More like the Russians, doesn't matter if it were the Soviets at the time, Napoleon also tried to invade Russia and failed, no country managed to conquer imperial Russia, the Soviets failed in Afghanistan, they had mass conscription and strict discipline, soldiers that retreated were killed in WWII, their losses were the greatest of any combatent country. They were helped by the Nazis' diversion of troops as well. Regime was still atrocious.
Not just Hitler. With him the vast majority of the Germans because since 1936 at the latest the vast majority of Germans were supporters of the German Nazi government and thus they were Nazis!
@@aselek777 Putin haves so much resources in Siberia and all Russia teritory and oil gas in Caucasus and Russia as the second strongest country cannot lose this war. This war will last for 4-5 years and nothing will change and there will be only remains of dead bodies.
@@anthonyaguirretorres3540 see first conquer later . The same as paris , a city to see and the bonus was to conquer it .Many places are not worth seeing , but Moscow and Paris are not in this category .
@Иван Дамянов they would have too. The US gave them billions of dollars worth of army equipment. Forced industry is inferior to "freedom" industry, you need to keep the people happy and it's insane that the east never figured that out.
@@mrvk39 its decisive becouse it was recieved in the most crutial moment before soviet factories behind ural started working, of course later shippments didnt matter as much
@@DirtyWorkzNL this is true, but STILL even for 1941, it was a small fraction of Soviet war output. It was important to the Soviet war effort, don't get me wrong. But, it wasn't the reason or even one of main reasons for victory.. that's going too far.
There is a theory that well organized army is to lose every long War. Because well organized systems are bad in chaos. Motirized Gernman army against Russian mud... German units stopped and waiting for new command to come when commanding officer killed or destination reached...
@@ljubastojanovic608 To some extent, if they guy on top is incompetent. German Blitzkrieg required fast decision making and rapid action. It was unsuitable for long wars and vast terrain. After early victories, Hitler who relied on intuition started stalling. The bad weather and Russian experience finally caught up. An effective army needs to empower its junior officers and soldiers to take initiative and use creativity in chaotic situations. Ironically, at the beginning of the war, the German soldiers were empowered and the Russians lacked initiative, but by the end, this situation was reversed.
My grandfather was Austrian and forced into the German army as they did with many Austrian men, whether they supported Hitler or not. My family never saw my grandfather again after he was taken away with the German army. Robert Ungar Wieringer simply vanished from this earth during WW2. It haunted my mother until she died that we could never find any information on what happened to him.
Alexander Werth (1901-1969), a British journalist, was also present among the crowd of curious people and suddenly he saw a mother standing nearby with her daughter on her shoulders. And because there wasn't much talking in that neighborhood then, he heard the girl asking her mother something. And this is exactly what the girl asked her mother: “Mommy, are these the people who kill daddy?” The mother then looked at the Germans but she did not answer her daughter's question. Instead, she started crying and hugged her child.
So sad . Germany has a lot to answer for. They do seem impervious to human feelings , even todays modern Germans have no sense of this! The EU is run by them today ,which is an outrage,!
@Censored-Comrade My great grandfather also fought against Germany. Only to have communism imposed on him when he returned home. Russia isn't welcome here. Bulgaria for Bulgarians!
@Censored-Comrade Am I now? I'm not a politician, so I'm not trying to impose anything. Also there are other ideologies and systems of government besides fascism and communism. You'd be surprised.
Operation Bagration the biggest German defeat, the second being the second battle of France the third being Stalingrad. Bagration and France happened at the same time though. You could argue, however, that the biggest defeat was the final capitulation and also that the failure of Barbarossa in 1941 to knock out Russia meant that the war was then almost unwinable.
Are you talking about Operation Overlord? I can object! The main defeats of Germany are the Battle of Stalingrad and the Kursk Bulge, not Bagration and D-Day
@@KaiserAvG the Kursk Bulge or Operation Citadel wasn’t a defeat as such the Germans probably killed more Russians and destroyed more of their equipment than the Russians did on Germans but it knocked out both armies offensive abilities for a while and the Russians by this time had a far bigger industry so they recovered quicker. Bagration was a far bigger defeat than Stalingrad the Russians destroyed the German army facing them.
@@alexbowman7582 It's not about who lost how much or who recovered faster… As a result of the defeat at Stalingrad, the Germans were unable to reach the oil regions of the Caucasus, and as a result of the Battle of Kursk, they lost the initiative and stopped carrying out any offensive actions. Operation Bagration did not solve anything, since it was thanks to Stalingrad and the Battle of Kursk that it was possible to form an anti-Hitler coalition, because if the Germans had won in Stalingrad or near Prokhorovka, would the allies have been able to refrain from a separate peace with Hitler?
The German planners needed their forces to seize the food and resources of some 30 million Russians and others on their way east, because they couldn't supply it all from home. The figure of '20 million' Russian dead may not be an exaggeration.
imagine the national pride they must have had being able to push back an entire army after almost the brink of defeat the soviets must have have the morale of gods at this point
Nope, the soviets were forced to fight, if they didn’t Stalin would order their deaths, so for them it was either not fight and be killed or fight and maybe they won’t be killed
@@isaiahnavarro8268 that´s exactly what happened! Millions of ARMED people (armed with tanks, rockets and other heavy artillery) were threatened by... hundreds in the NKVD and barrier troops, with their rifles and machine guns. You are a very smart young man.
The amount of death and destruction the German army brought to the peoples of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, & Poland, I’m utterly shocked at the restraint shown by the Russian people. Most Westerners do not know about the horrors that the German army caused on the Eastern front.
@@HedserWijbenga I also agree that the red army committed mass rape on a huge scale, but that is the worst of what they did. On the other hand you had the Nazis who committed mass rape, mas genocide and left Eastern European cities in ruin.
@@HedserWijbenga It was Nazi policy which stated that all food should be confiscated from the people and exported to the German Reich and under General Plan A, the Nazi high command predicted at a minimum 20 million Soviet people would be starved by their plan. Obviously the Soviet Communist leadership under Stalin was brutal and filled with murder & starvation, but at least under Stalin the Soviet people had a much better chance of surviving where as under the Nazis, the people of Eastern Europe where regarded as "subhuman" and where therefore marked for forced labor or where to be marked for starvation. By the way, I'm not a Stalin apologist, as I believe both Stalin, Hitler, & Mao were some of the most evil men in all of history. At the end of the day the Nazi army were the bad guys while the Red Army were the good guys who liberated a vast majority of Europe including most of the concentration camps. That's a fact!!!!!!!!
@@HedserWijbenga I wish the red army totally looted Berlin, rape and enslave the women and butcher the German men. The German public got off lightly after the war as if they had nothing to do with the Nazis' rise to power, genocide, medical experiments. The Soviet army should have gone all out on them.
@@fariborzhaftar8111 The russian prisoners of war in Germany were nearly all starved to death in the millions. No wonder the russians did the same to the germans in the end...
@@johanvandermeulen9696 this is absolutely not true. Soviets were experiencing far more severe food shortages than the Germans all the way up until 1945. Entire Soviet Union was suffering from malnutrition. Prisoners weren't "Bolshevik", they were human beings, in vast majority belonging to no political party.
When I was child I saw an old german guy with his daughter crying next to a public bathroom (it's an unique public bathroom specifically in Muslim countries).Then we were aware of that why he was crying.He said that he was POW and was made reconstruct the bathroom until the last days of his captivity
Farida Abbasov. Plenty of German and Japanese pows were involved in construction works in Soviets Central Asian countries. But still they were luckier than those who were sen to Siberia. Central Aia was always warm, a lot of food with very friendly population. Maybe some were in your country Azerbajan also.
Frankly speaking, both the Moscow citizens and the German POWs show admirable behavior. The former are remarkably restrained, nobody is seen abusing or cursing savagely, although one can imagine how angry they are inside. The latter, though defeated and dejected, march on in a disciplined and dignified manner, as is expected of soldiers irrespective of their race or political belief.
Soviets fed them with laxatives before parade, that's why they had to clean the streets. There was no any sign of dignity whatsoever in this parade or in this war at all
@@МихаилСавельев-ч9с lol 😂 why have 60,000 people shiting on the streets. It's not india. Could you provide a source. This sounds to comical to be true.
The fate of each German commander mentioned by the narrator (in order): Lt. General Müller: Became an anti-nazi upon being captured and a leader of National Committee for a Free Germany while in captivity. He was released in 1946 and lived until 1961 (age 66), with a career as a politician in east Germany. Maj. General Hamann: Executed in 1945 for war crimes committed in Bobruisk after the Minsk trials. Maj. General Von Erdmannsdorff: Executed in 1946 for war crimes after the Minsk trials. Maj. General Klemmt: Held in captivity until 1955. Died in 1971 (age 73) General Völckers: Died in captivity in 1946 General Gollwitzer: Convicted of war crimes and held captive until 1955. Survived and lived until 1977 (age 87). Maj. General Engle: Fate unknown Maj. General Schmit: Fate unknown Despite the few executions, the generals were treated quite well. The worst fates were reserved for the common and conscripted regular soldiers of the wehrmacht. Starved, frozen, tormented and worked to death. Vanished from the face of the earth after being sent to the Russian front, never known by there families of what happened to them.
my german wife's uncle was captured in 1943, he did not return to Germany until 1955 a broken man. For many Americans,like my dad, WWII was fun, travel, getting away from his parents, and especially in France not facing the racism he faced at home, but for so many in Europe it was such a tragedy. My wife tells me of her family all males had died either in WWI or died or imprisoned still after WWII, educated, middle class only women left, going to the forests to gather acorns to eat and try to make flower out of.
That was because prior to the captured Germans being paraded on said streets, they were fed cabbage soup that induced massive diarrhea - and they had no where to relieve themselves whilst on “parade” - so the streets needed to be “sanitized” after the Germans marched through
Western media would call it now "Evacuation of German army after completing their objectives" I hope Azov prisoners will walk whe same way. Russian army has got already 4000+ ukr.pows
1944 - the British Empire was the biggest Empire ever existed, 25 % of the worl-population was part of it. The Britains regarded the Germans as a danger to their empire and wanted to destroy them in two world wars. they finally made it - but they also destroyed their own empire
My grandfather served in the Wehrmacht 58th Infantry Division, Unteroffizier Otto Schmidt he fought in the east front and survived the war. He sadly passed away in 2010
@@jakubleman6208 you may see it that way, I saw him as a great human being and a proud German. It’s sad to see a lot of people called him that, he was 18 and entered to serve his country
Yep, tens of thousands of young German soldiers, many of whom have just been drafted on their 18th birthday were sent to Stalingrad during it's final months, resulting in forced kids being in-prisoned and enslaved for the rest of their short lives in a Siberian camp where they froze or starved to death. It's sad really, so many kids died for nothing
@@dustywoood agree..senseless..only doing what the crazed leaders told them! The hate between both countries was instilled in them..very sad..I don't know which war was worse..WW1 or WW2..Equal..just in different ways..the latter having more sophisticated weapons yet the first was such a death sentence using trenches!!! Good day to you!
@@darlenewells3309 Totally agreed, and on the other hand of the stick the Germans were shooting Russian Soldiers / villagers shortly after their capture - so sad! I'm glad to be born in a generation where we can get pizzas delivered to our footstep while binge-watching TV shows!
@@dustywoood ....while the next war mongering US-president (except Carter and Trump within the last 9 decades) took office. Eat your pizza and enjoy watching again GIs send around the globe to start new conflicts
@@uwepomeranus3137 Yup, I'll do that lad. Thankfully I live in a country that doesn't spend awful amounts of tax payers dollars on military personnel and excessively expensive vehicles to operate in theaters of war across the globe - whilst using extremely sophisticated machinery to effectively bomb and destroy civilians in other countries where the everyday citizen that pays for this doesn't see the damage that's been caused. Instead, I'll continue to live a life in New Zealand where I'm not going to die of COVID or means of war. Why should I care about American GI's that are volunteers that enter the service? Who asked them to participate? I certainly didn't, and I certainly couldn't care less about those that volunteer to put themselves into those positions. Merely expressing my condolences towards both German and Soviet civilians that were forcefully drafted into a war and as a result of capture they were exterminated or exploited to promote the ideologies of those that captured these poor people for political means. Sorry if I offended you, American - but Americans lost little in this war compared to those in Europe and Asia. These were the real victims, not volunteers.
Few years before, in 1939 Josef & Adolf had honeymoon trip to Poland. Churchill predicted that this marriage will not have happy ending. You can't conquer Russian heart with German tanks.
Normal people don’t summon their army to invade other countries. Germany had a crazy leader....the man was not normal and he undermined all his Generals. Not normal behavior for a country’s leader.
They knew it peferctly well and even so preferred surrendering than a sure death. Fact is that most of german prisioners to soviets survived, actually it was all East Germany that was prisioners of soviets and survived and ate and when to shool and to Olympcs in the next years. Soviet prisioners of germans never even had a chance.
@@samsum3738 you can look at historic archives. 2 out of 3 Germans survived Soviet captivity (and in 1944 that number was far higher than in 1941-1942).
@@Alvar2001 There's 90k Axis troops capture by Soviet in Stalingrad, and eventually only 5k people be able return to Germany, the fact is Soviet just as brutal as Nazi, do some research before you supprot communist.
@@itisprofile but not all of those soldiers were nazis. Many of them are just fighting for their motherland, not for the nazis. They were in the army because they didn't want to die or took to concentration camps. (Sorry for my bad english i'm german)
@@itisprofile All the countries that Germany was fighting against were not exactly champion of human rights. Britain and US were also racist countries and had no problem with killing and expoliting non-white people. France was colonizing Algeria by settling French people there. In 1950s, when Algerians wanted their country back , France massacred 2-3 million Algerians. Soviet was responsible of killing 20-30 million people especially during Stalin era.
Interesting that while in 1944 the German war "looked" lost, it still wasn't decided for sure - the dying croc could still strike with his tail, theoretically at least - i suspect the Russians could have shamed them much more but maybe (maybe) they were still bit cautious how to treat them (also considering the Germans had many Russian prisoners in their own hands too, and maybe it wasn't still clear what a massacre was going on there). This parade still looks civil, somehow
The Russians disowned their troops who'd been captured by the Germans: they weren't supposed to have surrendered, despite the bad leadership that had trapped millions of them in German hands.
We were(and are) not a barbarians. We have a police and all of those POW transportation rarely had an incidents with locals. Moreover - at the end of the war, USSR POW camps had at least basic food and medical supplies so it didnt mean death like in 1942(when the whole country was starving and POWs had a minimal food). People were busy to survive in a ruined country rather than attack German POW who were guarded by the police.
@@postgradsibstud9321 sorry, just one point - I didn't think of being barbarians or anything - at all - but just of the hatred and revenge that the destruction policy of the German army must have caused. If anything, I would say they, and not the Russians, were the barbarians. I'm from Italy but from the Alps near France where the war 1943-45 was terrible. The Nazis for revenge against Italy (which had nothing to do with the feeling of most people, we had partisans and even Russian partisans with us along with English etc. and for that matter, even a few few Germans who got sick of the war they'd been dragged into. And brigades of every political party). And the hatred the civilians in my area had against the Nazis and (at that moment) German army, was very hard. I love Russia and its culture as my favourite! And (nowadays) also German and every literature and culture, so just much much peace and respect to each and every (good) people :)
@@dorianblue4229 People were too exhausted to do the revenge or any attack towards POWs. There were no anarchy on Soviet controlled territory.Moreover it was a martial law and any kind of disobeyence could end very bad.People could be easily fined just because being late on work.People worked 12 hour shifts to reconstruct the country/supply the front. The discipline was good. So if the police say not to attack the POWs - theywont be atacked. Also keep in mind Moscow was never occupied and had pretty minor damage because it was near the frontline only in late 1941. Three years later it became almost the same safe city as it was before the war because the front was driven 1000s km away. Some kind of anarchy could be in Belarus because of widespread partisan movement and horrific German policy there but it was quickly back to order because the regular troops maintained it and partisans were incorporated into police.
German Werhmacht ...In June 1941during Operation Barbarossa..... we shall march along Moscow's streets as victors by December 1941...Russians ...nyet!no you won't ... you shall march in 1944 as prisoners of war!
The Russians fought well and defended their country (at a terrible price). However, its hard to see how Britain could have been worse if they didn't fight the war, or fought and lost. Everything that happened to the British after the war fits only a defeated nation. They virtually gave away their freedom and their entire country to outsiders with a worse form fascism
А еще говорят, что немцы не были в Москве. Оказывается были. И даже маршировали. Правда немного не в том качестве в каком они хотели. Ну да пусть скажут спасибо, что все-таки посмотрели Москву не в бинокль.
@@edwil111 And...…..so what's your point Ed, after they re-built Russian cities the Russians should've retired them to their Gulags and or made into test subjects of their Chem/Bio weapons manufacturing, its the least the Russian could've done.
These German Generals didn't die with their men. They look very clean & well fed unlike their men. It's all about to go bad for these German prisoners. 90,000 marched off to the gulag. Only 1 in 10 made it back to Germany.
@@chanoss2814 As soon they crossed USSR border and start killing all of them became criminals and beasts. The same goes for USA soldiers in Vietnam or Iraq. They were humans and individuals (most of them like You and me, I agree) only in Berlin or NY.
@@felipedeanjou1804 Y qué estaban en guerra contra tantos países porque buscaron la guerra activamente y, sorpresivamente, quien busca problemas los encuentra.
My grandfather was captured with the 6th army at Stalingrad, he was in the 44th infantry division. He lost 80 pounds during captivity and many deaths occured in his pow camp of malnutrition in complete disregard of the Geneva convention. He became one of the few survivors to finally return to Germany in the mid 1950s where he ultimately lived a long peaceful life The Russians underestimated his strength.
It was horrable at Stalingrad if I would have been Pau.lus is I don't care what Hitler. Said I would have save. my men I would got out before they got trapped
ORLY?Now read about how Russian POWs in German captivity were mistreated.There were no "malnutrition" there were extermination and no food at all. And our civilians were treated in a same way. And I dont even talk about the Jews, you are perfectly know what did Germans do with them. You name us a "subhumans" and try to vanish from the Earth. You underestimated our strenth. P.S. Your grandfather should thank us that we feed German POWs while most of our people were starving.
@@postgradsibstud9321 Actually more russian soliders were more often feed by foreign western armies than russians. The bad part about this is that this is why so many millions of brave russian solidrs that fought the germans into western europe were arrested and put into gulags. Stalin didnt want the armies to come back and tell of the wonderful" life in the west. By wonderful, i simply mean they were feed and given basic human rights. The russain solider were arrested under article 58 in the criminal code, you can look it up. I cant remember the exact section inside the article that allowed for the arresting of soldiers. this is not any propaganda. You can look the code up yourself
@@mezajesus8109 Lolwut?)85% of Russian POW died in German camps because of total mistreatment and extermination. Even in GULAG conditions were better than in German POW camps because Soviets at least feed the inmates but not exterminate them in mass. Also inmates from GULAG were released after their term ended because it was rarely a life imprisonment. All your propaganda about "Stalin killed millions of Soviet soldiers" and "Soviet POWs in German camps were well fed" are face a little obstacle - there are millions veterans who returned from the "West" alive(and even most of former POWs) and there are a lot of British and US evidence about German mistreatment towards Soviet POWs documented and presented at Nurenberg trials.
So what Mike, if you're British or American they were your enemies, why do you give a sh*t about what happened to them. Does the mistreatment of Nazis turn you into a SJW or something?
Так Вторая Мировая это и есть война объединённого Запада против России в два этапа, на первом Гитлеру под ружьё поставили всю Европу и её промышленность, а на втором всей массой пошли на Россию. И только когда стало понятно, что Россия перемелет всю эту массу, то начали лавировать, чтобы и рыбку съесть и на ... сесть.
@@teslannovacic3207 Понятно :) Никакого понятия нет. Чё тогда чушь молотишь? Распространение провокационной клеветы это и есть один из способов фашизма. Так что первый ранг ты фашиста заслужил.
@@companyoffreeww2diggers377 Ну, я на самом деле и НЕ думаю, что всё так просто :) Это всего лишь отдельный импульс для коррекции курса в понимании. А чтобы достичь настоящей простоты охватив всю сложность, вначале надо прояснить все понятия и представления. Задача не для данной площадки :)
Have we not yet learnt the lessons from our history we are one race the human race passengers on the mother ship planet earth which we all need to protect from pollution and destruction in order to survive
Listen, it's not funny anymore. The percentage of those who returned from russian camps was way higher, than from those, who survived german ones. And as for scary Siberia: most of the POWs either repaired roads in the cities they destroyed or worked in the fields. In my hometown of Petrosawodsk german POWs have built very good roads, paved ways, that were in perfect shape until middle of 90s.
@@burkanov Yes, Russian POWs had the lowest survival rate in German hands. But at least the Germans didn’t imprison German soldiers that surrendered. That’s
@Nastasiya Russians are largely clueless about what led up to the war. Hitler and Stalin were both invading and occupying neighboring countries, they were the same, they should have suffered the same fate. And not many Germans seem to act like victims, most are overly remorseful, to a point that it’s unhealthy.
@@sagarpathak1485 Well, the "ordinary" crimes of a war criminal, mass deportation, atrocities against civilians and so on. 1:00 Generalleutnant Vinzenz Müller, changed the fronts and helped to built up new Eastgerman Military the "National People´s Army".
@@dankwartdenkhardt5714 General Vinzenz Muller, was He allowed to retain certain traditions of the Wehrmacht like Jackboots, goose step marching and a very smart uniform. unlike the the West Germans who looked like Bus conductors
The German prisoners who fell into the hands of the Western allies were tried in courts in Nuremberg to determine their degree of guilt and see if they should pay heavy penalties or not, instead the vast majority of Germans who were prisoners on the eastern front were taken to forced labor camps in Siberia where they died, very few would return to Germany. There were cases of German prisoners who were shown to have helped Jews and therefore Western authorities and even Israel requested their release and Stalin did not want to release them, this is the case of the second rank who helped save "the pianist" Spilman, from which it was made a very blockbuster movie.
"What would you do if Germans marched victoriously through Moscow, and your own town, city or village?" Well chief, I'd probably be a pretty normal day seeing as I am German
The reason you see the water trucks hosing down the street after the "parade" is because the Germans were kept without food for several days and then, on the day of the parade given a greasy cabbage soup. The result was predictable - massive diarrhea, done of course to further humiliate the Germans.
No, this is not true. You can easily see that the streets were absolutely clean before the trucks. This was especially made to show that Nazis are filth! And that even the nazi footsteps were washed away from our sacred Capital Moscow.
@@ГенаТкаченко-ж3п в той стране были только «люди» , но не родилось в ней ни единого человека способного отделить себя от толпы, ведь сама идеология комунизма противоречит личности.
"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals."
"Wir haben den Kampf gegen das Judentum jahrelang geführt und wir haben uns in Äußerungen ergangen, die furchtbar sind. Tausend Jahre werden vergehen und diese Schuld von Deutschland nicht wegnehmen." ― Hans Frank, "Schlächter von Polen"
wtf ofcourse they are not throwing food when they have little of it are you really that dumb? They humiliated them in many, by far worse ways, than just throwing food at them.
Hitler's last famous words , ;" You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down " , referring to the Soviet Union .
The average german soldier was no different than the average russian, british, or american soldier. They grew up in their respective societies, and when told it was their duty to defend their nations, they stepped forward as soldiers have throughout human history.
@@mirekp7471 The German government thru it's fake news media convinced the public that Poland had attacked Germany. So, in the eye's of the misinformed German public they were defenders not aggressors.
@@williamstone4334 imagine. Infact Germany choreographed the scenes to justify the invasion of Poland. And it's citizens believed out of propaganda.Nosense!
Still respect for German Army, Best soldiers at that time... Hitler was fool and worst in strategy.. Better focusing in German development than attack other countries.
Those German officers look grim - as grim as others who witnessed the May Day military parade in Moscow in 1940 and never thought they would ever get so far into Russia as they did.
That wasn’t right. The war itself wasn’t right but you don’t send 100,000 troops to there deaths and most never came back. So sad. War is hell. Pure Hell.
He didn’t send 100k he sent more than 1 million to fight the soviets but about 100k were made prisoners the rest die or retreat but most of them still die in the end.
Zhukov murdered scores of his own generals if they were even remotely critical of his agenda. Not only that he murdered anyone, not just Germans even Russians, who got in his way to Berlin.
I don't and I wouldn't feel sorry for those poor men forced\lied to by Nazi party. Every man chooses his fate himself. It might be a hard and cruel choice in hard and cruel times, but no one could steal or lose that choice.
Hitler barely escapes with his life after a bomb exploded at his headquarters. At this point hitler is hanging his generals and taking military advice from astrologers and mystics, it's a new battle doctrine " war by horoscope"
Adolph Hilter: All will be fine I'll have you out in no time Generals. Generals: Huh!? How!? Adolph Hilter: For I have Stalin's son... Generals: ERIKA!!! Stalin: I am not exchanging a Lieutenant for a General!!! Adolph Hilter: @*#%!?
@@laverdajota8089 Lol. The UK were the ones who single handedly destroyed the German Navy and destroyed any Luftwaffe planes who tried to enter British airspace. The UK could've done it on their own. Also Stalin admitted that without the Heavy Land lease from the US they would've likely lost the war.
they wanted to march in moscow and soviets gave them this opportunity what a great people
star bucks defending genocidal soviets
“Enjoyed the sightseeing? Great, now lemme show you Siberia... A wonderful place.”
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More like the Russians, doesn't matter if it were the Soviets at the time, Napoleon also tried to invade Russia and failed, no country managed to conquer imperial Russia, the Soviets failed in Afghanistan, they had mass conscription and strict discipline, soldiers that retreated were killed in WWII, their losses were the greatest of any combatent country. They were helped by the Nazis' diversion of troops as well. Regime was still atrocious.
@@leonardos2925 Prussia in 1612
"Hitler promise a parade in Moscow, and Stalin organized it" - Russian joke
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@Johnny Angel Shut up.
@@jesuschrist872 Why or WHO?
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Hitler: we will reach moscow!
Hitler in 1944: *not like this wtf*
Not just Hitler. With him the vast majority of the Germans because since 1936 at the latest the vast majority of Germans were supporters of the German Nazi government and thus they were Nazis!
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Putin in 2022: we will reach Kiev in 3 days! Putin in 2023: not like this wtf
@@aselek777 Putin haves so much resources in Siberia and all Russia teritory and oil gas in Caucasus and Russia as the second strongest country cannot lose this war. This war will last for 4-5 years and nothing will change and there will be only remains of dead bodies.
@@aselek777 Putin never said that. You're quoting Mark Milley's briefing from February 5th 2022
They wanted to see Moscow . Be careful what you wish for .
Exceptional comment
@@cybersurf5 Thank you .
Nope. They wanted to conquer Moscow
@@anthonyaguirretorres3540 see first conquer later . The same as paris , a city to see and the bonus was to conquer it .Many places are not worth seeing , but Moscow and Paris are not in this category .
They saw Moscow, Dreams comes true!
Siberia next destination
@Иван Дамянов they would have too. The US gave them billions of dollars worth of army equipment. Forced industry is inferior to "freedom" industry, you need to keep the people happy and it's insane that the east never figured that out.
@@CJM-rg5rt it represented less than 5% of Soviet military output though, to put it in perspective.... hardly a decisive difference.
@@mrvk39 oh damn. I thought that's why they changed so much after the winter war. The finnish must just be immortal warlords.
@@mrvk39 its decisive becouse it was recieved in the most crutial moment before soviet factories behind ural started working, of course later shippments didnt matter as much
@@DirtyWorkzNL this is true, but STILL even for 1941, it was a small fraction of Soviet war output. It was important to the Soviet war effort, don't get me wrong. But, it wasn't the reason or even one of main reasons for victory.. that's going too far.
Konstantin Rokossovsky (Operation Bagration) stated that the German army is a machine, and machines can be broken
That's why they fought good until it was to much to handle, they literally broke..
His such a good tank general
Great general.
There is a theory that well organized army is to lose every long War. Because well organized systems are bad in chaos. Motirized Gernman army against Russian mud... German units stopped and waiting for new command to come when commanding officer killed or destination reached...
@@ljubastojanovic608 To some extent, if they guy on top is incompetent. German Blitzkrieg required fast decision making and rapid action. It was unsuitable for long wars and vast terrain. After early victories, Hitler who relied on intuition started stalling. The bad weather and Russian experience finally caught up.
An effective army needs to empower its junior officers and soldiers to take initiative and use creativity in chaotic situations. Ironically, at the beginning of the war, the German soldiers were empowered and the Russians lacked initiative, but by the end, this situation was reversed.
My grandfather was Austrian and forced into the German army as they did with many Austrian men, whether they supported Hitler or not. My family never saw my grandfather again after he was taken away with the German army. Robert Ungar Wieringer simply vanished from this earth during WW2. It haunted my mother until she died that we could never find any information on what happened to him.
What would he say in response to inglorious basterds has he ever seen it?
I'm sorry, may he rest in peace.
Nah liar most austrians support hitler and served freely
If he fought for the nazis, then he deserved whatever happened to him.
@@dariusz1594 what would the inglorious basterds say?
Alexander Werth (1901-1969), a British journalist, was also present among the crowd of curious people and suddenly he saw a mother standing nearby with her daughter on her shoulders. And because there wasn't much talking in that neighborhood then, he heard the girl asking her mother something.
And this is exactly what the girl asked her mother: “Mommy, are these the people who kill daddy?” The mother then looked at the Germans but she did not answer her daughter's question. Instead, she started crying and hugged her child.
So sad . Germany has a lot to answer for. They do seem impervious to human feelings , even todays modern Germans have no sense of this! The EU is run by them today ,which is an outrage,!
@Censored-Comrade My great grandfather also fought against Germany. Only to have communism imposed on him when he returned home. Russia isn't welcome here. Bulgaria for Bulgarians!
@Censored-Comrade Am I now? I'm not a politician, so I'm not trying to impose anything. Also there are other ideologies and systems of government besides fascism and communism. You'd be surprised.
*"Hans! Hans! Look we are finally in Moscow!"*
*"Shut the fck up, Reiner"*
Operation Bagration the biggest German defeat, the second being the second battle of France the third being Stalingrad. Bagration and France happened at the same time though. You could argue, however, that the biggest defeat was the final capitulation and also that the failure of Barbarossa in 1941 to knock out Russia meant that the war was then almost unwinable.
"unwinable" (?)
Are you talking about Operation Overlord?
I can object! The main defeats of Germany are the Battle of Stalingrad and the Kursk Bulge, not Bagration and D-Day
@@KaiserAvG the Kursk Bulge or Operation Citadel wasn’t a defeat as such the Germans probably killed more Russians and destroyed more of their equipment than the Russians did on Germans but it knocked out both armies offensive abilities for a while and the Russians by this time had a far bigger industry so they recovered quicker. Bagration was a far bigger defeat than Stalingrad the Russians destroyed the German army facing them.
@@alexbowman7582 It's not about who lost how much or who recovered faster… As a result of the defeat at Stalingrad, the Germans were unable to reach the oil regions of the Caucasus, and as a result of the Battle of Kursk, they lost the initiative and stopped carrying out any offensive actions. Operation Bagration did not solve anything, since it was thanks to Stalingrad and the Battle of Kursk that it was possible to form an anti-Hitler coalition, because if the Germans had won in Stalingrad or near Prokhorovka, would the allies have been able to refrain from a separate peace with Hitler?
@@alexbowman7582 Without Stalingrad and the Battle of Kursk, there would be no Bagration and Overlord
All you need to do is read "Generalplan Ost" and you will realize why the Soviets fought back with such ferocity.
The German planners needed their forces to seize the food and resources of some 30 million Russians and others on their way east, because they couldn't supply it all from home. The figure of '20 million' Russian dead may not be an exaggeration.
Everybody did but even if the soviets didn’t want to fight under evil dictator Stalin they didn’t have no other choice.
Yup it was a war for survival of the Slavic people.
@@None-zc5vg Have you seen your humiliated ancestors - *real Aryans superhumans* :))) 😊😊
Alas, the Russian did not know about this. hahaha:)
@@robpalac1603 Have you seen your humiliated ancestors - *real Aryans superhumans* :))) 😊😊
Alas, the Russian did not know about this. hahaha:)
imagine the national pride they must have had being able to push back an entire army after almost the brink of defeat the soviets must have have the morale of gods at this point
they knew they were on the right side of history
@@dodgro8342 everyone wanted a piece oft he nazis during this time
Well the Nazis were fighting the entire worlds superpowers at the time lol The German army was by far the superior power
Nope, the soviets were forced to fight, if they didn’t Stalin would order their deaths, so for them it was either not fight and be killed or fight and maybe they won’t be killed
@@isaiahnavarro8268 that´s exactly what happened! Millions of ARMED people (armed with tanks, rockets and other heavy artillery) were threatened by... hundreds in the NKVD and barrier troops, with their rifles and machine guns. You are a very smart young man.
The amount of death and destruction the German army brought to the peoples of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, & Poland, I’m utterly shocked at the restraint shown by the Russian people. Most Westerners do not know about the horrors that the German army caused on the Eastern front.
What horrors? The reds were the real horror, also against their own peoples.
@@HedserWijbenga I also agree that the red army committed mass rape on a huge scale, but that is the worst of what they did. On the other hand you had the Nazis who committed mass rape, mas genocide and left Eastern European cities in ruin.
@@HedserWijbenga It was Nazi policy which stated that all food should be confiscated from the people and exported to the German Reich and under General Plan A, the Nazi high command predicted at a minimum 20 million Soviet people would be starved by their plan. Obviously the Soviet Communist leadership under Stalin was brutal and filled with murder & starvation, but at least under Stalin the Soviet people had a much better chance of surviving where as under the Nazis, the people of Eastern Europe where regarded as "subhuman" and where therefore marked for forced labor or where to be marked for starvation. By the way, I'm not a Stalin apologist, as I believe both Stalin, Hitler, & Mao were some of the most evil men in all of history. At the end of the day the Nazi army were the bad guys while the Red Army were the good guys who liberated a vast majority of Europe including most of the concentration camps. That's a fact!!!!!!!!
@@HedserWijbenga I wish the red army totally looted Berlin, rape and enslave the women and butcher the German men. The German public got off lightly after the war as if they had nothing to do with the Nazis' rise to power, genocide, medical experiments. The Soviet army should have gone all out on them.
@@niksur7113 you would have made a fine soldier in the ussr
"You live by the sword you will die by the sword".
@Justus Immelmann It only applies if you lose a major war which the Germans managed to do twice within the span of 27 years. Tsk...tsk..
@Justus Immelmann mainly defending what is right . Not always but in the main .
@@adamcarlo7666 germańskim arę serial world war loosers.
"Guns" in this case
90% of those who paraded here were to die in Russian camps.
Those 19 generals are so dead from inside.
They lived, however only about 5,000 soldiers from the 6th army survived to return home, the rest all died in captivity
@@fariborzhaftar8111 The russian prisoners of war in Germany were nearly all starved to death in the millions. No wonder the russians did the same to the germans in the end...
@@wolfgang2291 not the same. About 3.5 out of 5 Germans returned from captivity alive. Less than 1 in 5 of Soviets managed to do the same.
@@mrvk39 In Germany there was lack of food. They could not feed all those bolchewik prisoners. In the Sovjet-Union there was food enough.
@@johanvandermeulen9696 this is absolutely not true. Soviets were experiencing far more severe food shortages than the Germans all the way up until 1945. Entire Soviet Union was suffering from malnutrition. Prisoners weren't "Bolshevik", they were human beings, in vast majority belonging to no political party.
When I was child I saw an old german guy with his daughter crying next to a public bathroom (it's an unique public bathroom specifically in Muslim countries).Then we were aware of that why he was crying.He said that he was POW and was made reconstruct the bathroom until the last days of his captivity
Надеюсь не в немецком?
@@Dainka2002 I am sorry I don't know russian
@@fridabbasov4792 he said.
I hope not in Germany.
Farida Abbasov.
Plenty of German and Japanese pows were involved in construction works in Soviets Central Asian countries. But still they were luckier than those who were sen to Siberia. Central Aia was always warm, a lot of food with very friendly population. Maybe some were in your country Azerbajan also.
Lol
Frankly speaking, both the Moscow citizens and the German POWs show admirable behavior. The former are remarkably restrained, nobody is seen abusing or cursing savagely, although one can imagine how angry they are inside. The latter, though defeated and dejected, march on in a disciplined and dignified manner, as is expected of soldiers irrespective of their race or political belief.
Soviets fed them with laxatives before parade, that's why they had to clean the streets. There was no any sign of dignity whatsoever in this parade or in this war at all
@@МихаилСавельев-ч9с
Why did they feed them with laxatives though?
@@CollectiveDefence to humiliate
@@МихаилСавельев-ч9с
Do you have any source on this?
Something that could be read in English.
I tried searching around a bit, but didn’t find much.
@@МихаилСавельев-ч9с lol 😂 why have 60,000 people shiting on the streets. It's not india. Could you provide a source. This sounds to comical to be true.
General Muller went on to become a general in the East German army. The music played during the general listing is wide is my motherland.
He became the Deputy Defense Minister of GDR, I guess.
The fate of each German commander mentioned by the narrator (in order):
Lt. General Müller:
Became an anti-nazi upon being captured and a leader of National Committee for a Free Germany while in captivity. He was released in 1946 and lived until 1961 (age 66), with a career as a politician in east Germany.
Maj. General Hamann:
Executed in 1945 for war crimes committed in Bobruisk after the Minsk trials.
Maj. General Von Erdmannsdorff:
Executed in 1946 for war crimes after the Minsk trials.
Maj. General Klemmt:
Held in captivity until 1955. Died in 1971 (age 73)
General Völckers:
Died in captivity in 1946
General Gollwitzer:
Convicted of war crimes and held captive until 1955. Survived and lived until 1977 (age 87).
Maj. General Engle:
Fate unknown
Maj. General Schmit:
Fate unknown
Despite the few executions, the generals were treated quite well. The worst fates were reserved for the common and conscripted regular soldiers of the wehrmacht. Starved, frozen, tormented and worked to death. Vanished from the face of the earth after being sent to the Russian front, never known by there families of what happened to them.
Они попали не на курорт.
Если дорог тебе твой дом,
Где ты русским выкормлен был,
Под бревенчатым потолком,
Где ты, в люльке качаясь, плыл;
Если дороги в доме том
Тебе стены, печь и углы,
Дедом, прадедом и отцом
В нем исхоженные полы;
Если мил тебе бедный сад
С майским цветом, с жужжаньем пчел
И под липой сто лет назад
В землю вкопанный дедом стол;
Если ты не хочешь, чтоб пол
В твоем доме фашист топтал,
Чтоб он сел за дедовский стол
И деревья в саду сломал...
Если мать тебе дорога -
Тебя выкормившая грудь,
Где давно уже нет молока,
Только можно щекой прильнуть;
Если вынести нету сил,
Чтоб фашист, к ней постоем став,
По щекам морщинистым бил,
Косы на руку намотав;
Чтобы те же руки ее,
Что несли тебя в колыбель,
Мыли гаду его белье
И стелили ему постель...
Если ты отца не забыл,
Что качал тебя на руках,
Что хорошим солдатом был
И пропал в карпатских снегах,
Что погиб за Волгу, за Дон,
За отчизны твоей судьбу;
Если ты не хочешь, чтоб он
Перевертывался в гробу,
Чтоб солдатский портрет в крестах
Взял фашист и на пол сорвал
И у матери на глазах
На лицо ему наступал...
Если ты не хочешь отдать
Ту, с которой вдвоем ходил,
Ту, что долго поцеловать
Ты не смел,- так ее любил,-
Чтоб фашисты ее живьем
Взяли силой, зажав в углу,
И распяли ее втроем,
Обнаженную, на полу;
Чтоб досталось трем этим псам
В стонах, в ненависти, в крови
Все, что свято берег ты сам
Всею силой мужской любви...
Если ты фашисту с ружьем
Не желаешь навек отдать
Дом, где жил ты, жену и мать,
Все, что родиной мы зовем,-
Знай: никто ее не спасет,
Если ты ее не спасешь;
Знай: никто его не убьет,
Если ты его не убьешь.
И пока его не убил,
Ты молчи о своей любви,
Край, где рос ты, и дом, где жил,
Своей родиной не зови.
Пусть фашиста убил твой брат,
Пусть фашиста убил сосед,-
Это брат и сосед твой мстят,
А тебе оправданья нет.
За чужой спиной не сидят,
Из чужой винтовки не мстят.
Раз фашиста убил твой брат,-
Это он, а не ты солдат.
Так убей фашиста, чтоб он,
А не ты на земле лежал,
Не в твоем дому чтобы стон,
А в его по мертвым стоял.
Так хотел он, его вина,-
Пусть горит его дом, а не твой,
И пускай не твоя жена,
А его пусть будет вдовой.
Пусть исплачется не твоя,
А его родившая мать,
Не твоя, а его семья
Понапрасну пусть будет ждать.
Так убей же хоть одного!
Так убей же его скорей!
Сколько раз увидишь его,
Столько раз его и убей!
©Константин Симонов
:v
потрясающе !
my german wife's uncle was captured in 1943, he did not return to Germany until 1955 a broken man. For many Americans,like my dad, WWII was fun, travel, getting away from his parents, and especially in France not facing the racism he faced at home, but for so many in Europe it was such a tragedy. My wife tells me of her family all males had died either in WWI or died or imprisoned still after WWII, educated, middle class only women left, going to the forests to gather acorns to eat and try to make flower out of.
The biggest violation is that they cleaned the streets after the Germans walked on it XD.
Das war deutlich 🤛
@@d.4711 ?
That was because prior to the captured Germans being paraded on said streets, they were fed cabbage soup that induced massive diarrhea - and they had no where to relieve themselves whilst on “parade” - so the streets needed to be “sanitized” after the Germans marched through
@@itisprofile exactly
@@itisprofile How do you know all of these men were party members?
Ciekawe, co myśleli, spacerując w Moskwie przed narodem, który miał być ich niewolnikami.
un Teuton nazifié, n'a pas d"états d'âme
Cleaning the streets after the march through...nice touch that
Yes! I love it! And look at the faces of the superior race men walking! No goose step this time!
Had to. The prisoners had loose bowels from their one meal of boiled cabbage.
@@clovisra From arrogant goose step to bare foot shuffle ! better still make them crawl on their hands and knees.
@@minnowpd And mixed with the cabbage soup there was laxatives ,put in by the Soviets .
The hate is alive after 77 years . Keep living in the past!!!!!!
Western media would call it now "Evacuation of German army after completing their objectives"
I hope Azov prisoners will walk whe same way. Russian army has got already 4000+ ukr.pows
Они обязательно пройдут так же в Донецке
British pathė is said western media. The title isn't anything like what you said it will be. Use your brain. That's what it's for.
Germans wanted to visit Moscow but they had chosen the wrong travel agency.
Wrong Season, wrong clothing,wrong type of fuel, lack of provisions, the Reich failed its men like
Napoleon
1944 - the British Empire was the biggest Empire ever existed, 25 % of the worl-population was part of it.
The Britains regarded the Germans as a danger to their empire and wanted to destroy them in two world wars. they finally made it - but they also destroyed their own empire
thank god, gott strafe england!!
who said that?
@@pkl-n5g just google and look beyond the main stream media,.
That’s not quite how it happened is it, your very factually incorrect.
@@nortlicht can you give me a source?
Lots of good buildings were built by these fellows in the U.S.S.R. Many still stand and are used today.
Yes. I like the fact these captives endure same hardships as soviet people after war. No more, no less.
We were fair to them and get many friends.
They restored what they had broken
Siberian gulags are very comfortable and enjoyable with great food and entertainment.
Yes, indeed they are. Think of them as low budget TUI resorts that cater to German "guests."
It sucks to lose - especially a war; but only the Romans knew how to stage a real triumph...
British upbeat narration and jaunty music during "the walk of shame" comes a close second though.......
SuperNevile - True.
Do you suggest those Nazis be choked at the end?
Ken Wess - When in Rome...
David Hill - Who’s empathizing?
My grandfather served in the Wehrmacht 58th Infantry Division, Unteroffizier Otto Schmidt he fought in the east front and survived the war. He sadly passed away in 2010
Your grandfather is hero.
I respect from your old friend Japan.
Your grandfather is a war criminal
Your grandfather is a hero to me. I am glad that he lived a long life. 😁
@@jakubleman6208 you may see it that way, I saw him as a great human being and a proud German. It’s sad to see a lot of people called him that, he was 18 and entered to serve his country
@@kirurumondaiji greeting to Japan 🇯🇵
Can you just Imagine the thrill of the Russian citizens watching the huge parade of the enemy demoralized! Im sure most ended up in Siberia!
Yep, tens of thousands of young German soldiers, many of whom have just been drafted on their 18th birthday were sent to Stalingrad during it's final months, resulting in forced kids being in-prisoned and enslaved for the rest of their short lives in a Siberian camp where they froze or starved to death.
It's sad really, so many kids died for nothing
@@dustywoood agree..senseless..only doing what the crazed leaders told them! The hate between both countries was instilled in them..very sad..I don't know which war was worse..WW1 or WW2..Equal..just in different ways..the latter having more sophisticated weapons yet the first was such a death sentence using trenches!!! Good day to you!
@@darlenewells3309 Totally agreed, and on the other hand of the stick the Germans were shooting Russian Soldiers / villagers shortly after their capture - so sad!
I'm glad to be born in a generation where we can get pizzas delivered to our footstep while binge-watching TV shows!
@@dustywoood ....while the next war mongering US-president (except Carter and Trump within the last 9 decades) took office. Eat your pizza and enjoy watching again GIs send around the globe to start new conflicts
@@uwepomeranus3137 Yup, I'll do that lad. Thankfully I live in a country that doesn't spend awful amounts of tax payers dollars on military personnel and excessively expensive vehicles to operate in theaters of war across the globe - whilst using extremely sophisticated machinery to effectively bomb and destroy civilians in other countries where the everyday citizen that pays for this doesn't see the damage that's been caused.
Instead, I'll continue to live a life in New Zealand where I'm not going to die of COVID or means of war. Why should I care about American GI's that are volunteers that enter the service? Who asked them to participate? I certainly didn't, and I certainly couldn't care less about those that volunteer to put themselves into those positions.
Merely expressing my condolences towards both German and Soviet civilians that were forcefully drafted into a war and as a result of capture they were exterminated or exploited to promote the ideologies of those that captured these poor people for political means.
Sorry if I offended you, American - but Americans lost little in this war compared to those in Europe and Asia. These were the real victims, not volunteers.
Looks like they got their parade courtesy of the Red Army.
Few years before, in 1939 Josef & Adolf had honeymoon trip to Poland. Churchill predicted that this marriage will not have happy ending. You can't conquer Russian heart with German tanks.
Normal people don’t summon their army to invade other countries. Germany had a crazy leader....the man was not normal and he undermined all his Generals. Not normal behavior for a country’s leader.
@@susanurban5920 Where are from? US? GB? "Normal people don’t summon their army to invade other countries"
The cleaning trucks washing the street at the end - ultimate humiliation.
@paul typical modern nazi is a wokie such as Brittney Cooper
poor men, if they had known what awaited them they would never surrender
They knew it peferctly well and even so preferred surrendering than a sure death. Fact is that most of german prisioners to soviets survived, actually it was all East Germany that was prisioners of soviets and survived and ate and when to shool and to Olympcs in the next years. Soviet prisioners of germans never even had a chance.
They did know what awaited them, after the savagery they delivered to the Russians from June 1941.
So , you have been in that situation . Please do tell us your experiences .
@@samsum3738 you can look at historic archives. 2 out of 3 Germans survived Soviet captivity (and in 1944 that number was far higher than in 1941-1942).
@@Alvar2001 There's 90k Axis troops capture by Soviet in Stalingrad, and eventually only 5k people be able return to Germany, the fact is Soviet just as brutal as Nazi, do some research before you supprot communist.
I'd rather be dead than in those camps
If you were there, you’d get your wish.
@@itisprofile but not all of those soldiers were nazis. Many of them are just fighting for their motherland, not for the nazis. They were in the army because they didn't want to die or took to concentration camps.
(Sorry for my bad english i'm german)
What happen with them...are they back to their family at the end? Or go to gulag?
@@slametandik6084 They were sent to gulag and only 5-6 thousands of them survived it.
@@itisprofile All the countries that Germany was fighting against were not exactly champion of human rights. Britain and US were also racist countries and had no problem with killing and expoliting non-white people. France was colonizing Algeria by settling French people there. In 1950s, when Algerians wanted their country back , France massacred 2-3 million Algerians. Soviet was responsible of killing 20-30 million people especially during Stalin era.
Aftermath of Operation Bagration and the destruction of Army Group Centre.
Germans in that moment: this is not the kind of parade we imagined when we were in Moscow.
Well only 3 mill vs 20 mill maybe more
Interesting that while in 1944 the German war "looked" lost, it still wasn't decided for sure - the dying croc could still strike with his tail, theoretically at least - i suspect the Russians could have shamed them much more but maybe (maybe) they were still bit cautious how to treat them (also considering the Germans had many Russian prisoners in their own hands too, and maybe it wasn't still clear what a massacre was going on there). This parade still looks civil, somehow
True. There's a Swahili saying that, "Don't spot a soaking wet/injured lion and think it's a cat"
The Russians disowned their troops who'd been captured by the Germans: they weren't supposed to have surrendered, despite the bad leadership that had trapped millions of them in German hands.
We were(and are) not a barbarians. We have a police and all of those POW transportation rarely had an incidents with locals. Moreover - at the end of the war, USSR POW camps had at least basic food and medical supplies so it didnt mean death like in 1942(when the whole country was starving and POWs had a minimal food).
People were busy to survive in a ruined country rather than attack German POW who were guarded by the police.
@@postgradsibstud9321 sorry, just one point - I didn't think of being barbarians or anything - at all - but just of the hatred and revenge that the destruction policy of the German army must have caused. If anything, I would say they, and not the Russians, were the barbarians. I'm from Italy but from the Alps near France where the war 1943-45 was terrible. The Nazis for revenge against Italy (which had nothing to do with the feeling of most people, we had partisans and even Russian partisans with us along with English etc. and for that matter, even a few few Germans who got sick of the war they'd been dragged into. And brigades of every political party). And the hatred the civilians in my area had against the Nazis and (at that moment) German army, was very hard. I love Russia and its culture as my favourite! And (nowadays) also German and every literature and culture, so just much much peace and respect to each and every (good) people :)
@@dorianblue4229 People were too exhausted to do the revenge or any attack towards POWs.
There were no anarchy on Soviet controlled territory.Moreover it was a martial law and any kind of disobeyence could end very bad.People could be easily fined just because being late on work.People worked 12 hour shifts to reconstruct the country/supply the front.
The discipline was good. So if the police say not to attack the POWs - theywont be atacked.
Also keep in mind Moscow was never occupied and had pretty minor damage because it was near the frontline only in late 1941. Three years later it became almost the same safe city as it was before the war because the front was driven 1000s km away.
Some kind of anarchy could be in Belarus because of widespread partisan movement and horrific German policy there but it was quickly back to order because the regular troops maintained it and partisans were incorporated into police.
"white russia" I'm assuming that's referring to Belarus?
Белая (Belaya, White) Russia = Беларусь (White Russia, Belarus)
White Russia means Russian Empire
@@Frezer182 Belarus = White Rus (not Russia)
Russia is Moscovy
Ukraine and Belarus are Kievan Rus
@@toha1729 really? A resident of Belarus is a BELARUSIAN in English. You should know this! If you are Not ukranian nazis, of course
@@toha1729 Taco XD
German Werhmacht ...In June 1941during Operation Barbarossa..... we shall march along Moscow's streets as victors by December 1941...Russians ...nyet!no you won't ... you shall march in 1944 as prisoners of war!
The Werhmacht taunted the whole time that they would be home by Christmas with victory over the Soviet Union.
It's too sad to watch this film. Some of those soldiers had never supported Nazi, they were just unluckily born in the middle of the worst era.
First good and respectful comment
I feel compassion for germans. but I don't understand why they surrendered. keep fighting and beat commies!
@@westmister if they didnt surrender you us people would have nuked our asses and we didnt have soldires l4 wepons left
Yep, true both sides suffered from crazy men in charge
@@itisprofile again who are you to say that
The Russians fought well and defended their country (at a terrible price). However, its hard to see how Britain could have been worse if they didn't fight the war, or fought and lost. Everything that happened to the British after the war fits only a defeated nation. They virtually gave away their freedom and their entire country to outsiders with a worse form fascism
А еще говорят, что немцы не были в Москве. Оказывается были. И даже маршировали. Правда немного не в том качестве в каком они хотели. Ну да пусть скажут спасибо, что все-таки посмотрели Москву не в бинокль.
Azov regiment next.
The looks on their faces say it all, whereas on the US side the Nazis b like Parrrrrrty like its 1945
More than a million Germans died in Eisenhower’s camps
@@imperatorscotorum6334 Shut up.
The German soldiers had to rebuild many Russian cities.
@@edwil111 Yes, and it’s not unreasonable.
@@edwil111 And...…..so what's your point Ed, after they re-built Russian cities the Russians should've retired them to their Gulags and or made into test subjects of their Chem/Bio weapons manufacturing, its the least the Russian could've done.
3:04 Himmler sosia
Exactly my thought!
himmler from wish
100% arian
Narrated by Gaumont-British announcer E.V.H. Emmett who was doing it from the '30s into the late '50s.
These German Generals didn't die with their men. They look very clean & well fed unlike their men. It's all about to go bad for these German prisoners. 90,000 marched off to the gulag. Only 1 in 10 made it back to Germany.
90,000 only after the battle for Stalingrad , a lot more and up in Siberia and never return .
incorrect. only 6000 from those taken at stalingrad returned....generally German POW survival was a bit lower than 90%
Imagine if you were just a 17-18 year old German kid required to join the army and the next thing you know you are marching to the gulags.
The feeling is so haunting !! Honestly stalin was as cruel as Hitler .
@@CEB-AMITKUMAR He was much more cruel, Stalin was first, the Nazis had time to learn. THE SOVIET STORY on YT
I think the millions of soviet POWs from the initial encirclements that starved to death in overcrowded open camps were worse off
sure you're right as long as you were drafted to wermacht-you should go home but if you had joined ss...then it pretty much sealed your fate
And they deserved it too.
You reap what you sow.
Do the English reap for what the did to the Afrikaans, Americans for what they did to Vietnam, Russian for the Polish and and amd
@@adamchristo3082 Yes
It's a good lesson in the real life, don't start to do something, if you can't finish it.
Um no. If we all thought that way, a war once started would never end until one side was completely wiped out. This is the right wing idea of Amelek.
@@peace-now right you eliminate opposing force for an ending result
@@boriszawotski1392 "Eliminate the opposing force"? This has never been tried. I hope it never is.
@@peace-now Its been tried multiple it called entering war and killing the enemy
The force might be small or large but you fight relentlessly until you achieve
What a waste of human life
You are speaking of millions of Soviets killed by those soldiers... Nobody ask then to come armed in USSR
@@itisprofile The soldiers was people like you and me, the real Nazis were in Berlin at this time.
@@chanoss2814 As soon they crossed USSR border and start killing all of them became criminals and beasts. The same goes for USA soldiers in Vietnam or Iraq. They were humans and individuals (most of them like You and me, I agree) only in Berlin or NY.
@@ljubastojanovic608 Operation Groza. get informed, this is why the Germans attacked the USSR
@@eddy01-y1z And WWI started because of Sarajevo. Be serious. USA attacked Iraq because of mass murder weapons...
Azov Battalion being evacuated to be paraded in Red Square
Que impresionante desfile ...como sería la sensación de los soldados alemanes ante tal humillación ?
Se le quito las ganas
De desfilar por otra capital
Lucharon casí solos contra el mundo,merecen respeto y honor,lucharon hasta el final con valor
@@nicolastorres6987
Eso es un mito
Tenian de su lado italianos rumanos hungaros finlandeses y españoles ... ademas de japon
La humillación en ese momento seguramente les importaba bastante menos que un miedo tremendo a la muerte
@@felipedeanjou1804 Y qué estaban en guerra contra tantos países porque buscaron la guerra activamente y, sorpresivamente, quien busca problemas los encuentra.
No German or Axis fighter would want be in Moscow, period (unless as victor) in 1944. No future, to put it nicely.
My grandfather was captured with the 6th army at Stalingrad, he was in the 44th infantry division.
He lost 80 pounds during captivity and many deaths occured in his pow camp of malnutrition in complete disregard of the Geneva convention. He became one of the few survivors to finally return to Germany in the mid 1950s where he ultimately lived a long peaceful life
The Russians underestimated his strength.
It was horrable at Stalingrad if I would have been Pau.lus is I don't care what Hitler. Said I would have save. my men I would got out before they got trapped
ORLY?Now read about how Russian POWs in German captivity were mistreated.There were no "malnutrition" there were extermination and no food at all. And our civilians were treated in a same way. And I dont even talk about the Jews, you are perfectly know what did Germans do with them. You name us a "subhumans" and try to vanish from the Earth.
You underestimated our strenth.
P.S. Your grandfather should thank us that we feed German POWs while most of our people were starving.
@@postgradsibstud9321
Actually more russian soliders were more often feed by foreign western armies than russians. The bad part about this is that this is why so many millions of brave russian solidrs that fought the germans into western europe were arrested and put into gulags. Stalin didnt want the armies to come back and tell of the wonderful" life in the west. By wonderful, i simply mean they were feed and given basic human rights. The russain solider were arrested under article 58 in the criminal code, you can look it up. I cant remember the exact section inside the article that allowed for the arresting of soldiers. this is not any propaganda. You can look the code up yourself
@@mezajesus8109 Lolwut?)85% of Russian POW died in German camps because of total mistreatment and extermination.
Even in GULAG conditions were better than in German POW camps because Soviets at least feed the inmates but not exterminate them in mass. Also inmates from GULAG were released after their term ended because it was rarely a life imprisonment.
All your propaganda about "Stalin killed millions of Soviet soldiers" and "Soviet POWs in German camps were well fed" are face a little obstacle - there are millions veterans who returned from the "West" alive(and even most of former POWs) and there are a lot of British and US evidence about German mistreatment towards Soviet POWs documented and presented at Nurenberg trials.
He was a Germanic German "aryan superior"....lolzzz
Azov prisoners in Moscow (2022)... soon
You mean mercenaries
@@crimeo2659 dirty mercs already dead in Donetsk prison.
Germany 1941: our army will parade thru Moscow
Germany 1945: o--kayyyy.....it wasnt exactly planned this way
They were starved for three days then given cabbage soup that’s why the trucks behind them were washing the roads down to clear the crap.
So what Mike, if you're British or American they were your enemies, why do you give a sh*t about what happened to them. Does the mistreatment of Nazis turn you into a SJW or something?
They deserve this total humiliation!!!
@@georgemantzik3941 if a dog bites you , will you bite him too? No ,, war crime is crime even if its revenge
@@tanzimulhaque1011 crime could be if executed them. They didn't do it!!! They left them marcin with shits on their pants 😂😂😂😂
Do you have any source on this, i.e. that they were starved, then fed cabbage soup?
And now look at the state of the so called free West
What do you mean by this comment?
Their 1941 wish came true for marching in streets of Moscow
Did you have parade in Moscow
German soldiers: Yes but actually no
Читаю комменты и охиреваю просто. Неудивительно что на западе идея фашизма ближе идеи социализма.
Так Вторая Мировая это и есть война объединённого Запада против России в два этапа, на первом Гитлеру под ружьё поставили всю Европу и её промышленность, а на втором всей массой пошли на Россию. И только когда стало понятно, что Россия перемелет всю эту массу, то начали лавировать, чтобы и рыбку съесть и на ... сесть.
@@teslannovacic3207 И что такое "фашизм" по-твоему?
@@teslannovacic3207 Понятно :) Никакого понятия нет. Чё тогда чушь молотишь? Распространение провокационной клеветы это и есть один из способов фашизма. Так что первый ранг ты фашиста заслужил.
@@Vadim-144 эээээххх..... Если бы все былоб так проста как ты думеешь...
@@companyoffreeww2diggers377 Ну, я на самом деле и НЕ думаю, что всё так просто :)
Это всего лишь отдельный импульс для коррекции курса в понимании.
А чтобы достичь настоящей простоты охватив всю сложность, вначале надо прояснить все понятия и представления. Задача не для данной площадки :)
Have we not yet learnt the lessons from our history we are one race the human race passengers on the mother ship planet earth which we all need to protect from pollution and destruction in order to survive
And on to Siberia and an agonizing death. Better to keep fighting, I think.
They aren't be in Siberia. They worked to repair that they damaged
Они выбрали жизнь. Ты почему до сих пор живой?
Listen, it's not funny anymore. The percentage of those who returned from russian camps was way higher, than from those, who survived german ones. And as for scary Siberia: most of the POWs either repaired roads in the cities they destroyed or worked in the fields. In my hometown of Petrosawodsk german POWs have built very good roads, paved ways, that were in perfect shape until middle of 90s.
@@burkanov Yes, Russian POWs had the lowest survival rate in German hands. But at least the Germans didn’t imprison German soldiers that surrendered. That’s
@Nastasiya Russians are largely clueless about what led up to the war. Hitler and Stalin were both invading and occupying neighboring countries, they were the same, they should have suffered the same fate. And not many Germans seem to act like victims, most are overly remorseful, to a point that it’s unhealthy.
1:16 von Erdmannsdorff was hanged in 1946
What were the charges do you know?
@@sagarpathak1485 Well, the "ordinary" crimes of a war criminal, mass deportation, atrocities against civilians and so on. 1:00 Generalleutnant Vinzenz Müller, changed the fronts and helped to built up new Eastgerman Military the "National People´s Army".
@@dankwartdenkhardt5714 hey thanks for the prompt reply. Didn't knew all this.
@@dankwartdenkhardt5714 so Generalleutnant Vinzenz Müller was innocent and the other oane was full of crimes ! Tipically for soviets !
@@dankwartdenkhardt5714 General Vinzenz Muller, was He allowed to retain certain traditions of the Wehrmacht like Jackboots, goose step marching and a very smart uniform. unlike the the West Germans who looked like Bus conductors
i like how they washed the streets after them
The German prisoners who fell into the hands of the Western allies were tried in courts in Nuremberg to determine their degree of guilt and see if they should pay heavy penalties or not, instead the vast majority of Germans who were prisoners on the eastern front were taken to forced labor camps in Siberia where they died, very few would return to Germany. There were cases of German prisoners who were shown to have helped Jews and therefore Western authorities and even Israel requested their release and Stalin did not want to release them, this is the case of the second rank who helped save "the pianist" Spilman, from which it was made a very blockbuster movie.
prisoners were fed cabbage soup.which brings on severe cramping and diarhea.the trucks were washing the excrement of the roads.
@@vadimpm1290 i dont know what your looking at.
The most stupid explanation I ever heard. I hope You are that naive (or consider other people to be so stupid)
"What would you do if Germans marched victoriously through Moscow, and your own town, city or village?"
Well chief, I'd probably be a pretty normal day seeing as I am German
Bullshit, you born zombies would be ruthlessly oppressed and/or killed if Nazis marched through your home town.
@@davidtomlinson2239 Clearly you don't get jokes
Good one! 😂👏And they say that Germans don’t have a sense of humour! Greetings from Sevastopol!
Well played
Happy ending of operation "Bagration"
Major general in command of a division? How many of those prisoners marched ever returned to Germany? War trials? No
@@itisprofile Soviet and Nazis were pretty much the same, both were conquering and occupying neighboring countries.
The reason you see the water trucks hosing down the street after the "parade" is because the Germans were kept without food for several days and then, on the day of the parade given a greasy cabbage soup. The result was predictable - massive diarrhea, done of course to further humiliate the Germans.
Брехня. Посівалки символ того, что очищена должна быть земля, даже после того, как по ней пройдут нацисты.
Ha ha ha, "Thank you Stalin!, You remarkable genius. "
No, this is not true. You can easily see that the streets were absolutely clean before the trucks. This was especially made to show that Nazis are filth! And that even the nazi footsteps were washed away from our sacred Capital Moscow.
Sadness only grief the criminals stayed unpunished in the world's consciousness.They are now presenting their work like narrators of the history.
Круто! СССР-великая страна!
Её не существует, соотвественно она не может быть лучшей
@@keijeek3460 Зато люди существуют, жившие в ней. И они умеют сравнивать.
@@ГенаТкаченко-ж3п в той стране были только «люди» , но не родилось в ней ни единого человека способного отделить себя от толпы, ведь сама идеология комунизма противоречит личности.
@@keijeek3460 Китайцам это расскажи. Они плюнут тебя 1, 5 миллиардной слюной!
@@ГенаТкаченко-ж3п меня количество не волнует, я нечего и не ждал от их прогнивших рассудков
"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals."
Fajna ostatnia scena ... jak po nich ulice umyto .
Ну вы же хотели пройти по Москве...
Так они и сейчас ходят , и живут лучше чем ты!
"Wir haben den Kampf gegen das Judentum jahrelang geführt und wir haben uns in Äußerungen ergangen, die furchtbar sind. Tausend Jahre werden vergehen und diese Schuld von Deutschland nicht wegnehmen." ― Hans Frank, "Schlächter von Polen"
@@notabene7381 Кто к нам с мечем придёт, от меча и погибнет! "Александр Невский"
@@juicytv32 от кель знаеш? Ась?
@@ДашаД-б1м Я доуя чего знаю!
Notice how you don’t see any SS soldiers or officers
SS were killed on sight. A well deserved fate. Enough of them survived the war though.
The russians did not even throw a single egg or tomato to the germans.. 🥚 🍅.
wtf ofcourse they are not throwing food when they have little of it are you really that dumb? They humiliated them in many, by far worse ways, than just throwing food at them.
@@incubo2968 guy, there are a lot of rocks available to thrown in nazi. Despite this none was thrown
Lucky Apple - When you’ve been through a war, you don’t waste food.
@200 And Finland after that capitulated. Twice. In 1940 and 1944.
@200 Realy? Do you know that Berlin was captured by Red Army?
Hitler's last famous words , ;" You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down " , referring to the Soviet Union .
@@danielosdinia4258 It's easy to enter to Russian-difficult to leave.
😂😂
Gabriel, this was very early citation from 1941. The last words were quite different.
@@vadimpm1290 , I know that , i was being sarcastic .
1. He never said that, thats a myth.
2. The russians almost collapsed at the end of 1942.
There are no winners in war! Stop fighting each other: fight poverty, hunger, disasters...
Like it or not, Germany had one of the best armies ever. Just got too cocky
The average german soldier was no different than the average russian, british, or american soldier. They grew up in their respective societies, and when told it was their duty to defend their nations, they stepped forward as soldiers have throughout human history.
you confuse defense with aggression
@@mirekp7471 The German government thru it's fake news media convinced the public that Poland had attacked Germany. So, in the eye's of the misinformed German public they were defenders not aggressors.
@@tjf5148Neither did the "average" German soldier.
@@williamstone4334 imagine. Infact Germany choreographed the scenes to justify the invasion of Poland. And it's citizens believed out of propaganda.Nosense!
Still respect for German Army, Best soldiers at that time... Hitler was fool and worst in strategy.. Better focusing in German development than attack other countries.
Don't make any long term plans guys....
you are right, this is why we only make every 4 years ...
Those German officers look grim - as grim as others who witnessed the May Day military parade in Moscow in 1940 and never thought they would ever get so far into Russia as they did.
That wasn’t right. The war itself wasn’t right but you don’t send 100,000 troops to there deaths and most never came back. So sad. War is hell. Pure Hell.
He didn’t send 100k he sent more than 1 million to fight the soviets but about 100k were made prisoners the rest die or retreat but most of them still die in the end.
Georgi Zhukov conquered Germany, marched 1,378 miles! Shown in this video on horseback.
Zhukov murdered scores of his own generals if they were even remotely critical of his agenda. Not only that he murdered anyone, not just Germans even Russians, who got in his way to Berlin.
@@europaeuropa3673 You've got to be tough to be Successful. After the war, Stalin killed villages that didn't fight to the death.
@@Tadju50 So death was the only option? Obviously someone had to stay alive to fight to the end.
@@europaeuropa3673 War is Hell.
@@europaeuropa3673 Did you mean Stalin?
I don't and I wouldn't feel sorry for those poor men forced\lied to by Nazi party. Every man chooses his fate himself. It might be a hard and cruel choice in hard and cruel times, but no one could steal or lose that choice.
Under dictatorship regime you have no choice.. I am from Iraq and i was a soldier in Saddam's army, nobody can say no or refuse..
@@dadardad Saying otherwise would be too cruel, so I just accept what you said with respect
@@dadardad Agree....
Hitler barely escapes with his life after a bomb exploded at his headquarters.
At this point hitler is hanging his generals and taking military advice from astrologers and mystics, it's a new battle doctrine " war by horoscope"
yes, and "miracle weapons"... any sane person in Germany (at least those on front lines) knew the war was lost by 2nd half of 1944.
He had the luck of the 👿 many attempts on his person but he escaped
Bullshit Hitler thought the occult was bullshit. Only Himmler was obsessed with it.
Lies
@@vincentkosik403 I never knew just how many attempts were made on his life, sometimes just luck spared him.
did fieldmarshall paulus join the march in moscow through walk of shame?
Adolph Hilter: All will be fine I'll have you out in no time Generals.
Generals: Huh!? How!?
Adolph Hilter: For I have Stalin's son...
Generals: ERIKA!!!
Stalin: I am not exchanging a Lieutenant for a General!!!
Adolph Hilter: @*#%!?
Only not “a general” but a “field marshal”!:))
@@Este1519
Well A Field Marshal is a 5 star General. So pretty high up indeed.
Azov (Navoz) regiment in Donetsk (2024)
based
Nato generals have to see this video
Salute to red army for this achievement
The uk would not exist If it were not for the bravery of the Red Army
@@laverdajota8089 yes
@@laverdajota8089 I think we all owe our freedom to the Red Army. If it wasn't for them, western civilization would've fallen to the Third Reich
@@patrickt7 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@laverdajota8089 Lol. The UK were the ones who single handedly destroyed the German Navy and destroyed any Luftwaffe planes who tried to enter British airspace. The UK could've done it on their own.
Also Stalin admitted that without the Heavy Land lease from the US they would've likely lost the war.
never try to defeat Russia.
Japanese empire, France, Great Britain, German empire . Do you need more?
Why? They almost always lose
Hitler: Tell me a joke
Stalin: Moscow
Hitler: I don't get it
Stalin: Exactly
Whats the quickest way in to Italy ? Join the Greek Army.
Wow super original.
@@Boooooooooo541 u r right! I just love the joke, the credit is not mine