Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 8(second last part) of Memoirs of a German POW who was a sergeant in Rommel's Famous Afrika Korps and was captured from (battle of Tunis)North African Theater of World War 2 and sent to pow camp in America, he escaped from Camp Deming, New Mexico, in 1945 and had been on the run for forty years, This is link of the playlist th-cam.com/play/PLGjbe3ikd0XGvh2jAYm7oJwgnbXMQCPEh.html This is the link of Part 1 th-cam.com/video/nRZkMYgceaQ/w-d-xo.html This is the link of Part 2 th-cam.com/video/d6daOoOKlPI/w-d-xo.html This is the link of Part 3 th-cam.com/video/zhCOwneN1Ec/w-d-xo.html This is the link of Part 4 th-cam.com/video/3qlIYQUmmIc/w-d-xo.html This is the link of Part 5 th-cam.com/video/IBdQF7Hzy2g/w-d-xo.html This is the link of Part 6 th-cam.com/video/Z_T2Bu8YD5U/w-d-xo.html This is the link of Part 7 th-cam.com/video/mFeFvHtAnS8/w-d-xo.html We really hope that you are enjoying this series ,We are left with one more episode of this series which we will be uploading today , before we travel to eastern front .
Loving this book. It's clear that this is being read by some sort of text-to-speech reader. It's mostly very good but occasionally glitches out and pronounces simple words phonetically but then will read the same word correctly later. Wondering what causes that.
Fact: I grew up in Rio Del Mar, California, at this time. It's a neighborhood in Aptos. Georg was my neighbor. Yup. Rio Del Mar Elementary School. We still have our house. Oh, and Aptos really is utterly sublime, like Georg said.
@@WW2Tales Can't say I ever met him as I was just 13 in 1970, though I played tennis (badly) at his Aptos Racket Club because friends were members. He mentioned the Haber family, whom I did know, however. I also remember when Bjorn Borg played at Seascape, having just won his first Wimbledon title. It was a big deal at the time. I played at Seascape (also badly) as well. And thank you so much for this series. I've enjoyed every minute.
@inappropriatejohnson Sir thank you so much for sharing your memories from that time ,it must have been fun playing at his Aptos Racket Club and Seascape .Some memories can be so refreshing ,we are very grateful to you for your kind words Sir
I'm former Military ... It would have Destroyed myself Not to tell such a fine Lady , My Wife, My Soul and Partner , what was my secret. For a Soldier , Honesty and Loyalty is Everything ! He was Lucky to have such a Woman at his side. First Lieutenant / Airline Captain ( Ret .).
What a plot twist, him meeting a former German soldier he had fought beside in Africa who thought he recognized him. Certainly had me feeling tense for a bit 😉
Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction... Jogging in California and running into an old Africa corps buddy you can't make that up... These guys were exceptional survivors i find myself hanging on every word rooting for Dennis...i mean Georg
Another mention of Reinhold Pabel, another POW escapee, who planned his getaway based on a copy of Colliers, IIRR, in which J. Edgar Hoover told how the FBI caught escaped POWs. Pabel avoided making those mistakes and eventually ran a bookstore until Hoover's minions caught up with him. I enjoyed his memoir, "Enemies Are Human."
Only killers tried to escape. In Canada we had 1800 German Officers imprisoned at Camp Wainwright, Alberta. Many later imigrated and had farms in Alberta,Canada.
You should have sent Herb Caen a postcard thanking him for the mention in his column and signed it with your real name. He would have gotten a kick out of that.
Though-despite annoyance at the distracting & frequent inconsistencies of the AI generated narration-I too have enjoyed listening to this fugitive’s epic account. I (also) grew impatient for him to reveal his true identity, especially to Jean. It’s amazing that the stress of keeping such secrets didn’t result in serious health issues & an early grave; plus-by prolonging his day of honest reckoning-he (Peter/Denis/Georg) long endured the sort of self-imposed agonies usually reserved for the worst fugitive war criminals. As others have noted, if dramatized, this tale would make for a riveting mini-series!
"@frankhawthorne3616, we appreciate your understanding despite the narration quirks. Your insights into the fugitive's epic account and the suspense around revealing his identity echo the sentiments of many. Your appreciation has been noted, and we're thankful for your engagement!
This has been fascinating. I have been listening to Whiles’ story for hours today. But I have to ask if the reader is an AI voice. I ask because common names and phrases are pronounced in odd ways. On point he pronounces “1950’s” as “one nine fifties”. Also Whiles’s wife, Jean is pronounced in different ways as “Gene”, “Shawn” and “John”.
I find it appropriate that by this point in Georg's story,...the escaped POW status is so far in the rearview mirror his arrest feels nearly comical. Nineteen years as a German national versus forty years as a U.S. taxpayer.🙄
It’s a great series although I guess the FBI were not so smart because one would think that someone would have thought to look at his background and see what it showed.. skiing and tennis and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that’s were to look .. but they didn’t
@joesphbest3120 Sir, Unfortunately that's the end of his memoirs as he his memoirs (book) got published in 1985,there is not much information on internet about his later life other than his Wikipedia page ,here is the link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Gaertner
Living in California I've always wanted to retire on the coast. To me it's the best weather in the United States. He reminds me of every white liberal in California. They love to get involved in matters like illegal immigration but then run back to their pricey mostly white neighborhoods to escape the high crime of areas with high diversity. Oakland/Richmond have become the result of their policies but they don't dare live there.
it is a robot reading. The off-beat syllable emphasis is to encourage listeners to come to the comments and say something about it. This is picked up by TH-cam as user engagement and helps further promote the video.
I remember casting, reeling, casting as i walked around a lakeshore, ahh a missed take, a fish lost, cast, cast, turn a corner and meet a fly fisher on a point, a girl maybe a year or two older than me. Dry fly fishing, she'd caught one trout, missed two, and taught that sunset would be best. To do that im missing the 2nd last Bus, 4 1/2 Miles away. She was the current Ms Ireland. Lol She called me 14 when i was 17, i guessed that sye was 19. I was right, lol, what a beautiful smile. I continued casting, reeling cast cast casting. The French Girl's. I met two older girl's one day by a River, they wanted fishing line, a bait and they had teased wool from their own jumper's, with these 3 ingredients they caught crayfish every cast, often 2 or 3 because of the wool strands snagging the crayfishs claws, entangled. A trout head wrapped up in wool strands tied to monofil fishing line.
@h2osmokey Sir, when ever you watch some video ,you will find a link of playlist of that series in video description ,go to that link and you will find all the parts in sequence ,secondly the easiest way is to go to comments section of the video you are watching ,see the first comment (it will be a pinned comment by channel WW2 Tales) ,In this comment you will find the links of all the previous parts of that series ,Kind Regards
Georg is primarily motivated by fear and the second by lust. If there was one person in the whole world to trust at that very moment, it was that one fellow soldat. A simple moment of courage right then and right there could have changed his and that soldier's life for the better. Yet, he would never know. Essentially, the life of fear he lived in was comparable to life under the Stasi. The only difference is that he was materially better off and enjoyed better weather.
are these legit or bots reading a script - they all sound alike and sometimes use weird terms like "one thousand o'clock" instead of "ten hundred hours" or "ten o'clock" etc
This Man lived an interesting life to say the least. I think the author does his share of embellishments. Some in the business call this Toning it up to enhance the suggestion of bravery, intelligence, physical Fighting Prowess,, etc. Seems like he got married to have his wife wash and clean the poop stains out of his underwear.
Yes, this is autobiographical. Even taking this into account, I have to say these things. He became a Californian, not an American. Frankly, this would be a simple mistake for a European to make. Not to insult Californians or California, but yes, there is a huge difference. Yes, I've lived in and yes, I do visit California on occasion. Two. Yes, it's an autobiography and yes, he had special circumstances...but he is a narcissist extraordinaire. Until these chapters I enjoyed his story, but now he just seems...a narcissistic and hedonistic European masquerading as a Californian.
@@brunopadovani7347not really, though I didn't live in California in the '60s, it's more that America is not monolithic, hence the republican style of government i.e. united (yes, a small "u") States of America. I've lived (and been stationed) all over the nation and seen some of the world, and the one thing that Americans used to have in common is the appreciation that folks in one area have a very different outlook and culture than those in other areas of the nation. Yes, little "u", not big "U". Ye olde "I'm an Alaskan before I'm an American." Georg's outlook is very European in the sense that he equates one part of the nation to the others; he also relies upon stereotype to gain his sense of identity.
@@timmethyyou've completely both missed my point and showed evidence proving my point. The point is, the USA is not monolithic. The priorities, dreams, and lifestyles of a typical Californian are vividly different than those of a typical Alaskan, Texan, Iowan, or Floridian. Vividly. Especially towards the role of government. The point is, that there is no such thing, on a cultural level, as an American in quite the same way that there is a German (even though there are some very subtle differences in regions) or a Frenchman. Our identity, at least outside of California and the other states which dominate federal politics, is with our states first. If you don't believe so, some Saturday night go wear a California bear flag t-shirt to a honkytonk in Abilene.
This whole story is very interesting...too interesting to be true, in my opinion. He was afraid of...what, exactly. He wasn't a war ctiminal. He'd been an NCO, just another dogface. The FBI's Most Wanted List? Years after the war ended? By 1960 interest in the war was fading, if it still existed at all. We had fought a second war, Korea, and were now entering a third, Vietnam. One has to wonder why a man who portrays himself as being very successful, very American, did not simply seek the services of an imigration attorney. It makes no sense. Didn't even tell his wife? His story does hold one's interest, but eventually loses it completely.
@somethingelse4878 Sir hope you are doing good ,we knew you were awake so thought of to drop the last two videos today (the first one little earlier ),have a great weekend ahead Sir
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 8(second last part) of Memoirs of a German POW who was a sergeant in Rommel's Famous Afrika Korps and was captured from (battle of Tunis)North African Theater of World War 2 and sent to pow camp in America, he escaped from Camp Deming, New Mexico, in
1945 and had been on the run for forty years, This is link of the playlist
th-cam.com/play/PLGjbe3ikd0XGvh2jAYm7oJwgnbXMQCPEh.html
This is the link of Part 1 th-cam.com/video/nRZkMYgceaQ/w-d-xo.html
This is the link of Part 2 th-cam.com/video/d6daOoOKlPI/w-d-xo.html
This is the link of Part 3 th-cam.com/video/zhCOwneN1Ec/w-d-xo.html
This is the link of Part 4 th-cam.com/video/3qlIYQUmmIc/w-d-xo.html
This is the link of Part 5 th-cam.com/video/IBdQF7Hzy2g/w-d-xo.html
This is the link of Part 6 th-cam.com/video/Z_T2Bu8YD5U/w-d-xo.html
This is the link of Part 7 th-cam.com/video/mFeFvHtAnS8/w-d-xo.html
We really hope that you are enjoying this series ,We are left with one more episode of this series which we will be uploading today , before we travel to eastern front .
So when does the next chapter in the post?
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Loving this book. It's clear that this is being read by some sort of text-to-speech reader. It's mostly very good but occasionally glitches out and pronounces simple words phonetically but then will read the same word correctly later. Wondering what causes that.
Incredible story, should be a book maybe even a movie. I've been anxiously waiting for every instalment of this diary.
Thanks for you kind words sir ,will be uploading the last episode after around 2 hours
I’ve been hanging on every word!
@Bammrie Sir we just uploaded the last video of this series .
Yes there is a book on Is life
I read a book on his life's experiences.
Fact: I grew up in Rio Del Mar, California, at this time. It's a neighborhood in Aptos. Georg was my neighbor. Yup. Rio Del Mar Elementary School. We still have our house.
Oh, and Aptos really is utterly sublime, like Georg said.
@inappropriatejohnson Sir did you ever meet him in person or ever got a chance to talk to him ,if yes please share your memories
@@WW2Tales Can't say I ever met him as I was just 13 in 1970, though I played tennis (badly) at his Aptos Racket Club because friends were members. He mentioned the Haber family, whom I did know, however.
I also remember when Bjorn Borg played at Seascape, having just won his first Wimbledon title. It was a big deal at the time. I played at Seascape (also badly) as well.
And thank you so much for this series. I've enjoyed every minute.
@inappropriatejohnson Sir thank you so much for sharing your memories from that time ,it must have been fun playing at his Aptos Racket Club and Seascape .Some memories can be so refreshing ,we are very grateful to you for your kind words Sir
I'm former Military ...
It would have Destroyed myself Not to tell such a fine Lady , My Wife, My Soul and Partner , what was my secret.
For a Soldier , Honesty and Loyalty is Everything !
He was Lucky to have such a Woman at his side.
First Lieutenant / Airline Captain ( Ret .).
This would be a wonderful mini-series.
@TheJosephca Completely agreed Sir
Thank you for posting this!!!!!
@actualdavidhenry Sir , Our pleasure!
@WW2Tales Post more of them. I'm hooked
@actualdavidhenry Thank you so much Sir, we just uploaded the last video of this series .
What an incredible experience
A fugitive German POW playing tennis with Herb Caen and Robert Stack- you couldn't make this up!
What a plot twist, him meeting a former German soldier he had fought beside in Africa who thought he recognized him. Certainly had me feeling tense for a bit 😉
Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction... Jogging in California and running into an old Africa corps buddy you can't make that up... These guys were exceptional survivors i find myself hanging on every word rooting for Dennis...i mean Georg
@audioworkshop1 Sir just like you even he was confused himself whether he was "Georg" or "Dennis " 😀
It sounds like the kind of luck , I would have .
I am looking forward to the last in this series and of the new series to follow.
@MrMikey4026 Sir we just uploaded the last video of this series .
What an incredibly moving story. ( this is now 2023 , some 70 good years after the cloture of a very similar path , what a SMAL world !!
A member of the Afrika Korps becomes a Hippie? I've seen Drunks become Preachers but nothing as extreme as that. Another excellent story. Thank You
Another mention of Reinhold Pabel, another POW escapee, who planned his getaway based on a copy of Colliers, IIRR, in which J. Edgar Hoover told how the FBI caught escaped POWs. Pabel avoided making those mistakes and eventually ran a bookstore until Hoover's minions caught up with him. I enjoyed his memoir, "Enemies Are Human."
Only killers tried to escape.
In Canada we had 1800 German Officers imprisoned at Camp Wainwright, Alberta.
Many later imigrated and had farms in Alberta,Canada.
You should have sent Herb Caen a postcard thanking him for the mention in his column and signed it with your real name. He would have gotten a kick out of that.
You realise that this is an historical diary read by an AI narrator?
Though-despite annoyance at the distracting & frequent inconsistencies of the AI generated narration-I too have enjoyed listening to this fugitive’s epic account.
I (also) grew impatient for him to reveal his true identity, especially to Jean. It’s amazing that the stress of keeping such secrets didn’t result in serious health issues & an early grave; plus-by prolonging his day of honest reckoning-he (Peter/Denis/Georg) long endured the sort of self-imposed agonies usually reserved for the worst fugitive war criminals.
As others have noted, if dramatized, this tale would make for a riveting mini-series!
"@frankhawthorne3616, we appreciate your understanding despite the narration quirks. Your insights into the fugitive's epic account and the suspense around revealing his identity echo the sentiments of many. Your appreciation has been noted, and we're thankful for your engagement!
Absolutely intriguing.
@firstdaywithnewbrain2504 Thanks a ton Sir
We really enjoy your videos.
Very kind of you sir 😊
Incredible story.
@MegaINSELAFFE So kind of you sir
This has been fascinating. I have been listening to Whiles’ story for hours today. But I have to ask if the reader is an AI voice. I ask because common names and phrases are pronounced in odd ways. On point he pronounces “1950’s” as “one nine fifties”. Also Whiles’s wife, Jean is pronounced in different ways as “Gene”, “Shawn” and “John”.
I find it appropriate that by this point in Georg's story,...the escaped POW status is so far in the rearview mirror his arrest feels nearly comical. Nineteen years as a German national versus forty years as a U.S. taxpayer.🙄
Thank You
@craigmiller8154 Sir, You're welcome
It’s a great series although I guess the FBI were not so smart because one would think that someone would have thought to look at his background and see what it showed.. skiing and tennis and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that’s were to look .. but they didn’t
I am reeally enjoying this. Is the robot narrator based upon Mark Felton?
@scottsullivan1464 No Sir
Okay I now have to see a picture of Georg Gaertner all hippie'd out..... Thanks for putting down this rabbit hole
The story leaves you hanging, what happen to him after he told his wife? Did he go to jail or deported?
@joesphbest3120 Sir, Unfortunately that's the end of his memoirs as he his memoirs (book) got published in 1985,there is not much information on internet about his later life other than his Wikipedia page ,here is the link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Gaertner
Why doesnt TH-cam send notifications fornthis channel. Im set up for "all", but i never get a notification.
@specom that's very strange sir
Living in California I've always wanted to retire on the coast. To me it's the best weather in the United States. He reminds me of every white liberal in California. They love to get involved in matters like illegal immigration but then run back to their pricey mostly white neighborhoods to escape the high crime of areas with high diversity. Oakland/Richmond have become the result of their policies but they don't dare live there.
I’ve been absolutely loving this story.. however I have a question. Why are many words mispronounced almost like it’s a robot reading?
it is a robot reading. The off-beat syllable emphasis is to encourage listeners to come to the comments and say something about it. This is picked up by TH-cam as user engagement and helps further promote the video.
I remember casting, reeling, casting as i walked around a lakeshore, ahh a missed take, a fish lost, cast, cast, turn a corner and meet a fly fisher on a point, a girl maybe a year or two older than me. Dry fly fishing, she'd caught one trout, missed two, and taught that sunset would be best. To do that im missing the 2nd last Bus, 4 1/2 Miles away. She was the current Ms Ireland. Lol She called me 14 when i was 17, i guessed that sye was 19. I was right, lol, what a beautiful smile. I continued casting, reeling cast cast casting. The French Girl's. I met two older girl's one day by a River, they wanted fishing line, a bait and they had teased wool from their own jumper's, with these 3 ingredients they caught crayfish every cast, often 2 or 3 because of the wool strands snagging the crayfishs claws, entangled. A trout head wrapped up in wool strands tied to monofil fishing line.
Does your comment have anything to do with this story?
I remember meeting a neighbour an old Nazi, not like Georg G but a Hitler follower. Takes a generation to soften.
I absolutely love this, but I can’t help but wonder if Georg is a sort of Walter Mitty…
That was Björn Borg's first summer in the US, when he had just turned pro, which Borg mentioned in his book published in the 70s 😌
Not Herb Cahn or Cayenne, folks. The columnist's name was pronounced "Cane".
What follows this?
@h2osmokey Sir, when ever you watch some video ,you will find a link of playlist of that series in video description ,go to that link and you will find all the parts in sequence ,secondly the easiest way is to go to comments section of the video you are watching ,see the first comment (it will be a pinned comment by channel WW2 Tales) ,In this comment you will find the links of all the previous parts of that series ,Kind Regards
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The fellow Soldier on the jog. God telling him to stop being such an asshole.
Georg is primarily motivated by fear and the second by lust.
If there was one person in the whole world to trust at that very moment, it was that one fellow soldat. A simple moment of courage right then and right there could have changed his and that soldier's life for the better. Yet, he would never know.
Essentially, the life of fear he lived in was comparable to life under the Stasi.
The only difference is that he was materially better off and enjoyed better weather.
I guess AI has trouble with pronunciation. How else to explain the crazy ones that keep popping up in these videos.
This guy made so many wealthy contacts. Nobody I know has a dime.
are these legit or bots reading a script - they all sound alike and sometimes use weird terms like "one thousand o'clock" instead of "ten hundred hours" or "ten o'clock" etc
Sometimes the past can reach out and catch you
To hide yourself for a lifetime?
Great series; but the AI text-to-voice reader needs better training! The constant mispronunciations are annoying.
Is this AI narration?
#8
Interesting story, but your computer needs to learn how to read.
This Man lived an interesting life to say the least.
I think the author does his share of embellishments.
Some in the business call this Toning it up to enhance the suggestion of bravery, intelligence, physical Fighting Prowess,, etc.
Seems like he got married to have his wife wash and clean the poop stains out of his underwear.
Yes, this is autobiographical. Even taking this into account, I have to say these things.
He became a Californian, not an American. Frankly, this would be a simple mistake for a European to make. Not to insult Californians or California, but yes, there is a huge difference. Yes, I've lived in and yes, I do visit California on occasion.
Two. Yes, it's an autobiography and yes, he had special circumstances...but he is a narcissist extraordinaire. Until these chapters I enjoyed his story, but now he just seems...a narcissistic and hedonistic European masquerading as a Californian.
In the 60s Californians were very much American. Less so today. Those fringe groups in the 60s have become mainstream today.
@@brunopadovani7347not really, though I didn't live in California in the '60s, it's more that America is not monolithic, hence the republican style of government i.e. united (yes, a small "u") States of America.
I've lived (and been stationed) all over the nation and seen some of the world, and the one thing that Americans used to have in common is the appreciation that folks in one area have a very different outlook and culture than those in other areas of the nation.
Yes, little "u", not big "U". Ye olde "I'm an Alaskan before I'm an American."
Georg's outlook is very European in the sense that he equates one part of the nation to the others; he also relies upon stereotype to gain his sense of identity.
California has been a state in the us since 1848. How is it not american? Alot of american culture and innovation came from here.
Californians are Americans just like the residents of any other US State.
@@timmethyyou've completely both missed my point and showed evidence proving my point.
The point is, the USA is not monolithic. The priorities, dreams, and lifestyles of a typical Californian are vividly different than those of a typical Alaskan, Texan, Iowan, or Floridian. Vividly. Especially towards the role of government.
The point is, that there is no such thing, on a cultural level, as an American in quite the same way that there is a German (even though there are some very subtle differences in regions) or a Frenchman.
Our identity, at least outside of California and the other states which dominate federal politics, is with our states first. If you don't believe so, some Saturday night go wear a California bear flag t-shirt to a honkytonk in Abilene.
This whole story is very interesting...too interesting to be true, in my opinion. He was afraid of...what, exactly. He wasn't a war ctiminal. He'd been an NCO, just another dogface. The FBI's Most Wanted List? Years after the war ended? By 1960 interest in the war was fading, if it still existed at all. We had fought a second war, Korea, and were now entering a third, Vietnam. One has to wonder why a man who portrays himself as being very successful, very American, did not simply seek the services of an imigration attorney. It makes no sense. Didn't even tell his wife? His story does hold one's interest, but eventually loses it completely.
Oh that's a surprise, its 5 hours early, being 5pm uk
this book is not on amazon uk ebooks and only used for £100s on the us one
@somethingelse4878 Sir hope you are doing good ,we knew you were awake so thought of to drop the last two videos today (the first one little earlier ),have a great weekend ahead Sir
@@WW2Tales Thank you
keep up the hard work
Sir your kind words and appreciation make our day 🙏