A German identification tag reveals its secrets - Enemy brothers in Nazi Germany -Stalingrad digging

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  • @vincenzochieppa689
    @vincenzochieppa689 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    A really interesting video made with precision but with great humanity.
    Even now in my country (Italy), but i am sure this is true even in Gernany, there is debate to understsnd how a whole people can go towards autodistruction following the 'ideas' of a single man. This video is the answer: even a 'whole people' is made of single men, and each one of them can make right choices, no matter the environment where they grow.
    I am so glad that faith paid so well the choices of this brother but it should be interesting to know the ideas of the dead one about german regime.

    • @leopoldokaswiner1882
      @leopoldokaswiner1882 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This vídeo made me cry.
      Mu father was a jew born in Stanislawów, Poland, now Ivano-Frankvisk, Ukraine. There He lost 49 relatives.
      I was Born in Brazil and live in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará State. 🇧🇷🇷🇺🇵🇸

    • @iriasantos4009
      @iriasantos4009 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@leopoldokaswiner1882😢😢😢😢😢😅😅😅😅😅😅

  • @Ekatjam
    @Ekatjam 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +214

    This story has so many similarities to my own family in Germany. My grandmother had two brothers who would train to be master watch makers. The oldest brother Paul was sent to Boston, Massachusetts USA to study under a German there. In the early 1930's my great-grandparents sailed to America and told him it was time to come home, take over the family business and his younger brother Johann would study in America, that decision decided their fate. Paul would become a highly decorated Oberfeldwebel in the 13th Panzer Division, captured in Romania in 1944 and die in a Soviet prison camp in Tifflis, Soviet Georgia. Johann who spoke little English got drafted into the U.S. Army and sent to the Pacific for three years and upon his return I've been told you could not tell that he was German, his accent was completely gone. My grandfather disappeared in Konigsberg and Johann brought his parents, his sister, my father and his brothers to America, and the rest as they say... Is history.

    • @Ekatjam
      @Ekatjam 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Our family always thought that perhaps my grandfather went down on the Gustloff as well. He was a member of the 548 Volksgrenadier division, being in Russia since the first week of the war. Not to be confused with the Volksturm units made of civilians, his unit was made of veterans, and sea cadets. Anyways the Germans were still getting mail out via the Baltic, and we have a letter from him that was dated after the sinking.@wyomarine6341

    • @lutomson3496
      @lutomson3496 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      at least they actually fought on opposite sides unlike this video where one left..my family also did this in the US revolutionary war 1770s, the war of 1812 and the US civil war families fighting families on both sides..in the end Im here because of them though!

    • @hanniballecter7259
      @hanniballecter7259 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It's interesting how German and American histories often intertwingled. As for me, our ukrainian stories are far more simple. Two brothers of my great-grandmom disappeared without of trace and I don't know much of them.

    • @ЛевМолодой-р7ц
      @ЛевМолодой-р7ц 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Я в данный момент живого Кёнигсберга

    • @ЛевМолодой-р7ц
      @ЛевМолодой-р7ц 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Кёнигсберг был очень прекрасный город мало От него остался что-то

  • @kayo645
    @kayo645 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    I come from Dresden. This story is part of the history of my hometown. We should never forget what can happen. My grandfather fought as a young 20 year old boy on the Eastern Front in a tank. he survived and tells me a lot of impressed stories. I'm so happy to say "all people in Europe are my friends. no more war again!"

    • @stevenodland
      @stevenodland 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The war is raging now……in Ukraine and Russia…..for now

    • @spotifyde5979
      @spotifyde5979 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      except Russia v. Ukraine. :-(

    • @Duracelbaterka
      @Duracelbaterka 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Get as many stories from him documented as possible!

    • @user-user-user-user.
      @user-user-user-user. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Now you just need to free yourself from Zionism

    • @allenvandyke732
      @allenvandyke732 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      See if he would record his stories on video so we may all learn of the War he fought.

  • @mariothirtythree9666
    @mariothirtythree9666 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

    Exceptional historical research. Thank you for the video. Coming from a family in Austria and also having a young man, my uncle drafted into the Wehrmacht and lost somewhere in Russia/Ukraine..this story brings the personal tragedies home. We have a name and a photograph and the memory of his Mother crying for years afterwards moaning her lost and only son. The tragedy of war we are still seeing being perpetrated today by the monsters in our midst.

  • @lingerslongest
    @lingerslongest 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    A bit of chance, half a dogtag, one man, three brothers, several other families touched, 70 years, a toast of Rum. What a tale. And just one tale amongst the millions. You brilliant research certainly brings it home.

  • @jjstudiosjj2408
    @jjstudiosjj2408 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +114

    Jean, your channel has some of the best videos on TH-cam. Excellent job documenting all sides of this family story.

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Thanks a lot, and please share the wealth.

    • @paulday-lh5mx
      @paulday-lh5mx 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Very kind, and respectful of you for doing that.

  • @TampaBayMoFo
    @TampaBayMoFo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    Outstanding story. Excellent research. Thanks.

  • @stekarknugen9258
    @stekarknugen9258 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    Extremely fascinating story. You should take pride in the fact that no one would've ever know about this great story unless you did the work to unearth it.

  • @MrPlankinton
    @MrPlankinton 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Your toast at the end actually emotionally moved me. 😯😉

  • @getoffenit7827
    @getoffenit7827 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    Fascinating what can be discovered from a small piece of aluminum,
    And somebody stumbled onto the tag as they were digging around

  • @jamesnbd57
    @jamesnbd57 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Thank you Jean-Loup, another outstanding piece of research, presented with humanity and humility. Well done.

  • @garygenerous8982
    @garygenerous8982 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    That is an amazing story and I am so thankful that you shared it with us.

    • @Useaname
      @Useaname 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It really was

  • @RubbelDieKatz90
    @RubbelDieKatz90 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Many thanks for Your work!
    Three months ago I found the tag from my grandpa while bringing stuff out of the house... he saved it in a box almost 60 years til he died 2003.
    Now it's hanging on the mirror in my car!

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Hi mate. Good of you to keep his ID tag, but I would put it in a safer and more honored place than your car.
      Was he German? What is the unit information on the tag by curiosity?

    • @RubbelDieKatz90
      @RubbelDieKatz90 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@CrocodileTear
      Yeah, there could be a safer place, but so he's always with me...
      The tag says
      Flieger-Ersatz-Bataillon 7
      R. Flg. Ers. Batl. /VII plus ID-Number or something...
      He served from 1942 til '44 POW in Italy.

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@RubbelDieKatz90 OK, thanks.

  • @karlmartell8612
    @karlmartell8612 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    06:19 Stalingrad must have been a horrible meat grinder. My grandpa served in an infantry regiment in France. Later in the war, his unit was sent to Stalingrad. My grandpa was fluent in English and French which was very uncommon for a German back in the days. Therefore, he, the only one from his unit, stayed on the western front for the rest of the war to work as a translator. In Stalingrad, literally the entire company was wiped out and none of them made it out alive.
    But my grandpa survived all due to his language skills. Had he not been able to speak foreign languages , he would have been sent to and killed in Stalingrad like the rest of his comrades.
    After the war, he lived a long life, had two sons and seven grandchildren and died as an old man. Sometimes, life is really weird.

  • @geoffreyball731
    @geoffreyball731 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    crocodile tear, you do these fallen heroes a great service by bringing to light their individual stories. i salute you with the greatest respect from the uk,x...

  • @garymarkham4167
    @garymarkham4167 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Thankyou my friend....Well done...A long dead soldiers Tag has lead us all on an incredible journey.Best wishes from Australia.

  • @andygardner9219
    @andygardner9219 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    Great video!! One of the best videos I’ve ever seen on TH-cam. Really nice touch at the end. He deserves a million subscribers for just this vid!! 👍👍👍

  • @prillewitz
    @prillewitz 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    That’s an incredible story started by a tiny piece of metal in the ground. Thank you for your interesting hard work!

  • @marih4213
    @marih4213 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Wow. That was amazing. So powerful. Completely different life choices made then between the brothers; has an impact on their families today. The toast at the end was so powerful. Great video. Thank you

  • @allenvandyke732
    @allenvandyke732 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Excellent story! I am a student of War History by personal choice and the epic times of the World War 2 will forever mold our past, current and future choices as you so clearly depicted in your skillfully completed video. Thank you. War touches us all.

  • @all.day.day-dreamer
    @all.day.day-dreamer 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Wow, such an amazing story. I was glued to my screen for the entire duration of the video. As I've mentioned before, these stories, in my humble opinion, could almost be books, or a movie. And I guess you contacting the one Brothers family who are in the rum business might not be able to appreciate your story.

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      They might appreciate it now that the video is out.

  • @charlesm127
    @charlesm127 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Amazing. How random life can be, my own father in the British 8th army met my Belgian mother in Antwerp in 1945, she had been under German occupation and her family house requisitioned by the Germans. I was born in 1952. I owe my very existence to the events of WW2, so its a strange mixture of emotions for me.

    • @caobita
      @caobita 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Wow! Now that I think about it, my youngest uncle and his children and grandchildren only exist because my grandfather came back alive from a Siberian gulag

  • @pda49184
    @pda49184 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Thank you Jean.. That was a very interesting story and I congratulate you for the hours of hard work you did to bring this completed family story together.

  • @kilcar
    @kilcar 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Very moving. Especially at the dedication and toast at the end. You've a good heart Sir.

  • @NedkaRokonokova
    @NedkaRokonokova 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I am always touched by your videos, sir. This one is, thus far, the most moving. You have enough material for a film based on a true story, a story that should be remembered. I mentioned to you previously that the war split my family in Europe; relatives fighting on either side due to conscription and desperation. You gave the men a most respectful nod: one to the man who held to his convictions and left Germany, and one who answered the draft and met his end in Ukraine. When you raised the glass to them, it was the most personal touch I've seen in your videos (I doubt I have seen them all). Bless you, and your efforts.

  • @camohunters6283
    @camohunters6283 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Amazing work. SIR. Thx for sharing all the great stories..!! Hats off to you

  • @smeraldoderosa7556
    @smeraldoderosa7556 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Incredible, amazing story!!! Prost, to all the forgotten of wars, the Linge family and to you sir!

  • @toonverberg1313
    @toonverberg1313 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Wow! Never thought there'd be so much history to uncover from such a small corroded zinc item found in the soil of a remote battlefield. Very well researched. You've earned my deepest respect for this. Wasn't the family pleased to hear of your result?

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Its aluminum, and I am not sure the family realized so far.

  • @Thecompanioncrate
    @Thecompanioncrate 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    You hit it out of the park with this on, excellent work.

  • @HTN3
    @HTN3 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Your best video yet! Congrats, and thank you for bringing this compelling story to life.

  • @IgorM1170
    @IgorM1170 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Amazing story. Thanks for that. The 'Butterfly effect' really grabbed my attention.

  • @netiveus348ify
    @netiveus348ify 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Wow what a sad fantastic story which brought a tear to my eye,
    Well done for piecing it all together,thanks

  • @strazed1
    @strazed1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    The lengths you go to for your videos inspire me. Amazing job

  • @AmazingSurrogats
    @AmazingSurrogats 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Brutal! That was heck of a journey. You are doing a remarkable job. I am following your stories from the beginning.
    Many people today dont have a clue how good they live and what a stirred up mess the past was. I am actually watching this video here in the border from Croatia to Bosnia. My grandmother lived here.
    She was forced by the partizans to be a courier, as she was a teenager then and looked unsuspicious. Her brother on the other side was drafted by the NDH administration (Croatia in WWII) into the army. Not only the NDH army, but the personal guard of Pavlevic. He was tall and a exordinary athlete.
    They manage to communicate by talking over the river Save, one of the hughest river in south east europe. So they arranged a meeting and were able to talk from on side of the shore to the other. This all happened in disclosure. And they weren't the only ones.
    The brother was never seen again. He was arrested and put on the death marches throu Yu. Since then he is missing. Probably he is one of the 120.000 executed people that the partizans and communists killed after the war in the 1st few weeks.

  • @Berger_nc
    @Berger_nc 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One of the best pieces of work ever recorded about the German side of WW2. Honest, straightforward and fascinating. You are to be commended. Makes one think, how many more stories such as this are there that will never be told? Just one, discovered by accident, yielding so much. Multiply it by the hundreds of thousands.

  • @chrisabner7568
    @chrisabner7568 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love old surplus and have collected a bit over the years. But unfortunately most of these pieces we find have lost their stories to time. What you do for the soldiers and artifacts is amazing. Thank you.

  • @imdeplorable2241
    @imdeplorable2241 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Very, very interesting.
    Thank you for the touching "rejoining of the brothers" ending. Nice touch.👍💐

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Rejoining the brothers at breakfast time was a bit hard on the oesophagus 😄

  • @markbowen3638
    @markbowen3638 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Amazing story, thanks for sharing your expertise in researching these individuals. Great content . Many thanks. Best wishes from the UK 🇬🇧

  • @markbingham330
    @markbingham330 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I've now watched a few of your videos and his one is by far the most touching. The ending was a great sentiment to the conclusion of his story. Please keep up the great work, so these lost soldiers can once again by identified. 👍

  • @Useaname
    @Useaname 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Excellent. Thank you

  • @groovechampion1462
    @groovechampion1462 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Man some of these stories are worthy a movie.

  • @ddawe31635
    @ddawe31635 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Sigfried must of been a terrified young man. A fascinating story. Thank you for sharing it.

    • @obsidianjane4413
      @obsidianjane4413 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Sigfried was what is called today "woke", as in aware, moral, and rational.

    • @Nyllsor
      @Nyllsor 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Is it just me or isn't that "woke" a derogatory term?
      I agree though this is a fascinating story. :)

    • @shaonian
      @shaonian 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@obsidianjane4413lol

    • @beltigussin81
      @beltigussin81 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​​​@@Nyllsor In nazi Germany they probably would have called him woke or maybe more vicious derogatory names. Only when it's all played out do we see who really understood what time it was.

    • @obsidianjane4413
      @obsidianjane4413 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Nyllsor It depends on your perspective. Or rather, the right coopted it as a term of derision.

  • @kenroberts6906
    @kenroberts6906 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Chapeau à vous, Doctor. Une vidéo excéllante, comme d'habitude

  • @dangercloseusmc6902
    @dangercloseusmc6902 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Fascinating, excellent video sir. Like usual. Thank you for doing what you do and sharing it with everyone. I can't think of a better TH-cam channel.

  • @GermanVitus
    @GermanVitus 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Hey jean I'm a huge fan of your channel for bringing such a bright light into really personal historys and picking up all these small things others wouldn't even care about.
    It really highlights the cruelsomeness of the war our fathers and grandfathers fought in and how useless it was.
    If only the people today would've learned more from history and could live a life in peace.

  • @echopapacharlie
    @echopapacharlie 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you for this great piece of story from WW2 that spanned Germany, France and Haiti.

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      And Ukraine and Russia.

  • @tordlarsson9423
    @tordlarsson9423 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Just a big WOW about this story! Best regards from Sweden.

  • @ofivenojoe
    @ofivenojoe 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    First class your dedication is unbelievable.thank you so much for taking me along on your adventures.

  • @sebastiendine4834
    @sebastiendine4834 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Encore merci pour cette enquête, passionnante du début jusqu'à la fin !

  • @fadcdecarvalho8741
    @fadcdecarvalho8741 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I really enjoyed this. Great research. The rum at the end is a nice touch lol. Cheers from South Africa

  • @Simsonschieber
    @Simsonschieber 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Cher Jean Loup, merci pour vos efforts inlassables pour découvrir de tels destins. De nombreuses salutations et un sincère merci de la part de l'Allemagne.

  • @stevebell1031
    @stevebell1031 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What a fascinating story... so brilliantly researched and presented. Well done 👏

  • @retAFcop98
    @retAFcop98 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is absolutely great and informative video! Thank you.

  • @duanedurham7031
    @duanedurham7031 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Wow. What an amazing story of three brothers torn apart by World War. Your research is AMAZING and you tell the story is such a wonderful way it drew me in wanting to know more & more. Thank you.

  • @steelhelmetstan7305
    @steelhelmetstan7305 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Fantastic video , the end was very tastefully done....cheers 😊😊😊😊

  • @garrylalonde6836
    @garrylalonde6836 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I Have watched and enjoyed you vidios for a while , thank you , and thank you for helping the fallen and giving them back there names and familys

  • @BARgunner_
    @BARgunner_ 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Absolutely amazing video! Such an interesting story. Crazy what information you can find! Keep up the great work!

  • @jokervienna6433
    @jokervienna6433 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Reality always beat fiction. What an interesting family story. Thanks for posting this!

  • @QURAN-IS-MY-TORCH
    @QURAN-IS-MY-TORCH 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    No word can describe your efforts, I am really impressed by the story

  • @VolkerStangier
    @VolkerStangier 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wirklich faszinierendes und ergreifendes Video.
    Sehr gut gemacht.

  • @tomchipego
    @tomchipego 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This story is incredibly fascinating. Great job as usual

  • @tessaelvan5149
    @tessaelvan5149 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    how different brothers can be, very interesting thank you for your time on all the research and bringing them back together a warming toast to horrible times.

  • @emilioalcazar-su9vi
    @emilioalcazar-su9vi 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What a great investigation.. beautiful your brindis in memory of the three brothers..diferent paths,one memory, awesome your work, thanks!

  • @dadlife4113
    @dadlife4113 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Speechless...amazing work!

  • @user-hk8ik5xv7p
    @user-hk8ik5xv7p 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What a wonderful story. It's amazing to account for all this from an id tag.

  • @mikelindbergh642
    @mikelindbergh642 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Interesting story! I spend 7 years working in Haiti, and the Babancour rum is the quintessential Caribbean, award winning rum. I had no idea this German guy married into the Babancour family.

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      The Barbancourt Rum is from an earlier branch of the family. Linge's decendents have the Vieux Labbé rum by Berling SA.
      They say on some of the websites that this sometimes causes confusion, and indeed for the video I initialy bought a bottle of BArbancourt instead of Vieux Labbé :)

  • @jasonmaccoul
    @jasonmaccoul 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Absolutely well done! 👏 Of course, the disaster that befell Dresden by man, ultimately befell Haiti by Mother Nature. I salute you Jean-Loup.

  • @lonesomevalkyrie
    @lonesomevalkyrie 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Great video! I love hearing stories like this.

  • @GIGUNS-0341
    @GIGUNS-0341 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks for sharing and for the awesome work you do. US Marine Corps Veteran.

  • @Mark-Bretlach
    @Mark-Bretlach 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Great research, always interesting piecing things together, I would like to know more, did you contact the Haiti family? did you find more on Herbert in the waffen-ss, obviously survived the war, sorry if I may have missed it.

  • @Treasuremonk
    @Treasuremonk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    That’s wild! I lived and worked in Port Au Prince for years , never heard or knew about this and the Rum

  • @fernandoAveledo
    @fernandoAveledo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for a tracking down a wonderful story of real people and their decisions... Best regards

  • @andrewmacdonald4833
    @andrewmacdonald4833 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thoroughly enjoyed this story...thank you!

  • @biipolaar
    @biipolaar 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Merci pour vos recherches, c'est tout simplement incroyable.

  • @bigmikeh5827
    @bigmikeh5827 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is an awesome big picture story. Thank you for all your work.

  • @1978JonBullock
    @1978JonBullock 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great research which really turned into a very fascinating story. Thanks for sharing your work on TH-cam Much appreciated.

  • @thomasschultz2669
    @thomasschultz2669 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Eine interessante und fast unglaubliche Geschichte! Vielen Dank für das Video!👍

  • @kennethrouse7942
    @kennethrouse7942 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for a fascinating tale of the brothers Linge!

  • @LIsForLexi.
    @LIsForLexi. 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wow! Blown away. Amazing story, following now!!!

  • @brentandvuk
    @brentandvuk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you for posting, as always an outstanding story.

  • @feltwedge
    @feltwedge 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you very much for researching this history and then sharing it.

  • @BradleyKang23
    @BradleyKang23 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Great story thanks for sharing the history

  • @kentuckylady2990
    @kentuckylady2990 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Reminds me of similar stories from the American Civil War. My family was divided by that war. There still was some residual tension as late as the 1950s. Thankfully that is no longer a problem.

  • @goodguy7420
    @goodguy7420 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The research this man does is amazing. I respect him for what he does.

  • @Slickthirtysix
    @Slickthirtysix 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for all the work you do.

  • @johnboy384
    @johnboy384 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks again for you in depth research and for sharing it with us. Kindest regards.

  • @AparatorulPoporului
    @AparatorulPoporului 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    In the end the history remains (or _is_ ) the best story!
    Amazing information, very nice job man!

  • @timetraveller143
    @timetraveller143 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Tolle Geschichte und investigativ sehr gute Arbeit geleistet.
    Danke aus Göttingen/Deutschland.

  • @jamesjustus6568
    @jamesjustus6568 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fascinating, well researched and presented. Thank you for your effort and commitment to the memory and history of these individuals. I used to take food aid into Haiti by barge prior to and after the 2010 earthquake, and was part of the initial response to get the Port au Prince port facilities operational in the immediate aftermath. I think Rhum Vieux Labbè is an entirely fitting tribute to the Linge brothers.

  • @tmdblya
    @tmdblya 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This story was amazing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and hard research work.

  • @basdune9534
    @basdune9534 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Woow! What a story, amazing, thank you for making this video.

  • @cliftonwalker1994
    @cliftonwalker1994 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I enjoy all your videos but this one was the best so far. Thank you and keep up the good work.

  • @darrenlloyd2990
    @darrenlloyd2990 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Good on you for going through all the steps it was very interesting Darren from Australia

  • @size1985
    @size1985 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I always find those stories interesting, with the same family living in different parts of the world during this time...
    My great-great-grandfather left his wife with a newborn child behind in Germany and emigrated to the US in the 20s, where he found a new wife and had children with her. In the WW2 my grandfather and his brother fought on the german side, while their step brothers (who they never met) fought for the US

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It just goes to show how nonsensical all these wars are.

  • @mrford70
    @mrford70 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks wery interesting 👍🏻
    And great salut for the linge family
    Greatings from Sweden

  • @CrocodileTear
    @CrocodileTear  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    The link to my video about German identification tags "What's your name soldier": th-cam.com/video/d0pOz94Ej1g/w-d-xo.html
    People who have an ID tag that they want to get decoded must contact the Bundesarchiv Abteilung PA in Berlin.

    • @Useaname
      @Useaname 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thank you. Much appreciated

    • @Hunter_Nebid
      @Hunter_Nebid 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I've had a German dog tag (whole) that I got from a former Russian soldier who digs up relics in the Stalingrad area. I've been trying to figure out a way to decipher it for years and perhaps find a way to get it to his family. Merci!

    • @CrocodileTear
      @CrocodileTear  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Hunter_Nebid Send a letter to the the Bundesarchiv Abteilung PA in Berlin

  • @stephenellis5226
    @stephenellis5226 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Many thanks for your work. This is what makes it worthwhile.

  • @rainerpatalong8403
    @rainerpatalong8403 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Sehr ergreifendes Schicksal was der ganzen Familie Linge geschah 😢
    Danke für die sehr gute Recherche 🤚

  • @greghanson407
    @greghanson407 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    An amazing story that came to light on the off chance of you purchasing a small piece of metal that could have been easily overlooked.

  • @wolfgangthiele9147
    @wolfgangthiele9147 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Extraordinarily good video and excellent research! 👍