1941 Fritz Ries - Prisoner of War

[Kal50BMG]

Wishful thinking...

"Lieber tot als rot" means "better dead than red."

[wabankik]

...Seems Really Odd The Soviet Officer was wearing a Doughboy Helmet just as The following red soldier was wearing a standard Steihelm!!!

[beetle2014]

THIS STORY IS TRUE ?

[MrTennesseeVols]

Wow Soviet Newsreels,you don't see them much!

[skoblinI]

@MrTennesseeVols I have about 40 of them. Just have not had time to upload them.

[ColonelGhostman]

That looks like it was set up. It seems like propaganda to me...

[williesson]

Only 6 procent returned ...

[beetle2014]

@williesson You lie returned home three out of four, who also started the war Germany or Russia?

Russian POWs were killed by the Germans almost all

SO DO NOT TALK SHIT

[williesson]

@beetle2014

The UK declared war first to Germany... But that is not the question!

[williesson]

@beetle2014

The UK declared war first to Germany... But that is not the question!

[cfodk]

What a perfect lie. Everyone knows that the german pows in USSR almost all died in concentration camps. Or everyone should know!

[williesson]

@cfodk

Only 6 procent returned...

[fredeg7]

Interesting....anyone notice the Political Commissar was wearing a british helmet and one of his soldiers a German helmet? Wouldn't want to be around him in a firefight.

[Heightofhate]

That was a French, not a German helmet.

[MrJimmyboy1972]

@Heightofhate doh! it was the russians that were wearing the helmets

[Heightofhate]

@MrJimmyboy1972 Yes, I know it.

Soviets wore French helmets in 1939 and in the first days of the Barbarossa campaign.

Amazingly, Soviets wore even GERMAN helmets with red stars on them after 1945 in 1946 - for economical reasons. I saw the pictures - that was shocking and ridiculous!

[MrJimmyboy1972]

@Heightofhate the old saying: "to the winners, the spoils" every army throughout time has used the equipment of their vanquished foe, why not?

[Heightofhate]

@MrJimmyboy1972

Right you are, Sir! ))

[MrJimmyboy1972]

@Heightofhate cheers

[ssnakessnake1]

First time I see something like that. Very interesting.

[LegiaoPortuguesa]

A German Traitor that will never see again his fatherland....

[jochen1915]

Who knows, if that Fritz Reiß really existed.

[AZ375719]

What a document of propaganda .Soviets were and are( I repeat,soviets) Master of that.Good job Skoblini!

[Heightofhate]

And Germans didn't know what propaganda was, my ass!

They even had a minister for it!

[SR61]

Fascinating footage. But maybe he was shot anyway, maybe he spent the next ten years in a Polish coal mine.

I once read that a German Sgt crossed into the Soviet zone a couple of days before Barabrossa to tip-off the Russians. Anyone heard of such an incident?

[skoblinI]

I recall that the German sergeant you are referring to was shot by the NKVD as a provocateur.

[SR61]

Typical of the times, I suppose.

Many thanks for your info and very impressed by you channel.

Best wishes

[robertborak]

@skoblinI

good, treason is a dispicable thing, either side.

[MrJimmyboy1972]

@SR61 there was a spy in the german embassy in tokyo who sent a signal to moskow giving the date and time of the invasion, and, it was ignored.

[MrJimmyboy1972]

@SR61 i think he spent the next minute s******* himself and then the bullet in the neck. unfortunate, just a guy doing his job, i think.

[AndreasAntoniusMaria]

Very clever move of Fritz Ries. Better a traitor to nazi germany than a dead corps lying in the Ukranian soil.

[olivenstein]

Good piece of propaganda. The Soviet officer is wearing a Brodie helmet!