Last Wehrmacht Report - 9 May 1945
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- The Wehrmacht report was a daily report by the OKW, the German Army High Command, from the first day of WWII to the End.
It was generally a rather neutral report, that, unlike other german reports of that time, was not completly filled with Propaganda, although it did sometimes omitt losses or exaggerate own victories.
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“I began to notice our victories kept getting closer and closer to Berlin.”
Lol
Every German newsreal in 1944/1945 ended with the words "the victorious retreat continues"
"And now, sports."
....followed by the weather.
"And now to our correspondent in Stalingr.. oh, excuse me, in Siberia."
"Well, Fritz, looks like it's going to be cold in East Berlin for a long, long time. Might want to head west before that curtain descends."
After these words from Lifebuoy soap!
“The germans were really close to win their game, but the russian steamroll tactic was just to much for the german defenders.
Meanwhile in the other game the japanease really surprised the americans in the first half, but after a long and tough second half had to succumb to the pressure from the US.”
After the 3 minutes of silence the announcer said blackout restrictions were lifted and the ban on listening to foreign radio was ended.
Actually ??
@@tommy.vercetti2003 yes and I have some swamp land in Florida you might want to buy .
@@hopatease1 no cuz that actually make sense since most nazi were giving up and even hitler didn’t punished his general for standing up against him over Steiner not attacking and risking civilian life
@@tommy.vercetti2003 because he realized he had no real authority left, he was just a figurehead by that point and all his power had vanished
@@hopatease1 What is incredible about that fact?
On 8 May, Dietrich von Saucken 1:13 received notice that he had been awarded the Knight's Cross with Oak leaves, Swords, and Diamonds, making him the last of 27 officers to receive this award. Though an airplane stood by to evacuate him, he refused to leave his troops when they surrendered to the Red Army on the following day of 9 May 1945. Kept in solitary confinement, ordered to do hard labour and tortured by Soviet interrogators after refusing to sign false confessions, Saucken had to use a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Released from Soviet captivity in 1955, he settled in Pullach near Munich. He died there in 1980.
One of my most admire general in WW2
Lol, what need was to torture him to sign something? He was not either field marshal or Hitler's right hand. Main aim was to make last german troops to surrender, that's all. I can believe he lost his health in labor camp, restoring destroyed soviet cities along with his soldiers, but not because of torturing.
@@Polymershik torturing to sign fake confessions was very very common up to 56. Sometimes people got executed without even signing anything, just with made up evidence.
A true hero.
@@Polymershik Look up Soviet torture chief, Berea. Torture was a Russian specialty.
I was talking to a German friend recently, and he told me that his grandfather was drafted into the Hitler Jugend during the last weeks of the war. They were sent to guard and defend some ammunition depo or something in a small village in western Germany.
The Americans came with their weapons on their shoulders and greeted them in a friendly manner saying that the war was over and that there was no need to resist. They gave them chocolate and candy in exchange for their weapons, and sent them back home. They even provided them with an armed escort to make sure no radical nazi still left in the village would hurt them for laying down their arms.
The war formally ended a few days later.
That's kind of wholesome
This is why parents tell their kids to not accept candy from strangers.
Holy shit, that’s actually insane. They could have slaughtered them, but everyone was rational and new that fighting wasn’t going to change anything.
All warfare is based on deception
It was rather easy for Americans to do because it wasn't their country which was destroyed and ravaged during the war and years of occupation.
I find it haunted just to think about it. Imagine that you listen to the report every single day since the 1st of September. You heard countless victory, vast territory for country. One day, you listen to this.
It seems incredible to me that thousands of civilians have died, unintentionally, in this shitty war. However, Hitler and his mobsters ate and drank with their luxury prostitutes in a bunker. So much blood spilled to maintain the power of the dirty German bourgeoisie and those who supported it at first, and soon overthrew it to dominate Germany and its allies. The Nazis were nothing more than puppets, murderers and cowards, who threw their people into hell to risk a war they were sure to lose.
What he is saying?
I agree ,even now its so sad
@@babak.shakuri Read subtitles
The daily listener would have noticed that every single victory was closer to home than the one before...
We need to hear that historic radio silence.
OP: You must have missed it.
Only if he provides captions.
Since 20th April 1945 the Red Soviet army had occupied Eastern and Middle Germany and Berlin. The US-Army and the British army had occupied West-, North- and South Germany and parts of Middle Germany, were they met the Red Soviet Army of the USSR.
I am curious what was broadcasted after that silence...
@@defendfreedom1390 "Der Kommissar" by Falco
Great, I think I just found the last German radio broadcast of WW2.
We heard Poland, France, and Greece's last message in WW2, and we need to find right now the Dutch one or the Belgian one.
If you haven’t already found it, here is the Dutch East Indies broadcast: th-cam.com/video/kwaEv4YW57Y/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Ai4J4MbxIGD6hNps
My grandfather was one of them. He was never a Nazi but he fought for his country. He is still alive and whenever I see him I listen to his war stories for hours. I am so greatful to have this chance.
If you allow me a piece of advice, if your grandfather doesn't mind, film him recounting his memories. Your grandchildren will appreciate it. My brothers and I spent a couple of years talking about filming an interview with our grandmother, and just as we were about to do it, she passed away from a stroke.
@@RodrigoFernandez-td9uk yeas, please do so.
Fighting ... for his country by invading countries such as Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Greece, Luxemburg, Yugoslavia, ... They all fought for the German Government, for Hitler. They attacked half of Europe, murdering millions of people. And after the war, ... "me Nazi? Oh no, me fighting for Zermany"
Yes, He was.
Honour him
When you think about it, it's incredible that the Wehrmacht lasted for so long in the war, given the huge superiority of the allies. That said, the last 12 months of the war were unparalleled succession of catastrophic defeats.
Porém se todos os projetos que os Alemães tivessem sido construídos os Aliados iam perder, e sabemos que depois da guerra os Aliados pegaram toda a tecnologia Alemã que estava há 30/40 anos a frente!
@@lacivmvominj No. Really no. If the germans had had more of their advanced weapons the western Allie’s would just spend more money into completing their own new weapons and in the end the Germans focused on too many things and on very many ineffective projects. Also the German swede nowhere close to 40 years ahead of the others. 40 years from 45 the USA was building real stealth aircraft(not accidental fake stealth ho 229) and Mach 2 fighters with unparalleled maneuverability and avionics. Same with the soviets almost.
Don't worry, Steiner's attack will fix everything!
@@thurbine2411 No. Really no. The german Kriegspatente was the spoil of war in persona for the US and soviet russia. The whole developement of the american section of the space race with soviet russia is founded on german technology. There is to mention Wernher von Braun for example. The Me 163 and the Me 262 were so far superior to allied warplanes that they became nicknamed "Wunderwaffe." Horten Gotha 229 was the grandfather of the stealth bomber in design and the US government (as well as the russian government) promised really everything to german scientists and engineers to lay hand on german invented stuff. For a reason. Its not a matter of time,its a matter from where you start and which technology you are using. If the US hadnt received german knowledge i highly doubt that the time span you mentioned would had been realistic if you know what i mean. I know it hurts probably but nothing - absolutely nothing - would have the US aviation and NASA achieved without german technology until 1969. I am german and my grandfathers were there. Just wanted to mention it.
A third of the total German casualties for the entire war occurred during the five months of fighting in 1945. It was an absolute disaster and fully revealed Nazism as a death cult.
At that time they must have been more afraid of peace than war.
Especially when the Soviets are at the gate
Absolutely. Towards the end of the war, there was a saying among Germans : “Genießt den Krieg, der Frieden wird fürchterlich” - “Enjoy the war, the peace will be terrible”
@@blackman5867 The Soviets were already through the gate.
@@NovHak and then they ended up the richest country in europe and the heart of it's economic and political systems. truelly terrible. definetly deserved and not at all letting people get away with electing and continuing to support Hitler.
They were terrified of the Soviets. They knew what they'd done in Russia, and knew that vengeance was coming.
You're doing awesome work with this channel.
....and the radio silence has lasted for 77 years, the last contemporary witnesses will soon not be able to report to anyone, the memory must never end.
Der Ratsuchende Emaus muss wissen: Am 9. 5. 1945 war das Gebiet des gescheiterten Deutschen Reiches zu 95 % besetzt und beherrscht von seinen Feinden. So etwas hatte es nicht Ende 1918 und von 1919 bis 1932 nach der Kapitulation des preussich-deutschen Reiches gegeben. Zwar konnte Napoleon I. das gesamte Gebiet des "Heiligen Römischen Reiches Deutscher Nation" 1808 erobern und regieren, jedoch wurde er daraus auch von Preussen, das 1813 durch seinen General York von Wartenberg den ihm aufgezwungenen Pakt mit Frankreich gebrochen und sich den feindlichen Russen angeschlossen hatte, zusammen mit den mitteldeutschen Sachsen nach deren Seitenwechsel bei der "Völkerschlacht" bei Leipzig wieder vertrieben und in Frankreich und danach in Belgien besiegt. Mit der Deutschen Nazi-Wehrmacht wollte 1945 keine Feindmacht mehr koalieren und einen Waffenstillstand mit Friedensvertrag schließen wegen ihrer Verbrechen während des 2. Weltkrieges.
Sad when you keep in mind how many soldiers died from 1st to 8th/9th May 1945...
If you look at german memorials, you can see that half of the guys remembered there died in the last year of the war. Between D-Day and the 8. Of Mai 1945. F... shame. My Grandfather was a Stormtrooper before 1933 and a soldier from 1939 till he get captured in 1944. I have never seen a man who hated Nazis so much. Always told me: "Do never believe the grand old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori".
Maybe that's the reason why they eventually gave up. If there hadn't been that many casualties, they would have kept fighting.
@@Beethoven80 It was over no matter what. The High Command saw no point in fighting on. That was Hitler's idea.
@@steffenwurster352 well the casualties were very big in the last year but not that much bigger than the previous years after Barbarossa but I would guess many of those who died on the eastern front far from home aren’t always remembered on the memorials and many times you don’t know where they died
In medieval battles, the greatest casualties always occurred when an army routed. No doubt precise figures exist somewhere, but I doubt much has changed on that score.
He definitely sounds like he’s crying at the end. What an intense broadcast. My heart would’ve sunk to the floor at that radio.
I think a listener would be having many emotions. First excited to have survived the war. Second, heartbreak at what defeat may bring you and your country.
Cry me a river. The Wehrmacht and the SS murdered thousands in my country including women and children. 1O% of the Greek population died. I guess Poles and Russians feel the same. The very fact that the speaker pretends they defended the Aegean makes me sick.
@@glenchapman3899 Especially if you were a survivor of, or descendant to one who witnessed the first war and it's impacts.
After all, all of this was because of the sorry state of Weimar.
@@glenchapman3899 depends on what side of Germany you are. If it's the Western occupation side, things might look up in a few months. If you're on the Soviet occupation side, well, tough luck.
@that is not true, a lot of east germans (even still today) loved living there and viewed the west with suspicion and didnt mind or even preffered the east.
Radio reporter: ''This is the last Wehrmacht report''
Steiner: ''Ima ruin this man's whole career''
Mein Führer.... **sweating intensifies**
@@Blei1986 "Steiners Angriff war ein BEFEEEHL"
Steiner had pushed the Soviet back into Moscow
Note that they refer to Doenitz as the Grand Admiral, and his office as that of the Grand Admiral -- not Reichsfuehrer, which he technically was. Doenitz seems to have taken pains, incld. in his own final address to the German people, to be even-handed and sympathetic to the plight of the nation. A true professional.
Reichsführer was Himmler's rank as head of the SS before he was dismissed as a traitor and the rank passed to Karl Hanke in the last days of the war. Hitler was just called the "Führer", but this wasn't a true legal office and was de facto created by Hitler through him simultaneously holding the offices of Reichspräsident (Head of State), Reichskanzler (Head of Government), and Führer der NSDAP (Head of the Party). When Hitler killed himself he broke the office up and named Dönitz as President, Goebbels as Chancellor (after his suicide passing to von Krosigk), and Bormann as head of the NSDAP. I'm guessing in all this chaos Dönitz just decided to go by his long-held military rank that the soldiers were familiar with and respected.
More likely he was just trying to avoid association and culpability with the Nazi party and the German government to the greatest degree possible to improve, if even slightly, his chances of keeping his head once the Allies got their hands on him.
He was a psychopath and a coward like Hitler, certainly no nobility in him. It's sad a couple ordinary Wehrmacht officers were hanged after 1945 and Doenitz was let go to enjoy a comfortable retirement.
@@krazykangaroo4093 Well explained- note there was no chancellor after Goebbels. Von Krosigk was called ‘leading minister’, administering the government at Flensburg. He had no decision- making authority; it was decided to not call him ‘chancellor’ to make that clear. It was Doenitz who ran things.
Donitz was also very proud of the conduct of the Kriegsmarine compared to other Hehr forces. He felt that they had conducted themselves in a fair manner (in terms of naval war conduct obviously) and he always vehemently denied any wrongdoing. He also suffered personal losses (his son) that made him more sober than others. Of course it’s never that simple but I think your point about his title here is important.
Nice to hear the radio WITHOUT ADS
"This report brought to you by Porsche, Volkswagon, Chase Bank & IBM"
the interval signal kind of expresses the end of something immensely remarkable 0:14
Why does it sound a bit like the La Marseille
bro i was singing the continuing part bruh@@sifangwuhai
For some the news was devastating. And for most was just happy to hear the end of a ferocious war .. that includes American and allied forces.
It's not like in ww1,germany was occupied and in ruins,every german soldier know the war is over even before the broadcast
Very interesting! Glad I came across this.
"Here is General Eisenhower's telephone number. Here's the English for 'We give up'. And here is an analysis of our military situation in one rude word."
ah, i see you are a man of culture as well
Think how many lives would be spared if they folded in the summer of 1944.
@@arctic_haze Trouble is, NAZIs had no other plans and no Prussian Field Marshall seemed to think his own life was worth sacrificing to end Hitler. In the words of the otherwise brilliant von Manstein (to his aid, urging him to resist Hitler), "Prussian Field marshalls don't mutiny." And so the horror went on.
Мужчины не должны плакать, не должны, я сдерживаю себя
Thanks, youtube recommendations. Completely random but fascinating recording
Was your old channel removed?
If so such a stupid action by youtube
Your videos are so important I am very thankfull for them
Ur brother let’s u watch TH-cam?
@@fLaMe427 he doesn't know what I watch lol
Pay special to the last one. Unconditional surrender. Followed by war crimes tribunals.
How painfully can someone recognize that 💔
"This is the final report of the Wehrmacht. But first: Do you suffer from jock itch?..."
So, do we have to do the 3 minutes of silence ourselves?
Thanks for sharing!
Going down with their heads up...
"That stuff we told you last week about fighting to the last man. Well just forget it and go home and have a beer. " As my drill sergeant said to us, "Some things work out and some things don't."
I heard for someone who worked at Enron that these Neut Rockney speeches were common up to the end.
There's a saying about Germany: too big for Europe, but too small for the world. Hitler had a dream of turning Germany into a global superpower but they bit off more than they could chew. They could have perhaps defeated or stalemated 1 or maybe 2 of their big enemies but to face the whole world like that essentially on their own was mind boggling. That they lasted as long as they did was pretty amazing.
That's right, but It would be right to say that Germany already was a Global superpower back then. What kind of spuerpowers did you have? France, Great Britain, the US and the Soviet Onion, consider the French defeated and the Germans defeated Russia in WWI. Even today it is unlikely that any global superpower could win against the rest of the world.
Germany was a Super Power but wasnt recognized and accepted as as one...
France and England really had something against them and made sure that the German Super Power is no more after 2 wars.
Bismarck knew. He said Germany was, and should see itself as, a sated power, or a status quo power. Not a revisionist one.
But it was too tempting for later leaders to lean on an army and a glitzy Prussian tradition that won 2 wars against the odds to unite Germany. WW1 was plainly against the odds but the gamble failed to pay off. WW2 less obviously at the start but early successes only brought Germany to the same situation in the end.
Always try and be on the larger side. That’s the job of politicians and diplomats, not generals. Bismarck always kept Britain and Russia on side, or neutral.
a politician sacrificed his people's and nations future for the sake of his own pissing contest.
thats just what they do.
@@long_chin_man It should be remembered the Austrian went to great lengths to ensure the Western states wouldn't declare war over Poland, and that once they did he offered peace again and again before it became apparent only German capitulation would satisfy them. Your comment applies to Winston Churchill more than anyone else, who carried on the needless war far beyond reason, escalating it over any pretext, and all for the sake of a personal victory over what had become the dominant power in Europe. That the Germans kept fighting so long should be a surprise to no one - their enemies were demanding total surrender after years of making it clear no independent German state would be tolerated. In Germany it was thought they would all be killed if they surrendered.
Well, things could be worse! We could be dead already! "Dietrich von Saucken (16 May 1892 - 27 September 1980) Saucken was the last officer to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds of Nazi Germany."
To think that General could have seen Saturday night fever or listened to Lynyrd Skynyrd blows my mind
@@Lerxstification Karl Dönitz (16 September 1891 - 24 December 1980) Could have heard UK christmas number one, 'There's no one quite like grandma'
@@monkee1969 That lots of German war-criminals (including some really big fish) were allowed to get away with it blows MY mind: read about John J. McCloy and his Nazi connections and sympathies.
For the Germans 6 years of war were over, for the Allies another 30+ years of war began.
Just as Hitler predicted.
Same boss always wars...
19 years later the Vietnam War has started (1964)
80 years
Letting the Russian barbarians run wild caused 75 years of endless wars. Patton was right.
Even though they lost but these germans put up a good fight against all odds.
Yeah against unarmed civilians and their part in the early days of the Holocaust when their orders were to shoot all jews, and so called untermenschen. A good fight indeed (sarcastic).
Nice fight
And against Invaders of Europe.
They shouldn't have. They only made it worse for the survivors.
@GermanConquistador08 They were invaders themselves. Cope you pseud-nazi wehraboo
I can imagine some soldiers listening to this (during the last few months of the war) and shaking their heads in annoyance to these new reports. Like with everyone knowing the war is lost and all you hear is how so and so got a medal and how this division won here. Just pointless "good news" to a haplessly bad situation.
Wish i kept learning german in school.
Wait the intro sound familiar to me.
It sound like "Garuda Pancasila" song.
And it also like one in TVRI when a news program "Dunia Dalam Berita" is about to begin.
Samr
"Wenn alle Brünnlein fliessen..." Very popular german folk song.
"Üb' immer Treu und Redlichkeit"
was this channel deleted at some point?
Somewhere in this broadcast there is movie material.
Is the report of 8th May, or before, avaible online?
I dont support Nazism in any way but there is heavy emotion in this report that makes my chest heavy.
Wow, they had an intro just like numbers stations would use during the Cold War. Damn krauts pioneered everything.
"A three minutes long silence will follow"....chilling
Я знаю места в России, где в земле лежат тела тысяч солдат вермахта. Их никто не нашел и не похоронил. Черные копатели ( так называют людей, которые занимаются раскопками самостоятельно) раскапывают, забирают оружие, предметы быта, а кости продолжают лежать в земле как попало. Обычно это болотистые места. А в полях, после войны, ссср просто пустил трактора по местам боев и посадили на этих местах овощи и пшеницу. Так же там много русских солдат. На ютубе есть каналы с такими раскопками.
Just a question, where did you get the picture from? Where and when is it located, do you know?
This was a long time ago, but I do think the picture was taken in 1939 during the Polish Campaign.
Are these communiques available online?
6 years of fighting, no more. Must be strange.
LOL. They buried the lead in that broadcast. Should have started and ended with " as of midnight the Wehrmacht has stopped the hopeless fight"
Danke für diese Aufnahme. Auf dem Bild sieht man ein schönes "Körting Koffersuper Tourist".
Interesant, hätte nicht damit gerechnet dass das jemand identifizieren könnte ;)
Tatsächlich ist das Bild gar nicht von 1945, sondern 1939 in Polen entstanden, aber es hat irgendwie zum Inhalt gepasst.
@@GermanWWIIArchive Wußte es auch nur da ich selber alte Röhrenradios und Schallplattenspieler ( unter Anderem ) sammle. Bin nämlich auf der Suche nach diesem Gerät. 😀
..and now Scorpions play Wind Of Change, in EsEs-minor.
Are there more Wehrmacht radio reports?
Is the photo included here a generic one or is it of troops listening to this very broadcast. I see a few smiles which would seem incongruous unless they were smiling because they'd survived the war!
Underneath an other comment the channel owner says it's from 1939 in Poland. He just thought it fitting.
Germans be like: Maybe we should have invested more in that atomic bomb thing?
And here's Helga with some cooking tips .....
Some Steckrübe-classics from WWI?
So what followed the 3 minutes of silence? Did an Allied voice come on the air?
What about the weather, you always need the three day forecast
19 years later the Vietnam War has started (1964)
5 years later you had Korea
War is big business (for some) !🤔🇬🇧
What do you know about the Flensburg Broadcasting station? That Station got mentioned in a video I saw once about the nazis and radios.
Well, after the fall of Berlin and the establishment of Dönitz' government at Flensburg, it was established in the courtyard of the Flensburg main post office on May 3rd, 1945. Using a radio truck of the German navy and the broadcasting tower of Flensburg radio stadion , it was set up to broadcast speeches and news all throughout the German Reich, or what was left of it.
Together with Radio Prague, this was the last remaining major German radio station of WWII, and it was turned of by the Americans on May 13rd, 1945.
@@GermanWWIIArchive do you know who was the radio host?
Also was there any transmission made between this radio shut down and the shut down of the Flensburg government in may 23?
Also do we know what kind of stuff they transmitted between may 9 and may 13?
Where's that three minutes of silence? I want a truly authentic silence experience.
I'll make you a TH-cam video with the silence added in.
@@shimon1166 YT will put a Grammarly ad right in the middle, guaranteed.
@@shimon1166 wheres the video
@@shimon1166 still waiting.
Just put the video on pause
Was there a British radio message prepared in case of German invasion?
I wonder what happened after those three minutes of silence? Like, the weather?
Given that this was sent on the Flensburg broadcast station, which was a normal radio station, probably either news, announcements or music.
Football scores?
Kraftwerk
@@NetworkXIII😂
Oh, it's too much to imagine some career radio guy saying "Now, on a lighter note... ... ".
0:21 is when Dönitz(?) starts talking.
That's not Dönitz.
Hence why I put (?) in the comment.
"With that, the almost six year long heroic struggle is over".
I understand that they include the "heroic" shelling of refugee columns in Poland in 1939.
Payback for how Poles treated Germans as soon as they got their fake state.
@@sonsvensson2652good that you're cool with payback. That means Dresden getting flattened is nothing to worry about.
@@sonsvensson2652I just wish USSR wasn't so nice to germs and delivered to them "payback" that they deserved.
@@bazmondo absolutely nothing to worry about. Sure that after all that Germans have done within 6 years until 1945 only few could feel any empathy to these people. Just learn what "cause and effect" means.
Can we clean up the audio please??
I just wanted to relax and somehow I ended up listening to the last report from the wehrmacht
I'd like to hear the last report by that guy who has the loud shreiky voice on the newsreels!
There is about 50 percent of the announcement lacking.
It would be nice to get a translation or at least a summary in English on what is veibg said.
Did you not read the instructions in the beginning?
Bro, it's in the subtitles.
😢😢😢
It’s unpleasant it begins with a Mozart tune.
Other than that I thought it would be much shorter: Run, run like crazy!!
The song at the beginning sounds like something familiar and non-german,
but i dont get its name....................
it's the french national anthem
Indeed, it's German of course. "Üb' immer Treu und Redlichkeit" It's a tune from the Zauberflöte by Mozart. The Nazis used it as an interval signal for propagandistic reasons, since it sounds how it does.
Where real men cried…
Amen. 🌬
There's so much expressed on those gaunt, expressionless, silent faces.
The announcer relates that this is the last miliary report of "this war." Maybe he was thinking that the announcements would resume in the next war?
Well, what else would it be ? Its peace now
Well, they had a "war to end all wars" before, so it would be foolish to assume there wouldn't be more.
@@causti9744exactly just like how we thought people at the end of WW1 were silly to assume that the war they had just had was a war to end all wars and in the 1930s being wishful thinking about the goings on. Fast forward decades and how niave our generation was in not realising that war in Europe once again was no longer ghoulish fantasy and crazy talk, prior to Russia invading Ukraine. In the autumn of 2021 i thought all this WW2 history stuff is becoming a distraction from the present , when rumours of Russia plotting to invade Ukraine in 2022 started to circulate and that Russia was likely to invade Ukraine from new year 2022 became incontrovertible.
He was being technically correct and professional in stating " this war" Perhaps he was holding out hope against hope of the allies joining forces with them against the Soviets or that USA and UK would go to war against the Soviets within a few years, but also a realism that human nature and society leads to wars recurrently ...
Maybe he thought the german army of the future would be called Wehrmacht too.
"Danke schoen to everyone for attending, und bitte fahren Sie nach Hause carefully"!
That operator sounds plain tired.
And that is how end the war. With radio silence.
that is sad
English translation?
Turn the Subtitles option on for that actually.
My grandfather was in Courland (also mentioned there). I find all this talk about honour sickening. He did not fight for honour or this sick country … he fought for his life, left one leg on the battlefield and was mentally and physically scarred for life. There is no honour in war or dying. His last words on his deathbed in 2000 were „I am a murderer“.
May his soul haunt every Nazi alive or dead.
Does anyone remember Colonel General Hilper?
Even after all these decades it's still difficult to tolerate hearing them refer to the German role in WW2 as "heroic."
I haven't broadcast the last report, yet.
Cooome oooon Deutschland! You can keep going, i believe in you!
So everything was going along quite well, apart from the bit where we just surrendered.
How on earth were you listening to this sombre report and taking that out of it? I can't even. It's a declaration that they have capitulated and could hardly be more sombre.
😭
My Grandfather fought throughout WW2. He had total respect for the Wehrmacht. The SS were too cruel for him.
...the millions that died at the behest of a small cabal of madmen...
the millions that continue to die at the behest of other cabals of madmen...
the untold lives never lived, the untold wealth wasted.
for what.
Many would spend an other mans 5$ to earn 1$ for themselves.
"Everlasting honor."
There was no honor in any of that. The only people remembered in Germany as honorable are the ones who didn't fight. Instead all the soldiders will be remembered in everlasting disgrace.
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So where Do I go to translate?
Subtitle
Dann haben waer also gewonnen oder nech?
Subtitles anywone?
Turn on your caption
The allies had broke the German codes (Enigma), and understood every single German high command (important) message, this is how they crippled the supplies send to Africa (which prevented further attack), killed the France/Normandy tank commanders (who were planning a tank assault against the Allied beachheads, which would have drove them off), how Kursk was hopeless for the Germans due to the Russians/Allies knowing all the tactics/directions they were going to use, and the list goes countlessly on. If Enigma was never broken the war would have looked completely different.
True, handling this information is also precarious. You can't stave of every attack, so you have to knowingly let something go through, even if you could have prevented it. Awfull. I am glad the polish experiments came to fruitition in England. If it wasn't for Alan Turing however, it wouldn't have been as effective as it was. Shame how he was treated.
It is a common misconception that the allies could read all messages. Actually, every day the code had to be re-broken. The German Navy handled the Enigma with more care than the Army, and hence most days the British could not read the Navy‘s encoded messages.
Nah, the war was completely unwinnable by 1944 for Germany
The Western front was lost the moment Allied boots touched the beaches of Normandy. Germany’s only hope there would have been (as Rommel predicted) to prevent a successful landing. Once that failed, it was done
Colonel Hans van Luck, author of Panzer Commander, in a video on TH-cam of a D-Day symposium pertaining to the invasion, describes how he had been unaware of Enigma until a woman who was a key player at Bletchley Park, came up to him at another event and said how she had so much wanted meet him as a result of the communications in which he was involved during Rommel's North African campaign. Then he understood why all the ships carrying fuel Rommel needed were either sunk or returned to where they come from or diverted to other ports beyond reach. He describes in his book or maybe in the video--I can't recall--they thought an Italian was giving Rommel's plans to the Brits. Von Luck loved, admired, respected Rommel. He couldn't, wouldn't dare, say Monty was a fraud. Nor could he say he wished Rommel had won the battle for North Africa and the war. But it was clear his respect for the fighting abilities of the British military (American too) was greatly diminished. Rightly so.
True, it would have meant Berlin received the the first Atomic bomb.
From Flensburg, note. HQ of Admiral Doenitz, who ran what was left of the German government.
Uh remember that thousand year stuff ?
What are they being told?
he said, that the radio has english subtitles