Donitz is worried he's on trial.
Awesome video you put together Sir. Thank you for sharing it.
Great historical video.
Very interesting, especially putting so many together in one place. Kudos!
Peiper is very concentrate. The translator looks a bit nervous as Peiper looks dominant. In one scene he is correcting her.
My complements...this is a great piece of history shown here...thanks!
Gaaf gemaakt. Graag meer!
This footage is awesome. I thought there's only silent video of these guys.
Most are from the Nuremberg trial 1945/46
Unfortunately general Georg-Hans Reinhardt isn't a part of the show. It is reported that he never in his life made a mistake when speaking. Often his listeners were so focused on finding a grammatical or pronunciation error that they no longer noticed the content, but they were always disappointed.
Reinhardt's daily order to the troops was set up by six officers and then two staff officers went over it before the draft was presented to him and he still always found shorter, punchier, more accurate formulations.
when u go to world conqueror 4.
rommel, guderian and manstein is six star tank commanders 🗿
Lmao
Yep,I play this game even nowadays. I am not fed up of this game
true🗿
Dude I play mods of world conqueror 4
Such as unlimited resources great patriotic war mod
It has following timelines
1919,1936 kaiserreich,1939,1941,1942 ,1943,1944 june,1944 December and 1945,
1951,1960,etc
Nice one. Thx.
Awesome vid
Paulus is perhaps the most dignified sounding of all in part 1.
Feels kinda strange for me to hear the voice of the real Alfred Jodl, cuz I'm very used to the Downfall version one.
@Akira Lewdwig miyara shut up with your bald shining head
@Akira Lewdwig miyara dammit Jodl stop objecting my plans
Jodl is being portrayed very poorly in the Downfall, actually very inaccurately
@@lethe3939 what about Keitel, Krebs and Burgdorf?
@@bayuadhi3671 I know practically nothing about Krebs and Burgdorf, but I think Keitel radiates to much authority in the movie. I also think that he was not as stern as he is depicted in the Downfall. But thats just my own judgement.
thank you, this is pure gold, both parts
Very cool!
I actually could understand Rommel decently well. Well done 🖖
Subtitles for more context would have been nice.
Keitel´s bit was from the Nürnberg trials while giving a passionate plea. Obviously his voice is different then than during a pleasant afternoon tea
1:38 Guderian's enunciation is fantastic. German is a beautiful language!
Now I understand why Herr Schickelgrüber always dominated the conversations: 95% of them had high-pitched/ non-masculine voices.
my descriptions of voices by voice type part 1
Rommel: older tenor
Guderian: slightly higher than Rommel
von Manstien: high-pitched tenor (his biological father was a general from a Slavic ethnic group called the Kashubians, his adopted and biological fathers come from families with very long military histories)
Keitel: slightly high pitched baritone (especially when he yells)
Raeder: high-pitched tenor
von Rundstedt: tenor
Peiper: stereotypical sexy German movie villain (his voice type fitted as he was responsible for Malmedy)
Skorzeny: bass (just after capture), basso profondo (post-war English speaking voice as he was talking about his life and the then-violent situation in Cuba, after all he was a very heavy smoker which deepened his voice and contributed to his death by lung cancer)
Goring: high-pitched douchebag tenor
Jodl: in between tenor and baritone
Hausser: in between countertenor and high-pitched tenor (but still sounds like a douche)
Kesselring: slightly lower pitched than Jodl
Donitz: about the same range as Kesselring
Paulus: low-pitched tenor (after Stalingrad, he worked with the Soviets)
Milich: moderate pitched tenor (his mom's uncle was Jewish)
@@Schmusekatze42 excuse me, wasn't it the same David Irving that denied the Holocaust?
Interesting! Thanks!
It's the first time I'm hearing heinz Guderian voice
He sounds exactly as I thought he sounds like
Beautiful
I'm glad a lot of these OGs managed to survive the war. I wish some of Germany's Tank/Fighter Aces managed to survive as well.
Very interesting indeed!
Guderian's voice is underwhelming.
And Manstein's voice is a big surprise to me.
They called him “Hammer Heinz,” but he was much more calm and mild in his personality than as a war general where he was very famous as a hard maneuver expert to give the name Hammer.
I would like to know if are there any existing recordings of Ernst Röhm voice. Since i'm reading his autobiography. I've never found a single speech.
I found a small fragment of Röhm speaking, I've added him as 'bonus number 15' in my second video. Link: czcams.com/video/bFqCV1FXD5s/video.html
Das is ein sehr interessantes Video! Danke dafür! Diese Einzel- Interviews waren mir noch unbekannt
Wie finden sie die Leute?
@@nicobudde7166 ich hab Rommel immer sehr gemocht
@@peterbehnis3605 ich auch
@@peterbehnis3605 bist du links oder rechts?
@@peterbehnis3605 nur so
Manstein’s voice reminds me of Patton (George C. Scott’s voice is what Patton probably wished he sounded like).
These were very honorable Generals.
Respect from Japan 🇯🇵🇩🇪
Not really honorable.. Many of them were involved or aware in the horrible atrocities by the SS in Ww2 especially in the Eastern front in Russia.As commanding generals they had power of life and death over all those people in their war theatre and many innocent a died under them..read some eastern front history books
@@michaelochido3244 lol most of the people here is in wehrmacht not ss
Now I understand why Paul Hausser was called Papa
Honestly like Rommel and Paulus' voices.
I have no clue how a Swabian accent sounds, but I read in David Irving's "Trail Of The Fox," that Erwin Rommel used to shout, "A'greifen!" when ordering his troops to attack. I often wish I could hear it for myself.
the opening music of the Die Deutsche Wochenschau newscast corresponds to the musical piece "Preludes" by the Austrian composer Frank List.
I actually wasn't surprised at Manstein's voice. His face looks like he might have that voice.
I never expected Erich von Manstein to sound like this
One can tell Rommel is used to speaking to military audiences. And while he assiduously courted the cameras and fame, he was not terribly comfortable in front of them in interview formats.
Legendary Generals respect from India🇮🇳
Paulus: Very nice voice, very tragic figure!
One should have thought that all of Raeder's conversations started with "I have bad news," and included "D'oh!" at some point.
Echt cool
Hjkkrb
Hitler's guttural Austrian accent would have really stuck out.
It DiD so much so the generals Called him “the bömische obergefreiter”…
Dousand donners hahaha
@@kennygottlieb3628 Kein General nannte Hitler "böhmischer Obergefreiter". Reichspräsident Hindenburg soll ihn einmal als böhmischer Gefreiter bezeichnet haben.
Austrians are germans. Propaganda has turned Austrian-German pride in resent nowadays
@@rolandsievers6781 Paulus said in 143, he wouldnb't commit suicide for some Bohemian Corporal
Excellent👏👏👏
➕
Erich von Manstien had a higher-pitched voice for a higher-ranking officer like him
Manstein's voice is not what i expected
Dönitz stil be best german admiral
Brilliant die deutsche Kommandeurssprache von Rommel !
Another selfish idiot who wants all of the language in anglosajón. All of the languages are correct to explain the situation
Why did Peiper have two different interpreters? The second one made no attempt to hide her contempt towards him. Some of her translations are not great.
Very interesting to see them and hear their voices. Lots of tenors. I expected more basses and baritones!
Peiper good voice
Finnaly Rommel's voice
I would love to hear SS Oberst-Gruppenführer Sepp Dietrich from the LAH but there's hardly anything and if there is he's hardly audible
I had to fight myself to stop from laughing at Manstein’s chipmunk voice
LOL
Great German officers
My favorite voice Otto Skorzeny. 7:11
the most intresting man in history
First time i heard guderian speak.
Manstein's voice is by far the most shocking. It sounds like a teenage boy who hasn't reached puberty yet. At one point he sounded almost like a chipmunk, lol. All the more hillarious given how the picture of Manstein presented here is showing him smoking a cigar, whereas in reality this voice recording is taken of him from the Nuremberg trials. Also, Guderian's torso is built like a refrigerator, lol.
Skorzeny Dangerous even after the War
what did he do?
@@bruhdude6712 search it he works to everyone like john wick
@@cyrosubod2317 yes you are right, found some interesting stuff, have to take a look later
@Der Patriot The Mossad wanted him dead at first but found his skills in hunting down his former friends extremely useful.
They were all very stiff, rather strange sounding voices indeed. Just machine like👍 voices . They all meant business. Rest in peace.
They all spoke Standard German, which was in those days not as common as it is now. As german person like me, you can hear that they came from different regions. They spoke , compared to currently used german, in today uncommon military style.
'rest in peace" they killed millions the fuck you talking about
@@shibre9543 efficient indeed
@@ssubhani799 huh
@@shibre9543 To bad they didnt get enough of your kind.
Filedmarshal Manstein,I was suprised because of his voice
Interesting.
Erich bon manstein voice is really good
It is a pity you didn't add subtitles because Keitels speech at Nuremberg was quite surprising. He admitted his guilt in the segment that you display.
No, he said he didn’t know anything and that Hitler took advantage of his loyalty, thereby Keitel pushed all responsibility away from himself
That's just wrong. He didn't admit any such thing in this video or otherwise during the trial.
Yes but he scorns himself for not seeing that Hitler exploited the fact that he was unquestioningly loyal.
@@dershogun6396 he’s admitting the small thing to get away with the big crime
@@quaeknaszettix3338 I do nor know his exact role in the war but I know it correctly he was "only" a general so his responsibilities were of a strategic.nature, not of an ideological one meaning that he probably realy didn't have anything to do with the evils of nazism except for his inactivness and failure to recognize the system he was serving for what it was. Contradicting evidence is welcome.
I had only heard Rommel once before this video. I was most excited for Guderian. That man was the German Patton.
Not. Patton was an American Guderian.
Peiper got the point...
I love germany so much
Many reasons that's why I loved it
Paulus would have made a great bariton. All the others, except Skorzeny, were sopranos.
My goodness everytime I hear keitel jodl or goring I cannot unhear the HRP parodies...
Daamn! Raeder sounds just like captain Hans Geering from Allo, allo!
INTERESTING
Cool
Well, WWII study is mostly over for me. Read 900 books on war, the concurrent events and books after, including the 8,000 page Nuremberg chronicles. Last great war with their current technologies. But now have existential Russo-Ukraiane "special operation" to focus on.
Goering sounds like the Disney parody of him
I thought that Göring’s voice would sound deeper
Otto Skorzeny was the most interesting and had the voice I would have imagined for such a soldier of fortune. He worked for us 🇺🇸 for a good while post war.
Is that a good thing?
@@giasifman9050 No.
Which was the most important of these? Keitel or Goering?
Goering was more senior as the Reichnarshall & second in command to Hitler.Keitel was one rank below him as a Fieldmarshal and head of OKW..(the joint German forces command)
rip all 😢😢😢
Commenting here as a German. The first voice of Rommel was at first almost impossible to understand, I assume he spoke some now lost dialect of East Germany (I mean those parts who are now Polish), and it took some time for me to get into his dialect.
The rest sound almost all speaking like people from a lower working class background with strong Berlin dialect, trying to speak without dialect. So they don't sound like people from a high education background, think of the strong dialect of some backwater hick trying hide his rural low class background. So their voice modulation has something very forced and unnatural to me. At least that is the impression I got from listening to them. Of course one might argue, in those days people were not yet used to speak in public as much as we are today.
I remember listening to British and American news reports from the 1940s, and it seems this "martial" or "aggressive" way to pronounce was generally more trendy during those days. It all has a sort of militaristic tone, no matter if you listened to Germans or other people. People today would feel such way of speaking as very unnatural and sort of overly dramatic/aggressive or cold. Anyway their way of speaking sounds extremely alien to me as a German of our time, but I know from records that it was a widespread way of speaking during those times in many countries.
rommel war für dich schwer zu verstehen? etwas cringe brudi
What? East German Dialect? That's clearly a swabian dialect from (todays) Baden-Württemberg. He was born in Heidenheim an der Brenz and died in Herrlichingen, both cities in B-W not that far apart.
East Germany? Hanoi!
Thanks for that insight!
@@Psalm144.1 What insight? Rommel's German is clear and easy to understand, although he is ostensibly nervous and thus speaking in staccato. He also seems to read parts of his speech from paper. There is nothing "East German" about his dialect (unless of course, one of those "now lost" dialects had an uncanny resemblance to Swabian). His Swabian is mild, but clearly discernible, particularly in Rommel's pronunciation of _stießen, Derna,_ and _weiteren._
Manstein was secretly a femboy
@Reinhard Heydrich just listen to his voice it's so feminine
@@Snwl1328 Sounded quite feminine, for sure.
Mooi!
Mariscal Rommer una vo fuerte clara y muy energetica. Movia las masa con su carisma