Every German POW Said The Same Thing About Fighting Americans — Here's What It Was
Video Overview & Insights
Discover what German prisoners of war consistently said about fighting American forces during World War Two. From the secret recordings at Fort Hunt and Trent Park to candid post war testimonies, captured German soldiers from privates to generals revealed the same fears about facing the United States military. They spoke of devastating American artillery that could be summoned within minutes by a simple radio call. They described the terror of Allied fighter bombers that made daylight movement impossible. They marveled at the endless supply convoys that replaced every destroyed tank and expended shell overnight. This documentary explores the declassified transcripts discovered by historian Sonke Neitzel, featuring accounts from legendary commanders like Erwin Rommel and Fritz Bayerlein, the incredible story of Lieutenant Friedrich Lengfeld who gave his life trying to save an American soldier, and the secret interrogation programs that captured honest German assessments of American combat power. Learn how the Battle of the Bulge, Operation Cobra, and the Normandy campaign looked from the German perspective, and understand why experienced Wehrmacht veterans who had fought on the Eastern Front considered American firepower the most devastating they had ever faced. This is the untold story of how German soldiers experienced the American way of war.
I'm not sure ALL German POWs would agree. There were millions of soldiers and countless different experiences.
Primary Source Archives and Government Records
National Park Service - Fort Hunt World War II History
Great video!
https://www.nps.gov/articles/forthuntww2.htm
Army Historical Foundation - U.S. and German Field Artillery in World War II: A Comparison
Microphone the size of a 🍉??????????????????? Okchick in the amore...
https://armyhistory.org/u-s-and-german-field-artillery-in-world-war-ii-a-comparison/
U.S. Naval Institute - The Proximity Fuze
jewish soviets were the REAL bad guy in WWII
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1999/august/tiny-miracle-proximity-fuze
U.S. Army - Battle of the Bulge Official History
I worked with a Jew from Iraq . His father had been the biggest rice merchant in Baghdad . He was schooled in the best schools in England and spoke 7 languages fluently . During WW2 his job with the US army was interrogating German and Italian POWs
https://www.army.mil/botb/
American Battle Monuments Commission - Battle of the Bulge
43:44 “Fighting Americans meant fighting a system, not just an army.” This really captures how logistics, airpower, and artillery changed the war. Do you think American industry mattered more than battlefield tactics?
https://www.abmc.gov/news-events/news/germanys-final-major-offensive-beat-back-advancing-allied-forces-remembering/
News and Magazine Sources
44:41 “ordinary soldiers backed by extraordinary resources” — That line sums it up perfectly. The weapons mattered, but the real shock was the whole American system behind them. Do you think logistics was the true weapon Germany couldn’t defeat?
Washington Post - Fort Hunt's Quiet Men Break Silence on WWII by Petula Dvorak
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/05/AR2007100502492.html
The psychological impact here is just as important as the physical destruction. Fighting an enemy you can’t even respond to must have felt completely hopeless.
NPR - Breaking The Silence Of A Secret POW Camp
https://www.npr.org/2008/08/18/93635950/breaking-the-silence-of-a-secret-pow-camp
It boils down to the Freedom we lived and enjoyed and no matter what, your not going to take that away from us. (Over my dead body)!!!!
Smithsonian Magazine - German POWs on the American Homefront
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/german-pows-on-the-american-homefront-141009996/
If you mention Kasserine Pass one more time...
Air and Space Forces Magazine - Airpower From the Ground Up
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/1100airpower/
I have to say, "no shizz, sherlock." As a military historian, and a Texan, I can tell you without a doubt that Russell Weigley's "American Way of War" is really the Yankee Way of War. To listen to the Southerners boast with pride that "one Southerner is worth two Northerners" tactically while they prattle on about superior Yankee industrial capacity...is CLICHE. The Wehrmacht whining is nothing more than a twentieth century reincarnation. So, FESS UP, buttercup. You fought with dogged ferocity to defend a SYSTEM that was UNWORTHY of your sacrifice, and THANKS BE TO GOD is no more. Nazi Germany same as the old South. Oh, and BTW. I'm only Southern on my mom's side...My dad fought in the Belgian Resistance and killed 37 German soldiers.
Army Times - WWII German POW Returns to Washington State to Say Thank You
https://www.armytimes.com/news/2017/10/14/wwii-german-pow-returns-to-washington-state-to-say-thank-you/
Someone needs to shorten or summarize this video to get to the point.
HistoryLink - Gunter Grawe German POW Visit
https://www.historylink.org/File/20472
Trump is Facist. I find it hysterically hypocritical that he is concerned about cheating after he instagated J6.😅
Military History Sources
Combat Infantrymen's Association - Friedrich Lengfeld Story
Red ball express fed rhe war machine
https://news.cibassoc.org/german-officer-sacrificed-his-life-trying-to-save-an-american-soldier-in-the-wwii-battle-of-hurtgen-forest/
22nd Infantry Regiment - Lengfeld Memorial
Logistics wins wars and lack of logistics loses them
https://www.1-22infantry.org/history4/lengfeld.htm
HistoryNet - Storm Over the Rhine
They were speed freaks
https://www.historynet.com/storm-over-the-rhine-an-artilleryman-recalls-his-crossing/
Warfare History Network - Operation Cobra
Hey Mr. Goering, if the soviets didn’t get to your ass for another couple of months you would have found like Japan did what American 🇺🇸 can produce.
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/operation-cobra-normandy-breakout/
Academic and Museum Sources
My dad was a radio operator with the 951st Field Artillery Battalion during WWII.
Trent Park Museum - Hidden Histories
https://trentparkhouse.org.uk/pages/hidden-histories
Tactics wins battles, logistics wins wars.
Yale University Press - Bugging the Nazis in World War II
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2019/10/29/bugging-the-nazis-in-world-war-ii/
Today , the wealth and strength of America is being squandered by politicians largly on the left.
London School of Economics - Understanding World War II Through the Eyes of German Soldiers
https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-impact-case-studies/understanding-world-war-two-through-eyes-german-soldiers
This industrial whirlwind won that war, but just look at what Trump has accomplished without even unleashing this industrial energy. Imagine what he could do if that whitlwind was once again unleashed.
Published Books Referenced
Sonke Neitzel - Tapping Hitler's Generals: Transcripts of Secret Conversations 1942-1945 (2007)
Every muslem should watch this!
Sonke Neitzel and Harald Welzer - Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying (2012)
Rick Atkinson - The Liberation Trilogy (An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light)
Max Hastings - Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 (2004)
Hans von Luck - Panzer Commander (1989)
My late wife’s grandfather was on a Prussian Big Bertha gun crew. They ran out of ammunition, and were relegated to staying in trenches waiting for ammo that would never arrive. The day he knew that Germany had lost the war when individual German soldiers walking on a road would be targeted. If the allies had that much ammunition, just for one soldier, they were lost.
More User Perspectives
A major consideration for evaluating the lethality of the warring nations in WWII is the weapons systems the combatants had at their disposal. Artillery combined with its supporting logistic and communication systems favored the Americans for a multitude of reasons. The lethality of Germany’s soldiers was heavily influenced by their excellent MG34 and MG42 machine guns. The volume of fire that weapon was capable of was double of that of any opponent it faced. At the tip of the spear in the theater of battle, that type of advantage will have devastating effects on any opponent. Machine guns are inherently a tactical weapon of small unit movement and tactics. By using their material advantages to establish superior fire and control systems, the Americans were able to nullify the advantage the German’s had in small unit weaponry.
@dwaynewilliams6267Germany put a million soviet prisoners behind barbed wire in the winter , no barracks and no food . Imagine the hatred of liberating that camp , hence the rape of Berlin 😢😮
@arronwhittenburg5477The fools should have concluded a separate peace in the west and gone after tge soviets . Could have gotten it at the end of the Battle of Britain.
@arronwhittenburg5477The trees are listening!
@TeaParty1776Goebbels didn't know the largest immigrant populations were from Germany and I think they brought their skills with them.
@jamescoe4765my grandpappy was an artillery sgt at Berlin, he shot a bunch of schnapps and ate all the jews in buchenwald. Thanks for the ME109 that was invented by John Browning in 1984. God bleed the Kasserine pass, those dudes sucked a lot of Gehwer and S.S. Nebelwauffen. 1943 is the best Nazi, regardless of V2 operation intelligence prisoners. compound casualties program . Remember the Alamo with Enola Gay. Intelligence is secret chocolate eagle nest. November 1942 the best atrocity with rank and combat artillery. French FAL foundation for Armenian innovation B24 is simultaneous.
@knotknown5222It's a long monologue with a few still photos (unrelated to the text). Just so you know.
@adame.2995Considering Blitzkrieg tactics, German complaints of artillery barrages, ground attack and tactical bombing, seem...ironic.
@donberry7657TOT is misrepresented here. It's for timing air bursts over a target. Called in some TOT as a LRRP in Vietnam.
@frankcamper7318Ill save you 45 min. American artillery was awesome.
@joebobjenkins7837The profiteers are in charge of moving us factories overseas they should tell the rest of us they are so they get no benefits from the rest of us and we should kick em all out of the country if your factory goes overseas you should too
@JamesCaldwelllSome of our enemies thought we were mongrels, lacking sufficient 'racial purity' to be effective; however, oftentimes the 'mongrels' capitalize upon the very best of each breed they are made up of. All any potential enemy need do to evaluate the USA as an opponent is read the last verse of our National Anthem.
@alfredarobertson2271Can't you just tell us what it was that every German POW says without making us get old watching a 44 minute video about the entire history leading up to it? You know, the stuff nobody cares about? No disrespect indended, but every time I click on a video like this I have to wade through endless historical facts I learned in high school and from Documentaries.
@Gerpsnot2026China can produce weapons at greater rate than USA - are we doomed?
@jameshallahan4376Rommel did not defeat the British in north Africa. This video is not only inaccurate but extremely repetitive Could have told the whole story in 5 minutes. .
@roberthenderson2580Now Americans embrace fascism, and a belief that some are superior to others.
@dennishughes721If they hadn’t fought on two fronts , no one would have defeated them.
@Nellis-k1oTHESE FACTS AND STORIES NEED TO BE GREATLY SHARED WITH ALL AMERICANS OF ALL GENERATIONS NOW TO SHOW THOSE WHO WERE NOT BORN THEN, WHAT ARE TRUE PEOPLE WERE MADE OF. TO MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND WHAT WE HAD TO DO WHILE KEEPING OUR CIVILITY AND COURA😂GE. THIS NEEDS TO BE A VERY LARGE REVEAL, A TESTAMENT THAT CAN SINK IN TO ALL THOSE NOW WHO HATE OUR COUNTRY AND ARE RIGHT NOW, TRAITORS. IF WE DO NOT DO THIS , AMERICA WILL PERISH!
@Joseph-ij6iyThen the Globalists took this information and methodically de-industrialized the United States. It was intentional and executed brilliantly.
@Innvotronics-b9ySaipan was a USMC operation with support supposedly coming from the Army’s 27th Division, not the way this video presents it.
My source was classroom instruction at Marine Corps’ Basic School at Quantico, 1971.
The Japanese were partially correct. The US Army was comprised mainly of draftees who were good patriotic citizens; they weren’t an all volunteer force that the Marine Corps was (up until late in the war when they began to take draftees). The enlisted Marine was a tough, unrelenting sea soldier looking for a fight with blood in his eye. The Marine NCO and officer was even more “mission oriented”. The Japanese had really missed on their analysis of the USMC, perhaps not so much of the US Army of that era.
The Germans were scared to death of the Shot guns our troops carried
@mikecarr1378Honestly, i feel like the people who largely watch these videos are largely too unidimensional. I absolutely respect the soldiers themselves, they do hard jobs in hard places. But there's definitely a miscalibrated understanding of war. They arent fought for the brothers beside you, although that's how it feels. Its fought to protect the political interests of people who dont even care about their countries. We very often leave our men behind, ask anyone down at the VA. The only time we dont is when we're loading up their body cavity with drugs to fly back into our country. But thats a different war. We arent well educated, in fact our recruiters specifically target poor underserved and undereducated areas because they have less prospects in life. If you served, be proud of the work you did and the things you endured, but not in the policy that put you there. Hell, even being proud of what you did is questionable. I couldnt tell you how many people ive had break down in my arms telling me about the horrible things they were ordered to do.
All im saying is, its a more complex issue than you can cope with using just blind patriotic pride.
Beats the hell out of fighting on the Russian front
@TP-vu3tcNo Oil on the slides, no Grease on the gears.
Way to go!
nazi tank commander .. 'yesterday we destroyed 30 sherman tanks .. this morning 80 more came over the hill' ...
@direwolf6234we fought the wrong enemy
@dragoon88s