I'm really enjoying listening to these, but could you throw different photos throughout the story so we will have more things to look at😂 I know I know typical American never satisfied
As an Army aviation vet, and current naval Jet mech, I listen all day to historical documentaries, this makes my co workers insane as they play music and I have an earbud in one ear. Lol learning is key and I love these diaries
I have been absolutely enjoying these. I listen almost every night. I love the stories about operation Barbarossa from the German perspective! Keep up the great work, thank you!!
@@mygafferif so, the AI narration is definitely one of the best narration devices I’ve heard. I’m hoping the stories are what is inferred-real stories and not AI generated; this is becoming more possible and if so should be stated as that. Peace out!
@@arlysshenry3619 - The stories are all real accounts, either published years ago as books or diaries after the war. Only the narration is computer generated, not the content itself.
I like how he gets into the hygiene and daily uniform care here. It hasn’t really been on the other series. It’s also hard to imagine Germans doing leisurely things and playing soccer in the middle of Stalingrad
In case you don't know about it already, look up the christmas truce during ww1. Enemy soldiers becoming friends for a day, exchanging gifts and playing football. Good things happen, even in the living hell a war is.
The number of tanks and soldiers that were lost in a typical day is unbelievable..Anyone who survived such a day of carnage is incredible . Keep up the stories.
Alright folks, I found the book this is from. Great book! At Leningrad's Gates: The Combat Memoirs of a Soldier with Army Group North by William Lubbeck
Reading that book, I came across a passage that described how German military units were organized, it answered a few questions I had. I'm taking the liberty of quoting the passage: "Since the size of different military subunits varies among armies, it is perhaps worthwhile to outline briefly the composition and relative strengths of the infantry components in the German Army in 1940. A squad consisting of 10 soldiers was the smallest operational unit, and a platoon of four squads was the primary subunit of a company. A regular infantry company contained about 180 men, though specialized companies could be significantly larger. Each battalion contained four companies, while each regiment included three battalions and two specialized companies. An infantry division was made up of roughly three infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a battalion with antitank weapons, a reconnaissance battalion, a headquarters unit, and support troops, possessing a total strength of approximately 17,000 men. Above the divisional level, the corps, army, and army groups varied greatly in size and composition."
I always wanted to know what the typical German soldier in the Whermact was thinking, and even the SS memoirs are xa part of history not to be ignored. Thank you.
The 88s were the most powerful field gun in WW2. It was a transitional field gun that used flak for planes and cannon used for tanks, infantry and bunkers. It was easily moved with a crew. When Germany started using them in the king tiger tank, it was a death sentence for any other tank, infantry or bunker on the battlefield. The Germans were and still are geniuses in war tech especially now when the battlefields today are now high tech drones who do all the work that once was human.
38:12 "In my experience news from home was one of the most significant factors shaping the soldiers ability in combat" Perhaps when later in the war when the news from brought word of the destruction of German cities by British and American bombers, the ability of the German soldier in the field was emotionally hampered in a way one does not often hear about.
I've known Hamburgers who have told me of whole families, whole streets taken out in a night. I have also witnessed where 2 first cousins finally got to meet again, He had been an intern in Ireland, she had been an orphan who was sent to Australia, the family had a very rare name, "Poggendorf" which I believe means fish or fisher's town. The Woman was my then Australian Girlfriends Mother, the Man was a school friends Father and a friend of my own Father who had got lost in his bomber and had crash landed in Eire. Growing up in Dublin I knew 3 such families of Men who had preferred to stay in Ireland than return to Germany in 1946.
@@davidb8539 What "War" wasn't "Brutal"?. My First Introduction To War Was What My Grandfather And His Brother's And Cousin's Did To Each Other In Cork, Waterford And Wexford. Some People Need "No Reason To Enjoy Killing". Fact, And We Irish Are NO BETTER At It Than Any Other's. In Both The DOING And The JUSTIFICATION.
@@davidb8539 I remember my grandfather Martin O'Leary trying to explain the Irish Civil War to me. He had served in Both Wars in Firstly an Irish Regiment and in the Second World War he served with a group of friends, Ealing Studio's friends who referred to themselves as "The Jokers". My take on the Civil War Was.......I would have been Pro Treaty, as Grandfather was, unlike His own Father and Twin Brother. A Twin Brother with a VC from Belgium, 1915!. Think about that David?
Can't get enough of your lovely Scottish accent! Would be so perfect to have a Scotish Lassie as a girlfriend. Would love for her to just keep talking forever! Thanks for the content!
I wonder how the reading of a soldier's mail must have felt for the Censor, another (no doubt) military person whom, at the rear echelon had no 'real' connection to their fellow soldier's activities at the Front. I wonder too how much it affected the sender, and receiver if the content was deemed 'questionable' as the war progressed?
I have been trying to follow this narration with a map; not very successfully. That is until I read the Wikipedia article about the Siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) The author kept mentioning "Uritsk" which I could not find on the Google map. The Wikipedia article mentioned Uritsk which is now called Krasnoye Selo. It is located in the is a municipal town in Krasnoselsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia. It is located south-southeast of the city center. I am not sure how rural this area was in the early 1940's.
My father-in-law told me that he once asked a Catholic priest he was very good friends with, how he kept his sexual urges under control. The priest told him that he added 1 teaspoon of saltpeter in his coffee every morning.
@@mikedx2706 It's not AI or fiction. The channel uses actual war journals. I'd just like to know which one because I like looking for what happened to the narrator before and after the war, if there's any information.
Alright folks, I found the book this is from. Great book! At Leningrad's Gates: The Combat Memoirs of a Soldier with Army Group North by William Lubbeck
From: "@ronwarren4196 18 hours ago Alright folks, I found the book this is from. Great book! At Leningrad's Gates: The Combat Memoirs of a Soldier with Army Group North by William Lubbeck"
Interesting and informative. Good picture 📷 enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Professional class A research project!!! Special thanks to veteran soldiers/civilians sharing personal information/combat experiences making this documentary more authentic and possible. Fighting /perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible. That's true grit style determination to succeed. Fortunately for the Russians. The disillusioned/Berlin leadership didn't seem to care about the predicaments/hardships. Of the eastern front forces. Inadequate winter clothing/fuel/food supplies & the likes. Remember the failed Luftwaffe air lift to rescue the 6th army in Stalingrad. After 1943 general Zhukov slowly repulsed/advanced. Inadequate supplied German forces could no longer repulse the over whelming Russian forces.
More memoirs from North Africa please or basically any other theatre of war other than the Eastern front - every episode is the same or has the same content .
I have no respect for the cause of the German offensive on Russia, but I can’t stand their enemy and would say they were just has inhumane than the German high command! The army were just following orders which I can respect, but the ss divisions were on the same level as the Russians!
I try not to judge people if I haven't walked in their shoes.They all went through hell and life meant very little to them .There are good and bad ones on all sides.Stalin and Hitler were paranoid evil men.
@@erichughes284Hitler is considered the most evil man of all time yet oddly Stalin’s K/D (almost entirely against his own citizens no less) would make Adolf’s sphincter pucker.
Baloney. January 1943 they lost both Stalingrad and North Africa. Then in July 1943 they lost at Kursk. From then on it was the Red Army all the way to Berlin.
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Hi Ladies and Gentleman. I hope you are all well. This is part 3.
I'm really enjoying listening to these, but could you throw different photos throughout the story so we will have more things to look at😂 I know I know typical American never satisfied
Keep up the work man. This has been such an incredible way to pass my time at work and beyond informative. Thank you!
Agreed
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I work construction and listen to these videos everyday. They are the best keep them coming
As an Army aviation vet, and current naval Jet mech, I listen all day to historical documentaries, this makes my co workers insane as they play music and I have an earbud in one ear. Lol learning is key and I love these diaries
I have been absolutely enjoying these. I listen almost every night. I love the stories about operation Barbarossa from the German perspective! Keep up the great work, thank you!!
The narration is superb and the story’s are familiar from a veterans point of view! Keep up the good work!!
I think it is computer generated
@@mygafferdefinitely is, trained on panzer ace
@@mygafferif so, the AI narration is definitely one of the best narration devices I’ve heard. I’m hoping the stories are what is inferred-real stories and not AI generated; this is becoming more possible and if so should be stated as that. Peace out!
@@arlysshenry3619 - The stories are all real accounts, either published years ago as books or diaries after the war. Only the narration is computer generated, not the content itself.
William Lubbeck is still alive today. He is 103 years old
I like how he gets into the hygiene and daily uniform care here. It hasn’t really been on the other series. It’s also hard to imagine Germans doing leisurely things and playing soccer in the middle of Stalingrad
Soldiers can find a way to have fun in the worst of places.
In case you don't know about it already, look up the christmas truce during ww1. Enemy soldiers becoming friends for a day, exchanging gifts and playing football. Good things happen, even in the living hell a war is.
yes, the 88 mm canon could penetrate kv-2s they remained powerfull enough troughout the war
No KV-2 survived the war. They were easy targets for the 88's because of their height.
The number of tanks and soldiers that were lost in a typical day is unbelievable..Anyone who survived such a day of carnage is incredible . Keep up the stories.
What a grand discovery!!! Wonderfully entertaining and enlightening!
Alright folks, I found the book this is from. Great book!
At Leningrad's Gates: The Combat Memoirs of a Soldier with Army Group North by William Lubbeck
Reading that book, I came across a passage that described how German military units were organized, it answered a few questions I had. I'm taking the liberty of quoting the passage:
"Since the size of different military subunits varies among armies, it is perhaps worthwhile to outline briefly the composition and relative strengths of the infantry components in the German Army in 1940. A squad consisting of 10 soldiers was the smallest operational unit, and a platoon of four squads was the primary subunit of a company. A regular infantry company contained about 180 men, though specialized companies could be significantly larger. Each battalion contained four companies, while each regiment included three battalions and two specialized companies.
An infantry division was made up of roughly three infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a battalion with antitank weapons, a reconnaissance battalion, a headquarters unit, and support troops, possessing a total strength of approximately 17,000 men. Above the divisional level, the corps, army, and army groups varied greatly in size and composition."
Thank you
Fascinating - such a visceral description of front line warfare.
I always wanted to know what the typical German soldier in the Whermact was thinking, and even the SS memoirs are xa part of history not to be ignored. Thank you.
Homeboy got crabs from a toilet seat 😂😂😂😂
There is SO MUCH unheard of info in these stories.
The 88s were the most powerful field gun in WW2. It was a transitional field gun that used flak for planes and cannon used for tanks, infantry and bunkers. It was easily moved with a crew. When Germany started using them in the king tiger tank, it was a death sentence for any other tank, infantry or bunker on the battlefield. The Germans were and still are geniuses in war tech especially now when the battlefields today are now high tech drones who do all the work that once was human.
Why not tell us something that we don't know?
@@trickydicky2908 Fair Enough
38:12 "In my experience news from home was one of the most significant factors shaping the soldiers ability in combat"
Perhaps when later in the war when the news from brought word of the destruction of German cities by British and American bombers, the ability of the German soldier in the field was emotionally hampered in a way one does not often hear about.
I've known Hamburgers who have told me of whole families, whole streets taken out in a night. I have also witnessed where 2 first cousins finally got to meet again, He had been an intern in Ireland, she had been an orphan who was sent to Australia, the family had a very rare name, "Poggendorf" which I believe means fish or fisher's town. The Woman was my then Australian Girlfriends Mother, the Man was a school friends Father and a friend of my own Father who had got lost in his bomber and had crash landed in Eire. Growing up in Dublin I knew 3 such families of Men who had preferred to stay in Ireland than return to Germany in 1946.
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg "Would you like to go home and fight in a brutal war or stay here and get the craic for a while?"
@@davidb8539 What "War" wasn't "Brutal"?. My First Introduction To War Was What My Grandfather And His Brother's And Cousin's Did To Each Other In Cork, Waterford And Wexford. Some People Need "No Reason To Enjoy Killing". Fact, And We Irish Are NO BETTER At It Than Any Other's. In Both The DOING And The JUSTIFICATION.
@@davidb8539 I remember my grandfather Martin O'Leary trying to explain the Irish Civil War to me. He had served in Both Wars in Firstly an Irish Regiment and in the Second World War he served with a group of friends, Ealing Studio's friends who referred to themselves as "The Jokers". My take on the Civil War Was.......I would have been Pro Treaty, as Grandfather was, unlike His own Father and Twin Brother. A Twin Brother with a VC from Belgium, 1915!. Think about that David?
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg you have misunderstood me sir, my quote was simply highlighting the luck of surviving the war and being in Ireland
Another one! Best wishes with it all Sir.
Thanks so much for your work!
Thank you.
23:08, actually, he appeared on page 8 of Revaler Zeitung, April 2, 1942.
Can't get enough of your lovely Scottish accent! Would be so perfect to have a Scotish Lassie as a girlfriend. Would love for her to just keep talking forever! Thanks for the content!
that's no Scottish Accent, it's a middle class English accent
I wonder how the reading of a soldier's mail must have felt for the Censor, another (no doubt) military person whom, at the rear echelon had no 'real' connection to their fellow soldier's activities at the Front. I wonder too how much it affected the sender, and receiver if the content was deemed 'questionable' as the war progressed?
Great story as always!!!👍👍👍
I have been trying to follow this narration with a map; not very successfully. That is until I read the Wikipedia article about the
Siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) The author kept mentioning "Uritsk" which I could not find on the Google map. The Wikipedia
article mentioned Uritsk which is now called Krasnoye Selo. It is located in the is a municipal town in Krasnoselsky District of the
federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia. It is located south-southeast of the city center. I am not sure how rural this area was in
the early 1940's.
I agree. Keep up the excellent work.
The anti-libido drug was called Hängepulver by the soldiers.😢
My father-in-law told me that he once asked a Catholic priest he was very good friends with, how he kept his sexual urges under control. The priest told him that he added 1 teaspoon of saltpeter in his coffee every morning.
Can we get the full name of the diarist and/or the name of the diary? My usual detective work has come up short this time.
Agreed; is this the diary of an unknown German soldier or the fictional diary of an unknown German AI author?
@@mikedx2706 It's not AI or fiction. The channel uses actual war journals. I'd just like to know which one because I like looking for what happened to the narrator before and after the war, if there's any information.
@@mikedx2706 I have read this book but can't place it's title or author.
Alright folks, I found the book this is from. Great book!
At Leningrad's Gates: The Combat Memoirs of a Soldier with Army Group North by William Lubbeck
"Over time, war hardens your heart, and leads you to do brutal things that you could never have imagined yourself doing in civilian life" 22.31
Very good.
Where are these coming from? What is the name of the memoir?
From:
"@ronwarren4196
18 hours ago
Alright folks, I found the book this is from. Great book!
At Leningrad's Gates: The Combat Memoirs of a Soldier with Army Group North by William Lubbeck"
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Lubecker? His last name? Or is he from Lubeck? First name is Wilhelm.
William Lubbeck
Yet again I ask, any sources?
By summer 42 the war was lost. Russian manufacturing plus manpower plus the beginning of lend lease doomed the effort.
Interesting and informative. Good picture 📷 enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Professional class A research project!!! Special thanks to veteran soldiers/civilians sharing personal information/combat experiences making this documentary more authentic and possible. Fighting /perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible. That's true grit style determination to succeed. Fortunately for the Russians. The disillusioned/Berlin leadership didn't seem to care about the predicaments/hardships. Of the eastern front forces. Inadequate winter clothing/fuel/food supplies & the likes. Remember the failed Luftwaffe air lift to rescue the 6th army in Stalingrad. After 1943 general Zhukov slowly repulsed/advanced. Inadequate supplied German forces could no longer repulse the over whelming Russian forces.
1:57 Czech T-34s
This guy got so lucky surviving this shit…
Very interesting.
True, my Helmut had not much interest
More memoirs from North Africa please or basically any other theatre of war other than the Eastern front - every episode is the same or has the same content .
I didn't know Germany used Fahrenheit in WW2
I don't think they did. It was just added in for the benefit of people in countries that still use Fahrenheit.
I have no respect for the cause of the German offensive on Russia, but I can’t stand their enemy and would say they were just has inhumane than the German high command! The army were just following orders which I can respect, but the ss divisions were on the same level as the Russians!
I try not to judge people if I haven't walked in their shoes.They all went through hell and life meant very little to them .There are good and bad ones on all sides.Stalin and Hitler were paranoid evil men.
@@erichughes284Hitler is considered the most evil man of all time yet oddly Stalin’s K/D (almost entirely against his own citizens no less) would make Adolf’s sphincter pucker.
@@sonsofthewestredwhiteblue5317 I agree Stalin was the worst of the two evils .
@@sonsofthewestredwhiteblue5317I agree with you but the thought of Adolf's sphincter is too much.
@@erichughes284Stalin was worse but AH literally started the war?🤦♂️🤡
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Oct 1941 the war is over for Germany .
Baloney. January 1943 they lost both Stalingrad and North Africa. Then in July 1943 they lost at Kursk. From then on it was the Red Army all the way to Berlin.
Start Barbarossa was beginning of the end ….
A 2 front war is a recipe for disaster.
@@tgwcl6194 Yep
@@fritzthecat3150 yes it was the supply lines were Way way way too long, especially on the eastern front with all that severe weather
88s
What these Russians did with dogs shows their lack of having a soul.
Just like what the Germans did to the Jews, right?
This pales in comparison with what the German Nazi did with their German shepherds in the camps
This pales in comparison with what the SS did with Russians.