The photo for this episode was taken in Tunisia in 1943 and depicts the infamous Field Marshal Rommel (second from far right) speaking to his grenadiers who are standing in the back of a captured US halftrack. This photo was taken 3 months after the action in the reading and about 4,000 km away from southern Russia where Manstein’s army was attempting to relieve the 6th army trapped in the cauldron of Stalingrad.
I gather driving a tank across a hockey rink and climbing steep ice grades is a skill not taught in tanker training but a skill one had to learn in the field. Such incredibly hostile terrain was not foreseen as being a possible operating condition drivers would or could encounter during combat even to this day.
My biggest problem I have with these memoirs…….and by the way they are totally fascinating to a person who cannot even begin to appreciate what all these soldiers and civilians endured. I cannot for the life of me get the sequence of these stories…..are they not listed by episodes or series? Are they not numbered so I can logically follow each series of memoirs? Am I too dumb to pick up how they are organized….can someone help me with this. Big Thanks WJJGS
In the description I wrote which memoirs it is part of and which part it is. If you want all the parts, you have a playlist in the description with all the parts ordered from 1-10. Thank you!
The Cossacks are descendants of the Western Horde of the Mongolian khans. When the Mongol Empire collapsed, this horde was left to its own devices. This history is similar to the Romany Gypsies, who descend from an army that remained together after Timur the Lame destroyed their kingdom in India. They continued to travel west as a group, but overtime began to divide into separate tribes.
Partially correct regarding the Romany -nomads from the Indian subcontinent. Many of their brethren continue to live in nomadic communities in present day India - in preindustrial times, they specialized in forging metal tools.
For the information regarding Cossacks, I got my information from professor Timothy D. Snyder. He is THE expert on Slavic history. Check out his books, or listen to his lectures on TH-cam.
"Hordes?" You maybe need to look at your worldview. Who was it that pillaged and murdered their way Eastwards and back, leaving about 40 million dead in their wake? That'd be the Germans, yet never are they called a "horde".
Geeze dude, you have managed to squeeze 12 ads in before it is even halfways through. At this rate it will hit around the 30 mark before the end of the presentation.
Who can imagine a million prisoners of war. There would have been more but many were executed in the field. Many of the women serving in the Soviet armed forces were executed because the Germans had high contemptment for fighting women. They felt they betrayed their main duty to raise children and care for a home. Perhaps in the early days of the invasion where women biplane bomber pilots referred to as the Night Witches. They would climb to a high altitude cut the engine. Dive glide silently towards German convoys camped besides roads. The Germans couldn't detect them untill the planes got close enough for a high sounding whistling noise. They bombed the convoys pulled up and restarted their engines. They would strike and fly away before the German troops could react. It deprived them of supplies and sleep. Demoralizing the German Troops. I'm shure they had a deep hatred of them. Perhaps they were given the same consideration as we give terrorists and insurgents today.😮 However the Germans committed genocidal ethnic cleansing and other atrocities.😢
The photo for this episode was taken in Tunisia in 1943 and depicts the infamous Field Marshal Rommel (second from far right) speaking to his grenadiers who are standing in the back of a captured US halftrack. This photo was taken 3 months after the action in the reading and about 4,000 km away from southern Russia where Manstein’s army was attempting to relieve the 6th army trapped in the cauldron of Stalingrad.
Great narration, great stories, thanks ❤
A soldiers story. Good no matter what side you were on.
I gather driving a tank across a hockey rink and climbing steep ice grades is a skill not taught in tanker training but a skill one had to learn in the field. Such incredibly hostile terrain was not foreseen as being a possible operating condition drivers would or could encounter during combat even to this day.
These stories are fascinating, I’m really enjoying them……👍
Thank you…appreciate the patience!
My biggest problem I have with these memoirs…….and by the way they are totally fascinating to a person who cannot even begin to appreciate what all these soldiers and civilians endured.
I cannot for the life of me get the sequence of these stories…..are they not listed by episodes or series? Are they not numbered so I can logically follow each series of memoirs? Am I too dumb to pick up how they are organized….can someone help me with this.
Big Thanks
WJJGS
In the description I wrote which memoirs it is part of and which part it is. If you want all the parts, you have a playlist in the description with all the parts ordered from 1-10. Thank you!
The Cossacks are descendants of the Western Horde of the Mongolian khans. When the Mongol Empire collapsed, this horde was left to its own devices. This history is similar to the Romany Gypsies, who descend from an army that remained together after Timur the Lame destroyed their kingdom in India. They continued to travel west as a group, but overtime began to divide into separate tribes.
Excellent. Thank you
Complete nonsense. Cossacks are Slav free-botters who lived on the borders of Ukraine (Christian Slavs) & Crimea (Muslim Tartars).
Partially correct regarding the Romany -nomads from the Indian subcontinent. Many of their brethren continue to live in nomadic communities in present day India - in preindustrial times, they specialized in forging metal tools.
For the information regarding Cossacks, I got my information from professor Timothy D. Snyder. He is THE expert on Slavic history. Check out his books, or listen to his lectures on TH-cam.
"Hordes?" You maybe need to look at your worldview. Who was it that pillaged and murdered their way Eastwards and back, leaving about 40 million dead in their wake? That'd be the Germans, yet never are they called a "horde".
Geeze dude, you have managed to squeeze 12 ads in before it is even halfways through. At this rate it will hit around the 30 mark before the end of the presentation.
Achtung Achtung Abtilung!.
So far the comments are good
Who can imagine a million prisoners of war. There would have been more but many were executed in the field. Many of the women serving in the Soviet armed forces were executed because the Germans had high contemptment for fighting women. They felt they betrayed their main duty to raise children and care for a home. Perhaps in the early days of the invasion where women biplane bomber pilots referred to as the Night Witches. They would climb to a high altitude cut the engine. Dive glide silently towards German convoys camped besides roads. The Germans couldn't detect them untill the planes got close enough for a high sounding whistling noise. They bombed the convoys pulled up and restarted their engines. They would strike and fly away before the German troops could react. It deprived them of supplies and sleep. Demoralizing the German Troops. I'm shure they had a deep hatred of them. Perhaps they were given the same consideration as we give terrorists and insurgents today.😮 However the Germans committed genocidal ethnic cleansing and other atrocities.😢
Thank you for this opinion. You are right sir!
Congratulations on your sweeping generalisations of atrocities without any sources or examples cited.
Kind of boring.