When We Entered the American Zone, The Sight Was Truly Astonishing (Ep.7).
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- (Part 7) Welcome to the last Part of our journey to the Battlegrounds of World War II, where courage, sacrifice, and resilience defined the spirit of a generation. In this tale, we delve deep into the remarkable odyssey of a young soldier, tracing his path from humble beginnings to the driver's seat of a fearsome Tiger 1 tank within the Wehrmacht Heavy Panzer battalions by the tender age of eighteen.
As the war rages on, our protagonist finds himself thrust into the heart of the conflict, facing the brutal realities of combat on the Eastern Front. Experience the gripping narrative of survival amidst the chaos of the Battle of Halbe in April 1945, where against all odds, our hero emerges as a beacon of hope amid the encroaching darkness.
But it is during the daring breakout from a Red Army encirclement that his true mettle is tested. Leading his comrades with unwavering resolve, he spearheads audacious attempts to escape the clutches of the enemy, displaying a courage that defies description.
Through archival footage, firsthand accounts, and expert analysis, our documentary offers a unique perspective on the experiences of those who served during the tumultuous final days of the war. Witness the personal sacrifices made, the challenges overcome, and the indomitable human spirit that prevailed in the face of overwhelming adversity.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Part 7 of Memoir of a panther tank commander once a tiger tank driver. Join us as we follow the gripping narrative of a young individual during World War II. From leaving school at fifteen to commanding a Panther tank with the 21st Panzer Division, this story is one of resilience, sacrifice, and determination. Experience the intense battles, including the harrowing Battle of Halbe and the daring breakout from encirclement, as our protagonist navigates the tumultuous final days of the war. Stay tuned as we delve into the personal sacrifices and unwavering courage that define this extraordinary journey.
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Hi Live History, is the narrator of this video historian Mark Felton?
I remember my time in the US sector of occupied W Germany. It's like an ancient memory now.
@@Palanibert could be that this is his second channel, I heard Mark about it, and I think he also narrates audiobooks. I thought I recognized the voice too.
Could be a different guy sounding like him
My mom was a young German teenager when the Americans arrived in Munich. She told me people were happy to see them come as they were all sick of the war by 1945. She said the Americans overall treated them good. Whenever an American soldier broke the law by stealing or raping a woman etc…they would arrest him and put him in prison. The stories they heard from the East of Russians raping any woman they saw no matter the age wasn’t played out under American occupation. While some Germans resented the American occupation the majority was glad it was the Americans and not the Russians occupying them.
The Americans didn't make the same mistakes after WWII that were made after WWI. Instead of punishing the Germans and Japanese and inflicting hardship on them, we helped them rebuild their countries, fix their economies and reform their cultures. As such these two former enemies are now América's allies that are peaceful, prosperous democratic societies that no longer threaten their neighbors.
The British economist John Maynard Keynes, was the main reason this happened. He wrote what would happen with the rise of Germany in 1925, and his book ~The Economic consequences of the Peace~ He also put forwards an alternative way to make Countries economies prosper, at the Bretton Woods Conference, July 1944.
After WW 1 it were the French who abused their power, resulting in utter disgust to the French from the Germans. The US didn’t have any influence in humiliating the Germans after WW1.
Perhaps american liberal democracy allowed for a better choice to be selected among many options.
The Americans "mistake" after WW1 was their inability to convince the allies in Europe that their Versailled Treaty was a huge mistake. The Americans never signed on to the Versaille treaty.
That mistake was almost made. Read up on the Morgenthau Plan, which would have basically destroyed postwar Germany's industrial capacity. The plan was drawn up before the end of the war, and when its details became known it was used by Joseph Goebbels to help motivate the Germans to greater resistance. The Morgenthau Plan had its opponents in the U.S. which included Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, and others, but FDR was initially supportive of it. Churchill opposed it, and it's thanks in part to resistance to the idea from Churchill's government that it didn't go forward. FDR finally disowned the Morgenthau Plan when it proved unpopular with the American public as well. Thankfully sanity prevailed.
I am American, but I grew up in Germany as an army brat. I moved there at 12 in ‘74 and lived there until I joined the army then was stationed there until ‘91. Many of the German girls I dated as a teen had fathers or grandfathers who fought in the war and weren’t to happy about them dating an American. But later in the ‘80s as an American soldier the older Germans attitude towards me had changed. It was a more respectful, like we shared a bond as soldiers.
My father and grandfather were German soldiers...during the 2 war, my father and I live in America, I was born here...I think he still lives in lowa..
After I left the Army I worked in Germany ( Bavaria ) ,just after Easter one year an association of ex soldiers had a huge reunion in the area for a couple of weeks every trail had groups of elderly gents walking ,often falling into step wearing plus 4's .
I enjoyed several evenings with groups of them ,we swapped stories mainly about stupid sh1t and I had no problem with them loudly calling me "Tommy" whenever we met , I'm glad I got to meet so many from both sides of that conflict while they with us.
I was a British army brat and my parents were living in Germany when I was born but my mother didn't want me to be born in Germany. When I hadn't arrived by my due date, my father got leave and drove my mother and older sister to Scotland to be near family when I was born. They didn't make it to Scotland, I was born in London with a good view of the Thames. Unfortunately my father had to be back on base so my mother didn't get to spend any time with family. They left the hospital against advisement and drove back.
When I was a kid, at the playground off base the other Germany mothers took issue with my mother. They were convinced she was Turkish because of her olive skin, dark brown eyes and dark brown hair. They asked my mother if she was an au pair/nanny because the 3 of us daughters took after our father, blonde hair and blue eyes. I suppose they never saw my father and didn't realize my mother's mother was a pale red head, she just took after her father. And they gossiped about her shaving her armpits and legs.
I really didn't like those women as a kid. My mother kept up a brave face but she was clearly upset. She didn't speak German very well but she understood exactly what they were saying and so did me and my sisters. They really didn't believe her that she was Scottish. Turkish, Pakistani, Iranian, Afghanistan etc... seemed like on a daily basis they had a new theory and derogatory things to say about her in German, anything they said in English was pleasant.
@@MartenKrueger-sx4me you don't know where he or if he's still living?
There's always one thing that runs a common string through all these stories. I've listened to dozens. No matter where the particular German was fighting. No matter how grievous their losses at the hands of the allies. No matter how long they had been at war, and everything they'd seen personally or heard from compatriots. In every single story of a surrender or capture. It is always present. The staggeringly flabbergasted recognition of American logistics, as if they hadn't seen it up against them from all sides since 1941. It really is ever-present, and always palpable.
Amateurs argue tactics, professionals discuss logistics.
We made stuff, at the time we had a lot of oil. The war in the pacific may have been avoided if the Japanese had stayed out of the rest of china and not gotten american oil cut off. We had plenty of food were the world leaders in food processing. The coca cola corporations literally was able to build to make American soldiers had coca cola for a nickel anywhere therer was a GI. American troops did not need meth to stay awake they had coffee and plenty of it. American troops had meat and plenty of it. Chrysler made tanks, Ford made tanks, Chevrolet built aircraft engines. American fighters were not great at first but Americans knew how to make long range bombers better than anyone. A german joke was that german tanks could kill 10 american tanks for every 1 german tank but the Americans could build 11 tanks for every german tank.
The WW2 is big business for the film industry and publishers.
31,000 books were published covering the war in Europe.
Now they are running out of material und come up with these diaries that all sound the same.
These stories were written by professional. A soldier in combat would not have the time, skill nor desire to write this.
@@hansmoss7395 Some of these stories also sound too incredible, as in the break-out diary, where nearly everyone else gets wiped out except the protagonist (the diary writer). Then again, I was thinking, it's because the guy survived, that he got to write the incredible diary to begin with. So I'm not quite sure anymore. In any case, it sounds entertaining - kinda entertaining proto-history, it *could* be real, but not exactly iron clad.
Sad. My father in law was drafted into the German Army during the last months of the war. He was disabled at birth and tried to enlist earlier but was rejected. Towards the end, the Germans didn't care about his deformed feet. He earned the Iron Cross 2nd Class fighting the Russians, but his entire family was killed in Berlin. My mother in law did her national service in the German Army during WWII as a personnel and finance clerk. Of her unit of 42, only her and one other survived, most being killed by the US Army Air Corp B24s in Dec 1944. All of her family survived, although her father, who had been drafted into the German Army during both WWI and WWII, was captured by the Russians and was imprisoned in Siberia until 1955. I still remember as a kid in the late 50s and 60s in Western Europe, seeing destroyed vehicles and buildings still being cleaned up. Anyone who thinks war is great is stupid and sick.
Damn lunatic Hitler. If he had been of sound mind, would have realized he would lose attacking RU AND declaring war on the US. So many deaths due to a crazy man. He wasn't the only one though.
The Americans had a harder time hating the Germans. Many Americans shared a common last name with Germans. So in the back of the mind of German-Americans was the idea that the Germans were potentially relatives. America did not suffer under the Germans like the rest of Europe. So, the occupation was much less harsh.
19th Century immigration from Germany to the USA was huge, particularly in the 1880's and 1890's, they integrated so well that people forget how many Americans have German ancestry.
So why did the British not have any bother, given a much greater immigration, and a royal family littered with germans?
The americans also did not have their entire country torched up like half of Europe and particularly USSR.
Even all of the Northern parts of Finland was torched by the Germans on their retreats, the Fins ended up having better views of invading Soviet Union because of this, thanks Schmitler!
@@catinthehat906 That's about when my brother-in-law's family came over. A granddaughter of a Polish Officer is the wife of a man who may have had relatives who were at war with ours, less than 90 years ago, which is an interesting thought to me.
@@SMGJohn I seriously doubt that, first of all I'd done the same having been sold out by an ally and second the finns had executed their own commies en masse not long before this during their civil war, them holding yet more commies in high regard is doubtful.
Tough days for humanity in Europe.
How lucky I feel to only know it as history.
Thanks for this fine production.
Oh
I’m thinking if cooler heads don’t start talking
You’re going to see war
Soon
@@johnaltz7143well, Putin is not going to hand over control to anyone for the next twelve years, so....
And he's not trying to calm Medvedev, Lavrov and Peskov
How many western politicians or figureheads can you name who say "We are already at war with Russia" ?
The only guys saying Russia is at war with Nato are Russian fangirls
@@johnaltz7143 Russian army is the joke of the world. They can't even take 10% of the second poorest country in Europe. 😂
Sweet Lord what a grim end. These stories make you want to go have a cry.
Thanks for posting this. I need a drink....
I wonder if that Panther they scuttled was ever recovered, or if it is still there. That thing belongs in a museum!
A sunk and buried tank that they walked away from. Watching Mark Felton, I know that many have been found. Wonder if this one ever was?
How come I didn't notice Your channel before? Subscribed.
Especially appreciate, that You are not twisting pronunciation, to make it unnaturally "German".
Excellent, respectful narration. Will try to catch up with previous episodes.
Thank you very much.
While reconstruction was ongoing for three more hard years,
it is good to see it beginning in 1945. His wounds actually
gave him a softer view than was common in Germany at
that time.
It definitely made them reflect.
I have my Opa's war diary It's nowhere near as detailed as this account, but it's wild to try to imagine all the places he went, starting on the Poland/ Russia border the day Hitler declared war Stalin. His entry that day, in caps just says "KRIEG GEGEN RUSSLAND", then he marches right into the Battle of Brody, before marching all over Eastern Europe. Got leave for X-mas 41, left the diary behind and was shipped out to Stalingrad. I never got that diary.
If this is true, this guy is a very good writer. I almost could feel myself in his shoes.
It's "The Last Panther" - a work of fiction.
This was deeply moving and consonant with what I felt when I lived in Germany in the mid-1960's. My husband was in the US Army, and we visited his relatives who had stayed behind in Germany after he and hos parents has emigrated to the US. Everywhere we went, no Germans talked about WWII, none admitted to having fought in the German Army. But, you know that they had to have been part of the War effort. I didn't think about any of that when I lived there. I was too young and too inexperienced with life. It was only after we came back stateside that I started wondering how it must have felt to have not only been defeated in battle, but to be occupied by a foreign country. My grandparents, who also came from Germany and who left all of their family behind, never spoke about their feelings of any of it. But they must have struggled emotionally during the War, especially when their own daughter (born in Germany) married an American in the US Army. Life is a strange thing.
Underneath it all - any tragedy, all obstacles, no matter who we are or where we live - we all have the same dreams, the same hopes, the same fears. It's too bad that we don't recognize that much sooner.
You forget the South was defeated in war and occupied, and, with certain exceptions such as Atlanta, was maintained as an underdeveloped source of cheap labor until WWII.
Germans were one thing, Nazis were something else.
The divide was nothing like that clear- most of them were supporters till 1945
absolutely❤
@patrickkelly6691 in a fascist or a socialist or communist society it is very hard to say you disagree with government/leadership and remain breathing.
@@brianford1346 america now look out
No, especially new generation raised by nazis as nazi followers. Are you really believe in "clean Wehrmacht myth" or "ordinary men" myth? Check this out. Think almost every German on East had his direct part in mass murders. They were happy to be master race and expecting getting land with slaves after a war and extermination.
What an amazing and sensitive story. Thank you for sharing it.
These are not diaries being recited. Whether Pacific or European theater, it's the same guy who wrote them.
Many ww2 memoirs can be found for free on audiobooks with fine human narration from your local or state library system .
I don't know which is more comical. The idiotic fake reading voice, or the notion that you expect this generation of Americans to read anything longer than whatever text you can manage to fit on the screen of some overpriced handheld phone. These techno-brats now think it is owed to them to have someone or something read to them because they can't be bothered to read or think or do much of anything else, on their own. Now they can have someone else do it for them. Even if it is far worse than simply reading words on a printed page all by themselves--The poor little spoiled children.
I’ve listened to quite a few from this series now. I find them very interesting; I hear the sadness in their writings about what they’ve lost and yet… I have not heard a single word or regret about the violence and devastation they inflicted throughout Europe and the Middle East, about their cowardice in rounding up and murdering millions upon millions of civilian men women and children; the rape, and torture they performed. Their theft of their victims’ possessions in the millions - both in their own country and countries they invaded. These voices that express insight and sadness, seem to have no insight whatsoever into themselves, or regret at the underlying cowardice and ethical vacuum that existed in themselves. No doubt their reminiscences would be very different had they won.
The ex-wehrmacht vets I drank with during my occupation service said in their cups the only thing Hitler did wrong was lose, but they were not Nazis or privy to SS offenses.
@@emmetjames3 Then should they be subject to the same genocide they inflicted on others? Get real! They knew.
And the Japanese were worse. Never forget the Baatan Death March or the Rape of Nanking.
Zombies make zombies...a kinda midas touch, or vampire bat...just watched The Enemy Below, some philosophy, war innate in all humanity, no hope-this said in beginning...then at the end, Mitchum saves the Uboat Captain, and his doctor says there is hope...but now were at the beginning again, Ukraine, Gaza, elseware...takes a zombie to make a zombie...DARPA has it to cure bio weapons one needs to make and test bioweapons, along with the two edged sword of nuclear weapons...GOT has that take, the Frost King touching the Dragon pulled by chains from the ice lake-panzer like...🤔
I am from Canada my dad was in the HMCS and his last posting was the Duke of York, he fought the Germans, when we could get him to talk about the War, he never had any ill will or bad feeling toward them. We need to take ALL of our countries back from these corrupt Politicians and their supporting media. So, we never go to War like this again. What is going on in Ukraine is wrong the young men die on both sides while fat bloated Politicians and bankers get rich, this all needs to end.
You are 100% Correct. One thing to remember is that Russia invaded the Ukraine, would any country just do nothing if they were invaded?
@jakebarnes1950 Yes, you are very correct. What people forget the crimea and the Don Bass region are primarily Russian citizens. They don't even speak Ukrainian. Ukraine launched an assault on this area around twenty fourteen after they voted to join the Soviet Union. Angela Merkel, around 2016, came up with the Minsk record.
It was an agreement between Ukraine and Russia for them. To stop balming the Don Boss. They broke this agreement and continued shelling them until finally russia invaded. If you look at a map of Ukraine, you will see the lines are pretty much static. Russia does not want to invade anymore into the country. There's a lot of evil over there from foreign corporations trying to buy up sections of Ukraine. I'm not arguing with you. I have followed this closely. And just telling you about things that have been dropped from the news, take care
@@jakebarnes1950invaded??
Jake
Check your premises
Go back to at least 2013
You might see that the state department overthrew a democracy
@@johnaltz7143 John your reply has no logic or premise on my comment! Yes the CIA did many things. Nothing to do with my previous comment. Nice try to deflect, are you commenting for or from Moscow!
@@jakebarnes1950 🤡
How the hell do you even begin to process your feelings in a situation like that?
Sadly. History will repeat itself. Europe and Middle East
We should never had let the USSR make any gains. Stupid thing to do we have been paying for this for years and will continue to do so :(
You obviously don't know much history. The American people were tired of war, and they certainly weren't willing to go fight for countries they didn't, for the most part, know much about. Heck, it took Pearl Harbor to get the isolationists to change their tune and even get the US into the war. Even now, the Republicans don't want to help Ukraine.
A good original source story. Don't know its background but it sounds very good and original.
Sounds lik excerpts from "The Last Panther". Good book there is some question as to the authenticity of his accounts of what was going on.
Wow! What a story.
French Field Marshall Foch famously said, "Germans are hatched from cannon balls"!
this is excellent!
How heartbreaking!
Those poor souls.
The author refers to the person who shot him as a “kettenhund.” Could someone give me the correct spelling so I can look up what he’s talking about? Please and thank you
A kettenhund is a watch dog…but in this case he is referring to a German MP…military police.
It's a reference to the gorget they wore as a symbol of their position. A neck piece originally designed as protection for the throat, though later only symbolic. Germans gave the military police who wore them the nickname "guard dogs" because it looked like a dog's collar.
They were often used as enforcers for the military, especially the SS, to keep control. They became especially hated towards the end of the war when they became the executioners in the roaming bands of "courts" that hunted both retreating soldiers and civilians who refused to join the volkssturm.
The contrast between the Allied/American side stands in sharp contrast to the "rumors" these stories give us of how the Soviets operated their side of the Elbe. Clearly, the Russians were more about vengeance and victory, than in patching up old wounds. And given what Russia went through in the war, this is understandable. But still very regrettable.
You don't get to judge.
@@andyb3712 By whose law does that reasoning apply? Just curious.
Also, there's no judgment here. The difference between East and West Germany, and its stark history during the Cold War, is pretty well known by everyone.
And the reasoning behind it is also quite understandable. If the United States ever got invaded by anyone, the retribution would probably also be pretty historic and terrible.
@@jacob4920 We are being invaded. The invaders are being set up as the bad guys.
Masterfully written, superbly read!
Sir Stojan, Thank you for your feedback.
Would have been better to have the image not being of a Panzer III but of the Panther like in the story.
The poor girl, all the poor girls.
Wow!!! This is the most amazing story I have heard from this series. Thank you for this.
Sir thank you for your feedback.
Sorry mr. elias idisagree , as an old Danish prof soldier with many UNO-peace making/peacekeeping missions behind me , one time experirncenced the faith of s hostage,brutallly teated(torture) i still believe: every living existencr, plante or animal mudt br treated with Respect and Dignity, also friend and especially foe!!
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Welcome to Humanity we have choice Thank You O Lord choose the narrow road with trips and stumbles
This story is fictional, but it was well written.
Other Channels narrate the words from military Diaries and show a variety of pictures from the war, Why doesn't his channel do the same instead of just one still picture for more than 20 minutes. How hard can that be to do so?
that tank sunken by the river might still be there … i wonder if he found out what her name was.
Murders and struggle snuggles happen in war. That is one of the many reasons war is to avoided at almost all costs.
Check the history of the war. Yes, it happens, but with Soviet troops it was almost policy. They considered capturing a woman as a bonus like capturing a food depot. They women were used and discarded at similar speed.
It wasn't personal to Americans. They didn't have the hate. About 10% of American soldiers were 1st and 2nd Generation Americans of German origin. The Germans dealt with other Germans in American uniforms. The stress was minimized. The Germans were largely happy it was over and they were in American hands.
True. Even though I am of Polish origin and second-generation American, I look at this part of our (Europid) Race's history more objectively than first-generation Americans and immigrants. Perhaps, I could be more sensitive, or at least more empathetic than I am towards the matter. On a lighter note, a local Greek-American who is the first gen and tells with pride, how the men in his parents village held off the vaunted Fallschirmjager with old rifels and pitch forks.
Tell that to the merchant shipping sector.
In his book "Why The Allies Won", British Historian Sir Richard Overy says that when the Allies invaded Italy on July 9th 1943 ("Operation Husky"), about one-third of the American Troops were Italian-Americans!
Maybe that's why Italian Troops (and Italy) surrendered three months later, in October 1943.
Of course, the German Troops in Italy did not surrender until May 7th, 1945!
Nah, the US Government sent Americans of German descent to the Pacific whenever they could
@@telesniper2 When they were not fluent in both languages they sent them to the Pacific. Translation is Nuance.
Kettenhunde were German Military Police.
A repeat??
Pictured above is an Italian RSI tank crew; manning a PZKW III.
The apparent Black Fez would make them members of the Fascist Youth Corps.
Ketten Hund German MPS 2:48 who had a metal gorget around the neck nick named Chaìned Dogs
Those were German army military police. They were greatly hated by the regular army because towards the end they were used to hunt down and kill deserters on the spot on their own initiative. Many innocent Germany soldiers were killed by them.
Why is the photograph shown of Italians in the Leonessa tank group? LOL
A familiar voice.
Is the narrator Mark Felton?
Frankly this one sounds like AI.
It's a computer voice.
@@unclefester6501 (Click) No surprise there. (Click)
No it's not AI.
no
A lot of people forget the regular German army weren’t nazis, but soldiers who not only fought the British, Australians, Canadians, Americans but the whole Soviet army. This was an incredible story.
Truth.
Yeah esp murdering others and pretending chivalry and then after an end pretending having clean hands
nazi army led by nazis for nazi coutry doing nazi crimes - and nothing to do wih nazis ha ha ha nazi ethos training salut, 1/3 officers were nazis, young men were from nazi H*jugend, older higher bras were 'prussians' militarists worse than a nazis
They weren't called P.A.K guns - they were Pak guns.
Panzer Abwehr Kanone.
@@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq In full, yes, but the designation was Pak 37, Pak 40, etc.
@@andrewstrongman305 OK !
Ninety million people died during the reign of the 3rd Reich in direct consequence, not only of Adolph the Mad, but of the support given to him by the German people without which he would have been nothing. Japan and Italy would not have entered the war unless they thought Germany had their backs. Japan and Italy both knew they could not fight the whole world by themselves.
And yet, here we have an account of German people and German soldiers smiling, glad the war is over, and rebuilding their bombed out cities. A war THEY caused. One might consider, in revenge for German atrocities in eastern Europe, Stalin would have ordered all Germans encountered on the way to Berlin were to be shot on sight. He didn't issue those orders; he had his reasons. In hindsight, it makes sense, of course. He needed all the Germans he could get to populate the Soviet Zone and create the GDR. You can't populate a new country with corpses. So there was no justice for those 90 million dead. Today the Germans are healthy and rich -- and 90 million people are still as dead and forgotten as ever. No one even thinks of them; the only consideration given is for the 6 million Jews. Everything else is forgotten.
Japan's "entering the war" or attacking the USA had nothing to do with "Germany having their backs" as you stated and just made up. Japan was the first one to start the war, invading China years before Germany invaded Poland, hell they invaded before Hitler even took power and started rearming Germany and before they had a treaty. They attacked the USA without consulting or even informing Germany; and that decision was supposedly made independent of Germany's situation. In fact, Germany's top politicians were really angered by this betrayal, and did not want to declare war on the US and wanted to stay out of Japan's war.
However, Hitler personally overrode all of his advisors and declared war on the US in a speech, because he was nuts and believed in his superiority. If he hadn't, the US would not have joined in against Germany, and would have been only fighting Japan. Japan felt they needed to attack the US due to its embargo on oil and other materials & goods, and to take over the greater Pacific theater, and assumed that 1 crippling blow at Pearl Harbor would be enough to basically keep the US from retaliating or reinforcing the Philippines and just accept that they lost and effectively that would be the end of the war against the US.
However, you are probably right that if the Nazis didn't exist (in which case the Italian Fascists probably also don't exist in this alternate timeline), then Japan *might* not have attacked all of the European colonies in Asia or the US; since the UK, French, (German), and Dutch governments would then all actually be able to respond with their full force and large navies. Imperial Japan may still have done so, thinking that the distance would be enough for them to get entrenched, and they needed all of the raw materials from those lands.
I agree with you,the Germans of that time did know what was happening in their country ,and they still supported Hitler,there was some who resisted,but not many.Hitler lost the war because he was stupid enough to invade Russia.Not as clever as he thought he was.
@@lamelama22 You forgot japanese attack to western colonies
@@lamelama22 German philosophical idealism and statism spread to Japan in the early 20th century, ending the Japanese respect for the Enlightenment. War was coming, one way or another.
I wonder if this is a true story or just made up for an entertaining tale?
pretty much fiction, probably based on many individual stories, dramatized a bit.
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AI generation
The mispronounced words is bizarre
Shouldn’t surprise you. The technology is still pretty new. It’s rather impressive, actually, I think. It can do exclamation, quotation, onomatopoeia, and mimics speech cadences pretty well. It’s pretty damn impressive I think. But not perfect.
@@matthewnewton8812
Yes, it gotten so much better compared to what it used to sound like. I can live with the occasional mispronunciation.
Yeah, specially from a doctor.
Orator learn to pronounce words correctly; what is an Elb? The ELBE has an E on the end, say it!
sadly this is a fabrication , albeit entertaining
It's a Mark Felton production so it will be well researched and produced, he is very thorough in all he does.
If only these German soldiers could’ve seen the camps, the Japanese Americans were locked in
Since more Japanese-Americans came out of the camps then went in, I suspect it was more insult than injury.
Are you in the ABP, (What aboutism) party. America Bad. Nitwit.
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Japanese Americans lost their homes and businesses. No, they weren’t put death But your lives were destroyed
oh, how horrible, while the japs beheaded thousands in the East, and the Germans murdered Jews by the millions, how dare anybody play the race card. GDI
@@jrt818they came out with their lives, yes.. but they lost everything else; homes, businesses,
you don't comprehend the nature of CZcams. it's not a format for static photos backgrounding narration. it works for video; i.e. moving images. the narration will work if and only if , you put it over action. bottom line: SHOW us, DON'T tell us !
You don't understand the idea of listening and... Envisioning.
He is teaching is about his war. Teachers don't show movies. Learn how to listen without needing cartoons to keep you interested.
On the contrary. CZcams is an excellent platform for narration as well as music, with still photography.
It’s not all about video, it is about using one’s imagination to envision in one’s minds eye, or to experience emotion through sound.
could you buy weed?
Now that is some history that I’d love to know. My guess is weed was in low supply in the 3rd Reich.
The fair treatment of German pows makes me sick. It was like they were put into a hotel wasting precious medical resources on saving German soldiers makes me sick
Sir, It's understandable to have concerns about resource allocation during times of war, but it's important to remember that the fair treatment of prisoners of war is a reflection of our values and respect for international law. Additionally, upholding medical standards for all individuals, regardless of nationality, aligns with the principles of medical ethics and humanity.
My architecture professor was a member of the Hitler Youth. He was forcibly conscripted. Captured by US troops, he was impressed by his humane treatment that he later emigrated to the US and joined the Army. He then fought for his adopted country during Korean War. So you see, in addition to adhering to international law, the humane fair treatment of POWs is how you win wars, keep the relative peace, and forge forgiveness and lasting alliances.
@@killerdoritoWA Hungarian joke: Cohn was questioned which Army wanted to serve, the Soviet or the American? Cohn answered: He wantet to serve in the Soviet Army? Why? Cohn answered: The Prisonar of War, the prisonar of the war...........
Compassion, not revehge, is the greatest healer. Yes, these people were misled, but it seems to be America has been assigned to restore dignity to the world and its people. Of course that was a different era and we, as Americans, still have a ways to go to set examples for humanity.
I'm proud to be part of a society -- and to have served in its armed forces -- where respecting human rights and needs sets us apart from our enemies. To do otherwise makes us no better than the least of mankind and not a world many of us could embrace.
Obviously lost a lot in translation. Hardly a great work of literature to start with, it makes for a dull, numbing experience as a video. Poorly written, but not so poorly as to be entertaining, it dribbles across the face of the English language, like slime down the face of a waterfall; slowly, inexorably, and with as much beauty and inspiration. WW2 Live History appears to be a misnomer, based on this. CZcams should be entertaining and /or informative, inspiring and elucidatory, otherwise what is the point? This adds nothing to the sum of human knowledge, other than to act as an example of how not to do it. Dreary clickbait.
Wow, it is hard to learn anything when you already know it all
What a stupid condescending statement from someone who probably never read a history book.
@@batcollins3714 pot kettle black, methinks. Funnily enough, I loathed history at school, but have since taken more than a passing interest in it, largely as a result of reading The First and the Last by Adolf Galland. Fortunate that he knew how to write, really.
A legend in your own mind...
@@greyveteran7007 What I offer is criticism, maybe an opening for a debate, what I get are ad hominem attacks. Is that the best you people can do, really? Intellect, critical thinking, are these foreign words to you?
THE AMERICANS ENJOYED GERMANY AFTER THE WAR!!!! THEY LIKED THE PRETTY GIRLS, THE GOOD BEER AND WINE AND PRETZELS, CHOCOLATE, AND THE EXCHANGE RATE WAS PERFECT FOR BUYING UP THINGS. ALSO FOR AMERICANS EVERYTHING WAS TAX FREE!!!
so?