Operation Barbarossa: Newly Discovered Diaries Reveal The Brutal Reality Of War On The Eastern Front 

Is there anywhere I can watch this without the censorship of the dead bodies? Morbid I know but I think to get the real feel of this horrid war one must see the true devastation.

Why are images blurred?

Germans should pay for this, how much money costs 1 livie?

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I just watched it, well worth the wait. There are endless documentaries on You tube about the war, but very few first hand narrative accounts like this that really bring it to life, Sander, the diarist, give his narration such a humanist tone, teaching us all what he'll war can be 🧐

My grandfather was captured by the Lithuanian collaborators, confined in a ghetto, had most of his family murdered, eventually, liberated by the American army from Dachau. He died at the age of 97 in the USA. Buried according to the Jewish tradition. Cremation is what he had avoided in Dachau.

My husband's father also fought, for Germany, do not ever let anyone, be disrespectful too your Granddad, war, changes all men...many would say your Granddad, and my father in law, were heartless monster's...much respects, to your Granddad, and to my Father in law..there is so much I would enjoy telling you, about how the war started.

@@michaelmelamed9103 Condolences to your granddad. I hope he lived a good life after the horrors of the war. My great uncle was an anti-aircraft gunner working a four-barrel .50cal. He had three confirmed kills on Luftwaffe aircraft, and one unconfirmed kill on a Nazi sniper on the ground. Despite fighting and killing Nazis, it still upset him to see dead ones, especially the one time they brought him out to one of the downed aircraft (to confirm). Though they were his enemy, he was disturbed by it.

⁠@@michaelmelamed9103Try with Lithuanian freedoms fighters. We all know the families of Schiff and Rothschild financed the communist revolution and got the Tzar Nikolai II and his family murdered in cold blood 🩸 Who is keep pushing for a war in Ukraine and Russia?

That's 11 years as a POW, 8 of them after the end or hostilities

Only thoes who want war don't understand death? That might tell you a lot about politicians! I once looked at memorial in front of a High School in Mobile, Alabama. It was dedicated to 7 classmates who were drafted to serve in Vietnam. Think about it. Your 18 or 19 child who had his whole life in front of him , was suddenly sent across the world to fight in a jungle and asked to give his life for our country.

Scale of war in eastern front was insane. Both largest armies going at it 100%.

Pretty sure Hitler personally saw lots of death up front in the trenches and essentially masterminded this whole war.

Everyone knows death. It haunts everyone at every turn, and it will eventually conquer every living creature on this earth.

I don't think we can say that actually; I don't think "...only those who don't know death seek war" is a good qualifier. Look no further than the primary belligerents of WW2. Adolf Hitler himself survived 4 years of absolute carnage and human suffering during WW1. Same can be said for Herman Goering, an ace pilot war hero. Benito Mussolini also served as a sniper for Italy in WW1. Hideki Tojo in Japan also had previous combat experience. These leaders were the ones who were most aggressive at pursuing war in the 1930s. And we can't forget about French general Charles De Gaulle. Churchill and Roosevelt considered him a stubborn hawk determined to have his moment of glory, and he had extensive combat experience in the trenches in WW1. On the other hand, you have Neville Chamberlain, FDR, and Josef Stalin. They were trying to avoid war at all costs through appeasement policies, non-aggression pacts, and strict isolationism just to kick the can down the road long enough for someone else to eventually have to deal with it instead of them. We can also extrapolate this out to other wars. Many will argue that the Korean War was the most pointless and unnecessary war in US history. The president who gave the green light for that war was Harry S. Truman, an artillery commander in WW1. Vietnam festered under Eisenhower, and finally acted upon by Kennedy- a naval gunboat captain who fought in the Pacific theatre of WW2. So I don't agree with your statement that only the oblivious want war. The veterans seem pretty damn motivated to pursue conflict too.

DO YOU HAVE any roster of Patton’s Staff? MY UNCLE ARTHUR was on Patton’s personal Staff … went to Bastogne with Gen Patton

Wow.....isn't it so sad that too many want to wipe the Holocaust away and pretend it never happened. This is why so many survivors have come forward to tell their stories of what they went thru... I went to college with a Jewish gal whose father was in a concentration camp. He somehow escaped and was able to walk across Europe until he found the Allies. He was barely alive and weighed 70 lbs. My college friend said she was woke up nightly by his screams in the night. Soon they will all be dead but their stories will live on....

Yeah, the issue with this comment and a well-meaning one, at that... His outbursts after seeing the man on TV saying it never happened appears to be coming from a place of guilt. For something that is "true", one wouldn't have such outbursts at those who say it never happened but ignore the people who claim to have been a survivor (of which, many have been exposed for lying) and get caught lying about their victim status while benefiting financially from their lies in their books, documentaries, or speeches at schools. If it is illegal to question this event or deny it.. Should it not be equally illegal to lie about it? Should you return the money made from the lies? Not only do I make this observation based on that, I also make this observation because: 1) By the time FDR recognized the Soviet Union government in 1933, Stalin had nearly 20 million Russians and Ukrainians executed, sent to slave labor camps (millions died in the slave labor camps) and death camps (even more millions killed in these camps) scattered throughout Soviet Union Russia. Once FDR recognized and established relations with Stalin, he worked in overdrive to cover up their genocide in the Soviet Union and Ukraine purging any and all mentions of it. He appointed Stalin-linked agents as his advisors in the WH and appointed more to positions of influence in the US government. 2) You are told that before WWII, Hitler was rounding up Hebrews in Germany and having them killed. This is quite a bold lie meant to be smoke and mirror to divert attention away from Stalin's genocide in the Soviet Union and Ukraine and even his mass executions numbering 700,000 Of Russians in government, the military (the soldiers family were also executed if their child gets falsely accused of treason), and many civilians based on "lists of names" and quotas for the NKVD to meet in regards to the executions of Russians, prior to WWII in the '30s. In Germany, Hitler did NOT use violent means to force Hebrews out of Germany nor mass arrests and executions. He made it illegal for them to hold positions of power, education, media, financing, and such. 1933-39, 2/3s of German Hebrews left Germany with their wealth and possessions. This is known as the Transfer Agreement of which Hitler and Hebrew Germans negotiated and signed. The worldwide Hebrews screeched and yelled about this agreement and did everything to prevent this agreement from carrying out, calling for even more boycotts against Germany. The infamous "Crystal night" was a reaction by the Germans after news of the German diplomat in Paris being assassinated by a Hebrew communist. 3) "Tonight, you have the opportunity to go to the big city (Berlin) and to light a fire in the belly of the enemy and burn his black heart." - orders from Churchill on RAF terror bombings. "We owe the Germans no sympathy, no understanding, we owe them nothing. You ask what is our policy? I will say to you: We have nothing to offer the Germans, but blood, sweat, toil, and tears. It is to wage war by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us." From the launch of the RAF's night time terror bombings and shortly the American day time terror bombings of German civilians, the Allied powers dropped nearly two million tons of incendiaries and bombs on German civilians who had NOTHING to do with the war. Your father, under the impression he was “liberating” Buchenwald, absolutely did NOT liberate the camp. The allied powers bombed that camp and killed many. The UK dropped phosphorus bombs along with incendiary bombs with heavy bombs onto many Germans in cities throughout Germany. Many cities contained UK POWs and refugees that were fleeing from the Soviet Union. This did not stop the RAF from bombing these cities. Many of the refugee camps and POWs were connected to hospitals. The Uk bombed the hospitals and strafed the refugee camps. Killing many civilians and refugees. The Germans trapped in basements were literally in a “oven” because of the flames from the phosphorus bombs and incendiary bombs that burned them to ashes with human fat being turned into liquid. Bodies were stacked and still hot to the touch. The bodies belonged to the victims who were sucked into the mile(s) wide infernos. 4) Your father believed he was fighting evil but in reality, his nation allied with the very evil nation (soviet union) that was responsible for millions of Europeans being butchered and burned alive before WWII, before the Allied powers invaded Europe to “liberate” the Europeans from Hitler and Germany, they knew of the mass arrests and executions of Poles in Poland and the 1941 NKVD massacre that killed 10,000 to 40,000 (or more) Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, Hebrews, and other nationalities. He knows that he was lied to and he feels guilt for his role (unbeknownst to him) in the millions killed by the Soviet Union that his leaders covered up and blamed Germans and Hitler. They were busy arming and sending 11.3 Billion (130 billion today) in funds and military equipment and supplies for the Red Army. Italy, Finland, Romania, Spain, Czech, Cossacks, tartars, French, British, Lithuanians, Ethiopians, Dutch, Ukrainians and Russians fought along side Germany for Europe and to defeat Bolshevism that sought their destruction. If I was your father, I wouldn’t want my children to know the truth and have them curse me as I lay in my grave. After finding out how the Allied powers helped evil and aided this evil in their mass murders and mass r**e of European women and girls. The mutilation of European men and boys. That your nation had policies in the war that ordered AF pilots to bomb and strafe any moving target, whether civilian or military, in the country side. Killing many children and women in trains fleeing from the Soviet Union as they began their advance towards Germany. The trains which carried wounded refugees and POWs to Germany because had they stayed behind, the Soviet NKVD would kill them. How America and the West turned over 5 million Russians, military and civilian, to the Soviet’s to appease Stalin. Which he promptly had them murdered along with their families. And turned a blind eye as Stalin’s NkVD that forcibly deported Germans citizens and soldiers to via death marches or cattle trains to Serbia where 5.8 million Germans were killed.

@@MikeWilliamson-dp6cp yeah, then there is that... WTF dude! 🤦‍♀️

Your pal Adolph Hitler announced, that any new war would result in the destruction of European Jews. There is the direct evidence of the Holocaust.

Since 1980 dam u need to do better. Research

​@@ortegaJfk So you would call yourself a professional even if you've never made a dime and have zero recognition outside of your preferred hobby?

@@rsmetz88 yes

This video is based on book Im sure of it, Ive listened to 3 books atleast that begin with invasion of russia, not sure the name tho

​@@ortegaJfkit's tough to call yourself a professional at something if you don't do it as a profession.

The narrator always adds in his propaganda against the German soldiers though

@@djharto4917 where? because all of the german accented voiceover you hear is literally reading from german soldier diaries.

Plenty was said off script. Our masters are always mentioned aren’t they?? Something that supposedly happened them.

I think both are quite useful actually

@@djharto4917 Sure, the German soldiers were such sweet people who only wanted to help the poor Soviet people especially the JEws, right? /s

Bizarre that you deleted it in the first place! Whoever came up with that brainwave needs to have their decision making skills relegated to the coffee run.

How come you had to re-upload the video? Due to a rights issue or what is the deal?

So where is part two? I liked this video and I'd like to hear the rest.

Firstly, I think the documentary shines an appropriate light on the atrocities of Nazi Germany, is a bit vague on the repression, murders and deportations of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union did occupy the Baltic states and parts of Poland in 1940 plus attacked Finland, a tiny country on its northeastern border which managed to avoid complete defeat. The Soviets were no "heroic resistance fighters against nazism", they were a blood-soaked revoutoinary socialists who did not hesitate to mass murder, persecute and torture anyone who opposed them even if they opposed by peaceful and democratic means. Secondly, the Nazi intelligence service had done a very poor job at finding out just how industrialised and mobilised the Soviet Union was, nazi army commanders were surprised at encountering new restistance because their high command repeatedly kept telling them that the Red Army had been destroyed. The nazi fools had no idea what they were getting into.

@@Rex1987 presumably to get all the people who enjoyed it to subscribe to their service.

how many Poles or Russian granpa kill ?? Did he never mention it? Or, like every German, he was a "knight" and only the SS kills innocent poeple ?

Luckily it went very bad for those Coward germans…..are you looking for pity here?

Evil bloodline. Tfu

Must be good to have a nazi grandad? I'd love it

@@wbialy2695 Your comment shows that you are capable of the same evils as the national socialists..

There is a point when occupation necessitates the population be civil if they know what's good for them. It's that simple.

My grandma lived in occupied Norway. She said that it became part of normal life. German Soldiers would share their rations with locals and play with kids in the snow in the winter. She said she threw snowballs at them and even spat on a soldier from a tree once, but they were never punished

@@pomodorostudyclub great illustration of an occupied country. No need to escalate things every second.

​@@pomodorostudyclub Right, I'd imagine life wasn't so bad in Nazi-occupied Norway considering the country is quintessentially Aryan (if not more so than Germany) and had the lowest Jewish population of the territories invaded. Still, 1/3 of its Jews were deported to the camps. I don't think Norway is the best example of the reality of Nazi-occupied territories.

@@Mildain2000 you’re right, I probably should have added that context myself. Just wanted to share a personal memory that came to mind when I saw this video and comment.

And yet, look at the horror the Russian people are now inflicting on Ukraine. They have learned ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the horrors of war or about compassion and respect of a sovereign nation. All the Russians involved are complicit in mass war crimes - if you're a Russian living in Russia, it is your obligation to NOT participate in this war and your duty to oppose Putin, a megalomaniacal, hateful war criminal. It saddens me to say this, but I never want to see Russia. Unless there is huge upheaval, but from most of what I've seen, all the people who disagree with the evil of the Kremlin have left. There is only evil, the spineless and the fearful left.

Was die Wehrmacht in Leningrad veranstaltet hat, ist ein Kriegsverbrechen und das sage ich als Deutscher.

So was everyone else's 😢

Imagine what will happen when the next war starts, we won't be needed for forced labor because robots can do that. What value will we have then? This history into human nature should frighten even the stoic person when contemplating the technological revolution of today's age and what that implies when it comes to the darker world were barreling into. I'm glad your grandma got out to make a good impression. Let her RIP, it's our time to see some crazy things, beyond her wildest dreams.

horrorfying the germans were not human

Что плохого в большевизме? Это он сломал хребет фашизму. И создал первое в мире госурство рабочих и крестьян. Беда в том, что этому государству с начало его основания всё хотели уничтожить.

Stupidity ? Evolution of man from monkey to human? Laughable. They're currently in Ukraine snorting yabba yabba doo

World war 2 caused the end of colonies

Makes more sense than this Ukrainian conflict

Pray that Ukraine will stop sending untrained men into the grinder.

​@@HonorableBeniah-A prayer is the lazy man's way of not actually doing anything.

Cheers Jan! Glad you enjoyed

@@HistoryHit Yeah, you guys do great work!

Part two is already avaliable, link in the video description.

Massive mistake- The Nazi Symbol was Haken Cross, A European catholic Christian symbol, not Swastika. Kindly apologize immediately and rectify.

@@vishwajeetbhardwaz9576 And what kind of "catholic christian symbol" should that be?

There were no right or wrong sides. Very small minded

eh? where were you when the us invaded iraq? same exact circumstance.

​@@matthewosburn Not at all similar. To just name one small difference, the USA and its allies did not intend to eradicate the population and settle the land with their own people. Oh, another comes to mind, the military campaign was won in a matter of weeks, all subsequent misery was the result of Iraqi sectarian and tribal infighting, their utter inability to just form a democratic government after their dictator was gone.

What do you mean ?!

great question its not what we are taught here in U S A WE ARE TAUGHT WHAT THE MEDIA WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE just like HITLER KILLED HIMSELF which he didnt

Axis and Soviet perspectives are all over the internet, all you have to do is look for them.

Leider sehr einseitig und Geschichtsverfälschend.

@@heinzjoachim7907 Was meinst du?

@@t.j.payeur5331 not to this extent tho.

theres heaps of russian youtube channels dedicated to metal detecting around the swamps of Russia. The amount of crap they find it seems the ground is fertilized by the dead . They'll find an 80 year old rifle in some mud and be disappointed because it's only a common mosin

Sudden death can be like that. You don't need to be freezing and starving or even cold or hungry. One evening we were planning what we would do in the coming months. Then within half an hour my lively outgoing wife turned from being in my plans to being a body in my arms.

Sh-t like that doesnt tend to happen if you avoid invading other peoples countries.

Glad our country hasn’t done that.

​@@20chocsaday I'm sorry for that. Terrible

@@AwesomeDude272 Thanks. It was a cold feeling, realising how much the world had lost in one person. The intentions, the care for others as well as part of my life left and I was left holding a husk that was once a person. Sorry if I have saddened you but this happened to many more people later on. A young woman later sent me the last photo of her mother alive as they tried to let her sip cold water.

Yes, I agree. I'm searching the faces of the soldiers to see if I can identify my father. He survived the war and died in 1973. My parents had divorced in 1943 and I had seen him only 3 times in my life. My mom who had gone to her parents home in East Prussia in 1943, fled from the Russians to Duesseldorf, the British Zone in 1945 and married an English soldier who took her to England. I, her daughter, was raised by foster parents and after searching for her for many years, found her through the German Red Cross living in England in 1975.

I don't know the circumstances but how did she leave you behind?

Восточный фронт для фрийцев был наказанием. 😂Мои соотечественники защищали свою Родину СССР.

War is brutal for all involved.

I learned about this in the Europa the last battle documentary.

Yeah, given the admissions of war crimes I don't feel too bad for this twat.

Qa

Not so peaceful if you’re in Ukraine Cheers

This is war

​@@brandonhemphill5638NO excuse

No, it's perversion and sickness. The allies never spoke about doing evil as righteous, and they did very little evil.@@brandonhemphill5638

The British and USA were just as sick in the head if not worse. Notice how it's all tiny hat people talking about white Europeans being the biggest threat to democracy? The wrong side won the war.

I’d like to see a real well done high budget series covering the entirety of WW2 from all perspectives. With good actors and cinematography and CGI. Like Game of Thrones format but WW2

I agree, surely people should be cautioned about the truth of war. The real horror. However, the powers that be will always need cannon fodder and can't let the lie of a 'boy's own adventure' die.

RU-vid guidelines won't allow.

No need to see dead people...

@@jasonpip5417 I disagree. The brutality of war kills, maims and destroys people. It shouldn’t be akin to a computer game that is sanitised. Real war isn’t like that.

The reason why you are obsessed with WW2 is simply because your mind can't wrap itself around it. You are missing the central point. 🧬 Around 1900 the Zionists movement declared that they want to create a Jewish country. All the world leaders refused them. Eventually after the years of despair, Nazis needed help to power and they made a pact with the Zionists in the early 1920' Zionists instructed Hitler on blood science and he agreed to help them to create Israel. They were deporting Jews from Hamburg and Bremerhaven to Palestine. All the info is in the newspapers 1932-1939

Perhaps some of us were there in person in another life if you believe in reincarnation.

I hope we don't make same mistakes again.those days there were no nukes.this time around it will affect everyone

@@uldos3193 Yes, those people were in a form of hell, and we should learn from what happened then never forget.

i am from India and obsessed too. This has been through all my teenage years. I loved Commando comics.

Right on brother! I'm gonna check it out, right nowwwwwww

Agreed, Seems like we are rarely shown the German attitude and position, very humanizing, something that most documentaries fail to do, it’s usually just “the Germans where animals”.

With respect, I don't think the viewing of this documentary could be described as 'pleasurable''. Some bits were so harrowing I had to stop watching. The look of terror on those Lithuanian children's faces as they are herded, along with their mothers clutching pathetic bundles of ragged clothes, by those Nazi monsters, probably to some camp, will stay with me forever.

@@johnlescault3737 How can you humanize a Nazi when you see the terrified faces of the children and Jewish ppl being taken to slaughter.

@@somniumisdreaming it’s easy if you understand that human nature is basically evil if left unchecked, I’m not saying they are human in a good way, I’m saying we should all be able to see that we are capable of the same if left to our own rationalization. It’s the people that don’t realize their condition, that are likely to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Much appreciated!

Yeah they needed the second narrator for propaganda purposes, otherwise the Germans would look too good and not the monsters they have been portrayed to be.

@@huwhitecavebeast1972 Don't get Nazis and the SS mixed up with the Wehrmacht!! It shows your complete ignorance.

judging from the prose and reoccuring keywords these are the words of the same solider...if so, he merc'ed mad bodycount

D. Anderson, USMC, Hotel Company, 2dBn, 9th Marines, 3d MarDiv, 2/9/3, 68-69 Operation Dewey Canyon. In memory of 58,281 men including 8 women, all nurses, 16 clergy members and 160 Medal of Honor recipients who served in the Vietnam War and later died as a result of their service. We honor and remember their sacrifice. Many carry a sense of having been betrayed by civilian and military leaders and by society generally. Be-trayed by politicians who resorted to war under false pretenses and took advantage of their patriotism and youth (the average age of a soldier in Vietnam was 19) and who placed constraints on war strategy that set them up for failure. It's easy to forget that those who served in Vietnam grew up in a time when politicians were seen as statesmen focused on the common good. Most trusted their leaders when told that war was necessary to stop the spread of communism. Despite stereotypes to the contrary, most volunteered. They were part of a generation raised with stories about how their fathers and uncles had accepted the duties of citizenship and won the Great War. These soldiers realized quickly that their fathers war was very different than the one into which they had been led. Their fathers had typically fought as parts of large coordinated forces against a massed enemy, taking and holding territory and attaining measurable strategic objectives, each of which moved them closer to victory. This was not true in Vietnam. Due to geopolitical constraints there would be no invasion of North Vietnam. Rarely would they face a massed force fighting in conventional fashion. In Vietnam, the enemy was often invisible, attacking then slipping away. Though the Army of North Vietnam was a conventional guerilla force, the Viet Cong were often indistinguishable from civilians. A rotational system of deployment that constantly shuffled around the membership of units and which some believed undermined unit cohesion and morale, negative media stereotypes of American soldiers, exposure to conditions of intense privation, chronic feeling of being under threat with no safe place to go, and faulty equipment that broke down under fire. Others were stung by leadership claims that the war was necessary to liberate the people of South Vietnam only to find, as one veteran put it, "Those people just wanted us out and some wanted to cut my throat." I've known many who continued to resent what they saw as lies told by military and civilian leaders claiming progress was being made when the experience on the ground suggested they were stuck in a quagmire. Then there was the betrayal of the homecoming. Though the antiwar movement had broad roots composed of people who genuinely wanted to stop the war, there was a segment openly hostile not just to the war but to the troops who fought it. Returning veterans who had given everything they had and who simply wanted to return home were often met with hostility. Vets often say things such as, "We were spat on, called baby killers, treated like dirt when we arrived back home." Others remember subtle hostility: "I was afraid to wear my uniform in public because of the looks I'd get." Many contrast their experience with an earlier generation. "Those World War 2 guys got parades and ticker tape; we got stabbed in the back." D, Anderson USMC 2/9/3 68-69

@@seniordavidmanderson9232 And now, OBiden wants Americans to fight some half-assed European Civil War that's been going on for over 100yrs? Or, is it going to be in the Pacific, again? Some rich S.O.B.'s silicon factory? How is the U.S. going to fight a war when politicians have sold-off, or, depleted Strategic Fuel Reserves & most of the weapons?

@Senior David M Anderson from my husband Vietnam Era Navy Corpsman.... Your words,ALL of them ring true,unfortunately our.youth don't give a flyin frog what happened THEN. See how many will show up on the next unavoidable DRAFT.!Better all have passports.... WTF was up with all the VETERAN TRAITORS ON J6?? KMA! THIS is what he fought for...Fascist republican morons in Megamall? NO!!

Correct.

Everything is far superior to Hollywood propaganda Cheers

Fascism is fictional garbage.

Hollywood just depicts Germans as monsters. There were a lot of great German people who had to follow orders.

A nazi would say!

Sounds like you drank an entire bowl of the establishment koolaid. The NSDAP worldview was far from a doomed ideology. It's still alive today in people you marginalize as the _fringe_ of society despite there being millions more of us than you realize. Not to worry though. The truth is that we don't believe even a fraction of what the Hollywood hucksters have accused us of. You'd know that if you switched off the _"History"_ Channel and read some actual NSDAP literature. Don't go in expecting anything crazy though or you'll be disappointed. It's mostly ideas about how to rebuild a manufacturing-based economy and end debt slavery (oooooo scary... lol). If you get offended hearing someone talk at length about how parliamentarians are morons though, don't ever read Hitler's personal writing, because he wasn't a fan of the _Justin Trudeaus_ of his day.

No it wasn't

Ll account yes yes it wad

Doomed ideology in your modern eyes. For a German going from first world country to a country where people cannibalised themselves in gulags, there was a shock yeah.

​@Bahamut3525 First world? The same place where the disabled were forcefully sterilized? The same place with severe restrictions on free speech and political affiliation? First world my ass

The Germans were told the Soviets were subhuman, yhe Sovieta were told ghe Germans were beasts etc. It was done so that neither wwould want to surrender

​@@confusedbadger6275Soviets raped 2 millions German women. From 6 to 97 yo.

To be fair, while it was still propaganda, it wasn't entirely wrong considering how few Soviet PoWs actually survived.

My name is David Umbongo-Olyufemwe-Olyufemwe I am from Nigeria and I stand with Israel 🇮🇱

@@confusedbadger6275 The NKVD murdered 20,000 Poles, deported and murdered some thousand Baltic people and about 100,000 "political enemies" during the first 2 weeks of the German soviet war. Take this and all those mutilated German POW in the first days of German-Soviet war and you know why German soldiers did not NEED any propaganda to believe this war is going to be cruel. But its intersting to see how these inconvenient facts disappeared from history book (or never made it in there)....

.. and you still have Germans talking as if they were the victims when the Red Army stepped in Berlin..

​@@fukuswii4370 People who starved in German camps died because of the aggressive use of siege tactics by the Allied forces in the final 2 years of the war. What's the Soviet excuse for the over 2 million accounts of rape of German Women? By all means though, keep parroting that mainstream kosher dogma like broken record...

Yeah, but it will be always Stalin bad, not the germans who exterminated 14 million Soviet civilians

And narrator still thinks tah Soviet propaganda painted Germans too bad.

He said 5.7, not 5.5.

​@@stanleybroniszewsky8538 The part you forgot is that the Neocons who started all of these wars never sent their kids or if they did they made sure they had cushy jobs and got medals. They also made plenty of money and are laughing. There is nothing honorable in fighting for a country which starts wars and can't win them. The US hasn't won a war since Korea. The Neocons are pushing for your children to be drafted to fight Russia and China. The worst part of all this is the OP who was disabled in his tour of service and if it was a recent war he was a victim of an IED. Good luck with the VA Hospital. They have the worst and most incompetent doctors who graduated from third world medical schools. You're better off with a Witch Doctor than a VA doctor.

Fighting goat headers is not being at war. Go to Bakhmut and maybe you can say that you have faught a real war

@@fukuswii4370 cool. Where did you survive combat?

​@@justlucky8254 In his parents basement, Call of Duty.

@@fukuswii4370 I was done with my fighting by the time those wars came around. Yea, just curious. Where DID you serve?

Germans was right! History show that. USA and England should not support and safe rusians and let the germans do what they have to do for goodness Germans ❤❤❤❤!

russians =🦧🦍🐒

Germans was right!

History show that. Germans ❤❤❤❤!

Really love seeing those tanks and troop carriers!

Thank you!

Germans on the western front did surrender quite a few times, mainly because the allies weren't fired up with propaganda to destroy all and anything german. Also, in case it didn't come to mind.. people were conscripted, perhaps not automatically fond of the political ideas presented to them (imagine that old jewish WW1 veteran next door suddenly becoming part of a demonized religious group), perhaps there was propaganda that showed the jews were treated all right in the camps, I don't know.

My maternal great uncle served in the German Navy during WW2. I didn't learn much even though he survived the war. I just know in the early 50s, my mother went with her dad to visit relatives in Germany. Looking at the pictures taken, it seemed so surreal looking at people my mother knew but didn't say much.

​@@stanleybroniszewsky8538 he should have been captured and sent to Siberia

@@fukuswii4370 you should be quiet and sent to your room. No more basement for you!

What was he looking for there in the foreign country?

May we have an end to war in our lifetimes.

Sorry. No Soviet perspective. Because Soviet/Russian archives, and Stalin and the Communists are baddies. And, you know: Mongols... Enjoy the magnificent and truthful historical narrative, carefully selected by Halder and his group, after being captured by the Allies, and footage from Die Deutsche Wochenschau, where there practically are no horses and wagons at all.

​@@Ailasher English must not be your first language. Your comment is so choppy and vague.

​​​@@Ailasher, ​what are you writing? Are you crazy? Stalin and the Communists saved the world from destruction. Millions of communists died so that you could be born and live. They volunteered to go to the front and died for you. Their children were orphaned or were not born at all, but you were born and live happily. You are just an ungrateful stupid illiterate person, a victim of anti-communist propaganda or a scoundrel. You are spreading vile lies here. Communism is justice, humanity and freedom. Read the authentic works of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and not false interpretations about them. Что вы пишите? Вы сумасшедший? Сталин и коммунисты спасли мир от гибели. Миллионы коммунистов погибли ради того, чтоб вы смогли родиться и жить. Они добровольцами шли на фронт и погибали ради вас. Их дети остались сиротами или вообще не родились, а вы родились и живёте счастливо. Вы просто неблагодарный тупой неграмотный человек, жертва антикоммунистическтй пропаганды или негодяй. Вы распространяете здесь гнусную ложь. Коммунизм - это справедливость, человеколюбие и свобода. Читайте подлинные труды Маркса, Ленина, Сталина, а не лживые интерпретации о них.

@@Ailasher both nazis and soviets are baddies. Both started ww2, slaughtered millions and caused suffering. Except one of them were tried and made some changes in their society, while the other's results can be seen even today.

@@agirlisnoone5953 I'm trying to master the language of the Higher Race, thank you.

Golfing Nazis. who knew?. we have a few of those Nazi's still playing golf and wanting to play president again..Pretty pathetic.

I grew up with them, and my father and uncles were some of those great men. I’m glad you got that photo of the man and your little boy, and I hope that he cherishes it.

The great generation

@@alanaadams7440 *The Greatest Generation. Yes indeed, they certainly were.

Thank God for the Greatest Generation! Without them, America would not have become what it now is today! If not for them, we would have to live in some racist xenophobic white supremacist country snd speak German.

My Godfather fought with Patton. Patton said we fought on the wrong side after having observed the situation in Europe, and I agree. We were duped into helping the enemy. Patton wanted to take out the Soviets but traitors Truman and Eisenhower wouldn't let him. We could have been spared the whole cold war and massive nuclear proliferation. I still respect the valor and sacrifice of those vets, even if we did fight on the wrong side and hurt ourselves in the long run. I had lunch with my godfather every 2 weeks until he passed, and heard many war stories. He had severe PTSD.

Good point & GB+Fr declared war to protect Poland that in 1945 was left to one of its 1939 invaders. FYI they declared war on 2nd day while the Soviets attacked 2-3wks later. In May '40 GB was able to "support" Norway as 1st Sea Lord Churchill was about to invade it, to then invade Sweden, to then invade USSR. Crazy plan fighting over mountains in the Artic, Gallipoli V2.0?

What people who latch on to the racism and bigotry of fascism don’t realize is that themselves are also the extermination list. Just a little bit further down.

1/3 of Latvians was killed by Bolsheviks and 1/3 was killed later by Nazis. If you ever visit Riga, check their national museum about genocide. Heart-breaking exhibition.

The problem is that we can remember history and never learnt from it. We keep repeating it all the time. Of what use is history to man in that regard?

Надеюсь ты понимаешь, что немецко-фашистские гады планировала просто уничтожить и эксплуатировать твой народ?

Did you see those mosquitoes??? Alaskan mosquitoes!

Unsurprisingly

We will never learn. Human race considers itself as the most intelligent creature on Earth and at the same time keeps proving again and again it is the most stupid as well.

what year did this happen? who told you this story? although it could be true. honestly, it is hard to believe. sorry, that's just my opinion. no offence to those who suffered.

@@1claudiusgothicus it happens on June 1941, as I mentioned my grandmothers cousin survived the Holocaust and tolled this personally to my grandmother. Such stories are common from that time and place, you can read about it, the Germans themselves documented most of the things they did.

​@@1claudiusgothicus So it was just his word alone then? Somehow, he survived but not them? Of course it was someone else's fault.

What are you? Why would you doubt the story? Do you not know how many millions of people the Germans killed? Hiltlers "Final Solution " is well documented! You need to read more, watch more documentaries if you still doubt the atrocities.

@@mbmochinski Please look the Trailer from Don Heddesheimer: The original of the six million figure. Then you know, how " well " the " final solution " is documented. Don't forget the influence of "politicial classes " by observing history .