the war, like old wounds healed, but it still hurts. we all grew up on the stories of our fathers , grandfathers and great-grandfathers, but the merciless time witnesses of those years are leaving us, and with them the memory of what this war really is. i go to school and there i encounter complete ignorance and the history of its war can’t say anything, they ask, and who did ukraine fight against , but russia didn’t fight? the past cannot be changed, but it turns out that it can be changed gently step by step. and now the criminals punitive heroes become honest soldiers. and in nazi germany, it turns out, not everything was bad. hitler was a man who really

wanted to make germany a great country a model country 80 years ago. irm. frith, brendhal also dreamed of greater germany right after school. he enrolled in the wehrmacht volunteers of the third reich, then he was already victoriously marching through europe and the german boys were rushing to the front. no, i'm not sorry, i proudly served as a soldier, and then as an officer, and i'm proud that i survived this war after the war coat of arms brandel. he returned from captivity and opened his own construction company and made a fortune for the restoration of post-war germany, a veteran. the wehrmacht likes to repeat exactly the war. made him what he is now and does not

understand. why today in his country they do not like to remember the old days so much, which makes me angry that in germany old experienced people are asked very little, for example. those who were in the third reich, my friend, are not interested, but they prefer to keep silent about the third reich. nobody wants speak to avoid any problems. back in 2010, this former nazi would not have dared to say even half of what he boldly declares in 2020 in certain circles of german society is clearly ending the effect of the vaccine received in forty- five. they are trying to convince us, the victors of the nazism, to be less proud of our past. and here now they get photographs that have not been shown to anyone for decades. here you can see me already equipped during the journey to france, the first fights in france here gunkirk. for example, i also participated

here rotterdam yes, i was an avid photographer. private karl heinsmeier traveled all over europe with a rifle and a camera by the summer of 1941 . he has accumulated a lot of awards, and showing this card from the nimks, karl no longer hides his pride. for a successful shot of occupied brussels , the führer himself got into his viewfinder, went into the city to buy chocolate for himself, i approached the north station. then the door opens and hitler keitel and a couple of officers come out. i immediately took the camera out of my pocket and snapped it. photo they allowed to do this, hitler even nodded. i greeted him. that's how a few months after this meeting, private mayer had already fought on the eastern front, fought for the fuhrer , made germany great and believed that he was protecting his

homeland from us. all the people believed that everything he did was right afterwards. we understood that he introduced a preventive war, because the russians were ready to enter europe here. the key word was later, that is, private mayer already at his venerable age. they convinced him that he, together with the fuhrer, waged a preventive war against the russians, and they were right from the fuhrer, otherwise stalin would have attacked europe, the reichsleiter of propaganda of the third reich, joseph goebels, at one time, formulated 10 rules of what in our time will be called information warfare, one of them is the most famous, the more monstrous lie. the easier it is to believe in death from the dead, but the lie that the russians wanted to attack europe today is forced to believe. what do you think,

by whom and for what purpose a gigantic process of rewriting history has been launched today, uh, maybe this is really someone's purposeful work for the revival of nazism. there is such a risk, and in general, so history has nothing to do. this is relevant to today, this is a tool for solving internal political issues of today for some countries, uh, which u rely on certain circles within their country, uh, and in every possible way exaggerate this problem, but the problem of the problem of the census of history, related to the fact that there is an internal political struggle in some countries and i repeat. e. those who do it. uh, they cheer up their electorate. that's the way. about why, in fact, hitler turned his

gaze to the east, eloquently, the letters of his soldiers testify. here it is. for example, from the field paramedic gubert schens, the date on the envelope on june 22 forty-one is written to their bride in germany. soon there will be reports of the conquest of the territory. it'll cheer you up, because it looks like we've moved on, when we're done with the russians, only the british will be left, not the top, dear. i think we will soon see the end of the war, and here is a letter from private karl günther writes to his father from the eastern front. he boasts that he found an excellent hat in a destroyed house and about how the reich will get rich on the occupied lands, during our march we capture huge warehouses with food and other useful things. the german administration is working to organize the harvest of the local huge fields, relatively little affected by the war, ukrainian grain gives german bread, the so-called german

bread and the same german butter, sugar, meat, mercilessly took away from the inhabitants of the occupied soviet villages, where soon people were dying of hunger. but the heroes of the third reich, going on vacation. the fuhrer's packages were received in germany. here they are coupons for gourmet food packages, but they wanted to take more with them from the ussr, the same karl günther dreamed in a letter. i would still take two ukrainian women, they are not spoiled hardworking decent, but with good treatment. they will cope with the work much better than our german housekeepers, perhaps something can still be organized. these letters, and here they are we read tens of thousands in the archives of the berlin museum of communications, you can listen for a long time how someone justifies hitler by the fact that he attacked the ussr defending europe from stalin, but the german soldiers themselves

knew for sure. why did they come with weapons to a foreign country? the road today was pleasant and calm but stallions and calves graze in the meadows. if not for the war, one could say that the view is magnificent. i think that in a couple of years it will be possible to supply the whole of europe from here. such evidence, european historians and politicians today they prefer to hush up instead, according to the ideological fashion, they nod at the molotov-ribbentrop pact, they say. here it is a direct proof of the cooperation of the two-cannibalistic regimes. the soviet union made colossal efforts to create an anti-hitler fact. no one supported more than that in the thirty- eighth year, uh, the leading western countries and great britain and france met in munich with hitler with musalini and signed the relevant documents, which we always called medical

by conspiracy and gave czechoslovakia to be torn to pieces and uh, no matter how pleasant or unpleasant it was for someone, but poland took part in this and so on and in the soviet union, in fact, at the end of the eighties condemned the secret part of the drop. but why, why don’t our colleagues do the same today, don’t condemn this one, the division of czechoslovakia, the soviet union was generally the last of the largest powers that signed an act of not attack with germany, before that everyone signed. and and what is this reason for in order to accuse the soviet union of preparing and unleashing the second world war? sunday at exactly 3:00 am, our guns opened fire on russian territory for four hours and 10 minutes, after

artillery preparation. we crossed the border at that moment german tanks rumble next to me, which are moving to the east, apparently we caught the russians by surprise. 4 hours i remember how now i decided to go small. so it's over our tents, heavy, bomber and german and drop these we called them potatoes. and all all the planes which well, we had destroyed at the airfield. yesterday we passed by a red airfield in the forest, soviet planes stood in a row. some burned out , others badly damaged. the very first day. they were destroyed on earth. nearby lay a host of gods the writings of western historians the first days of the

battles on the eastern front are usually described as the absolute triumph of the nazi war machine german soldiers march in full dress across soviet soil, and defeated and demoralized red army soldiers surrender in thousands captivity. in reality, nowhere else has the wehrmacht encountered such stubborn resistance. the road along which we are walking is lined with burnt-out soviet tanks, cars and the corpses of prisoners of war, few are killed here. the russians are hiding in the forests and fields and suddenly appear and shoot in line. last night. they thus completely destroyed the oboss with food for the infantrymen. our prisoners or several russians one of them suddenly. i put my hand in my pocket and threw a grenade, two of our unit died after a short time in the same in this way, one lieutenant and three privates were killed on the

eighth day of the war, the chief of staff of the ground forces, franz halder, notes in his diary the resistance of the russians makes us fight according to all the rules of our combat regulations in poland and in the west. we could afford a certain liberties. now this is no longer acceptable. and here is what the german soldiers themselves wrote. this war requires a lot of sacrifices from the german people, when we find out at the end, we will have to be horrified by the total number of the fallen. many graves along the roads testify to this double. it is so heavy here that the company against france was in comparison. just a walk, probably in a couple of days our connections will be replaced by a too great loss. france capitulated in less than a month and a half. belgium could not stand it and for three weeks most of europe surrendered almost without a fight.

before the attack on the ussr, the germans were sure that they would pass through our land, easily and quickly, as the sobering up at the parade was cruel during the first three months of the war against the soviet union, the germans lost half a million people, one and a half times more than in the previous two years. mi point it was a red-haired children under 2 m away and a tall guy. he smiled impudently and said, come me to your commander. i am an officer of the reich and i am authorized to accept the surrender. you can give it to me it was the forty-first year. that's when we

poured the blockade, i had to meet. with what the guys stole. he surrendered to any and every soviet soldier. he reported that hitler was kaput. he didn't want to fight anymore. here's another one interesting message from the front, the german soldier karl helt, wrote a letter on a blank soviet combat leaflet, apparently, he wanted to brag to his friends, or maybe just time to look for another paper. the private did not have his unit urgently transferred to moscow . my parents will also be happy when i say hello from russia next year there will be an operation against england. if i get out of there alive, then i will be glad to take off my soldier's uniform. despite the huge loss of mood in the german troops, then it was still victorious, but in the letters of the soldiers

, bewilderment was already slipping between the lines. why do the russians keep resisting? it would be high time to give up, like everything else civilized europe is expensive. i hope that the war will end soon the fuhrer, in his speech he radiated the will to win, you can imagine how happy we all would be at the end of the campaign, because the hardships are becoming more and more difficult for a few more weeks. we will continue with pleasure, but then we have to finish. these letters they have never published show that the germans in the forty-first did not even allow themselves to doubt the victory, they even staged a sweepstakes. how much longer will it last? moscow i'm fine. we are already making bets here that the war will end by october 30th. i don't mind. i kiss your erns sheremetyevo airport is on the left of us and the klyazma river is on the right to the center of moscow from here in a straight line 24 km. in november

of the forty-first year, this entire village. the germans were already here. them. it seemed that literally the last spurt and moscow they would take in good weather. from this bell tower the germans could easily see the towers of the kremlin through binoculars. on november 7, 1941, it was cloudy in moscow, low clouds, german aviation remained at the airfields , that the wehrmacht command learned what was happening in the soviet capital not from intelligence reports, but from reports of the soviet form bureau. on this day , the famous parade was held on red square, not yet winners, but definitely not defeated at 6:00 in the morning, they picked us up, as if they put us in a car along a curve and took us out. now i remember which streets through

kuibyshev street and immediately on red square. here we were dropped off, put us in line with all the soldiers, and then came out in steel capable of destroying all bodies sufficiently german worthy of these great commanders of ours. i remembered his words, because they not only listened to us, who we stood on the cobblestones on red square, but the entire soviet union inspired these patriotic words forward, and we walked.

it is known that when hitler found out about this parade, he was furious at his plans. the wehrmacht had long been supposed to occupy moscow with troops. even managed to start boxes with iron crosses to reward the heroes of the reich for the capture of the soviet capital, however, some german soldiers in moscow on red square in those days still turned out to be one of them, wolfgang morel, the war lasted only 12 days for him. in the very first battle, private morality was captured. hello, i'm already in crimea, the weather is wonderful 30 degrees, no one is rushing to the most interesting place, when i tell them about what i feel, they listen, but they don't hear. and that's bad. no one can

rewrite our history. this is just one of the folders prepared by the soviet accusations for the international military tribunal in nuremberg, no one will close the borders for us. always together always all these here is so strong. wow, frozen will not break, we are watching the masterpieces of the world documentary hero. now we really miss the classics, new items, exclusives. 15 years free without registration, watch in the application or on the website.

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had a thing in the bag was a pack of german cigarettes not yet opened. they opened it. each of the smokers i received a cigarette each, and the rest of them, no one believed it for me, then to give back german cigarettes to a german soldier and i simply ca n’t be like this. i'll be completely honest if i were a unit commander. i'd give those cigarettes away too, and the rest. i would hide the pancake germans in myself, then they filmed it on a movie camera, soviet front-line correspondents after almost 80 years. we managed to find these shots. here, he is an ordinary morl under the escort of soviet soldiers, he was taken away. they were interrogated and sent to the location. what were you there the chauffeur who took us to the hospital in some roundabout way? why? he drove us, so we understood, then the driver wanted us to see moscow,

because the russians then managed to protect moscow from the german attack. and we were taken up the mountain through red square at that very time, the invincible wehrmacht for the first time suffered a monstrous defeat. almost 600,000 germans were left lying in the fields near moscow, so many fascist corpses. all the snowy fields of the moscow region were strewn with the corpses of enemies in some places our lads. even hedgehogs-project were inserted so as not to stray corpses and frozen fascists. and in some places, entire cars were caught frozen. so that the battles near moscow gave us full hope of our victory for the worst of the battle near moscow then

the whole world was watching closely. the department of joseph goebbels could not admit that the best soldiers in the world had already been stopped by the supposedly defeated red army in the hd reich. i had to urgently come up with a convincing justification, first of all for the germans themselves. we simply weren't ready. in such cold weather, it was a big mistake to command our ground forces that it did not accept in the estimated snow will not be in russia on the other hand. the russians were very warmly dressed, if we took one of them into captivity, they took away his coat and put it on ourselves along with the fleas that were sitting there. it is precisely this explanation of the failure of the nazis near moscow that dominates today in the writings of european and american historians, they say that the soviet capital was saved not the courage and

self-sacrifice of soviet soldiers. autumn will unravel and a terrible frost only casually given figures western researchers believe the ussr lost near moscow, a million people were killed and wounded, according to russian data, only 900,000 of them were wounded. and almost a million more - these are the dead and the missing, rushed nearby to fill up the ground. i lost consciousness. when night fell, the orderlies began to pick up the wounded, i did not feel my legs collapse. well, imagine, i lost the phalanges of my fingers. vice i lost the phalanges alexander fetisov, like millions of his peers , went to the front as a volunteer immediately after school, and six months later he became an invalid. then the youth

it seemed that life was over. i ended up with others in moscow. but one day. i keep. there, on the trestle bed, one commander says i will put the pistol next to me when i finish the dressing. i will take him. well, what to do with a gun nearby, than to live? i'd rather shoot. i was thinking, i was thinking what to do with this gun. i didn't get anything. tied to pull the trigger is not able to alexander ilyich lives today. in the same place from where in the forty-second he went to the front in tarusa, kaluga region already after and he graduated from a pedagogical school and has become a teacher so far considers it his duty to tell schoolchildren the truth about the war, it is necessary to celebrate victory

day and our descendants should celebrate this great holiday, it brought happiness to mankind and the very best that a person has. this is the outskirts. nevsky piglet of the very main meat grinder of the leningrad front. here from these trenches. and they are here everywhere the germans poured hail on our people. fire 80 years ago. those trees weren't here at all. line of sight 600 m to

our positions. well, literally at a glance and this one hell lasted from the autumn of the forty-first to january of the forty-three, then, during the operation iskra , the leningraders broke through the blockade and occupied these german positions. and since then, all russian and german remains from soviet fascist ammunition have been mixed in this land. our soviet mortar rounds have just been dug up. it is interesting that if you erase the clay, they are like new, you can see even the manufacturer's number, as if they were made yesterday. but this is a german military trick. this is an additional gunpowder, its charge was hung on the tail of a mine and the range of mortar fire increased by 100-150 m. it’s interesting to light up look at it burns 80 years have

passed. and here all living things breathe those battles and after that someone will say that this war can be forgotten. they constantly tried to get over to the left bank of the niva, in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bpyatachka nevsky, they swallowed up about 11,000. these are only those who drowned. this is the situation for two months. well , life expectancy. was there for about 2 hours. on average, i just listened to the news about leningrad already fully taken into the ring and soon raise. i hope that the city capitulates in time, otherwise it will be smashed. this letter

is dated september 8, the forty-first day of the blockade. a few days later, realizing that it would not be possible to take the northern capital with a swoop, hitler made another decision not to take leningrad, but to destroy it along with the population with cold, hunger and continuous bombing. it's the seventh of september. bombs began to fall. first time for us. even that was interesting. we imagine we went to see what is a destroyed house. in september, forty- first, galina nikolaevna was nine years old, her father was immediately drafted into the army, and little galya and her mother were sent to leningrad, they thought it would be safer in the planted city, the girl spent the whole war. mom worked in a hospital. the warriors took my daughter with them, and there i helped, firstly, i read letters to them, some books, delivered

thermometers and bandages. basically what i could do. today, looking at old blockade photographs, galina nikolaevna herself does not understand how managed to survive that very terrible winter of the forty- first year in mid-november, she and her mother were given 125 g of bread for a day, the most vivid memory from childhood is not the first day at school, nor a birthday toy. and how once an unfamiliar officer in the hospital fed dinner to a girl, and where is your father ? clearly, she thanked him and left, and he sits and cries. here's what. can i him feed