After One Day Of Fighting, We Were Left With 12 Soldiers Out Of 80. The Eastern Front. Stalingrad.

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10 ай бұрын

Today we are going to read the memoirs of a German soldier who was involved in the hard battles for Stalingrad. Gefreiter Frantz Reihbeger was a soldier of the 54th Jäger Regiment who took part in the storming of "Mamayev Kurgan" and the factory " Krasny Oktyabr". On January 30, 1943, his unit capitulated, and the former Wehrmacht soldier ended up in Soviet captivity. After suffering physical agony and mental torture, Frantz returned to his homeland five years after he had left it.
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@MilitaryClubHISTORY 10 ай бұрын

I like to learn more and more stories about the Battle of Stalingrad. I hope you all enjoy it too!

@carlevans5760 10 ай бұрын

It's not Yaw ger--it's YAY ger

@johncox2865 10 ай бұрын

These stories tell the pitifully human side of a terrible war.

@thelastaustralian7583 10 ай бұрын

well done great Lecture !...in 1941 my Australian Grandfather was seriously wounded in the Easter battle at Tobruk. Stopping Rommel from getting the Suez and the vast supplies of Oil....now since then his people 'the Australians' have been covertly exterminated ...

@harpoonhunter1683 5 ай бұрын

The Barbarossa operation was so bizarre to me. (Hitler) thought he needed to defeat Russia to defeat Britain. What a dunce. He just needed Japan involvement during operation sea lion. Japan didn't need to attack pearl harbor but instead attack Britain with Germany. Such a wasted opportunity for the axis.

@bobgillis1137 4 ай бұрын

Normalizing the humanization of Natsee soldiers. Perhaps to support the current conflict ?

@dongately2817 7 ай бұрын

My Grandfather’s brother, a member of the Ustashe, and ardent fascist, was wounded in October in Stalingrad. He was evacuated right before Uranus. He continued to fight for the Germans til the end of the war- fighting Tito’s partisans near Split on the Mediterranean coast. Very strange and angry man, but I was always fascinated by him and his connection to history. He was a hateful man - the worlds problems were all because of Serbs, Muslims, and Bolsheviks. I wish I could have talked with him later in life, he died when I was 12, just to try and understand him and what he had been thru. He never spoke to anyone in the family unless spoken to first and as far as I can remember I was the only one who exchanged more than 3-4 words with him. He gave me, a 10 year old, a $100 bill one year at Xmas. He told me not to tell anyone and use the money to do what boys do best - “what is that?” I asked him. He smiled, the only time I ever saw him smile, and told me “get into trouble”. Epilogue: I bought an Alva Fred Smith III skateboard deck and a pair of Gullwing trucks with that $100

@kensvay4561 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for that. I know this history and went to these places in 1972. There are many books about British agents and local resistance in Yugoslavia and Albania.

@kensvay4561 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for that. I know this history and went to these places in 1972. There are many books about British agents and local resistance in Yugoslavia and Albania.

@kensvay4561 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for that. I know this history and went to these places in 1972. There are many books about British agents and local resistance in Yugoslavia and Albania.

@MrLeedebt 6 ай бұрын

Interesting. In Australia, the Ustashe were often trying to blow up Yugoslavian diplomatic posts.

@peteroates9921 5 ай бұрын

Good story

@TonyBelas 4 ай бұрын

When based in germany in 1980-85 i met dozens of wartime vets, most were friendly and interested in telling me their story which i was facinated to listen to. Most were happy they survived and it was long over, but I can remember on a couple of ocasions where you could tell they were still bitter these were the ones i wanted to speak to but my german friends would warn me not to push my luck! even in their 60's and 70's they looked tough.

@davemcmahon8140 10 ай бұрын

Very sad, the way the world is going we may live through similar again. I enjoy these personal stories of the German soldiers. Thx

@rossyerkes5217 4 ай бұрын

Satan is the ruler of this world and God allows him to go on for a limited time to prove a point, and that is that rebelling against God is self destructive. God's Messiah, Jesus will soon take Satan down and resurrect all innocent people to life again. This is the Christian hope. Atheist scoffers have NO HOPE to offer poor suffering mankind, just DESPAIR The Bible explains it - Satan rules the world and is trying to destroy it because he knows his own destruction is coming soon. (1 John 5:19 & Revelation 12:12)

@Gregarius91 3 ай бұрын

When will Satan's rule end?@@rossyerkes5217

@CelestialTrieye 2 ай бұрын

@@rossyerkes5217 This is an accurate depiction of what is happening, but no need to include the Bible or Jesus. It is self evident for all aware humans.

@Commmotion 4 ай бұрын

I worked in Germany in 1971 as a student. A coworker had fought on the Russian Front. He said out of 1000 of them, after 10 days, without confronting the Russians, only six survived, him being one and the rest freezing to death.

@tanksouth 3 ай бұрын

Wow

@williamfrazier4797 4 ай бұрын

I am grateful for your interpretation of German involvement in WW2 which has given me a more humanitarian understanding of how people were affected by events.

@user-ly7np5rm5c 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for upload, I appreciated the story.

@kevinbrennan-ji1so 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting this. A very fascinating account.

@simonshiels1 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for collating and sharing these amazing accounts with us

@jeroenvandenberg5750 5 ай бұрын

These are great authentic accounts "ohne Aufschmuck". By risk of repeating myself (I follow a couple of these channels); "Krieg führen ist wie den Tür eines dunklen Zimmers öffnen....-man weisst nie genau was passieren wird" Eine sehr kluge-fast filosofische- Aussage Hitlers-2 Tage vor Unternehmen Barbarossa. And the absolute best characterization of the Eastern Front by a british historian as he described the invasion on June 22; "The Germans were about to play sublime toptennis on a SOCCERFIELD "

@robertmaybeth3434 5 ай бұрын

Normally I get bored by posts of still images with a narration but this one in particular I couldn't look away from! The soldaten's account of last days of the Wehrmacht in Stalingrad are fascinating, and told in a very engaging way.

@rossyerkes5217 4 ай бұрын

@cheltersful 4 ай бұрын

@@rossyerkes5217Try not to be such a complete gibbon for the whole of your life friend. Or at least just keep the messages of doom to yourself yeah?

@TheSSHR 10 ай бұрын

Brother of my grandfather was fighting in Stalingrad as member of Croatian 369 infantry regiment.Nobody knows what hapened with him and where is his resting place

@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg 10 ай бұрын

Sounds good

@Rockribbedman 10 ай бұрын

Croatian soldiers were particularly cruel to Russian Jews and other civilians

@rpinter677 10 ай бұрын

Three of my Austrian uncles disappeared there as well. Alll in their early 20s.

@gordonfleming458 10 ай бұрын

The Slavs kicked his ass 😂😂

@kenhart8771 10 ай бұрын

May all soldiers rest in peace.

@asullivan4047 10 ай бұрын

Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Special thanks to the veteran soldier sharing personal information/combat experiences. Enabling historians to replicate those diaries/memoirs for viewers to better understand. The actuality of front line precarious duties. & an added bonus story of being a ( pow )

@hkjack410 4 ай бұрын

Approx 5 y ago an older man approached me. He has lost his way in our German village . I brought him home. He told me that he was 90y. I did a small math, and said. You were 18 y old when the war ended ! Yeah he said. I was a Unteroffizier and fought the Russians and was captured. I spend 10 years in Siberia. I asked him do you still speak Russian (somehow a hunch) He laughed ! No, but I did . Learned it from the Russian guards. He said .. I can still sing He sang one song for me. He went home . Never seen him again His name was Georg

@panzerabteilung 3 ай бұрын

10 years in siberia are many years....

@reglisse42 10 ай бұрын

Fantastic testimony, thanks for sharing

@alfred-vz8ti 10 ай бұрын

these stories are useful. no one should grow up thinking there is any virtue in dying in a foreign land.

@xisotopex 10 ай бұрын

unfortunately politicians of all stripes will continue to cultivate that very idea....

@robertmaybeth3434 5 ай бұрын

What I always found rather fascinating was how cleverly Goebbels and the Nazis knew how to pull the puppet strings of an entire nation. The Germans of the era, especially the males, were conditioned practically from birth to do the bidding of the Nazis. While every nation does this, Goebbels did it so adroitly most Germans never even suspected how their minds were being molded like clay in his expert hands! "Every man a soldier" Germans were raised with so many martial ideas - Germany is surrounded by enemies, only you can save your Fatherland, war is your destiny, etc. that when war came in 1939 the Germans had already been fighting in their own minds since 1933! That's why they beat the Poles and steam-rolled the French in two months, no other nation was like this at the time, not even Russia - who were too busy accusing each other of real and imaginary crimes to ever really have a coherent ideology other than "Communism = good!"

@user-ox7xr8nu4t 4 ай бұрын

They fought Communism. That's a huge difference.

@nikolatomic3588 4 ай бұрын

@@user-ox7xr8nu4t Ha ha. Thay fought against communists but never see such order?

@magoo1950 2 ай бұрын

@@user-ox7xr8nu4t Spoiler alert, they lost.

@yolandahutu9751 5 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for the clips. Mother's first husband was wounded and taken prisoner at Stalingrad. The Russians declared him dead. My mother remarried and I think was around 1953(54), I don't know exactly when I was little. It was a special situation. He was a career soldier (captain) and teacher. He told that he was subjected to humiliating situations. He had a metal spinter i the heart area and could not be operated on. He did not receive any kind of medical care from from the Russians. He was helped as much as possible by German prisoniers. It was used for agricultural work insteaded of draft animals. He had marks on his back from the leather strips he used to pull the plough.

@piotrrossudowski2758 4 ай бұрын

Do you know about forced labor for Germans during the war, which was obligatory for citizens of nations conquered during the war? I knew Poles who were there and also in concentration camps. Those who lived in conquered areas, also displaced. They did not remember the Germans well. Every cgbody. for the Germans to leave, they lost the war. Germany received what it taught Europe.

@billp4380 10 ай бұрын

Years ago I read the novel 'Babi Yar",,,It was about the war from the perspective of a 12 year old who lived in Kiev. If you ever have the chance, read it,, I do not recall the author but it was almost a life changing experience for me. The novel portrayed the goodness and utter depravity and madness which becomes commonplace during wartime. Complex characters,, nobody wanted to be there under that situation ,, they all just wanted it to be over with and to go home to their little farm or house and to be with their family,,,,,,

@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg 10 ай бұрын

Yes Bill I have read it...... it's immersive and it's commonplace and it's..... harrowing, the commonality of the savagery is breath taking.

@jameshurt6116 10 ай бұрын

By Anatoly Kuznetsov, a great book and a "must read" for anyone who wants to understand the Eastern Front...

@banba317 10 ай бұрын

Anatoly Kuznetsov wrote the book; I read it in 1973 while still in high school and it was transformative for me too. It really blew away the romanticism of war that my generation had been indoctrinated with by Hollywood.

@geraldbutler5484 9 ай бұрын

Recorded memoirs of Australian ww1 diggers would cure anyone of romancing war. To a man they condemned the senseless slaughter and futility of war.

@robertmaybeth3434 5 ай бұрын

If you haven't already, "The forgotten soldier" by Guy Sajer is a classic and maybe the best account of the Ostfront from the German soldaten's point of view. Or at least everyone I know that's read it, still wants to talk about it.

@francisballast8310 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for these very interesting videos

@OswaldOstfalen 5 ай бұрын

From the war diary of a private in the Luftwaffe, born in 1925. (my grandfather) "From March 5th to 15th, 1945, we took part in a close-air tank combat course in Zollfeld, about 7 km from Klagenfurt. The entire school (FFS A14) was then disbanded and transferred to Gardelegen to the infantry + paratroopers. On March 29th, 1945 I left Klagenfurt and arrived in my hometown of Haldensleben on April 1, 1945, the first day of Easter! I stayed here for a whole week. On Monday, April 9, 1945, we left for Gardelegen and were changed into paratroopers there. We were divided into KV -Transports one and three days later our train, the 400th Transport KV, was the last to leave Gardelegen. Via Rathenow we went to Berlin - Reinickendorf and Heiligensee. A few days later, I think on April 16, 1945, our transport was forwarded to Hoyerswerda. We were unloaded and had to walk quite a distance when we stopped in a meadow and were divided into companies. At the same time we were given weapons: machine guns, carbines, pistols and bazookas. We called ourselves Parachute - Panzer - Grenadiers. The bloody scene began on April 19, 1945. We were loaded onto trucks and driven to a ditch just behind the HKL and a forest area east of Spremberg. We occupied this ditch and spent the night there. The front was getting closer and closer. On the morning of April 20, 1945, Ivan attacked our positions with infantry and anti-tank guns. After we had lost our way, we went back to Spremberg, where we were locked in during the day. During the night we broke through with a total of 11 men and got back to our positions. We found the Pz.-Gren.-Div. "Großdeutschland", the SS Panzer Div. "Frundsberg" and the "Führerbegleitdivision" under Remer. As grenadiers we were assigned to the “Panthers” of the “Frundsberg”. These units were also already surrounded and were being squeezed more and more by Ivan. Some of them managed to escape, others were beaten up. The remains were taken prisoner. On the night of April 21st to 22nd, 1945 I was slightly wounded in the back by shrapnel (7.5cm). On April 22, 1945 I was taken prisoner by the Russians. After a long period of moving back and forth, we were stationed in Sorau in Lower Lusatia. We did labor service in a former air force barracks that was set up as a Russian hospital. On June 11, 1945, our hair was cut off except for baldness! On August 11, 1945, "Avanti" went home..."

@user-fb8rg5cx1i 5 ай бұрын

Don't understand the final few words but thank you for your contribution to history.

@OswaldOstfalen 5 ай бұрын

@@user-fb8rg5cx1i The hair on her head was shaved off and on August 11, 1945 my grandfather was released from captivity.

@user-fb8rg5cx1i 5 ай бұрын

@@OswaldOstfalen Hi OO. Thanks for your reply. I thought our Russian friends keep prisoners for years and few survived. Mark P.

@OswaldOstfalen 5 ай бұрын

@@user-fb8rg5cx1i Chance and luck..🤷‍♂️

@chandradekeyser 8 ай бұрын

Amazing story and pictures. All very well told 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@jean-louislalonde6070 10 ай бұрын

I am suprised that he came back after four years and eight months captivity. I was told the German prisoners were released after ten years - for those who were alive. There were 91 000 German prisoners and barely 6 000 came back.

@nickymatthews3491 10 ай бұрын

Most of them died in the first six months of captivity, due to being on starvation rations since October 1942, typhus and other diseases.

@hartmutwrith3134 5 ай бұрын

there was no standard duration in keeping our POW grandpas in Russia. I worked with released POW together as car mechanik. Workshop manager came back 1955 (when i was born). Other colleagues 1950 others 1951 some 1952 some 1953 others 1954 and even later than 1956. my both grandpas could walk back at the harsh end in 1945.

@xwormwood Ай бұрын

The last german POW in Russia came home to Germany in 1955, 10 years after the war had ended. Maybe that is where you misunterstanding has its roots from.

@hkjack410 4 ай бұрын

I am German and grew up a lot by my grandmother. There I met a lot of her friends . Very nice people. I still remember one friend . My grandmother said one day , after he died. The friend of mine was guilty in the Nürnberg processes . His name was Heinz Fanslau (died 1987) he was a real nazi . For me he was a friendly old men ..

@carbonf40 8 ай бұрын

Interesting. My mother's uncle was from the same part of Austria and went in to Stalingrad, just like this man. He never came out from there though. No one ever found out what happened to him.

@user-mo1um2oh6s 4 ай бұрын

We both know wat happened to him, i struggle to have remorse for german soldiers during world war 2 with all the evil shit they did the holocaust the babi yar ravine masacres and does are the ones we know of, then they lost and all of a sudden hitler tricked them, stalingrad and the whole russian campaign was proof that there's a God and a people womt indefinetly get away with doing dumb shit, i save my sympathy for the children and victims caught in the crosshairs of hitler's racial purity campaign imaginr wat would have becomr of africa if germaby had won ww2

@Beauloqs 10 ай бұрын

I listen to alot of these, heartbreaking we are hearing the same place names again now "Donbass' etc

@openphoto 10 ай бұрын

It's a shame humans never learn

@philliphall5198 10 ай бұрын

Russia has a dictator and it’s his doings like it was hitler

@fkxfkx 10 ай бұрын

Yet you do nothing about it. Letting the Russian monsters get away with murder just like when Hitler got away with murder. What the fuck is wrong with you?

@HepatitisBChannelHepatitisB 3 ай бұрын

The German eu wants hitters borders

@jonbritland8389 10 ай бұрын

My dad told me about his friend who knew sumone on russian front. German boots had studs in sole that froze the foot. Many soldiers tokk boots off and found loose toes in boots. Must have been terrible in that weather with no proper winter uniform.

@user-nt1xz6qn8x 4 ай бұрын

Hitler thought the war would be over before winter set in.

@bigchunk1 8 ай бұрын

The prisoner experience was fascinating. I didn't understand before why so many died. What a unique perspective on history.

@Luis-bo2uj 8 ай бұрын

it was told it was -40 celsius, it wasnt, it was -25 celsius. 💀💀

@johngreear5336 8 ай бұрын

Sounds like Civil War POW camps. One ofy Great Uncles died in a camp in Chicago of scurvy

@Whatt787 6 ай бұрын

@@Luis-bo2uj So cold, its beyond belief

@paulhank7967 5 ай бұрын

Cold, disease, malnutrition. How anyone survived is just a miracle.

@robertmaybeth3434 5 ай бұрын

Prisoners on both sides were taken by the millions and the vast majority were usually underfed at best. At worst they were killed outright (the Japanese did a whole lot of this), beaten, tortured, abused in every way mental and physical, and allowed to die by the millions and this is what happened to many prisoners of both the Wehrmacht and the Red army. Often prisoners died because their captors lacked the means to do anything other than march them somewhere and place guards over them - all the food had to go to men on their own side. This is what happened to many prisoners of the German Wehrmact, who more often than not had no interest in torturing or abusing them any further, but literally had no way to get food to them - and since they couldn't leave the area, all they could do was perish where they stood. The Red Cross was able to do much to alleviate the mass suffering, as they were usually recognized by all combatants as being neutral, the Red Cross would help any POW they could reach. Unfortunately it was war and millions of people inevitably fell through the cracks, since to feed someone you first needed to gain access to them, and on many of the battlefields, this was almost impossible.

@ultra6737 4 ай бұрын

The thumbnail on the video with the five German soldiers,i believe the gentleman on the far left who is slightly leaning actually lived to the age of 92. The photo 1942 would make him only 23 at the time. The German 6th army RIP.

@markprange4386 10 ай бұрын

0:01 6:43 Collapsed building at Barrikady gun factory. 0:02 memoir 3:23 6-barrel nebelwerfer. 3:48 Crater [N48.6899°, E044.4754°] near the railyard of Stalingrad 2. 5:02 From a German propaganda newsreel. 7:06 On the grounds of Barrikady factory. 9:13 Conveyor-gantry stanchions by ZKO's Martenovskii smelting works? 15:14 "bekYEtovka" 18:50 The (broad) U-shaped building by Krasnoznamenskaya Ulitsa, 950 meters from the Volga. 19:01 Victory gathering by the Square of Fallen Fighters. 19:11 Photo taken from a Soviet biplane. Ruins of the L-shaped (apartment) house for railway workers at lower left. Part of 9 January Square at left. Milk House by it. At lower middle are the ruins of School No. 38. 19:29 The two storey building [N48.6969°, E044.4979°] in lower right is still intact. Near the top is the railway trestle bridge across the Tsaritsa.

@Palsrible 4 ай бұрын

A good book. The Forgotten Soldier. Le Soldat Oublié.

@billp4380 10 ай бұрын

I often see photos of the young German soldiers in the June sunshine smiling as they cross the boarder into Poland,,,, how many of these boys ever came back,,,,,

@MilitaryClubHISTORY 10 ай бұрын

I think a very small percentage of these soldiers survived the war.

@ascendantMethEnjoyer 10 ай бұрын

I wonder the same thing. I lament the loss of all those German and Russian boys.

@antimimoniakos 10 ай бұрын

Also how many slaughtered?

@larrykubel6885 10 ай бұрын

Too many

@geraldbutler5484 9 ай бұрын

Fighting for a demented ideological monster in Berlin………….6 million regrets.

@paulhowarth4289 4 ай бұрын

Great video, shows that every nationality suffered and that there are no winners in war.

@user-nt1xz6qn8x 4 ай бұрын

The winners are the cabal of international bankers who benefit no matter who wins.

@tylermorrison420 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much

@matejvidovic9026 8 ай бұрын

16:55 hard to believe that a Croatian soldier would have been under the blanket...even now the population is so low compared to many parts of the world and back in the day it was even lower...what were the odds that a guy from so far away would have been even farther from home...so unbelievable yet true.

@dickritchie2596 10 ай бұрын

Those poor lads.

@justtim9767 10 ай бұрын

Very good. He was one of the lucky ones.

@eugene1197 7 ай бұрын

Excellent content. Subscribed!

@user-lw5ib7yn7q 10 ай бұрын

Hell Friends Greetings from Brandenburg 🇩🇪 Udo 👍👍👍

@muthaship2992 10 ай бұрын

South Florida USA here

@tanksouth 6 ай бұрын

My WWII veteran father in law told me a few stories. And that after the battles. He and the other young men would lie in their bunks and cry for home. Sometimes upon the remembering I might notice his own moist eye.

@AussieRoos 4 ай бұрын

These photos are epic 👏

@jean-robertlombard1416 10 ай бұрын

Bonjour de France. very good idea to give viewers something else but a still image. Bonne continuation.

@JohnAdams-rm7zm 10 ай бұрын

That was a good one 👍🏻

@Yasser.Osman.A.Z. 10 ай бұрын

Hello back dear friend! Thank you Sir for your videos Sir. Yes Sir, Mr Sir, affirmative SIR!! 🫡 🙌 👍 👏

@petersclafani4370 4 ай бұрын

Anytime you lose that many men in short period is poor leadership

@martin7955 10 ай бұрын

Rip to all those lost souls , fought for their country so close to victory we lost the best on all sides ,once again rip to all those men that fell ill never forget them ,im 50 from ireland .

@user-bx5fi4il6m 7 ай бұрын

fought for their country... yes germany has been attacked at stalingrad... if you are sorry for enforcers of "new order" with gas chambers and slavery for masses "unworthy" to live, experiments on humans...

@fibosxpivots6238 10 ай бұрын

It is always quite sad when young men die because of stupid orders given by old men...

@bobgillis1137 4 ай бұрын

You beat me to it. War, I believe has always about old men lying and young ones dying.

@combtkid 5 ай бұрын

Amazing photos of the ruined city of Stalingrad, along with the daily life some of it's inhabitants still living there, near the end of the vid

@jamespope2840 10 ай бұрын

A nother great video you never disappoint M C. You do a great job transcribing the German dialect and Russian dialect. Can't be easy exp if you can't read their handwriting. Even if you have a program to help you I know my spelling can be hard for me to even read. LoL great job JDP Underhill 9/2023

@xisotopex 10 ай бұрын

nothing needed to be translated. this is an excerpt from a published book. its not a diary

@nickkerr8775 10 ай бұрын

Over 90,000 surrender at Stalingrad and more in the general area before the fall . They say less than 5,700 made it home alive in the 1950s. These guys would've been better off fighting to there end.

@philliphall5198 10 ай бұрын

I agree don’t give up

@MilitaryClubHISTORY 10 ай бұрын

They couldn't fight to the end, they were starving and they had a typhus epidemic. They were doomed. Many of them did not return home because of this.

@martingollreiter5484 10 ай бұрын

they already been starving to death…

@DaveCarlson01 10 ай бұрын

they were starving, freezing and had no more ammunition. How could they continue to fight?

@davidglickstein5169 10 ай бұрын

@@DaveCarlson01I would fight until diarrhea comes up through my arse.

@Alan_GA 10 ай бұрын

" I had no need for guns anymore"

@buffalopatriot 3 ай бұрын

He survived Der Kessel. A lucky, lucky man. I’m surprised the Russians only kept him in captivity for 5 years.

@torstendierichen5666 7 ай бұрын

Der Russe brauchte den Kessel nur immer weiter zusammendrücken. Damals waren es unter -30 Grad, zu wenig Essen, kaum Munition und überall Tote. Das ist keine Situation in der sich ein Mensch befinden sollte. Während meine Montagezeit in Russland war es 1986 und 1987 mit bis -42 Grad sehr kalt. Wir hatten gutes Essen, warme Kleidung und konnten uns alle 2 Stunden kurz aufwärmen. Trotzallem konnte man sich bei starken Wind und der Kälte in 15 Minuten die Nase oder Ohren erfrieren.

@patrickturner2788 3 ай бұрын

I have a German friend in Jamaica. He lost both grandfather's one last wrote from stalingrad. The other they just never heard from.

@strnbrg59 10 ай бұрын

I wonder if he took time to reflect on what his army had done on its way into Russia to POWs and civilians.

@luisgonzagaosollo7970 10 ай бұрын

No. Most likely he was thinking what the Soviets did to their own people. Firng squad, a shot to the nape, or deliberate starvation as in Ucraine region. Murdering millions, even before the war. Then the invasion of Finland, Estonia, and Lithaunia. And for sure he was thinking that the declared intention of the Soviets was to "liberate" the entire world from capitalist exploitation.

@idiot_city5244 10 ай бұрын

Basically the same thing every army did back then

@franc9111 8 ай бұрын

@@idiot_city5244 No - the Nazis starved to death or used as slave labourers Soviet POWs in huge numbers. Unfortunately Stalin decreed that any Red Army soldier who had been taken prisoner by the Nazis was to be sent to the gulag. German POWs in general weren't treated like that by the British or the Americans. I remember a British Army officer who had been held in a POW camp a long way East, in somewhere like Silesia, telling how glad they were to see Red Army units coming in and defeating the Germans at their camp. The British POWs came out of their huts to welcome them, but very quickly went back in. From the windows, they could see that the Red Army had tied German camp guards onto the front of their tanks and were then going at high speed pushing down the barbed-wire fences around the camp. The Germans were white-faced and screaming and I doubt whether any of them survived. Later on the British POWs were exchanged one by one for Soviet POWs, the British were of course desperately hoping that there would be enough Soviet POWs to allow them to be released.

@strnbrg59 8 ай бұрын

@@idiot_city5244 You've chosen an appropriate handle for yourself.

@idiot_city5244 8 ай бұрын

@@strnbrg59 You're correct, I'm surrounded by idiots...

@janpierzchala2004 10 ай бұрын

Excellent account

@girishdevappa5562 9 ай бұрын

thanks

@Joe_Peroni 10 ай бұрын

So MANY deaths. All of it totally unnecessary. But if you want a DIFFERENT personal perspective about the lives of German soldiers on the Russian Front then the books written by Sven Hassel & Leo Kessler are a MUST. You'll laugh out loud at least once in reading any of the books written by either of these authors.

@jakelynch5113 10 ай бұрын

"my comrades surrendered, but i still had 5 cans of stew" this goes to show the demoralising effect of starvation.

@tobianish 4 ай бұрын

Where can I find these memoirs?

@mabuchild 8 ай бұрын

人类喜欢恋爱,酷爱战争,在战争中,相互伤害,在和平中,相互倾轧. 不在沉默中爆发,就会在沉沦中死去.一切社会经济生活的穷极一切的极端.办法.本身是为了减少痛苦,但是在战争面前.人性,文化,政治,被重新衡量,一个民族屠杀另一个民族,文化情感通过野蛮的方式相互渗透. 重组.甚至被涂改.在废墟上建立新的秩序. 最不愿意见到年轻人死去.但是战争却最喜欢年轻人,就像空气中弥漫的恋爱气息一样硝烟和战火.流血牺牲无处不在.

@nikashron4253 8 ай бұрын

Woher haben Sie die Berichte?

@Iain1962 4 ай бұрын

Interesting, the soldier in Stalingrad seems to have spent most of his time finding food and warmth rather than fighting, most of this is stories about eating. My dad had the same problem with food, he was stationed in Malta during the war and also suffered from not enough food, he never let any food go to waste for the rest of his life, if it was edible, he would eat it.

@PauloPereira-jj4jv 8 ай бұрын

Anyone should be a little careful about the existence of so "many" diaries... without a reliable source.

@samuelmatias7453 4 ай бұрын

I’ve visited Stalingrad a terrible fight. 2017

@Coollobsters 10 ай бұрын

8:00 talk about bad advice

@ErnaldtheSaxon 10 ай бұрын

In hindsight

@aaronwatson1677 10 ай бұрын

I believe the field hospitals were around Stalingrad anyways.

@ErnaldtheSaxon 10 ай бұрын

@@aaronwatson1677 And the Red army disposed of the sick and wounded first.

@bobg6638 8 ай бұрын

Journal entry: “How in the hell did I end up here?”

@user-hc7wq4qt4y 10 ай бұрын

비극이다 하루만 누군가의 아빠가. 아들이 생명을 잃었다. 본인은 물론이고 가족들의 고통은 헤아릴수가 없다. 국가적으로도 여지껏 성장해온 성인이 사망한다는건 엄청난 손실이다. 정치와 정치인은 1순위로 중요하다. 비극의 씨앗이다.ㅜㅜ

@pjtomtai 4 ай бұрын

Who sent you to Stalingrad to suffer at the first place? ... Your dearly admired leader.

@Baraka_Obama_ 3 ай бұрын

@user-ip7lb1pd3nAll Hitler did was lead his best soldiers in a slaughter house Germany never had a chance in USSR

@Tommy-jp2bz 8 ай бұрын

18:28 Sharp photo of a young and tall Asian Wehrmacht !

@muthaship2992 10 ай бұрын

Very lucky to come back home after s ruzzians had you

@polarvortex3294 8 ай бұрын

Seems like you had to keep your eyes out as you went along -- like the way the officer in this story collected wood & things to burn while on the march to melt some snow to drink each night. You had to love yourself and keep your will to live strong and take note of what is beautiful and noble around you, even in a difficult situation. A little luck helped, too: like the way a bit of food came into his hands near the end, and how his rash occurred just in time to give him a bit of a rest before being captured. I imagine guys who ended the battle wounded, half-starved, and demoralized were basically doomed.

@laverdajota8089 7 ай бұрын

That’s because the way the Germans treated every Russian person as low life , and murdered men women and children , millions of them . Why would the Soviets not want revenge for the families they had lost

@drnick40 8 ай бұрын

All wars are unnecessary. Still the human nature is such that we cannot live long in peace with each other.

@sunnycat69 3 ай бұрын

They should of never surrendered

@reronal4940 10 ай бұрын

i like the story, what video?

@user-vk8uu9nv7n18 10 ай бұрын

悲惨な、➖２５℃の世界。　　戦争中の、６歳の女の子との楽しい雪合戦、、、、ヒトラーが侵略を始めさえしなければ、こんな悲しい物語はなかったのに。

@gregorymilla9213 8 ай бұрын

The War was lost by the end of September

@jamesriverfossils 10 ай бұрын

I'm sure they didn't refer to those Junkers as JEW87's 😂

@oneangrycanadian6205 3 ай бұрын

My buddy at work is a descendent of a German fighter pilot. He was not a nazi and he told me his father always said the nazis were an evil organization. He told me of a funny story where he said his grand father was flying one day and actually did a fly by buzz over his parents house lol. When he had a week off and went home his grand fathers parents gave him hell because they new it was him lol!!!

@Harzer-Nedersasse 5 ай бұрын

Он выжил в Сталинградской битве (Ганс-Эрдман Шёнбек) He survived the Battle of Stalingrad (Hans-Erdmann Schönbeck) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sJuRhZxiz9-4nJ8.htmlsi=KwkYA2zMMfvB-SAY

@kellythesinger2945 3 ай бұрын

Lenin grad is now St Petersberg. Stalingrad is now Volgograd it's on the volga River.

@francescosantaluccia993 4 ай бұрын

O único regimento a conseguir escapar do cerco de stalingrado foi o regimento alpinista italiano.

@johncox2865 10 ай бұрын

12:57 He used an axe to grind coffee? Well, at least it was hot. Fir a while.

@MilitaryClubHISTORY 10 ай бұрын

Why not? As for me, this is a great idea)))

@user-bn4kl7ke7q 5 ай бұрын

U c how w once u lose it all to nothing even the smallest things are appreciated .

@williambrown-vt7rd 10 ай бұрын

The battles of WW2 will be nothing compared to what ww3.

@muthaship2992 10 ай бұрын

A lot more civilians dead wwlll

@Steven-nd1pz 10 ай бұрын

According to the book of Revelation, billions will die in WW3.

@Luis-bo2uj 8 ай бұрын

just look at ukraine and you get an idea of how wwiii would go

@GosWardHen98 10 ай бұрын

Listening to this, it seemed the Ruskies were just lethal. Comparing it to the current Ukraine civil war, something serms lost with them today... Hell in 20 minutes.

@polarvortex3294 8 ай бұрын

You are right, I think. The answer is that 20+ years of Russian civil war and subsequent Soviet rule had made life cheap and hard back then. Orders - even suicidal orders - were obeyed by the troops, and strictly carried out by the officers, who also were subject to harsh discipline. This meant that the higher command could organize large and complex attacks with confidence that things would proceed as planned. Yet in spite of all this dehumanization, I think love was still present then, and patriotism -- more than exists today. The Red soldiers knew, intuitively and correctly, that they were fighting a war for national existence. They knew that a deep insult lay behind the logic of the German attack -- that because the Germans were "superior" they were entitled to take the Russian land. Collectively, the Russian nation said "No. You will not do as you please. You are invaders who will be thrown out." Of course today in Ukraine the Russian soldiers have a different attitude. Deep down they know, to a degree, that this time they are the invaders. Orders are still obeyed, but without zeal. It has taken the spark away from the the men. Instead of being thrilled to be part of the world's greatest battle, they feel unlucky. Anyway, that is how I perceive the situation.

@acerdan 7 ай бұрын

They just overwhelmed the Germans. What was it that Stalin said, they will run out of bullets before we run out of men. That’s what happened. Stalin didn’t care how many of his men died, as long as he won.

@lloydchen1697 10 ай бұрын

So lucky.

@nickkerr8775 10 ай бұрын

Why would he feel guilty of the Soviet commissar being deleted , the Commissars where like the Soviet SS in many ways , they would shoot men for retreating in times when it was forbidden , they would delete men for many stupid reasons and would commit mass deletion of enemy prisoners and they worked closely with other groups like the NKVD which committed millions of murders of its own people b4 the war .and later became the KGB .

@MilitaryClubHISTORY 10 ай бұрын

Agree, the commissars were destroyed for a completely different reason. The Germans didn't care about their crimes.

@bloke1348 8 ай бұрын

I think he felt sorry for him because he saw his parents.

@rabbi120348 10 ай бұрын

All those names are once again in the news.

@King_of_Railways 4 ай бұрын

Dabei waren das alles Touristen auf Besuch!! 😮😢

@kniespel6243 10 ай бұрын

At Stalingrad the casualties on russian side was more higher . " we keep shoting ,round after round ,till the barrel of my MG34 was red . The terrain was full with dead bodies. But russians still coming ,wave after wave." - german vet.

@jiridrapal7512 10 ай бұрын

and how do you think ended germans assaulting pavlov haouse or these factories? Lol, they there were dieing in thousends too.

@kniespel6243 10 ай бұрын

@@jiridrapal7512 dude, about Pavlov house it was just a battle for one house ,nothing more. If you think Pavlov was a Superman or Terminator and he killed thousands of germans then you are too naive.

@jiridrapal7512 10 ай бұрын

@@kniespel6243 you are too naive beliving to narrative of german officers and soldiers who instead of admitting how they fucked up or were beaten will pull a card "they were thousends and thousends and us only 3"

@jiridrapal7512 10 ай бұрын

@@kniespel6243 Germans lost 2 000 KIA trying to that single house defended by 30 men over two months of non stop daily assaults

@kniespel6243 10 ай бұрын

@@jiridrapal7512 bullshit . If you believe russian propaganda, be my guest. În russian opinion they lost just a few soldiers in ww2 ! 😀

@antimimoniakos 10 ай бұрын

12 is big number for the human face monsters.

@user-hb8ju1ux5b 4 ай бұрын

So sad

@user-fe4ft4rz9t 4 ай бұрын

병력이 아주 살살 녹네 녹아 아주 순삭이구만

@joaoseraphimfoletto3354 10 ай бұрын

"boa noite da auto eletrica serafim froteira oeste. praia das areias brancas ROSARIO DO SUL RS BRASIL." 👍👍👍"

@yorkshirelad3524 4 ай бұрын

The is a lesson for the west here

@michaellino793 10 ай бұрын

A struggle that can't be matched

@polarvortex3294 8 ай бұрын

I think they understood this then -- that they were part of an earth-shaking drama.

@thunder3470 4 ай бұрын

Why.....why....must we just kill each other like that.....why? What is the point, 😮

@user-ms4bl3te6j 4 ай бұрын

Todo el que combate o combatió contra la maldad del Stalin de ayer o el de hoy, es un Héroe.

@AdrienneReneau-ky4sc 2 ай бұрын

HE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO DR

@matt47110815 4 ай бұрын

How is it that you (probably) can pronounce "Jaegermeister", but not "Jaeger" (you make it sound something like "Yuhger")? 😅 Muricans... 🙄😉 Great video though, very interesting. Thank you! 😊

@Steven-nd1pz 10 ай бұрын

It's sobering to think that if you were born in Germany at about 1920, you would have been fighting for the Nazis, believing that God and justice was on your side.

@jamesmartinomusic5969 10 ай бұрын

Propaganda...like now

@Aniss_Ichkhakh69200 9 ай бұрын

As the zionist....

@polarvortex3294 8 ай бұрын

It's still that way today. What is beautiful is celebrated. Positive motives are assigned to actions. What is sordid, ugly, and evil is kept out of sight. I mean, go to a hospital. What you'll see, in general, is clean and bright and cheerful. But when you burrow a bit deeper there's plenty that's less pleasant to see.

@robertomeneghetti6215 5 ай бұрын

@@Aniss_Ichkhakh69200🤔🤔🙄🙄😂😂👎👎👇👇

@philliphall5198 10 ай бұрын

My Dad a GI had terrible dreams until he died It must to be hell for the German and Russian soldiers who seem to have it worse according to my Dad Terrible times when dictator have power like with putin

@keinervondaoben720 8 ай бұрын

start using your brain..........dont believe everything you see on TV

@bloke1348 8 ай бұрын

Agreed. Putin is another Hitler.