Only Few Seconds - WW2 Short film (Wehrmacht vs 506 Easy Company) 

Robert Riggs: OK. On the basis of your comment I’ll give this a try!

We do seem to shelve our humanity while in war. I was in Desert Storm 91 at 19 going on 20. I of course saw things that I will never forget nor fully understand. You're right though, this is definitely a great look into the heart of that beast of WW2 and a lesson we should never forget. Thank you for your service Mr Riggs and the writer and producers of this work. May we never forget ALL of our fallen and rise above upon their shoulder's to make sure their sacrifices were not in vain!

@@cynaptyc Your sentiments are very appropriate and absolute respect to you for them. I'm not American and am from a neutral country but can appreciate and am saddened by the lessons surviving fighting soldiers can only learn in retrospect. I hope your life is a good one.

Respect.

Another American Veteran (11 B & 19D US Army) who has become a fan of your work. I agree with the other veteran. Thumbs up. Great work. Truly a very good film maker.

The real enemy were the Russian Communists

The germans were here to take over the world dont come with that bs as scared as you are they enjoyed killin innocents

@Carlos weren't tge Germans who started the war by invading the Russians. The Russians were justified to revenge the Germans perhaps in every horrible way they did it but the aggressor should never cry losses

@@westmax8491 your sick

Yes. Its way better to be friends than enemies. And does not matter you are German or Russian or American.... hello from Slovakia..

@@pepelopez9301 You have a very beautiful country from photos I have seen!

@@weissrw1 photos dont tell you truth

Они бежал к вам в плен а наши их догнать не могли

All sides in the war treated snipers pretty much the same...snipers were routinely executed on the spot of capture...no questions asked. It was just something about death from out of nowhere. No mercy.

Some of the best snipers of the war were Soviet women.

@Ashwin Lakra Internet.

@@clarkewi Prowess with firearms has never been gender oriented. Some of the finest shooters I have even met & known were women. Some very young, some not.

A similar fate awaited captured flamethrower operators, or political commissars.

Totalmente d'accordo! E' molto meglio di tanti film famosi !!

All respect to him and to all soldiers that fought for their countries.

Respect for your dad bro

Well, you would consider this otherwise if you were defending your home and your family from raging animals like those nazi’s. Then you would try hard to waste as many of them as you can before you get wasted. And there will be perfect point for you to sacrifice your life so your children can live. There’s no place for bs in a war.

@@Pomer2222 I acknowledge all that you say. My point was, which I did not properly explain, is that because governments can't resolve issues they send people to war, which wastes lives on both or all sides.

@@carycoller3140 it seems a bit more complicated to me. And I have my reasons. My friend from Germany asked me once: why do everyone hate germans for them being nazis, when there is even more nazis in England? Well, I have a simple answer, but time can change my reasoning 🤷🏻‍♂️

Problem is.. Its the old men who Tell the young ones what the "right thing" is.. Because its the young ones who's gonna die Because of the old men

Fighting for your country defending your country is the right thing!

@@dougregan4752 THAT, Depends.. If you're defending against tyrany and the oppression of minorities.. Yes.. its right and good. If you're defending it Because some politician or other leader tells you to Then you're a part of the evil. One should never blindly follow orders.

@@SortenRavn You just described every country ever.

@@yeoldeyoungin9745 pretty much yea.. And who leads most countries?

He was never here.

Which lord would that be? And why would killing stop when this lord returns?

@@RedOrm68 I'm sorry you do not know Him.

Es ist bekannt, dass für Amerikaner ganz normal war keine Gefangene zu nehmen u. Frauen zu vergewaltigen. Tja, nicht nur Russen.

​@@ALEJANDROARANDARICKERT You're full of shit dude, we had nearly 400,000 NAZI POWs in camps throughout the US during WWII. My uncle hated NAZIs, after seeing several friends killed he vowed not to take any prisoners. The other Soldiers knew my Uncle had no problem killing NAZIs, that's why they brought the prisoners to him when there was no way to guard or care for them. Most US Soldiers didn't have the ability to kill prisoners. You should do a little research on the US POW camps in the US for the NAZIs, they were treated a hell of a lot better than the NAZIs took care of US POWs. There are even videos of former German POWs describing there stay in the US and how well they were treated.

He SHOULD feel bad about it.

@@sanctusexitium9956 POW camps ran by the Wehrmacht complied with Red Cross standards...they didn’t have the vast resources to give them as good a life as what was given in the states- that’s no cause for judgment.

Just out of curiosity, what year did you serve?

@@TheFinnfluencer I was wondering the same thing...Vietnam War officially ended in 1973 (47 yrs ago). If he is 63 now, he had to be 16 yrs old just to serve in 1973...the math doesn't make sense.

tdeseyn exactly, he also hasn’t responded so I think he’s been rumbled

yes, but why was he in a Russian POW camp? How did he and the other invaders end up there? Do you know what "utter horror" Germany inflicted on the Soviet civilians, on Soviet POWs? Germany should never have invaded Russia, it messed with the wrong guys.

so true

Real camaderie !

You are kidding, aren't you?

I would love to watch a truthful german version of band of brothers.

nazis were no different than the federalist empire, look what they have done and point fingers, look what they did to the south and still doing reconstruction.

They have Honor was my loyalty made already

@@douglasmcarthur5247 This is Band of Brothers 501st PIR E company Hagenau !!!

You are very right, my father was a WWII veteran in China, when he drank with his comrades years later, there was nothing else except the memories of those died and tears. I am a veteran too from Taiwan army in peace time. While drinking with my old friends, we never feel sad, but those fun and/or funny things. WAR does make people's life different.

Very profound.....not.

yes fucking sir

I like the part where fucking nazis get shot. I fucking hate nazi fucks.

@@arklat they were SS but plz remember not all germans were nazis.

Yeah just the SS were the Nazis, only a few in the wehrmacht but most of the wehrmacht were fighting for the country not for Nazism.

@@arklat You are narrow minded as fuck, dumb nuts.

I don't understand the complaint about new uniforms, at this time they recently changed seasons so new uniforms would have arrived.

+Josh Weaver RC Hey Josh. This is always nice to read. I'm German and myself served for 6 years with the Gebirgsjäger (231. Battallion in Bad Reichenhall) Besides that also a Tour as part of KFOR in Kosovo. I'm 33 now. I grew up with American WW2 Veterans (who decided to stay in Germany after the War or move here sometime later) coming over to BBQ my Grandfather hosted in the Summer every Weekend. He was a Waffen-SS Soldier and fought first with the 6th Division "Nord" together with the Finns up in Karelia against the Soviets and later was transfered to the 1st Division "LAH" where he fought against Americans in the Battle of the Bulge or as we call it "Ardennenoffensive". During these BBQs he of course also had his former surviving Comrades come over. That Grandfather is now 100 years old and only one of these former American "Enemies and now Friends is still alive at 98 years old. They still meet for Coffee, Cake and sometimes a Beer, but only rarely. My point being: It seems Veterans, especially in RU-vid Comment Sections are the only ones most of the time who don't spout Hatred and act disrespectful to whatever the Topic of the Video is about. Just like my Experiences between former Axis WW2 Veterans and Western Allied WW2 Veterans becoming Friends many Years after the War, no Grudge to be seen, no tense Arguments, no Insults but instead mutual Respect, and of course friendly crude Banter and Jokes about another. I hope that becomes more common, i've seen english speaking Media do a few Pieces the past 10 Years on Axis Vet and Allied Vet becoming good Friends after the War, hope we see more of these as long as they're still alive. Or at least that Fact becoming more common Knowledge. Prost! and Cheers from Berchtesgaden, Bavaria

Well, the American had done the same thing moments previously to an unarmed kid on his knees so...it fit. I’m an Iraq veteran myself and I get it now. We treat the enemy the way they treat us. It can be very fair or very...not.

Danke, dass du unsere Seite genauso schrecklich gesehen hast wie deine. Krieg bringt das Schlimmste

English: Thanks for seeing our side just as horrible as yours. War brings the worst

Generation War does a pretty good job showing the German point of view.

Revisionist history. The Americans never get damned fo the wholesale slaughter of countless millions of Vietnamese civilians in the 60's and 70's as an example. Germans were all "evil" and I'm fairly sure that is just not true.

@@chopchop508 Yeah, it's excellent. Well worth watching for anyone reading this.

jeez man I see you everywhere. HAHA every single war-based content video 😂

RoastyMyToasty Oh, so that's what you meant by hey again, nice, yeah I also have such a guy for Warhammer 40,000 videos haha, the world is a strange place.

+A. Soldier Yep! What a small world. Well, see you around mate. Cheers.

+A. Soldier Yep! What a small world. Well, see you around mate. Cheers.

No compassion, no mercy, no remorse. All war relies on that principle.

chechatonga. "History is written by the winners'' What an idiotic statement. Who should write it, the losers?

chechatonga. You should read 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." By Albert Spear. One of the greatest WWll historical accounts of the war.

@@johnmcdonald9304 no, someone from neither side but saw it sal with no bias

I used to like the Tarantino movie inglourious Basterds. But now I'm older I find it a bit irritating. All the Germans are painted as the Nazis hellbent on world domination and destruction,from the lowest to highest rank. As we know not all Germans were Nazis and most were conscripts.I think younger generation s really lap this "goodie: baddie paradim ,but the world is much more complex than what these stereotypes describe.

Thankyou for sharing!

ru-vid.com I think you will like these guys too. www.bitchute.com/video/IzcmLS7q7d5V/ Here is a full length movie showing the German side of the war. Only place I could find it as RU-vid strikes it down. I think you will enjoy it. I was privileged to work for a couple WW2 German soldiers in my youth. They were honorable men and fair bosses which started my slow re-evaluation of the history I had been indoctrinated with. TBH, I think we would have been better off if the Germans had won.

Jeff Smith - thanks for sharing Jeff. Honestly, however, I can’t really agree with your last comment. I am generally okay with the concept of Germany reclaiming some of their rightful lands (ie the Sudetenland) taken from them after WWI, but that is as far as I can find myself supporting (or even understanding) their expanded “cause” in WWII. But, with that said and as a Vet myself (no combat) I still respect the courage and sacrifices that the grunts on the ground made on both sides. The famous saying....”there are no atheists in foxholes” can, I think, be expanded to “there are no atheists or politicians in foxholes”. Soldiers are soldiers, for the most part. But, again, thanks for sharing. I’ll check those videos out.

@@TheAirplaneDriver Thanks for your service. I come from a family with a lot of vets, so I mean that. I was presupposing that the US should have stayed out of both WW1 and 2. Look into the Balfour Declaration and it's part in our entry into WW1, Lusitania's cargo etc. You will have to dig a little deeper than Wikipedia. It wasn't like I woke up one day and said, "Ruprect was a dick, but a good boss" and "Earnst was one of the nicest guys I ever met, so the story I was told about WW2 in school was crap." I noticed a lot of little things over the years re WW2 that did not add up. I definitely wasn't told that the Axis had made several serious peace offers before 1942! Take a look at, "A Jew In Auschwitz" by David Cole, "Europa the Last Battle" and maybe "The Greatest Story Never Told". You might have to go to Bitchute or Archive for them. Be well, and have a good winter.

Excellent post, you covered a lot of ground, and I agree with most of what you said. _Combat!_ was a very good series, all things considered...I knew a lot of vets who liked that show, as it tried to be realistic even though it was a prime-time network series. Director Robert Altman got fired in Season One because it was _too_ realistic (he had cast members get killed), but somehow, the series continued along that gritty path for most of the 5 seasons. However, I can't recommend things like _The Greatest Story Never Told_. While it tries to tell the other side of the story (and there are always 2 sides), it sinks into absurd propaganda...totally unlike these beautiful films that Pepe makes.

I read that book,when I was still A Marine in a combat unit. I understood very well the waste but also the beauty of brotherhood and survival.