To get this out of the way, I am not a Wehraboo (the closet I would be to anything is maybe a DDR apologist) and despise every aspect of the Clean Wehrmacht myth, including defences of Rommel (who tolerated internment of the few Jewish people in Libya). That and the memoirs Guderian and von Manstein, which employed the Clean Wehrmacht, exclusively blaming Hitler for military blunders, and Soviet just out-numbering in “Asiac hordes tropes, have tainted western historiography about the Eastern Front to this very day.
The question is how accurate are the YouTube comments are at identifying the dialtects of the voices.
As far as I read, Rommel had a distinct Württemberg low German accent. von Manstein, the most distinct by being high pitch, has a Berliner voice despite being of Prussian nobility (Berlin dialect is, apparently, been viewed as “trashy”/proletarian similar to Cockney accent in the UK or New Yorker in the US). Guderian is expected for a Prussian aristocrat. I just want confirmation by Germans here, if they had anything to elaborate, clarify, and/or criticize.
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To get this out of the way, I am not a Wehraboo (the closet I would be to anything is maybe a DDR apologist) and despise every aspect of the Clean Wehrmacht myth, including defences of Rommel (who tolerated internment of the few Jewish people in Libya). That and the memoirs Guderian and von Manstein, which employed the Clean Wehrmacht, exclusively blaming Hitler for military blunders, and Soviet just out-numbering in “Asiac hordes tropes, have tainted western historiography about the Eastern Front to this very day.
The question is how accurate are the YouTube comments are at identifying the dialtects of the voices.
As far as I read, Rommel had a distinct Württemberg low German accent. von Manstein, the most distinct by being high pitch, has a Berliner voice despite being of Prussian nobility (Berlin dialect is, apparently, been viewed as “trashy”/proletarian similar to Cockney accent in the UK or New Yorker in the US). Guderian is expected for a Prussian aristocrat. I just want confirmation by Germans here, if they had anything to elaborate, clarify, and/or criticize.