German Soldier Remembers WW2 | Memoirs Of WWII #15 

May he rest in eternal peace Mrs Buchanan, his words are inspiration for many people across the world , don't fight talk it out there's gotta be a solution. Warmest greetings from small Luxembourg

If you and your family inherited even a 10th of his strength and character there's no way he won't rest in peace. Your father saw more death, violence, and propoganda at a young age than any person should and still came out insightful and a pacifist. May God Bless you, your father, and your family.

​@@teaadvice4996 If you're ignorant, it's better to keep your mouth shut and not advertise it.

Sincerest condolences on your loss. He was a great storyteller and I'm glad he shared his story for future generations to hear.

Awww...I wish I knew that months ago and could have written him a nice comment! God bless him. I have lost my father as well and I feel for you and your family as I know the pain. Good luck to you!

Agustin Leos especially when there about to be invaded it’s just heart breaking and interesting.

Or perhaps an Italian

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Agreed. Also, Italians or Romanians before it is too late!!

please please

Omg if this news is real, rest in peace to the man

@@milanopasaribu4373 dude is a ex nazi soldier...I hope he doesn't rest in peace.

@@kevinbutton4580 You think soviets where so much more innocent ?

@@kevinbutton4580 he was forced too

@@kevinbutton4580 Russian soldiers are committing suicide after what they're currently being forced to do. A lot of German solders were forced into the war. Or were radicalised by propaganda by the German government. Yes, many many many German soldiers relished the chance kill and die for their county. But not all of them.

Better to make the most of them. In then falls on our shoulders to pass these stories onto our kids and grandkids

@@TheExtrreme Indeed.

Man this kinda hit me my grandma was 10 when the war was breaking out she passed away recently and always told me story’s

@@serenaedwards6385 Much respect for your father.

I do not wish to scare anyone, but I wonder if Biden is doing the same now. Nobody is allowed inside or outside the white house and their are mixed feelings about what the media says. Not pushing this on anyone, just wondering.

@Mjölnir Captain Sparkle finger's that's what I was thinking. I always see myself as the background character that got shot in the head

Man didn't invent war - it's in the genes. The times I've heard "why can't we just get along?"

The history of mankind is the history of war, even when we were nomad hunters gathers we should have fight for hunting fields.

Animals make war in their own way. For territory or females. Ants basically have soldiers, workers and medics. Peace is impossible because always someone will want what you have and if desperation drives him and you can't part with what is yours then conflict happens. When this happens between countries a war is started. Even now we are at war for our civilization's existence.

And we were lied into fighting our own kin, now look at the state of the West.

what a brilliant comment . Kudos my friend

Very wise words. May he rest in peace.

Как Гитлер немцы должны были себя убить .

nobody cares

​@@noahmizrahi9834 insensitive asshole

You can tell he was a wonderful man.

Wow…that’s awesome that Gert worked w/ NASA in Huntsville. I’m an Alabamian, and Huntsville is an “engineering” town. More engineers than anywhere in America.

How he was allowed to come here is just unbelievable. He SHOT at our people. Tell me he was out on a NO-FLY list at least?!! 🤷🏼‍♂️

​@@sec9788If it was for me I would limit the entrance of US people in Italy as well, just it would be a shame to not spill your dirty money. Its always good to see 😂

@@sec9788 He had no choice in what side he was on or he he was forced to shoot at.

Agreed

LOL what?

@@cplusplusdude8189 HES NOT A NAZI, HES A GERMAN

@@cplusplusdude8189 yeah isnt that guy a nazi?

@@ito2611 He used to be one and he must be held accountable for the crimes he committed back then. I care not one jot what he is saying now, he was a nazi Germany soldier and it does make him a war criminal. His nationality is absolutely unimportant here.

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@@noflex8451 Noice

" But we weren't too young to kill innocents " " But we weren't too young to slaughter kids and babies because of theirs religion"

@@Heurbrjxidjdjdjd well.... no, the thing is the older people defenitly had a choice, because they should have known it better they already knew a more civilised World and knew what democracy and al that shit is, but they Still chose their path. But as John B. Watson said :"Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors" the young people who where born in this defected system didn't really get to have a choice, the choices where made for them, all of them. If you grow up in a system which denies you a free will, you can't really develop one can you. Well, that's a false statement as well, but atleast it takes a pretty long time, and a lot of generations to develop a knew kind of thinking. I mean thats why it took humanity so long to overcome the supression of monarchy and develop a somewhat free world.

That's a BS reply! Back during Vietnam that was the chant by all the war protesters. When the feds change the law to 18 devote 3% of the people actually registered to vote. Yeah look it up! Just the way to make noise

at 10:37 you can even see one of his drawings referencing Dülmen.

Was about to write a comment as well. I agree its Dülmen.

German soldier? Why not Nazi soldier? Because that was a Nazi soldier from the Nazi army! Such videos are only there for the whitewashing of the Germans. By the way, unbelievable that 5 million watched this completely unnecessary video. This video is superfluous because obviously sympathies are to be awakened for a former German soldier. But no one should have sympathy for these soldiers of a felonious army! Because this felonious army was involved in various genocides and was also involved in various wars of aggression that made this genocides possible in the first place. Overall, the Nazi nation with the Nazi army is responsible for 55 million deaths and, in addition, for the destruction of many European cities and the economic ruin of many nations. This was a completely megalomaniac, mad, felonious, amoral and degenerated Nazi nation and Nazi army with pure, insane, megalomaniac and utterly amoral barbarism was totally unique in all of world history. It is a historical fact that since 1936 at the latest, but probably earlier, the overwhelming majority of Germans were followers and supporters of the German Nazi government thus they were Nazis! Because that is also the definition of Nazi. Supporters and followers of the German Nazi government. That applied to the entire German nation, including the army. That's why such a long war was even possible! Such a long war would have been impossible against the will of the majority. Also such a total fight! Because the vast majority of Germans were followers and supporters of the German Nazi Party, there was very little resistance. Since so many Germans wanted to join the Nazi party, was an admission freeze imposed. The crowds of people cheering Hitler were not ordered to cheer. They all came voluntarily to the Nazi mass events! There was also no mass exodus of the Germans abroad. Everywhere the Germans were committed to the victory of the Germans in this war! Incidentally, they also participated en masse in the crimes. Millions have murdered millions! For example, my grandpa was hit by a German civilian to death. This German civilian was the watchdog for the Polish workers in a factory seized by the Germans in Poland. My grandpa worked there. By the way, it was impossible to quit the job. The Germans had the list of employees. And besides, my grandfather had to work to feed the family. The German watchdog got angry with my grandpa! He hit him in his anger until he died. This happened more often in Poland. Also with the slave workers in Germany or the in occupied countries. Incidentally, 20 million slave laborers were forced to work under inhumane conditions. These were at slave labor harassed by millions of civilians in the factories and on the farms. There were millions of such German watchdogs to oversee these poor people being forced to work! Also millions of the soldiers who murdered civilians frequently anyway or killed in the war for the Nazi regime, but also millions of civilians were evil who were supporters of the Nazi government and who were involved in the crimes. This Nazi nation was completely megalomaniac, mad, criminal, amoral and degenerated!

I was wondering about that.

@@feraudyh What are you wondering about? About the whitewashing of the Germans? Worldwide everyone is used to that by now, because pro-German whitewash propaganda is been around since the 50s! That's why the term Nazi is used and not Germans! OK, actually, Nazis or Nazi Germany would be an appropriate term for the entire nation! Because since 1936 at the latest the overwhelming majority of Germans were supporters of the German Nazi government thus they were Nazis. But the term Nazis and Nazi Germany is problematic nowadays. Because the western pro-German propaganda spreads the lying myth of the few Nazis who were guilty and responsible, because it is generally concealed that the overwhelming majority of Germans were supporters of the German Nazi government, thus Nazis. From this lying western propagan the myth is even produced that the vast majority of Germans were actually victims of the evil Nazis themselves. The propagandists even claim that the Germans were liberated in 1945. As e.g. the title of this video shows. "Liberation of Munich April 30 1945" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UHn5RyaW3kc.html The title is not the occupation of Munich by the Americans, which would correspond to historical facts. No, a lie is being spread about liberation! An unbelievable lie in wich from the victory over this nation with the subsequent multi-annual occupation is made a LIBERATION. Why is it done that way? Why is the lie being spread of the few Germans who were responsible for the crimes so that most people by now say Nazis instead of Germans? At first in 1945, the Americans had the right attitude regarding the Germans, as this educational film shows for the US Army. „Your Job in Germany - RU-vid" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7OUR5uvs9aw.html Then pragmatism prevailed over justice! Becaus after the war, the Americans believed the Germans would be useful as allies! So in the 50s, most of Germans became the ally of the West. (West Germany). The problem, however, was that this Nazi nation was completely amoral and degenerate. The West could not be allied to a morally degenerate Nazi nation that has murdered millions of children, among other crimes. So they were practically systematically washed clean to be tolerable as allies. So they were washed clean by propaganda (Western historians / media / politicians / Hollywood etc.) and the blame was put on relatively few Nazis. Actually, their crimes are permanently relativized by Western propaganda.

@@UziZokal i imagine an anti aircraft crew on the ground but idk

Most of us are gonna get there one day man.

@@SuperBigdude77 This is sad and true of life.

world war 3 is starting. ☹️

@@user-cy3jc8tm7h do not let it happen:")

its normal he was once kid just like ours you idiot.

Why hate Mustangs they were beautiful creatures... matter fact The Cadillac of the Skies lol

Gundam1313 Yjshuao I mean if your getting shot by them they kinda loose there beauty

@@GUNDAM-NOLASAINTS Probably the same reason Poles and French hate Stuka's.

Gundam1313 Yjshuao to be honest, english, japanese and german planes were WAAAY prettier

Donald gay Trump he Almost got killed by one, did you not see the video?

Haha hätte meinen Urli auch andere Fragen gestellt als Kind …

Many who fought in the European Theater felt that way. Many who fought each other during the war formed lifelong friendships after the war.

Participants usually direct hatred at the enemy government, not individuals unless they are in battle or life-threatening situation. Soldiers aren't responsible for starting wars; they just follow orders.

I don't know the actual number of haulocosts Germans have done in Greece. The human faced monsters. Be proud of your father.

German soldier? Why not Nazi soldier? Because that was a Nazi soldier from the Nazi army! Such videos are only there for the whitewashing of the Germans. By the way, unbelievable that 5 million watched this completely unnecessary video. This video is superfluous because obviously sympathies are to be awakened for a former German soldier. But no one should have sympathy for these soldiers of a felonious army! Because this felonious army was involved in various genocides and was also involved in various wars of aggression that made this genocides possible in the first place. Overall, the Nazi nation with the Nazi army is responsible for 55 million deaths and, in addition, for the destruction of many European cities and the economic ruin of many nations. This was a completely megalomaniac, mad, felonious, amoral and degenerated Nazi nation and Nazi army with pure, insane, megalomaniac and utterly amoral barbarism was totally unique in all of world history. It is a historical fact that since 1936 at the latest, but probably earlier, the overwhelming majority of Germans were followers and supporters of the German Nazi government thus they were Nazis! Because that is also the definition of Nazi. Supporters and followers of the German Nazi government. That applied to the entire German nation, including the army. That's why such a long war was even possible! Such a long war would have been impossible against the will of the majority. Also such a total fight! Because the vast majority of Germans were followers and supporters of the German Nazi Party, there was very little resistance. Since so many Germans wanted to join the Nazi party, was an admission freeze imposed. The crowds of people cheering Hitler were not ordered to cheer. They all came voluntarily to the Nazi mass events! There was also no mass exodus of the Germans abroad. Everywhere the Germans were committed to the victory of the Germans in this war! Incidentally, they also participated en masse in the crimes. Millions have murdered millions! For example, my grandpa was hit by a German civilian to death. This German civilian was the watchdog for the Polish workers in a factory seized by the Germans in Poland. My grandpa worked there. By the way, it was impossible to quit the job. The Germans had the list of employees. And besides, my grandfather had to work to feed the family. The German watchdog got angry with my grandpa! He hit him in his anger until he died. This happened more often in Poland. Also with the slave workers in Germany or the in occupied countries. Incidentally, 20 million slave laborers were forced to work under inhumane conditions. These were at slave labor harassed by millions of civilians in the factories and on the farms. There were millions of such German watchdogs to oversee these poor people being forced to work! Also millions of the soldiers who murdered civilians frequently anyway or killed in the war for the Nazi regime, but also millions of civilians were evil who were supporters of the Nazi government and who were involved in the crimes. This Nazi nation was completely megalomaniac, mad, criminal, amoral and degenerated!

@@antimimoniakos Like when the greeks butchered turkish and bulgarian civilians before WW2? Get off the high horse.

Do you also speak German?

@@kayvan671 I know a few words and phrases, but very little.

@@niki4god Ach..passt schon 👍🏻

What an amazing story I hope he is doing good!

Liar! I'm Gert's grand-son (by Myrtle's side) and I've never heard of you. He DID mention a Nicole, but he said she was a hussie who did...things in videos, for monetary gain.

Just dont let him hook a hose up to the car exhaust

Homefront i know its a joke but come on. people on both sides suffered enough to ridicule sth horrible as ww2

Homefront the old place and time reference is applicable on this one. Satire can be funny in the right situation.

Wartime mechanic

Wow that’s so cool

maybe in a year

except britain and france tried to talk it out and see where that got them

mrpeabodythethird that’s why the other needs to be level headed if they’re not they shouldn’t have power in the first place

@94982 I don't know if it was a typo or not but I think what you meant to say was a "unconditional" surrender?

What part reply plss

Because history is told from the side of the victors... sadly

@@NordicGriffin we should teach it from both sides

Because Germany had a few good reasons to start a war but our governments don’t want us to know those reasons.

Western culture sees things from the point of Western view. Sadly, I wish this was talked about more.

But it's so important to see and understand how something like this could happend, so that this never will happen again. I don't know where you're coming from, but it makes me sad that they don't teach it better

I was thinking the same thing about him being such a great storyteller. I actually live in the town where Werner von Braun and the space program was founded. There are several ways that the German influence is felt even to this day, but I read something interesting where Hitler invented the multi lane highway system in Germany in order to transport tanks. Eisenhower saw the advantages there, and after the war our highway system was created and modeled after the German system.

good information, thanks. I'm old enough to recall the Eisenhower years. I think he was a great president as well as a great general.

Юг это Гитлер и Эйхман .

Chivalry is on a decline

We weren't allowed to remember. The word Nazi was criminalized.

@@schris413 It should be.

@@schris413 The Germans did not call themselves Nazi, the term was invented by communists and eventually adapted by everyone else.

@@derkernspalter "nazi" is simply the diminutive for "nationalsozialist". same with "sozi" for social democrats/socialists. it wasn't "invented" by the communists, but of course it wasn't used by the nazis themselves since it is a derogatory term

rules where shaped by war i hope you know that.

That's the most retarded quote ive ever heard. You cant have peace without war.

@@popthiccle1158 i thought your comment was idiotic in context

@@ziinx5899 but then i read yours

@@ziinx5899 saying that is the same as saying you cant have crime without poverty, there is always an origin the origin is eternal the origin is a choice the choice is made by man . Men in power either for country or for the gods sharing can happen u don't need to fight to have food or land or trade. all the arguments i know u will throw at me. anyway bless.

Quite a few German ex-pats ended up in the US Special Forces

He basically just jumped ship when he got caught

Alot of Germans over in us and nazis

he only a gentleman to you because he fought for your country..

john g usually i don’t judge people but mostly i judge systems,don’t you think is pathetic and hypocrite to accept a former nazi soldier to our country when our immigration low carry a very clear question “have you been a member of the nazi party “ ??in other word how did this man pass the immigration test with his ugly past?? Why they give him a pass when we don’t accept others with a clean record??perhaps because he is a white man and deserve the special treatment 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️i don’t know you found the answer for me

I can tell he was lying he was PATRIOTIC and determined to defeat the allies in WW2

Absolutely cringe

@@calo-kg2cy Damn that was on point. lol

@Wilhelm II. Are you even German brooo

@Wilhelm II. Ah, the battlecry of the nazi apologist. It was Wehrmacht troops who were responsible for a lot of the crimes of nazi Germany idiot. Not Hitler personally. They have themselves to blame for following him. They could always have surrendered. Instead they chose to fight fanatically for Hitlers genocidal ambitions. And yes, the Allies had every right to retaliate for it. They could have ended Germany as a state for all I care. Its no less than what Germany intended and tried to do to a lot of them.

almost no veteran likes talking about killing peeps

EUROPE Freedom damn, you got the whole squad laughing😐

@EUROPE Freedom what is going on with you

@EUROPE Freedom meh didnt Really Said anything

@EUROPE Freedom lol you are so toxic

Hey Jamie , you did look it up ! I hope you enjoyed it .

If u see him again say hello to him!

Awesome

daymn he is thicc tho

@@gertfschmitz Your testimony is very important, thank you for sharing it with us! We wish you excellent health and happiness for many more years to come :)

The wrong country though

@@harrymonk6 😂😂😂

@Daniel Menefrego i know right? How could America let a nazi degenerate in their army .disgusting

Harry Monk He was a regular soldier. I hope you realize that there is more than just a nazi in a German army

@Schwanzus Longus mate wtf ! Dont be like that

Patriot Cowboy what was his name?

Our planes had 50 cals, he wouldn’t have survived.

Nice story! The grandfather of a good friend first fought in France and then he was moved to Russia. There he was wounded and brought back home to recover. He told that this injury was the only reason that kept him away from Stalingrad. Afterwards when he was fully recovered he took part in the battle of Monte Cassino where he was wounded a second time. He survived war and died just some years ago in peace. The brother of my grandmother was not that lucky. He died at the age of 19 in the battle of Stalingrad Btw I am from Austria

@@mountainguyed67 lol well you find the stranger and tell him.

I was a 50 gunner in Iraq, we were instructed not to use it on personell unless it was necessary to save our lives. Example: someone is about to shoot you (or other friendly's), and switching to another weapon would be too late.

The victims of his army should rest in peace.

The FBI thanks for watching!

my grandson says your the fbi, do i need to get a switch for him lyin to me ?

@Leopard Boas a stick used for swatting a childs behind

@Leopard Boas a swatting stik my papaw passed down from his, to mine, when nephew gets loud he gets a swat? so what i say. so he is upset. he is loud. He is my kine. He can't be loud? Marsha is right next to him in the room over and she has enough cards in her deck to know ol' ciggy wont let nephew get loud. i got a damn chihuahua for chripesake.

Gods side.

Hi , MOSS ; I am so glas you discovered me , hahaha !Live is much better now ! I wish I could meet you some time , but at 93 it is not so easy !

​@@gertfschmitz I just left another message responding to someone else. My father was a young (German) boy during the war. He has vivid memories and many stories. One of my uncles was in the SS, and lost his leg after being shot by a plane. Another uncle and my grandfather were both prisoners of war. My father found a phosphorus bomb that exploded when he played with it, causing acid burns and hearing loss. Dusseldorf was a target of strategic bombing, and ended up being mostly rubble by the end of the war. And yet all of them (2 parents and 11 brothers and sisters) made it through the war. I think these stories should be passed down to those of us who don't know any better.

@@marcinmario6455 🤦🤦 oh man du bist nicht zu retten ein richtiger vollidiot bist du

Gert Schmitz Hope you're staying safe and doing well during this pandemic! Wonderful piece of history here.

@@marcinmario6455 Thomas the deportation train had never seen such a bullshit before

Тупые немцы сбежали в США и южную Америку /например Эйхман и Йозеф Менгеле .

How strange that must have been. Joining the very military you fought against just years prior. How difficult that must have been for him. I cant imagine the ridicule and maltreatment he must have gotten during his service, from veterans of that war who learned of his history. :(

@@davecrupel2817Ridicule???? My dear Lord, he SHOT at us!!! How was he even ALLOWED to do that (immigrate and join) is beyond comprehension…😑

Yeah It's heartbreaking because Lot of people don't get it, Realize They are fighting for their country, Following orders! I'm a American And I'm just gonna say America or any country would've Done same if ordered to ... Example Iraq war, America started a war For no reason and killed Innocents Because they were ordered to! My great grandfather Was in ww2, My father said He took pictures of Japanese people heads, Took there katana! Comprehending that Shows Were no different compared to the Germans...

Römisch Shanta can you not see that both of those acts are evil though, like just because you’re ordered to do something doesn’t mean that you’re not morally culpable if the act is evil.

@@johnboyle6294 Dude I never said That I didn't think those acts were good? I'm mean Yeah If your Country Is doing something Wrong, Ofc they should be blamed, Not Pretend it didn't happen like immature adults! That's like the US telling the military to Slaughter People, wouldn't you Blame The US Dosen't matter if Ur ordered To do something you Should still blamed! Of course it's evil, If you Don't think ww2 Wasn't evil ur a Dumbass... All I was saying in my first comment is We think Germans Are bad Because of evil acts, Yet America Bombs Citys with Unarmed civilians, Starts wars, Creates chaos? If you read my comment I was talking about My great grandfather Who fought in ww2, Had pictures of Japanese heads, Don't you think that's evil?

the wehrmacht were mainly volunteers and commited many atrocities including the holocaust

Like the americans?

Lucky for him, there are not too many to see now!

@@vivians9392 😂

Can't really blame him now can you? 😂

In All Honesty so your talking about reincarnation n that stuff?

I hate mustangs in warthunder

You’re absolutely correct. The Russians killed the majority of German soldiers taken as POW’s….very sad.

Oh yeah. Soviets took no prisoners

@@mitchkupietz They did take prisoners, and sent them to labour camps in Siberia to be worked to death

Sorry to hear about that. War is never good. Germans never get their side of the story told

Jack Christiansen hearing the whine of one brings back the memories😂

@@dawgznationnicca2674 ...it probably does... ...my dad was from Hungary, and had a few stories about sitting out more than one bombing raid in a bomb shelter, (a rather jarring, harrowing experience by all accounts)... ...he came to the U.S. in 1951, if I recall correctly, and in his latter years he had a hobby of acquiring collectables from the Franklin Mint... ...he would receive pamphlets in the mail promoting the release of the next collectable (commemorative medallions, or die cast models of various motor vehicles, desktop statues of various legendary figures of the old west, etc.) and was something of an avid collector of these things... ...one day, in the mail, he received one of these promotional packets advertising the release of a diecast replica of a B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber, which he promptly threw into the trash. I didn't understand why and asked him why not? ...you like these Franklin Mint collectables. His answer to me was: "After sitting in a few air-raid shelters with these damned things raining bombs down on us, I don't really feel like spending money on one of these replicas"... ...I could see his point...

@@miklosernoehazy8678 Intersting story!

@@leomignonneau1765 ...my dad had a couple of interesting stories about his experiences during the war...

@@miklosernoehazy8678 we would like to hear more please.. :))

that sounded like someone interviewed a shop owner from texas

So I wasn't the only one to hear it

I enjoyed hearing the very American anachronisms like “shoot, etc” with the mix of German inflection and Southern twang

@@bcreech17 Out of interest: is "shooting at us" an anachronism?

I caught that too like when he said "shoot yeah" about going to flight school. I'm from the south and that sounded like my grandad telling a story

I grew up hearing stories of the civil war, and The Great War and WWII... I had family on both sides, one wrote the Article s of surrender, and the other was the last Confederate General to surrender. My Fathers dad was a dough boy in WWII, and my dad and all my uncles were veterans of WWII. Both were last surviving personnel of their units.... Needless to say, family reunions in 60s, and 70s, were as flurry of family history and war. I served in Marines, 83-89, during Granada and Beruit, even though I never went, there were other things Reagan had us doing. No such thing as a Peace Time Marine, let's leave it at that or 75th Rangers...I had privilege of knowing 4, former officers of Germany... One was a SS Capt., captured by the Russian Army and when he was at fighting weight in his prime he was 218 and 6'2".... When he was returned from Russia he weighed 110lbs... I could go on, but, all these Soldiers fought for their Country and did their best, and were, greater men after the wars...

Lol

So true

Yes, I noticed that too! Even American slang. I have never heard anyone talk like this before.

@@Michaelcaba German/English aren't too far apart form each other (Linguistically I mean) , it's worth taking a look if you want to learn another language

Maybe he was from southern Germany.

I HAD A LOT OF HELP FROM ABOVE !!

@@gertfschmitz Above the Mustangs I presume.

@King Roger Check this kid pontificating about how he knows what real courage is over an actual WW2 veteran. Most courageous act you've ever faced is peeing sitting down in a public toilet or coming out to your dad.

Conbry lmaoooo

@@conbry6388 ROFL

GERT FRIEDRICH FRANZ SCHMITZ

@@XTian-hp7qk *Gerd

Exactly what I thought when I heard his name lol.

@@simonbaumbach5169 No, there are subtitles, he's right, its Gert

@@ivandelosreyes1400 I know right? it almost sounds fake lmao

@@reecewood155 While I was at Fort Polk Louisiana, my neighbor was a small girl during the war. She told me that her two uncles said something 'not very nice' about Hitler and were sent to the Eastern Front. Never to be seen or heard of again.

Each soldier is a victim of his system.

MotorCollection I don’t think soldiers knew their real system

@Iblis Mine isn't made up dude.

yeah but germans who were against it were very very rare. of course after the war, when faced with what they had been a part of they say oh we got drafted we didnt know what was going on, yeah right concentration camps next to big cities but nobody knew

Fred Cook not anymore but back in the day they did.

Old men start wars and young men die in them.

they used to.

Their offspring more often than not get found to be medically unfit for service, strange that.

Well Russia and Germany did divide Poland they had a pact together and not all german soldiers fought against the USA such as the German_Army_(Wehrmacht) Heer soldiers fought with the USA and French during the battle of Castle Itter and idc which said they were on soo a veteran is a veteran

William Wallace William Wallace 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@ADJ30168 Hitler'sJewish Soldiers-Professor Brian Mark Rigg.

@@kareldekale4987 wdym?

@@jenna6906 Jazeker, het plaatje is immers veel uitgebreider. De werkelijke feiten over het hoe en waarom worden bewust weggelaten. Keer op keer moet ik vaststellen, dat ik gecensureerd wordt en dat in een land, waarin de grondrechten gerespecteerd dienen te worden.

@@kareldekale4987 i dont understand...

Surviving a Mustang strafing is unbelievable!

Yeah. Too bad our guys didn’t get him.

10:10 - 10:18 cUm on out Cum on oUt *HANDS UP HANDSUP **-GACHIGASM-** GERMANGASM* ACTUAL HISTORICAL TREASURE BOUNDED BY TIME

@@monroekelly9064 You better should search a good psychotherapist.

@@keyboardwarrior0082 You better should proof read.

Same

This is just late stage war there's better testimonials but they're with subtitles guess they picked this guy cause of his good english

No shit idiot. Allied criminals should be exposed.

Fridolf måne you're pathetic!!!!!

@@billmers3219 No im not, you dont know me. You are simple.

He was 10 or 12 years old when he joined the army. Thats why

Welll veterans can be healthy 🙄 sooooo ...

@@franciscomonge4930 wrong. Hitler youth wasn’t “the army” .. He was likely in the Hitler youth program until around 16-17 years of age before he was drafted into the Nazi armed forces.

@@MauroPavanelli That Group thinking is the same that Nazis use to explain why certain groups are bad.

I met a D-Day veteran at work one time who didn’t even look the age that he was. He was in his 80’s at the time, but didn’t even look like a day over 70. He sure did keep himself up good.

"History does not repeat, it rhymes."

"We" don't start wars, politicians do.

@@yektako but it us the people who elect politicians just look at Trump he was elected and the Republicans are doing everything they can to keep him in power.

@@oisinosborne2852 Never better evidence that people are not fit to elect their leaders.

Tell that to the Jews.

You’ll never hear from the ones that gassed the women and children

fleisch bersch is That Rich piana in your avatar?

There is some melancholy beauty in these stories

@@21stcenturystrengthethos47 hell yea it is

fleisch bersch lol

Excellent stories, my dad was in WW2. I remember him telling me stories about the war when i was a teenager but i was too young to understand the magnitude of what he was telling me. Unfortunately i have forgotten more of those stories than i remember. The older he got the less he talked about it. I think his trip to france to commemorate the 50th anniversary of d-day was therapeutic for him. When he & my mom returned from france i told him I was proud of him. I'll always remember his reaction was one of pleasant surprise. Damn i miss my parents. Great people, yet very humble.

Yes, there is a solution and you will deny it, but His name is Jesus Christ!

nah nah nah nah nah embrace the full extent of liberty or youll get it embraced for you! SOMEONES BOUT TO GET LIBERATED!!! MURICAAAAAAAAAA

sounds good, doesnt work.

they warned us...and we aint listening, not yet!!

@JuuzouSusuyaScythe TwoHandedGsKing No Jesus, no peace. Know Jesus, know peace.

The sad thing is that it's human nature. As a 17 year old even I can see another World War approaching.

acevitamin no “world” war” isn’t happening.

Yet it’s spoken about it in the Bible.

@acevitamin there is no war at all, not sure how you think but what you said was definitely stupid lol.

@acevitamin maybe because "ghostly warfare" isnt a thing. Search up the meaning of "war"

funny laughed

Who can blame him, Mustangs leave cars and coffee and run over people.

My mother in law who was a Polish slave labourer was wounded when US aircraft machine gunned there horse & cart while taking milk into town, horse dead, farmer dead, Marie had bullet wounds to her legs

Can't blame him, I'm sure any infantryman would hate whatever model of aircraft that had strafed them in combat. Stukas come to mind for the allies.

Imagine how much German Tank Crews hated them...

I have 3 accents ! When I visit Germany I have a American accent ,when I visit the west coast I have a southern accent and when I am in ALA I have a germane accent .

Yea he sounds very dutch indeed

@@sebbi9710 Dutch is a language

He probably served in Huntsville Alabama for NASA

@@gertfschmitz Danke dir Gert, dass du deine unglaubliche Geschichte mit der Öffentlichkeit teilst. Ich wünsche dir Glück und Gesundheit auf deinem weiteren Weg!

@Rad Derry Got to make sure the guns Stay Pointed in the right direction. Which is Us pointing them at Each Other and not Them.

@Rad Derry if you only know on side then for all you know you aren't killing a hostile your killing a freedom fighter

@Rad Derry I mean there both true technically

@Rad Derry the only real truth is nihilism

@Rad Derry no it's just acceptice of everything ending

That’s only because nobody kills your grandfather’s family just in their house

He died in may 2022

Dude how fucking old are you! Surprised you can even you a computer

@@harrymonk6 Haha, what? I was raised with the first computers. Grandfather was born 1897, father 46 and me 77.

@Guitargreat Yes, but first only as some kind of home air spotter. They had to identify all air movement and report it. It was not that uncommon to be drafted again for such kind of backline service. Remember, all the younger lads got drafted and trained for the upcomming Russian campaign. As for the later years, they drafted all they can get.

Glad you are alive.

@Guitargreat Yes... the system of evil used evryone who could walk to defense itself ... so be aleways careful if someone tells that his system is the best. Loud shouting means less truth. be suspicious to any politician, there is always a another truth behind.

Yes it is there are very very few not just of world wars but in general a good example is the history's which had parts about the wars between Greece and Persia but we also the Persian perspective

Its a same shit on every side-kill or get killed...in next war first thing I going to do is to robb the first bank i see...

@Sterling Thomas Very unlikely

@@orcajr.5843 Why?!your dady is a BankBitch

timitzer Each side did what they had to? German murdered, eliminated, cremated and destroyed over sex million Jewish people. Did they have to do so?

HollaBackFounder that wasn’t the soldiers, that was people like the SS

@@HollaBackFounder The Schutzstaffel and the Army are different. Half of the soldiers got drafted and based on your logic every Japanese soldier war apart of pearl harbor or every American soldier put Japanese in camps

@@civixsgames5483 You are correct, what was happening in those camps was kept as quiet as possible from the ordinary soldier, it was not common knowledge. Why would it be? Example: Do serial killers run around telling everyone? Heck No! Serial killers keep it from their own families!

@@HollaBackFounder - and don't forget the "war of annihilation against the Soviet Union" too.......hmmm ...and the Soviets paid them back after V-E Day by keeping them as prisoners!

Zuniga’s Car Detailing Please connect him with Josh. Like he said at the end of the video, there aren’t many left and each day we lose more.

What were his stories?

war sucks..the end.

Well, good on yer for doing that job. You are a kind and good human being.

Best comment all day.

You should know by the end of the war general Patton said we'd fought the wrong enemy and destroyed a noble people, after he arrived in germany after the russians and met them, a large portion of soldiers, generals, and journalists tried to speak out about the war afterwards and that it was wrong, communism won and now we are paying the price.

my uncle also in the 94th 376th regt. I have read the history the guys went through hell wars circumstances and resource allocation often left the division on even footing with the enemy and they brutally slugged it out

damn, that's sad

Yes, But what choice did the west have?@@extraneus1630

Thats the Belgian flag, not the German flag.

once a german. now an American Army Vet. not even germans want to be german

@@rickydrip4050 No, hes probably fine with his real ethnicity as a german and so am i. It was only natural for many germans to become americans after the war.

@jamie saywell I thank you for your understanding and good point. I am german and i am often confrontated with the history of my country.

@@notreal1477 No thats a german flag. I know that because i am german as well😂👍

He was definitely a lucky kid back then. I guess it was meant to be how he survived, seems he lived a good, happy & honest life after the war. ☺

He's extremely lucky. Many of the solders left at the end of the war were murdered by Eisenhower and the United States Army. Others were worked to death in the Gulag system.

@Русское море Over a million Germans were sent to the Gulag after the war. Most never came home. This is a documented historical fact, not a matter of opinion.

jan kowalski stfu. Formulate a good sentence first, then talk shit

@Русское море You are dumb if you think Germans were not sent to the Gulag

he enjoyed the opportunity here. they always do.

@white privlage OY VEY OH GAWD

@white privlage German soldiers didn't know the full extent of the camps. They thought they were just strict prisons and people work to get released. They only released the full extent of the Concentration Camps after the war ended. They were also forced to fight just like most soldiers from every country in World War 2. All Nazis were bad but not all Germans were Nazis

@white privlage I can't tell if you are joking or not. IT WAS HITLER/THE GOVERNMENT'S IDEA. Not every single german soldier wanted it to happen. They were forced to do it. All these people fought for their country. It is Hitler and his advisers that are in hell.

white privlage the heer(army) was different from the SS you committed most of the atrocities you know they where different from the German armed forces they were there just to fight the opposing side the SS was a paramilitary branch of intelligence assassins and psychos that wanted a super race of aryans do your research before you comment and yes the heer did atrocious acts towards innocents but they had no choice they were ordered by SS and high ranking officials to commit these smaller genocides if they didn’t cooperate they would all die

He was amazing to listen to! I loved his accent so much. Great story teller too.