Candy Girl
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2 Much (Chorus:) What I'm missin' And I need in my world Got me …
4 Seasons I've been a-searchin' all this wide world Now finally I've f…
ant d.o.g. She's my woman sticky now And laid in chocolate treats I cou…
Baby Bird Are you the tornado in my sails Are you Jesus without…
Bambee I can't dance alone Will you come dance with me? Let's h…
Bobby V. Hmm Hmm Dat Girl Right There Lookin Real Tasty Man Whoo…
Bobby Valentino I love your candy apple bottom with your milkshake waste pe…
DATS I said goodbye to my little friend as she said at…
Four Seasons I've been a-searchin' all this wide world Now finally I've f…

Frankie Paul I′ve been a searching all this wide world Finally I found…
Frankie Valli I've been a-searchin' all this wide world Now finally I've f…
G-Eazy She's my woman Sticky now And laid in chocolate treats I …
G-Eazy (feat. Greg Banks) She's my woman sticky now And laid in chocolate treats I cou…
G-Eazy Feat. Greg Banks She's my woman Sticky now And laid in chocolate treats I …
hitomi Do you want do what you want candy girl! Do you…
KIDZ BOP Kids My girls like candy, a candy treat She knocks me hot…
LL Cool J feat. Ralph Tresvant & Ricky Bell When you were 17 and I was 19 We feel…
Low Candy girl You sing that song so well Candy girl You try to…
New Edition (rap) My girls like candy A candy treat She knocks me right …
Parov Stelar feat. Vallemarie Tendu, plié Tendu, plié Rond de jambe Rond de jambe Retirer …
Quesh Da Da da da da dum, duh da da da da…
Riverdale Cast Hey, Shawty you're my candy girl, the kind with the…
Shawn Armenta Bring yourself over here Let me watch them yummy buns Walkin…
Soviet i've been searching all this big wide world, but finally…
T. K. SOUL You a real one no cap Swag drip like it's on…
The Four Seasons I've been a-searchin' all this wide world Now finally I've f…
The New Edition My girl's like candy, a candy treat She knocks me high…
Trailer Trash Tracys 7 o'clock and my heart beat stops, my candy girl Worn…
V.O.S Hmm Hmm Dat Girl Right There Lookin Real Tasty Man Whoo…
中島美嘉 like a circus... like a circus... like a circus... like a ci…
中川翔子まっすぐに背筋伸ばしてドーリーピンクのチークで Smile キミの隣おんなじ歩幅で歩いていたい時々ケンカもして仲…
加瀬愛奈おはよう!透明なblue sky なんだか素敵な予感いつもよりちょっとはりきって出かけよう偶然のタイミング装って …

鬼束ちひろ HELLO, IT'S ME まぶたで踊るネオンの誘惑 SHE'S CANDY GIRL こっちを振り向いて HIT M…

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Michał

2y↑3.7K

My grandfather told me a story a lot of times of how his family was nearly killed by firing squad when he was just a kid.
His village in Poland was occupied by the Germans. One morning the whole family (my grandpa was around 7-8 years old then, his parents and grandparents) gets dragged out from the house by a troop of soldiers and lined up against the house wall. A German officer with the aid of a translator proclaimed the village was accused of harboring resistance fighters and they will be executed as an example what happens if you help the resistance.

This was true, the whole village including grandpa's family did frequently feed resistance fighters and couriers and let them sleep in the barn; however, this was not solely from patriotic duty - if you did not help the resistance, your barn and house got burned down in the night.

As the Germans waited for a crowd of onlookers from the village to gather for the execution, the leader of the German colonists ran over and started shouting and arguing with the commanding officer. The village chief vouched for my great-grandfather’s honesty, argued that the Germans were here to colonize not terrorize and needed honest hard working Polish farmers. He also threatened the officer with some family connections high in the Nazi party. The officer finally angrily gave up, but took out his frustration on my great-grandfather, beating him unconscious with a rifle butt. My great-grandpa lost his hearing in one of his ears, but lived long past the war.

As an added twist - it later turned out the accusation of harboring resistance fighters came from a Polish collaborator from another village, who got rejected by a girl from my grandfather's village and wanted to take vengeance. Resistance fighters beat him and burned his farm to the ground.

The story really shows the confusing morality of war. Grandpa was saved from a bad German by a good German, with both good and bad Poles contributing to the situation.

John Deaes

1y↑66

My great uncle fought in this battle.
He was born in 1923 and just 18 years old when he and his friends were sent to Stalingrad in the Summer of 1942.
He would always tell my dad that one time they had orders to attack a factory, which was being held by the Soviets. He would always say that that was the day he saw all of his best friends die right in front of him. He would also talk about the situations were he was engaged in hand to hand combat, telling my dad about the struggle and the slowly appearing white shimmer in the eyes of your enemy, once you take his life.

He also talked about a war crime he and his comrades committed, when they shot and killed their commanding officer. Because that officer didn’t care about the lives of his men, constantly forcing them to attack strongly fortified positions.

He also was awarded his iron cross there for shooting down an enemy plane, which then crashed right into the position of the Soviets.

The one thing that always gets me is when I hear the stories about the winter inside the city. My great uncle said that they didn’t have warm clothing, there was no food. It was so cold the young soldiers would not even notice the tears running down their cheeks from crying, praying, yearning for their mothers.
When new casualties were suffered, they would go out dragging the stiff-frozen bodies of their own comrades into their position and use them as sandbags. When a firefight erupted those bodies would thaw and pervade the air with a foul smell.

In January 1943, he went out of his position, when 4-5 bullets penetrated his legs. His friends took him to the last available airfield and he was fortunate and got flown out of Stalingrad in one of the last airplanes.
Neither his friends, who got him on the plane nor one of his other comrades made it out of there alive. They were all between 19-21 years old.

After his recovery he was sent to France, where he fought in Normandy, Falaise and the Battle of the Bulge. During the latter he was taken prisoner by the Americans and returned to Germany in 1948.

He would never even look at gun again. He passed away at the age of 86 in 2009. He finally found his peace

All comments from YouTube:

TheRubsi

2y↑13.6K

As a German i can tell you that the subtitles don't even come close to portraying the true intensity and meaning of the dialogue.
Powerful Scene

KTR4

2y↑190

Glad to see that you have 18 likes in 9 days. War is crazy and I feel like everyone forgot. Much love

Ada Yada

2y↑53

But this never happened.

TheRubsi

2y↑422

nobody said it did. That doesn't change the fact that the dialogue is different (more powerful) in German compared to the subtitles.

ukspizzaman

2y↑67

As a Norwegian I miss the finer details. But I understand what Germans say.

Sedna66

2y↑53

@Ada Yada It did more times over 😞

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Martinab

2y↑8K

My Polish grandma was shot in front of her building together with her neighbors in a similar fashion in Warsaw during the war. She was a kid and fainted from the shot that went through her. She was later rescued by other neighbors after the soldiers left. Luckily the shot didn't hit any organs and she lived a happy life up until 4 years ago, when she passed away in her sleep.

Smash B

2y↑215

Didn’t ask

ParadoX

2y↑1.5K

@Smash B bruh what

Kotka

2y↑45

how she can be your grandma, if she died when she was a children, before your mother/father was born??

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Alex

2y↑4.1K

My grandfather was part of the Greek resistance, during the war. He was one day given the order to move a German POW (a captured Wehrmacht soldier, I believe) from one village to the next, during the middle of the night when nobody would see them. So off they went, through the fields, in the middle of the darkness. However, after some time they came to a road, where there was some noise of engines and lights approaching, so my grandfather grabbed the German and held him down in the tall grass, but they were only a few metres away from the road. It was a German convoy of open trucks and armoured vehicles and stuff, passing by.

My grandfather immediately pulled out his pistol, held it to the German's head and whispered "if you yell, you die". This was however a known way that some of his fellow resistance fighters had been killed, as previous POWs in this kind of situation had been unafraid to yell out and sacrifice their own lives, just for the sake of the Reich and to have a resistance fighter killed (and perhaps they were done with living as POWs anyway). My grandfather was paralysed with fear because he knew that this German would probably also struggle and call out, despite my grandfather holding a gun to his head, and get them both killed. However, the German POW remained completely still and silent, until the convoy eventually fully passed. They continued their journey.

Once they were in some quieter fields, my grandfather asked him (he had a good level of German): "Why didn't you call out? All the other German POWs who saw troops did and got their captors killed." The German replied with something like: "I come from Bavaria, from a family of 5 sons. 2 of my brothers are dead in Stalingrad and another 2 are dead on the Western Front. I am all my parents have left, but now I have been missing for many months and they'll think I am dead. I hate this war, all it has done is destroy my family and I don't want to fight you. I want us to lose so I can go home and see my parents again.". My grandfather indeed did transfer the German POW to some resistance hideout in the next village.

My grandfather never saw that man again or found out what had happened to him. He accepts that he will now never know, but he hopes that he survived the rest of the war and then made it home. My grandfather has always told me that WWII movies that portray all Germans as evil killing robots are not so accurate; some Germans were terrible war criminals, while others were not. He says that the majority were radicalised with national socialism and followed the orders that they were given, but essentially behaved like professional soldiers. He also said that there were occasionally soldiers who tried to be helpful or kind. They were just human beings, coming in all shapes and sizes, ranging all across the morality spectrum. He also says that the real evil ones were the SS.

Obing Kago

2y↑206

Out of 5 sons. 2 of my brothers are dead in Stalingrad and another 2 are dead in Western Front and I'm all my parents have left.
This words actually hit my heart, kind of brought tears in my eyes.. Even though that German soldier survived and returned home but still they would feel voids in their home and would feel there is suddenly lots of space in home..kind of relatable to me actually..
Just ignore some errors in my English..

legendary frolox

2y↑109

Man those were some terrible times with 60 million people dead, the war crimes, soldiers forced into war, and the people who suffer from it. War truly is hell

Warcodered01

2y↑43

@Obing Kago Saving Private Fritz?

Obing Kago

2y↑24

@Warcodered01 no, it's "Saving Private Hans" 😁

Κυριάκος Μπακίρας

2y↑11

Δυστυχώς οι περισσότεροι στρατιώτες μπορούν να πουν το ίδιο πράγμα με τον Γερμανό. Επίσης, απλα από περιέργεια, ΕΑΜ ή ΕΔΕΣ ο παππούς σου?

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Orthane

2y↑2.4K

One thing that's very underestimated in this scene is how the actual Wehrmacht are all wearing ragged clothes, had to be handed new rifles, are suffering from some frostbite, and have clearly been fighting hard. Whereas the Military Police and SS are all dressed in perfect uniforms without as much as a scratch on their helmets, some of the Wehrmacht don't even have helmets.

Space

2y↑142

Chad German heer

Poopy SS

Tom Servo

2y↑96

But they make them participate to share in the responsibility. Much like the in the movie 'Downfall' where Goebbels explains "We let everyone know just enough what was going on so everyone shares in the responsibility".

Artificial Intelligence

2y↑42

There is no SS in this scene.

Tanzenergise

1y↑9

@Artificial Intelligence can't really tell, you can't see the skull emblem on his hat or his armband.

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Andrei K

2y↑6.5K

I am Russian.
My grandfather fought and I know this story from him.
He was wounded in battle, the battle was won by the germans and he lay wounded, unable to move and watched as a German officer walked across the battlefield and finished off russians wounded by last shoot from his pistol.
My grandfather's turn came, a german officer approached him and they looked into each other's eyes. The officer did not shoot and went on.
So my grandfather stayed to live, then he was a prisoner in Poland. Came back home.
And no one can explain why the officer didn't shoot him.

Gibraltar

2y↑1K

Even in the most dire moments, when man is consumed by the deepest evil, they do not let their humanity fully go away. Because, well, they’re men. Sometimes even a little good shines in the worst of people

Andrei K

2y↑50

@Alex H Мне не понятен ваш комментарий. Кто враги и какого народа?

Stronso

2y↑226

@Andrei K your home country. look at what you have started with ukraine.

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unkultur

2y↑719

3:57 This scene works so well, because even after engaging in an argument with the commanding officer, and even after showing signs of hesitation, remorse, guilt, when the firing order comes, it pretty much sounds like one single shot, as they shoot their rifles in unison. So even though they were neither robots, nor soulless killing machines, they did function as such.

LyudmilaRGVK

1y↑18

They knew that if they did not do as ordered, that it would be their turn next.

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Michał

2y↑3.7K

Pilesos

2y↑160

What a powerful story, thank you for sharing.

Cliche Guevara

2y↑170

My American grandfather spent the war (unknowingly) bombing my German grandmother in Berlin. After the war, she married a British Royal Navy veteran and had my mother. Grandpa married an Italian girl and had my father. I grew up hearing harrowing stories like yours too. It taught me to learn history through the lens of humanity instead of nationality or ideology. I learned to study history as objectively as possible. I don't "take sides" when it comes to war. It sounds like you were left with a very similar impression.

Dream Worlddd

2y↑10

Excatly the same story my grandfather went through in Croatia.

Plipo

2y↑2

@Dream Worlddd Jesi li ti hrvat? Are you Croatian?

Roxus

2y↑19

There is no sides nor unity in war, the cruel will take advantage of it while the honest suffers

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M L

2y↑1.3K

My grandpa fought throughout the whole war for the Wehrmacht. Started with the invasion of France, then later pushed through Belarus. His unit was also tasked with protecting Schwerer Gustav from partisans as it was transported from Sevastopol north to Leningrad. He lived till 96 in Australia, and had what could only be described as severe PTSD for his entire life. I recently watched a documentary on what the Germans did in Belarus (the Bullet Holocaust) and I have pretty strong suspicions that he was involved. My dad was an avid hunter, and would try to get my grandpa to come out with him. My grandpa refused to touch a gun for the remainder of his life, and would have really bad reactions when they were in his presence. He only ever talked about the war once, it was his 80th birthday and he was super drunk, I still remember it even though I was a kid. He said that the most terrifying thing on the Eastern Front was heavy fog. Because heavy fog often meant that the Russians would fix bayonets and he'd probably have to fight up close.

Zloy Myx

2y↑133

In Russia, veterans (those who actually fought, and not clerks with commemorative medals), as a rule, also did not particularly tell anything even to their relatives. It's not a thing to brag about, these scars will never heal. I'm interested in war dramas and have watched a lot of movies and a lot of books on the subject, good and bad. A revelation for me was the book "War Does Not Have a Woman's Face". This should be translated into all the languages of the world, and hammered into the heads of brainless boys before they take up arms and go to the next "fun war".

B H

2y↑79

My Opa too rarely discussed the war but I’d always see him sitting in his chair in the afternoon before dinner with a shaky leg and staring into space clearly remembering
He was a very kindly man who did woodworking with me as a small child and taught me to solder circuits to learn about electricity and taught me German and Spanish
I miss him very much
South Australia

Д Г

2y↑55

That's true about veterans attitude towards weapons, shooting etc. My grandfather got a hunting gun as a gift but never used it, it was laying on the shelf without ammos. And when they were to move to another city, he just disassembled it and thrown the parts away on his way to that another city. Red Army infantry, since 1942 - Stalingrad, Kursk, Dnieper, Budapest, Vienna.

Donald Pump

2y↑42

@Zloy Myx Indeed. Same goes for my granddad who was part of the Wehrmacht and survived the battle of Stalingrad. He would never go into details of what happened and only said once that Stalingrad was a place far worse than anyone could ever imagine hell to be

Dan Rook

2y↑35

My dad was 16 when the Russians invaded Latvia in 1939, he came to Canada at , 18. I remember when he would get drunk with polish, Ukrainian and German neighbors. They would argue, drink, swear, and sing their lungs out. This was in the 80s in Toronto canada

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HeadPack

2y↑1.8K

There is so much value in movies like this one. They convey how war is. My grandpas, both conscripted into the Wehrmacht, one on the Eastern Front all the way back to Berlin, described the horrors in line with that clip.

Gothia

2y↑46

They both made it out of this horror alive ? Wow.
My direct relatives where luckily either too young or too old to get conscripted. But my great uncle served on the eastern front. He also survived because he ate the rotten bread they gave him in the prisoner camp. Many of those who couldnt swallow it died of hunger and exhaustion. And the big love of my great aunt fell at Charkov in 43. She was single for her whole life afterwards, like many german women of this generation. She died in 2017 at the age of 92. I am thankfull to her that she talked about these hard years to me and my generation. My granpa and both grandmas didnt like to talk about it.
Maybe my paternal granma will one day, she is still healthy for her age at almost 90 and the last of her generation in my family. She is such a kind and lovely human being. We still can learn alot from them. If you have relatives who lived during this time, share as many hours as possible with them. They wont be around for much longer. And with them dies a real appreciation for peace.

HeadPack

2y↑16

@Gothia Indeed, one shall learn from them while they are still around. My grandparents are not anymore. They were incredibly kind, just as you are describing your relatives. They were also incredibly hardened. The plight of the women during and after the war would deserve more mentioning. My grandma e.g. was a farm girl in Lower Austria, and remembered how marauding escort fighters, "Tiefflieger" as the were called, shot at everything that moved. Trains, horses, people digging up potatoes. Then, the Russians came. Then, the hunger years.

Turmoil Breaker

2y↑16

Wow, our grandpas ended up with a pretty similar ending, except that mine were with the Red Army. One was injured in the leg on the outskirts of Moscow and sent back home, the other made it through the whole war. None of them talked about it in detail, which I assume is because of the horrors they witnessed

HeadPack

2y↑2

@Turmoil Breaker we shall call ourselves lucky they survived, injured and forever scarred, to share what little they were willing to. At school, I had quite a few class mates whose grandpas fell in the war. Presume you had those too.

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Julia Rittner

2y↑347

I'm a german and my heart really aches for our cruel history. My Dad used to be in the army for a short period. Thank God he never went to war. He told me some things though. And the most evil ones where those officers, the head guards. Most soldiers were just scared for their own lives. They would have gotten killed if they refused an order. Sickening to know how evil some people can be.

Michael Engle

2y↑41

My father was in the US Army during WWII and frequently interacted with German prisoners. Most of them were enlisted 'common' soldiers. He said that many of them were good people...as he said 'they were just like us, 19-20 years old...if we hadn't had orders to kill each other, we could have been drinking buddies." he actually liked most Germans better than most Englishmen

RealKeepa Entertainment(GunnaRealone)

2y↑1

@Michael Engle tzen ehy he shit them and not turn around ore be sanitäter ore some???

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Joel Ewing

2y↑184

My late Uncle from Nebraska was a foot soldier in the European Theatre for the entirety of the war. He told my Dad and I that somewhere in Germany they had taken quite a few German prisoners. The snow was coming down in a near-blizzard and they really had nowhere to stash these prisoners or hand them off for captivity. He said they were made to circle the entire German prisoners....then fire on and execute them. This was done on both sides of the war, and it bothered my Uncle for the rest of his life. He also said that he was on some motorcycle near the war's end and crashed in a field. Unable to move, a German soldier found him. He said he was sure he was going to be executed there as he lay in the field injured, but the German got him up and standing, then righted the motorcycle....got it started....and got my Uncle on it and off he went. My Uncle one way.....the German soldier another. Humanity was realized on both sides. True stories. jbeinarizona

Timothy Takemoto

1y↑5

One thing bothers me... who fires on anyone that they have "encircled"?

David Hudson

1y↑4

@Timothy Takemoto maybe there were in a ditch

Timothy Takemoto

1y↑1

@David Hudson Thanks. Good place to stash them for a while too. Convinced.

wtfgoogle

I just trapped you with a cup of coffee.

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John Deaes

1y↑66

Yeetus Cleetus

1y↑2

What a man he seemed to be, I wish more saw the differences between the army and the SS. My own grandpa passed in 2009 aswell, he fought in the pacific especially in the Philippines. Never told a peep about it unless he was drunk.

John Shepard

1y↑1

That is why your way to young at 18 great uncle and his friends should of consciously objected as i certainly would of if i was alive during that time but i don't know what it was like for a german to object to being sent to fight but for me to be put in a situation where your literally watching your friends die and being in close quarters combat to the death with another young man you don't even know and would probably be ome friends with if not for the war all on the orders of old men who don't give a shit about there young lives really hurts me very deep in my soul that you can make youth do that to each other and ruin there lives as i certainly would not of been your uncle and if i went through what he went throuvh and survived i would most likely of taken my life from the guilt of losing my friends and taking lives of strangers

Prvt. Harumi

Shooting down a plane? Idk bout that man

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Velterian Pact

4y↑7.1K

This film itself is an art. Almost every film makes german soldiers merciless, robots and bastards. The films like Downfall, Stalingrad etc. feels actual ww2.

Deborah Lee

3y↑126

Indeed !!
And also another 2 here :
"Unsere Mutter , Unsere Vater "(Generation War) .& " Napola" ,
are really good films too...totally different from those Hollywooood movies............

it'sMe TheHerpes

3y↑60

try "enemy at the gates" that is a good movie too.

Deborah Lee

3y↑17

@it'sMe TheHerpes yeah! <Enemy at the gates> is also a fantastic film too,
thank you ^-^

Jonathan Allard

3y↑201

@it'sMe TheHerpes Sorry to inform you that enemy at the gates is terrible. It's chock full of myths and bullshite.

it'sMe TheHerpes

3y↑20

@Jonathan Allard the "4 men to a riffle" is not a myth. the red army actually did that.(maybe not at stalingrad, since there was a huge soviet army, very well supplied not only with guns, but also cannons and all sorts of heavy tanks, but i can assure you that the 4 men to a riffle actually happened and i am not giving details now, since it will make the message to long)
then, we have vasili zaitrsev who is also real(i am not sure if the duel between him and the german sniper was real, but v. zaitsev was real and he was a good sniper, and he was used by the propaganda machine)
then we have the famine, and the cannibalism which is also real(russia has cannibals to this day btw, and in the 90's and 2000's when meat was very expensive in russia, many cases of cannibalism were recorded, i can only imagine how many of those who they didn't catch are there)
the movie is over all good, it has a good plot, it was well made, and it also shows human nature, the communist system problems and all that.

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GAALUUB

2y↑649

My grandfather was a heavily wounded young civilian in 1944 Slovakia by red army mortar fire.
He was saved by a German medic who kept visiting him and treated his wounds.

૨σ૮ҡεƭ ɱαɳ

2y↑73

My grandfather was the father of my father

GAALUUB

2y↑41

@૨σ૮ҡεƭ ɱαɳ no doubt

S.

2y↑14

This must be a lie, this kind of people didn't exist, as all the russian comments say here all the time...

ondrej polievka

2y↑3

One my grand-grandfather was captured during uprising in 1944 and another was fightning in East Front in 1941/42 and later he fought in Italy. Both of them came home after war

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Apollo Creed

2y↑419

My grand father was one of the ones who was captured in stalingrad, he survived on any rations he could find such as horse meat.
The Soviets sent him to a gulag, but he escaped by foot in 1949 from Eastern siberia, over Mongolia, through to Nepal, and then from India he caught a cargo ship to Germany. Then emigrated to Argentina.

He suffered alot during the war, his 3 brothers killed at stalingrad, france (1940), and Libya.

His father killed in the battle of Berlin for the volkstum.

Killgore 2010

2y↑10

Wait... OK as I'm hearing this I'm making the biggest mistake asking this but if he was captured by Soviets I have to assume he was German soldier right? A nazi? Please explain what you mean by that?

Soham Mitra

2y↑52

@Ewagg Ayo wtf

grabol1982

2y↑1

Ha Ha Ha

DNS-Freakz

2y↑9

Worth a movie ngl

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Izaak De Jager

1y↑147

This comment thread is a goldmine for amazing war stories. Obviously they describe horrifying things but I am fascinated by them. Thank you all for sharing. My only war story is this: my grandfather lived in the occupied Netherlands. He was conscripted to work in a factory in Germany. He avoided deportation by hiding in a wheat field. The story goes that before he left the house to go hide, his mother gave him a kitchen knife and said "don't be afraid to use it". These are basically gentle peace-loving Christian peasants we are talking about. It just goes to show how brutal the war was, that a mother has to give her son instructions like that. And this story is nothing compared to many in this thread.

MatuSSisko

2y↑249

I watched german Stalingrad documentary from 2003, mostly veterans from both sides talking about their experience and after that I watched this movie.
It was like their stories came alive right there on the screen, the similarity of the movie and their experience was unbelievable.
Hats down to the whole film crew of the 1993 Stalingrad - true gem among war movies.

David Powell

2y↑6

I believe that movie was quite realistic,only that in reality there were many more dead bodies of starved and froze to death around than shown in the movie. Both Russian and German. Some stacked like cordwood.
Also the movie doesn't get in to depicting the cannibalism that occurred. Although,like our heroes,most did not engage in it.

Grosvner Mcaffrey

1y↑1

I highly recommend Downfall 2003 forget the memes and jokes that movie has the balls to show Adolf as a human love him or despise him he still had emotions and wasn't a cartoon

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Papillon

51w

man the dialogue in this scene is absolutely amazing you can feel everything in their words its crazy!

paponeable

2y↑19K

My Father and his brother’s life’s were saved by a German soldier who said ( probably - nobody spoke German) that in the hole in the ground were they were hiding there was nobody: he lifted the wood that covered the hole ( there was in there 6 children - my dad and my uncles) , he had eye contact with them and then the officer yelled something at him. He said “ no “ also shaking his head, left the wood that went back to cover the hole… , and he left.

Nashiuz Zaman

2y↑3.1K

If there is a God and Heaven I hope that German soldier goes to Heaven for this act alone

adreamingwolf

2y↑292

@Nashiuz Zaman Would that absolve them of all the other killing they probably did?

Jim Butler

2y↑1.9K

@Nashiuz Zaman Instead of wondering about mystical, you could honor him by Learning from his example in your life.

I believe that’s what he would want.

Nativus

2y↑2K

Isn't that crazy, that this act is one of the main reasons you're alive today.
That is just mind blowing, god bless that soldier man

radu radu

2y↑293

@adreamingwolf it would

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Matthias Schmitt

2y↑66

My grandfather lost an eye to a headshot in Russia but survived. Back in Germany, he was supposed to work as a guard in a concentration camp, but he refused. I've always wondered why he wasn't arrested or killed for it himself. Maybe that shows that his direct superiors weren't brutes either, but that things got worse the higher up the hierarchy people got. That's how I understand the quote I read somewhere: "In war you see young men dying and you hear old men talking."

AppleCakeLover

1y↑4

You weren't forced to work in concentration camps, that's the only thing the Nazis didn't do. Probably to save Morale, but rules are different on the front...especially on gruesome ones like Stalingrad

Artur Kwaszyn

I recently read Hannah Arendt's "A report on the banality of evil" (strongly recommended btw). She said, and this were her words, that you wouldn't be punished for refusing to work in a concentration camp, or in anything related to murder. It just didn't happen - it's a myth that it did. Now, refusing orders, is a different thing, but she also said that people weren't always punished for refusing to follow orders.
Is that true? I am in no position to say. But your story confirms hers.

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Robby Castillo

2y↑67

My grandfather told me a story about his time in the Japanese-occupied Philippines during WWII. On both sides, he worked as a cook/kitchen helper. He would work in the US camp during the day and then return to the Japanese camp in the evening. When the Japanese discovered this, they imprisoned him in a small cage. My grandfather was probably between the ages of 12 and 15 at the time. He managed to flee, but the Japanese guards pursued him and shot at him. They missed, possibly on purpose.

Anuron Guha

2y↑3

what do you mean by possibly on purpose?

Robby Castillo

1y↑11

@Anuron Guha they didn't want to hurt him or kill him.. they got to know him

Blank Blank

1y↑5

Your grandfather sounds like a hustler. Respect.

Ruy Neto

1y↑1

Well, shoot a cook in the middle of war sounds really bad idea.

Mike Perth

This was and is one of the most powerful films I have ever watched.
The hopelessness on both sides is stripped raw for all to see.

Anonim

2y↑61

My great grandfather was part of the second hungarian army that were forced in battle by the germans. He told my grandpa that all of the armies struggled there and no people could eat properly. He never made it back home, but I am proud to be a descendant of a soldier who fought only for his family, and to get back to them

Anonim

2y↑2

@anton eckhart Better world ? I am sorry but i do not know what you mean

noimnotnice

2y↑4

Forced in battle. Lol. Hungary was part of the Axis and fought beside the Germans. Hungary made large land gains and eagerly joined on the USSR invasion after the Russian Kisoce air raid. No need to be ashamed of being a German ally, don't lie about the past.

Lubosh Camber

2y↑3

@noimnotnice
Hungarians are well known for this in surrounding countries. Their "historians" are like that as well, trying to rewrite the history all the time... And then the common people simply copy the pattern.

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KnightOfNi

1y↑23

As a German, I would also like to say something. My great uncle served in the war but never talked about what he did. His sister, my grandmother, often talked about how her parents helped hide Jewish people in the basement of their barn and bring them to safety. It is a bizarre situation, the great uncle on one side at the front and on the other side his family helping the other side as much as they could.
My great uncle received several awards, hid them and showed them to no one. We found them in a box when we cleaned out his house after his death. The only one he told about the war was my uncle. He told how he had to kill. He had to kill because he was afraid. My uncle was homosexual and was very afraid that it would be found out. He was an ordinary man who had handled the war well at first glance, but my uncle showed me that it was nothing but a facade. When I visited my great uncle once, he gave me a big stuffed lion that still sits around in my bedroom. My great uncle looked so unimpressive, hiding everything from me even though he went through hell. The second world war brings with it endless guilt and I want everyone to know how much Germany is trying to remember the terrible deeds of the second world war and to create a conscience that such a thing will never happen again.

Keller Powell

1y↑2

Thank you for this. May he rest in peace.

Brotherhood of Steel

2y↑4.9K

My grandfather was part of a truck division that carried medical supplies, he was ambushed by some Wehrmacht youth. He thought he was going to die, but they just wanted to eat his chocolate. Then they waved him through. He carried Hersey kisses for passengers in his glove box as an homage until he died 40 years later.

kazarmageddon

2y↑27

So there was already chocolate existing back in the 40s?

Marcus Holloway

2y↑632

@kazarmageddon I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not

Exhoost_Fume

2y↑291

@kazarmageddon are...are you serious my guy?

Emuish

2y↑26

@Exhoost_Fume Is it sarcasm or not..

Exhoost_Fume

2y↑46

@Emuish you're asking the wrong person, I'm not sure either

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Joel Wesley

2y↑60

The poor gentlemen closing his eyes did it for me. I shed a tear for those souls and hope that they are all in a better place, considering everyone who has been subjected to the horror and decimation of war. This was tough to watch.

Random Clips Military

@Tom Mitchell Nice job threatening you could easily go to jail for that go do some therapy

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christpunchers

2y↑633

The camera angles, editing pace, color grading, post production makes it look like a mid 2000’s film

Tr8la

2y↑31

There was no color grading back then. They achieved this look in camera

M

2y↑3

The sound is awful though.

Osiris

2y↑29

@M the sound is fine, pretty clear, decent depth

M

2y↑4

@Osiris not really. It's unsynchronised. It almost looks like a dub from asian films.

ShotoKimakaze

@M well back then they didn't have recording, microphones, etc. Than today 2022

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SSE4

1y↑8

One of the best war movie of all time, it's really show you how horrible the war can be. When men said "war is hell" they aren't exaggerated even a tiny bit.

Svetlana Davidson

2y↑94

Я не смотрела это кино, но обязательно посмотрю. Немецкие солдаты сожгли моего прадеда живьём. Более 200 деревень были сожжены вместе с жителями в Белоруссии. Эта боль сих пор близка даже моему поколению. Нас учили что пока мы помним о войне, мы не начнём новую. Мир всем.

Discoboy

2y↑5

На эту тему снят отличный фильм про Нацистов в Беларуси. - "Иди и смотри"

Klaus Krüger

2y↑1

Добрый день. Я немец, и я хочу сказать вам, что я прочитал ваш комментарий. То, что вы написали, меня сильно шокировало. Но я хочу, чтобы вы знали, что большинство немецких солдат были обычными людьми, которых заставили участвовать в этой войне. Мало кто был садистом. Как и мой дедушка, они были просто счастливы выжить.

Вселенная 2.0

2y↑13

@Klaus Krüger Те из немцев, кто были обычными людьми, были убиты или помещены в концентрационные лагеря, как антифашисты. Либо дезертировали или пускали себе пулю в лоб, если не желали убивать мирных людей. Ваши слезливые рассказы про ангелов в форме Вермахта, которых "просто заставили, а они не хотели убивать", абсолютно лживы и не производят впечатления.

Plexpara

2y↑3

believe me.your soldiers did horrifiyng things here in germany too.the sad thing the winner write the history and you may will never see this.
i can tell you storys from my grandma and other olds i knew

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Władysław

1y↑1

My great grandfather was a colonel in the 303 squadron. He was shot down 3 times in a bomber and survived. After he crashed some Germans noticed and hunted him. Surprisingly my grandfather shot most of them down and played mind games with them. When he shot down the first one he showed the polish flag on his military uniform, the second one he said there were mines everywhere, and the 3 one he trolled him a bit then shot him. His name is Jakubowski.

CarpaccioSalad

2y↑3K

My Great Grandfather was harboring a small jewish family in his attic in Amsterdam during the 2nd world war, when germany invaded they searched every single house in all the neighborhoods, one young german soldier was sent by his officer up in the attic to search it and actually saw one of the kids up there.

The officer asked what was taking so long and the young soldier lied, saying there was nothing and he just wanted to get a good look. He whispered to my great grandfather's ear when they were leaving to better hide the children next time...

If it weren't for that soldier i probably wouldn't be here today.

NetherWolves

2y↑59

Damn! Did you guys find the name of the soldier?

Fragile Omniscience

2y↑223

@NetherWolves The thrill of legends is that they mustn't be known, yet their efforts will always be.

NetherWolves

2y↑38

@Romeo Exzellenz what do you mean by that

Artur Skupien

2y↑5

Is it true that dutch police gave to german officials the whole Jewish registry, just after the nazi troops took the Netherlands?

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Marty Mcfly

2y↑26

Absolutely fantastic movie! Absolutely realistic, about the bloodiest battle of World War II! It conveys a lot of sensations. Honor to all the soldiers who died in the war!
Greetings from Italy

John F. Kennedy

2y↑26

My grandfather was in WWII and saw much combat (he told me). In the early 70's a fire devastated many veteran records; miraculously, from what I ascertained some, all or, most of his records survived the devastating fire which bore out some of the stories he told me before his death at 88. Thinking the best way to describe it; such then his unit arrived at Berlin and was supposed to siege the remaining part of it [I deduced this]. He never made it far before being wounded with strict instructions to the Army not to tell his family that he was hospitalized. That one story I was never told. He is buried in a National Cemetery.

Ray S

2y↑2

John, I knew the guy who ran the new records center in the 1980's. The rumor was that the fire was somehow related to covering up documents concerning people involved in Watergate.

John F. Kennedy

2y↑2

@Ray S Ray, Could be. Am no expert on that, but studied the Cold War. Thanks for your unique comment.

jeanne Mulvihill

2y↑18

The actor that played the Officer was absolutely magnificent. Pure evil. He stole the scene.
My hat is off to you Sir.

Iustus Ira

2y↑235

As Russian i highly appreciate this film. One of the greatest films about WW2, its mostly about humanity and people but not about tanks/shooting/planes and other "boom-boom" staff that hollywood ( for instance ) is filming nowadays.

Carlos Garcia

2y↑21

Now Russian soldiers will do the same in the Ukraine. WTF is wrong with Russia?

कुमार निशित

2y↑9

@Carlos Garcia how are you so sure ?

Death Shock

2y↑3

@कुमार निशित Watch the news comrade.

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AV zeolla

1y↑2

I can’t believe these things happened only 80 or so years ago. My father is 80. He grew up in a small village in Italy. My grandparents told me stories about when the German soldiers marched through their small insignificant village they treated my ancestors like shit. They destroyed everything in their path.
I feel for those families who had family members assassinated like this. It is so much worse than our experience. It is so sad.

Кто? Who?

2y↑3.6K

I am Russian. My grandmother was a child during the war, and she was saved by a Wehrmacht soldier. He hid her, when they were executing the whole village, by burning people alive in the barn. Some people too strong to be forced to kill their humanity, and it saving lives.

gant 696

2y↑199

Just hope that that soldier got to see the end of the war.

Junior Postman Coelophysis

2y↑60

May that jerry be liberated by the American or British troops.

nightsage217

2y↑49

And let's hope in this cruel world, small kindness prevails and ripples far till what's left of humanity.

A Can Of Bacon

2y↑27

@Dedushka Mazay unfortunately, this kind of cruelty is a very common story in WWII. My grandfather and his family had to hide from soldiers who would’ve either sent them to labour camps or shot them.

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sick9990101

2y↑103

What makes this scene special is that according to the German soldiers' law, which also applied between 1933 and 1945, the refusing to carry out criminal orders was not only possible but mandatory. There have been cases where orders for such killings have been refused and there have been no consequences. Of course, far too few individual cases, officers who gave such orders were also prosecuted.

ImmortalBP

2y↑12

well for things like this the superior officers would pick the soldiers that were sick and twisted who likely enjoyed doing such things so thats likely why reports of soldiers speaking up are uncommon. as for superior officers who spoke up against these atrocities they didnt need to be killed or criminally punished as they would just relieve them of duty and replace them with somebody more "like-minded" to their agenda. also this was wartime so im sure many incidents just went unreported.

sick9990101

2y↑8

Milan Kraguljac this shows that you have no idea what you are talking about. I was referring expressively to the "Soldatengesetz" which expressively forbid to execute illegal or criminal orders. That this was too often ignored I didn't deny. Get yourself educated before getting involved in grown up debates.

Commie Hunter

2y↑2

Milan Kraguljac juu had to do Manual labor😲😲.... Of course they cried about it

Aaron Burr

2y↑12

My father was a combat veteran. He said if an officer ordered you to shoot a woman or child, you should refuse. If the officer threatened you, he said you should shoot that officer. I told him "But you would then be killed." He said "Son, some things are worth dying for."

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Vertex 2G

2y↑79

I’ve met so many survivors with amazing stories in my 23 years of life. Even my great grandparents told me loads about their days during ww2.

Not one of the 43 people giving me their story made it barer able to listen to.

James Banbury

2y↑3

That's amazing you met so many, I haven't met any and I'm 33

keeemon

2y↑2

i know a couple of stories from my family but none are still alive cause scots dont live long, some of the stories are brutal

Vertex 2G

2y↑1

@keeemon I agree. Ww2 was one of the most fucked up wars there could have been

Vertex 2G

2y↑1

@keeemon I completely agree man, my great gran hand a hand nade thrown in her soap by a nazi and a younger nazi ran in and saved her

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slick willy

1y↑3

I was a restaurant manager back in the 90's. We used to have this elderly couple who came in at least once a week. He had an old faded number tatooed on his arm. I always believed that he was Jewish and was in a concentration camp but I was always too afraid to ask. You just never know what someone's reaction might be.

big turkey

2y↑13

My grandfather was conscripted into the wehrmacht, specifically the Kriegsmarine. He was from Holland. He felt incredible shame for working with the Nazis, but at the time there was mass starvation and he needed to feed his family. My father would tell me his shame was so bad he wouldn't even speak about the war. I'm glad there are movies that show that the common troops were often just following orders or trying to make a living.

ulysees321

1y↑4

Very powerful scene, war is tragic never forget those that lost their lives in ww2 on all sides

Claudio Bachler

2y↑3.1K

In my opinion, Stalingrad (1993) is the second best WW2 movie after Das Boot. It has a few more minor flaws, like some weird cuts and some dialogues that feel a little bit too scripted, but captures the reality of war almost perfectly.

Mickey Drago

2y↑14

Das Boot 8.3 Internet movie database

Stalingrad 7.5...

Mickey Drago

2y↑39

Is there some reason you wouldn't like saving private Ryan more than Stalingrad?

8.6

Claudio Bachler

2y↑179

@Mickey Drago Saving Private Ryan (SVP) is really good, especially the beach landing scene gives a very good impression of how it must have felt to be a soldier in such a situation. SVP had a much bigger budget, so the battle scenes are more impressive from a pure cinematic/production point of view, while the Stalingrad ones are good enough (they saved a bit for example in the amount of background actors/soldiers)
But SVP develops more into telling a story, it's not so much about the horrors of war (apart from the battle scenes), about the desperation of the soldiers, about their inner conflicts. Of course war at the Eastern Front was much worse, so SPR couldn't really show for example big war crimes without being historically incorrect.
From pure entertainment value, SVP is the better movie for the mainstream, hence the higher imdb rating, but for showing how devastating war is to those involved, civilians and soldiers, Stalingrad does a better job.

The Bussy President

2y↑131

@Mickey Drago popularity does not equal quality

VirtualRussian

2y↑95

Come and See

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Gavin Dowell

2y↑14

Some brilliant work of film right there only 5 minutes long and it really brings out several emotions all at once, confusion, fear, anger, anxiety but also a glimpse of hope only for it all to be once again replaced with another emotion of shock and almost pity. The way this ended though gave me a laugh with the guy who ejected the bullet.

Brilliant piece of film.

exospace man

2y↑198

This is the first time that I actually have a positive feeling to the German soldiers I always used to think they were bad and evil because of the portrayal from the allies but seeing this movie makes me feel not all aren’t they were just following their orders and sometimes not wanting to because they think something that they don’t want to do is wrong
it shows that no one is the good or bad guy we’re humans fighting Against ourselves

T D.

2y↑6

You have to think about that the germans how hagve the orders also where soldiers. (I'm not judging over others, I'm german myself)
Its just so: germans gave orders to germans.
I think true is: humans where fighting against ourselvs and not every german where bad, every allaied where bad.
But its also to easy just to say there was nothing like good or bad.
Many people did many bad things and when they did it they become bad people, on many occasions in the war and through the war. The war was a vehicle of many many bad things in the first place, and by starting it the germans did a great thing to start all that bad to happen... but truly then, they werent just all bad and all there enemys good, in these vehicle all could be both.

ChadRatBoi

2y↑11

My grandpa got drafted into the last ditch effort, the Volkssturm. He just had his 15. birthday. A lot of the Wehrmacht have been assholes, but a lot have just been young people forced into this.

My great grandad was in the artillery and they deserted in 1944 and moved from the eastfront to the americans to surrender. He was travelling with some front infantry men which had seen enough. On their way home they run into an SS checkpoint which told them to return to the front. The Infantry men killed the SS Checkpoint crew and headed further west. Especially towards the end, most people didnt believed in the third reich anymore.

It is important to learn from history, otherwise you are doomed to repeat it.

Offroad man

2y↑20

I am from Latvia. My old folks lived in countryside and used to tell some stories. One of those is when Germans came, they politely asked a farmer if they could garrison the barn. They purchased some meat and grain now and then. They shared their candy with little kids and chocolate with farmers teenage daughter.
Then the Germans went away and warm heartedly recommended farmer to do the same. Farmer did not leave his farm. Well, then russians came, and farmer had to go to live in the barn. They killed all the farm animals and made a feast and shared their wood with farmers teenage daughter. Farmer went to the town for supplies and two russian soldiers went to escort him, because "bandits in the forest". Only the soldiers returned from the town, bandits attacked them and killed the farmer - good thing one of them soldiers managed to salvage farmers wristwatch he kept as nice memory of the nice farmer.

standoff

2y↑3

@Offroad man Latvian BS as usual. Russian soldiers would be shot for that. Even back then soldiers realizes latvians as USSR citizens.

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David Cisneros

My grand uncle was lined up and shot during the war. Bullet went through him and he fell back into the snow, the snow got packed into the exit wound, froze and stopped the bleeding. He survived

Kurt Bilinski

2y↑85

My father was in the army in WWII, in Holland, France, and Belgium. He said one time that most of the German solders "were just scared kids like us." Obviously others had different experiences, but yeah, they weren't all soulless killing machines.

jungle 🌴 gym bali

2y↑8

Like my german father
Sent to kill with age 14

Gareth

2y↑10

@Tom Mitchellplease, putting Trump up there with dictators that killed millions or even hundreds of thousands is ridiculous.

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Nachgebaut

My gran grandfather was a soldier in the French Army recruited in Algeria and was forced to fight in WW2.
He was there to get rid of corpses after a battle.
He survived, tho died some time later back in Algeria after coming from being forced to cook for French soldiers.

Team Kuuki Food & Games

2y↑1.2K

My great grandfather was a conscripted soldier that fought for the defunct Japanese empire and he knew of certain units that were utilized for tasks that dealt with executions (he implied that it was both millitary and civilian groups). He and other conscripts were not usually trusted with those tasks because of lacking some sense of "honor" or some kind of spirit of a warrior, and it was explained to him that these executions were for responsible and honorable soldiers (of course pure Japanese). My great grandfather like many others knew it was just BS. It was blatant illegal and immoral acts which that regime wanted to bury deep.

Darien McNew

2y↑20

This was actually really interesting to read

Klaus Schwab’s hubris.

2y↑6

Thank you for that information.

Reynaldo Flores

2y↑55

Very interesting. I also had ancestors on my mother's side who served in the IJN during WWII. ( I am not pure Japanese ).
When I asked him why he served in the Navy all he said was " the Emperor commanded us to fight. So we fought. Later on he commanded us to surrender. We obeyed. "
That was all. No high faluting sense of honor or moral principles involved. Plain blind loyalty and obedience to the Emperor.

インジャン

2y↑36

I'm Navajo, my grandfather fought in WWII to serve along side Americans, not for honor but a duty to defend our homeland as a newly recognized American Citizen.

Laency2988

2y↑16

How interesting to read it, guys....My great grandfather was HERO OF USSR. HE FOUGHT FROM 1943 TO 1945. He advanced to Berlin. Whole life he hated this war and sometimes cried...

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Luka B

2y↑40

My Grandmother was Serbian. She spoke German as her mother was German and the soldiers gave her preferential treatment for that. Little did they know that she actually hid Broz Tito in a secret wall in her home during the occupation. Eventually someone had spoken up about her but for a different reason and she was sent to a concentration camp. She did survive through WWII until 2014. Tito would come visit her home every winter for a while and asked if she ever needed anything and had it delivered to her after he became Yugoslav leader.

David Knichal

2y↑2

Ja ja ja und mein Urgroßvater war T.G. Masaryk, mein Freund :-) Du bist unser H.Ch. Andersen

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Sam Kedwards

2y↑26

It is truly a beautiful thing to see so many share stories from their relatvies on both sides of the war. It truly shows you that something good came of this, the most terrible thing that has happened in recent memory. Now we share the stories of bravery and humanity from our families who were forced to bitterly fight each other - a testament to the fact we are all brothers and sisters, and out of this terrible war came an unimaginable peace between us.

planes3333

Most respect for all who stand for righteousness and justice in this evil world. I havent done enough but I can tell you the greatest feeling is doing whats right, I am serious. Its risky but I would rather feel good about myself then feel a coward.

Filthy Lobster

2y↑28

My great Grandfather was an Indonesian conscript during the Independence war. Even though I only heard this story from my mom, I can imagine how was the situation my great grandfather has been through. He ever get a bullet shot in the back (by the Dutch he suspect), but survived. And the next one is when a grenade landed next to him, he got the shrapnels but mildly since he immediately take cover. He died at 100 years old.

edit: fixing my vocabs, English is not my mother tongue.

Overblx

1y↑1

huh. same as me, he fought in the indepedence war

Adolphification

1y↑1

same as my grandpa's brother, he fought in the indonesian war of independence and got shot by the dutch, consequently he couldn't bear child.....

Artune

1y↑3

My Grandma was a 15 year old girl in East Prussia in 1945 who fled with her family from her home because of the advancing russians.
Her Dad was taken by the russians and never seen again.
Her mom died of starvation on the fleight.
She is still alive.

Schimml0rd

Die Trecks...

No Name

50w

That’s crazy what does she think of modern Germany ?

Artune

50w

@No Name i think shes fine with it
shes not very political
obviously more conservative xD

Ca idee productions

5y↑9.3K

Damn,the cinematography and the quality are amazing for 1993

]v[acGyverFiN

5y↑256

Jurassic park is 1993 movie too. And imo its the best looking one of the bunch.

Chip

5y↑93

Thats the power of film.

Blåtunga

5y↑183

If you appreciate cinematography, watch Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal. Cinematography is not an art form in its infancy, it’s already had its golden age. CGI has replaced it.

Io

5y↑38

@Chip You missed his point. In 1993, film quality was not exactly top notch.

Haven Banks

5y↑266

DO you think 1993 was the stone age? lol You must be like an 18 year old millennial who thinks cgi is the way to go.....CGI was brought in because it is cheaper...not better...cheaper...that is all

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Dag R. Johnsen

2y↑5

One of the greatest war movies ever made! Shows the reality of the horrors of war.

John Martinez

2y↑1

A very moving scene.
Rarely are events like this depicted in war movies.
Honestly, I do not know if I could shoot an innocent civilian who was starving just looking for food.

swedisheinherjer

2y↑4

This is without a doubt one of the best WW2 movies ever made. There is one other movie called Battle Of Tali-Ihantala which is just as great. It is about the russians trying to invade Finland.

Lane

2y↑24

If you notice, at 1:01 the snow fall slows down when the kid is focused, as to create an effect of sadness and grief.
And then the snow is sped back up when the german soldiers are in focus.

Herbert Korinek

one of my grandfathers served as an SS man in france , the other one was frequently sent to penal batailons. both survived the war. always funny for me as a child when they met each other

RegularDude

6y↑8.5K

great and depressing scene that shows some serious personality in these soldiers rather than just making them evil monsters im going to give this movie a try

gehtdichnixan

6y↑118

do it this movie is great!

routeoz02

Me too.

Radrook

5y↑53

@Leo Shteynberg Weren't the SS the ones in charge of carrying out those extermination orders?

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nonya biz

2y↑7

My grandmas brothers were all conscripted in the German army during WW2 and my grandfather enlisted in the US Army during WW2. Both fought in Europe and all of them survived. Ironically my grandfathers tank was attacked by a ground attack plane and destroyed and the same thing happened to my grandma when she was on her little cart and pony a ground attack plane blew up her cart. They both survived the incident because they dove off to cover.

Jeb Broham

2y↑13

My great Uncle was a panzergenadier in 2nd SS Panzer Div Das Reich, and his war diary documents moments exactly like this on the Eastern Front, notably during counter-offensives like the efforts during the 3rd battle of Kharkov and the major push of the subsequent offensive at Kursk. The journal he left for us is both chilling and captivating at the same time. Many entries defy all imagination of what the horrors of war truly are.

MVE

2y↑7

Why not donate that diary to a museum or publish it online so it can be saved for history? It’s important to keep these memories alive to remember this and upcoming generations how terrible war is.

aez

@MVE true

Adam

1y↑1

We can say the war in general is a crime ,no matter which side there is a possibilities of doing bad things

Tadej Štanta

2y↑1

My grandfather told me a story how one day during war, he and his father were doing regular everyday job to survive. Some war officials approached, them and many others in the village and took his father away, that was the last time he saw him My grandfather was 8. Later on that year, Americans did an airstrike on Italy, he and his remaining family were in Slovenia very very close to Italian border, so the bombs hit his village to. With a broken heart he told me that they were making a loaf of bread outside when all of a sudden a bomb hit them. He was blown few meters away from where he was standing. After a couple of minutes he realized, that his right arm was hit with shrapnel from elbow down and was hanging on a skin. Few moments later he saw his mother carrying his younger dead brother. He felt nothing, void. After a couple of hours later, when he got some painkillers he started to cry. Luckly medics were able to attach his arm back but wounds stay forever. He was 8 years old when all this happend. That shrapnel was few centimeters away from me not being here today.

Dan

2y↑22

Adding to the stories of people's families being saved by good souls in these worst of times:
My grandmother (then 8 years old), her little brother and their mother had been, as was common practice, evacuated from western Germany to the Sudentenland because of the mass bombings. When the war ended, a czech partisan had them lined up at a wall, planing to shoot them. He ended up having a heated argument with a soviet officer who forbid him from doing so, and when not backing down, was shot by that officer.
There is no innocene, glory or justice in war. Those that don't realize that will keep repeating the mistakes of the past. The only good thing we can do is to refuse to follow our most primal instinct.

CJ 1997

1y↑6

This movie made me feel i was there in stalingrad. The struggles and slaughter was just surreal.

Engtea Hmar

3y↑63

3:56 - the look of guilt and sadness on the face of Witzland watching his own squad being taken over by a ruthless Officer and ordered to kill the innocent, is just heartbreaking.

APR CuulestDude

2y↑89

My great-grandfather was a Soviet Partisan and after Nazis occupies his town and found out that his house belonged to a partisan there was an order to burn down the house. His wife, my great-grandmother, was locked in there to be burned alive along with two of her children. A Nazi officer broke the door and got them out before it was too late. She had to walk for 3 miles in 3 feet of snow to find a place to stay because no one would let her in because of fear of being associated with her. From the first time that I heard this story, I knew that the people fighting in wars are just people, some evil some good. Most of them just follow orders they would rather not.

APR CuulestDude

2y↑6

@Polish Husaria that’s exactly why I said that some were good. You would be surprised how easy it is under orders to do horrible things. War turns everyday people into killers and brutal murderers and there is no forgiveness for those people unless God grants it himself. Humans are easily convinced when they don’t have a firm belief of something from the start. My family members have fought and some died because of the Nazi’s so you don’t have to tell me of the loss of life.

Laurelle Joseph

Facts

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diego córdova

2y↑16

Muy buena película. Está completa y doblada al español en YouTube. Muestra las vivencias de un pelotón de soldados del Heer desde un descanso en Italia hasta Stalingrado donde quedan cercados.
Muy recomendada para quienes ya se han visto todas las peliculas gringas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y quieren ver algo desde la óptica alemana. Se centra en los soldados, casi nada en la ideología nazi.
Elenco desconocido (salvo en Alemania creo) excepto por Thomas Kretschmann, que agarró el uniforme para no sacarselo nunca más.

James Trentham

1y↑4

That horrific command; "Legt An" (take aim) in such an ice, steel tone. Enough to give nightmares. Very powerful in this scene

Blond Katze

2y↑19

My grandfather was also a soldier in the german wehrmacht.He is only 38 years old fallen in the battle of stalingrad.My father was 2 years old my uncle 1 year old when they lost their father. It`s so sad that they never got to know him. They also don`t know where he is buried in stalingrad.It also hurts my heart that i never know him. It was very difficult for the women to get along with out a man when they were alone with the small children.😥💔I pray for all the death soldiers in heaven rest for peace.

Polish Husaria

1y↑5

My grandpa was hit by a German civilian to death. This German civilian was the watchdog for the Polish workers in a factory seized by the Germans in Poland. My grandpa worked there. By the way, it was impossible to quit the job. The Germans had the list of employees. And besides, my grandfather had to work to feed the family. The German watchdog got angry with my grandpa! He hit him in his anger until he died. My grandpa wasn't allowed to defend himself. Because if a Pole only raised his hand against a German, that was the death sentence. Such murders, committed by civilians, were not uncommon in occupied Poland. Also with the slave workers in Germany or in the occupied countries. Incidentally, 20 million slave laborers were forced to work under inhumane conditions. One of them was my other grandfather who, like millions of others, was forced into slave labor. These were at slave labor harassed by millions of civilians in the factories and on the farms. Many were also murdered by civilians. So! Most of the soldiers who murdered civilians frequently anyway or killed in the war for the Nazi regime, but also most of the civilians were evil who were supporters of the Nazi government and who were involved in the crimes.

By the way, unbelievable! 12 million watched these German propaganda lies! This propaganda is intended to give the impression that the Nazi soldiers were ordinary soldiers. But that's a lie, because these were soldiers of a criminal Nazi army. By the way, no German soldier was punished for not wanting to take part in shootings. By the way, there were always enough volunteers. There was no compulsion to obey orders behind which German soldiers were hiding after the war. The massacre of Józefów in Poland, in which 1,500 civilians were murdered by the Wehrmacht, made it clear that there was no compulsion to obey orders when shootings were carried out. Because only volunteers took part in the shootings and there were always enough of them. It is known that during this massacre the German battalion commander Trapp offered that those who did not feel up to the task did not have to take part in the shooting of civilians . A few did not want to take part, but the vast majority had no problem taking part in the shooting. From this overwhelming majority, soldiers were then ordered to the shooting. This meant that no soldier who refused to take part in the shootings could invoke compulsion to obey orders, because the possibility of freedom of decision without consequences was given.

The Wehrmacht and their generals were willing tools of the German Nazi government and participated in countless crimes. Their criminal brutality proves the fact that during the German raid on Poland, soldiers of the Wehrmacht carried out about 60 percent of the mass murders of Polish civilians. 60%!!! Polish civilians were murdered by the Wehrmacht but also Polish Prisoners of war (POWs) were murdered by the Wehrmacht. These were not just a few massacres by the Wehrmacht on Polish POWs and civilians. There were a great number of massacres by the Wehrmacht on Polish civilians and on Polish POWs! Because that had a method and was part of the war of extermination against the Gypsies, Slavs and Jews in the occupied areas in the east. The Wehrmacht not only murdered in occupied Poland, but in fact in all occupied countries. Polish soldiers which had put up a stiff fight were penalized for their ‘impudence’ by being punished by being murdered with flame-throwers. The resistance by Polish ‘sub-humans’ was not considered military virtue for Wehrmacht soldiers but just insolence. This example also shows illustrates that this army was completely megalomaniac, mad, criminal, amoral and degenerated like the entire Nazi nation!

By the way, Nazi party member was certainly not the definition of a Nazi. That is the definition of Nazi! Supporter and follower of the German Nazi government! By the way, the vast majority of the German army (Wehrmacht) were since 1935 at the latest followers and supporters of the German Nazi government thus they were Nazis! Incidentally, the vast majority of Germans since 1935 at the latest were also followers and supporters of the German Nazi government thus they were Nazis! In fact, the rush for Nazi party membership was so great that the party froze admission of new members. The German army like the the whole nation was a willing tools of the German Nazi government. This army fought with most of Germans doggedly and fanatically to win the war together with the German Nazi government. Because this army was able to avoid defeat for so long, there was so much time to murder so many people behind the front lines.

Marchello Chiovelli

1y↑1

@Polish Husaria What a rant.

Alex P

He’s taking this from Hitler’s willing executioners, a pretty good book.

Frank Tank

51w

@Alex P I think you meant to say an ahistorical fairy tale written by someone who hates German people.

Bichin

The people about to be executed looked more relaxed than I'd expect. I wonder how accurate that part is

Ian Fletcher

5y↑321

For anyone interested in the perspective of german participants in the war, and the internal struggles they dealt with, read the book “Ordinary Men” by Christopher Browning. It is about a reserve police battalion and their role in the Final Solution. It provides an interesting insight into the atrocities they were required to take part in.

Ripple Live

Thanks!

Dave Elliott

2y↑1

Ordered the book today

Ian Boniface

Or Sven Hassel.

Zedzed Aaakk

2y↑4

Was recommended by Dr Jordon Paterson in one if his lectures too...

Canabiss

2y↑12

annonymous2223 wrong

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ExMachina70

2y↑8

Sometimes a movie has to show you what you don't want to see to realize the horrors of war.

Ратко Младич

2y↑7

У моей прабабушки было шесть сыновей и одна дочь все в шесть сыновей ушли на фронт и не один не вернулся живым.
Смотрел этот фильм ещё 10 лет тому назад очень понравилось картина спасибо Ёзефу Вильсмайеру

Михаил Никонов

на русском есть что ли?

HVLLOWS

That's tough man. RIP

Catalin Mihoc

2y↑6

I literally cried my eyes off at the end of the movie.

Patxidog

2y↑3

A criminally under-appreciated WWII movie.

BRUTALKUSCHELN

1y↑1

My grandfather lost his arm in Stalingrad in 1942. He was hit by a grenade and his brother die next to him. Then imagine you come home, heal for 3 months and then being sent back. Only by marriage he could stay. At least for 2 years, until the red army made them flee.

I even felt this nightmare 40 years later, when I met him in his last years.

Bruno Hartmann

1y↑1

Wait, grandpa lost an arm, survived, and then got sent back there? What? Did they give him a pistol or what.

BRUTALKUSCHELN

@Bruno Hartmann They wanted to at least ....

Michael McAllister

5y↑111

My great Uncle was a Canadian Soldier In WW1. He lost his sight because of mustard gas. My dad once asked him if he was bitter with the Germans. Surprised by the question he said, “No, it was war”. He was a soldier and understood. Soldiers do not make policy, they obey orders. He was a man among men.

Schimml0rd

WHAT. a generation.

Boris

2y↑2

This was a masterpiece of a movie especially for when it was made in 1993

Bubu461989

2y↑3

Such a terrific scene. The whole movie was terrific. 10/10

Skybird Projects

Let us never forget the horrors and atrocity of war.

Nike Glushkov

The problem is that the US has lost the economic race but wants to maintain its dominance as an extreme criminal state. Major wars can only be avoided if the people of the United States rise up against the regime.

Karl P. Horse

2y↑3

That is the scariest thing about human nature. Everyone could just say no. But they are all terrified to be the first to step out of line.

Swede McGuire

1y↑1

Yeah.

hatehypocrisy1

2y↑3

The sight of that boy breaks anyone's heart

Jafes

2y↑1.5K

I'm Russian, and my grandpa was a very young boy when the Germans invaded USSR, and he remembered how some Wehrmacht detachment arrived in their village, and one particular soldier was very kind to him and gifted him a bar of chocolate, which was a really nice present, before the Germans left.
However the great grandfather served in the army and went through the whole war almost up to Berlin (he was wounded in Germany), and he apparently witnessed a lot of evidence of atrocities committed by the German army in Belarus, and it was a very grievous and traumatic experience for him. So he never talked about what the Germans had done when others asked him, because he did not want to remember probably.

Kitama23

2y↑68

War, in the end, is carried out by humans. Some people have a great strength within them to be kind and empathetic even in awful times. Some people use it as an opportunity to let the darkness in their hearts come out freely. Most people, just try and survive and do their job, and what they do comes down to the hearts of the people that give them orders.

Daniyil

2y↑52

That's interesting. I'm Ukrainian and my grandmother talked about how there was German artillery stationed near her house in a village. The soldiers came to her house and also gave her chocolate, which was a real luxury in the USSR at the time.

Rallyy CAR

2y↑65

Ask your grandpa why USSR red army raped 2 million german women during their trip to germany in 1944-1945, also ask why Stalin killed 30 million ussr citizens, also ask why did Stalin ally with national socialists, also ask why russia invaded Finland, and whole of eastern europe. Also, ask about the forests of Katyn in Poland, ask what the red army animals did

Warbrain

2y↑128

@Rallyy CAR ask yours why Germany exterminated 25% of the Belarus population, 16% of the Polish Population, 14% of the Russian population, 12% of the Ukrainian population, Yougoslavia, Greece, and much more in eastern europe, in total, more than 20 million civilians, and 4 million PoW. Ask him what happened to the women accross eastern europe, the villages where people were put into one house and burned down with flamethrowers, kids, women, and elderly alike. Ask him that

I hope this explains the difference in scale of what was done. I do not say that it wasn't wrong. I say, it is a revenge. Revenge isn't right, but it is understandable. Not like an initial will to genocide like the germans did

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David Berke

I have Stalingrad on DVD, and the entire movie is incredible. PLEASE do not confuse it with a later Russian film of the same name, which is more like watching a slick Mel Gibson flick. Foreign perspectives on WWII are invaluable, so also get a hold of Paul Verhoeven's "Soldat de Orange," ("Soldier of Orange") starring a very young Rutger Hauer in a Dutch movie about the Resistance in Holland. Listen to it in Dutch, read the English subtitles for the true experience.

omusialo

2y↑1

This movie was probably the closest thing to a real depiction of what Stalingrad was like. Was a real gritty and well made movie. Wehrmacht soldiers were also human beings.

Dacian Warrior

I simply love the winter atmosphere and the WW2 theme, I can't have enough of both so if some one can recommend me more movies with these 2 aspects I would be grateful.

Swede McGuire

You're trivializing this film. You're talking entirely about the esthetics of the film, it's a film that makes us all look very deeply into ourselves. Get a grip.

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L B

2y↑3

This was probably one of the top movies made about the Second World War. Another movie I liked was the Russian made movie, "Come and See." That was probably one of the most hard core movies about the war.

Nclysn

1y↑3

I know it isn't related to the eastern front. But my great grandfather was in the 2nd polish corps he fought for monte cassino and ancona where i live now he got alot of medals for his bravery. He died last year in his sleep i love you grandpa.

Normal Channel

5y↑2.1K

In this Scene, If you were either German or Russian, you would have the same amount of fear. Depending how human you are.

Alfred 05

4y↑21

Soviet*

Levvy

4y↑43

Millions of Russians fought against Communism.

Tasberry

4y↑45

@Levvy you mean soviet* ussr was a vast country composed of 14 states that why it named union of socialist soviet republic not "Russia"

(sorry if my english bad im french)

Sharkboi

4y↑6

@Tasberry No, it’s Russia as at that point there were still groups in Russia that opposed the Soviets. Such as the Cossacks for example.

Tasberry

4y↑2

@Sharkboi yes what you say is true but it did not only have in Russia but in all the Old Russian Empire for example in Ukraine during that short period of independence and afterwards with the "black army" for example

I made a mistake in my first comment totaly missing the point of "non-communist"

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DoctorBohr

2y↑1

My grandfather didn't fight in any wars; he spent his life as a farmer. But I still like this powerful movie.

Carsten

2y↑1

My gradfahter, born in 1922, was send to stalingrad but shortly before he arrived he got very ill and was send back to german for treatment, which basically saved his live. Later he was stationed in germany at one weekend sneaked out to visit his wife (my grandmother of course) and came back 2 days later, passing all the controls at the train station etc. Only one person noticed that, a major or something and he was so impressed that he didn´t get caught, that since that day, he became is driver and lucky didn´t had to go to battle much more from this point until germany got invaded. A lot of german fought in this war but not everyone enjoyed it. This scene is a perfect example of that.

TXN

2y↑2

My Grandfather was there when they killed the boy, He tried to yell for them to stop but they couldnt hear him. He kept yelling until finally they kicked him out of the movie theater.

Mr Mistah

This is funny

Jopa Zna

Can say who wants what, but the Soviet Union is most deserving of victory in World War II, how many losses the people of their countries have suffered. Incredible from the siege of Leningrad, through the defense of Moscow and Stalingrad, the Kursk bloody battle of Kursk and many other decisive battles. What a will and defiance the Soviet soldier showed in those years, my deep affection and greetings to the Russian brothers from brotherly Serbia

Squirrel Attackspidy

2y↑3

This was such a powerful film.

Fetchdafish

5y↑4.8K

If war is hell the Eastern Front must have been the deepest layer.

Joe the king Hawk

4y↑259

Much much much much much worse, 38 million souls were lost there, nearly 30 million of them in Soviet Russia alone.

azerty888 azerty888

4y↑66

@Joe the king Hawk not lost but kiled

Joe the king Hawk

4y↑44

@azerty888 azerty888 You're right killed.

Ruthless Rubber Ducky

4y↑20

@Joe the king Hawk Murdered, stolen, taken by their dictators.

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Kokoete Antigha

2y↑1

I'm told this story of the Nigerian civil war where a Federal officer (Yoruba, I believe) stumbled on a firing squad being set up for captured rebel troops when he spotted a trembling and painfully young looking Biafran in the line. Using his rank, he marched up and asked the fellow if he could drive. Upon getting a positive response, he pulled the man out of the line up and thereby spared his life.

Mihai

It’s such a good way of capturing the war horror

tom sd

2y↑2

This is the cause of PTSD right here. If I had to do this, I would have nightmares for the rest of my life. Military is just another criminal enterprise if you serve in the wrong time, wrong place.

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