The First Winter in Russia. Diary Of A German Soldier. The Eastern Front.
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We are going to look at the diary of German Soldier, who was a German lieutenant in the 185th Infantry Regiment of the 87th Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht. What concerns his biographical data, we know about him only the information that he indicated in his diary. One can see that he was young, well-educated and had his own ideas concerning the essence of military service. Linke was an admirer of drill, of rigid military order - this is evident, but he also gave great importance to military brotherhood. He was certainly a brave man (as he received two iron crosses for his battles on the Eastern Front), and he also took the hardships of front-line life rather easily.
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I have to say, I have an extensive collection of German memoirs and unit historys and battle recollections of the eastern front and I'm not sure I have ever read anything as moving as what you have found for us here, coupled with unique photos I have never seen, and reflecting accurately on the narration, these videos are incredibly emotional to watch. My mother was Prussian....few people realize that Prussia was the only country that was dissolved by legal decree from existence. Thanks for representing the hardships of my people...
Interesting comment.
I will do some research about Prussia now.
lot of countries around the world were dissolved via legal decree with colonization
someone must have quoted me wrong....which countries?
only European country...
@@benlotus2703Do Pomerania, East Prussia and most of Brandenburg, Prussia and the Free City of Danzig were ceded to the Poles in compensation.
The winter of '41-'42 was the coldest winter in Russia on record up to that time.
So we can witness a lack of ammonition, fuel, food, soldiers, clothes ... simply everything an army needs.
Well organized and narrated. Thank you for all the work you have done on these videos.
If the men who started wars fought in their front lines, peace would forever engulf this planet!
Nuclear weapons have leveled the probilities of dying.
Hitler was at the front Line in WW1
I think in modern times you are correct but there were a lot of war leaders who fought in previous wars in the past.
@@yoyoyoyoyo6714 duly noted!
Throughout most of humanity's history it was a common practice. Many kings and other leaders died on the battlefield.
So no, this isn't a solution to wars.
Thank you for this reading.
The pictures you've used really add to the story. I've never seen many of them. This is a great channel.
Great video!!!
Great narrative, great selection of new (to me) photos. Excellent presentation! many thx
Thank you for giving us this part of History.
You know what I’d like to see a complete documentary on? Just this one subject:
Didn’t all of the German supply logistics people…from the bottom to the very top…said it would be impossible to cross through Russia? And this wasn’t even taking into account a brutal winter, nor Goering’s utter failure to get the Luftwaffe to perform on any respectable level in delivering supplies?
There has to be documentation on all this, those who spoke up and the repercussions, those who kept their mouths shut to placate the Fuhrer, etc.
I mean, putting the actual fighting aside, this supply fiasco fascinates me.
Hitler and some.of his brass assumed they'd finish the soviets In a shirt amount of time. And they may have had they went straight to Moscow as intailly planned. But Hitler fascination with Stalongrad and also sending much of his army south eventually doomed them. The logistics by the winter of 41 were an absolute mess! We're all very fortunate Hitler didn't let his generals fight a proper war without his interference.
There is also the Yugoslavian fiasco, it was supposed to be a pact turned into significant fiasco thanks to the Serbs. Get,and were distracted long enough to derail their east front plans.
I lived & worked in Moscow for a # of years & have experienced a # Russian winters & have experienced -20, -30F. Its unbelievably paralyzingly cold if one has never experienced it. I can't imagine military operations, being a soldier etc in such climate esp one/those that had poor clothing or boots. So much suffering on both sides in that conflict.
I would have long been dead. My last campout it was about 25 degrees F. I had a pretty good sleeping bag but still froze.
Nice , helmuts always underestimate russki…lol.wrong
Yeah... Days of 50 degrees below zero at the 91SMW (Strategic Missile Wing), Minot AFB, ND. We'd go at least a month every winter where the temp never got above zero.
@PRLcafe blame the leaders. Most of the Germans would rather be at home, not freezing in Russia
@@williamrippy5680 good story bro. Nobody believes you though
I appreciate all the work you put into these. It’s good to look at things from a different perspective, but still astounds me that most German soldiers and Nazis never seemed to question the philosophy behind it
Question lol bang bang ,Question,,,some brave men tried,,but russia didn't only fight they wanted revenge for the ss brutality,,, , most young German soldiers wasn't even their when the rapes and slaughters happened but they paid big
Hitler had power in 1933 plenty of time for brainwashing
Thank you for sharing
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What's interesting to me is that this diary covers the time around the first winter in Russia and already the situation looks harrowing: Supply problems, lack of adequate clothing, equipment shortages and malfunctions, a determined enemy, frostbite, and on and on! This is just the beginning of a slow spiral of death on all sides. When I see those photos, I wonder how many of those German soldiers will ever return to their homeland? I wonder at what point did the soldier who was once a true believer, realize that they were sent to almost certain hardship and death? Ukraine is a very different situation, but there is definitely a cautionary tale for the Russians to heed.
Thank you.
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What an excellent little (for now) channel!!!
Love this stuff
These people went through horrific conditions. It's amazing that this retreat din't turn into a mob. I was in a military that was continually well supplied. We did have some ammo distribution issues but our units never ram. out. Can't image dealing with what these soldiers experienced on top of continual harassing attacks.BOTH German and Russian soldiers experienced hardships hat our current military hadn't had to experience.
That's right. Those people were made of a completely different dough...
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY either to crazy to care or to tough to know weakness, l guess
Big Part is probably their Childhood and Education
@@chodonas Many of the Red Army soldiers were peasant farmers or factory workers with little education. What drove them was that the fight was in their backyard…the fight for their Motherland. They also knew their was no other option as death would surely await them from their own NKVD if the fight wasn’t met. The German troops had strong beliefs of their cause at least early on but by 1943, they were fighting merely for their own day to day survival. There was no other option.
@@drummer78 i meant the Germans
So glad this has just been posted. I've been waiting anxiously as to what develops in this diary. And it's looking dire indeed.
Thank you for your patience) The most interesting part is in the last part of the diary. It's terribly cold there...
Excellent photos
Very interesting.
Excellent narrator.
very good ,dramatic stuff . amazing the levels of depravity compounded by weather extremes and lice both sides endured
Man this one was crazy, just listening to the descriptions of the brutal bitter freezing cold was difficult.
Thanks great work
Thank you for your work
This is where Germany lost the war though, in my opinion, Germany had already lost the war 2 months earlier
Agree. Germany dallied with their October 1941 encirclement battle victories.
Have to agree with you on this also. The setbacks before Moscow were the real turning point of the war.
The rest was useless, waste of Life and ! material, all wars are, men's greed and stupidity?!!!!!!!
Hitler wrote in his book (Mein Kampf), it would be ridiculous for the Germany to fight on 2 fronts like in WWI. He was right to write this, but he did it.
Disagree...
Russia invasion was delayed by four weeks,
June 22nd but was planed for early may.
The reason was Britain's invasion of Greece, Hitler saw the danger of Greece then Italy, Hungary roumania
He delayed barbarossa and sent his panzers into Greece and Albania.
This four weeks later became critical, with German forces 15 miles from the kremlin
The temperature dropped to minus 38c
Oil froze in tank and truck engines, breeches froze in artillery and tank guns,
Rifle magazines froze.
For weeks earlier, stalin and most of the Russian government had left Moscow for the east,
The weather then, was still relatively warm.
That is the reason barbarossa failed, because of Britain's occupation of Greece.
Great audio and picture synchronized. Makes big difference!
i have seen many winters here in Chicago and have made many snowmen, but none with arms like the ones they made 31:42. I wonder how? Thanks for sharing great video.
LOL! This photo is beautiful ) It is only for the most patient and loyal viewers))) You declassified it )
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY awesome! Thanks lol
Probably real arms those Nazi bastards cut off some poor villager.
Why does mankind give such Hell to each other? Are we MAD!
Yes. Absolutely certainly yes.
Interesting and informative.Excellent photography job making it easier for viewers to better understand what the orator was describing.Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Orator did a very good job presenting the documentary. Class A research project. Rough combat operations on both sides. German armies lacked proper winter clothes and supplies. Giving the Russian armies an. Advantage
They were so stupid they forgot winter clothes.
A first hand view of the Wehrmacht being slowly bled white on the Eastern Front by the Red Army and General Winter. I guess Hitler thought he was smarter than Napoleon.
Not all that slowly. They had already suffered around a million casualties by this time. His veterans had already been decimated.
Hitler thought he was SUPERIOR to Napoleon. Of course he never saw how vast Russia is, and wouldn't listen anyway.
A counterpart to what happened to these soldiers is reading some of the accounts written by the few people who survived the concentration camps. While not as bad as Russian winters, winter in Poland was brutal. I recall the author and logo therapist Viktor Frankel writing about his experiences in Auschwitz in "Man's Search for Meaning". He recalled an older man in his barracks who could not put on his shoes one morning because of the edema in his feet. He said the man "broke down and cried like a child" because he would have to go out all day in the snow with no shoes. It's worth mentioning.
Any diaries from soldiers fighting in sutjeska and netetva fights? These battles are not given enough attention, but they were significant and consequential.
Thermionic tube/vacuum tube based devices work by heating the filaments in them. It is interesting to learn that the telecommunication devices used at the time would not have properly functioned in the cold Russian winter !!
If you guys enjoy Eastern front or war stories in general , and have audoble or just like to read. I recommend Blood Red Snow and The.Forgotten Soldier! Both books written by men who were there. Just brutal and fascinating!
Thank you so much, the voice actor makes all the difference :D
Good selection of photos also!
BTW, where do you get all these pictures from?
Thanks! I'm glad you liked the changes on the channel! This is the work of many years )
@harrybalzanja9471 awesome tech XD
It's a fake voice.
General Patton was right about the Soviets.
Give me two units of those magnificent German troops.
We went after the wrong enemy
General Patton was a hot-tempered, unstable, eccentric, vain, ambitious illiterate soldier. He studied at a military school for a year longer due to dyslexia (this disorder leads to difficulties in understanding what he read and insufficient volume of materials studied, and later - to a limited vocabulary and available knowledge). Patton made up for his lack of knowledge with an excess of energy. During the war, he got into several unpleasant stories. First of all, the soldiers noted his cruelty towards his subordinates. In 1943, two scandalous episodes were associated with the general's name, for which he was removed from command of the 7th Army: soldiers of the division controlled by the general shot more than 70 unarmed Italian prisoners, and Patton himself, in a fit of anger, unreasonably beat two ordinary Americans who were being treated in hospital. Like many natives of the southern states, he was characterized by nationalism and racism, it was during the Second World War that the "colored" American divisions, sent by Patton literally to slaughter, manifested themselves most vividly. Being expendable, they were the first to attack the German positions and the first to take the blow.
In his memoir, The Life of a Soldier, he compared Jews to beings "inferior to animals." He also had original views on patriotism - according to Patton, in any war, "poor stupid bastards [foreigners]" should die for a foreign country, only then this campaign can be considered victorious.
From Patton's letters to his wife, it follows that the American general did not understand the Russians and did not want to understand (as well as the Chinese along with the Japanese). The only thing Patton wanted to understand was how much lead and iron it would take to completely exterminate the representatives of this nation. At the same time, he showed excessive tolerance towards former Nazis. Given all this, I think the Nazis could have accepted him into their party as an honorary member. In the 1930s, he met Senator Huey Long, a well-known supporter of Confederate ideals. Patton openly supported Long, pursuing not only ideological, but also material interest: in case of victory in the 1936 elections, Huey Long was ready to make him Minister of Defense and sponsor the "modernization of tanks" conceived by the general. A hypothetical seizure of power was also allowed: if Roosevelt wins the election, Long and the southern states that supported him could unleash a Second Civil War. However, this never happened: in 1935, Long was shot dead. After the victory over the Third Reich, Patton was appointed Governor-General of Bavaria. On December 9, 1945, the day before his scheduled return to the United States, Patton was involved in a car accident and died 12 days later. It is noteworthy that the driver and other passengers of the vehicle were practically not injured. Some consider Patton's death a planned murder, as well as the murder of Long, which occurred 10 years earlier. Perhaps this is how the American government decided to get rid of the last two supporters of the Confederacy. One more detail - Patton died on December 21, Stalin's birthday. Symbolic, isn't it?
@@mikserstorm5285 junk. Another conspiracy theorist that the GREAT General Patton was murdered? Sure. I wish that we had more General Pattons.
@@mikserstorm5285Patton went to win. Not be politically correct like you
Russians are not responsible for the Holocaust nor the torturing and gassing of millions of small children. Germany is responsible also Germany has the honor of owning the most evil man (Hitler) in the entire world.
Really amazing photographs, hell is a frozen evil wasteland of all consuming ice, crushing diabolical snow, relentless unforgiving wind.
I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA where winter temperatures routinely reach -20 to -25 degrees F. Even with modern high tech clothing daily life becomes a burden, cars don't start, snow piles up on streets making access difficult, etc. I have camped in temperatures down to 0F and boots freeze, just cooking a meal is a real task...all of this without someone trying to shoot at me. I am amazed at the resiliance of a human; and depressed by our collective inability to recognize the total uselessness of warfare.
I feel you. Live in Northern Ontario with -30 days in winter. Going for a leisurely walk is torture. Living outdoors with endless battles going on is unimaginable
I live in SC, last winter it got down to 12 degrees one night. I was testing out a new modular sleeping bag, ground was wet so I slept in a hammock in backyard. High humidity, wind blew all night, gusting up to30 mph. Kept having to get out of hammock to urinate, twice got dumped out of hammock, a miserable night!!!
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His diary reads like a great novel.
what is this village "Pulitzi" ? How is it actually writen?
My blood pressure would have been jacked!! Every day might be you're last ..Death from weapons or starvation is bad enough ,but when you are in the Russian winter with hardly any clothes for the weather it's hell on earth.
Having to fight in such weather is terrible
I start freezing when the air conditioning goes below 74F.
Helmets are not warm.
Having moved from Australia to Canada I can imagine how the German soldiers felt. Especially since I don’t think they had the comfortable heating that I got
Told Tels the historical wrong War...! My Grandpa has an sergeant in Germany Army / Soldaten.that'a a.good Story..Thank You all.
Gudarian was at the gates of Moscow and Hitler forced him and his men to return to Kiev, this was lunacy, because Moscow is not only the capital, its the center of the communication web, and Russian or soviet generals did not dare make any decisions without orders from stalin, so he should have given gudarian freedom of movement. Not doing so was utter madness.. he had the opportunity to win the war on many occasions and blew it. Like when the British airfields were on the brink of collapse and churchill baited him by bombing berlin after a Luftwaffe ace accidentally dropped a few bombs on a build up civilian area, if he had carried on he'd have won the battle of Britain.. not to mention the Dunkirk missed opportunity, and the fortification of cities, wtf was that all about? You can fortify it all you want, but if another army has you surrounded its not going to make the slightest difference, he just didn't seem to understand the concept of mobile warfare, you have to be able to do mobile retreats, in order to outflank the enemy, sometimes i really wonder what hitler was thinking when he made these decisions.
He didn't have someone as smart as you to advise him.. your regret that NAZIS didn't win the war is so obvious.. I regret that Russians didn't do a better job cleaning on the way to Berlin..
Makes me believe in the power of prayer!
@@Dulcimertunes- Me too…
He was too concerned with Dr. Morrel's next needle to care. He sacked about a dozen of his generals but he lacked their education and experience. When a commando raid was proposed to assassinate him, it was called off because Hitler was the most effective soldier in the U.S. Army.
Interesting to hear that they were so desperate that they incorporated one (!) AA gun into their defences, obviously for ground support.
The German 20mm aa guns were excellent against infantry
@@LowEnd31st true. But still a workaround as their primary purpose was AA.
The 88 mm AA became a legendary anti tank killer. It’s all trial and error during war.
@@drummer78 yes. But I would bet that in this case it was a 20mm or 37mm gun.
@@juanzulu1318 True, the 88 mm really made its name as an anti tank weapon in North Africa. I’m just saying overall these armies were improvising and learning what worked best.
so it didn't go exactly as planned? well, sad day.
Lt Lake was later killed during a japanese Katana charge and subsequently beheaded. His family was sent an ear with a note. See next episode!~
This is only early days and the Germans were struggling. Why didn't they realise that they wouldn't have the man power at this stage? That logistics would be hard. The Russian army numbers were bigger than there's. They should have built a Maginot line based defensive line at this stage.
Because corporal Hitler did not listen to his staff and combat officers. His hatred of communism seems to have clouded his judgement.
Afterwards it is always easy to critizise. War offer many opportunities and changes, so the retreat of 1941 wasnt necessarily an indication of a defeat.
Realistically 1944 was the date when all but the most indoctrinated must have realized that the game is over.
You are talking about something you obviously know nothing about
Adolf hitler was convinced ussr was incapable of withstanding the german militarybut he had never been to ussr and his military intelligence had grossly underestimated the numbers and abilities of ussr forces. His axis alies were inadequately trained and equipped. Hitler totally misunderstood soviet determination to defend their homeland. His errors and failures are too numberous to recount.
@@torbendinesen7121 and you're saying something that you would only say online and not to someone's face.
It's amazing to me that he was happy with the U.S. getting drawn into the war, meanwhile they can't even get basic tools. Then I looked up Kezmino on Google Maps and was blown away how far into Russia they were. Past Moscow. Already retreating and this was at the end of 1941? Amazing. They made it pretty far in a few days, it's cool seeing it on Maps. What a colossal blunder.
The Germans experiencing a very bad winter in Russia is nothing compared to innocent civilians and children experiencing in the concentration camps.. I just wish Russians were more ruthless on their way to Berlin.. too many NAZIS accumulated since then.. in this comment section too many NAZIS have left their message..
There were things that Hitler didn’t tell the German people what he was going to do. I suggest that you the book, Germany: The Long Road West. Vol. 1: 1789-1933. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-926597-8
Germany: The Long Road West. Vol. 2: 1933-1990. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-926598-5 from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_August_Winkler#External_links by Heinrich August Winkler, especially volume 1 which deals with German history from 1789 up to 1933. See also: www.amazon.com/Germany-Long-Road-West-v/dp/0199265976.
‘Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries. It is the story of a country that, while always culturally identified with the West, long resisted the political trajectories of its neighbors.
This first volume (of two) begins with the origins and consequences of the medieval myth of the "Reich," which was to experience a fateful renaissance in the twentieth century, and ends with the collapse of the first German democracy. Winkler offers a brilliant synthesis of complex events and illuminates them with fresh insights. He analyses the decisions that shaped the country's triumphs and catastrophes, interweaving high politics with telling vignettes about the German people and their own self-perception.
With a second volume that takes the story up to reunification in 1990, Germany: The Long Road West will be welcomed by scholars, students, and anyone wishing to understand this most complex and contradictory of countries’.- excerpt.
See also: www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/13/susan-neiman-interview-learning-from-the-germans
‘When Susan Neiman’s German friends discovered she was working on a book called Learning from the Germans, they laughed. “They told me: ‘You cannot publish a book with that title. There’s nothing to learn from the Germans; we did too little and too late.’ And there is something paradoxical about saying: ‘Well, we committed this terrible crime, but weren’t we great at coming to terms with it?’ You can’t really say that. But someone who’s a semi-outsider as I am, can, in fact, say that.”
Neiman, a moral philosopher, spent part of her childhood in the American south and she has written a comparative study of how Germany has come to terms with the crimes of nazism, and why the US, in failing to confront its own human rights abuses, should take note. Ambitious and detailed, it ranges from the initial reluctance of German citizens to begin the process of truth and reconciliation to small-town Mississippi, and the shooting of nine African American churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, four years ago.
It was that massacre, carried out by a white supremacist, that prompted Neiman, whose previous books include an examination of the concept of evil, to begin researching and writing Learning from the Germans. From her home in Berlin, where she has lived for the past 22 years, Neiman watched Barack Obama give a heartrending eulogy to the dead, and then followed as governors began to order the taking down of Confederate flags, and Walmart announced that it would stop selling Confederate memorabilia. It struck her that amid the horror lurked a hopeful moment - a moment of potential change - and that she herself had “some knowledge and experience that I could share, that might be helpful”.....
In the course of writing the book, Neiman met and interviewed vast numbers of activists and citizens in the American south. One of the key questions she wanted the book to ask was, if we insist on saying that we have to remember the Holocaust in order to learn from it, then what do we want to learn? “And what it seems to me we can learn is, be aware of the beginnings. Be aware of racism, be aware of nationalism. The Nazis went very slowly and carefully to see what the population would accept.”...
What African Americans are currently withstanding - radically poorer health outcomes and inequality in education, judicial and incarceration systems, and police brutality directed predominantly towards young black men - is, Neiman argues, part and parcel of white America’s inability to face up to its past, and to the crimes it has committed against African Americans and Native Americans. Only, she says, when you decide to be an adult can you begin to effect change....
“I really do see that our relationship to our nation is like a grown-up relationship to our parents. We have to sort this through and say: ‘These parts of my national history I can be proud of and I can stand by, and these parts I’m sorry for and I’d like to do my best to somehow make up for.’ And I think, once you go through a process like that, you can begin to have a kind of healthy nationalism or patriotism. Which isn’t that my country is better than all countries. But it’s mine.”- excerpts.
See also: www.dw.com/en/how-wwii-affects-the-grandchildren-of-the-war-generation/a-53363849 ‘When Sebastian Heinzel thinks of his grandfather, he remembers an "incredibly hard-working man," he says - and he sees himself, too. His grandfather was part of the generation that rebuilt Germany after the war. As time went by, the grandson noticed that there was a kind of pressure in his family to be achievers. "It's not enough that I am just the way I am, I have to do something to be recognized and to acknowledge myself," he says. Both his grandfather and his father were to a certain degree workaholics. Was it a kind of unconscious compensation for the guilt from World War II? Sebastian Heinzel can't say for sure, but he can't rule it out either.
"I think there are many things that have not been worked through and many stories that have not been told," Heinzel says. He adds that within his family, it seems to have fallen to him to deal with the emotional fallout. "I think that's part of the job for our generation."
Over the past years, at least, he has had fewer nightmares.’ - excerpt and iupress.org/9780253048257/echoes-of-trauma-and-shame-in-german-families/.
‘How is it possible for people who were born in a time of relative peace and prosperity to suddenly discover war as a determining influence on their lives?
For decades to speak openly of German suffering during World War II-to claim victimhood in a country that had victimized millions-was unthinkable. But in the past few years, growing numbers of Germans in their 40s and 50s calling themselves Kriegsenkel, or Grandchildren of the War, have begun to explore the fundamental impact of the war on their present lives and mental health. Their parents and grandparents experienced bombardment, death, forced displacement, and the shame of the Nazi war crimes. The Kriegsenkel feel their own psychological struggles-from depression, anxiety disorders, and burnout to broken marriages and career problems-are the direct consequences of unresolved war experiences passed down through their families.
Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and a broad range of scholarship, Lina Jakob considers how the Kriegsenkel movement emerged at the nexus between public and familial silences about World War II, and critically discusses how this new collective identity is constructed and addressed within the framework of psychology and Western therapeutic culture.’ - excerpt. I am not excusing the Holocaust nor the war atrocities, but you can’t blame the current generation for what occurred back then.
In spite of this horrible situation, this guy blindly supports Hitler.
All the suffering-for nothing-such a waste on both sides
rich men's war poor men's blood😊
你是个帅小伙子！
It doesnt get much grimmer than that! Oh, there is Stalingrad to come
As an old Marine I understand what can happen to a person who refuses to obey an order. There are some things that a civilian will never understand.
A Russian winter's day alone then or now is too much.
He was happy the US entered the war because the German Navy can take care of them? Oops, not very clear thinking in hindsight.
Had to happen, Roosevelt was itching at the chance to enter the war.
I guess he was referring to the fact that the US convoys to the UK were now officially allowed to be attacked.
The US was the No. 1 industrial power in the world at the time. These Germans were truly drunk on their early successes. They thought they could take on the world. This, even while he was being chased out of Russia.
The soldiers are bombarded with propaganda non stop. No doubt he really believed everyone was inferior.
His brain was frozen and did not think clearly.
So the worst Christmas of his life, so far. It never gets any better.
horrific.
Lesson 1. Learn from history. Napoleon’s and the French invasion and retreat from Russia ended in disaster. The American and British invasion of Russia of 1918 - 1920 ended in disaster and they got their asses kicked by the Russians. Lesson 2. Don’t go to war with Russia. Russians are as hard as nails and they can withstand great deprivation and hardship and keep going and still win a war at the end of it. Lesson 3. The Russians have got more nuclear weapons than anyone else and their nuclear missiles go a hell of a lot faster than anyone else’s.
It is interesting that Germans were so avid journaling loving people.
I wonder how long it took these guys to learn that Hitler had declared war on the United States on December 11th. And what their reaction was.
If you think things are bad now, just wait until Stalingrad is encircled!
What did they expect eh
Where is my winter clothes and longjohns
its amazing that the germans were able to accomplish what they did this winter, while the russians with their superior men and material were not able to overcome them definitively...
Pero alemania perdió😉😉💪💪✌️✌️👍👍
Imaginez Napoléon avec encore moins de moyen ?
No BS just Diaries
"Christmas fast" is an oxymoron. What is meant: "Feast of Christmas. "
Jew killers ‘celebrating’ Christmas?🤪
Frozen hell…
Respect to them fighting communism from 🇬🇧
They were socialists......two sides of the same coin.
Wat aneedles War loses olive from all the country's of the world
To all those men and horses may they all rest in eternal peace with loved ones.
I care not about soldiers from Germany or Russia, I do care about civilians and the animals
I would have lived in Germany at that time I wouldn't have went made my way to Sweden get me a place there and set me the the fireplace screw all that lol
What a horrible tell of ultra bleak circumstances...furiously engaging of German warriors continued even in Berlin...
German warriors? Those cowards were invading Russia. Also Germans were humiliated with horrible defeats not once but twice.
@@mirquellasantos2716 can't you tell that this is NAZI descendants channel.. they are so obviously in love with what Germans did in Russia and to Russian people and children.. this is why they are rewriting the history of the ww2, making the Stalin a world enemy, and minimising and diminishing NAZI'S atrocities..
Its so sad we had a time today the Ucraine War is an Endless tragedy about Russians failed Civilisation! We payed the Price for an inhuman Leadership ! The same Tragedy in Germany a failed State in the Weimarer Republic with an manipulated Civilisation !
el frio es cruel
He is complaining about the weather so much as if Russians were not in the very same conditions
I thing I was a German soldier in my last past life, sent to the Eastern front. This is all so familiar to me. This lieutenant does such a great job describing this perfect hell. I think I died fighting there in ‘41 along with so many others.
i agree 100% i have an overwhelming feeling that i was German soldier on the eastern front / STALINGrand with Friedrich Paulus . These German soldiers that fought in the eastern front were the best solders that have ever fought in the history of War !!!! ⚡️⚡️ 9:06 9:07
In the 1800s the Illuminati invented the religious doctrine of living multiple lives along with other doctrines such as getting visited by relatives who died in the past (who are really demons impersonating them). God exposed Satan's plan in Isaiah 12.
I was and have memories from it. I asked myself where all of my anger and depression came from one day and I experienced my death. My birthmark is where I was shot in the back. I sometimes get flashes of battles. There is no such thing as a past or a future. Everything is all happening at the same time. I hardly am able to sleep at night and I am constantly eating. I’ve always been attracted to WW2 history.
If you really feel like you were a German soldier, I’d suggest getting a past life regression.
Yes, it's very deja'vu deep chills. That's cool to hear of others
who've experienced a similar time period. I've felt the experience of Great Britain on fire,
with sirens, and fear. As a British citizen or Scots living there at the time.
@@mq9893 Your soul is living all of your past lives at once and many others. The universe is infinite. Everything is happening at the same time. Get a past life regression done because you could still have traumas that your soul wants to overcome.
Sounds like a reading off a ticker tape.... I'm not able to listen to this, regardless of how interested I normally would be.
I fucking hate this voice too.
Agree.
An uneducated prole has spoken
Lol. Great , fu…k these german beats
Fake human voice. I've heard worse.
Due to Russian winter few Russians are born in Russia even though Russia is the largest country in this world yet her population is very small only 146 million people now we know why it's the Russian winter which causing small population it's the Russian winter which caused the defeat destructions and deaths of German invading soldiers of Adolf Hitler of Germany previously French emperor Napoleon and his invading soldiers were defeated due to chilling and killing Russian winter pleasenote thanks everyone brothers and sisters amen
German soldiers would have been more comfortable and warm by staying in their own country and minding their own business.
Stalin shouldn't of invaded Poland with the Germans.
Stop cherry picking.
At least they tried doing something about the Bolshevik’s. Who…. Mind you…. At least doubled the painters numbers, and even 10X’d it if you count Mao in China.
History isn’t as simple as one would like to make it.
True that
Learn history than have an opinion
Ok comrade 😂
Wish they would have defeated communism
The worst possible place and weather to try to defend yourself. So sorry for the Wehrmacth
Try to attack the entrenched Germans when you are waist-deep in snow.... The Red Army had the hardest time. Attacking in such conditions is madness.
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY True,but the Soviet troops had no choice, it was either attack the Germans and possibly be killed or definitely be shot dead by the NKVD.
Cry me a river. I feel sorry for the horses.
Great story as usual, but no sources are cited. Again, zero credibility when you’re just repeating others’ words. If you want to be legit, you simply cite your sources (like TIK History does).
TIK 😆
Cite source?? It was whoever's diary. It is cited in the title.
@@davidlafranchise4782 right. Where can that diary be located for reading? Have you ever written a dissertation? I assume not. There’s zero credibility in these videos when there are no sources cited. For people who don’t understand, I can see why they don’t care. But for the sake of credibility and allowing the listener access to the literature/primary sources he’s profiting off of in these presentations, they should be cited!
Hello friend....I hope good luck and best wishes for you... during wars, all partnerships are committing war crimes... without hesitation while selected records written by victories & responding to accepting for nearby time... they imposing theirs hype, organize records as whole historical coverage for a while ... not forever
Slow down
MEDIC MUST KNOW HYPOTHERMIA
This fake human voice is actually decent.
repeatedly poor translations from German to English. machine translation? clearly not by a native English speaker. I ignored this shortcoming for a while. However, when "Christmas Feast" was pronounced as "Christmas Fast" I gave up on this film. I would much rather listen to, or read, the original German text. please offer a version of the film with the original German narration.