The Americans Are Coming We Are Helpless (Ep. 1)
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Follow the journey of a young person during World War II. They left school at fifteen and by the time they were eighteen, they were driving a Tiger 1 tank in the Wehrmacht Heavy Panzer battalions. Learn about their story surviving the Battle of Halbe in April 1945 and how they escaped from being surrounded by the Red Army. This video gives a special view of what it was like for those who served in the last tough days of the war. Find out about the sacrifices, difficulties, and strength this young person showed while leading attempts to break free.
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Part 2: • If We Fall Now The Ame...
Part 3: • We Fought Bravely But ...
Part 4: • We Will Take These Ger...
Part 5: • The German Girls Start...
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Even an average man wrote like a Nobel prize winner back then.
Perhaps you don’t realize that these average men you speak of sold their raw manuscripts to publishers who hired professional writers to turn the manuscripts into polished books. This was very common during the post WWII era as soldier’s stories were being published by the thousands. In addition, foreign language books were translated, edited and revised by publishing houses for American audiences. You’re just flat out wrong with your nostalgic claim about the past. Perhaps someone has convinced you that yesteryear was superior to today? You’ve been manipulated by your own misguided thinking and prejudices about the present day.
They definitely had the panache with propaganda back in the day I grant you that 😅
@@jonfoulkes3160 well I don't know what you mean with propaganda. This was just a journal entry from an everyday soldier :)
@@chrisdraughn5941 LOL! Ok well take a chill pill bro. I didn't know that. There's no need to get on a soap box about it.
@@billyb4790 Sorry man, that was me on a rant about old men who rant about the past being better than today. I’m an old man myself and throughly disgusted by old men in general.
It is true America didn't fight alone in Europe and the Russians took the most casualties. The reason their casualty rate was so high was because of poor leadership starting with Stalin, you don't use your men as cannon fodder. It is true Russia and the allies saved Europe from fascism but communism was no better.
The Soviets used (and still do today) a simple calculation as military doctrine. If you send a strong and expensive tank into battle against an enemy tank of equal quality, the result is 50/50. If you are able to send 5 or 6 cheap tanks instead (with only slightly higher production effort and costs than a high end tank), you lose 3 or 4 and the others go all the way to Berlin...the result is ALWAYS a victory... ..;) In Germany it was said: "If we polish the weld seams on our Panther, the Russians will push the third T-34 out of the production hall." The Soviet tank superiority at the time of the Cold War was 12:1(!). Scrap tank and outdated, but dangerous in mass. (If you even have some good tanks in reserve - hell yeah....) Even today, Russian tanks are disposable tanks that cannot be easily repaired even on the battlefield. That's not what they're built for. Of course, this isn't nice for the crews of the destroyed tanks. But this doctrine is exactly what a huge empire like Russia, with all its natural resources and production capacities, needs. The German soldiers called it the "Gummizellensyndrom" (rubber cell syndrome, or padded cell syndrom) when the "Ivan" repeatedly and stubborn attacked the front in a wide aera with high losses...again and again...until a soft spot gave way and at that spot was then the masses of tanks concentrated (often without even an enemy tank in the area and only a handful of anti-tank guns) and Berlin was a little closer again... The assumption that this is poor leadership is too short-sighted...It's inhumane and cruel...but efficient..... edit: I remember an anecdote at the time of the space pioneers when American scientists developed a ballpoint pen that also worked in weightlessness - the Russians simply used old-school pencils...^^
Quite true on all counts. Never forget the USSR invaded Poland from the east as the Germans did from the west. Yet, no one declared war on them. Hmm...
Yes the Russians loss the most fatalities. I feel there were many reasons for this. Yes horrible leadership but included the elements, inferior military equipment, starvation, etc... Vast country and endless humans to keep throwing at them.
@@indianasunsets5738The non-aggression pact between Molotov and Ribbentropp was a diplomatic masterpiece...This really caught the French and English off guard, as they themself tried to convince Stalin for a two-front war against Germany - so that they practiced defense for almost a year and Hitler was able to eliminate one enemy after another on the European mainland... Or as we joke here in Germany: Who started WW2? You go first comrade Hitler. We are not quite ready yet......^^
@@ghost4-6Very true. This is Russia's strength. I think I read somewhere that in the event of a general mobilization, 15.5 million soldiers could be put under arms... and in an extreme emergency even twice as much. Probably poorly trained and equipped, but when the numbers are so absurdly high in favor of the Russians, they can take over everything with just a club or a spade... :)
a sad and sorrowful story - but that is what you get when you start a world war...
On one hand, you don't feel any sympathy as the Germans committed atrocities from even before the war. On the other, you realize a good chunk of the German military at this point were kids who had nothing to do with those earlier atrocities. It's crazy how you can still feel empathy for your enemy. And the worst part is that civilians on all sides got it the worst. It's crazy that this crap is still happening now. Humans just will not learn from their mistakes.
I once met a guy who was on a single tank told to hold the Hill above Wortzburg Germany. He had a clear view of Pattons tanks coming from the south when they entered the city he could not see the end. The crew abandoned their tank and headed home on foot.
I’m guessing the narrator is AI
What a heartbreaking end to the story. My heart goes out to him.
This is only part 1, check out all the other parts on the channel
Why? They earned this response.
When are you going to number the episodes? They are impossible to follow in any proper sequence.
Look in the description.
@@WW2Stories1 It's a lot easier if you name them --.
@@WW2Stories1 Yeah…that’s not logical at all. The logical thing to do is number the episodes in the title. Seems like you’re view farming by making people search for the episode numbers.
@@josh05683 The episodes are numbered my friend
@@WW2Stories1 Im aware, however in addition you should keep the titles consistent. Don’t change them up after a couple episodes. This way you won’t have to post links to each episode in the comments.
Time warp . The picture at the start was WW1 ? You can tell from the helmet and gewer98 rifle with the large ramp rear sight.
The picture at the start is from the film " All quiet on the Western Front ".
This would be a lot better if you could add new pictures as it goes along.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 it isn't Trump using the justice system to create "trumped" up charges. It wasn't Trump who jailed protestors, even after they rioted and burned cities. Sorry, it wasn't Trump that used Jan 6 as a burning of the Reichstag moment. You should study history more.
While I see where you're coming from, it's not like you'd get pictures if you were reading the book or listening to the audiobook on Audible; not to mention you'd also have to pay for it. You know, gift horses and all that.
Has the narrator read the script to this video beforehand because an 88 millimeter gun isn’t pronounced “80 bamometer gun.”. Such a great story not well known about the 9th army’s dash across the Russian lines to reach the Americans at the Elbe river to save themselves and their best weapon they’re putting so much hope into the success of the operation can’t even be pronounced. Makes you wonder who’s narrating this video.
It’s A I narrated
It’s a computer animated voice. A.I. is the source of most of these videos.
You realize a German Man wrote this diary? This is being translated
AI narration is ruining the platform. How hard is it to get a mic and read a script? People are lazy.
@freshtakesdelicatering5829 you do realized that there is no human reading this story? It's AI,
Those Germans knew how to build a strong tank. Those tigers took a beating and kept on a rolling. The horrors of war. It’s good to hear about what people went through so that if and when it comes our way we may be all the more hardened to those horrors. It’s a thing with humans.
All I can say to these guys is what goes around comes around.
Indeed. You feel bad but then you have to remember the carnage done to the Russian people.
These people treated everyone they crossed like animals so it’s was just karma coming back to them! No way they didn’t know about the holocaust! By fighting for Hitler they where fighting for the death of the jews
Ja kamerad. You started it; the Red Army and Western Allies finished it. No sympathy.
You thought really hard. A Maga man? And a good Christian.
@@paulstewart6293An atheist and I lean left, but not on all issues.
good!
Its true
For your information, the ''w'' in german is pronounced as a ''v'' in english. And the ''v'' in german is pronounced as the ''f'' in english.
It's not "folksvagon" , it's wolksvagon"
It’s an AI reader you bots 😂😂😂😂😂
"Shit !! the Coca-Cola drinkers are here !"
You reap what you sow!
I wonder how many of these “German” soldiers were Ukrainian recruits, definitely reaping what they sowed now huh?
Is this ..2024 ...almost nothing changed..
I regret listening to all five episodes. This same story was told on another site and was far more believable. I am convinced this has been enhanced by AI. It is far too detailed to be believable and appears to be exaggerated for drama.
hi ..do remember what the other site was that you heard the this story?
Can someone please explain to me how countries can work together in one conflict, but against one another in a later one?
Diplomatic relationships changed between Russia and Germany because communism became a thing and hitler wanted more territory for ethnic Germans to live in.. which was land that the soviets held
The leaders are paid very well to create this conflict.
The later one was always coming. There was just more pressing things in the mean time.
You ever watch a Mafia movie?
This will take quite a while.
Ironically, it took a dictator's help to defeat another.
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Don’t follow leaders and watch the parking meters ❤
Title pic is with a german helmet from WWI. Do the work!
My
War is Hell and than some
That's a WW1 style photo in your thumbnail. The helmet is not correct for WW2.
Your right
It's AI his name is HAL
The US and Germany should have went on to Russia.
Patton agreed with you. Said we will be fighting the commies in 10 years anyway. He was right. But nothing can excuse the concentration. Camps, that's the problem with Germany. They claimed they were saving you from Bolshevism. Maybe true. But what about their concentration camps? I can't go along with them on that.
Says a guy who wouldn't have to fight and die if they had.
Stupid comment they had a continent to rebuild not to mention a couple of million Russians who could have rolled Thursday of Europe if they wanted to
China as well but are we any better than communist at this point.
@@justinskeans3342 No, the United States is socialized communism. They threw the Constitution out 40 years ago.
This would be great if you didn´t have an AI doing the narrating
Russia didn't waste any time taking over all the Baltic nations after the war.
WW2 was coming to and end before the Americans entered the war. Winston Churchill said " Russians tore the guts out of the Nazis,80% of all German military's casualties happened on the eastern front." The western allies faced 20 divisions of the German Army in Europe but the Soviet Union faced 200 German Army divisions.
The Russians had Studabaker trucks, 76 mm guns, massive amounts of war materials furnished by the US. Ya forgot to mention that. Plus the Ukrainians went Nazi and did there dirty work in Warsaw.
Check your source. Closer to 60 German divisions on the western front.
In 1944 approx 40% of the German Army was in the west, in the vain hope of defeating the coming invasion.
And yet if it hadnt been for America, western Europe would have been forever occupied by either Germany or the USSR. The British had absolutely zero chance of ever undertaking offensive land operations in any theater without massive American assistance. I have absolutely no doubt that the British Isles could have been defended virtually indefinitely, but no way D-Day happens in June of 1944 or any other year.
@@ianmedford4855without massive American military assistance the Russians couldn’t advance either.
This sounds like wwii fan fiction. Not buying it
It's not important that you do.
Anyone who supports Russia in this current war is insane. 😢
I don’t support either side
@@user-dz7wv6fi5l Then you know NOTHING about Putin. He is the world's worst human-rights-abusing as*hole dictator, invading a sovereign nation without provocation. He is nothing but a mobster. He doesn't even care about merit with his underlings. If they screw up over and over again, as long as they kiss his boots, they make great money and keep their jobs. ANYBODY who doesn't recognize how much he is an evil scourge on the planet doesn't deserve to have a vote. My relatives in Finland took in a young Ukrainian boy and girl whose parents were shot dead right in front of them. The Russian soldiers were photographed. These photos were posted on social media. Putin had them whisked away and hidden from war crimes prosecution. Take a stand!
Stop it with the robot narratives, they don't know how to read. Otherwise it's a good story.
In 1938, the last German soldier was released from a French labor camp. Where were the liberators when 6 million German soldiers were unjustly imprisoned in labor camps? In 1946 France had it. The U.S. invaded Indochina again
Might be a question for the 6 million Jews unjustly imprisoned, tortured and murdered.
Why is this program, too excuse Germans the obermensh???
Pure fiction. 🤢🤮
Propaganda story. Trying to make emotional connection with our enemie how who would not hesitate to torture and kill us. Adding and helping the enemy is treasonous.
That’s exactly what America, the British and the French did. They aided the Soviet Union who by the time FDR formally recognized Stalin’s regime in ‘33 had nearly 20 million Russians and Ukrainians executed. A nation who was hostile to religion, particularly Christianity and sought their death. A nation who made it known to all in the world that they want to liquidate Western Europe and culture. America was in their sight also of nations they sought to destroy Nuremberg trials? Nothing but show trials for the victors to put on a show and project their war crimes and even their own inaction against the Soviet Union by blaming the Germans. Stalin had free rein to place two judges and prosecutors in the trials who helped Stalin execute 700,000-1,000,000+ Russians. With predetermined execution verdicts using torture to obtain their false confessions. Judges and prosecutors who were involved in many atrocities at the thousands of death camps and forced slave labor camps scattered throughout the Soviet Union.
But for the grace of someone’s god there goes the USA if trump is elected 😢
it's biden who put us into this predicament
He already was president!!! Nothing horrible happened.
Troll.
AI narration, automatic 👎.
Maybe trump will save us!!
Trump is the only president that the Russian and Chinese fear. Not that fool Biden!
I always root for the Russians. The nazis and civilians do not deserve my sympathy.
GERMANY; A COUNTRY THE SIZE OF MONTANA, FIGHTING AGAINST THE WORLD FOR 6 YEARS. I APOLOGIZE FOR OUR POOR PERFORMANCE.
Right , they didn't need to fight anyone at that time . They could have disbanded 3/4 of their army and started building cars and motorcycles .
poor performance was death camps and killing innocent people; It is not size but industrial performance, and Germany had plenty; Dont forget your Allies countries that fed lots of troops into your disasterous aggression; and don't forget all the slave labor you used to keep production going, UK and USA did not use slave labor;. Also, you built up a war arsonel in advance ; as soon and USA and Russia geared up for war; you were done for by being overwhelmingly out produced; You were sold a lie, by your leader, and then lead down the path to poor decisions and defeat; as the whole war you fought was based on taking land, taking resources from others, killing innocent people, and thinking you are better than other people . Yes it was poor performance in total, thanks for your apology;
@@gordonlandreth9550 “God created the human being who is as eternal as himself. As God created the German tribes, they will remain. But God did not create the German classes. God did not create the German status groups. God did not create the structures of the past that tore our German people apart. And God did not create the political parties! Because God did not create them, we can with God’s help, shake them off and eliminate them! There is a God. He creates the folks and He fundamentally gives all people the same right. This view that there are only two types of people in the world, those who do have rights and those who do not, this Capitalist-Plutocratic vision will perish! God did not ordain that a few small races should dominate and subjugate three-quarters of the whole Earth and not even be able to provide their own people with basic necessities for life while condemning others to starve! If some idiot Democrat says that we should have not rearmed but we should have worked, we can only tell this idiot: ‘We have already done it! Before we arrived, there was no rearmament, but Germany had seven million unemployed. These unemployed had nothing to eat! And we have integrated these unemployed into economic progress. We did not want to rearm at all but when we saw that these old agitators of war, the same old envious people, were again making preparations to attack us, only then did I rearm Germany and we rearmed her as never before in her history!” - Mustache Man You, my friend, are one of the idiots he is talking about.
@@gordonlandreth9550 Imagine making those comments and not realizing that is exactly what Germany did. Before Hitler, they had millions of unemployed and homeless. They had millions of Germans starving in poverty. When he and his party came into power, the first thing they focused on was their people. They eliminated the unemployment and they eliminated poverty. They eliminated homelessness. Only when the remaining two world conquering empires once again began preparations to involve Germany in another senseless war did the Germans focus on rebuilding their military. Imagine if France and Britain focused on their own people and rebuilding their economy? Instead, the same old warmongers successfully agitated their people against Germany with a vengeance.. they make their wealth through war, after all.
The Americans Are Coming We Are Helpless 😂😂Congratulations to the American soldiers of that time, but they did not fight alone in WW2. Russia freed Europe from fascism.
Only to enslave most of Eastern Europe in the name of communism.
Freeing half of Europe from fascism only to be stuck under the boot of communism is like saying "I've been freed from Jeffrey Dahmer and am now under the care of Ted Bundy".
Yes they did. And then replaced the evil Facism in Eastern/Baltic and other unfortunate former Democratic European states with an even more evil Facism called Soviet Communism that would last until 1991 - when the greatest number of these enslaved Soviet States voted for Democracy and breathed in the sweetness of democratic freedom . The Soviets while yes truly helping free Europe from Nazi occupation betrayed their ulterior motive to the world by Reoccupying as I noted many of those states with their own form of Nazism.
Russia was the biggest contributor to the defeat of Germany. Although once they had seen the Americans coming they knew it was over. The industrial might of the u.s was unrivaled.
And imposed communism which is just as bad