HistoryAtWar

Hi!! If you want to see some of my rarest and most intense WWII footage from my archives, I’ve now uploaded it to my Patreon and will also be uploading more daily and weekly. Many of you have told me how deeply impressed you are by the raw, unfiltered wartime footage. I uncover material that rarely circulates online, and often never appears in documentaries. On Patreon, I’m now sharing full, uninterrupted reels exactly as they exist, without cuts, commentary, or dilution.

Patreon is also the best way to directly support my work at HistoryAtWar. It allows me to keep researching, licensing, restoring, and uploading rare material that would otherwise disappear into archives or private collections, THANKS!! :)

www.patreon.com/c/HistoryAtWar

4 days ago | [YT] | 198

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Meet Ernst Teichmann,

Ernst Teichmann was a deeply committed Protestant pastor whose life became inseparable from the dead of Halbe. (The Last German Pocket) Arriving in the aftermath of the catastrophe of April–May 1945, he was profoundly disturbed by the way tens of thousands of German soldiers and civilians lay scattered in shallow, makeshift graves across forests and fields, marked only by birch crosses, rusted helmets, or not at all. The dead Germans were put into mass graves and labelled "Dead Fascists" and totally disregarded.

But Ernst didn't take this. Rooted in a strict Lutheran sense of duty, Teichmann saw the care of the dead as a Christian obligation, and he devoted himself to recovering remains, registering burials, and restoring dignity to those German soldiers who had died nameless or without any care.

This work brought him into constant conflict with the East German Communist authorities, who viewed his efforts with suspicion and resisted his insistence that the fallen deserved proper remembrance. Despite years of obstruction, surveillance, and hostility, Teichmann never gave up.

After moving to Halbe in 1951, he worked to consolidate scattered graves into a single central war cemetery, cutting through bureaucracy and ideology alike. He was even forced to witness the regime’s quiet transfer of thousands of corpses from the Soviet camp at Ketschendorf, many of them Germans who starved to death after the war, into Halbe, buried hastily and inaccurately to suppress the truth.

Teichmann never abandoned the dead, spending decades tending the cemetery and advocating for remembrance, so much so that he wished to be buried among the soldiers he had served. That final request was denied; the authorities allowed him only a grave in the adjacent civilian cemetery. A God fearing christian, who served the fallen out of faith, and a state that feared the memory he refused to let disappear.

A man to inspire all of us.

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5 days ago | [YT] | 335

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My fellow WW2 nerds,

I need your assistance. This week I managed to track down my x3 cousin, from my grandmother's side, who fought and died in Kiestinki / Kestenga front alongside the Finns. He was a part of the 6th SS Nord Division; I managed to find his unit.

1./SS-Infanterie-Regiment 9 (mot.)

Ersatz: SS-Gebirgs-Ersatz-Bataillon "Nord" (Wendau/Ostpr.)

Division: SS-Division Nord

I’ve already contacted the Bundesarchiv for the full personnel file, but I know many of you have very deep knowledge of these Arctic front units the Nord division, Kiestinki battles, and the broader German–Finnish operations in 1941–42, if anyone has any information please do let me know!!

3 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 262

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Is anyone else noticing how seriously bad History on YouTube is becoming? I can’t find anything authentic or original anymore, it’s all the same robotic voices same mass channels, saw a Stalingrad video today that talked about the last “SS divisions” there was no SS in Stalingrad??, I can’t find anything good to watch anymore on here but a few channels, it’s just automated rubbish. originality on YouTube is dying and it’s not looking good, there is really only a small handful of real people that have real dedication and love for this, people like Mark Felton, Battle Guide, WW2 History, myself etc etc, and some others, and there isn’t much of this left, I do worry where YouTube will be in let’s say 5 years time, the platform really has become unsustainable at the moment, so please make sure you guys support your real creators, we need it more than ever! 🙏🏻

2 months ago | [YT] | 612

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I FINALLY cover WW1? New video live on the second channel!

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ1JL...

2 months ago | [YT] | 556

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The Bagration video is live TODAY at 6pm BST, GET READY, GOING TO BE A GREAT ONE. Weeks and weeks of work has gone into this

2 months ago | [YT] | 529

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Ladies and Gentlemen,
I’m currently deep into a big project on Operation Bagration – the great Soviet offensive of 1944. One challenge I’m facing is finding authentic first-person accounts. If any of you have fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, or even friends who fought in this operation, whether on the German or Soviet side, any side. I’d love to feature their stories in the video, to give them a voice. Please get in touch with me via email as soon as possible. It would mean a lot, and it helps keep these voices alive. Thank you all!

historyatwarbusiness@gmail.com

2 months ago | [YT] | 273

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv06W...

It’s an epic yet tragic story of a country few people talk about...
A nation often overshadowed by the bigger Axis powers.
But their role in the war, the blood they spilled, the battles they fought, was anything but minor. In my opinion, they were one of Germany’s most underrated allies. And today, I’m going to tell their story.

2 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 367

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British SS Volunteers in Berlin??? Be sure to tune in today, gents — we’re heading back into the ruins of Berlin once again!!

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I have a good friend in Munich that sends me German Letters from WWII, he sends me them weekly. I often get sad reading them, much of which are from deceased soldiers, and I wonder why I should have them here in the U.K, these should remain in Germany, but obviously you know much of these aren’t really wanted by many Germans, but I use all of them for resources and real accounts in my videos you hear, it’s really the most raw account you will hear from the soldiers own hand writing,

Also I’m hoping you’re all enjoying my videos recently, I appreciate you all!

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