In Moscow The Frostbite Took More German Lives Than The Russian Soldiers (Ep. 8)
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2024
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Join us as we delve into the captivating story of a German officer during World War II. This video highlights his journey from a young artillery officer to a high-ranking staff officer in the Wehrmacht. We’ll explore the key themes of duty, survival, and the moral dilemmas faced by soldiers in the chaos of war. Through excerpts, historical insights, and expert commentary, gain a deeper understanding of what it was like to serve on the front lines of history's deadliest conflict.
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Incredible to think that nothing was learnt from Napoleon's Grand Armee's Moscow escapade. Mind Blowing. As a former Corporal it's insane that H learnt nothing on the Western Front.
I read Guy Sajers The Forgotten Soldier. It was almost unbelievable.
An exceptional diary, haunting.
One thing fairly common to these soldiers' memoirs is they usually got wounded and may have survived due to it.
And THEY were never nazis...
@@graybeardproductions2597 these memoirs cover his feelings on nazism. He admits hitler was an icon for his generation, and he was swept up with the times and generally went along with nazi politics because they thought it would bring prosperity to Germany. Many Germans were in this camp, only a small minority were actually out there gassing people. Many more people were like my great grandfather who was in the Wehrmacht, and he was simply a good Prussian, so when you’re told to go to war, you do your duty whether you like it or not. He was very skeptical of hitler, and many were, but also terrified of what would happen in they speak out. The bonafide nazi party members, and the SS WERE nazis, otherwise, they were just Germans doing their duty. Sorry to disappoint you.
Bob, can you imagine 4 year's of retreat undersupullied without any training for a fighting retreat?. I'm Irish, many family served with US and British force's through both War's and Korea. Warmest Wishes from Sunny South Australia M8.
@@graybeardproductions2597Yes, the vast majority of Wehrmacht weren't. I grew up in Ireland and many of my school friends were the Son's and Daughters of German Veterans who were captured in Neutral Ireland during WW2. No Army but 160 Kreigsmarine and about 60 Luftwaffe. My American Grandmother would teach English and even Gaelic to the Men. She was a Wisconsin Deutsche Gal.
@@pabloescoeSadly Germany was known as an advanced society in the 1920's. In Countries like Chile, Argentina and Ireland German's had done great thing's for the natives of these Countries. Just up the road from me is Ireland's first Hydroelectric project, "Poulaphuca" aka Blessington Lake's Hydroelectric Power Plant, built by the Siemens Company in 1926. What a different World it could be.
***At the start of this video*** : That seems crazy those tanks could have crept up on their command house in the cold with no sort of security alerting them beforehand. Didn't they have Listening Posts posted? Maybe it was so cold that they all got to lackadaisical despite the threats.
Heartbreaking.
I think that only Kamaraderie kept the German's going through 4 year's of under supplied Defence and Retreat.
Really enjoyed this
Excellent.
So hard for Germans to admit that those they considered 'untermensch' beat them, so let's all blame "General Winter".
Wonderful that he writes at length without using uncouth words:
neat
cute
weird
iconic
crazy
wild.
What’s your point? They should’ve recognised how cute the battle of Stalingrad was, or that you appreciate the verbiage of literal Nazis more than modern day people?
They were better educated people than we are today. Spoke better. Better morals. Family values. Etc. Not everyone was a die hard Nazi murdering innocent people. Most were average Germans just drafted into the war
@@Robertsmith-un5cuThey were definently better educated than the rank and file Americans of today. Germans of that time put great importance on education. I weep for America today... We are ripe for a Hitler or an Orban. It seems that an ignorant electorate would make that transition so much easier.
@@enterthekrakenI do admire their intelligence more than Americans of today. We are an ignorant people. You only have to read a few CZcams comments to see that.
This guy is a diarist. educated people still speak and write like this . none of the thousands of literally illiterate people wrote a diary because they were illiterate so we have no record of how stupid they were and how 'uncouth' they were
My neighbor told me that near Moscow he was rewarded with a 3-day vacation for capturing a platoon of German soldiers and an officer. He bought bread and a 3-liter jar of jam for his colleagues. He decided to take a shortcut back, he went through the forest and saw German soldiers. They behaved strangely. They didn't move. He walked up to them. They were sitting on the stumps in their greatcoats, frozen. He touched one of them and it fell.
Stalingrad wasn't the turning point, The Battle of Moscow was. Germany lost the greatest proportion of trained & skilled frontline Soldats in 3 month's, November 1941 to February 1942. H's Madness.
Moscow held the Nazi advance back but Stalingrad was the biggest defeat the Nazis had ever suffered, their myth of Aryan invincibility was crushed and from that point on they were on the run.
All German memoirs of WW2 fighting on the eastern front should be treated with extreme caution as they invariably omit to mention the barbarities that must have been seen or even perpretated by German soldiers particularly against the local non combant civilian population Can anyone mention an exception please?
Agreed. Also, I get the clear impression that this was written post war while looking through the lens of revisionist history.
Right at this point, Dec. 6 1941, the Germans should have turned around and went home. Mission failure.
Soviets would’ve collapsed the first year without Lend Lease and American help. Imagine a world where they lost.
Not true. Lend Lease made no appreciable difference in the first year, it only began to make a difference later.
FFS, the trucks were peanuts in the big picture and US and UK would have CELEBRATED the destruction of communism.
@@grantm6514 stalin himself said they could not win without lend lease
Same thing happened to the French when they invaded Russia
Old man winter always wins.
A fact and truth my friend
Moscow was stripped and burnt out. The Grand Armee would never be Great again.
@@earlshaner4441I served and reached the incredible rank of Corporal. I reckon any Army's most important rank. You look after your comrades like younger brothers. Food & Hygiene. Critical.
2024. Life in Russia is still terribly grim.
Lice under the bandages
Ever notice how no German soldiers seem to have been Nazis by their memories?
And?
@@radicalradioOz annnd... you and I would most likely not get along. So why interact
And none of them ever witnessed any foul play by their own units, that was always other units elsewhere on the front. That's why I particularly appreciate the compilations of letters from soldiers who didn't survive the war, they tend to be more honest, with less cleaning up of political viewpoints for a post-war audience.
Most surprising in view of the fact that they had been brainwashed since at least 1931. Perhaps that is why I have very little sympathy about their being bombed or their hardships.
Funny you should mention that. My American dad fought in WW2 in the ETO, he didn't talk about it much but one thing I clearly remember him saying was all the Germans he met "hated Hitler". He went on: "don't you believe it - they loved him".