I Began My 5th Year In Russian Captivity, I Knew I Would Never Return Home (Ep. 13) 

@@Solaremusic Quite a bit in this story doesn't add up

Julian Assange: "I Began My 5th Year In British Captivity, I Knew I Would Never Return Home"

The Germans were victims because their leader( Hitler) had no idea of Russian survival angst, which shows how people between a rock and a hard place will react. These unfortunates did not understand their philosophy, which was a watered-down version (socialism vs Marxism) of communism was really an ethnic war of survival of the most able.⁸

My great uncle was an SS medic and was there until 54 too 😢

@@arostwocents It must be a bummer to have NAZI relatives.

Same here

When was he captured? Stalingrad? Or, at the end in '45?

If he was a veteran of the battle of Stalingrad, he is one lucky man that he survived to return home. I'm sure his life was total hell while he was a POW of the Soviets, but at least he was alive. I'm sure the experience shattered him.

@@Johnconno If you have any military experience you would understand.

@@strfltcmnd.9925 Colonel Blimp. 🌹

Hi. My father served in Luftwaffe 1st. Fallschirmjäger Division from 1940 and on till he was captured in Normandie september 1944 by American Forces, at that time he served in the 3rd. Fallschirmjäger Division that was formed in Reims France and then moved to Brest France, it (the new division) was formed by the 3rd. battalion of 1st Division Fallschirmjäger when he fought in Monte Casino Italy, they was moved to France and together with units from Fallschirm-Panzer-Division 1. Hermann Göring and others. He was sent to America and was there 2 years and then 1 year in England. He was sent back to Germany in 1947.

Have you read that the Germans between 1941-1943 alone killed 3 million Soviet soldiers who were prisoners of war.? The Soviet government treated German POWs the same as Germans treated the Russians

Yeah they were kept in Britain as agricultural slave labor.

Well I'm sure he had a better time in England than any German prisoners did in the USSR. Many of them died there, and never returned of course.

lol

I went to Assisi in 2008 and met an elderly gentleman whose brother was killed by the Russians on the Eastern Front. Until then I never knew that the Italians fought there. The man was sad but also seemed to have some sort of peace regarding his brother’s fate. He had medals and photos, so I believe that helped.

@@ajsparks87 , Like I said 85'000 never came back .Happens in wars .

Were they supposed to return those 85,000? If they wanted to live why didn't they just stay home in their own country?

@@staticmouse438 Non of them volunteered . , they were forced to go ,

@@stironeceno Sadly that fact is true for just about every war. Rich men make wars. Poor men fight wars.

For young innocent men. USMC VET.

That’s an incredibly stupid statement. It takes two sides to fight a war and if you’re invaded, have all the reasons in the world to respond that’s not doing it without thinking or for no reason.

The international chew who instigated both world wars are sociopathic.

@@lv4077state actor

What theater did you serve in?​@@lv4077

And the Russian soldiers who did return after being POWs ended up in the Siberian gulags.

Stalin was a monster worse than Hitler, he lived a lot longer than Hitler and continued to murder people until the day he died. His gulags and rieducation camps were the stuff of nightmares, Hell on earth untold millions died there. These numbers do not include the innocents murdered in various communist revolutions and dictatorships around the world whose instigators and leaders were all Stalin's disciples.

​@@anthonydoyle7370 this is not true, dear uneducated liar. Only some percentage of officers were imprisoned

It's not that hard to look up. About a third of German pows in Russian captivity died - a lot of the soldiers caught in Stalingrad were in such bad shape they died. About 60% of the Russian POWs captured by the Germans died.

The German High Command DID try to get a deal with the Soviet leadership in the first few months of the war in Russia, regarding treatment of POW's by both sides, but were ignored by the Soviets. After several such entreaties by the German High command - all ignored or rebuffed - they gave up. Which is a bit of history almost never mentioned. Polish POW's, by contrast, were reasonably well-treated by the Germans as Poland was a signatory to the Geneva Convention. So was Germany but the USSR wasn't. But that's Communists for you - pretend concern for workers and peasants (those who would be conscripted to fight) but not give a shit about their welfare should they be captured. And, on top of that, be treated as enemies and criminals when they were "freed" and returned home to the warm Bolshevik embrace...

This is from his book I read it long ago. It's not a film.

Calling it a video game is insulting. It's life. Please read more and actually go out and live your life (travel even if its only to the next town or city) and stop playing video games.

​@crayzmarc you misunderstand my comment, although perhaps comparing the majors war biography with a video game was a poor choice of analogy to use. I simply meant that in a game, the player character tends to always be right in the the thick of the action across each pivotal battle in a campaign and that the outcome depends solely on the players efforts and deeds . In other memoirs read on this channel, from a infantry rifleman , or a pilot, or perhaps a narrative of certain battles told from multiple perspectives. In these other examples the experiences while harrowing tend to show or tell only the part of the conflict relative to that authors narrative.(hara was a destroyer skipper, deshazer a bombardier then pow, etc) that never have I heard of someone who started the war fresh out of training, experienced combat on multiple fronts and finished the war as a staff officer in Hitlers very command bunker whose decisions influence the fate of thousands and impact the direction of the war itself. I know he wasn't making these war altering commands his self, but to be a part of.. still, I thought was wild. Again, like a game character.. Now. I did not "call it a video game" like you suggest. I did nothing of the sort. I simply likened the story to a theoretical experience a game character might have in the sense that it was not average or mundane. In fact I didn't use any specific game because I haven't played any war video games for about a decade now since I was a teenager, or even owned a console for the last few yrs. So.. how about this. I will look towards traveling in the near future, and you can pick up a couple of 6th grade reading comprehension workbooks to help you next time you feel the need to be a dick in comments section on RU-vid.

@@crayzmarc But in fairness, if a person hasn't experienced such hardship, it parallels a video game to them. Humans are limited. You find this same point brought up in narcissistic abuse videos. Outsiders, even many professional counselors, can't comprehend the victims situation/what they went through, and harm inflicted.

@@Solaremusicdo u mean AI reading it ? Or AI creating the content ?

You can't say "terrible treatment" when they were doing the exact same thing

@@sameemas1723 Exactly, ask how many Russian servicemen died or were murdered by the Germans in their captivity, at least 7 million.

@@sameemas1723 Sure you can. If you can complain about the Germans using slave labor until 1945, why can't you complain about the Allies using slave labor until 1955? lmao

@@seanmurphy5770 Stalin refused to feed the captured russians as the Germ didnt have the resources,..he classed them as traitors and disowned them

@@ChrisStavros they had no option but to used forced labour since they stood virtually alone against half the world

Russian POWs had a higher fatality rate than German POWs and they the army they got to Berlin first.

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wishy washy bothsidist crap. Good stories from Russia? from Pol Pot Cambodia? From North Korea. F===off

Thank you aswell!

Thank you so much

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*Posterity

Afther the next war, which seems more and more imminent now, we won't have to worry about journals, diaries.. etc..

@@PaulRudd1941 Thank you, didn’t know that word.

I too am concerned about what we are heading towards. UK & other European politicians are talking of conscription or military programs that will mature "in 5yrs". I hope this is just 'sabre-rattling'...

@@TeddyBear-ii4yc While quite a bit older (65) I feel the same fear. Many of the boomers that I know sense the world going awry too.

You don’t have to present both sides to talk about a topic from someone’s perspective. Stop being a whinny it’s not fair crybaby snowflake.

My friend lives there. And her family. I visited back in 1987.. I got a gift from then , an asbestos "hot pot coaster" . No one knew.. But the town still exists and people still happily live there:)

@@vsirrmk Happines is relative I dont doubt theres worse places to live in Russia

Yup. Knappe wrote a book. "Soldat" This 'video' is read from Knappe's book.

@@spotifyde5979 thank you. Much appreciated.

There is a movie titled, "As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me." Well worth a watch.

Here in Queensland ,20 years ago I met an elderly Russian guy who was one of the survivors of that escape 😢. He made no secret ocf his haters if the Soviets

Legal basis=gun

The Allies had an unwritten agreement to use German POWs as slave labor after the war. Britain and France did the same thing, but the Soviets took advantage of it the most and the longest. They didn't recognize the Geneva convention.

@@maxn.7234 I believe the Allies principle was to use German POW's to undo some of the damage they had done like clearing mines that they had layed, seemed fair enough. Yes I am sure the Soviet's would not have been signatories to the 1929 accords.

Allies afraid of Stalin

Not criminals? Are you stupid?

And the Holdemore? The Kulacks? The Red Terror? Did you invite that upon yourselves? Before WW2 people hadn't learned of the evils of all forms of Socialism, be it Marxist or Nationalist.

@@AndyJarmanwell said - fascism, nazism and communism are all sub-branches of the same depraved socialist ideology. It is terrifying that it is back in fashion. Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat its mistakes

​@@AndyJarmanYes we did learn what you people did in Vietnam war , May Li massacre and that has nothing to do with either bolshevism or nationalism ,just pure farken evil . So get of your high moral horse ....

@@AndyJarman So, that justifies the village being burnt down by Nazis?

@@AndyJarman Marks was German. everything thats beyond evil comes from Germany

Looks like they tried to bring "democracy and ruled based order".

From what I gathered form the comments, its Soldat" by Sigfried Knappe.

@@antidoteify Correct.

Sounds like about 1950

1949

Soldat

@@Solaremusic Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier 1936 - 1949, Siegfried Knappe. Readily available, review on Goodreads.

@@Solaremusicno nooron clearly it’s a novel called “Soldat” written by Siegfried Knappe

The more Russia changes, the more it stays the same.

has Germany changed?

@@minimouse0285 Germany, as a direct result of WW2, has changed to a pacifistic nation which is unwilling to be directly involved in supporting its allies by "boots on the ground" and much prefers its military forces to be small and barely able to provide self-defense. The entire opposite of imperialistic, expansive Russia.

@@michaelmazowiecki9195 no, Germany hasnt changed. They wanted to control europe in 1939 by military force but when they failed, they changed their tactics. Now they are controlling the european countries using Euro and their influence in the EU. If you call Russia imperialistic then Germany is imperialistic as well.

Ignorant propagandacomment.​@@minimouse0285

Cope

Manner der Zeit….men of the times.

Many people watching these videos are on the side of the NAZIs and don't see the points you raise or choose to ignore them.

So you expect someone sent to the Gulag to not be critical of communism? Do you also believe there are 30 genders?

totally agree . . the Russians were light on the Germans, i would not be so forgiving and i wasnt even there.

Agreed

Yt is an American website

Enslaved is a funny way of saying he was a war criminal.

Your great uncle came home with Soviet humor.

@@john197039 EXACTLY....stay home in your own country and you won't be enslaved in some other country....

And do not mess with Russians if you are not Chingizhan.

Utter bollox. First of all, squaddies, NCO's and junior officers of all sides have to put up with political and military decisions taken by others more senior than themselves that they have to put up with and implement. You'd have done the same 99% certain. Also, both sides treated each other harshly at various times during and AFTER the war. And yes, hardly just the Soviets in the latter regard, but the treatment of the Germans by the Western allies post-war as well. Victors write postwar history, and conveniently airbrush out all the less pleasant parts of their own conduct. Research some serious history - and not just History Channel type crap.

@@captainlogic2455 The germans acted like demons from hell don"t try to belittle their countless murders during this war they started. The weak excuse of they follow the orders is pathetic and did not serve the nazis at the Nuremberg trial because it's bullshit.

what is bro yapping about, far more Soviet POWs died in german's camp

It's a translation from German. Probably lost in translation..

You doubt it ? Go back to school son and this time pay attention.

Apart from the industrial revolution, an empire that covered 2/3 of the worlds surface and scientific advances in every field you can think of.Our university's are still the most prestigious in the world, and our democratic system has been copied in more countries than any other, but yeah, Britain has nothing...tit

4 year old account, second post , I wonder where the basement is in Russia your sitting in you naughty little bot you

​@@Beefy5039second post on this channel. The accusation of people being bots is like a modern day McCarthyism.

@@Fyrdman There's 100% actual bots here.

@@Blopusanian And this guy isn't one of them

From what I have read and watched, German POWs were much too valuable as forced labour to starve them. Depending on the work they were doing, mining coal or other essential stuff, they would get the same rations as Soviet labourers.

liar

Not sure i believe "russians didnt starve prisoners intentionally". When they have such an amazing track record of willfully starving their own populations.

​@@cognitivedisability9864 German POWs were more valuable to the Stalin than his own people. He could use German POWs as bargaining chips and following his death, all remaining were allowed to return to both Germanies.

they were their so they would know 😂😂😂 history is white washed for the beginning of time believing a book is like believing a RU-vid video is 100 facts lmao history has been rewritten to protect the government investments lmao

It’s funny when people still believe in the same propaganda that was told in the 40s, the Russians treated their own ppl like dogs, and imprisoned anyone who refused to commit to their cause.

The nazis were told that russians were subhuman? That is nothing compared to what jews are taught about gentiles.

EVIL 😈

What atrocities the Germans committed against Poles, Belorussians, Ukrainians and Russians is not mentioned by this "poor man". A bit strange, isn't it? And already the Americans and their vassals are going at it again - Drang nach Osten. Only this time the Russians are ready, I have no doubt at all

You are ignorant.

They were not war criminals pal,they were Heer regular soldiers...

@@Wilt8v92 “Heer” were war criminals. Don’t you know history?

@@OlegUshyarov Go away,single digit IQ..

@@Wilt8v92 all German soldiers were criminals

@@OlegUshyarov Well Oleg by your logic every Russian serving in Ukraine is a war criminal and should be sent to Treblinka 2.0?

Sad. They are sons, fathers, uncles. They served their country not out of hate but out of obligation or compulsion. Without sympathy one can only hate, without forgiveness.

communists were shit, too

WWII was forced onto Germany by England, Soviet Union and also the French who have been continuously invading German lands since 600AD. Germany DID NOT start WWI or WWII. Germany offered generous peace terms in WWI(1916) and WWII(Rudolf Hess's peace mission to England 1940). Time to stop believing all the WWII brainwashing propaganda. The facts and truth are there for those who will do a little research.

Don’t believe for one minute that you would not have served in the German military as a young man in 1939. “Wie wir manner der Zeit” was a common theme by the survivors (we were men of the times).