Enjoy handy playlists with all the stories of the soldiers! kzread.info/head/PLME26KOruKR3xPuLzIorw0d1RTk7KYoJf Waffen SS. Diaries and memories of German soldiers. kzread.info/head/PLME26KOruKR3CTzfue93twWQ7k_d4yOzc Personal Diaries and Memoirs of Soldiers.

The reason why they didn't give up is because if they did, they would be put against a wall and executed as the diarist confirmed

@jussim.konttinen4981

Жыл бұрын

Every soldier is an individual. Panzer ace Ulf-Ola Olin was given the opportunity to return to Finland in 1943, but he refused. Olin survived the war and was active in the postwar SS soldiers' organization HIAG.

@juanzulu1318

Жыл бұрын

This diary is from 1941. At this time the surrender rates were rather high. So it is a bit strange that it is described differently

@mattl3729

Жыл бұрын

@@juanzulu1318 Yeah, I wondered about that too. MILLIONS of Soviet soldiers were taken prisoner at this time- it's weird that he describes shootings in this one, tiny, unit. I can't help but think there's more to it. Like the executed hid and shot people in the back, or some other situation that made it seem appropriate.

You could tell it was getting bad towards the end of his diary.

So frank about war crimes. It really gives perspective to the fighting.

@TheGXDivider

Жыл бұрын

Dude it's NKVD propaganda. A soviet political officer wrote that shit. There never is any link to the diary or any piece of evidence.

@mentalasylumescapee6389

Жыл бұрын

yep, "was gonna take a p.o.w, but changed my mind and killed him.." i can just imagine the russian with his hands up in the air and german officer just killed because couldn't be bothered dealing with him....

@kicnbac

Жыл бұрын

@@mentalasylumescapee6389 Yet he praises God. Good riddance

@tompilkington7379

Жыл бұрын

What were they to do. There was no way to keep prisoners. If you think we didn’t do the same thing to the Germans I’d say you’re naive. War s ugly.

@thomass1891

Жыл бұрын

this proves it is easy to dehumanize your enemy.

All kinds of perspectives and different personalities in these diaries/interviews. Channel keeps getting better.

@mattl3729

Жыл бұрын

Indeed- it's vital to see things from all perspectives to understand better; if we only take the standard narrative, we are allowing ourselves to be tricked into believing what some want us to believe. Look at some of the silly comments here and you can see it clearly.

There is not one war that is not hell of a man's making. Some make less sense than the other. Great narrating thanks for your channel telling the truth of history.

That was intense! And as I'd mentioned in another one, these infantrymen did not last long.

Dang...of the many diaries on here, I didn't think this guy's story would end so suddenly. I wonder if in the last 48 hours that he was thinking the same?

I acquired the canteen my uncle carried while retreating through France. It was French and I asked him why. In your thumbnail shot you can see how small his issued canteen was and the French one was over twice as big. I still have that canteen and think of Uncle Edgar a lot.

@unbearifiedbear1885

Жыл бұрын

What an awesome momento.. almost nothing represents a soldiers journey like his canteen... the ultimate representation of life and death on the battlefield

@Viking1389

10 ай бұрын

il a executé beaucoup de prisonniers ?

@ark-mark1

10 ай бұрын

@@Viking1389 non, le canteen, drink bottle

The level of disdain and at times respect for his Soviet enemies is a mix of ironic emotions.

@jadeharvey1265

Жыл бұрын

The soviets deserved it after what they did to the people of the nations they occupied

@HighlanderNorth1

Жыл бұрын

😤 I'd say it was about 95% disdain. It's hard to say if he had any actual respect for the Russian soldiers. He clearly had no problem with executing entire villages to "get even" with the Russian soldiers for killing German soldiers in battle. It should've been obvious that the Russian civilians weren't the ones developing strategy and issuing orders to Russian military soldiers, but this psychopath thought it made sense to blame civilians for the Russian army's actions. It was scumbags like this guy who motivated Russian soldiers to "get even" by brutalizing German civilians later on.

@HighlanderNorth1

Жыл бұрын

​@@jadeharvey1265 Well, it was the German attack on Russia that gave Stalin the opportunity and the excuse for overrunning almost all of eastern Europe, then occupying it for 45 years thereafter. If Germany hadn't attacked Russia, Stalin simply wouldn't have been able to take over all those countries without provoking a war with the rest of Europe.

@jadeharvey1265

Жыл бұрын

@HighlanderNorth1 are you dense? Stalin had already invaded and occupied many Eastern European nations before the German attack on Russia, hench why the Germans were seen as liberators and the locals voluntarily join to fight with the Germans against the Soviet Union.

@julienpvn345

10 ай бұрын

​@@jadeharvey1265 in the FIRST place German killed millions of Soviet civilians, German killed almost all Soviet POW

He shows a certain indignation that the Russians would even dare defend themselves...

@yuppy1967

Жыл бұрын

Listen to what he is saying, he is giving a clear description of misery in Russia before the German invasion. I doubt how accurate the diary really is though, there were a couple words that would not be mentioned on WW2.

@MilitaryClubHISTORY

Жыл бұрын

LOL !!!!

@yuppy1967

Жыл бұрын

@@MilitaryClubHISTORY look into it before you judge. I have noticed your channel has a pro Soviet bias, if you report facts that you should stick to them, not give your opinion. I grew up in Soviet occupied post war Europa, it was a nightmare.

@jmckendrick165

Жыл бұрын

​@@yuppy1967 you're lucky you didn't grow up in German-occupied Eastern Europe!

@yuppy1967

Жыл бұрын

@@jmckendrick165 funny you should mention it. Both my grandparents did, they had no issues whatsoever with the Germans. They liked the fact the Germans brought order and stability, at least till close to the end of the war. Then the Russian came, and things took a turn for the worse.

My grandfather spent the entire war in the East with the SS. As we say in Germany, he was a tough dog. Very interesting channel. Greetings from Germany Torsten

@vanmust

Жыл бұрын

seems so hypocritic the West that now protests the invasion of Ukraine is the same one that saved Russia from been kicked back beyond the Urals

@MilitaryClubHISTORY

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you like my videos!

@jimsemple4785

Жыл бұрын

@@okoboo 5:19

@mattl3729

Жыл бұрын

Thanks to him for trying to save the civilized world from the Soviets. It's just sad that we're having to do it all over again now.

@hilldwler420

Жыл бұрын

Hats off to anyone who fought the communist on their own soil. Patton was right. America fought the wrong enemy.

One of the fascinating things I find about these diaries is the absolute disregard for the enemy. They're not humans; they are mere mosquitos who need to be swatted away on the road to...what?

@Antagraber

3 ай бұрын

This allows some humans to kill millions in any way. Germans did with millions of Europeans in the gas chambers. But also literally exterminating Jews in Belorussia and Ukraine. They called them untermensch. Japanese did the same. Even today they all consider themselves .... 'different'. This diary of a civilian murder is not better than any that could be written by a Soviet once in Germany.

Thanks for sharing. Your narration is awesome for these stories 👏

Best regards for your endeavour to bring back to memory what war was like.... People have short memory.... Especially young generations.... Unfortunatelly...

The narrative regarding Russian POWs is very revealing. A very Matter-of-Fact report of executions, which I take to mean that he'd been "educated" to this attitude well in advance. No remorse apparent. Little wonder that the Russian response, some years later, was equally barbaric.

@milosbrajkovic9855

Жыл бұрын

Not eqally at all.

@TheMorayMosstrooper

Жыл бұрын

You clearly disagree. Would you care to expand on your comment for the benefit of the rest of us?

@milosbrajkovic9855

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMorayMosstrooperMuch more Russian civilians were killed by Germans, it was a genocide. Sorry, my writing of English is so bad, it is not my native language.

@raymondkurtyka754

Жыл бұрын

He says they are dumb they were so dumb they kicked German a as all the way back to Berlin

@patrickpga2880

Жыл бұрын

Its so easy understand a russian soldier in Berlin …

11:30 "We've allowed ourselves crazy things yesterday and today. We learned them from the nearby SS division" Given the atrocities the diarist did mention, one can only shudder at the possibilities of the unmentioned horrors implied.

@rootbeer2399

Жыл бұрын

He had zero problems talking about killing kids with razors and anything moving in the village, what he learned about had to be atrocious!

@jadeharvey1265

Жыл бұрын

​@rootbeer2399 the kids had razors as weapons, not the soldiers lol

@mattl3729

Жыл бұрын

@@rootbeer2399 Yes, the kids HAD razors as murder weapons- you only use a razor from behind on an unexpecting victim- and they were 'cuckoos': pretending to be innocent civilians, and thus accepting the status of non-combatants, while actually working for the Red Army. That is an executable offense. Not a crime at all. We can see what a Soviet-apologist you are 'Root'.

@HighlanderNorth1

Жыл бұрын

​​​@@jadeharvey1265 ⛔ Nope, that's where you're wrong. History teaches us that the primary infantry weapon of the SS soldiers was the Gillette twin blade razor. Above all, Russian soldiers feared having their beards and heads shaven clean by German soldiers. Other atrocities included locating the hairiest Russian soldiers, then shaving off strips of their chest and back hair!

@jadeharvey1265

Жыл бұрын

@@HighlanderNorth1 you're wrong and delusional.

Interesting & informative. Excellent photography Job making it easier for the viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Special thanks to the officer who shared his personal military operations making the documentary more authentic and possible. Rough/fierce combat operations on both sides.

Reminds me of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece :Cross of Iron"

@Wolf-qh2lk

Жыл бұрын

Great film!

@davidchosewood647

Жыл бұрын

Book isn't bad either.

@michaelbruns449

Жыл бұрын

Totally underrated movie.

The video clips are top notch. Really brings you there.

An extermination war, that's crazy

@mattl3729

Жыл бұрын

The Soviet war was. You should wonder why in every country the USSR occupied there is a large Russian population- it's because it was standard practice to expel actual citizens to the east or Gulag, and put Russian 'colonists' in their places.

Thanks for this fascinating study, well done.

@MilitaryClubHISTORY

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

What is the source that you get all these diaries from?

Thanks for sharing. Your narration is awesome for these stories . Sometimes it requires more courage to live, than it does to die..

@wattage2007

6 ай бұрын

I think the 'narration' is done by AI.

Yes, things are very different in war. As a combat veteran of Viet Nam, I can say this. One morning you wake up and feel you are on some distant planet. Everything is so different from what you remember before you arrived. Even the rules you were taught no longer apply. You see dead enemy body parts hanging from a tree, and they remind you of the decorations on a Christmas tree. One man says, "Merry Christmas, whoever you are." Another says, "Looks like he got his gift early." Then, another just says, "Ho, Ho, Ho."

@mattl3729

Жыл бұрын

It's a psychological defense mechanism. You have to protect yourself somehow or, sadly like so many, crack mentally.

@SunofYork

Жыл бұрын

and every last one of you are 'christians'

UNIFORM ZOMBIES Give a sheep an nice uniform and medals. Then he stops thinking and kills and dies for you, Napoleon said. How true ...............

great video!

Love this channel.

@MilitaryClubHISTORY

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I will try to please you further with good videos!

Content is very good, heretofe unseen, by myself, photos from both sides of the front lines. Displayed for long enough to lend clarity to all their details, followed by yet another highly interesting shot.....well done...

For those who wondering 250k 6th Army, soldiers surrendered in Stalingrad and only 5k returns to east Germany in 1955. Both Governments were willing to sacrifice its people. Every village in Russia has memorial to their dead. Every single village suffered from Stalin and the Great patriotic War.

Love your work

This is much better than that metalic robo voice. Good job!

Fascinating. Subscribed!

Love this channel/Good company this is.. Thank you 👏

@MilitaryClubHISTORY

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! It motivates me to work hard!

Why did the Soviets erase the last two pages? Was it too insulting to them?

My favorite KZread channel ! ❤

Keep it up Bro!

Fascinating!!

By "chemical unit" he does not mean chemical weapons like we know chemical weapons, but "chemical mortars" aka Nebelwerfer aka rocket artillery.

Why was the pencil writing at the end erased? Was it added by the Russians to make the Germans look bad, if so was anything else added?

He wonders why the Russian's didn't surrender.

@mattl3729

Жыл бұрын

Again, how would they know? This wasn't like the Germans advancing and discovering groups of their men who surrendered only to be massacred and atrocities committed- giving them REAL reason to 'save the last bullet for themselves'. The Russians were retreating so had no idea whatsoever, beyond the propaganda that DID tell them they'd be shot. Some of the films saying this are just ludicrous LOL

Excellent‼️

Grandfather drove a tank destroyer across france and into germany where they rode onto and detonated a buried double stacked german land mine, flipped their heavy vehicle onto its side, he alone survived, screaming molten shrapnel burning into his thigh. Pretty sure this is near Warsaw 1939 > 3:49

The motorcycles shown here are to die for.

Wow when they say that's were it ends & you know there fate , it just amazes me he died and that's it 😔

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. Douglas MacArthur ·

They didn’t surrender because they were executed. Why give up then?

@mattl3729

Жыл бұрын

How would the next bunch know what happened to the last group who surrendered? And remember that MILLIONS of Red Army soldiers were taken prisoner in the first months of Barbarossa- so, if this one, small unit did what the diary claims, it was a tiny percentage over-all.

It seems people can get used to almost anything

@MrLeedebt

6 ай бұрын

Indeed, life was so brutal in the past.

12:10 he didn’t live long enough to see the irony in this line lmao

@davidknichal6629

Жыл бұрын

The dumbest people usually attack Russia without winter equipment

It seems to be an diary written by the nkvd

Everyone does bad things in the heat of war and suffering !

@robert-trading-as-Bob69

Жыл бұрын

I don't agree that EVERYONE does bad things. During the Massacre of Marzabutto in Italy by SS troops, one SS soldier refused to participate in the murder of Italian civilians. He was executed on the spot by an officer. Read 'Silence On Monte Sole' by Jack Olsen for this account. He was buried by the survivors of the massacre. War makes you into a different person, but strength of character keeps people from straying into indecent behavior. I have read accounts of Wehrmacht soldiers helping Jews escape or giving them food or water when their SS guards would not. I have even come across accounts of Wehrmacht soldiers firing on Waffen SS troops on purpose. In the movie 'The Eagle Has Landed', the German paratroopers led by Michael Caines character have a showdown with SS soldiers mistreating Jews. This incident is based on actual events.

@mattl3729

Жыл бұрын

@@robert-trading-as-Bob69 What actual event is the scene in The Eagle Has Landed based on?

@mattl3729

Жыл бұрын

@@robert-trading-as-Bob69 And of course he doesn't mean every single individual- that's silly. When you're talking about tens of millions of people, OF COURSE, not everyone will do bad things. But some, who are otherwise really decent people, under the awful circumstances of war, will. That is the point.

Wowww... "that was the last sentence in d diary..." and he literally knew they r screwed

Great journal. Salute from Iran 🇮🇷

Why are the last two pages removed ?

The First 9 Weeks of Invading Russia in 22nd June 1941 - End of August 1941, all went well. After that things become bad. There were 4.7 million men (Russian) in 18 - 24 Infantry Army's. With about 305 Divisions (240 Infantry, 54 Armoured, 9 Cavalry + 9 Mechanised Brigades). Plus 12 million men Reserves. With 24 000 (3000 New) Tanks, 48 000 (12 000 New) Artillery and 12 000 War (3000 New) Playns. The Germans had 3.3 million men in 8 Infantry Army's and 4 Panzer Grouppen. With about 160 Divisions (125 Infantry, 19 Panzer, 14 Motz.Rifle, 12 Security, 4 Light and 4 Mountain Divisions). With 3500 (3000 New) Tanks, also 7000 New Artillery (Incl. 600 000 Horse, 600 000 Vehicles) and 2700 New War Playns. Best would of been for the Germans to Attack Russia in May 1942. And the Japanese December 1942, to Attack the USA Pacific Fleet in Hawaii.

@davidknichal6629

Жыл бұрын

What is Playn my friend? Put it plain ans simple pls

The tank at 2:57 had really wide tracks, almost thought it was a t/34 for for a second, but it’s way too small and a lot of slack in the track. But nonetheless, that looks like a good fighting vehicle. I wonder if it’s a polish or chez tank. Possibly utilize when they took over the “skuta works”

@jozsimovcek30

10 ай бұрын

Seems to be czechoslovakian Lt.38 (pz. 38t)

감사합니다 잘 봤어요

These are all so fascinating

I love these bedtime stories

@BrushCountryAg06

Жыл бұрын

ME TOO (literally)…I created a playlist of these that I play and fall asleep to almost every night.

Prisoners tie up troops that can be used to do other jobs, Lead units were sometimes a long way ahead of the bulk of the troops and hadn't the time or means to deal with prisoners, and at some point not far into the campaign, caring about civilians and prisoners becomes something that mostly doesn't happen in a lead unit, then the leading follow up lines mop up what the lead units couldn't get to, often with the same attitude, doesn't much matter whose army it is. War breeds that kind of attitude.

5:02 great photo

great

I prefere the robotic voice with the spooky noise on the background.

@MilitaryClubHISTORY

Жыл бұрын

Well, no! I will be ruthless, now you will listen only to normal voice acting!

@mattl3729

Жыл бұрын

I did really like the tune in the background, but a real narration is better than AI I'd say.

Gomel is a different area to Lithuania it is on the Border between Belarus and the USSR and south is the Ukraine? Two stories?

Als Deutscher schäme ich mich noch heute.

However bad hitler and the nazis were, and they did horrible things, Stalin and the USSR under Stalin were just as bad. The only difference being that the soviets did it to their own people.

1:13-1:16 I ve always been wondering what these epaulettes stand for or which unit these soldiers belong to. Signal troops or kinda MP. I know Field Police (Feldgandarmerie aka Kettenhunde) used to wear those tin tags

@winnietheshrew2957

Жыл бұрын

Those are Wehrmacht marching band uniforms.

13:15 does anyone know which unit/s he's referring to or what their operations were?

@jozsimovcek30

10 ай бұрын

There have been used a nerve gas called Tabun afainst russian troops dropped from the planes in 1943. He might have thought flamethrowers aswell

Wow! Maybe this isn't the correct interpretation of the information, but - imagine being somewhere so isolated and sparsely populated, so spread out, that the reference point for the location this guy's body and hence diary were found is "about one hundred miles from the village of X." There's no city, town or larger population centre, nor other villages,nearer than a hundred miles, to pinpoint the place he died!

He changed his mind 😳

Popping bottles in France and everybody’s like see ya in Moscow! ..ugh. Yeah right. 😅 Damn not how this journal ended..sounds like he was surrounded by a recon unit.

"There was a lot of fun in French." lol

"I was going to take a prisoner but changed my mind" What a POS!!

My grandfather felt very sorry for the Russian rural population. His superior was court-martialed after the war, my cousin told me. Accordingly, something similar must have happened in his battalion. He came back from Russia with one foot, got into a fight with the NSDAP mayor and would have been sent to Dachau in 1946. After the war he looked at his files about himself. ✝️☦️No more war with today's Christian people of Russia.☦️✝️

@Ira88881

Жыл бұрын

How could he be court martialed after the war? Wasn’t the existing army structure completely dissolved?

@davidknichal6629

Жыл бұрын

Sent to Dachau in 1946? Bro you got bogged down in your own lies lol. Tell me your great great Grandfather was Erwin Rommel pls

@jeremylamovsky9868

Жыл бұрын

The hell with them. At least those who support the government. And idk how you can call it court martialed when another countries army had to give him his commupense. If it had been left to the Germans he'd have been praised. Court martialed, that's hilarious.

@johnzubil2875

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a Ukraine theme.

@richardlo4867

Жыл бұрын

Ironic. The Russians are stupid, they were surrounded but they kept shooting....We executed the prisoners and any civilians we find too! I don't even want to know how his unit learned from the SS and "let themselves go".

Wondering if this diary has been altered into Russian propaganda. Any soldier would be giving himself a death sentence to have this document if captured.

He was in Gomel before Minsk?

Funny the reaction to the yurt...for some would be so lucky come winter

I got enough reasons to despise these people but pricks like this certainly makes it easier. It's odd listening to diaries from earlier days on the Eastern front knowing at the time these guys had no clue what misery lay in store for them. The kind of suffering that makes death a person's only friend

@TheTexasmick

10 ай бұрын

I would assume when you say "pricks" you are talking about the communists. I agree, every communist is a prick, just like the Rosenbergs and their gang of ungrateful traitors.

"Lets go forward"! Baad decision.

Quoi de choquant ?....... c'est la guerre

역사적 사실에서 알수있는것은 인간이란 동물은 평화가 아니라 전쟁을 통해 교훈을 얻는다는것이다..최소한 지금까지는...

I’m a fan of this voice!

Hello dear friend.

Executing prisoners is a very stupid thing to do. It just prevents soldiers who would otherwise would throw down their weapons to put up a fight.

@dexterdog62

10 ай бұрын

In a way it’s totally logical. Every prisoner would need to be fed and guarded. The Germans amassed hundreds of thousands of prisoners in the first year of Barbarossa. There was no way to feed and house them all.

We all know what probably happened to him.Especially a officer.

if you don't know the astral generations and their tendancies you connot undestand why they were like that.

"Two Gas Chamber Trainings" > 1:19

@bolivar2153

Жыл бұрын

Training with regards gas mask usage in the event of the deployment of chemical weapons, not a reference to their "other usage", if that's what you were thinking?

Great video Creepy cartoon guy

This diary seems fake to me.

@metanoian965

Жыл бұрын

ALL these good Germlander ''diaries" have fake written from beginning to last word. But, every Germ is virtuous and a hero in his "Boy's Own" Bumper Annual. Mixed in with some German military Propaganda the arrogance, brainwashing of the Hitlerjugend, Ubermensch Kulturkampf comes through clearly.

Sounds like a great adventure for these young men. Remember; all they had were radios back then, no TV, internet, cell phone. They didn’t realize total war would be horrible, ruthless, deadly, frightening, exhausting, & filthy. But they found all this out. Very soon, this will happen again. Only worse. 😞😔

@DannyGarrigan

Жыл бұрын

Philadelphia trumpet magazine.

@SteveBrownRocks2023

Жыл бұрын

@@DannyGarrigan WTF does that mean? 🤷🏽‍♂️❔

@mattl3729

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, TV and movies have continued to glorify war until this day- I don't doubt that the majority of combat veterans today would say it wasn't like they expected either. Look at the horrible suicide rate of US veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan- that's a sad expression of it.

@Ira88881

Жыл бұрын

They were only 20 years out of WWI. How could a German with a brain not see the consequences, especially coming out on the losing end?

@hw7782

10 ай бұрын

You're truly and sadly right!

My step grandfather was in the Wehrmacht. He hated the SS.

My grandpa fought 3 years in eastern front. You can say he was Nazi coz we know who wrote history. He was a soldier, he was a honest man.

"Filthy bastards!" Love it.

A diary is to be believed after being in Soviet hands? LOL Ya and I have some perfect land to sell you near the Everglades in Florida...

@calc1657

Жыл бұрын

The movements of the diarist's unit can be cross-referenced with the combat records in the German archives.

@schwatzy6362

Жыл бұрын

@@calc1657 I don't dispute the movements. Just the words. Were they all his? Why were pages erased? The victor writes his own version.

@mattl3729

Жыл бұрын

@@schwatzy6362 Indeed, without the original document to refer to, we have to be somewhat suspicous of some aspects. Russia lies- about everything. After the past year in Ukraine, we can't ignore this fact any longer.

Repeat a lie loud enough long enough, and the masses will believe it.. Why do we keep repeating the same over and over

So deep! 🐑 🐏 🐑 for the 🍖 grinder😢

It's insanity how much people will lie to themselves about saying to themselves how great there doing living a lie 🤥 sad

National socialism versus international socialism.

Great video, fighting against the commies.

@glennboyd7049

Жыл бұрын

Thank God the "Commies" won a magnificent victor over those Nazi bastards!

Bloody ell