Kurt Vonnegut's Account of the US Troops Pushing into Germany | WWII in Color | Smithsonian Channel
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- Days after D-Day, the depleted Allies look for reinforcements to complete their final push into Germany across two formidable barriers: the dense forest of Ardennes, and a defensive belt of minefields tank traps and bunkers on the German border, known as the ‘Siegfried Line’. Among them was a college student-turned-GI by the name of Kurt Vonnegut.
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Vonnegut was incredible on so many levels.
Smithsonian is by far my favorite channel.
My favorite author of all time.
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my dads was a mechanic in WWll in the pacific
My dad was in the Royal Canadian Air Force in WW2 as an aircraft mechanic in Europe
Ma da was the 6th Airborne
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It's funny how the narrator focuses on the Greeness of US troops but ignores the fact the Germans were recruiting kids under 16 and old dudes for combat.
Well if you read Slaughter House Five Kurt Vonnegut talks about how it’s just boys fighting boys and that all the real soldiers are dead or wounded by the time he gets there
Interesting as always.
His name is Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
True but nobody calls him that
I read Slaughterhouse 5 it was a pretty good book
In my opinion Cat's Cradle is his best book.
Poo-tee-weet?
@@Jack_Stacks Nah. His short stories are the best. Especially the ones in Welcome to the Monkey House
Is any of this footage actually of Kurt?
I know it’s not his voice, obviously…but where did they get this account from? A written work he had published? Or is this an unpublished excerpt of something?
Let me know. I grew up in Indiana a Vonnegut & James dean fan…so this was really cool to see.
I just like to understand the full aspect of things…as in, which footage is him, who’s voice is actually speaking AS HIM, and where did this account come from?
Any info would be appreciated. Thank you.
Wasn't the main character in Slaughterhouse 5 in the same room as Kurt during WWII?
Wow
Slaughterhouse 5.
The title seems at odds with the content.
Not worth sitting thru the commercial for this !!!
Another teutoburg Forrest battle 2000 years later.
Completely different experience for African American soldiers
Yeah ok
The account is like 37 seconds long. Clickbait title.
The Germans were always good fighters in the forests going back to Roman Times!The battle of the Teutenberg Forest was one of the bloodiest of the Germanic tribes against the Romans!I see served in Vietnam and the VC managed to keep the supply lines going on the HO Chi Min Trail despite all the aerial and artillery pounding! There was lush Jungle Canopy and they had thousands of trails that they clandestinely travelled trough and under in vast tunnels!
The exclamation points are unnecessary.
@@PlannedObsolescence OK Amanda.Greetings from Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Pura Vida.I’m an Old Soldier living in Peaceful Costa Rica.We have no Army and 97% Alternative energy.I lost 3 brothers in unnecessary wars,I pray 🙏 for peace every day.
@@PlannedObsolescence he can write what he wants!!!
If Germans are good fighters why did they got hammered not only once but twice. They lost both WW and in both defeats they were truly humiliated.