Reference to "The HEER" means army in German. Wehrmacht is the WHOLE military. You hear people referred to the Wehrmacht as the German Army but they are technically wrong. Even PhD professors screw that up. The Wehrmacht is the German Army, Navy, and Luftwaffe (Air Corps). I apologize if I bored anyone I just thought I might add it to the comments.

FASCINATING! INTELLIGENTLY WRITTEN. HONEST. FRANK. UNAVOIDABLY COMPELLING. WWII GOLD. Danke!

Thanks for uploading this audio book. My eyes are getting bad so I can't read that well.

What an incredible account. We all know the general timeline and major battles but listening to this is like looking through a microscope and following one single thread within a whole tapestry of peoples experiences of WW2.

Please continue to make these, I really enjoy them!

Man the description of the battle that ensued with the AT-units after crossing that bridge was incredibly gripping.

Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck is superb. I listened to it this week on UKposts on "archive".

Great story very well told indeed

That was an Amazing man!thank you! Sounds like he recovered pretty well wish peace on earth

I didn't expect to listen for long - but found this riveting. Fascinating detailed descriptions of action. Carefully written analysis of his various campaigns as well as capturing the excitement and fear of his participation. The post war experiences are an eye opener too. Very glad that I noticed this and listened.

Great audiobook Thank you so much

Germans were the best troops training wise during the war. Great book thanks for uploading.

Listened to this more than once over the last few years, and every time I hear something new.

Interesting and informative. Orator presented the documentary very well. Special thanks to commander cross. Sharing personal information/combat experiences making this documentary more authentic and possible.fighting/perishing/surviving. Knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible.yet still advanced forward regardless of the consequences. That's true grit style determination to succeed. Panzer Ace My 4 year odyssey.. Exactly what the experience must have been!!!

Good narrator!!!

Enjoyed this so much Thank you.

Thank you for posting

As a teenager in 1971, I chose to be "at the tip of the Spear " ......best job I ever had , filthy work, body odour and Toe Jam mixed with Diesel fumes, oil, turret blowback from main gun and hot .50 cal cart.cases rolling around the floor plates. No sleep, cruddy food, plastic Jerry cans full of warm, fetid drinking/washing water. Great pals, great adventure and limped away . Best job I ever had.

A very important 1st hand account of the war from the German side of events. Von Rosen was very lucky indeed. Wounded 5 times in the thick of most of the biggest battles of the war. I throughly enjoyed this personal history.

This was awesome, thanks so much.

Fascinating life. And a very good narration.

Thank you for the read, was very much enjoyed a very difficult time in the world of military age.

Awesome book !!! Thank you

Enjoyed this very much, danka

Superb, Thankyou

Great story of very hard times!

I got no idea where you find this stuff but its truly remarkable listening. I had no idea books like this existed. Thanks for sharing (as well as for Duel Under the Stars). Please upload more. 🙏🇿🇦

Thank you for the upload.

thank you .

The oration by Nigel Patterson make this very real

This is excellent, and a true view into history. Thank you.

Thank you this was excellent!

Excellent

Straight up chapter one start at 14:35ish.

Definitely Tiger Tracks & Last Panther...

Beautiful writings and such undiluted truth and history

The chapter where they stumbled upon a bunker would be too unbelievable for a movie.

Fantastic .. loved every minute of it

Very good most enjoyable

Cheers my friend 🙏 awesome work , keep em coming please 👍

As an aging "Grunt" myself I laugh when the Panzer officers complain about how slow the infantry is...... they were on foot- along with the horse drawn big guns are still marching like the Grand Armee' was doing back in 1812. Hitler forgot that more than half his (Heer) army was on foot like the armies of wars past. Only the Panzer divisions were advanced and high tech but the engines/mechanical parts couldn't deal with dust, mud,..... mother nature. They had to be maintained and couldn't roll through Russia w/o having breakdowns. Guess it was because Russia by choice or Force finally used their wide open country to withdraw and withdraw till they could turn around and fight........

Excellent!!

Did you catch the description of the "Heroes' refuge"? That's the trench dug and then the panzer driven over the trench!

Awesome... Can you post Tiger Tracks

It was about the Brandenburgers... But I don't remember the name of the book. I need to find & listen to that book again. Unbelievably awesome book. Great job though on the channel. Thanks for the uploads so far.

" Storm of Steel " WW 1 :

I admire the honesty of R von Rosen, He describes not only the battles and, but also looting of the soviet store in the first days of the war and drinking Cognac and what not while on active duty. That is how it really was.

More like this please 😊

This is a great upload , thanks...Now if you can do Stalin : Paradoxes of Power by Steven Kotkin...

Unfortunately ,many of the place names were the German version and trying to locate some of them on a map were near impossible, only maybe to one town in a very large area at times, although, it is also possible some of the villages do not exist anymore. Was hoping the subtitles would help, they were very poorly done to say the least. Good story, sure he saw a lot that he didn't talk about, from the early days and his time behind the lines in reserve areas. Would not have been a nice experience, they took as good as they gave thru the course of the war, being a tanker, he was very lucky to survive it, in large part due to the equipt he operated..

Good book

its like did these fools not figure out they were being led by a lunatic

Ah. Tantor.. they produce great stuff.. their Art of War with Scot Brick is the best..

I read a book called SS Colonel, about a group of SS who fled to France and their foreign legion after the war. They were sent to Indochina. Supposedly a personal and factual biography.

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Have you anything else planned at all?

What time chapter 1 start?

Last Panther

Surely every country defeated by Germany should have been considered victors if you included defeated France.

1:03:00

I found this an interesting read, however the complaints of this german aristocrat about the conduct of POWs, after what his country did to the "untermensch" stinks of hypocrisy

10:11...THE GERMANS COULD SURE DISH IT OUT- BUT THEY COULDN'T TAKE IT!!! ALL THAT THE GERMANS GOT WAS A GODDAM GOOD TASTE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE- AND THEY DESERVED EVERY BIT OF IT- AND MORE-(!)

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First, second, third.

to busy using transport to move jews..when all that should have been used for the army

I find it a bit disturbing that in the final chapters, the author laments that the French occupiers were "hateful" and "bent on [the Germans] destruction" as if the Wehrmacht and Nazi Party didn't spend the past five years subjecting the rest of Europe - not to mention the Jews and other "undesirables" - to those very same attitudes on a much, much larger and more vicious scale. Where is the author's self-awareness? Did he understand that he wasn't the victim in all of this? I suspect not. At 8:23:32 writes that he "felt like an animal in the zoo" when he was in a French-run prison and some official's wife and daughter came to tour the jail. How can you write that with a straight face knowing - as he did - the brutal and inhumane subjugation that the Nazis visited upon their many victims? Disgraceful, and the epilogue does not mitigate this fact. At the very least his learning of the true extent of the horrors of what was done should have prompted a re-visitation of the last two chapters.

Whenout the human right of feedom of speech,, the right to bear arms, and believe on God, we war, persecute, and suffer idolatry....four and one half years of blind belief systematically promoted to war, hate, and.persecute.

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Is this supposed to be real?

Moral dolt; intellectual smartie. Ultimately, a conscienceless patsy.

Zensur

Tired of the apologies....the enemies of Germany were far more criminal but they get to spout off about "saving the world."

Excellent 3rd Reich panzer leader's memoir, thank you for the upload. If I may, I'd like to request an additional English-translated combat-memoir: Thorolf Hillblad's "Twilight of the Gods".