War stories hit hard when they are told in first person.

My grandfather was part 506th parachute infantry division. He made it home from the war and took his own life in Clemson, SC in 1948I never got thank him but the horrors he had to go through bothered him until the end. I never got to meet him only heard stories from my grandma and mother.

@gergemall

3 ай бұрын

I am truly sorry for your loss. My father survive the South Pacific New Guinea the Philippines set an a major battles fought in that South Pacific theater that people don’t know about this but Suicide rate was extremely high, especially one shoulders are sailors. Marines got dear John letters , often times they would go off alone but their platoon members would hear a gunshot and that was their way out of that unimaginable nightmare! Hell on earth. God bless your grandfather.

What he lived through. We cannot comprehend.

This one of the best story telling I have heard. Thank you Mr. Newell for telling us what it was like. You have our admiration.

Sounds like after hitting Metz, his unit operated from west to east much farther south than the 95th Infantry Division that my Dad was in. The details of Mr. Newell’s experiences are absolutely fascinating. My Dad told of many dangerous situations like running out of ammo and being surrounded but making it through until he received his wound near Metz. He never mentioned reprisal executions.

@SunnyIlha

8 ай бұрын

I was riveted too. Just he and his buddy GI Harry captured 200 enemy who were still in combat mode. By shooting the two officers, the one wounded who, never seeing them in the brush, ran up and urinated on his buddy's rifle barrel tip. That officer was the one he put the tip of his M1 to his head and told him to call out all of the enemy soldiers to surrender after shooting dead the 2nd officer investigating what happened. He says to the enemy officer still alive, wounded by Harry, "call them out to surrender or I'll shoot your head off". The entire interview is jam-packed with details of extreme point blank Infantry combat. One description after another, end to end. I've rarely heard such ground foot soldier WW2 testimony. This interview by this Veteran WW2 Infantryman is a rarity.

The horrors this brave man has lived with must be unimaginable, but he has managed to live to a ripe old age, had a life and thrived! God bless him and all those like him.

My dad was a front line infantryman in the ETO. He said he never participated, but American soldiers killing surrendering SS men was not rare. War is Hell.

@Jake-ky9ed

9 ай бұрын

Think that shooting of SS soldiers only really started after the Malmedy (sp?) massacre of surrendered American troops? Two wrong don’t make a right but yeah war is hell.

@gandydancer9710

9 ай бұрын

Not just American soldiers did it. And not just SS, though it was often harder for SS to surrender, or stay alive after surrendering. Which was a bit unfair, as well as a war crime, since by that time in the war the SS were often just draftees indistinguishable from other German troops. As you say, war is hell.

Excellent interview. Loved it

Damn. What a story.

God Bless you for your story, dedication, sacrifice, courage and service ❤🇺🇸

What a great story. I can't imagine being thar young and going thru that. We salute you sir.

This man's story is so captivating it's remarkable :) happy to see you alive sir and thank you so much for your service. if it was not for men like you we would be speaking German now! Iam a combat vet myself but i don't hold myself to that high of standard i was in the meek war of Iraq such a waste of time in my book. But on a good note thank you sir and god bless!

@Nicholas211

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service.

I know he doesn't consider himself a hero, but telling his experience, he is a hero.🙏🏼 Rest peacefully knowing your service was/is not in vain

Great interview. Thank you

The most amazing story of all time

That is how 18 year old Americans ended the war . God bless these boys who came home .

Amazing honorable veteran great historical interview and good mind still with this older veteran .

1st rate video you do damm good work bless you👍👍

Thank you for your service, Mr Newell 🙏❤️

Hi many thanks for your great Service Sir. Thank you for your continuous contribution in educating us all as well as the upcoming generations. This is invaluable information and I hope you know how much your service and experience will help bring truth to the world m And for you behind the camera my sincere gratitude and gratitude and thanks for your initiative! Something I hope you are able to maintain due to the great value and the real important these videos provid. Very much appreciated. Thank you Thank you Thank you Respectfully, Grace 🫡🩰

10:14 They used the ashes of the bones of people as fertilizer. The nazis *sold* the remains of *individuals* as *fertilizer* 😥 🙏 The crops grew up. Standing as People. And fed the masses. Let us pray now, *for* *each* of *Them* .

God bless these iron men,they don’t make them like this anymore. #greatestgeneration ❤

👍🇨🇦 thank you

He looks so much, like my father in law, Don. Don was a private in the American Army, who was present when the Americans approached the very gates of Ohrdurf work/concentration camp, 4 April 1945. He said there was a discussion among his group before they opened the gates because they had no orders on how to proceed in this situation. It was The first such camp liberated by any Americans. He confirmed the horrors of bodies and emaciated prisoners. He was assigned guard duty on German military camp guards so they wouldn't be summarily executed! Some German guards had already been executed by machine gun against a brick wall. I was able to actually obtain film of this execution and pictures of the same brick building held guard. There were American photographers present. Don confirmed that the photographers were among the first to enter the camp when they opened the gate. Don went on to have a brilliant career, and a wonderful family. I remember talking to him about this in about 1986, about a year after I married his daughter.

Thank you for your service ❤❤❤❤❤

I wonder is he still alive

God bless our service members ❤.

This sounds like some of the stories my grandfather told me about the Korean War he was in just some wild shit and he had pictures to back it up

Wow

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Allan Dulles the first head of OSI when the information came back about those camps his response was, so it's true. He thought the smuggled information was an exaggeration.

They surrendered..... and are shot anyway. That's awful

From what I've learned the US just pushed the tiger teeth aside with Bull dozers like they were nothing

@Jere.

7 ай бұрын

They were called dragon teeth

@walasiewicz

7 ай бұрын

@@Jere. that's right! I'm polish so i tend to screw things up like that

When supply lines are bombed lmao

@SaveTheKidsD2P

9 ай бұрын

Probably why they built gas chambers and human ovens…

In the first month of 1961 I arrived in West Germany in the American Army and was assigned to an infantry outfit whose assignment was as a first alert unit for Berlin in case trouble broke out with the Soviet Block. One of the sergeants in my platoon was German who had managed to immigrate to the United States after WW2. He had been a young boy living in Eastern Germany during the war. He said, his whole village were starving to death with nothing to eat but ground up grass and leaves. Several people had already died. Then one day a truck came to his village with a load of small cans of meat. He said they would find fingernails and even sometimes a tooth in the cans. Their choice was to eat it are die. The truck continued to come periodically. I never seen combat but did get in on the alert to fly into Berlin one night in August 1961. The wall started being built after that. So many memories. The Army put an American jail for U.S. soldiers in Dachau (not in the old concentration camp) and at one time I went there weekly to get some of our incarcerated guys to come an clean our dispensary. After bringing them back I would stop for a beer at a little German cantin. I was very immature,maybe still eighteen, and I talked to the local older Germans in the cantin. I once asked, "What did you do in the war?" A couple of them said they worked in the concentration camp there at Dachau. I was stupid enough to ask them why. Of course if asked to work there you did it, or you were inside. Never trust the names of people like Putin, Trump, Kim Jong or Netanyahu of this world, nor their followers. Social democracy is our freedom.

@gandydancer9710

9 ай бұрын

"Putin, Trump, Kim Jong or Netanyahu" One of these is not remotely like the others. You do realize that Israel is a functioning democracy?

@davidsilman4600

9 ай бұрын

your point is?

@gandydancer9710

9 ай бұрын

@@davidsilman4600 Now it's that I can't fix stupid.

@vaquero7072

8 ай бұрын

I don’t think you learned much in the army bud should of left you in Germany .

@vaquero7072

8 ай бұрын

We’re a constitutional republic not a democracy

Nazi prïçķ: I didn’t see you Badass Hero: you weren’t supposed to, we’re Americans😎 They don’t make men like this anymore! 🇺🇸

The truncation of "the very first concentration camps to be discovered by Allied forces" to "First Concentration Camps" in the title of the video was... inadvisable, and probably just inaccurate. There are so many ways in which those camps were not the first concentration camps. (The term goes back at least to the Boer War; the first German concentration camps were elsewhere in Germany... and I wonder about that "Allied forces" bit, too. The Soviets don't count? The Remember WWII channel is embarrassing itself with its provinciality.)

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