How to UPSET a NAZI Interrogator
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«How to upset Nazi interrogator»
Ah, Nazis! That mysterious tribe which appeared out of nowhere in 1933, conquered Germany, then started WW2 by invading Poland, and eventually mysteriously disappeared in 1945. Let's be serious and say out loud the factual truth: They were National-Socialistic GERMANS who created many concentration and death camps where German killed millions (mainly Poles, Jews, Gypsies) and Auschwitz was only one of those camps.
@@lovingmayberry307 Stop blasting him apart. Google this Warriors name & find his story. It's simple: I've done it many times.
@januszlepionko
Well that's what original Nazi abrevvation means. A member or supporter of German National Socualist party. Who told you they came out of nowhere and disappeared? Everyone who have learned about this knows that it took a change of generation to purge germany from the particular ideology. Then there are many offspins popping up here and there, most of whom never use terminology or symbolism, but have very similar ideas. Like invading and killing their neighbours to destroy certain demography and idemtity, etc.
@@januszlepionko All the socialist were killed after Hitler took control during the Night of Long Knives, you pathetic misinformation troll.
"If you knew all the answers, why ask me the questions?"
IRS took notes
Admission means punishment is valid.
If they knew all that already id imagine they already have the evidence though@Jason-gj1pu
You beat me to it.
Don't ask questions you already know the answer to!
Ah, the ancient technique of "trolling"
Lol
Lol, this interview only showed how kind the Nazis were when compared to Americans.
@@aaabbb-py5xdstill a nazi
Crazy butt it seems everything awful that the Allies did and is known is only okay because what we believe the enemies did from what we were told it's still blasphemy to even say this it just invokes emotion out of people and it's not about the truth anymore maybe in a few hundred years like when we learn about the Civil War nobody at all is shocked physically shocked to hear the north may have or may not have committed atrocities and vice versa with the South it's just like Napoleon said about history he probably heard that quote somewhere
@@aaabbb-py5xd ?
This is actually a really good example of how torture is used. A lot of people think it’s “hurt them while asking them questions until they give you the answer you want” which always results in the same old “people lie to make the torture stop.”
In reality, torture is conducted by asking many questions where you already know the answers with one or two snuck in that you don’t know. That way you can tell when they’re lying, but the victim doesn’t know which questions are unknown so they have to tell the truth to avoid punishment
Interrogation, not torture.
@@LNMagic the difference is the actual punishment, which in this case the Germans weren’t afraid of doing
@@jacobackley502neither are the Israeli. History has a twisted sense of of humor.
Shut up @@nay4658
Best comment no-cap
“There was this German guard: Shrek”
nazi schrek must be an AI thing lol
Funny because the guy in this videos name is
SchRenk
Predominately German surname
But is actually a Jewish name 😂
The original “posting your IP address to intimidate you” tactic.
Hilarious. 👏🍻🥂
Wow you need to go outside
@@kwyatt261Wow you need a sense of humor
@@kwyatt261how the hell does making a joke correlate to how long he spends outside?
The Nazis truly were the progenitor to 4chan.
It's a damn good thing that there are people going around and interviewing these veterans on camera. Because we are on the razor's edge of WWII passing out of living memory.
And so many have already forgotten to the point that to some it never existed. 😢
Yes. Most are dead and the living are in their 90s or 100s.
@@libbylandscape3560 forgotten? Or having never known? If hardship and adversity are the fires in which a man is forged,what happens to those who were granted the option to avoid walking through those flames? If necessity is the mother of invention,what happens in the absence of necessity? These are the questions that have come to be the most persistent in the back of my mind in the past few years. We have had it far too good for far too long,and all we've done with these blessings is convince ourselves that it will always be this way. And God help me,I am FAR from being the exception.
"Victory has defeated you"
--Bane: The Dark Knight Rises
@@AshtonRogers-se1zjYour comment reminds me of a quote, maybe you've heard it?
Hard times make strong men.
Strong men make good times.
Good times make weak men.
Weak men make hard times.
Or something like that. I don't know who said it, but have seen it in YT comments.
@@AshtonRogers-se1zj While I hope studying history and honoring the lessons of the past can perpetuate peace, I also fear that not enough people will do so (whether from hate, ignorance, or apathy). Do you mean to say that people have too much peace these days? I’d like to know your perspective.
His body is, obviously, not in a great shape and his voice is terrible, but I'm really amazed at how well his mind seems to be at this age
it's strange that you find it necessary to mention that a body and voice approaching 100 years old is not in top shape, why even focus on that?
@@mariannejensen9107Because it's also the first thing I noticed. Let's not pretend his voice doesn't immediately stand out when you hear him. It's not an insult to point it out, just a fact
He is in a time where he has been more youthful and now he’s blessed us with his memories
@@mariannejensen9107 it’s strange that you missed the point of his comment
@@mariannejensen9107 read again, slowly, maybe you can get the point of the comment then
❤ my grandaddy was a ball turrett gunner on a B17 named Rattlesnake Daddy! He's been gone almost 3 years and I miss him every day. I'm so glad this gentleman survived the war as well. Thank you for your service, sir.
Was he part of the 457th Bomb Group or the 759th Bomb Squadron?
That is a TOUGH name for a bomber
@@frizzdomino the 457th, he was stationed at RAF Glatton in England
@@sunnyvols Nice 👍
Dam small man big balls
Gotta have some big balls leaving the paper empty
lots had a iorn set back then
@@redlight3932Definitely... The men back then were real tough guys. The "men" today wear fake tan and shoes with no socks 😂
@@four-twenty4205chill out tough guy
@@four-twenty4205you inmediately started projecting
That’s what ended up causing his plane to crash.
It couldn’t sustain lift, with that much unaccounted for weight. 😂❤
I met a ball turret gunner a few years ago. He still had ptsd after all these years. His wife was comforting him as he was telling me about how horrible it was to sit in that turret while getting shot at and how horrible the flak was. He said he never got shot down, but his plane was shot up plenty of times, including having its tail almost severed.
My uncle was a ball turret gunner, he flew 50 missions. He gave me my first job when I was 12 years old. He started out as a tail gunner in a B-17, then put in as the ball turret gunner when the previous turret gunner was killed. Later, the crew was switched to the B-24. He said they kept raising the number of missions required due to the high incidence of deaths.
At an air show I met a B24 crewman. He told me the story of how a row of 24’s ready to taxi, engines running, a nurse was driving past in a jeep, waving at the crews. The girl suddenly mad a hard left turn, in between 2 B24’s, only she mis judged and got caught by a spinning prop. As he told me the story, he cried for this girl as if it had happened yesterday. I felt so bad for this man, having to live with this horrible memory.
My father was a ball turret gunner as well. Multiple missions as well as D-Day. He was hit in the ball but survived. Ended up in a sanitarium after discharge Horrible frost bite on his face that turned into bad skin cancer later in life. He never mentioned the war. When he was in his 90's the only thing he would say when asked was "I loved the war". Sure Dad.........
I’d say the chances of a ball turret gunner being taken out were pretty high
Masters of the Air depicts these exact situations very accurately!!
Bless this old man 🥹
He literally fought agaisnt the best anti-communist fighters. The west is the reason why soviet Russia, China and North Korea existed.
@@PROVOCATEURSKi mean, better than nazis right?
any veteran is an honorable veteran in my book, and this man especially as he fought in one of the biggest wars the world has ever known and still lives to tell the tale(AND is willing to tell that tale)
"The Nazis should have stayed to fight communism." -@@PROVOCATEURSK, 2024.
@@PROVOCATEURSKBRO, UR SAYING THAT NAZIS SHOULD HAVE LIVED FOR FIGHTING AGAINST COMMUNISM? 💀
I am lucky to state that I met this WWII Veteran. Wonderful man! Great storyteller. What an honor. A hero, and part of the Greatest Generation. Thank you for your service, Mr. Schrenk.
Cringe af
❤❤❤❤👌🏻👌🏻
You met him?
@@FayeFee Yes, I knew him while a VA employee( retired now). One of my favorite people.
They wanted confirmation on their intelligence!
If they're so intelligent they wouldn't take me for a fool.
@@ianbelletti6241lmao he meant Intel as in information, not 'the smarts'
@@ianbelletti6241 dunning kruger effect
@@user-ex6xc5ox3k I know what he meant and I took it the direction I wanted to take it. 😜
@@ggaz683 nice try. It's actually the smart ass effect.
"Don't you want your family to know you're safe?"
"By the looks of it, I'm far from safe right now."
Do I want my family to know I'm safe? Yeah. I'd like to tell them that personally when I get back home.
Americans were far safer in german custody than german POWs were in american custody. So stop lying. Western POWs were treated exceptionally well by the Reich, even jewish prisoners.
How wasn't he safe?
@@KyleDownsFTW ummm, an American soldier being interrogated by a filthy Nazi.... fill in the rest
It's a euphemism for being alive and having some moderate of health.
I met a US Navy Veteran of Iwo Jima . . He said somerthing I' ll never forget . . None of us were there fighting because we wanted to , we were there because we needed to fight . . then he said thats one thing that the young people of today need to understand .
A great generation they were.
WW2 was America's last "good war"
Sir Lester Schrenk, thank you for your service. God bless you.
Grandpa said the same thing. Their file on him even knew about schooling. Mind you this was long before computers. Amazing 😮
It was all public record, all they needed to do that was access to newspaper archives. As others in your squad or platoon broke under pressure they'd get more to work with to make it seem more comprehensive, but it usually wasn't actually deep. For instance, they could find an obituary for a parent, they'd then have all the living relatives' names, and where they lived, that would lead them to graduation notices, wedding announcements, etc. The B-17 thing comes from other POWs either cracking and talking, or talking amongst themselves when they think no one is listening.
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They must have had spies in the States (and other countries) who researched for and informed the Nazis.
@@RakastaaKissawell sure, but how did they access these archives from across the atlantic ocean? in a country that they were at war with? did they write the local newspaper in boise asking for information on a pow? did they waste their spys time?
@@ghostlight69420 There was also a large Nazi movement in the USA.
Frenchman, British & Italian were captured fighting for the resistance.
The Frenchman is taken, tied up & interrogated. He lasts half an hour.
Next the British guy is taken, tied up & he lasts an hour.
Finally the Italian is taken, tied up & interrogated for hours. Eventually he comes back and the other two want to know how the Italian resisted so long.
“How am I supposed to talk with hands tied?”
nice one
Got the punch line!
Ha
Italian hand sign's.
Italians were allied with Germany. They were Facists. I know you say what about France? They were defeated. The disgusting Vichy were German collaborators but there was a very real Free French resistance.
This man is a treasure ...
Nope.
Thank you for your service from a fellow veteran.
I've heard this before that the Nazis had a lot of personal information on many prisoners, right down to grade school records. I've never known how they got all of this information and how they transmitted it all back to the enemy.
Probably the same way as the ruzzkies are doing it now. Agents and money.
Read up on Hanns Scharff Wikipedia. Get his book at the library. The Germans listened to the radio chatter between airplanes plus they pieced together small insignificant bits of info. Scharff once asked an airman at intake how his dinner was with x aircrew member. He was given a list of incoming prisoners and asked for the files they already had...so when they came in he struck up a casual conversation and asked them to sign in his autograph book. Many times he would show them entries from prior captives and their whimsical comments. Scharff eventually moved to Calif and started a mosaic business. I believe he did the floor in the Calif Capitol.
You don't think they had spies in the US military? Of course they did... and turncoats.
Shows just how many says there where in our own ranks. It's all basic personal files that I'm sure they got. A hold of an would transmit back to the Germans. The mafia really came in an started cleaning up the spy leakage problem about 2 years into the war
The Bush’s financed them lyssen
*”Don’t you think we already know all this?!”*
_Then what do you need me for?!_ 😂❤
Yea genius logic, now youve given them a reason to kill you..... Over a joke
No some don't they don't teach it in schools any more. They are definitely the ones that need to hear it. If you don't like it don't listen to it.
@@themanwithnoname1839You're the one currently upset about a joke
@@orangenostrilHe is the Nazi from the video that would be getting mad at us over jokes! XD
@@themanwithnoname1839 if you knew anything about history you'd know the nazi party would kill anyone for any reason
Amazing, My dad told me the same exact story. He was a B-24 Tail Gunner, Shot down 9 missions in, and a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III. He told me they marched him in and laid out his whole like just to show him that they already knew he didn't know any important information. My father passed on in 1998.
Bless you sir and all that have fought for my family and I to live in a free America I just pray it stays that way ❤ America Rocks
Pilots and crews that go into enemy territory get counter interrogation training for this exact reason.
You know what's weird, they didn't then. And they got shot down all the time, because the planes weren't as good as they are now. We even had family friends who were German and Polish speaking, who had dragged themselves out of their plane wrecks, and started walking. They found random people on the road, and just asked them where the Americans were! The civilian Germans were tired of the war, and some of them were starving, so they would share rations with them, and just have a conversation with them, and the people would tell them honestly the directions to the British and American lines.
“Don’t fill out any forms. Ok you’re trained, get on out there”
@@Hollylivengood that’s actually true but I believe the reason for that was ww2 pilots didn’t have as much information as they would now. Obviously there’s a lot more advancements in military avionics.
@@Hollylivengood read a few stories of american pow kept on japan mainland escaping during the fall of japans regime...this was towards the end of the war as the only people left were mainly officers and high rank but yeah same thing. The people were friendly, honorable and helped save alot of POW from those camps, they were tired of the fighting and just wanted to go back to their lives.
@@Steadyriot-is4jg the japenese pow camps were brutal, my greatgrandad was in one, and when I was a little before he passed, he used to tell me stories, insane
"B-17? What's a B-17?" (maintains eye contact)
Airplane? What's an airplane?
It's a type of tax form to claim a refund on othepedic shoes
"I haven't heard of that vitamin before."
@@Gandhi_Physique😂
When was that said?
as a german i agree, i would also fly into a rage if i politely asked you to fill something out and you gave it back blank.
After all you were fighting against communism and those pesky westerners helped them.
@@PROVOCATEURSKTrue. Even General Patton, in the end, said that the Americans did a mistake by fighting the Germans
You're American
Love, honor, respect and gratitude for your service and to all whe served and are serving!
LOL, this geezer sounds like a screeching chicken. I couldn't even finish listening to his story because I couldn't stand his voice.
Are you not thanking the Germans for fighting against communism while the west was blind?
So if an enemy 50 years ago could find that out what do you think they can do now in the World? LOL
80 years ago.
🎯
They know about your future
50 years ago? You really think it was 50 years ago? I didn't know we fought Nazis again in the '70's😅. Oh, our country's future is doomed.
50 years ago was the late 70s early 80s you drongo 😂
Imagine the level of knowledge the government has if the nazis were this capable in the 40s.
The government has more information on you than you want to imagine, and even more than anyone admits.
Yes. I have no grandchildren yet but the government knows their names by now.
Yep and, what they don't have, they just "invent" - lie + lie equals lies 😰
Now we just have to use the internet an wow our prisoners with our deep insider knowledge.
Holocaust Denmark have (their own) information about "my" crimes over there - "crimes" I committed more the 15 years before I was born.. Criminal psychopathy knows no bounderies.... Yrgh.
Thank you for your service is not even enough for what these soldiers went through. There will be a special place for them in heaven ✝️
That's not how heaven works.
Thank you for your brave service, and many sacrifices - so appreciated !! 🇺🇲
It´s not a good service to help communists take half of Europe...
"But sir you know so much about me you already know the answers so you write them down and I'll sign that" lol.
Irs moment
Ich kann ihnen versichern, dass wir für diese Art des Humors bis heute nicht berühmt sind. Diese freche und kindliche Antwort hätte ihnen mehr als eine saftige Ohrfeige eingebracht. Wie sagt ihr Amis: "watch your words".
If it's such a childish answer then why do you look like such an idiot asking it?
@@thl7587
@@thl7587It would seem my good man, that you people were the ones who got slapped in the face in the end.
@@thl7587As we Americans say, watch your wars.
0/2 🤡
"I'm Lance-Corporal Hugh G Rection, I was flying a Y-Class freighter called the Ebon Hawk, loaded with proton torpedoes."
lmao, i understand this reference XD
I'm R.Evan, I was flying a tie-fighter, loaded with lightsabers...
I’m Han solo captain of the millennium Falcon.
Copilot was Mike Hawk
Our crew members name also were Harry Bawls and Gian T Crotch. You can find our MO in the ID10T file report.
Im canderous ordo, want some steroids?
Glad to see these interviews are happening before it's too late. My grandfather was in the RAF and passed a few years back and did several interviews. That generation was tough as hell.
He looks tougher than an old leather boot. GOD bless him.
@@ChristopherGray00dont diss on peoples religions. you wouldnt say that about islam. only christianity.
@@ChristopherGray00 well either way the islamic, jewish, and christian god are all the same being. its onbvious to everybody who isnt those religions. im christian but luckily there is religious freedom for me to say the obvious without being beheaded lol
@@ChristopherGray00 no need to diss anyones religions, I'm not religious myself and this is a dickish move to pull
@@chrisvibz4753 aren't Christians and Jewish people even seen as "people of the book" in Islam, because they're abrahamic faiths?
@@ChristopherGray00Tough words for someone with a gay ass anime profile pic.
My brother was a RAF fighter pilot. He had intense (and scarily realistic) training on what to do if captured and interrogated. The Number1 rule was to say Nothing other than 'name, rank and serial number', no matter what. Even the most innocent 'Yes' ( 'So, this is your name, rank etc?' 'Yes' ) could be used in edited propaganda videos, and they showed him what would happen; 'So you knew that the school you bombed was full of children?' 'Yes'...
EDIT: To add context, the Army is sent on exercise to find the downed enemy pilot, so the hunt is on, in the hostile countryside. Once captured (and you Will be captured even if it takes a few days ) then the 'enemy pilot' is handed over to the Intelligence Officers who will carry out the interrogation as part of their training too. It's all done as realistically as possible. Because it can seem ultra-real, there is a doctor on hand who can step in, who says 'I am a Doctor. I cannot be impersonated. Are you OK to continue, Sir?' That gives the pilot a way out if it gets too much, though they all try to make it until the end of the exercise. It's grim stuff, especially if carrying an injury from escaping the hunt.
This was recently, obviously?.
@@uncletiggermclaren7592 It would have been early on in his training, as part of the 'escape and evade' exercises, as he moved from helicopters to Harriers, so I'd estimate it to be around 35-40 years ago.
What if your name is Yassir (sounding like Yes Sir)
@@user-cc5wu3lh1n Yassir Yu Arafat Gitt.
Ironically, the RAF repeatedly bombed German women and children with phosphorous, (napalm) . All German towns and cities were to be targeted, the entire German population was to be massacred, Churchill and Lindemann would see to that. All German towns and cities above 50,000 population were 50% to 80% destroyed. Dresden with a population larger than that of Liverpool was incinerated with an estimated 500,000 civilian inhabitants burned and buried in the ruins. Hamburg was totally destroyed and 70,000 civilians died in the most appalling circumstances. Cologne with a population greater than Glasgow's was turned into a moonscape.
This is the exact same procedure for both sides of the conflict.
Thank you for your service we appreciate everything you've done and sacrificed
The German fit of rage when he couldn't understand why you didn't fill out all the paperwork
That's very German tbh, you better be meticulous about your paper work or you'll make someone seriously angry. 😂
😂😂😂😂
just german culture to be very proper and orderly, and this guy failed the paperwork so the german was upset because he was sloppy in his eyes.
@@Mumintrollet8921 yea but we have a piece of paperwork that says we're not required to answer those questions :^)
Boy, this is giving me flashbacks from SERE school. I can’t imagine actually having to live through a situation like that.
You can't imagine being interrogated by enemy forces?
You should do SERE training mate.
@@italicpigeon"Actually having to live through a situation like that"; since you have trouble reading.
@@italicpigeon he's saying he was to SERE training, and the old man did a terrible mistake by upsetting his captors.
The point of SERE is to be as miserable and clueless as possible, to increase chance of survival and not letting any information out. The old timer certainly made his situation worse by this stunt.
@@foxz7424 thats not what he meant at all. He is saying, having gone through sere school and learning how to handle being interrogated, he could not imagine actually having to go through an actual real interrogation, not a fake one in a training scenario. Also, the "R" in SERE is resistance, and thats what the old man did.
I never attended SERE training, yet I heard copious stories about it whilst attached to the 509th Geronimos at JRTC, as an OPFOR training aid to various Groups in for MOB Training.
1 time I was captured by the 20th Group, they gave me a taste of the experience, due to me pelting them with so many questions about it. Although it was a bit...intense & somewhat painful, I do miss that era of my Army career. It seemed like the more painful sh!t was, the more of a charge I got out of it.
As a crusty old truck driver today, I'm still pretty fvcked in the head. This is how I shall remain, until I get buried!
How did he and his family survive??? I mean, if the family didn't, was it the right thing to not write anything down? What's going on?!
Remember - it’s always a moral good to piss off evil
Easy to say when you're not under the immediate threat of having a nazi interrogator do all sorts of horrible things to you
How can you confirm what is evil 🤔🤔 ??
They were so evil that he lived to tell the story🤔
Germans were the good guys though. Those American veterans would have never gone to war if they knew how the US would look like today.
And yet, those who hate the way the US looks today are always the first to defend Israel. A special brand of stupid.
That’s insane how that German officer was able to find out all the info on the Airman. Especially with the technology and the means of getting info at that time. Imagine what they would do now with the amount of information readily available at the touch of a button.
I know I've tried to find out how they got all this info but haven't seen anything on it. They even knew what their report cards from school said. Wow
@@armandhammer9617Highly covert intelligence operatives. International spies. They really had those back then.
I mean, they still do now, but it’s not as heavily necessary to gain most the info as back then
Most of it was just from local newspapers that german intelligence received from friendly embassy staff in the US. Papers would often publish profiles on local boys who went off to serve.
@@MaxwellAerialPhotography interesting. Surprise that they would publish that much info on someone like that back then especially when with opsec and all that.
They probably had a guy in military office they paid off to copy all their files, or capture one base and take all their paperwork especially if it's the same base u flew from and were captured near by after crasj
Thank you for your service.
For what?
@@Kevin_Jones1 for your freedom. For your freedom to make yourself try and look edgy and cool in a CZcams comment section. 🙄
@ashotofmercury oh, you're still stuck there with the freedoms and stuff. Ok. I'll come back later.
The riding is crazy bro 😭
@@Kevin_Jones1Better yet don't come back.
My Grandfather Was a Captain in the SS and He Helped a Czech Mother and Her two Kids from Death..!!!
Talk about being a badass. Thank you for your service hero. My hero passed away in September. He was 99, a WWII Navy Veteran, and a total badass yet a God fearing man. ❤️
If you fear your god then that god is a tyrant...... You should RESPECT them NOT fear them.....
@themanwithnoname1839 The fear of the Lord is not a "fear of afraid", to fear the Lord is to respect, love and know him. It's in Scripture!
@bdizzle5359 all respect and honor for your military hero.
How many warcrimes has he committed? How many women raped or boysoldiers tortured? Americans, russians, british, french and even canadian soldiers were all monsters. Worse behaviour than the germans
I heard a story about a prisoner in Germany, badly wounded, he hadn’t heard someone speak with an American accent for over a year. One day he heard English spoken with American accent he bout lost it hearing that sound and was rescued.
That’s not a story lmao
Today in things that never happend. Kids nowadays Will like everything, false. Broken world
Did you have a stroke midway😂
What a story
@@Replayedzomg this seems like a totally reasonable story? there are significantly weirder true war stories out there.
This fella right here has seen a lot. God bless you sir!
Source: dude trust me
How can people not tell this is scripted?
Amazing folks these guys. I had two uncles that served in WWII, one under Patton. Hats off to you sir.
God bless your uncles 🙏 🕊 🇺🇸
My late paternal grandfather along with three great uncles on his side of the family all served during WWII.
One great uncle served under Patton while Grandpa and the other great uncle served in Germany. The third one served in the Navy.
Shame they fought for a country that hates them now
Respect and blessings for your families. My dad served under Patton too in N. Africa, and Sicily. In Italy, he received the Silver Star. My dad has a photo of him in two separate books and quoted in a third book. Two uncles in the Marines, one received the Bronze Star at Guadalcanal. The other was killed, forgot which island. Another on an aircraft carrier. And another uncle was a ball turret gunner, 50 missions. Three uncles and two cousins in the Korean War (1 uncle in the paratroopers, 2 uncles on aircraft carriers, the 2 cousins on cruisers). 4 cousins in Vietnam, 2 on aircraft carriers, one in a tank and was wounded by a sniper and returned home (became a police officer and later an FBI Agent), my eldest brother was a nurse stationed in Long Bien 1967-68. One cousin was in the Green Berets, unfortunately he later committed suicide. Recently, 1 nephew in the Marines on an aircraft carrier.
@007ElSenor much blessings, respect and condolences 🙏 🇺🇸 🕊
“B-17? Y’all taking vitamins??” 😂
he could have answered no sir B12
Mattel Electronics presents: "B-17 Bomber!" 🤠
Cowards
@@Flo_Resolution "BEEEE SEVENTEEEN BAAAWMER!"
@@alanbareiro6806 you've seen the AVGN episode, haven't you?
Idc what people say, veterans from WW2 are badass
Everybody is a hero now. I believe that the majority of war stories are imaginary; Germans weren’t so evil and Americans weren’t so cocky, all were men under intense stress and just wanted to go back home and live in peace.
We owe this man and everyone else that has sacrificed for their country so much. Agree or disagree with what the military does but the men and women in it have fought, bled, and died so we can have that right to disagree. That earns more than a paycheck and college tuition in my book. Their sacrifice not only should also earn our respect but our eternal gratitude as well. All veterans should be treated like the heros they are,not left to deal with their mental and physical scars by their lonesome when their service comes to an end.
I think that depends on what country. As an American, our freedom wasnt really at risk in these wars. We are in a very unique position over here, half a world away from the major contact, the enemies have no real place to launch their operations from, and they have to make it across one of the oceans while our ships, subs, and planes pick then off.
The countries we aided. Absolutely those men fought for their free and Americans fought for their freedom
But us Americans havent fought for our own freedom in a LONG time. We spend most of our military might fighting for other peoples freedom or oil.
All that said, I still cant fathom a war on the scale of WW2 and how absolutely terrifying it would be to fight in it. The men that fought were amazing.
Rather than 26, your comment merits 26 million appreciative thumbs up!
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All due respect, but if you do not believe that the combined forces of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy & Imperial Japan were an extremely serious threat to every free nation on earth, then I humbly suggest you seek damages (or refund) from any history department that taught such nonsense.
@@williamblackfyre4866 interestingly enough all wars my country participated since I think 1989 were started by Americans, except one.
@@Petaurista13 that is kind of interesting, whats country are you talking about? Are they an ally or part of NATO?
If they knew so much about us in 1940 how nuch do you think they know now.
Oh buddy, it’s bad
Hahaha next to nothing, the BND and MAD are a joke who do you take us for?😂
What is gods name are you talking about ?
Are you scared of germany???
Some of the replying here sound like they were lobotomized. Geez, he's talking about the info our governments collect on all of us.
That sounds like the gentlest interrogation in the history of all wars.
It would be interesting to know how the Germans already knew so much personal information about someone who was just a simple airman!
All young people should take a course that is teach by an old veteran
Well, they're pretty much all dead now...
A coarse in second hand propaganda, sure
Should ask them what they thought of the Germans (they liked them)
@@donjuanmckenzie4897 they liked them a hell of a lot more than the Japanese, that's for sure!
Em no.
Thank you Sir, for your story, service, and your bravery
But y'know, Donald Trump is not impressed by soldiers who were captured. He prefers those who asked a doctor to invent a fictional case of bone spurs so they could avoid their military service. Clearly a man who understands the sacrifices of patriotism.
Amen to that 🙌🏻
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I'm a Trotskyist, and you're a pompous asshole, Mac.
@@--Traveler--They in fact did not beat everyone. The Soviets came in and wrecked house after losing quite a few people
"Welcome home."
This man is a bad ass. Age doesn't matter. He earned respect.
Yoda is looking different lmao, thx for the video!
Schrenk is a german last name. History is just so amazing.
Thank you for your service!
37% of Americans are of German stock, it is the largest single national group in the US.
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Somebondy Once Told Me? (The extra n in the misspelling is intentional.)
In fact over 15 % of Americans have GERMAN Ancestry . Boeing , Heinz , Jim Beam ( Jakob Böhm ) , Eisenhower , Strauss etc .
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Thank you for your military service! You guys are the bravest of the brave🇺🇸
Thanks for helping the bloodthirsty Soviets conquer half of Europe.
@@NorthWinds83-hs3px I mean it was the Soviets who helped get rid of the Nazis the most, relax
@@NorthWinds83-hs3px Calm down buddy, your stupidity is showing.
@@scuffedcovers yeah but don't forget that the soviets were very low on logistics, USA gave them a lot of resources, the soviets were only focusing on the heavy industry (tanks, planes ecc). And no I'm not an American patriot I'm just a REAL history enthusiast.
@@mike0330and the east would've collapsed if not for the allies lend lease so chill out
If the east collapsed, Germany would be unstoppable, combined military industries of both, slave manpower from the soviets, lots of natural resources etc
One day, Germany will be vindicated for 85 years of lies.
Germans getting vexxed because you improperly filled out paperwork is hilarious 😂😂😂
There is someone out there right now asking “why is this important to remember”… it’s not for honor of our country, it’s not for remembering the soldiers… it’s not for those who survived, it’s to remember the ones who died… it’s to remember those like Anne Frank who were persecuted and died because a group of people decided they should…
Edit: if you all are going to be disrespectful of the dead at least do it to people who weren’t good in their life
Anne Frank died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February or March 1945. The specific cause is unknown; however, there is evidence to suggest that she died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the camp, killing 17,000 prisoners.
What's wrong with wanting to honor your country? What's wrong with wanting to honor the brave men who fought and lived?? Is a person only noble if they get killed or get a famous book about them put in schools?
Suddenly, one day, without any reason…
@@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhimbecause nationalism is exactly the type of thing that propagates wars. It was a large part of what built the nazi army to begin with. It’s something they regret falling into today. Nationalism is only good in small doses. It should never be a reason for war though.
@@RealKennedy Oh, there was a reason. Just not the one you're insinuating.
My Grandad was an RAF bomber pilot shot down over Norwegian coast. When he was interrogated the German officer had an upper class English/ German accent and said he had been at Oxford University
And had many fond memories of London?
Reminds me of "Goodbye Mr. Chips" and the German teacher.
It was my father , he fought on both sides of the war just to be on the safe side, he was half German half Eskimo, he went to Oxford & Cambridge and was fluent in 6 different languages he was actually spying on the Narsties for British Intelligence and also sold same info to the yanks for quite a few dollars.
At the end of the war he had medals from Germany, Russia, England, France and the USA. The film The Spy Who Never Was was based on his life story.
He died under mysterious circumstances whilst searching for Nazis in Brazil in 1969.
Oh you big fibber, he never was half Eskimo he couldn't stand the cold.
@@jmackmcneill Yea, I guess he hoped to see it again, before it gets destroyed.😉
Bro really tried to make that story sound like was Rambo 😂
He’s lucky he was captured by the Germans and not the Japanese .
Never forget the sacrifices these men made, even after they're all gone.
My pops was a bombardier, 36 missions over Europe. Still the toughest man I ever knew, but this guy comes close!
I hope that He is still with you and yours ❤️
Knowing what the nazis were capable of, defying them took extreme courage.
My uncle died after war, from wounds sustained when he was shot down.. no-one escapes unscathed from war. Most were kids.
I salute your pops.
I had an uncle that was a navigator on a B-17. Flew the 2nd Schweinfurt raids. Lucky to have made it home.
Thank you for your bravery and service to our country !!!
Why would they kill the best anti-communist fighters?
if on the off chance a veteran sees this comment, know you're remembered as well as anyone you may have known who didn't come back from the military. i can't speak for anyone else here but i respect you guys' dedication and sacrifice more than i can describe in a comment. thank you so much and i hope you never feel forgotten by us
Thank you sir for your sacrifice, patriotism and service honorably as a prisoner of war is an extra star in your crown.
It is amazing that pre computer they came up with all that information so quickly
They used the RSHO. It was able to trace someone’s heritage to the 1700s. Thats how they were able to persecute so many Jewish people
The Nazis used IBM punch cards to keep databases on everyone. Read IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black.
The Nazis used IBM punch cards to keep databases on everyone. Read IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black.
The Nazis used IBM punch cards to keep databases on everyone. Read IBM and the Holoc@ust by Edwin Black.
The Nazis used IBM punch cards to keep databases on everyone. Read IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black.
Thank you to that Man for his service
You won! Look at America today!
When I was a child I was at VA hospital a lot with my parents. I loved listening to the ones, that would or could tell you about what they went through. It is all apart of history. Granted they would leave out gory details. They had proper manners.
Historical evidence that trolling predates the internet.
Thank you for your service sir. Thank you for your sacrifice...God bless.
I love hearing vets tell their war stories…. Thank you for your service
My father was a tail gunner on a B-24 Liberator, and he had bullets and shrapnel whiz by his head. Plane was never shot down, but it was shot up. They had a great pilot. Rest in peace, Capt William Apgar.
One day, we will no longer have these great men from that war.
All the great men are dead already
This video is prob 20 years old
And women!
He's the last tool in the shed to rust away...
Yes... this world is another world now, a selfish one world!Love from Sweden
Thank you, Sir, for your service. God Bless America 🇺🇸 ❤
Hot take: America was on the RIGHT side of WWII :)
Commanding a vengeful god is a road to hell.
Patton (his boss) said we fought the wrong enemy in WW2. Screw
I was a prisoner for many years as well, they used to put me through these interrogations every certain time, I would always return them the paper blank and they would get pretty mad at me
School was a crazy place no doubt
It's strange how this old man can radiate so much toughness just by his looks. I am a young 225 pounds russian powerlifter/boxer but i would never dare to disagree with this bombadier. His word is my damn law! Our times simply do not produce men of this caliber anymore!
*“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”*
That’s one of the unending curses of humanity…
I don’t want to revisit the horrors that made men iron strong like this-but a life free from *actual* difficulty has made our last couple generations absolutely jelly.
It’s quite the conundrum.
@@glorygloryholeallelujah true.
@@glorygloryholeallelujah exactly
@@glorygloryholeallelujah strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make me hard
Hand Salute. No words.
as long as the arm isnt extended straight forward, then yeah lol
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What's many dont know is, when they were interrogated, the only thing they were ordered to say by their sups was, Name Rank Serial number and that's it. You don't give out any information even if they know it. It was rare for the Nazis to physically attack someone via torcher as the info they wanted they already knew. They just wanted it confirmed.
They would all go to POW camps. Movies and TV series make it seem torcher was common. Only if it was information they really needed, like future attacks their spies heard about. But due to most of the airmen not knowing this kind of stuff as its a "Need to know" type of thing, the Nazis wouldn't waste their time.
The information that was used to be interrogated wasn't always accurate, if anything it was more of a guess.
I salute this man and others who served like him. You brave men make me proud to be an American.
Thank you SO much to everyone who puts these types of interviews on here! Were on the razors edge of ww3 and i think this kind of content helps those on any of the firing squads understand the severity of their actions! STOP WAR!!!
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Sad thing we never learn from history.
They don’t care. They follow orders for a paycheck.
And also, Thank You, Welcome Home and We Will Never Forget!
Welcome home? You know what year that war was right? He's been back for a while my guy.
@@danjackson1016 Are you stupid, or just insulting, perhaps some mix of both? Soldiers welcome each other home. It’s a little like the sign of the cross when two Christians meet. You not understanding is pointless to the content or context of the thing you don’t understand.
Just by his voice I can tell he was a WW2 vet. Thank you for your service o7.
Palestinians will soon have a video like this speaking about how they survived the animalistic barbaric regime of is ael
from river to sea
The Greatest Generation !!
May God Bless and Keep Him Always 🙏
God Bless you sir for your service 🙏🙏
I thought that he was gonna say that he kept "accidentally" saying his name wrong or something 🤣
Just over and over:
Nazi: "My name is Schrenk"
Soldier: "I thought Nazi's were German, not Czech."
Nazi: "NO! My name is Schrenk. Show some respect."
Soldier: "Oh, I apologize, Shrek."
Nazi: "NO!"
That would piss a Nazi off for sure lmao especially when they're trying to be intimidating.
I met a British Bomber at my church. People called him Bomber Phil. I always wondered why. So 1 dsy i asked him and he told me he use to bomb Germany during WW2.