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Wouldn't it be nice to see a Map or two?

It helped win the war, enough said.

If that had designed something simply to manufacture and maintain yet effective and reliable like the panther but better l

The Soviets ended up winning the war, Manstein's success was short lived.

Moscow was less important than Kyiv because Kyiv was the historical heart of the Slavs.. Moscow is a second rate city from a historical and independent perspective when compared to Kyiv. Hitler recognize that the Russians were inferior to the Ukrainians in terms of bravery, fight spirit and intelligence. He knew that Ukraine was more important from all perspectives.

Trying to defend your country with a cavalry against Panzer’s? Insane!

Von Manstein was largely responsible for Stalingrad. He was the typical career politician. The same types of ‘yes men’ rubbish of the middle-classes / over-privileged classes which we see all around Germany today again - and not only in Germany anymore. Never ever trust again the political / oligarchic cults of Berlin, Rome and New Rome ((the original name of Washington DC).

Hell on earth! Poor guys on both sides.

I think they should have spent their resources improving the panther and using that as their main tank.

for me, germans in ww2 are most coolest faction, most advanced, most badass.

Puts to sleep the T-34 and KV myth. I read in the Battle of Dubno book, the Germans were, in fact able to deal with them.

And still they lost,were defeated, annihilated,by the so called "inferior" people. Just like one day,the entire West will be defeated. Period.

One more flaw was the famous "shot trap" between the cannon frontal half cylindrical cover and the top flat plate of the tank. If a shot hit the lower frontal side of the half cylinder where the cannon is fixed it most probably ricochet and penetrate the top plate of the tank below with disastrous effect.

The tiger alone instilled fear beyond its porportion into the allies that alone makes it a very effective weapon

Great documentary. Pronunciaton of Von Manstein is not good. The Germans pronounce it different.

The success of the Wehrmacht in France 1940 was not due to packing hundreds of tanks in a small attacking front but rather the concept of ‘all arms’ warfare.

The Germans over engineer everything, it's what they do. Got to love those German engineers!

ı checked how many tanks germans destroyed in russia :the statistic total: after end of war.30.000 soviet tanks is destroyed . they was the best pro army in the world ,this is true .I'm not surprised by those who still admire !

His name is pronounced Fon Mahn-stein, and the army he commanded was pronounced Vehr-macht!

You’re repeating the same promotional type information over and over again. We get it, Zeiss optics gave German tankers a great advantage. But you keep repeating this before hinting at WHY their superiority in optics was achieved.

Even with the long barrelled 75 mm on the Panther it's interesting to wonder if It could have hurt the Pershing

It was asinine not to get the Pershing into service faster ... stupidity

The Original Sherman was perfect for what is was designed for, people do not realize it was not a Heavy Tank, its designation and design was officially Medium Tank, M4. And could hold their own against the other mediums. German Panzer IV, Soviet T-34. Further modifications improved it but over all did not improve survivability head on with the heavy tanks.

there were never enough TDs to make the difference you claim. other vidyas in the jootoob realm say as much, as well as several post ww2 books. do some research for your clickbait. yer right up there with stevie ambroses crap.

Tank Overhaul episode 4, m18 Hellcat. If a tank destroyer is no longer needed, then why do we still operate the Republic A10 Thunderbolt 2?

There are so many false information spread about german tanks. Tiger I was planned as a super heavy break trough weapon, it was never planned to produce it in huge numbers. The panther was the next generation of the Panzer 4, he should become the new standard, and was still in the ramp up phase of mass production. The USA and Russia build by far the most tanks in 1944 and 45, because their production reached optimal output at this time, while the german production broke down at this time due to the permanent bomb attacks on their logistic and production sites combined with a lack of everything. In 1940 to 1942 the german tank production was very high, comparing the population of Germany with the USA or Russia. The Stug III and IV were the german low budget tanks and very successfull.

Today in the US.gAy- they have the dickskrieg and slitskrieg...

A 4000 meter hit on a German tank in 1944? I don’t think this man has his facts right

Al fin, un estudio de la optica alemana en la segunda guerra

Why ask? The answer is well known. I can sum up in one word: socialism.

You have no idea what you are doing. This was supposed to be about 2 tigers but you show footage of panthers. What a joke and you’re comments about the speed and agility of tigers is completely wrong. Tigers were heavy, had problems negotiating mud and snow, and underpowered

Tenebrous teutonic genius.

Land battlecruisers. Same philosophy, same problems.

Great film footage of the Jagdtiger, you don't often see much of this vehicle in WW2 videos.

The Germans had too many competing designs, a result of partisan politics . If they had standardised on a single design of tank, APC, anti tank gun etc they could have mass produced, instead they pandered to Hitler's reliance on WunderWaffe

One could ask why thousands of under-gunned Shermans were manufactured, in the first place.

Gegen den Tiger oder Panther keine chance

Caliban and elephant still my favorites tanks

Manstein was NOT a Von. His last name was Lewinski and took his sister's husbands name! Kids today don't know shit because our schools stopped educating in the 80's.

I believe the tank destroyer concept was flawed and its disappearance after the war supports that conclusion. The TD strategy didn't merge well with the overall nature of the allied offensive nature while TD's tasks were basically defensive. Another problem arose because they looked like a tank and too many commanders figured if it looked like a tank it could fight like a tank. So they tried to use them like tanks if no real tanks were available. That was bad news for the TD because their light armor was vulnerable to about everything that was shot at them.

An uncle of mine was a tank commander in the second world war. When in action the tank crew would sometimes crack the hatch a couple of inches to reduce the heat inside. My uncle ended up with a serious head injury as a result of shrapnel finding that little gap.

I have seen a picture of a mass of tanks gathered in Paris after Germany surrendered. There are a few survivor M3 Lees and many Shermans of various models, including an early production M4 still sporting the twin fixed-mount machine guns up front.

17:07 only Americans were in Normandy? Britain and Canada destroyed 80+%of German panzers in Normandy.

Where were the US army in 1939 when we needed them?

But how cool are they?

Bro why did you rate this with chat got This is bullshit

So much for the claims that the Sherman was equal or better than the Panthers and Tigers. Send those "misinformed flag wavers" to see this video. The truth cannot be denied - only the Firefly had a real chance.

Ya know, I would be really interested in what actually happened, but holy hell I can‘t stand the hero worship

Невозможно обьять необьятное,было построено свыше 10000 подводных лодок,,это-десятки потенциальных тысяч тигров...

Retreat 500 kms to have enough reserves for one counter attack that very quickly runs out of steam is what a master strategist would do?