The SS Were A "Mean Bunch Of BASTARDS!"

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  • @americanveteranscenter
    @americanveteranscenter  หลายเดือนก่อน +49

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  • @randmayfield5695
    @randmayfield5695 หลายเดือนก่อน +1076

    Growing up, after my father passed, the local minister came by the hospital to pray for me because I had been chewed up by a dog. This minister had fought in the Battle of the Bulge and then on to Berlin after that. He was Army airborne and when the war finally ended there were only a handful of his company left.
    We became best friends until his death at the age of 88 years. An amazing good man and I was lucky to have him in my life.

    • @anthonylabrecque3396
      @anthonylabrecque3396 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      What was his name?

    • @randmayfield5695
      @randmayfield5695 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@anthonylabrecque3396 Search: Ralph Carleton, Reno Nevada his photo and obituary with his picture are there.

    • @AirsoftEstacio
      @AirsoftEstacio หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      How could he fought in Berlin the Soviet Union fought in that battle

    • @scooternc95
      @scooternc95 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      ​@geckogames3509 the op didn't necessarily say "fought at Berlin". The guy could have been part of the occupation force in West Berlin.

    • @randmayfield5695
      @randmayfield5695 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @@AirsoftEstacio You're right. There were no Americans in Berlin during WW2. I guess I should get my facts straigh, right?. Lol
      Search: Where was the 101st during 'D' Day and beyond.

  • @rodneywoods4442
    @rodneywoods4442 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +45

    After the SS shot down fifty plus of the Big Red One who surrendered at the Bulge. Patton's men never let another SS live. My Dad's best childhood friend was the only man not hit. He carried out a couple guys, one lived besides him. Dad said when the 95th under Patton found out about that at METZ the SS all died. They let conscripts surrender but not the SS.

    • @FortniteBlaster2
      @FortniteBlaster2 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Yes the Germans would totally just have walked down the street and shot people. According to who? This veteran who wasn’t even there to see it?

    • @FortniteBlaster2
      @FortniteBlaster2 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Also didn’t Patton say “we defeated the wrong enemy” at the end of the war and then died shortly after 😂

    • @ickster23
      @ickster23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@FortniteBlaster2Give it up with your alternative history. These events did happen. Do a bit of research before breaking off. There's lots of interviews of survivors and footage of events that were taken immediately after the events and before any conspiracies could be implemented. I am blessed to have known many of these men while they were middle aged. If anything, Covid should have taught you how fast a fearful and angry mob turn authoritarian.

    • @FortniteBlaster2
      @FortniteBlaster2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@ickster23 I've studied the topic for the last 6 years, look at what you just said. You have no data, no evidence, no forensic evidence, but only eye witnesses which have countlessly been caught and called lying. Remember doll heads, remember the soap myths?
      Rudolf Hoss was literally tortured and wrote about it in his memoirs, and lied openly about the death count at Nuremberg.
      It is you, deluded, who does not know this subject beyond what you were told to believe.

    • @matthuber9925
      @matthuber9925 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@ickster23it happened on both sides though and the Americans continued in Vietnam. By the way, isnt dropping 2 atomic bombs on women and children even worse?

  • @lizsaitta3037
    @lizsaitta3037 หลายเดือนก่อน +298

    To the Greatest Generation: thank you for your service!! RIP 😢

    • @Brotherken1234
      @Brotherken1234 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      No such thing as the "Greatest generation". Tom Brokaw was full of it

    • @nancyearnest1043
      @nancyearnest1043 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      My father was there

    • @sammyhill69
      @sammyhill69 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Don't forget it was also members of this generation that took us into war in the first place.

    • @MrBigHoss
      @MrBigHoss หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@sammyhill69how did a bunch of high school kids and early 20somethings take us to war?

    • @thatotherguy1
      @thatotherguy1 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@Brotherken1234...YES, there was. And it's apparent that YOU weren't part of it.

  • @Nanadina51
    @Nanadina51 หลายเดือนก่อน +376

    My dad fought in Battle of the Bulge. Stationed under Gen Patton’s Third US Army, Corp of Engineers. Was in Hamm, Lux, in Dec 1944, when after Xmas , he was in combat. Lost so many men. I saw the US WWII Memorial in Belgium, and Patton’s grave near Hamm, Lux. Dad met mom in Hamm; married 8/4/1945. He had come to America from Airoli, Switzerland, in 1938, few years before Pearl Harbor. He was in St Louis, MO. In the war, he attained rank of 2nd Lt and two medals: Bronze Star, Purple Heart. My hero.

    • @fishkiller16
      @fishkiller16 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      My grand father was on the first wave of Omaha Beach. Faught all the way to Berlin.

    • @user-mj9lq5ml5w
      @user-mj9lq5ml5w หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      *your daddy didn’t serve*

    • @tclaw1406
      @tclaw1406 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      My grandfather didn’t storm the beaches at Normandy, but he was a pilot taking care of the men afterwards.

    • @fishkiller16
      @fishkiller16 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      ​@@tclaw1406they all had a job to do, and did it with pride. Everyone that served in ww2 from combat vets, to guys that served behind a desk are all heros.

    • @stephengreerii8678
      @stephengreerii8678 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Thank you for sharing your story. I salute your father. He is a hero. I too had family who fought at the Bulge

  • @vahjayjayaddict
    @vahjayjayaddict หลายเดือนก่อน +347

    A lot of tank crews lost their lives because of this because they wore black. SS members were shot on sight & some assumed any soldier wearing black were SS. A surrendering tank crew could get mowed down with Allied fire.

    • @user-cg1ni7ub9i
      @user-cg1ni7ub9i หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      Reading some of the books written by members of the SS told a different story. Those members of the SS who were cowards and didn’t want to fight for their Country often volunteered for the Concentration camps and ended up committing atrocities against humanity. These SS soldiers soon ended up joining the French Forgein Legions and fighting in Vietnam prior to America Involvement

    • @vahjayjayaddict
      @vahjayjayaddict หลายเดือนก่อน +52

      @@user-cg1ni7ub9i The bulk of SS troops were front line infantry/armor. The camps were a small percentage. They were fanatical fighters because surrender was not an option. The Soviets did not just kill them, they tortured them. At the very end of the war as the Allies met the Soviets on the line, some SS troops did successfully surrender to the Allies. There was more on the battlefield as a role for the SS than more popularly known concentration camps. They were all wanted for war crimes committed in battle by the Soviets. An ordinary Wehrmact tank crew likely had nothing to be ashamed of, but their black uniforms was a cause of confusion on the western front.

    • @fishkiller16
      @fishkiller16 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If they were Germans they all should been dispatched.

    • @kenkleinsasser8165
      @kenkleinsasser8165 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Didn’t the tank crews also have the Deaths Head on their unis like the SS did?

    • @mikee8244
      @mikee8244 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      ​​@@kenkleinsasser8165 yes they did.
      Not the exact same insignia as the SS. But a skull ☠️ for sure

  • @MichaelGronski
    @MichaelGronski หลายเดือนก่อน +95

    Thank you for your service young man!!😊

    • @johnlennon6374
      @johnlennon6374 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Don't make them like that anymore ❤

    • @sherylberryrudic709
      @sherylberryrudic709 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      ​@@johnlennon6374 As a teacher. I can tell that they are still around. They just aren't noticed much. Sadly

  • @DUDLEY2000
    @DUDLEY2000 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +18

    Good for you to be so frank and honest.

    • @FortniteBlaster2
      @FortniteBlaster2 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes the Germans would totally just have walked down the street and shot people. According to who? This veteran who wasn’t even there to see it?

    • @themfwestcoast
      @themfwestcoast 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Still a war-crime...

  • @RADIUMGLASS
    @RADIUMGLASS 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +83

    People think the Germans were like the characters in Hogan's Heroes. Many don't understand how brutal the Japanese and the Germans were.

    • @kcirtap00
      @kcirtap00 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +21

      "The Germans" And apparently you don't understand the difference between the SS and the Wehrmacht!
      You had to join the Wehrmacht whether you wanted to or not, you had to fight but to be part of the SS it was your choice. Actually its only a small group compared to the Wehrmacht, the elite unit if you want. And yes, those were the bad guys.

    • @alaincelos476
      @alaincelos476 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Wermacht trop did done massacre toward civil and some english compagnies in 1940 in Belgium because they were angry toward thé résistance tommies shown .they are BASTARDS as any germans troops ,no soldiers only hells !!!! This is thé gamous "deutsche kalitat "since frédéric from prussia!!!​@@kcirtap00

    • @ShannonDove-sy7ye
      @ShannonDove-sy7ye 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      I suspect most Germans was good people as they still are good people. They are our brothers and we should have been on their side.

    • @tigernotwoods914
      @tigernotwoods914 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Not really it’s the other way around. People think every single German service member were Nazis but what they don’t know is you had regular army and regular Navy that may or may not have been party members whereas the SS was a volunteer only force and that’s where brutality came from.
      As for the Japanese, most of what they have been accused of is either blatant lies or gross exaggerations, and even comparing Japan to the Nazis is the most asinine thing ever the US government point was far more brutal than Japan was

    • @pavel9652
      @pavel9652 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      There difference was superficial. Good Germans in Wehrmacht "followed the orders". Wehrmacht chief-in-command was the man with the mustache himself.

  • @outrageousalan7780
    @outrageousalan7780 หลายเดือนก่อน +253

    I attended a Catholic University and one of my professors was a priest who served with Patton's 3rd Army during the Battle of the Bulge (even got fined twice by "Old Blood and Guts" for not wearing a tie).
    I got to know him quite well as my father was a highly-decorated WW2 Vet and my 6th grade teacher served with Darby's Rangers in WW2.
    Father Stanley Kusman told me several of his experiences and said the SS soldiers were good soldiers, but they killed civilians and prisoners without hesitation.
    The Malmedy Massacre is one of the many horrific atrocities committed by the SS.
    Thank you for your service, Sir.
    (salute)

    • @IanHotson
      @IanHotson หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Here in Canada we had some goddamn Nazi Stormtrooper move into our neighborhood and bought a farm, let's just say he never fit in or never had a very good time, he fucked around and found out he was hated

    • @tomben6180
      @tomben6180 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@IanHotsonWouldn’t have lasted 2 days in England

    • @RealismAndHonor
      @RealismAndHonor หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@tomben6180 I suggest looking up the SS soldiers who were intentionally brought to the UK post war. Dr. mark Felton has a good video on it

    • @MartinMartinm
      @MartinMartinm หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      They had trust issues because of partisans.

    • @tonyelberg7814
      @tonyelberg7814 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Who are you kidding,wake up, heaps of SS soldiers ended up in England, and another thing is they all were not bad men, read a book and learn some facts before making statement like that.​@@tomben6180

  • @JR-kx3jr
    @JR-kx3jr 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    It’s important not to believe that it could never happen here.

  • @brunovandevelde4638
    @brunovandevelde4638 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    Thank you for the liberation of my country ❤️

    • @ShannonDove-sy7ye
      @ShannonDove-sy7ye 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Germany has more problems now.

  • @eldonhoward7925
    @eldonhoward7925 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    Thank you for your service.

  • @BudCliften
    @BudCliften หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    My grandfather served in the battle of the bulge with the airborne units before he passed away in 2015 he told us exactly what he to do, this veteran absolutely accurate what the had to do with the SS

  • @palmergriffiths1952
    @palmergriffiths1952 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    My Grandfather had a friend who was Captured by The 12th Armored SS HitlerJugend in Normandy outside of Caen. His friend was one of The Canadians who was Captured , Rounded up and shot by The 12th Armored SS HitlerJugend behind The Abbey of Ardenne.

    • @pinkiesue849
      @pinkiesue849 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Were the SS actually people or were they demons

    • @Nanadina51
      @Nanadina51 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@palmergriffiths1952 So very sad. Such a waste of human life, all these wars. I suppose there will always be something to fight for-good or bad.

    • @palmergriffiths1952
      @palmergriffiths1952 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Nanadina51 The saying goes "War is Hell "

    • @KirstenBayes
      @KirstenBayes หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      My grandfather fought at Caen with the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry, alongside the Canadians. When the SS HQ was overrun in Caen by Allied forces, its personnel were reportedly shot out of hand. The investigation as to who was responsible is, as they say, still ongoing.

    • @JoshDeCoster
      @JoshDeCoster หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@palmergriffiths1952 war is hell, but the SS weren’t performing based on war, it was ideological hatred of minorities and other undesirables. They were a group that LOVED to kill, and would even kill their own guys. I think this comment is more in line with the regular German army guys, not the SS

  • @stephengreerii8678
    @stephengreerii8678 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I heard the same from both my grandfathers. Word was given " Shoot the SS" dont take them prisoners. Salute and respect to you Sir. Thank you for your service.

  • @wqktwkvx
    @wqktwkvx 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

    Thank you for your service, God bless you, sir

  • @Pam-tx5zd
    @Pam-tx5zd 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    And then people object to us wearing poppies. Well, jog on. I'll wear my poppy with pride for all those who died for the freedom we enjoy today

    • @bullwinkle60
      @bullwinkle60 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      What's with the poppies?

  • @mongolikechewchew2475
    @mongolikechewchew2475 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    My Grandfather fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Unfortunately for me, he died Christmas morning 1969 of a heart attack he suffered as he slept,😢, 6 years before I was born. He was only 50 yrs old, tall & slim, became a mailman after retiring from the U.S. Army ( he joined in the 1930's & stayed in through the Korean War). My mom & aunt both tell me he had been complaining of some pain in his left arm for a while before he passed & had a scheduled doctor app the next week at the VA. I sure wish I had the chance to meet him & ask him about his service time & all the stuff he did & where he fought other than the Battle of the Bulge! Thank you Grandpa for your service & may you continue to rest in peace!🙏🇺🇸

    • @richardhowe5583
      @richardhowe5583 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I thank your grandfather also For making our country a free country and we do not have to speak German. Anybody that has pain in their left arm get to the emergency room ASAP and do not worry about insurance if you care about your life. Just a thought from my pea brain for today.😮

    • @mongolikechewchew2475
      @mongolikechewchew2475 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@richardhowe5583 Thank You and yes, you are correct, left arm pain not involving trauma of some type is a known sign of a heart attack.

  • @nobodyisbest
    @nobodyisbest หลายเดือนก่อน +110

    My grandpa was a Fallschirmjäger and he had the same view of the SS.

    • @rachfrikirihio470
      @rachfrikirihio470 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Did your grandpa wore an edelweiss in his lapel? I heard this was a tradition for the Fallschirmjäger.

    • @MattHuarez-yh9zj
      @MattHuarez-yh9zj หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Honestly wish I could hear more stories of the fallshirmjager going to to toe with the ss

    • @Kyle-zj6lj
      @Kyle-zj6lj หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@rachfrikirihio470I heard that was just a rumor from BoB. There was another military unit in Germany at the time I believe where some did carry around the flower but they were a mountain unit

    • @sasin2715
      @sasin2715 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      "Fallchirmjäger translates into Paratroopers. But these units only carried it as a name. They were mostly composed of airmen and sailors from the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine." -101st Airborne Museum, Bastogne

    • @warcrimeconnoisseur5238
      @warcrimeconnoisseur5238 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@Kyle-zj6ljIt's the Gebirgsjäger

  • @vanlarson9213
    @vanlarson9213 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    That's what my Uncle Ike said. Don't take any SS prisoners.

  • @picklerick4208
    @picklerick4208 หลายเดือนก่อน +94

    My great grandfather was a British soldier during ww2 he always said if we found ss we shot them on the spot no question you see as on the uniform they are dead

    • @tomben6180
      @tomben6180 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      🇬🇧

    • @Stale_Kracker
      @Stale_Kracker หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      My grandad said they did inspections when they captured german soldiers. The ss guys would try to blend in but had a tatoo inside their bicept and if he found one they would drag him out back and shoot him

    • @tomben6180
      @tomben6180 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Stale_Kracker Good man your grandad

  • @libbylandscape3560
    @libbylandscape3560 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Thank you for sharing your story, and your service sir, you are a brave man.❤

  • @blech71
    @blech71 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Bless this man ! So much respect! 🫡

  • @kevinjang2075
    @kevinjang2075 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Sir, Harry Miller, thank you for your ser vice. God bless you sir.

  • @Redrum1299
    @Redrum1299 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    My great grandpa was an SS officer, he was a tough man. Fought through the whole war, was injured 3 times. When the war was over, he was still in a German holdout in Russia, fought his way back to his hometown alone still having his uniform and Luger, even killed two Russian soldiers after the war while sneaking home. He was never discovered, and showed me his equipment when I was a young boy before he passed. Years after he passed, we found his equipment chest hidden under floorboards in the attic when renovating.

    • @JimRitz-vm9mi
      @JimRitz-vm9mi หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Great story

    • @MrSmoke-gb7tz
      @MrSmoke-gb7tz หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      There is a song about that equipment chest hidden in the attic from a german ss grandpa.

    • @HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat
      @HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      😮😮

    • @jacquelinedavis6607
      @jacquelinedavis6607 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@MrSmoke-gb7tzWhy is it called the equipment chest? Were they the supplies needed to fight? I wonder why he hid it in that place?

    • @user-ij1yf3qb9o
      @user-ij1yf3qb9o หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jacquelinedavis6607 probably because of what the SS got up to. Not the sort of thing you’d openly display in your house since all nazi items were made and still are highly illegal in Germany and Austria.

  • @sixwolf1283
    @sixwolf1283 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    My great grandfather fought in the Bulge in the 11th Armored Division but didn’t see past it as he was sent home with 2 Purple Hearts.

  • @brianschmidt9919
    @brianschmidt9919 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Thank you for Fighting for freedom and because you put your ass on the line when you were just a kid I got to grow up in a country and world that was much safer because of it I appreciate what you did more than words can say

  • @yesher12
    @yesher12 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    God bless these men of the greatest generation.
    My beautiful friend, Harold Filgo, flew many missions of fuel into this hell on earth and he was one incredible human. Rest with the lord, Harold. I still have your saddle and cherish it.
    🇺🇲🙏🏻🇺🇲🙏🏻🇺🇲🙏🏻🇺🇲

  • @Giraffedude28
    @Giraffedude28 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +59

    I have a friend who said his father in law’s uncle served in the SS after Hitler came to power. I asked him why, his response actually made sense. He said: “Before Hitler came to power, I had to worry about my family going to bed hungry. After Hitler came to power, I never had to worry about finances or food ever again.” He was wounded at the battle of Kursk and when he was sent back to Germany, his SS superiors told him he couldn’t fight anymore so he had the option of guarding a concentration camp. He immediately declined saying it wasn’t even a remote reason he joined the SS in the first place. Throughout the whole process of figuring out what he was good at and how he could help the war effort, they dug through some old files of his and found that he had done technical design work before the war and he was placed in the armored division of drawing up plans for new German heavy fighting vehicles.

    • @JonnyDee-uh1eo
      @JonnyDee-uh1eo 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Watching a WORK CAMP.

    • @skulver
      @skulver 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      I remember an interview with a German historian and one of the things he laughed about was how every family has been told their SS uncle/father/grandfather was somehow one of the good guys. He talked about how he went to college to study history in the 70s and his lecturer on day 1 asked the entire class for a show of hands whose parents didn't know what was happening with the camps and the atrocities and whose families had nothing to do with the worst parts of WW2 Germany and all the hands went up. He then told them that all their parents were lying, everyone knew, everyone went along with it and that their parents had all been lying to them.
      Do you really think that mid-war with a huge shortage of manpower any member of the German army, injured or not, was being given the option to turn down assignments?

    • @samholdsworth420
      @samholdsworth420 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@JonnyDee-uh1eoif he would have spoken the truth his comment wouldn't have got posted

    • @maciekpolishman1516
      @maciekpolishman1516 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I have no doubt that this story is not true, there are just a few historical errors and untruths here: 1. Before Hitler came to power, there was no SS, only SA. 2. The SS are front-line formations and are needed at the front, the work in the camp is not their departments, but slightly different groups also under the name SS, but not the formations that are at the front, but the SS Polizei, this is a slightly different formation because it is from the order that is to be maintained by these very formations.

  • @CharleneJackson-om8hp
    @CharleneJackson-om8hp หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    Thank you. Thank God for bringing you home.

    • @sammyhill69
      @sammyhill69 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What's dog got to do with anything?

  • @jeffadinolfi8023
    @jeffadinolfi8023 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Love you, brother and thank you

  • @lindaclark6531
    @lindaclark6531 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Love the way he says “mean bunch of bastards”

  • @palmergriffiths1952
    @palmergriffiths1952 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Mr.Miller is expressing the same opinions of The SS as My own Grandfather a World War II Veteran . I remember My Grandfather saying exactly what Mr.Miller said about The SS. Thank you for your Service Mr.Miller 🇺🇲 🙏 From Canada 🇨🇦

  • @ruthenns7333
    @ruthenns7333 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Thank you so very much for your service ❤❤❤

  • @blindlemonjello
    @blindlemonjello หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    The word went on because of Malmedy which was perpetrated by the SS at the northern portion of the bulge near St Vith which was ultimately freed by the 82nd airborne.

  • @joylynne1343
    @joylynne1343 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    ❤ Thank you for your Service and for telling us about it, so we should never forget!!!❤

  • @MT-tn4ei
    @MT-tn4ei หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you for your service, sir. God bless

  • @MrXanitos
    @MrXanitos หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    An old friend of mine has an SS death's head ring from an officer his father killed in the war, as well as an SS dagger, though I don't know if it came from the same SS or not, as well as a long barrelled Luger from an artillery captain that killed his friend. The friend was obviously avenged. Amazing stories.

    • @Daniel-fq5vq
      @Daniel-fq5vq หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      So my Grandad fought in the Pacific on a destroyer. Anyways and he had a friend who fought in the Marines that brought back a German Luger. Legit with the swastika on it. Cool holster attached. It’s awesome, gave it to my grandad! Trophy, never forget how tough these men were and the foes they faced! The courage it took!

  • @janarnold5569
    @janarnold5569 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My German grandfather has fought in WWII for the regular German army (Wehrmacht) by that time. He was is eastern europe and russia for nearly 5 years.
    My grandmother always told me that he has worked as a truck driver. Which was true. But she never ever mentioned a very important detail.
    My Grandfather has passed away in 1976 after he suffered from a heart attack.
    After the war he started as a farmer and had a little restaurant with a small bar in there together with my grandmother.
    My grandmother always stated that he drank a lot after the war til he died.
    My grandmother died at the age of 92 in 2012.
    3 years ago I drove to my parents place to spend family time over christmas.
    We sat at dinner, a few friends came over and we had some drinks and we were chattening away about any kind of topics.
    Then it came to my German grandfather. There is a Scottish one on the other side as well though.
    My mother appeared ruminative and I asked her whats wrong.
    She looked at me, had tears in her eyes, her voice cracked and she just said: Well he was a truck driver but he transported the Jews.
    I nearly passed out. I was completely shocked about that fact.
    She told me that this has been the reason why he drank so much and he felt guilty til he died.
    He was a young man and he had no other choice than doing what he been told.
    Nevertheless he felt horrible for it til his last day.
    It is not my generation but I still feel sorry and we have the responsibility to make sure that this does never ever ever happen again

  • @jonathanbethards3689
    @jonathanbethards3689 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My paternal grandmother’s brother was a cook in Patton’s army. Not a combat role, but essential nonetheless.

  • @erdngtn9942
    @erdngtn9942 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    The movie FURY (Brad Pitt, Shia LeBouf etc) was the first movie I’ve seen to really show how specifically cruel the SS really were, as my grandfather told me. No SS ever survived to be a prisoner in his unit either.

    • @Thane36425
      @Thane36425 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You should see some of the older movies or shows like "Rat Patrol" or "Combat".

    • @Daniel-fq5vq
      @Daniel-fq5vq หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Thane36425which movies do you recommend?

    • @vonbeedle554
      @vonbeedle554 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      try Come and See

    • @sasin2715
      @sasin2715 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      if you want a realistic ww2 movie, you dont watch fury. you watch come and see

    • @timokohler6631
      @timokohler6631 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@JHimminy Especially Fury which belongs into the historically inspired fantasy genre 😂

  • @paulquantumblues3599
    @paulquantumblues3599 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for your service. God bless you and the men who served with you.

  • @scottreed7712
    @scottreed7712 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My grandfather fought in the Battle of the Bulge and told me stories about it .
    These men were True American heroes and real men !

  • @autumnwinter3639
    @autumnwinter3639 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Things that never happened for $500

  • @clintcagey8316
    @clintcagey8316 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thank you for your service one love you saved the world

  • @RIKERIII
    @RIKERIII 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Ty for your service

  • @ThomasLinderjkl
    @ThomasLinderjkl หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    We have lost this generation. A generation of Americans that lived a history that wasn’t just rhetoric. We can never forget what they fought for.

    • @makeuthink2120
      @makeuthink2120 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      What did they fight for? A particular freedom or right?

  • @AlGrant-bh9or
    @AlGrant-bh9or หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    And Peiper thought he could live amongst the French, 12 yrs. on, and no one would think twice. He got what was coming.

    • @scotttracy9333
      @scotttracy9333 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's bewildering why he thought he could live safely in France afterwards

    • @Moalleboanne-te8uk
      @Moalleboanne-te8uk หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dumb answer

    • @allanblack1066
      @allanblack1066 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was next door neighbor to Grneral Pieper nephew here in Qld Australia Mac Pieper fought the Japs in i New Guinea i allso worked under Freddie Kiedel general kiedels nephew a real fine fella both he and Mac

  • @Stale_Kracker
    @Stale_Kracker หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    My grandfather told me a story about his division taking a bunch of prisoners and the ss guys apparently had some tatoo and as they inspected them if they found one they took them out back and shot them

    • @1sttvbn
      @1sttvbn หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      All SS had their blood type tattooed under their left arm I believe. So yes, they were easy to identify.

  • @jorgefiguerola1239
    @jorgefiguerola1239 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    Fury with Brad Pitt served up that experience generously.

    • @jacobthayer236
      @jacobthayer236 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      That movie is ridiculous. It's entertaining though.

    • @poonjab8078
      @poonjab8078 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ​@jacobthayer236 were you ever a ranker? how is it ridiculous? But in all fairness,that's par for the course coming out of hollyweird.
      I was a tanker from 2003-2014 and I believe that's a pretty good depiction of what being a tanker is about. Dirty,over worked and under paid. Always needs a shave and a haircut,the smell of track grease and Jp-8 on everything. Arguments with your tank crew about the silliest stuff. I'd say fury was pretty damn close.
      #tankersleadtheway

    • @herbertgreen9854
      @herbertgreen9854 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@poonjab8078I think it’s fairly obvious he’s talking about the fact they stopped hundreds of Germans who had anti tank weapons with a single tank with no extra ammunition or support…You know the main point and sequence of the film? never seen a comment more idiotic

    • @30-06Lover
      @30-06Lover หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@poonjab8078it's well known fury is Hollywood bs

    • @William.H.Bonney1
      @William.H.Bonney1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol the only ones shown committing war crimes in fury was us oddly

  • @grantstutters1304
    @grantstutters1304 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    My grandfather was in Normandy and he said in his diary that you kill or be killed !!!!! In his diary !! He was a 4stripped army ranger master Sargent artillerie and marksman expert he was in the first to go into Normandy to take out the bunkers before the invasion!!!!! He said that he never ran as fast as the time he ran to the wall for cover and bullets were flying by his head and bodies were everywhere and falling everywhere he said that in his diary !! He said that he was taking no prisonniers ether in his diary !!!!! He said that the first Germans he had to kill was in the bunkers on the hill side !! He sniped them out and he and his men took over the bunkers and started killing Germans !! He said that he lost his best friend and many others in a dog fight with the Germans !! He said that they killed those Germans and they took the patches off there uniforme and he put it in his diary with that was for my boys !!! In his diary !! He was pist off !!! He said that we overwhelmed them in there bunkers . My ant didn't know what the patches in his diary were so I did the research and found out that they were elite unit patches !!! He killed them !!! And he was proud of it !!!! They killed many of are men and my grandfathers best friend !!!! He died in 1987. He trained soldiers for years in the army he was a 3 time golden glove champion in the army. They called him tiller the killer in the army. Legendary Greatest generation of men and women hands down ❤❤❤❤❤. His name is Floyd Marshall tiller army ranger master Sargent artillerie and marksman expert. ❤ He

    • @Shadow-1949
      @Shadow-1949 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My Uncles Doug fin both Europe and Pacific…
      They said they understood the Japanese were a barbarian culture …
      But the Germans wanted to be considered civilized…..they said they weren’t !
      And paid an awful price.

    • @SLAYS863
      @SLAYS863 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well let me tell you the story of my Grandfather, a nice and humble man from Freiburg in Germany.
      He had to go to Russia in 41 and on the first day he found his best friend hung up on a tree. Not on a rope but with his guts.
      The SS Divisions knew getting killed in battle was the easy way out, they just wanted to take as much enemys as they can with them...."den Tod nehmen und den Tod geben"

  • @Commander_Rockwell
    @Commander_Rockwell 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Yeah, totally, gramps.

  • @pesthizid
    @pesthizid หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The winner writes the book.

    • @sasin2715
      @sasin2715 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      the books the losers wrote werent any better. "im a genius, hitler lost us the war, i didnt know about the holocaust. please let me in NATO."

    • @Epvil
      @Epvil หลายเดือนก่อน

      This narrative is untrue and always has been, but especially since the existence of things like cameras. History is typically told and documented objectively, we have photographs and videos of what the Germans did in WW2. Look it up

    • @mindonthegrind2476
      @mindonthegrind2476 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@sasin2715 lmaoooooo every german general memoir

  • @WalterRocha-rm4rr
    @WalterRocha-rm4rr 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Inglorious was a perfect title for that flick

  • @dragline7287
    @dragline7287 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    Thanks for going up against those bastards. USA

    • @martyyoung3611
      @martyyoung3611 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Had to make the world safe for communism.

    • @William.H.Bonney1
      @William.H.Bonney1 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yeah thanks its really working out, my grandad was there also and said what we allowed the soviets to do to innocent civilians was 10x what the germans did. They were told to stand down around the soviets

    • @William.H.Bonney1
      @William.H.Bonney1 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You don’t even know why you believe that

    • @knight1706
      @knight1706 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@William.H.Bonney1The germans committed unspeakable atrocities on their way to Moscow, so the soviets did the same on their way to Berlin, “You sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind.”

    • @William.H.Bonney1
      @William.H.Bonney1 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@knight1706 you have zero proof of that. They were held to very high conduct standards. There is mounds of evidence of the atrocities committed by the allies. I guess you know more than the guy that was there actually huh?

  • @tonyktx44
    @tonyktx44 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Getting to learn from a man who helped save the world.

  • @davidfusco6600
    @davidfusco6600 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My dad was stationed in Belgium during the bulge. 748 tank battalion

  • @keithnorrod6878
    @keithnorrod6878 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The Greatest Generation !!
    May God Bless and Keep Him Always 🙏

  • @TommyZ9448
    @TommyZ9448 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My grandfather was there as a tank driver in Pattons 3rd Army.

  • @user-nq2jk8ql4k
    @user-nq2jk8ql4k หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    That’s criminal.

  • @robertengland8769
    @robertengland8769 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Hats off to WW2 veterans.

  • @connorhart7597
    @connorhart7597 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    German tankers often got the short end of the stick, as their uniforms looked similar to the SS, so a lot of Americans would summarily execute tankers as well as SS.

    • @Cr4z3d
      @Cr4z3d หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Damn

    • @user-qh8to6vt3z
      @user-qh8to6vt3z หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Oh well. Sucks to be them

    • @HydroBuggs
      @HydroBuggs 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Their real enemy was indeed themselfs

    • @rhysvanwyk9367
      @rhysvanwyk9367 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@connorhart7597 war crimes were so very fashionable

  • @Avenged7xJunkie
    @Avenged7xJunkie หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Important to remember when calling people fascists in our political discourse today, there are still those among us who dealt with the most brutal and evil people alive, actual fascusts

    • @chernovbrichtofen4767
      @chernovbrichtofen4767 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What about those who claim to be facists. Actual supporters of it

    • @angusmatheson8906
      @angusmatheson8906 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Fascism is alive and well today.

    • @knight1706
      @knight1706 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@angusmatheson8906Not really, it’s a dead ideology, and has shown it cant work.

    • @lucamckenn5932
      @lucamckenn5932 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Fascists run the world we just call the ones who tow the line "politicians".

  • @Caritas0325
    @Caritas0325 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ❤❤❤Thank you❤❤❤

  • @huntclanhunt9697
    @huntclanhunt9697 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My great grandpa was in an engineer company stationed in Malmedy. They blew some bridges and retreated into the woods beforebthe SS areived and massacred the people there.
    Later he was one of the main guys in charge of making pontoons for the rhine crossings.

    • @user-mj9lq5ml5w
      @user-mj9lq5ml5w หลายเดือนก่อน

      *he didn’t even serve*

    • @Steve-yh4xb
      @Steve-yh4xb หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@user-mj9lq5ml5wwhy you keep on saying this?

  • @ryekkersen9890
    @ryekkersen9890 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Unless they're going to apply for a job at NASA

  • @xeutoniumnyborg1192
    @xeutoniumnyborg1192 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This soldier's words became absolute truth after the Malmedy massacre. Any SS they encountered were killed with extreme prejudice.

    • @johnbuggy9121
      @johnbuggy9121 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Which is a war crime.

    • @bennittotheburrito9606
      @bennittotheburrito9606 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@johnbuggy9121war crimes only apply to humans

  • @tappym9141
    @tappym9141 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    We allow them entry unchallenged now. They're not SS now, of course, but the mindset is the same.
    This brave old warrior would be appalled.

  • @user-rr8db3mu6y
    @user-rr8db3mu6y 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thsnk you Sir.

  • @Unpainted_Huffhines
    @Unpainted_Huffhines 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Yep, my grandpa could've confirmed. He said the regular Wermacht guys were just soldiers doing their jobs the same as they were. But the SS guys were executed on sight.

  • @jmua8450
    @jmua8450 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    God bless all our ww2 vets ❤

  • @sharonporter7132
    @sharonporter7132 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    All of you were extremely brave to face and fight them. Thank God you saved us and other countries from these evil bastards. God bless you.🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @Sactown15
    @Sactown15 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

    "Don't take any SS prisoners." 🫡

  • @redflint7651
    @redflint7651 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My grandfather served in ww 2 half track driver 6armrd

  • @buttnakedscuba
    @buttnakedscuba 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My father was a combat medic 7th amoured division . The story's he told me bout the battle of the bulge are amazing.

  • @skipschauer5535
    @skipschauer5535 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    My Uncle Bill siad the same thing!

  • @petebondurant58
    @petebondurant58 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My grandfather spent the war in Florida.

  • @dawsonschmidt3714
    @dawsonschmidt3714 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Don't take any SS prisoners. Sounds good to me!

    • @eugenesant9015
      @eugenesant9015 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Says the guy with the German name.

    • @sasin2715
      @sasin2715 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@eugenesant9015 and? are germans automatically supposed to support war criminals?

  • @bdcinac
    @bdcinac หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for your service Sir

  • @bigfootaintreal5454
    @bigfootaintreal5454 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you Sir.

  • @bruceradford8284
    @bruceradford8284 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Only a few ww2 vets still around 🇺🇸🗽🙏🏻

  • @ChristianOptional-wq1tw
    @ChristianOptional-wq1tw หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    My Grandfather, Us Soldiers in France was saved by an SS Medic.
    It was strictly forbidden to hit civilians.
    Not like Bombers who bombed schools an hospitals in Germany.

  • @smp894
    @smp894 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Based, thank you Harry

  • @Donald-sr6br
    @Donald-sr6br หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you sir for your service

  • @3172bees
    @3172bees หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    God bless you

  • @Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.
    @Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq. 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This man is a testament to how men can be brave and self-sacrificing and still be naïvely idealistic about the nature of war and human tribal instinct. I bet he believes that Germany just woke up one day and decided to declare war on America, that Japan had no valid reason to strike Pearl Harbor, and that democracy works and his vote counts.
    I commend his sacrifice but, I condemn his willful ignorance. FDR gave him a grand narrative and he swallowed it, hook, line, and sinker. He really thinks that history has "good guys" and that he was one of them because his politicians told him so while sending him and his brothers to perish fighting a war they exempted their own children from.

  • @TheBent139
    @TheBent139 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That Battle of the Bulge hat. Wow! True world hero, not just American. If you were involved in that arena of combat, you have seen the worst of war. Not just the heavy weaponry but the inhumanity.
    We barely won that fight, although Naziism couldn't have survived the war much longer, for material and political reasons. But the Russians could have pushed much farther east.

  • @Glenn-m1t
    @Glenn-m1t 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    After seeing the death camps i wouldn't have taken any German prisoners period!!!

  • @reginaldmcnab3265
    @reginaldmcnab3265 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    “When this war is over we will be accused of an infinity of murder as if all men at war everywhere hadn’t behaved in the same way” The forgotten solder

    • @sasin2715
      @sasin2715 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      havent heard about the american organized network of death and labor camps yet

    • @reginaldmcnab3265
      @reginaldmcnab3265 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You haven’t heard about them using weapons of mass destruction against civilians
      They called their concentration camps inter-camps
      And you haven’t heard about wide area bombing
      And you haven’t heard of the book “Other Losses”
      Vietnam 🇻🇳 agent orange carpet bombing…..

  • @iamsyntact
    @iamsyntact หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Canada: "you guys are taking prisoners?"

  • @medicchester
    @medicchester 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    No way 1st ID surrendered. Proabably, to this day, at 1st ID are taught not to be taken to prisoners. We all had emergency GPS bouys too. In case we're taken captive.

  • @johngrider4617
    @johngrider4617 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My uncle was captured close to Bastogne put n a pow camp damn near beaten to death and almost starved to death

  • @canadiannuclearman
    @canadiannuclearman 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    an interesting story how about Canadian soldiers looking after German soldiers who were a part of artillery they treated them well with plenty of food and water Then a truck came by to drop off some more German soldiers they were wearing an SS uniform the Canadian soldiers shut them on the spot. after the Canadians pointed to the dead SS soldiers and said to the German artillery unit and said swinehound

  • @gilbertcaine9227
    @gilbertcaine9227 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    God bless you Sir.

  • @AlexMayer1981
    @AlexMayer1981 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    My neighbor was a us gi hunting Nazi war criminals. He said 60% of the SS were not German, but rather international volunteers, including a few from allied nations.

  • @Cruiser777
    @Cruiser777 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    God bless sometimes you have to eradicate evil

    • @makeuthink2120
      @makeuthink2120 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The days of Anglo evil are numbered.

  • @user-io1rk2cu8d
    @user-io1rk2cu8d หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Well said and never held accountable😮

    • @JeremiahColter
      @JeremiahColter หลายเดือนก่อน

      No they all were, even lots of innocent germans were killed because of liars like the man in the video

    • @scooternc95
      @scooternc95 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@JeremiahColter what lie did he tell?

  • @7125Mhz
    @7125Mhz วันที่ผ่านมา

    RESPECT.

  • @stevencurrie1540
    @stevencurrie1540 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember a couple of teachers from middle school that fought in Second World War. To be exact the Germans one never expresses who they were he in away had respect for German soldiers