I love the comment about his years in the army as a travel experience. It reminds me of a mock recruiting slogan in the US during the Vietnam War years. It went something like: Join the Army. Travel to distant lands. Meet exotic, interesting people, and kill them.
A friend of my grandfather described his time in the 1940's as leaving college to taking a research sabbatical across Africa, Italy, Spain, and France. He had been in the OSS. It wasn't until I was much older that I understood what he was talking about. Unfortunately he passed away before I was able to talk to him in depth about what he did.
I thought like that when I was in the Navy during the Vietnam war..I was lucky enough to have been assigned to a Naval air VP squadron and I did get to see the world ...I was drafted into the army but was able to enlist in the Navy. We chased Russian submarines around.
The part at the end about having to choose between the truth and your life under Hitler's dictatorship is spot on. Resistance was almost impossible--and usually fatal.
General Guderian experienced much travel also. Except to the Kremlin in Moscow's perimeters. At least he saw 👀 the Kremlin's domes thru his field glasses
"If you are never completely sober even a war can be fun" I've been to war and have never really chewed on that one. Thinking on it now...VN 1969-1972 .USMC
I do also because I'm a historian and I love to learn about people. I don't blame this at all on the German people at the time because they were so so desperate after World War one because the government kept printing money and they had massive inflation and somewhere around 25 or 30 million or more people were unemployed in Germany.. it was worse actually after the stock markets crashed in America and then got worse after the Great depression.. Adolf Hitler was evil and always believed himself to be supreme but he was crazy.. he was very very manipulative & yet he had a gift supposedly for speaking and writing. When people like those in Germany are so desperate for Hope and help, they completely fell under his spell by believing that he would come along with the nationalist socialist German workers party and rise Germans up from the ashes and it might take a long time in a progress but they will be the greatest nation on Earth etc etc... People have a hard time understanding how people could be so evil towards the Jews but not everybody was even though the majority of Germans were because they were simply brainwashed into believing that the rich Jews were bankers and they were the ones who essentially were the pigs who made them poor. Ninety-nine percent of it was pure BS!!! It did not matter because one-by-one Hitler and the Nazis were capable of dehumanizing these people to the German people and blaming them for all of Germany's problems and it angered the Germans so much that they hated these people.. it's really so sad that it happened & I don't understand how overtime Hitler had them believing that the Aryan race was the most supreme etcetera etcetera but I don't think that he did that until Germany Rose above the financial ruins and they were doing so much better off.. once Hitler and the Nazis did fulfill a lot of what they promised between 1930 and 1934, little by little Hitler and the Nazis started making them believe that the Jews were pigs and the Slavic people were pigs etc etc.. it's really really sad but a lot of Americans voted for FDR in 1932 because of the desperation from the Great depression but he was a socialist.. Franklin Roosevelt wanted to blow the supreme Court up to 16 justices because he wanted to add more administrative agencies and essentially turn our country into complete socialism.vs being half capitalists and half socialist. His own democrat congress said " no". How the man managed to get reelected for four times is beyond me because usually most people get sick and tired of the same person being in office but I think it was because of the desperation from the Great depression and he blamed the Wall Street crash on Herbert Hoover even though it occurred right after Hoover came into office so it wasn't his fault. The reason it happened was because of marginal stocks and the lack of any regulation on the banking system. People didn't know that because they were purely ignorant.. even Roosevelt didn't even know that.. the reason he wanted regulations and so the government would have more control &
Strange how, either sooner or later, many men sometimes develop a rosy glow on their behaviour in war, then after repeating it many times, they firmly believe it. Problem with memory is that it fractionally changes, each and every time it is recalled then re-embedded, so a subconscious need to shed any guilt will influence the direction of memories.
Do you have any personal experience or are you just trying to evoke Hemingway's quote about the "hunting of armed men"? It's not generally "guilt", it's called "trauma". Learn something.
Yes I have personal experience. and some guilt that seems to fade in and out over the years. Trauma is another matter and often different. I did not generalise about all soldiers so do not try to patronise. PS I got 5 likes for my comment - you got zero.@@Hunter_Nebid
I listen to one of the German soldier's war biographies, he asked himself "why the Ukrainians civilians were so mad at them!" Absolutely clueless! (28 million dead!)
If it does not fit your conception of things i.e. of life, the universe, and everything, you may decide this account is forged, or fake. It rings true to me, true in the sense of being a reasonably accurate translation of a real soldier's account of his experience during the war. I think that these memoirs can serve as a very useful part of a person's education. Take it or leave it.
I have about 8 pages of my father's story as a private in the German Air Force. He was in a French prisoner camp. Please let me know if you would like to have a copy.
Echoing the desire for citations--searching google for the text string including the narrator's birth date, place and family history returned no hits. Likewise for a few other strings excerpted from the video. Of course, the original may have been printed in German and the English translations may not have been uploaded onto the web in any fashion a google search engine can access, but this is pretty rare in my experience. WW2Stories--can you provide some background on the source of these narrations?
Interesting and informative. A nice morbid picture 📷 of the cemetery 😇. With the officer's giving the dear dead departed a final send off. Nice descriptions of activities inbetween military operations. Unfortunately for the German military forces. The disillusioned/arrogant leadership in Berlin. Didn't plan for a set back after the quick victory to Moscow failed.. Thus causing severe shortages in vitally needed supplies. As the military operations along the 1,500 miles front did with less & less.
You might want to realize that current media in the US are saying the same things nearly 100% of the time. Climate change, pandemic, get your shot, orange man bad.
yes ... not sure why they're using the error riddled AI English accent when they could just as easily have used the error riddled AI German or Austrian accent
These stories are interesting because they have not been told before. The British and American experiences and everyday life, have been described by Hollywood and endless war stories from the perspective of the Allies. This is new.
One of my university colleagues, named Hans, told me his story of volunteering as soon as a farmer came looking for a worker. He said he wanted to get away from the Nasties and their bullying, Leader worship and Prussian drills. He expected to be a slave, but was treated like family. He was occupying the room of the son currently fighting in Europe, and eating with the family. He liked America, didn't want to be repatriated, hated Germany when he got back, and spent years trying to get back to the US. The story in the video is not merely realistic, I've heard this similar one, in person, from a man with a slight but noticeable German accent, who owns a farm and has a large family in Upstate New York. I've even wondered if my former colleague was, in fact, the author. He was in the faculty of math and science, but the stories switch between men not named Hans, one from Schleswig-Holstein and another from Austria. Though my German, "war nimmer gut und ist jetzt degradiert und schrecklich!" I can tell the difference between Niederdeutsch and Hochdeutsch.
Convincing and poignant details of day-to-day life on the other side. A complete citation of the original work would be most welcome (not to mention the very least that intellectual honesty demands!)
There's something wrong with this series. I think that they're in the wrong order or at least this one is. It seems as if this should be the first video in the series.
The title is correct. We STILL don't understand how Germans justified kicking someone's door down, shooting them, then taking over their property, all the while griping about the "struggle" they underwent. It defies logic to this day.
There is a lot of detail suggesting real sources. It is interesting, and provides views from the other side. Considering the distance in time needs to be done. A too perfect story would also suggest fiction. There are American war stories that are real but seem fictitious, and vice versa.@@bolajibadejo7422
Well, so far I've identified at least a half dozen of them by listening for the name and doing a Google search for their memoirs. This guy is Franz, no last name yet.
You noticed that too, eh. I was thinking a text to voice program. Some words that a German* speaker would pronounce correctly were mispronounced, and other words are pronounced as if the speaker is a non-English speaker pronouncing by spelling not as a native speaker would. The organization of the content is definitely not German, "Alles in Ordnung!" *My German was never very good, so I may be mistaken.
Strange how, either sooner or later, many men sometimes develop almost a rosy glow on their behaviour in war, then after repeating it many times, they firmly believe it. Problem with memory is that it fractionally changes, each and every time it is recalled then re-embedded, so a subconscious need to shed any guilt will influence the direction of memories.
Hello ladies and gentlemen. This is part 1 of a new series! Enjoy!
Thanks for your work man
Thanks.
Whose stories are these? Citations?
It would be nice if marked somehow to keep track of the stories either by date or somehow
Appreciate your time, and the WW1 stories as well.
Ha! "If you are never completely sober, even a war can be fun." 😂
I love the comment about his years in the army as a travel experience. It reminds me of a mock recruiting slogan in the US during the Vietnam War years. It went something like: Join the Army. Travel to distant lands. Meet exotic, interesting people, and kill them.
A friend of my grandfather described his time in the 1940's as leaving college to taking a research sabbatical across Africa, Italy, Spain, and France. He had been in the OSS.
It wasn't until I was much older that I understood what he was talking about. Unfortunately he passed away before I was able to talk to him in depth about what he did.
I remember that one, the one I had read "Participant in the Great SouthEast Asian War Games "
@@jameswilliams3241 Ah, yes. The level of creativity back then was impressive.
A ditty from my youth:
"Join the Navy
and see the world!
But what did I see?
I saw the sea!"
I thought like that when I was in the Navy during the Vietnam war..I was lucky enough to have been assigned to a Naval air VP squadron and I did get to see the world ...I was drafted into the army but was able to enlist in the Navy. We chased Russian submarines around.
These stories make the worse traffic commute something to look forward to as a learning experience…
Thanks so much
And what things did you learn dear sir.
Thanks, big history buff here. Peacetime American Veteran... cold war era. Facinating to here the German perspective in English. Thank you
The part at the end about having to choose between the truth and your life under Hitler's dictatorship is spot on. Resistance was almost impossible--and usually fatal.
This book is , Franz Frisch - condemned to live
This guy was all over.
The places and experiences were not the same as others we have heard from in previous stories.
Appreciate it.
General Guderian experienced much travel also. Except to the Kremlin in Moscow's perimeters. At least he saw 👀 the Kremlin's domes thru his field glasses
"If you are never completely sober even a war can be fun" I've been to war and have never really chewed on that one. Thinking on it now...VN 1969-1972 .USMC
Another brilliant yarn. Thank you. Please keep them coming.
Love the world War 2 stories
I do also because I'm a historian and I love to learn about people. I don't blame this at all on the German people at the time because they were so so desperate after World War one because the government kept printing money and they had massive inflation and somewhere around 25 or 30 million or more people were unemployed in Germany.. it was worse actually after the stock markets crashed in America and then got worse after the Great depression..
Adolf Hitler was evil and always believed himself to be supreme but he was crazy.. he was very very manipulative & yet he had a gift supposedly for speaking and writing. When people like those in Germany are so desperate for Hope and help, they completely fell under his spell by believing that he would come along with the nationalist socialist German workers party and rise Germans up from the ashes and it might take a long time in a progress but they will be the greatest nation on Earth etc etc... People have a hard time understanding how people could be so evil towards the Jews but not everybody was even though the majority of Germans were because they were simply brainwashed into believing that the rich Jews were bankers and they were the ones who essentially were the pigs who made them poor. Ninety-nine percent of it was pure BS!!! It did not matter because one-by-one Hitler and the Nazis were capable of dehumanizing these people to the German people and blaming them for all of Germany's problems and it angered the Germans so much that they hated these people.. it's really so sad that it happened & I don't understand how overtime Hitler had them believing that the Aryan race was the most supreme etcetera etcetera but I don't think that he did that until Germany Rose above the financial ruins and they were doing so much better off.. once Hitler and the Nazis did fulfill a lot of what they promised between 1930 and 1934, little by little Hitler and the Nazis started making them believe that the Jews were pigs and the Slavic people were pigs etc etc.. it's really really sad but a lot of Americans voted for FDR in 1932 because of the desperation from the Great depression but he was a socialist.. Franklin Roosevelt wanted to blow the supreme Court up to 16 justices because he wanted to add more administrative agencies and essentially turn our country into complete socialism.vs being half capitalists and half socialist. His own democrat congress said " no". How the man managed to get reelected for four times is beyond me because usually most people get sick and tired of the same person being in office but I think it was because of the desperation from the Great depression and he blamed the Wall Street crash on Herbert Hoover even though it occurred right after Hoover came into office so it wasn't his fault. The reason it happened was because of marginal stocks and the lack of any regulation on the banking system.
People didn't know that because they were purely ignorant.. even Roosevelt didn't even know that.. the reason he wanted regulations and so the government would have more control &
Strange how, either sooner or later, many men sometimes develop a rosy glow on their behaviour in war, then after repeating it many times, they firmly believe it.
Problem with memory is that it fractionally changes, each and every time it is recalled then re-embedded, so a subconscious need to shed any guilt will influence the direction of memories.
Do you have any personal experience or are you just trying to evoke Hemingway's quote about the "hunting of armed men"? It's not generally "guilt", it's called "trauma". Learn something.
Yes I have personal experience. and some guilt that seems to fade in and out over the years. Trauma is another matter and often different. I did not generalise about all soldiers so do not try to patronise.
PS I got 5 likes for my comment - you got zero.@@Hunter_Nebid
I listen to one of the German soldier's war biographies, he asked himself "why the Ukrainians civilians were so mad at them!" Absolutely clueless! (28 million dead!)
If it does not fit your conception of things i.e. of life, the universe, and everything, you may decide this account is forged, or fake. It rings true to me, true in the sense of being a reasonably accurate translation of a real soldier's account of his experience during the war. I think that these memoirs can serve as a very useful part of a person's education. Take it or leave it.
Very intriguing stories but what are your sources ?
I have about 8 pages of my father's story as a private in the German Air Force. He was in a French prisoner camp. Please let me know if you would like to have a copy.
Echoing the desire for citations--searching google for the text string including the narrator's birth date, place and family history returned no hits. Likewise for a few other strings excerpted from the video. Of course, the original may have been printed in German and the English translations may not have been uploaded onto the web in any fashion a google search engine can access, but this is pretty rare in my experience. WW2Stories--can you provide some background on the source of these narrations?
Thanks. Another Austrian. This one jumps all over the place. First name is Franz.
There is his father and mother surname at the start of audio, owner of channel is keep deleting name of the book and author.
They are deleting them because they may be violating copyrights. Better to keep that under wraps
Interesting and informative. A nice morbid picture 📷 of the cemetery 😇. With the officer's giving the dear dead departed a final send off. Nice descriptions of activities inbetween military operations. Unfortunately for the German military forces. The disillusioned/arrogant leadership in Berlin. Didn't plan for a set back after the quick victory to Moscow failed.. Thus causing severe shortages in vitally needed supplies. As the military operations along the 1,500 miles front did with less & less.
Brain washing, an important aspect of military leaders who seek absolute control.
You might want to realize that current media in the US are saying the same things nearly 100% of the time. Climate change, pandemic, get your shot, orange man bad.
Is this all ai voiced?
Yes. I hate that
yes ... not sure why they're using the error riddled AI English accent when they could just as easily have used the error riddled AI German or Austrian accent
Yes, I don't like this one. @@Marcel_Audubon
This is the least nazi soldier of these war histories yet.
These stories are interesting because they have not been told before. The British and American experiences and everyday life, have been described by Hollywood and endless war stories from the perspective of the Allies. This is new.
Clint Eastwood. Letters from Iwo Jima. From a Japanese perspective.
One of my university colleagues, named Hans, told me his story of volunteering as soon as a farmer came looking for a worker. He said he wanted to get away from the Nasties and their bullying, Leader worship and Prussian drills. He expected to be a slave, but was treated like family. He was occupying the room of the son currently fighting in Europe, and eating with the family.
He liked America, didn't want to be repatriated, hated Germany when he got back, and spent years trying to get back to the US. The story in the video is not merely realistic, I've heard this similar one, in person, from a man with a slight but noticeable German accent, who owns a farm and has a large family in Upstate New York.
I've even wondered if my former colleague was, in fact, the author. He was in the faculty of math and science, but the stories switch between men not named Hans, one from Schleswig-Holstein and another from Austria. Though my German, "war nimmer gut und ist jetzt degradiert und schrecklich!" I can tell the difference between Niederdeutsch and Hochdeutsch.
The chicken farm bit does have an analogous one, boiling the frog slowly.
Was that officer's name Von Perdue???🐔🐔
Why do people just eat the frog’s legs and not the rest?
I refuse to believe any of these are real without citations...
AI reading, not too annoying though. My only gripe is there are big chunks missing as they jump between sections. Maybe to avoid copyright issues?
Convincing and poignant details of day-to-day life on the other side.
A complete citation of the original work would be most welcome (not to mention the very least that intellectual honesty demands!)
There's something wrong with this series. I think that they're in the wrong order or at least this one is. It seems as if this should be the first video in the series.
The title is correct. We STILL don't understand how Germans justified kicking someone's door down, shooting them, then taking over their property, all the while griping about the "struggle" they underwent. It defies logic to this day.
Trump and Co. is your modern answer, they were just in an alternate universe.
@@LDW1961 Chronic TDS must e getting worse now with the election only weeks away, huh?
It's interesting fiction. This guy is not real.
I agree to interesting, but novelization about real people and events can be good, but should be noted.
@@JMM33RanMA Real book, Franz Frisch Condemned to Live: A Panzer Artilleryman's Five-Front War
There is a lot of detail suggesting real sources. It is interesting, and provides views from the other side. Considering the distance in time needs to be done. A too perfect story would also suggest fiction. There are American war stories that are real but seem fictitious, and vice versa.@@bolajibadejo7422
@@bolajibadejo7422 Now we wait and see how long your comment lasts, as others have said the comments identifying the source are getting deleted :D
I have heard a very similar story from a former colleague.@@bolajibadejo7422
(Title)... You mean like 'gas chambers'? ❓❓
Too bad they missed you, lul.
Wow... He fought for Austria for honor.. But he also fought because of the germans..
Are these stories real or are they just AI generated? There’s NEVER any source for these videos. I’m starting to suspect they’re fake.
Well, so far I've identified at least a half dozen of them by listening for the name and doing a Google search for their memoirs. This guy is Franz, no last name yet.
You noticed that too, eh. I was thinking a text to voice program. Some words that a German* speaker would pronounce correctly were mispronounced, and other words are pronounced as if the speaker is a non-English speaker pronouncing by spelling not as a native speaker would. The organization of the content is definitely not German, "Alles in Ordnung!"
*My German was never very good, so I may be mistaken.
Books read by AI
Real. The author and source material will eventually be identified. I don't know why they aren't provided uofront.
I prefer a more linear timeline presentation.
fake
diaries read by AI
@@shanecomeback8296 Who is Al ? Al Bundy? Al Unser ? Al Gore?
Real book, author Franz Frisch Condemned to Live: A Panzer Artilleryman's Five-Front War
Artificial Intelligence
@@buckfaststradler4629
Franz Fisch
I love all of the expert commentary on war from people who have never even sniffed a battlefield.
Why would you 'sniff a battlefield'?.... seems kinda weird, Section 8 worthy, almost........
Strange how, either sooner or later, many men sometimes develop almost a rosy glow on their behaviour in war, then after repeating it many times, they firmly believe it.
Problem with memory is that it fractionally changes, each and every time it is recalled then re-embedded, so a subconscious need to shed any guilt will influence the direction of memories.