The Nazis Were shocked By How Russian Troops Fought In World War II 

Me to, born in Siberia

Thank you for sharing your point of view. It is not mine and I was born the same year you were. I feel this documentary presents what German troops were doing and how they felt about it as they crossed Europe. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EsWjsdiOGFw.html David Hoffman - filmmaker

Hi, David. No problem with your video, which I found very informative. It was the title that caught my eye. I have come across the description 'Nazi troops' in other historical titles. It brings to mind the horrific acts committed by the likes of the SS, Gestapo and other agencies of the NAZI regime, seeing their work as some of the most despicable against fellow man. Arguably, the most vicious fighting took place on the eastern front. In the 1950's, my father worked with an ex-German POW who spent most of the war interned in the UK. He was, like hundreds of other pow's, put to work helping farmers'. At the end of hostilities, he, like hundreds of other German and Italian pow's, fed up with fascism, opted to remain in the UK, feeling assimilated into the British way of life. At that time Britain, also, offered a home to many of Europe's, displaced people. My mother worked in an office with one such person, a lovely Jewish lady from Poland who had lost virtually all her family during the terrible happenings empowered by the NAZI regime and the minions that carried out their bidding without question - the NAZI troopers! In my youthful ignorance, I was about ten years old at the time, I asked the lady what it was like where she came from. Her eyes filled up, she gave me a wistful smile, and gently patted me on my head. It has had a lasting affect upon me. Kindest regards, Bill.

Beautiful thoughts, beautifully written, William. Thank you. I'll respect for your position, which I don't disagree with, let me tell you that the reason that the word Nazi is in the title is because of the way RU-vid search engines and keywords work. My goal is to get as many views as I can for this clip from my documentary with the hope that some will purchase the DVD or download from Amazon. Each month, quite a few do. That is why I use that terminology, not to demean Germans of goodwill whose ancestors tried to live through those times and survive. David Hoffman-filmmaker

Great respect, David. God bless, Bill.

im young , you are my fathers age but i asked my grandfather about the war a lot . we are dutch , 50 kilometer from Germany we were ocupied and all our men were taken to Germany . most of them to work ( farmers got taken to farm for the germans ) now my point is , my grandfather absolutely hated the germans for what they did , he suffered post traumatic symptoms . he hated them and damned me for visiting Germany . but even he had nothing against the soldiers as he saw them up close in their everyday life when he worked in Germany and later in the war when he was on his own farm the germans had a sleeping point in his farm . he felt pity for the 18 year old kids the german army was made of in the end , at night they were crying for their mothers . nobody asked for this war except the top elite who never touched combat themselves . the americans often discribe all germans from those days as nazis , this is a huge insult because that was not what it was like

They still lost tho.

That's what you were taught in your history class.

The citizens helped because they were held at gunpoint like most of the Red Army was.

If the civilians didn't help they'd be either shot or put into Gulag.

Just remember who destroyed Napoleon's French Empire then Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany

@@denielfranza2537they burnt Moscow down

probably a combination of both

Another important detail - they walked with closed eyes.

Well it speaks volumes about the USSR and the Stalin Regime that people buy it right ? His cruelty is known...

raryraru his cruelty is know. but you just can't make shit up because "well, it must be tru cuz we knowz Stalin was super evil"

Americans played a bigger role

@@jakewalker271no they didn’t any real historian knows this

@@jakewalker271 4 out of 5 German soldiers died in the eastern front. Study history. Bolshevik are inhuman and we all know that but those soldiers did sacrifice.

@@jakewalker271 Americans joined the war after Germany had already been defeated. Brunt of the fighting was done by Soviets. 75% of German army was destroyed by Soviets. Millions of soldiers and civilians died to protect and liberate Europe.

⁠@@realnapster1522They didn’t join the war after the Germans where defeated, in fact the Soviets only joined the war against the Germans only a few months before the US. You also have to take into account the US heavily supplied the Soviets. They sent 11.3 Billion to the soviets to help them, today that would be 180 billion. One country didn’t stop Germany it was a group effort.

Cracovian Crusader correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Hitler banish all other political parties once Hindenburg died by proclaiming himself Führer? So in that very sense, Germany was Nazi Germany that flew the Stwastika as a national symbol. Therefore, Nazi-German troops?

Just like most Russian soldiers were not part of the Communist party. Being a member of the party was a privilege.

They served under the Swastika. Ergo: Nazis!

If you fight to spread nazism, you are a nazi. There are no two ways about it.

Not all German soldiers were Nazis "This has to be the most common misconception people have about the German army - that they were all Nazis. Saying that every German soldier was a Nazi is like saying that every current serving Australian soldier is a Liberal. The German army had roots in strong Prussian tradition, and part of this tradition was that every soldier was to reject any political ties. In the Wehrmacht (the German army), it was illegal for any soldier to be affiliated with, or a member of, a political party, including the Nazi party. People, of course, argue against this with, ‘the German uniform has a Swastika on it’, and this is true. However, people often forget or ignore that the Swastika was the official flag of Germany at the time. It is also worth mentioning that between 1933 and 1945 there were more than 25 assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler’s life, with nearly all the attempts made by German army, and even SS, officers." www.historyalive.com.au/five-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-world-war-ii-germany/

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Why do you want to be an EU member then?

hey, how you doing?

Yea! Their soldiers were forced to keep swarming forward or, be shot by the political cadres assigned to each outfit.

@@richardcaines5335 Shooting for refusing to follow some orders was rare in Red army if you look at statistics. Such measures still apply in most countries today. It is known that red soldiers considered shamefull to show cowardice, cowards and criminals were often given chance to redeem themselves by accomplishing most dangerous tasks. That part where soviets used people in demining is a lie, shows me evidence and I will be convinced.

yes, at the beginning of the war.

That is not true stalin is literally quoted as saying time is blood and the not one step back rule was only directed towards commanders

That’s not to say he wasn’t a horrible person but acting as if the soviets just had endless bodies is ridiculous he wasn’t stupid enough to waste life like that in a war they were losing please use your critical thinking skills

My Grandfather told me about,He was Gunner of MG 42 as well of FlaK 8.8 and served in Waffen SS! The last wave was Polit Officers which shoot each one which wanted to flee in front of MG 42! He said they calculated about 2500 fallen Soldiers and whoever they could find to take 1 MG 42 Position of 2 Men! They came in 5-6 different Waves - He told me the whole thing and yes,the Russians was brave!

I agree with you on the T-34 being a better tank for the Soviets than the Tiger was for the Germans. Manstein was no Idiot he came through the Prussian military and held his position because when it came to operational planning, he was viewed as the best. Hitler was no Idiot, but he was a political genius but fought the war with World War I ideas. The Prussian upper staff of the German Army had progressed greatly from the ways of the first World War, their doctrine on blitzkrieg was so good it was borrowed by the USSR and the United States. The United States Army polished it up and later called it Air Land Battle. Hitler made many blunders too numerous to mention here, that eventually doomed his country. Having the Army wait on the new Tigers to begin the Kursk Offensive is one of his major ones. But we can agree to disagree, thanks for sharing your views with me. Peace to you!

Russians were hardy people....Stalin was a piece of shit that should have been tried at Neurenburg for war crimes.

I believe you are incorrect regarding the delay. ..it was caused by waiting for the Panther tank and not the Tiger tank

You are right broth, thank you from both my grandparents, one died in winter 1942 kharkov, one was miner all war world 2 and died in 1987 suicide in his daughter ufa Bashkortostan

until the Panther & Tiger Tanks came in 43

The later German models were by far the best of the war. Soviet tanks really showed their age-of-design by the end of the war. American tanks were somewhere in the middle but had overwhelming numbers.

early in ther war the german tanks were crap bad tracks, usless guns(against t34)..and all their anti tanks gun were unable to kill a t34...except their 88s but that was a anti aircraft gun...

What. Why not?

+pagan ok will try and work out what you mean and get back to you

Paul Hart this is early war, pzr 3s maybe 4s not tigers vs t34/75

There was no Tiger tank in 1941 genius

@Babd the unreliability of the tiger is a revisionist myth propagated from fear of commanders to help morale. After the first few hundred they fixed the transmissions. Statistically, it was the most effective, tank killing l, tank in the war. With less than 2 thousand made and the Germans being meticulous record keepers, its an easy calculation. The turret rotation speed is average for a heavy tank. And as for the t 34s, until the late war models, as many of them were lost due to breakdowns or manufacturing flaws as were lost in combat.

@Babd not to mention, the early t 34s would actually have such imperfections in their design and manufacture, you could sometimes find armour gaps to put fingers or even a whole hand through into the interior of the tank.

@John 3.16 It wasn't tanks that made germans lose, it was logistics, they had no fuel and no means of supporting the tanks and armies they had. By end of 1941 they were pretty much screwed since the army couldn't advance further.

+DankMemeKing T-34 was the best all-purpose medium tank for sure.

TheHamburgler123 Of course, for a while. The eventual making of the Panzer 4 Ausf J was the overturn of it.

+DankMemeKing Too little too late kind of situation. Less than 3,500 of that variant of the Panzer IV were produced starting in 1944. The Russians had been cranking out T-34s since 1940 building over 35000 during the war. Cheap, effective and efficient is what you want in war and the T-34 was all of those things.

In reality, the German tank crews were just well experienced. If the Fuhrer placed correct tactics mabye the war would of been different.

This is true. They expected victory by the end of '41. Operation Barbarossa was their only hope for victory - swift, decisive victory. Without the crushing blow a war of attrition ensued depleting German resources and manpower.

LOL and you do? WW2 ended almost 80 years ago. You have as much experience at fighting for your life while freezing as an infant born yesterday on a tropical island does.

Were you a german soldier?

@maulfickmanfred1796 yet far less than some other countries today. Please look up the atrocities committed in vietnam.

Anyone who loves freedom owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid." - Ernest Hemingway

Freedom Does not exist. Without brave and strong men there is no one who keeps the peace.

The Soviets did not reduce the forces facing the Japanese in Manchuria at any time during WWII. The so called "delay" was not caused by Mussolini, or anybody else other than the Germans themselves. The German logistic system was not ready before June 22.

Bingo!!! You're exactly right. Well put.

the japanese were to scared to attack the soviets because of their experiences fighting the soviet army in 1939 soviet-japanese battle of khalkin gol

Who gives a shit who came up with the the word.

Really?? who is dorcing Hitler to attack Russia Killing 30 000 000 souls 🖕🏻🖕🏻

@@maki3904 what does this have to do with that word?

T-34 definitely wasnt better than german tanks, but Russians have term "tank of victory" which west authors automatically translate as best or top tank, but it doesnt mean that, tank of victory must be best tank on battlefield, its just tank which ensure you victory in matter of your tactic.

No, the Siberian troops were transferred because winter had begun, and to attack Russia in the winter was a very stupid undertaking, especially from Siberia ... Stalin did not believe any treaties with the Japanese, but believed in their prudence ... The Siberian divisions made the main Work in the protection of Moscow ... Moscow was already in a panic, food warehouses were open to looting the population ... If the city is lost, it is best if all of its food stocks will plunder the local population than pass into the hands of the enemy army ... To protect the city Were thrown all The forces that could be defended even the students under the command of their professors with weapons, which was taken from museums ... My grandmother told me that when I saw the Siberian soldiers on the streets of Moscow, she realized that Moscow would not be lost ... Gloomy, not smiling soldiers In white fur coats inspired confidence in victory ... Despite the Western rumors about the fact that a strong winter helped the Russians this is not true. The winter was very warm, -10 degrees Celsius, this is a very warm winter for Russia and especially for Siberian divisions ... The Germans were not prepared even for such a mild winter, their outfits got stuck in transport logistics and they were dressed in something they could take away from the local Civilians or take off the bodies of dead Russians ... The German army no longer resembled an army and was more like a bunch of homeless ... They became easy prey for the Siberian divisions ... It must be very insane to fight the Siberian divisions in the winter ... In Siberia is a normal winter t mperatura below -20 degrees Celsius, the average temperature is ... Summer is just three months a year. What did the German soldiers, pampered by the European climate, count on ???

Don't get it twisted.. it was only a non aggression pact.. was no true between them... Japan had an operation planned to invade and occupy the far East region in 41 that was abandoned due to sanctions by the US...

Jesus Christ More efficient than what? And what's up with the user name is that supposed to be satirical?

ROFL not even fucking close. A 50mm Panzer 3 could destroy any t34...whether the 76mm or 85mm. You did NOT need an 88mm gun to take out a fucking shitty t34 bahahaha. The only commie tanks that you needed a 75mm gun for were the kv 1's and 2's...and the is tanks obviously

What? So the fact that kraut armor complained about not being able to punch the sloped armor of the t34 was just a myth then? Dude, even the sherman ripped panzer 3 a new one, and even the grant was enough to chase those krauts out of N. Africa.

UFCMania155 hahaha, dream on bud. Even if your toxic kraut mind wants to believe that, a 50 mm aint punching through thick, well made steel sloped armor, at all. Even if it could, the Sov's and Yanks still out produced your ass, and made more reliable machinery, which is what really counts in a mechanized war. So go polish Porsche's grave stone, his cars are still breaking down right now! (and making many AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN mechanics a pretty penny off their dumbass kraut loving owners) If you can get access to one, I highly recommend you read an ASM or ASTM handbook (if you're kraut sucking brain can handle it). Then compare US, Soviet, and kraut alloys to the standards. You'll learn really quick how much better the steel on Allied and Soviet tanks was. (I guess I should say when you're stuck with shitty ore and scrap, you aren't going to be making any good metal any time soon). But I don't expect a (likely) fat neo nazi pile of shit to even have the mental capacity to play solitaire And before you give me any german engineering (aka bullshit) lecture, you need to realize the only reason german cars are even drive-able is because they took design philosophies from Ford, GM, Dodge/Chrysler, Toyota, Honda, and Nissan (shit, even the French make better, though less fun to drive cars). Shit, every mercedes owner would be scorched alive right off the lot if not for mercedes contracting their electrical work out to the Japanese. hahahaha, germany loses again (like always, just look, they bend over and take it up the rear from a couple of towel heads every day of the week)

Bullshit soviets had more man than tanks hitler would have won if that fatty Churchill didn't distract mussolini to come to him fighting in africa he wanted to separate him from hitler so he can win more advantage germans were been outnumbered on two fronts especially that red army recruited females scouts snipers to fight germans advance on the eastern front taking them by surprise armory on the german tanks been far heavier thicker in particular.

Initially on operation Barbarossa when the T34 was encountered by the Germans it was drastically superior to panzers on a few principles(mostly armor). However the Russians used their tanks much more like the allies did at the start of WW2 which proved to be a huge mistake for France. Combining this with the fact that the Russians still used hand signals/flags instead of radios, didn't have range finders on thier optics, had questionable metal qualities and gun accuracy. Many factors proved early on that even an inferior panzers backed with superior tactics, training and communication was a winning hand.(initially) Later on the Russians really learned how to use the T34 to deadly effect, especially at Stalingrad. But throughout the war panzers in general had much better communication, crew compartments, gun optics, accuracy, and plenty of other things. The main disadvantage of a panzer was actually lack of gas, this holds same to the German war effort as a whole.

I'm from the Uk and totally agree. They vastly underestimated Russia and it's people. The end

Ok first of all no. to say that the soviets ASS-FUCKED the German military is a completely moronic statement. if you look at the Battle of Kursk for example, the soviets outnumbered the Germans by about 3 to 1 BUT they suffered 3 times more losses, same with battle of moscow were the soviets had 2 million casualties while Germany only about 250 thousand. however there are many reasons Germany failed in defeating stalin's regime (they did not want to destroy russia, merely stalin's regime). in 1940 after Poland was defeated, Stalin informed Hitler that he was gonna invade southern european countries, this alarmed Hitler and basicly confirmed his suspicions that Russia wanted to expand in the Western Europe eventually, Stalin's plan during world war 2 was to let the European countries exhaust themselves and then when the right time came start a bolshevik revolution in Europe. so after Stalin's message of expanding south AND the massive building up of armed forces along the European-Russian Border made it very clear what stalins plans were so Germany and the other European countries had to execute a pre-emptive strike on The Soviet union. Hitler's original plan was to encircle Moscow in a huge flanking move with 3 huge army groups, however in august Hitler got ill and could'nt go to the war conferences, so his generals who prefered a classical frontal assault took huge numbers away from these armies and sent them to the middle army group and this is the reason why both of these operations did not succeed before winter, the wehrmacht was simply not equiped for winter... also in 1941 Brittain and Usa sent billions of dollars to the soviet union to keep them in the war. i'm not saying that Russians aren't strong people, i agree with you. but you should know that Stalin used some pretty evil tactics like having any soldier shot if he only dares to retreat, or forcing women and childeren to fight (like in stalingrad). about 10 000 russians fought with hitler to protect their country from the bolsheviks. so Germany definitly did NOT get ass raped, Germany came very close to Defeating Stalin's regime and this would have been way better for Russia since he would'nt have had the chance of killing more of them

Why So Serious They sent more than just money to the ussr. If it wasn't for American money and supplies (and im not trying to brag here) then Russia wouldn't have lasted. I don't care how strong and warm your heart is, without supplies, you cannot win a war. Stalin was doomed from the get go. He had an outdated military that modernized in the wrong direction.

And then there was Japan and of course Finland

Steve K finland was a comolete mess for soviets staljin thought it would be easy so he just threw what he had they even lacked machine guns so they used federov avtomat russian automatic gun from ww1

Lmao where in cuba?

a fight the facists never have, and never will win

Nazi loser

The communist boogeyman has worn out its uses

We kicked your ass

Soviets*

I guess you would just let yourself and your loved ones be imprisoned by Nazis and get rotten in one of the concentration camps rather than throwing "your meat" to die fighting for your homeland ("the problem" as you say). Good on you and people that liked your comment. Not much to say here.

@@creativevit5961 well, if they didn't fight they'd end up in a russian concentration camp called Gulag. So no matter what you do, you're fcked.

This is completely false. It’s just propaganda spread by Hollywood during Cold War. Russians had to stop a German army which had declared total war of extermination and eastern front was very brutal that’s why so many died.

Still are.

No, the had their own camps at the same time.

They were rapists and committed genocide. Ussr was evil like Nazi Germany

​@@misslawless6021It wasn't Red Army that had gulags and POW camps, Red Army troops were good, deadly soldiers that won against Nazi Germany. Soviet party on the other hand was a different in every way.

For all time.

Alpha100 Aren’t you forgetting the Russo-Japanese War?

Russians lost everything by Mongolian invasion in 1240

@Matthew Estrada invasion has never been on point. The Mongershtein line was in terms of incoming WW2. Learn some history. Learn what was actually a Mongershtein line is (that isn't just a line on a map). And learn why only one military regiment city of Leningrad have tried to do this on his own, but not just the whole army.

@@MrCshx What are you talking about? The line is called Mannerheim line, not "Mongershtein".

Russia got SLAPPED by Japan.

yeah cccp won the war

by sheer disregard to human life tho..

They did,usually penal battalions, people convicted of crimes were given the option, bullet in the back of the head or take your chances at the front.A lot of the Russians strategy was based on sheer weight of manpower and not caring about them.

They way the Red Army used manpower in the first place convinces me he is telling the truth. Bloccade units, order 227 (directed by Stalin), NKVD officers in the ranks and citations by for example Zjoekov: if there is a minefield in front of us the Russian soldiers acts like it isn't there.

@@lennartdejong8211 order 227 if you actually read the whole thing is directed towards the commanders That kept retreating not the soldiers and no they did not have endless manpower that’s not how war works

@@lennartdejong8211 Stalingrad was a brilliant plan that turned the tide of the war and was basically the end for the Nazi regime in not a communist but some of these things aren’t true except some of the killings he did like the Katyn massacre that commies deny even though there’s a fucking document with his signature on it proving he ordered it

@@davidjackson9680 Ofc they did not have infinite manpower... But they sure had a lot of it! Is what he means