Vacys Motuzas Prieš 1 sekundę This is a great video! Thank you ...

Johann Zapf prieš 2 metus (redaguota) I'm German and in my last two years of school, history was one of my main subjects (no time to explain the German school system here...). Although we obviously focused on German history and therefore the German perspective in most conflicts (like WW2), we looked at D-Day from the Allied perspective, like almost everybody and I didn't have any knowledge whatsoever of the German perspective (till today) and I think that's quite interesting. Seeing how it's mostly the winners that get to write the history books (imo the US war against the Native Americans is the best example) it is very interesting to watch this video as I'm learning something new about the history of my country - Thank you! Btw, this German voice, is that how our English sounds to you, dear native speakers? I that case, my apologies...

Theo prieš 2 metus Story goes that a junior German officer sees the massive Allied naval armada off the coast of Normandy, and notifies HQ. He is told that the naval presence is just a diversion from the real landing that will occur in Calais up the French coast. He remarks to his fellow officers, "if this is a just a diversion, I'm glad I'm not in Calais." LOL.

Chris s prieš 1 metus History is always made by winners. For me, as a german, its frustating to see those one handed documentaries. Germans all Nazies, kill em, good. Allies = Angels with guns to come and rescue u poor civilians. But think about it, a civilian only can be safed if he wants to be safed. No german were not patriotic that time anymore. The germans were already fed up with the political system for years that time. Thats a big reason why the germans embraced the forces as they were coming to make an end to this (exept the russians).

Lea Xander prieš 5 mėnesius my grandfather also had to fight in ww2 he didn’t want to and was only 16. When he realized the war was lost he and some other guys basically deserted so they could go and surrender to the americans. So he went into war captivity for months where he had to sleep in a whole in the ground wich was still better than captivity with the russians. They sent their prisoners to sibiria for decades. He could’ve been killed for deserting but he made it home safely. He had to fight in that war as a child. He didn’t support the war or the nazis. Neither did his parents. His brother was killed in an internment camp. He recently died at 91

thomas 777 prieš 11 mėnesių My old girlfriends dad was a German who fought at the battle Normandy. He was station as a machine gunner in one of these bunkers that overlooks the shore. They knew the war was lost. He said although he retreated and held out for another week. He said most of his fellow German soldiers were relieved to surrender just to get a hot meal. And finally after a week of him running and hiding. He was hearing how well the German soldiers were being treated and finally he gave up. Which he said was one of the best decisions he ever made in that war.

Steve Acho prieš 2 mėnesius The Nebraska State History Museum had an exhibit about German POW's at one time. A large camp was set up in Nebraska to hold POW's, and they were loaned out to do farm work, as there was a shortage of men to help with the harvest, and many had agricultural backgrounds. Some also helped train dogs to do military and police work. The war was over for them, and they were well behaved. Nebraska was settled by a lot of German immigrants, so culturally the grandparents of the American soldiers had a common background.

Deus ex machina prieš 2 mėnesius Especially in the later stages of the war, my grand-mother once told me that there where almost no men left where she lived since almost all of the died in the war. Germany sure had some people who were as bad as allied propaganda said, but so has every country. Near the end of the war everyone who was able to fight had to fight in the war or that person was executed, a lot of them didn't want to fight but had to, and most of them died.

manifestgtr prieš 1 metus When I was a kid, I got some really important historical perspective from my ww2 vet grandfather. He was really, really young...19 I believe....and he was assigned a post watching over nazi pow’s. He never spoke about them like they were demon headed maniacs. A lot of them were just like him. They were kids, they were scared, couldn’t care less about hitler and his politics...and like him, they just wanted it all to be over so they could go home. One of them even taught him how to play the harmonica. I’m sure there were some raving lunatics in the bunch but the greater point being...regardless of your side, there are a LOT of regular joes in any conflict. Cold War, WW2, Vietnam, what have you. I think it’s really important to remember that. You read about all of these horrific atrocities and your brain automatically assumes that every person behind those borders was a monster...when many times, it’s nothing more than accident of birth which puts you on the right or wrong side of history.