Your stories are so very welcome. I have never known the German soldiers side of the war, it's very informative. One can't help but feel deeply for these soldiers, despite their leader and cause.
Sorry but feeling deeply for these soldiers is simply moronic. The German's caused a war that killed approximately 100M people, or more. They also caused such chaos in the countries they took and abused. There is no sympathy for these people. They believed in what they were doing and unfortunately, they did it well based on the numbers.
A lot of them seem to have been very strange, to me anyway. But, it does help to explain how Germany was able to accomplish what they did in the 30s (and 40s). The Wehrmacht seemed to “believe” almost as deeply as the SS from what I’ve seen. They truly were the followers, who made it happen.
Please go on and continue with these war stories, you're beyond any doubt the absolute best one in this field among the other guys here on YT, and I've now heard them all!!! 👍👍👍!!!
I'm 45 and a disabled former Marine shooter and I have already listened to four hours of these this morning and it's not even 11 yet lol. Normally I use them to go to sleep. He's been fighting Daly for 3.5 years. Of course he's a little off. But this is the old days also when war was romantic and not mechanized mechanization is what killed the old kind of War. But you do have to realize that the wine and the food are the best things that he has at that moment so of course you have to enjoy them.. and all the liquor
The last knights were the flying aces of WW1. As early as the battle of Battle of Agincourt (1415) massed English longbowmen defeated Frenchmounted, armored knights
Love these stories. Obviously, this commander's family was part of the hierarchy given the Von in his name. It's odd that he didn't rise further up the chain as the Nazis loved getting the old hierarchy involved. One suggestion - you may want to add maps to show the locations these men are discussing. I pulled up Stuhlweissenburg (it now has a Slavic name again) on the map and tried to follow the order of battle, but the names used were mostly the German versions making it very difficult.
The Von prefix became of much less importance after WW1 and the Kaiser abdicated, effectively eliminating the royal class. This importance was further diminished due to Hitler's distaste for the class. It essentially meant that the person came from a family with a decent amount of land.
@@jgren4048 He mentions dates. but most of the sites of the battles are now identified on maps by their Russian, Slovak or Ukranian/Belorussian or Russian names.
Interesting to learn that they had so much trouble to keep their Tigers from breaking down or getting bogged down. If they worked they were great, but unsupported and/or insufficiently supplied they were basically very expensive pillboxes.
U.S. Navy submariner Captain Bill Toti recently remarked that German U-Boats forced to remain submerged by Allied air patrols were so slow (8 knots) they amounted to nothing more than a slow moving mines.
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography picture 📷 enabling the viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Class A research project!!! Special thanks to the veteran solders sharing their personal information/combat experiences making this documentary more authentic and possible. Fighting/perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible. Yet still advanced forward regardless of the consequences. That's true grit style determination to succeed. As usual Berlin didn't seem overly concerned about the predicaments of the predicaments of the panzer tanks/infantry. That's why they were ordered to perform. Disillusioned/impossible military operations. Hungary & Romania were being overwhelmed by the Russian armies. Sacrifice the remaining tanks/ infantry for what??? The war in that area was over. The panzers/infantry should have retreated west. To regroup with other retreating German armies. Hopefully they enjoyed their final. New year's eve 🍸drinks as the 3rd reich ended.
"We are going to be fighting on the worst roads imaginable with horrible, barely legible trails packed deeply with mud." "Build much heavier tanks. That's the ticket."😊😊😊
Imagine being a tank commander and telling the command that your tanks can't go to support this unit or that part of the line because they would sink in the mud? They'd probably think you were making excuses and tell you to go anyhow. I bet it was an impossible situation.
@@brandaonb4249 there's a pretty good video thing that does a lot of German officer diaries and they're mostly from the Eastern front.. one of the soldiers was talking about some late War battles against the Soviets when they were really on the run and they all had the new tiger tanks and had all sorts of policies to protect those tanks. Basically none of those tanks made it more than 20 miles without becoming completely stuck and they lost at least 50% of them to just being unable to get them out of the Russian mud. These were tanks that were being hauled by engineers and two or three panzers but they were so effing heavy that there was no chance to get them out.. the stupidity of that decision to build a much bigger tank when you've had problems for two years trying to get the smaller panzers out of the mud. Ideally you'd want a smaller faster tank with a wider tread and instead they build a behemoth with a giant gun which is a killer tank but never really able to stay in the game because of breakdowns. Buy breakdowns I don't mean their engines just getting stuck in the Russian mud or the morass of melting snow. Tanks aren't fun and bad weather but that doesn't mean that you don't try in a storm. Man I just hate Montgomery.
@@brandaonb4249 it just seems like you would try to adjust to the situation by building smaller tanks with a wider base but that isn't the way armor design worked in Germany or airplane design or almost any other design. They had great stuff but they were obsessed with bigger is better and that was not nearly ever the case. They could have probably built two or three panzers in the same time with the same amount of cost that it took to build a tiger and had twice the amount of tanks that they had instead they sunk it all into something that sunk into the mud. If they thought they were going to be fighting in France or somewhere where the ground had been filled up with roads and trails and all of that than the tiger would have been a great idea but they already knew what the roads and the soil situation was like in the Soviet Union. That's the kind of stubbornness that they always showed. We're going to build what we want to build because it's cool and badass and can blow anything up and it's hard to kill but it can't make it to any battles cuz it's always stuck. over England and it killed 2,700 people. Basically the same number within 50 or something which is a complete and total waste of money when one big bombing load like Dresden killed more than 50,000 or something at such a smaller cost. The V1 and V2 programs were a complete waste of money as were the tiger tanks.
@@bookaufman9643 Germany did not have unlimited supplies of steel, copper, etc. (nor did Japan) both had to import almost everything. (As did the UK, but the Royal Navy controlled the high seas in WW1 and most of WW2.)
I’m always embarrassed or quiet I like to listen but find it hard to be personal about being young stupid and afraid to show fear. I was more afraid of what my people thought of me, so you hide it by being loud even cruel to stay in control. I once shxt myself in Bosnia when a dog ran out of the dark, I shot the shit out of him ,and that night and many times I’ve cried for that dog yet I never felt sad for men. 30 years later and that dog breaks my heart. I no not why I tell you this but war never changes.
I did the same thing in Vietnam ! When my friend next to me was shot , I lost it and starting shooting at everyone and I even shot a old papason 's dog ! Like you , I later felt Bad about it !@@patkearney9320
Allowed more German territory to fall to people who were 'not Russian. Avoid 'some of the revenge rape, avoid possibly worse POW situation, not be in Russian held German lands after the war.
@@spannaspinna Where are the tens of thousands of heroic accounts of the guys who burned to death entire villages or who tortured prisoners of war to death or who rotated through the camps? Every SS thug legally called to account never saw nothing!
It's the Prussian stock in Germany, especially the aristocrats like this author. They were always the most militaristic. That's why after WW2, Prussia was ethnically cleansed of Germans and given to the Poles. Prussia ceased to exist as an entity in 1945.
