D-Day Through German Eyes.

[SteveSS]

It's an audiobook being featured on YouTube. I know that sounds like an oxymoron. Six hours long. It features a lot of stuff I never knew. It's not anti-allied forces as much as things that were left out of history. Like the Germans had around 10,000 Soviet defectors on the front lines in Normandy. Those soldiers immediately gave up to the Americans. They were separated from the German prisoners and shipped back to Russia where they were presumably shot.

These are all individual German soldiers' first-hand accounts so they are very graphic. Be warned. The Willie Pete or white phosphorous was brutal.

 

[sam dupont]

My Uncle was a Looter, sometimes soldier in WWII Germany. I liked looking at the photos that were shot by a civilian. Every day life in a small town. The photo that stuck in my mind was the portrait shot of a guy with his foot on the nose of a shot down P-38 fuselage. I never imagined they were that small.

 

[Cojohnso1]

I have read and scene documentary soldier stories of D-day from the eyes of German forces on those beaches. Looking out at hundreds of combat ships with thousands of marine fighting forces coming to take the beach front. Nearly all describes a feeling of being completely overwhelmed. Maybe a reminder that there is nothing romantic about war combat. It's Insanity and death. And needs to be completely last option of conflict resolution. Germany was reminded all too well. The Axis powers gave no other choice. And should remain in history as infamy.

 

[SlinktRR]

Shot, nah that was too quick a punishment for Stalin. Torture and hard labor in Siberia with slow starvation was more likely.

I've read German accounts for the eastern front those are disturbing, but most do not mention the atrocities committed by the SS or einsatzgruppen. The Russians paid back the favor once they got into Germany. The brutality and the sheer scale of the conflict in the east is simply unimaginable. Hopefully never to be repeated.

 

[Steven Bowers]

The real Hollywood joke was the filming of To Hell And Back …the Audie Murphy story…..I had the pleasure of seeing where this battle took place…it was the worst winter ever recorded in Holtzwihr, France…..to this day the city has a day of celebration in honor of him…..any war battle is horrific….the scenes described to our group overseeing the battle ground brought tears to our eyes….it doesn’t matter what country you were fighting for….just a terrible time…..Hollywood made it out to be just a walk in the park…I’m surprised Audie would have made the film with Hollywood making it unrealistic in the setting portrayed ….my father and all my uncles went thru WWll…..surprisingly they all came home…..

 

[WileE]

It's an audiobook being featured on YouTube. I know that sounds like an oxymoron. Six hours long. It features a lot of stuff I never knew. It's not anti-allied forces as much as things that were left out of history. Like the Germans had around 10,000 Soviet defectors on the front lines in Normandy. Those soldiers immediately gave up to the Americans. They were separated from the German prisoners and shipped back to Russia where they were presumably shot.

These are all individual German soldiers' first-hand accounts so they are very graphic. Be warned. The Willie Pete or white phosphorous was brutal.

What's the title ?

 

[SteveSS]

I'm sorry I did not make that clear. It's literally D-Day through German Eyes.

 

[SlinktRR]

The real Hollywood joke was the filming of To Hell And Back …the Audie Murphy story…..I had the pleasure of seeing where this battle took place…it was the worst winter ever recorded in Holtzwihr, France…..to this day the city has a day of celebration in honor of him…..any war battle is horrific….the scenes described to our group overseeing the battle ground brought tears to our eyes….it doesn’t matter what country you were fighting for….just a terrible time…..Hollywood made it out to be just a walk in the park…I’m surprised Audie would have made the film with Hollywood making it unrealistic in the setting portrayed ….my father and all my uncles went thru WWll…..surprisingly they all came home…..

All the war movies from that era were kind of like that to be fair. For good movies from German perspective check out Cross of Iron with James coburn, which is surprisingly realistic and even has the correct russian t34-85 tanks, and the German film Stalingrad which is very good as well.

 

[Sahara]

I've read German accounts for the eastern front those are disturbing, but most do not mention the atrocities committed by the SS or einsatzgruppen. The Russians paid back the favor once they got into Germany. The brutality and the sheer scale of the conflict in the east is simply unimaginable. Hopefully never to be repeated.

Years ago I came across an obscure book.
The Americans had listening devices in their WWII P.O.W. camps to record the German inmates conversations for intelligence purposes. This book was a transcript of conversations overheard.
I made it through perhaps thirty pages of a book that was probably four or five hundred pages. I couldn’t read any more. They laughed and joked about atrocities committed to mostly Jews and Russians. Described in their own words what they did.
I’m still scarred and haunted by what I read. What side did what is immaterial. Every side did terrible, terrible things. But ****, man. It was grim to read about it from the guys that did it.

 

[WileE]

Years ago I came across an obscure book.
The Americans had listening devices in their WWII P.O.W. camps to record the German inmates conversations for intelligence purposes. This book was a transcript of conversations overheard.
I made it through perhaps thirty pages of a book that was probably four or five hundred pages. I couldn’t read any more. They laughed and joked about atrocities committed to mostly Jews and Russians. Described in their own words what they did.
I’m still scarred and haunted by what I read. What side did what is immaterial. Every side did terrible, terrible things. But ****, man. It was grim to read about it from the guys that did it.

I'm not so sure the Allies did what the Axis did. From my perspective, what the Nazis and Russians did were probably the most inhuman atrocities ever committed in mankind history.

 

[Sahara]

But it’s only the losing side that is ever considered to have committed atrocities.