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They always say Wehrmacht, but never Howhmacht

Castle Itter: is mentioned AND ITS AMERICAN TROOPS AND THE GERMAN ARMY JOINING TOGETHER AT LAST

I find tying the revival of the German army explicitly to the rise of the Nazis and Hitler in '35 completely ignores everything that happened during the Weimar Republic. Rearmament, massive reorganization, large scale mobilization, and most definitely 'a physical form' had already occurred/was occurring, even in multiple forms - remnants of the Kaiser's army fighting in the German Revolution, Freikorps units, the Provisional Reichswehr, and the Reichswehr. The growth of the Wehrmacht can literally not be understood without these developments, the entire model of the 'officer's army' that allowed that extremely rapid growth in the mid 30s is directly the result of the German officers from the 1920s - not Hitler waving some magic wand to create an army.

how dare you scroll down while the narrator is speaking

As a French viewer, I think it's really important to show that there is not a single war where a whole country/side is unified under one and only ideology. In France, it took a long time for politicians to admit about Petain's collaboration with Nazis, even if the population already knew about it.

There’s only two types of view on the wachmact either people say that they were blameless, and the people who counter that by saying they were no better than the SS. There’s a gray area in the middle that’s the correct part

I have always been interested in the German resistance. I have an uncle-in-law who fled the Nazis in early 1938 for "unGerman activities" (i.e. helping Jews and being loudly anti-Nazi). 5 of his 7 brothers died during the escape and 2 of 3 sisters spent time in prison. My uncle, an editor & reporter for an industrial magazine, made it to England where he worked with the RAF and later the US Army Air Corp with the bombing campaign against industrial targets. In 1944 he moved to Montana and became a cattle rancher.

But the Wehrmacht did perform a good amount of the war crimes in the Eastern Front, they willingly worked for the SS as well.

I can highly recommend the book “Soldiers“. When Germans were captured from the British or the US they werw constantly spied out with micorphones. But of course they didn't know. The reason why this is the best source to know what the common German soldier was thinking is the fact, that those soldiers didn't know how it would end. When a soldier in 1942 said he doesn't like the Nazi party he did not say that to safe his own ass after defeat because most of the soldiers thought they would win in 1942. Overall a really good book

My best friend's father served in The luftwaffa as a radio operator. His brother was murdered by the SS in the final days of the war for not wanting to fight.

My father often told me that during the war, his parents had a café in Brussels. They hide a Jewish family on the attic. When they moved, you could hear it in the Cafe below. Because Brussels was occupied, there where a lot of German soldiers from the wehrmacht present, and although he was a kid then, my father swore some of the soldiers knew (because they were looking up) but they didn't say anything or betrayed them to the ss or Gestapo (which would have been execution by the bullet for his parents). The wehrmacht soldiers also disliked the ss, Gestapo and even Hitler when they were drunk and often the conversations, in the beginning jolly, would mute when the ss or Gestapo entered the room.

History doesn't judge the Wehrmacht too harshly. It took us until the late 80s (and really the 90s and 2000s), before we seriously started blaming the Wehrmacht for its complicity in the atrocities of the war (mainly on the Eastern Front). I don't know anyone who says "they were all Nazis"; but on the contrary, most people still seem to believe that they were "just soldiers".

Thank you for an interesting video. an interesting example is the 18-year-old German-speaking Belgian Mathias Schenk. He was a soldier in the wermacht. His regiment fought against the poles during Warsaw uprising. His unit came into contact with SS Oskar Drilewanger brigade, which supported the unit. The Dirlewanger brigade committed horrific acts of war against the polish population. In a interview with Mathias Schenk, Mathias tells how he was an eyewitness to the horrified war crimes. He tells how he saw how these SS men used civilians as living shields on their tanks. when a mother drops her daughter, the child ended up under the tracks. The screaming mother is shot in the head to silence her. the rest of the civilians fled and were shot in the back. Mathias hated these war crimes. After a few days Mathias is also under SS Dirlewanger's command Mathias tells what tells what happend. “That was probably my last action in Warsaw. We were storming some building, I ran through a field. A wounded soldier lay on the ground. I gave him some water from my canteen, than ran forward to blow some doors. The SS was moving behind us. When I ran back, Dirlewanger stopped me. He pointed to the wounded soldier: 'You gave water to this pig?' Only then did I notice, that on a German uniform the wounded had a dirty white-red armband." "'Shoot him!' Dirlewanger handed me his pistol." "I stood motionless, sick of all of that. Dirlewanger was so furious, that I couldn't understand what he was shouting. The Pole looked at me. I will never forget his eyes. In Warsaw I learned to recognize if a wounded would survive the next ten minutes or a couple of hours. When one sees so many people dying you just know how long they will live. One of Dirlewanger SS-men grabbed the gun from me and shot the Pole." Mathias couldn't take it anymore in the winter of 1944/1945 he deserted from the army. he went into hiding with the Polish farmers, who pitied the young Schenk. After the war, Schenk returns to Belgium where he marries and has three daughters.

these where all soilders who faught for their home, Nazi or not. this was their job, they did it, half of these soidlers are not Nazis or represent or support Nazis. just like my grandparents in the red army, they hated stalin and communism, but they fought for their land, their motherland, their family, not for stalin not for communism.

when Germany entered Lithuania, a Lithuanian soldier who collaborated with the nazis found a Jewish mother and was prepared to shoot her for the "crime" of being Jewish. At the last minute, a german officer stops him. When asked why he step in, he said, "one day history will judge us". It was not known who the officer was till this day. The woman and her children survive the war

There are intelligent people, and there are people who think that every german soldier was a war criminal, and deserved the death sentence after the war.

The Wehrmacht on the Western front were different than the ones on the Eastern front. The Eastern front was a barbaric slug fest of attrition and war crimes committed by both the Soviet military and the German Wehrmacht. Not to mention, the actual Nazis basically told their military that the Slavs are not human therefor slaughtering them isn't considered as significant as say an Anglos. All that eugenics superiority bullshit is weird but it's how they operated. The Nazis also weren't very cozy with the Italian Fascists for the same reason. They viewed Mediterranean Europeans as better than Slavs but not by much. Many Italian soldiers were not big fans of some of the Nazis because of these views (They often weren't afraid to voice how inferior they thought the Italians were genitically). Your average Wehrmacht soldier likely wasn't a blindly devout follower of Nazi ideologies though.

Criticizing the Wehrmacht for being generally terrible is different than saying every solider in the heer was evil

I'm personally about a third German when it comes to my Heritage and you don't know how many times I will tell people that and they automatically will jokingly and or purposefully call me at Nazi. Im absolutely flabbergasted how many people think that just because you were a German that you were a Nazi. My family came to this country before World War 1. Thank you for making a very extensive and detailed video explaining the differences between these two. It made me smile when you said that not all Germans even those in the army during that time were Nazis.

Nobody has ever said that "every German during WW2 was a die hard Nazi." Whitewashing the crimes of the Wehrmacht was official government policy in the United States once the Cold War got started so I think this video must have been made by somebody who wasn't even born yet when the Berlin Wall fell.

I dunno dude, try taking that up with the Polish, Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Latvians, Hungarians, Romanians, Norwegians, French, Finnish, Jews, Communists, LGBT peeps, Catholics, Freemasons, Belgians, Dutch and Americans?

My grandpa was a Wehrmacht soldier, when I remember correctly he was a "Leutnant"or "Oberleutnant". I remember one time, it was summer and my grandma told me I have to go to the bar (Kneipe) and get my grandpa home.On the way to the bar I hear men singing,I went inside, standing near the door and tried to find my grandpa.he have seen me brought me to a table and said to a very old man "Herr Hauptmann, dat is menge Jong" (Captain, this is my boy). I was 8 or 9 ,very thin, very small and he touched my shoulder and says: "Junge,du musst Stärker werden“ This evening was a meeting from old soldiers,I remember the smell from cigars, beer, Jägermeister and cologne water. Lots of them had missing arms, hands,legs or fingers.A few of them looked broken and like alcoholic.

I remember watching a series of interviews in the bonus features of "Call Of Duty 3," and I remember an interview with this Canadian WW2 vet, and told the interviewers, that the Wermacht were frightened of the SS.

I just finished reading a book about the SS. For what it seems, Wehrmacht its just so guilty for the atrocities as the SS, but at the end of the war, the allies needed experient non-nazi military officers and forces to rebuild the post war Germany, and it was easier to use Wehrmacht for the purpose, as they were not nsdap affiliated. For the public opinion in general that was better acepted, so they ended up protecting the Wehrmacht image and using SS as the full guilt carrier because they were a political force beside being a military force. A lot can be said about this tho

Dang, I don't even speak German but your pronunciation sounds really on point

Thank you for this video. I work in a nursing home and got a resident who was a Panther Tank driver in the Hermann Göring Division from late 43-45. Joined up to the tankers, cause of those "shiny black uniforms for the ladies" . He always tells me his story how he managed to keep his engine from ever breaking down, how shook Görings hand, drove the Panther on the Autobahn with over 60 Kmh or how an American paratrooper landed 100 meters from him during Operation Market Garden, while repairing tanks. He is no bad person for fighting on a certain side, he just did what everyone did.

Hmmm Sounds like something a wermacht soldier would say

09:37 explains the german perspective so good. This can be translated for all wars and politics world wide, and is timeless.

The Wehrmacht's involvement in war crimes is all too real, and depressing. There were heroic individuals who refused to participate, most didn't refuse.

When my grandfather lost his leg in a train accident during the war, Wehrmacht soldiers (I assume it wasn't SS) took him to the field hospital to take care of him. When the family asked how they would have to repay the doctor, he just asked for some Nice flowers. So yeah, there were some good People in the Wehrmacht indeed.

German historians, highly regarded, say that a great many Heer troops knew of, turned a blind eye to, or actively participated in nazi atrocities. Yes, there is a difference between the waffen ss and its adjuncts, but much of the German army was complicit in many of the atrocities, either wilfully or by omission of action. There were notable acts of resistance and disobedience which should be lionized, but they were sadly few and far between.

My grandma was a little girl during the World War II in Yugoslavia unforgettable hunger raged in the region her and her siblings were able to survive things to German soldiers giving them their food rations!

My father landed in Normandy on D + 3 and always said the Wehrmacht were just ordinary soldiers most never caused trouble when captured, but he despised the SS who wouldn't be leave they were losing the war and always said he was one of the luck men to come home

Whenever I am reading the comments debating about war crimes committed by the various militaries, I don't take any revisionist seriously, whether they be a Neo Nazi revisionist or a Communist USSR obsessed revisionist. They ruin discourse.

well, true. my mother's father was an engineer, pressed into service and later seeing combat in the battle of the buldge, where he deserted after fighting side by side with ss-troops, never disclosing to us what exactly he saw there. he was a good man, i loved him dearly and still do. my father's father was waffen-ss and as evil as they come. my father, luckily, didn't know the full extent of his father's deeds, but we researched a few years ago and haven't been to his grave ever since and don't plan to visit there again. both happend. don't generalize.

Only the defeated are punished for their war crimes not the victors

Great video! You covered a lot of interesting information in a quite short video (as usual). Thanks for your work.

Been binging your videos. I really appreciate your perspective and information.

I've read and watched many documentaries on WWII. This is a good example of truthful documentation. Good Job!

Interesting video. I come from a German upbringing and this is something that my father had preached to me for years as a teenager. I guess that had more to do with what I asked my parents, given what I was taught in history class that day, etc. Growing up my father and I used to watch the various WWII historical shows on tv and he used to stress that what was depicted in some episodes was a half-truth, etc. Or as he put it the victor's version. Not "all" were the devils that history makes them out to be. (Father was conscripted into the Gebirgsjaeger as a young teenager.) As luck would have it my father didn't see action, thank goodness. Much of what is said from the german soldier, Hugo Sharnowsky's thoughts and feelings, is in line with what my father used to say as well.

Just discovered your channel. It's excellent, and thank you for getting real history out there.

This reminds me of the novel Allegiance and Choices of One. For those Star Wars fans, I feel like Timothy Zahn tried to show this with the Hand of Judgment

Finally. Someone who actually knows what Wehrmacht means. There's still people using the word when talking solely of the Heer.

When talking about war crimes in WW2, I dare to say that every nation's army did it. For some reason, the victors get to foreshadow their war crimes because the victors are "War Heroes".

My Great uncle was demoted and sent Into the strafbatallion for not Shooting a child Speaking of no Punishment

Wehrmacht in 1939 was involved in most atrocities in Poland killing tens of thousand civilians, killing POWs, elites, Luftvaffe was strafing civilians and bombed hospitals. That includes the „oposition” like Stauffenberg.

7:40 That‘s one of the Generals of HoI4, when you recruit one with PP

Helping a crime to happen is not a crime? Worst crime in the entire history of the world.

I just want to Thank you guys for Making this Video its great!

My great grandfather was in the Wehrmacht (in the music corps in Russia) and he was a very kindhearted man. He barely made it back. And couldn't return home to the Sudetenland since the Germans there were driven away.

The Germans pretty much all knew bad stuff was going on. The Prussian military had traditionally treated civilians harshly, put on world display in the 1871 war with France. British propaganda went to town with this in 1914 with the Belgian invasion.

I don't dispute the facts you brought up, but I'm not sure about your conclusions. Obviously, there were some righteous or even heroic members of the Wehrmacht, as well as young men pressed into service who otherwise wanted no part in atrocities. But the fact remains that the vast majority of officers (and soldiers) had no objections to the extermination of Jews, Romani and Slavs on the Eastern Front, and carried out their orders without question and without regret. The few mutinies and attempted coups there were occurred in the closing years of the war, and generally stemmed from military or political disputes rather than ethical ones. If anything, the Wehrmacht is too often absolved of its crimes. A few "good" members don't erase the organization's explicitly genocidal goals. However, one interesting case that wasn't mentioned in the video is that of Johannes Blaskowitz, a Wermacht general who demanded that Hitler punish the genocidal actions of SS members in Poland, and was subsequently relieved of all duties. He was given back his command in 1944 and continued the war without objections. When Blaskowitz was put on trial for war crimes in Nuremberg, the case against him was weak, and his lawyers told him he would likely be acquitted. Shortly after, the general committed suicide by throwing himself off a balcony. Some say he was assassinated by the SS, who feared he might implicate them in his testimony, but it's also possible he felt genuine guilt and shame for his actions.

The Baltic state SS units, like the Latvian legion, were volunteer only and were used to fight the Russians. The Baltic SS were seen as liberators by the Baltic people because the Russians treated them awfully.

Good job at giving a brief overview of a complex topic.

"If one is to understand the great mystery,one must study all of it's aspects,not just the dogmatic narrow view of the Jedi." Sheev Palpatine,from "Revenge of the Sith" Great mystery=Were every German in ww2 were diehard Nazi? Aspects=The entire history of Germany Jedi=Those foolish historians who only studies half of it

A good book on Reserve Police Battalion 101 is: "Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland" by historian Christopher Browning. The people in this unit were mostly older men, those not suitable for the Wehrmacht or the Waffen SS. They were also working class and Browning speculated that most would've been supporters of the Social Democrat Party rather than the Nazi Party during the Weimar Republic period. In the first massacre they participated in, the commander did gather his men and gave them the option not to participate in the massacre. One lieutenant stepped forward, a fellow by the name of Heinz Buchmann, openly stated his opposition to this operation and said that he wouldn't participate unless ordered by his commander to do so. Something like 20 other men also objected and they were all given the duty to guard those Jews who were to be sent to a labor camp. Sadly, most of the unit willingly participated in the atrocities even though they had been clearly given the option to not participate in war crimes.

Honestly amazing video good job you are an amazing history teacher

*that is a damn true man...* And the sad thing is my great-great-uncle did when he was in charge of the Brits at Caen unexpectedly two tigers came around a corner. So we and a few of his men went around he shot a piat into a driving train of a Tiger 1 but then the Tiger Tank burst into flames and he jumped on top of the tank and tried to save the lives of the crew inside but the tank blew up killing everybody in or on top of the tank :( I was really surprised hearing of an account like this because he went out of cover under fire to help save the enemy?! Anyway some crazy stuff like this happens (rarely) as in the video u were talking about how harshly they were treated... *nobody is probably gonna see this any way but yeah this is just a little bit of show and tell which I wanted to give a little bit of knowledge about... So I hope you enjoyed reading this reader :) and have a nice day (or sleep)*

Half of the waffen ss divisions were actually comprised of foreign volunteers and some have very cool/intresting stories including a belarusian unit that fought in France and killed their NCOs to join the French resistance.

SS Hauptsturmfuhrer is an SS rank roughly equivalent to Captain not a party rank as the text in the video reads.

My parents who through the war and German occupation of Poland welcomed Soviets, whom in the prewar times every pole hated dearly) as saviors and liberators. Quoting my mother words "I am sure there are good Germans, I just was not lucky to meet one". Being born at the end of the war I grew in devastated city, was given name after cousin who was tortured to death by Germans. My grandad was murdered with personnel and patients of the hospital, one of the uncles was shot and crippled for life. My mothers lifelong friend was disfigured by torture to the point that she couldn't work as a physician and became pharmacist (not to scare people by her looks and posture). I can understand that Germans in the present day have difficulty reconcile their history and this video is part of it.

Great video

It's important to keep in mind that these people were living in a time we can't even imagine today.

5:30 most Germanic name I have ever heard or seen

finally a correctly video! good job! btw as a german i can say that ur pronunciation is very good

Good episode.

It was said that Nazi fanatics were only few. The Wehrmacht were fighting to redeem themselves from the Treaty of Versailles, not because of political ideology

Great Video, I feel it gives the scene in Band of Brothers more and more credibility, Soldiers are soldiers, the great majority isn't a Soldier because of some ideology or politics, they are because of patriotism, to defend their country from the enemy. Many Soldiers thought being a soldier is all shiny and heroic, as far as I know, so did my grandfather, there was family tradition involved as well, but my Grandfather according to my grandmother changed, he Saw Stalingrad up close with his own eyes, he experienced the utterly senseless massacre that was Stalingrad, he didn't see the fragmentation grenade fast enough. He became a chauffeur afterwards for generals of the Wehrmacht, but he never smiled again. In the end, everyone committed War crimes and atrocities in the thousands, be it Axis or Allies, but there are the exception, and history chose to ignore the wrong ones.

Whether its the Germans, Soviet, Japanese, Americans, etc all of these people are humans and no different from one another except their surroundings and leadership. When you give boys guns they could do great things, or terrible things based upon who holds them responsible. If you encourage young men with relative power that they can do whatever they want, then you will see a disgusting side of humanity. War crimes make me more scared of what we are capable of doing to each other when there are no repercussions rather than how disgusting the people of that specific nation are. German and Japanese Leadership promoted these kinds of things but I think any army from any nation is capable of these atrocities and that these people arent somehow naturally more evil than any other humans you find on Earth.

Thank you for talking about this, as with many armies. Many soldiers wanted to volunteer to fight and later defend their homeland.

I've been studying this a lot recently. I have come to a few conclusions that could be wrong, and I am always willing to change my mind as I am presented with more information. It's a lot, but I hope you take your time to go through it. 1. The Wehrmacht was a key instrument in the Holocaust. While most German soldiers may not have directly pulled the trigger to murder a non-combatant, the main purpose the Wehrmacht filled in the Holocaust was the expansion of territories under German control where the Nazi racial policies would be carried out, usually by political organizations like the SS (assisted by local collaborators/auxiliaries). However, there were instances where German Army soldiers would take part in the mass murders as well. 2. The biggest atrocity committed by the Wehrmacht was not their actions against Jews nor partisans, but rather the treatment and starvation of over 3 million Soviet prisoners of war (however, I have heard of German soldiers and officers trying to help the Soviet POWs by trying to provide them with more food or protection from other Nazi organizations, but their actual ability to accomplish that was limited. I am not sure how extensively things like this happened, but I could imagine it wasn't the norm). 3. A huge number of atrocities carried out by German soldiers weren't necessarily motivated by political interests, but rather by sadism. War twists men, war twists good men, or at the very least desensitizes them. And that is only magnified when their leaders allow these men to do twisted things. A major cause of German war crimes was not necessarily Nazi ideology, but sadism magnified by a lack of accountability. We saw very similar things from American soldiers in Vietnam as they burned down villages and gunned down fleeing civilians to try to "combat" the Viet Cong. Were the majority of American soldiers who fought in Vietnam evil? No. Were the majority of German soldiers who fought in WWII evil? I feel the answer to both questions is no, however when you legalize criminal activity (Germany in WWII) or at least don't punish it (US in Vietnam), a lot of criminal activity is going to happen. 4. I think we would be surprised by the amount of people we know in our society and in our personal circles that would have gone along with the Nazis if they had been in that society. It is very easy to say we'd never follow Hitler or the Nazis in hindsight, however the Germans did not see him like the madman he was who was responsible for the murder of millions, but rather they viewed him as a hero who restored their poverty stricken country to a great country, like it once was. 5. It may be true that most of the individual German soldiers may not have been evil, however the Wehrmacht as an organization was not a good organization to say the least. And when we study history, it is okay to recognize that most individuals aren't evil, however we cannot let that distract us from the bigger picture that Nazi Germany was one of the most evil regimes in human history. And the Wehrmacht being the largest armed organization of Nazi Germany, we would be fools to believe that it was not used to further the agenda of the Nazi party. 6. Many good and many evil men damned their souls to hell by their actions in Eastern Europe between 1941-1945.

Let's also remember that the Wehrmacht West of Berlin and East of Berlin during WW2 behaved a little differently. In particular, in German-occupied Poland and German-occupied portions of the Soviet Union, they committed Major War Crimes. Yes, there were honest german soldiers, but as a whole that the Wehrmacht along with the red army is considered the criminal armies. The Wehrmacht was much like the Red Army from 1939 an aggressor who committed war crimes as early as September 1939. In other words, the Wehrmacht deserves its reputation, it was an aggressive and militaristic army that waged war and with the help of Luftwaffe (which was a part of the Wehrmacht) committed war crimes by bombing civilians and civilian targets (big cities like Warsaw, Rotterdam and so on). The air raids on German cities were a response to this inhumane warfare from the Luftwaffe. Meanwhile, on the ground, the Wehrmacht took part in the expulsion of Poles beginning from 1939 and soon after the mass murder of the Polish elites. Then followed in other countries. The Wehrmacht was a criminal organization, but some soldiers within its rank did behave admirably, it is just that videos like these try to put the blame on the SS when the Wehrmacht participated often on their own in the deportation of Jews and murder of civilians in the name of the Nazi Regime.

Love your videos mate

Can you do a video about the Myth of the clean Wehrmacht?

Example 3. The "rebels" were just saving their own skins. The war was over.

So, in summary, German soldiers were human too. Fantastic video, so important these things are talked about.

I dunno dude, try taking that up with the Polish, Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Jews, Catholics, Freemasons, Communists, Belgians, Dutch, French, Romanians, Hungarians, Brits, Americans, and even a few Germans?

Whats the german veterans name that you mentioned at the end of the video?

Yeah no en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_clean_Wehrmacht

They almost all knew the objective of the Reich: to conquer the lesser races in order to get the lebensraum the Aryans deserved. Most of the population liked to think of themselves as superior, and the wehrmacht enthusiastically pursued the Reich's objectives. Only after losing they started to rewrite and retell what they were mostly eager to do in the last 12 years.

Are there any books on this subject that you could recommend? That would be a great addition to your videos, also its the right thing to do to correctly quote or reference to your sources.

Not many ww2 channels talk about the actual soldiers in the war they just focus on what each side did and is precvied as I’m glad that your showed that not everyone is like what there nation is thought to be.

Great video! I think that you gave a very balanced view. Only a fool would think that they were all die-hard Nazis. They were mostly kids fighting for their country, just like in our armies. It doesn't excuse the horrible actions taken by those who did or by the nation as a whole. Well done! Please keep the outstanding videos coming and God bless you and your team, my friend!

Thank you for that clip. You are doing a great job showing history, not just from a black and white perspective, life is never simple. Keep making similar clips to destroy the myth that every German that time was bad and every Pole was good. I'm Pole, good job mate.

Lmaoo when I was watching this I was like “Why do I recognize his voice” and I was going crazy trying to find out who you were then I clicked on your channel and checked the channels tab and saw Geetslys and I was like “OHH YEAAHHH”

Where do you get this information? My grandfather was similar to the chief of police at Alexanderplatz ... His name was Kurt Ziegler .... I have always been trying to find information on him.... can you help?

Whats the intro music?

19 yr old Vietnam vetran Paratrooper sergeant here. I went over there for blood and country. But in the end refused to shoot and old farmer who couldn't follow orders. I was discharged as "adaptable to military Duty." Wars are confusing places for teenagers and young men to grow up in. You go in one way and come out another. Then one day you find that there were only different shades of gray. There is no permanence in memories or histories. Things Change.

Finally a video about this thank you

It’s about time someone made a video about this subject

I would say that the German Army in world war 2 was a tool of evil and was capable of some truly terrible acts.....but wasn’t completely bereft of compassion.

Research the numerous non-German SS units; it's rather fascinating. The Wehrmacht could draft conscripts, but the SS had to recruit; so they recruited units based on ideas of a greater Aryan Nation, anti-Communism and anti-Semitism.

Holy shit! Geetslees the star wars lore dude has a history channel? Why had he not mentioned this? This is awesome!

My family comes from yugoslavia and we are now living in germany. My grandfather said that while the germans treated them with respect when they invaded their land towards russia and took only what they needed (food and weapons), the soviets on the other hand raped almost every woman and even slaughtered some people as they occupied it back

This is just straight up Wehrmacht Apologia

Wermacht in western front:we are just soliders who fight for Hitler and we don't do a warcrimes Wermacht in eastern front:NO

Can you please do a video on the various German resistance to the Nazi regime and whatcha one had the biggest effect?

Well done and thanks.