When Americans Landed In Normandy We Were Absolutely Shocked 

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The Allies landed at Normandy not just the Americans - unsubscribed

@@manonthemoon2912 Sir this is not any clickbait title or any attempt to discredit other nations in the allies ,this soldier's division (77th Grenadier division )just fought against the Americans until he got injured on front line ,he has not mentioned encountering British ,Canadians or other nations except French Resistance Forces in his memoirs ,and this title is purely based on his memoirs ,kind regards

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What's the book called?

Tell that to the Russian people.

Me, too. We can't forget lessons from the past.

The US is suffering from demographic decline. The people who made it and built it up aren't reproducing as often as people who made lesser nations.

The US won't exist in 30 years.

The US is in trouble right now. Trump could very well become another Hitler. He isn't personally smart enough to have figured all this out but he is being heavily influenced by people who are promising him untold wealth and power. He is being manipulated. He either doesn't realize it or he doesn't care as long as he gets paid. I'm guessing it's the later...

I’ve read stories of the POW camp in Algona, IA. The POWs worked throughout town and even did the Nativity or another Christmas musical for the townsfolk, if I’m remembering correctly.

My Opa and other surrendering Wehrmacht made extra effort to find Allied forces to surrender to. The Russians didn’t take many pow’s.

​@@joyd3825the pow's the Russians did take usually died in the gulags of Siberia. There were about 90,000 German soldiers captured at stalingrad and they believe about 85000 died in POW camps in Russia. The few survivors weren't released to go back home till 1955. I could be wrong on the exact numbers but from my memory I do believe I'm close on the numbers. The Russians also returned the treatment that the SS dished out on Russian soldiers and civilians. The Russians were absolutely ruthless to any German they came across soldiers and civilians.

The Great Papago Escape en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Papago_Escape

@@christopherbuss680 You know that the Germans killed 3 million Sovjet POWs? Mostly by starvation, hard labour, but also by the bullit.

Wow, assertive Grandmother! So many cannot persuade their own families to take off their shoes.

thats your consolation prize?? camon!@@karenkrohn8003they got invaded and taken over, the germans were just being nice, you think they don't know this?.

I would sure like to hear more about you Grandfather. Thank you for sharing.

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What a badass

Wonder if the officer learned anything while EAST

@@davidparker4385 he probably most definitely perished.

I hope you see a million thumbs up

Angola war?

@@nwofoe2866 Yeah, the Border War in then South West Africa, now Namibia, and Angola.

My uncle came home from being a US young POW in Germany, after regaining some weight and getting medical care once liberated. It’s hard to imagine today, but due to the time and communications tech, the first the family knew that he was coming home was when he….just showed up on the doorstep, and was quite the reunion.

Righteous. @@robert-trading-as-Bob69

It is good fiction......do your research.

The Allies landed more than 160,000 troops at Normandy, of which 73,000 were American. There were also 83,115 British and Canadian forces who landed on Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches. By the end of the first day, none of the assault forces had secured their first-day objectives.

Agreed. General Eisenhower was supreme commander, so “Americans” were referenced more than other Allies. If Montgomery had been the leader, people would be saying the “British landing at Normandy”.

The Irish and the British fighting as one? I never knew that :00

@@zack9679 a dis service to all the volunteer service men and women of the Irish Free State who fought or worked on the home front in WW2. This is the reason why all Irish citizens were given the rights of voting after 6 months residency in Britain by the post war Labour Government. As a Londoner I can tell you many many British people have Irish ancestors, and only the class system and imperialism have kept us divided. How little you know of the history of these islands and the fight for autonomy and freedom against English and Scottish hegemony over Ireland.

The thing is while before the Americans came around the allies (with American supply and money) and fighting valiantly had basically been thrown out of Europe and had several major, severe losses. The first American deployment (besides 50 soldiers) and within 33 days had landed, liberated France, Holland and moved into belgium...

Agreed

I was fooled until there were a few butchered words. Honestly a really good AI voice.

@@RPDpwng15 Same. Impressive

That's why I listened to it. It was bearable at least.

It's a clone of magician Derren in Brown.

My grandfather said as much as well.

Yeah. I don’t blame the soldiers. The wars were both family squabbles. Look up lineage of the rulers of France, England, Germany, Russia, Prussia, Italy, etc. Except for America, Japan and China, it was a family affair.

My GrandFather trained WWII pilots and was recruited prior to the Air Force being created… he negotiated to be an Officer in the Army. He kept his flattop haircut until the day he died. He flew the Berlin Airlift as the the pilots were released. My mom talks about being a young girl in Germany during this time and Grandpa’s plane shot down and him parachuting 🪂 down and stuck on top of a building and his yelling down at them in English: “Get Me Down From Here You Damn Krauts‼️🤬 He never shared stories with me as he lost so many pilots. I have his medals 🎖️ and a miniature plane he had. USAF had no records of his service yet all ow us have been awarded USAA benefits and we have the pleasure of having his DNA 🧬 and black & white pictures of him in uniform and we honor him proudly. 🇺🇸 💪 🗽 🦅 🎇

@@jeffreyrusselljr7713- mine would never discuss the war or his experiences with me, it saddened him of all the pilots he trained and how many died. 😢

My grand parent was the son German immigrants to the US who fought in WW1, and no one in the family had anything good to say about the German soldiers. His son/my uncle was a young ball turret gunner in WW 2, whose plane was shot down over Germany and he nearly starved as a POW…..and he also didn’t have anything good to say about the Germans. They were a nasty bunch who all either endorsed or cowardly turned a blind eye to evil. And they knew, maybe not every detail of every atrocity, but the Germans adults all knew very, very dark things were happening. They saw the anti-Semitic propaganda campaign and speeches by their government, then the well publicized violence and harassment, then the legal discrimination….then Jewish neighbors and others were rounded up and gone….often without selling their homes or businesses, plus the camps that smelled like death for miles. Only a child could know that and not understand.

I'll look for it, thanks!

Yes, it was striking that he hadn't heard of them before, and it did drive home the point of their Russian origin, didn't it?

The origin of the Molotov Cocktail was by the Finns - they called them Molotov Cocktails as a mock towards Vyacheslav Molotov, who led the winter war campaign against the Finns.

Absolutely incredible. Rest in peace to a man who lived the life of 50 men

Understandable bro. My grandpa and great uncles wouldn’t tell my dad anything about the war related to combat. But they all told them how terrible war is. We did get some stories about my Grandpa meeting relatives in Italy in 1945. They were living in poverty in the aftermath of Italy’s involvement in the war. My Grandma shipped clothes over to my Grandpa who gave it to our family in Italy which clothed our long lost relatives’ children. I guess not all war stories have to be bad 🙂.

The WWII vets I grew up with never said one word about it. Even if asked. You might once every couple of years hear a comment about being in the army but never anything about what they did.

My dad flew P-51s and P-38s in the South Pacific, and he liked the majority of WWII vets chose not to relive their experiences.

Those men saw some things that scarred them for life. Their brothers in arms and buddies getting killed and injured, innocent civilians getting killed, etc. it’s no wonder that so many did not wish to speak about it afterwards.

Yes they were naive, most only heard rumors of the things we know today. The German people too were, in most cases, naive as to the extent of what was happening. The only ways to learn the truth was through arguable rumors & conspiracy theories. The official news sources were all saying the same things, propaganda. The best way to control a population is to keep them ignorant. The best way to keep the people ignorant is to control the news/media.

Go back even further, what if Arch Duke Ferdinand was never assassinated in 1914?

Or if Germany had of taken Paris in 1914????? They probably would have occupied France for a couple years and made a deal with England about control of the seas and Africa colonies etc.

Hitler wanted Russia at all costs

Most likely scenario is that Germany would find itself outmatched several times over by a reformed and vastly expanded Soviet army. Then in 1942 the Soviets invade Germany instead of Germany invading the Soviets. Part of the reason why Germany invaded was because they needed a preemptive strike on the SU before they armed themselves to such a degree where invasion would be impossible. Both the SU and Germany had promised prior to the molotov-ribbentrop pact that they would destroy the other. Wasnt for naught that the Soviet had hundreds of thousands of men, with equipment depots and thousands of tanks near the German border. The SU were themselves preparing for war with Germany. In any case the outcome is the same, probably within the same time frame as the Soviets wont suffer their massive losses in the early days of the chaos in 1941. If Japan never bombed pearl harbor their oil reserves run dry, they only had enough to fuel their industries for the next 6 months. Their wartime production grinds to halt which means they cant sustain their war in China. To prevent an outright collapse due to lack of munitions, the Japanese pull back their armies within China and proceeds fighting a protracted defense of their gains on the coast. Faced with more and more American and Soviet equipment to the nationalist Chinese government and their own industry tanking the Japanese are forced to sue for peace. With all occupied areas of since the start of the war in may 1937 are returned to China. In return the Soviet Union and the USA recognizes the state of Manchuria as a legitimate independent nation and the US resumes oil exports to Japan. The Soviet Union and USA is recognized as guarantors for a Sino-Japanese peace treaty. Both parties assuring that Japan will not launch a war of aggression towards China again. With China stabilized the Kuomintang are triumphant and all of mainland China, that is without Manchuria and taiwan, form now the new Republic of China. With Chiang Kai-Shek as the head of state.

Or if Hitler had been accepted by a certain prestigious art school. That was his dream, even though his art was mediocre. His only real interest was pursuing an art education. Dissolutioned , he ended up debating politics in beer halls. Realized he had a talent for speaking to crowds. Uh oh.

i think you have better eyes than i do!

I do see it

Yes now that you mention it. Interesting.

@user-ny4bp4oe4j Sir noted , thanks for the feedback, kind regards

I’d like to know this as well

Okay so I’ve done some research and it is from the memoirs of Helmut Hörner. A book called a German Odyssey.

@@cbrosentertainment1806 Found it That books out of print but you can borrow it from the internet archive and you can borrow it from... archive.org/details/germanodysseyjou0000horn

Thank you for doing this. I was worried it was historical fiction. @@cbrosentertainment1806

@@cbrosentertainment1806 thanks! Wanna read it too now

Don’t be fooled, both sides did horrible things, the Russians just didn’t care.

There many French patriots who were not safe.

The difference in intensity of these two related yet separate conflicts. Ostfront, they were playing for keeps. Yeah.

​@@GH-oi2jfThere was also many French fighting for the Germans, also Dutch, Polish, Ukrainians, Bosnia Muslims, Turks, ect. Not a few either, entire divisions under German Command I guarantee if everyone seen what the West has come to today not 1 man would of picked up a rifle against Germany and they all would of fought the Judeo Bolsheviks as they where known back then

Iam only few minutes also and if I heard correctly and my math is somewhat right they walked nearly 30 miles a day!! He said basically on foot they had traveled 750 miles in 6 weeks. 6 weeks is roughly 24 days on light end of things. 750 miles divided into let's just say 24 weeks = just over 30 miles a day?? Did I do that right? That seems insane. It could have been more like 28 days or so but splitting haurs at that point! DAMN!

@YoureMrLebowski Thank you very much!

Not just the “likes”! More awesome is the number of “views” (at the time of my view) is about 100 times the number of “likes”.

Perhaps you will get the opportunity to serve with the goings on in the would right now what side do you like?

Presumably also, the British Empire, Canadians, and then the British Empire again, were at Gold, Juno, and Sword respectively. They suffered terrible casualties against the 12th Panzer Hitlerjugend. Wish we Americans could disabuse ourselves of the notion that we were the only ones who counted on D-Day.

I do not know of or have heard anyone who believes that the U.S were the only forces to land on D-Day. There are stories, books, movies, etc about American troops but the focus was just only that particular beach or unit. It doesn't discount or belittle the efforts/sacrifices of the whole Allied force. Most know that it was a group of nations combined. I was always taught and have always heard of the Allied beach landings. I do know that there are delusional and/or biased people that only believe their home country was the only one to land or gave the most efforts. Usually those are outliers. RU-vid especially has brought those opinions to the forefront which makes it seem as though the majority believe that way.

Absolutely. American BS… more British and Canadians landed on 6th June than Americans..defended primarily by the British navy. Who needs Stalin’s airbrush when you have American media.

Some people really have hangups over the US involvement in Normandy.

I think it's related to what an Afrika Korps soldier saw when he was captured. The Germans turned south on the Eastern Front to take the oil fields in the Caucuses because they were desperately in need of fuel. When the German soldier was held by the Americans in Africa, he saw they casually let engines idle, wasting precious fuel. He said that was the moment he knew without a doubt Germany was going to lose the war. I think the soldier's diary in this video referred only to the Americans for the same reason. If Hitler hadn't needlessly declared war on America there would be a lot more German speakers in the Greater German Reich today. I know the Axis had agreements in place for mutual assistance, but Hitler had no problem betraying allies, and he must have at least considered it risky to incite the US.

Damn right we did. We didn't get our asses kicked at Dunkirk. Your welcome, and thank you for the loan of the excellent English women.

Wrong. The British only made up three divisions of the D Day landing force with Canadians making up the fourth division from the commonwealth nations. Americans brought six divisions, 4 infantry 2 airborne. The British lost the ability to fight alone when they abandoned so much equipment in the retreat leading to the Dunkirk evacuation. The French defeat also helped complicate things.

@johnhanson5943, who was your history professor?? 😂😂😂 America sent a massive number of soldiers on D-Day. The reason Eisenhower could be chosen as Supreme Commander wasn’t only because of his even temperament, but because our footprint was so massive with soldiers and everything else, such as ships, planes, etc. There’s no way England could’ve won without America, even Churchill knew that! Do you know who supplied England with its weapons, equipment, supplies, etc. And we did the same for Russia! They were even supplying them with jeeps & trucks, etc. Don’t let your ego & pride stop you from doing a little research and get your facts straight!

​@@marjorjorietillman856nonsense British manufacture was 1.7 times Germany's firstly and secondly Britain would've beat Germany anyway because even Russia was thrashing them because of mad Hitler's idiocy! We supplied Russia btw with tons of equipment including British tanks and Spitfires too! America gave em tons too and true shortened the victory wait. 🤡

Long before D-Day, Britain was suffering massive losses of materiel from German U-boats. The U.K was cut off from its colonial empire and all the resources these provided the mother country. U.K. was in a grave position and Churchill knew it. U.K. only began to rebound when The U.S. learned by trial and error how to create elaborate naval convoys. This American Naval effort would break the power of “the wolf packs” of German submarines. However, even before America officially entered the war England was being resupplied by U.S. Merchant Marines, which took heavy losses of ships being torpedoed by Germans subs. The resources at Normandy of which you speak were sourced from The U.S.

I watched several of his accounts, but couldn't find the closing RU-vid of when he turned himself in. A new twist on the American Dream.

Madman? That's the drunk, Churchill, right? Or maybe "Lord" Halifax?

the usa declared war...stupid logic......on german and not the japanese. the asians as phillipines, chinese, vietnamese and other asian nations were put on back burner as europe had to be freed NOW......they were white

AI has already learned to lie. Good lu.ck with that

Nope, cost to much.

They don't exist anymore. AI has replaced them all.

@jebbroham1776 dis he also admire their spirit to rape and pillage and torture civilians?

And the Soviets kicked the German army out of Russia.

@@larryo6874 with great difficulty and all thanks to Hitler’s idiotic meddling, but yeah that happened.

@@docsavage8640well if he did admire them for that he’d have to admire his own German troops for it too

@@jebbroham1776nope. The Germans relied on horses for everything and were outmanned and out gunned by the soviets. Yeah sure soviets sent waves of men, but so did the Germans to the point they had make up fighting forces consisting of the young and elderly whereas the soviets could just get more men.

Well they WERE invading, Germany annexed the land by conquest, as did the US in their own piece of country by wiping out the Native Americans :p

Yes, that letter was from a German soldier. They allowed Hitler to brainwash them! They told the Norwegians the same thing. That’s just like someone moving into your home saying, they’re there to protect you!😂😂

Yes, he was amazed that the French just let it happen. That comment was quite illuminating. Clearly he was in denial with regard to the level of hostility felt for themselves, the German invaders.

It's all about perspective. That's how you'd see it if you were in the German army at the time.

I’m pretty sure it’s an AI voice

Vietnam never happened, fake news.

@@ggrene8266 just because USA lost that war.

@@CLARKE176 Hahahahaha usa never lost a war, we only bail out UK and the whole world out of their own messes.

actually they did not,after the GIs left the communists broke the peace treaty. You must be British they treat you like mushrooms - kept in the dark and fed shit

They would have take over Europe

imagine if Germany never attacked anyone?

​@@terencebates6808low IQ reply. He is making a point

@@terencebates6808 imagine if the british didn't totally fuck them over in WW1,like they did india,ireland,South Arfica ,USA at one time and using the Canucks as sandbags/fodder.

Well they did with the Canadians

You forgot to add how we did it single handedly. So selfless, America.

Yes, the Soviet Union had the largest blood tribute. But from Lend-Lease deliveries to the USSR came: 80% canned meat 92% of locomotives, rails and machinery for laying them. 57% aviation gasoline 53% explosives 74% of the entire car fleet 88% of radio equipment 53% copper 56% aluminum. 60% car fuel 74% of car tires (USA built a factory there) 12% armored vehicles 14% of combat aircraft In addition, a high percentage of quality steel, communication cables, sanitary materials, almost all modern machine tools used by the Soviets + know how, 9 million pairs of shoes, and in total there was probably enough food to feed an army of 12 million throughout the entire war. According to Russian experts, without Lend Lease, the USSR would have collapsed in 1943 at the latest. And thanks to supplies from the USA, they were able to completely switch the economy to war production. Something Germany didn't do until 1943.

Obviously they warred on another world where there were no Canadians, British, Free French, etc.

I think the reference is about The Battle of Dunkirk? When France was invaded by Germany The English troops on French soil managed a miraculous retreat across The English Channel even as The German Air Force was attacking them. Every dingy, fishing boat, sailboat and yacht in England was used to transport English soldiers from France to England. The Germans and even The English themselves never imagined this evacuation could happen. This narrow escape allowed England to live to fight another day and to defend England. Had England’s soldiers been captured they would have been POW’s or worse yet, pressed into work camps or made to fight for Germany on the Russian front.

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Why are you donating to some random bloke who got a voice-to-text engine to read some text?

thanks a ton sir

agreed.

Can’t bear watching it.

Look up 'how many were used ,died etc in WW2 .then Look Up WW 1'..The numbers are staggering .The Horse got humans thru history , war ,etc. and gave Us ,freedom at a high price.

You need to sort out your priorities. If that horse goes on the menu.

Ah. I sort of saw that coming. The train with no love.

😂nevermind? It comes in waves

Hahahaha yeah no the clean Wehrmacht myth has been long debunked. Those animals weren’t only complicit but intrinsic in their atrocities on behalf of their Fuhrer

Sir please check the playlist for other parts ,we just uploaded the 12th part of this series today

Thank you

Sir you are most welcome 🤗

Sir check the memoirs of Helmut Horner

No one that mattered. Turncoats and cowards

D-Day by the Numbers Total Allied troops who landed in Normandy: 156,115 Total Allied airborne troops (included in figures above): 23,400 American: 73,000 (Omaha and Utah beaches + airborne) British: 61,715 (Gold and Sword beaches + airborne) Canadian: 21,400 (Juno Beach) This is a German perspective so it may have something to do with where the writer was on the beach.

Ever hear the expression, “He stood out like a sore thumb.”?

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On the left of and next to the tree, above the fence ? No, an example of pareidolia 🎉

@@davepowell7168 so you see it? Haha

Sir please check memoirs of Helmut Horner regards

Yep.

Greetings from The Netherlands! The German soldiers got Perpetin, an early form of Crystal Meth. It gave them an euforic and invincible feeling and could fight on for 3 days without sleeping. You sometimes hear of German soldiers foaming at the mouth. This was a byproduct of using Perpitin.

it's got like 10 parts bro