Comments by "Neil Forbes" (@neilforbes416) on "Hürtgen forest and the end of World War II | DW Documentary" video.

  1. 38:38 Word misspellt. Shown as "Historiker" when it should be "Historischer".
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  2. I do not believe the two narrators on this video are native German-speakers who are fluent in English, otherwise they would've pronounced Hürtgen correctly as Germans naturally prounced that name. It's a name which cannot be phonetically spellt in text as the two dots above the letter 'u', known as an umlaut, affect the pronunciation of that letter in a way that cannot be properly shown in print, and can only be demonstrated in actual speech. It's my suspicion that the two narrators are monolingual Americans hired to narrate this programme.
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  3. 15:32 And more proof these narrators are monolingual Americans. A native German-speaker would pronounce Vossenack as "Fossenack", as in German, the 'V'(called "Fau" in German") takes an "eff" sound. How do I know? From learning the language myself!
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