The Last Tiger: Final Stand in Berlin | World War II
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Great, what it shows is with trained crews how good the Tiger 2 actually was.
It just had a very underpowered Maybach engine.
It was certainly a beast, in its own separate category from anything else. But it also had significant problems. It was too heavy and the engine was severely underpowered. Really, the Panther was more than adequate and more than a match for any Allied tank, and it would have been a lot more efficient to focus production on those. But it couldn't have helped the Germans much anyways, they just didn't have the manpower, industry and resources to win the war. The only way for them to win would be if they managed to defeat the Soviets quickly like they did with western Europe.
@@felixerazo9800 actually when the germans surrendered all those jagdtigers to the americans. The american tank crews were shocked how fast and agile those tanks were.
Ik
TBH, Jagdtiger was crap, and a great example that very strong armour coupled with powerful gun can, actually, lead to a very bad fighting vehicle @@Freedombringer1776
Last Tiger,sounds legendary.
you should see the 2ndlast!!
Crazy to think how they felt knowing no chance to win and completely surrounded and still fighting on. Can't imagine how they felt.
Probably felt that they were dead men anyway if they surrendered to the Soviets.
@@sirridesalot6652 I know why they fought. Its more what it must have felt like to be in that position
@@roberts1711 You have to understand against who they fought, they were so desperately scared to be caught alive by soviets that they fought to the last bullet and last man. Germans always fought their way back to their own units for safety or allied units to surrender. They knew that death was better choice than being captured. Indeed own death is not worst fate. You can compare volksturm on western front and eastern front. On western front germans didnt really fight. On eastern front kids and grandfathers fought to cover retreat of civilians. I read book about Festung Elbing and descriptions were rly colorful and this wasnt even the bloodiest of sieges.
I think that even now during current war ukrainians are aware that surrendering to russians is last option. Captives from Mariupol gave colorful descriptions of russian "hospitality"
@MachinimaGothic haha almost wanted to tell that in the in the end they fought to buy time so their families could flee to the west but your explanation is perfect hats off. Its hard to find real info these times people just make things up and talk like einstein
@@MachinimaGothic phahahaah WHAT?! JC my man is full of propaganda BS.
As a lvl 100 Marshal in Warthunder and owner of several versions of the King Tiger and other German heavies I approve of this message.
Silly game player JonAss1969 acts.as.if he's a.real warrior -. Gamers are.SO.lacking
transmission over- end- reichfuehrer SsDAS polizei
@scottPreTeenDergast5262 You do realize this was a joke right? If not then u are scaring me.
@@scottprendergast5262did you have a stroke?
@@scottprendergast5262you good? 💀💀
Its a amazing that the Diaz and his crew survived the battle of berlin under conditions.
Georg Diers not Diaz
Díaz hahahahah
Julio Diaz Ignacious Gomez was his full name
still acknowledging the crimes of Germany, it is undoubtable that the ordinary soldiers fought bravely and may they rest in peace.
Absolutely, the ordinary soldiers had no say. It’s important to credit where credit is due.
Crimes?
@@historyatwar most of the time it was fight or die
You acknowledge or even comprehend the crimes of the money Mafia who set the whole thing up?
Did the allies ever commit any crimes, if they did why didn’t they get tried and convicted. If they didn’t then why is the notion that a completely perfect war is how it has to be all the time. Watch europa final battle, hellstorm, the greatest story never told
Fantastic epitaph of warriors in the dying days of Berlin. I recently toured the final days of Berlin, in specific the tanks positioned in defence of Berlin (positions, situations, choices, etc). Whilst much is gone I see what must have been absolutely devastating.
You have researched and narrated a fantastic story. Great job and thank you
The LAST Tiger to fight in Berlin was NOT a Tiger II.. The real LAST Tiger, to fight, in Berlin, was an early Tiger I #323 of the Müncheberg Division. Tiger 323 was abandoned by its crew near the Brandenburg Gate, on May 2nd, 1945. Tiger 323 was also NOT knocked out by the Russians, but they did take photos standing around, and on it, during the days following its abandonment.
found the photo of it with the commies
I love people who contradict
@@ryanSLF facts are facts
wow man, your good, wheres your history channel?
True. Two Tigers 1s sent into the meat grinder for suicide
This was very nicely done. Amazing what stories that were never told during these dying days!
Ur comment doesn't make any sénse
Ur comment doesn't make any sénse
The Nordland and Charlemagne were out of their minds while fighting in the last days of Berlin. They inflicted thousands of casualties along with the Tiger 2"s
You didn't even credit warthunder
No other channel does it as epic as you guys! Brilliant stuff
Thats Facts🤌🏻
Dr.Mark.. the OG. Same with Nigel and others from the World War 2 channel. @joeamarone8251
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@joeamarone8251 Great CZcamsr but i guess i found a better one with this channel
@@P4Tri0t420really? 😂
I love finding new History Channels. I was maybe 3 mins into the video and i instantly subscribed. Love the voice and the enthusiasm, great detailed story. Thank you for this.
Glad to have you here 🤝
A bitter irony that a German land mine destroyed the last Tiger II or King Tiger, and not Soviet tanks or tank destroyers! That was the case of German tank ace Kurt Knispel, the forgotten heroe!
@@davidcolley7714The Germans being on the defensive, would have mined the streets. The Russians advancing, would have little time or reason to bury mines in front of their own troops.
@@dougjustdoug6391 Good explanation 👍
A mine was not able to destroy a Tiger tank, it could only immobilize it. Such a tank was actually easy to repair, if there was anywhere to repair it.
Villain*
@@zeffy._440?
These men saved us from the Commies !! RIP ... And thank you for giving your lifes.
The commies won
What the...
No America saved you from the commies
say what..
This vid is one of the best you have done,truly exceptional work ❤
Thank you!
We need a movie called the Last King Tiger starring Russel Crowe and Fassbender
Seriously this should be a movie if it hasn’t already
Closest thing to such a dramatic tale I know of, is the 1989 film "The Beast"(alternately called The beast of war). This film takes place in Afghanistan c. 1982 when a Russian formation of tanks attacks a village, then gets lost and separated from the unit, and tries to make it back to the Russian base at Kandahar on its own. But a group of Afghan muji decides to follow this tank and its crew to destroy them, which they can do because the tank has a shot out radio and is getting more damaged with every encounter with the Afghans.
Best tank film ever, a lot better than "Fury" for that matter.
WTF would russel be doing in it?
I love this sentense. "During this time some tigers survived and returned to berlin to defend capital" this is so heart touching script. Can feel real patriotism👍
It is strange to read about the patriotism of people who were fanatical servants of a system whose goal was to murder half of Europe.
It is mock-heroic nonsense,
Patriots are people who love their country not destroy it for their own ideology. The Austrian toothbrush wanted to make the people suffer for what he called their betrayal of him.
They were so stupid to follow a criminal Madman into a criminal war. German girls and women paid dearly for their stupidity
war is something you have never been in , with that little Boy comment.....
Love stories of the individual soldiers from WWII, especially the eastern front.
Would love to hear about the Korsun-Cherkasy pocket.
Definitely coming soon.
Leon Degrelle
Imo its fair to say, without taking into account the crimes of Nazi Germany, that the German soldiers, their bravery and tactical shrewdness, and the German armaments, technically and with their firepower, were among the best, or moreover the best in the whole World War II.
Soviets were worst.. Yugoslav partisans killed unarmed soldiers and civilians "Croatians" from 500,000 to 870,000 people.. No one speaks about that...
How about the crimes of the Soviets the ally?
What crimes? Trying to warn the world and save Europe from enslavement to central banks and the degeneracy/ “diversity” we’re seeing today?
Sorry for the typos, Google did not allow me to correct …
Georg Diers there is a book about him named: For the defense of Berlin!
Epic story. Love your channel, keep up the great work. 😎👍 Peace ✌🏻
this is well done, and you just talk about the actual subject . No political diatribes , just the subject matter at presented in an engaging manner. You have gained a subscriber.
Awesome as always👍
What a great documentary!!! Like another viewer said, "with a well trained crew" and a great tank, they slugged it out till the end and some how survived the hellish battle that was Berlin and the second world War. Again, a great documentary!!! Thanks for sharing.
Happy Thanksgiving day to you all and your family. I as a American who's heritage is from Scotland/Germany & Austria, proud of the heritage but I will say that the German people would not have followed a mad man if they (the Allies) would have won with the grace, wisdom, and knowledge of what they did to the Central Powers after WW1 knowing that they were sentencing the central European nations into starvation and poverty. If they would have won with some grace and humility this destruction of people and continent wouldn't have been a history lesson of death and misery. The leaders knew what they were doing with the Treaty after the war.
Wilson promised to not get America involved, then once he was reelected, he lifted the ban on banks loaning to the British and French. He gave banker JP Morgan a govt guarantee for a loan to Great Britain and France. When Russia fell, Germany was able to shift forces to the west and defeat her enemies, but the US troops were sent to guarantee that loan. Arguably, without the US helping to win the war, there would have been no AH and notsee takeover.
@@fazole sir I couldn't had said it better myself, I will always say follow the money and the raw material/plus food and it goes as you said everything.
Stellar comment.
@fazole you pretty much nailed it.👍
It is very much true, the Diktat was horribly unfair. And it was a Diktat, a Treaty is negotiated by both sides. The Central Powers and Russia were not invited to the discussions. It was a spiteful, dictated reordering of Europe. Just look at what the "Allies" did to Russia, stealing her (and German) territory to create Poland. Nicholas II was a fool to trust them but Britain were manipulating everybody
Germany, despite losing the war had achieved her strategic goals by 1918, by eliminating Russia. This ensured that there was no longer a military threat to her. A peace could easily have been negotiated in 1918. But Britain and France didn't want that, they wanted "unconditional surrender", which to the Germans meant occupation. France wanted revenge for 1870 and Britain wanted the German navy eliminated (every country in Europe who built a sizeable navy since the 1600's was attacked by Britain). Then they blamed Germany for everything with the "Guilt Clause" even though the war started in Serbia with no Germans involved
As for Germany following a madman, I think most German politicians of that era would fit into that category. But I see very little difference between Hitler and Churchill, both were warmongering nutcases at the ends of long lines of warmongering nutcases. Both countries were full of them. Britain didn't gain a world-wide empire by being nice to people, but they are very good at covering their own history while pointing the finger at the "madman" over there. But they are not alone there...
RIP heiliges Deutschland ❤
Rip Europe
@@rc59191 chad
@@ramonm.1553 JA, weil sie nicht auf ihn hörten
nur in DEUTSCH@@rc59191
@@rc59191 Thank you bro!!!!
It's an excellent channel
Why didn't I know about it before
So heroic beyond human every limit.
Heroic in an evil cause.
@@buckdraper303 Please be not be absolute cause americans and soviets caused to mankind many disasters.
these 2 young men showing their prowess with these tanks are a extension of their manhood !!!
But what happened to Diaz? Did he and crew escape to the west? Love to know their story!
They did indeed escape to the west, unfortunately there isn’t too much about them Post War.
There was another Tiger II, well positioned in Tiergarten Park in the city center that held out for quite some time.
That was an amazing video and the animation was so cool, When will you guys re-upload the old videos that we all miss so dearly, they've got millions of views now. I personally loved the ukranian one
The greatest tragedy of the European man is Germany's loss of the war.
This is amazing so far
"And the belief that capture meant certain death." They probably also believed that water was wet and fire was hot.
Yeah, the narrator is laying it VERY thick!
Both Americans and soviets were famous for killing pows
It is really hard to imagine somebody fight already lost war. What those crews were hoping for? Unbeliveable.
I believe his name was Georg Diers (sounds like Deers)…not Diaz
Germany was a lone lion that took on a bear, a tiger, an elephant & various sneaky hyenas...
What was Japan then, a monkey?
@@stu8642 Japan was a honey badger
Германия была не на сытным волком ,поэтому ей брюхо и распотрошили, смертельно было кидаться на белого медведя!
@@user-nx5ks3tl6w Yeah, Germany was hungry. Wanted to kill the Polar bear & take it's food. It didn't work because Stalin made Russia strong.
😢 This Story Needs to be Produced & Made into a Full Length Movie or at least a Full Length Docudrama! What an Amazing Story about these Brave Crews of Men & their Heavy Tanks in Desperate Situations & Under the Worse Conditions imaginable! That they Somehow Keep their Focus on their Fight for Homeland, Fellow Soldiers & their Own Lives, Many Sacrifices & Survival Testimonials! This Story & Many More like it, Need to be told So People Can Become Aware, Learn & Appreciate What those Before them Went through! Thank-you for this Excellent Eye Opening Video, & Please keep up the Great Work! Hope you Can do similar Videos about the Brave Luftwaffe Pilots Such as Erich Hartmann, Adolph Galland, Guenther Rall (& So Many Others), Their Stories are Amazing & Historical!👍😇🪽🇺🇸
Epic video telling in an Epic video! Awesome graphics and narration! Thank you!
Very nice video and text. You honored those brave soldiers
Just got done watching the progress the SWISS Museum has made on their KIng Tiger !! Always has been my favorite of ALL German Tanks. The Panther was second favorite. OMG!! What a Phenomenal movie this would make!! Call the film THE LAST TIGERS so both 100 and 314 can be the focus. And with both crews surviving they can do it in Flashback style like Saving Pvt Ryan!!! ........."per chance to dream.............."🤔 And they are RESTORING the Swiss King Tiger to FULL working order. They are waiting on a rebuilt engine.. By the time it's ready to roar a Film maker can have the script ready and make this outstanding story into film history!!
That's what you call a Warrior king tigri 2 I love history Peace 👍🤘🤘
The Crew and of King Tigers balls of steel!!
In front of Kagelaria, as a shield to that Building and their Leader last shot last stand against the Invaders.
Even on Stalingrad no Tanks like these were formed up to give battle screens like these. It said every street every house turned to battleground spot!! Back then no helicopters , drones and other electro shit.. pure instinct pure eye and heart to give street battles with all their heart of the Soldier both Defender, Attacker!! Just so Epic the soldier heart always was, especially on WW2.
Excellent video! These men were brave warriors to the last day, carving a page in history. Thank you for sharing
This is mock-heroic twaddle.
@@markaxworthy2508 because it hurts your feelings lolol
@@wiitmann205 Yup, mock-heroic twaddle offends my sensibilities. Why wouldn't it?
@@markaxworthy2508 You're here yapping like a baby. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to see butt hurt lolol
They were fools who killde their own people in a hopeless cause, and in no way were heros to anyone but children like you, who think war is a computer game. US Army Veteran.
This battle was the most consequential battle in recent history, perhaps the last 2000 years.
Great detail guys
I have been waiting for this
In an amongst a world wide tragedy there are still heroes, on all sides, never again do pray atrocities occur never again.
Good story, and one hell of a tank! 👍
Thanks for continuing to tell these stories.
The Red Army originally sent their tanks into Berlin but many were destroyed by Hitler’s fanatics who fired Panzerfausts and Panzerschrecks from hidden positions in the first floors of apartment buildings.
So, the Red Army withdrew their tanks and wheeled in 155 mm Artillery which fired their shells into the first floors of those building collapsing them and burying the German soldiers. Efficient and no Soviet tank crews were in danger of being killed, although the Soviets suffered 80,000 casualties in capturing Berlin.
The Last Tiger from Battlefield 5 was amazing too
Brave men.
Excellent video and information.
Awesome video!! Have you done a luftwaffe fighter pilot battle of britain one before?
This Tiger may be the last one to fight, but the Tiger 131 is the last one that can still be driven.
There operational tiger 2s out there
@@shanevanorder2644 No, I mean Tiger 131 survived.
@@shanevanorder2644 i believe there are only 2 operational Tiger 2's. one in an dutch museum and one in an russian museum....
Tiger 131 is the last operational("original") Pzkpfw.VI Tiger I though.
@@tyrionlannister4920I was not aware of an operational Tiger 2 in a Russian museum, but it’s something I’ll look into. However, there is an operational Tiger 2 kept at the Mussee des Blinds in Samaur, (apologies if I spelt this wrong) in France. There are number of videos on you tube with it on the prowl. It is often shipped by large transport lorry from that museum to and is a feature at, the annual Millitracks event held I believe in the Netherlands (is this the other operational Tiger 2 you were thinking of or is there another in the Netherlands similarly to Russian that I am not aware of?
Amazing video. You guys are the best!!!
Cool, never knew that these tigers were the last line of defense!
Incredible history! 👏🏻👏🏻
Vielen Dank! TRAURIG heldenhaft!😪😪
I was looking for the battlefield last tiger glad I found this as well
Interesting. From what I have seen, by April 1945 only about 20 Tiger 1s and a dozen or so Tiger 2s were still operational (overall, not in Berlin only). Meanwhile, the Soviets were using 220-300 IS-2s in the battle.
Guderian had instructed Tiger crews to avoid confrontation with IS-2s unless they had an at least 2:1 superiority.
Regardless of what we think of Hitler and the Nazis, the courage of the German soldier is undeniable. The book, 'The forgotten soldier' by Guy Sager, reinforces this reality. I never stop marvelling at their will to keep fighting against impossible odds.
They literally won the war until America step in. The British had one week of food supplies left and were about to negotiate peace.
Good documentary. Thank you. I subscribed!!
Thanks, glad to have you here🤝
Say 'formidable' one more time, I dare you, i double dare you!
Who else is here after seeing a war thunder short on this?
There are tons of sadness in this story
Balls!
German armour and crews were largely superior on most fronts but were ultimately overwhelmed. Check out Michael Wittman.
Or,Otto Carius..He fought on the Eastern Front most of the war. He and his Tiger survived and he returned home to open a small chain of pharmacies near Annweiler..The name of the pharmacies?? Tiger Apotheke,of course!
Eternal gratitude to the Red Army, for having rid Europe of deadly Nazism, the "Fine Fleur" of German youth commanded by the Nazis was destroyed in November 1941 in front of Moscow, the rest was only a long agony of this a deadly ideology which unfortunately still fascinates, because some humans, through fear of their own death, suffer this fascination, without understanding its mechanisms.
Expecting for a Movie, The Last Tiger
It would show Germans in a positive state and decent... The Media would never allow that as it goes against the propaganda machine
How could you possibly think that Diers is pronounced Diaz? 🤯
FINALLY ! .......... We get to hear a story of how King tigers kicked some butt ...... I read and hear these stories of just how inferior this tank was because of its size and weight ...... alot of people tell me that I'm nuts ...... but if I ever win the lottery ..... I'll have someone build me a king tiger and I mean for real.
The 314 crew’s escape to the west should’ve been mentioned in the video, considering the significance that the entire city had been surrounded by the soviets. This was also covered in a Mark Felton video, however.
Excellent . I was riveted. You sir , will get me back into the European theater. Your story was unique
Every battle against a tank it's the Panzer that do more damage but it's the shere will of the Soviet with its unimaginable number that always prevail leaving behind huge casualties.
There were 2 more Tigers after these that fought on in the last holdout at the Berlin zoo...
The allies roared in? Into Berlin only the Soviets roared in
Which was part of the allied powers and got recources like food and tracked vehicles feom the US.
@@tiagomonteiro130 so WW2 was not won by murica alone? Big news
Thanks for sharing. 👍
A great, amazing story... well told.
Thanks for sharing this with me and my family today on this Great day of Thanks, on this Thanksgiving Day in America we are reflecting on the graciousness of God and what we have today. I hope you are able to do the same thing with us and be happy and thankful for what you have and appreciate what you have or are working towards today. Thanks 🙏 again for your time, help, and work on the research and history document put together for us all to learn from today. 😊
You're gonna drive that 70t king tiger north, over a BRIDGE?!?! Hope that snorkel system is working! Great video, cheers!
Liked before even watching!
A wonderful book was written by Peter Mooney called FOR THE DEFENCE OF BERLIN Mooney interviewed Georg diers great stories about the last stand and the breakout across the weidendammer Bridge There's a great picture of an old man standing at the bridge in 2017 in the book his name is Georg Diers whether you agree or disagree it took a lot of took a lot of guts and courage to stay to the end. I was on the bridge a few months ago late at night when nobody around you can almost still hear the wheels and absolute carnage between the fear the devil and the dead.
5:20 what a beautiful word!
Thanks for the piece of history
So basically, this is a redux of Mark Feltons 'King Tiger Last Stand Berlin 1945' from a year ago?
bro i love the tiger 2 h
Magnificent machinery!
A whole new powerplant was planned for the Tiger II... but a nighttime bombing raid by he British destroyed the factory before they could begin cranking them out. So, they had to go with what engines were available.
@@jerryjeromehawkins1712 yes bro
@@jaberboustani 🍻
The last contingent of soldiers, KriegsMariner,Luftwaffe,ss some, actually escaped about 3 days to a week after Berlin fell,they held a pocket in secrecy,while the soviets ravaged the xyz and land drunk and drugged they fired up a tiger and a panther and fought there way through northwest Berlin and escaped,the panther was knocked out midway provided covering fire,the crew escaped,and the tiger fired every round until the rest had crossed bridge only then did the commander and crew exit under help of us soldiers who were providing machine gun and artillery fire vs the soviets ,about 37-40 of people made it back out of a group of 75 , and also a bunch of women children and eldery escaped with them,it's a great story mark Felton has a video on it, crazy how Berlin fell,and almost immediately soviets and Americans traded fire isn't that wild?
The flak towers actually held out for either 3 weeks or three months one of two after Berlin fell,they couldn't be destroyed only until they negotiated xyz did they give up,the bigger of which was by the Berlin zoo,the smaller one was in the northern suburbs
Good information master 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Tiger II was the literal final boss, just wow…
Amazing video!!!!
On the eastern front, 2.5 million Germans had to fight against 6 million Russians and at the same time on the western front, 2 million Germans had to fight against 5 million Allies. The Germans had much less fighting material, were always outnumbered and were hardly trained, there were many malnourished child soldiers among them and in recent years they were tired of the war and unmotivated to continue fighting. The German soldiers often had their tanks stuck in impassable terrain so as not to have to drive further against the overwhelming number of opponents. Especially at the end of the war, many tank crew members fled, I know this from my grandfather, because Tanks were considered "iron coffins".
The tanks crew should get a movie done
Never die remeber for that warrior of god and light.
R.I.P...the honor and brave warriors the best that world even seen before. !!
Never forgotten..they all now with god !!
good stuff. Very ironic that the last King Tigers were immobilized via German land mines. Where were the other allies during this time?
Dutch ,walloons, Danes, few Balkan as Croats and Germana from Bosnia ,few Spanish actually were in Berlin,under command of a commander from Paris,the sewers is where the fiercest fights where and the opera house not many know that
Also in the Baltic West Prussia or east I forget,actually fought on for three months,they had ammo to fight for half a year,but with no air force ,they mainly fought on to help refugees escape into Norway,the last planes out where from Prussia.most of which didn't make it ,but man the Baltic contingent fight was epic
My grandfather frets was an SS Panzer division. He told me what happened to hear him was sad.
Thanks for this my Dad was deafened by a Tiger 2 tank in WW2. He survived but the Tiger 2 didn't.. war is a necessary terrible fact of life 🤔
The war was absolutely lost by this point and these men fought for no reason and many lost their lives needlessly!
What are you smoking 😂 Henry Morgentau and Richard Kalergi openly wrote books about how they wanted to make a Genocide on the German people and they were signed by Roosevelt himself, camps like Rheinwiesenlager and the mass rape in 1945 is enough proof for any German Soldier to continue fighting, one more hour fighting the allies is one more hour a German girl had time to escape from the red army.
@@tiagomonteiro130 its still happening by mass immigration