Waffen-SS and Fallschirmjager troops in action
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- (18 Dec 1944) 111 ADC 2949 Waffen-SS and Fallschirmjager troops in action on 18th December 1944, the third day of Hitler's Ardennes offensive on 6. SS Panzer Armee's front on the northern shoulder of the Bulge:
Shots laid on for the camera showing SS-Grenadiers from Kampfgruppe Hansen (I/SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment-1), wearing mottle camouflage uniforms, and thick winter greatcoats, advancing past burning and disabled M3 half-tracks, M8 armoured cars, jeeps, M5 Stuart light tanks and 3-inch anti-tank guns from Task Force Mayes (14th US Cavalry Group) on the road between Recht and Poteau near St Vith, sharing captured American cigarettes with men from 3. Fallschirmjager Division - a Jagdpanzer IV self-propelled gun armed with the long 7.5cm L/70 cannon is seen by-passing the wrecked US column and heading across-country.
10:13:14
Shots showing two Panzer 38 (t) 15cm sIG 33 self-propelled guns from SS-Pz.-Gren.-Regt.-1 bombarding US positions from a field outside Recht and two young radio operators reporting the results of the bombardment to the NCO in charge of the two guns.
10:13:52
Shots at the Kaiserbaracke road junction on the N23 road between St Vith and Malmedy showing old German road signs pointing to Malmedy and St Vith, a Steyr troop-carrier turning right towards Recht, a massive Konigstiger (King Tiger) from SS-Schwerer-Panzer-Regiment-501 rolling up at the crossroads carrying paratroopers from 3. Fallschirmjager Division en route to Stavelot in the Ambleve valley. a Sd Kfz 251 half-track APC turning right for Recht, two junior officers from SS-Panzer-Aufklarungs-Abteilung-1 strolling past several Sd Kfz 250 half-track recce, cars and conferring over a map on the bonnet of their Schwimmwagen amphibious recce. car, enjoying captured cigars with their driver, the heavily-armed paratroopers on the Konigstiger relaxing, smoking cigarettes
10:16:00
Shots showing SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Knittel, CO of Kampfgruppe Knittel (SS-Pz.-Aufkl.-Abt.-1), conferring over a map with SS-Obersturmfuhrer Goltz, commander of his HQ company, in the hamlet of La Vaulx-Richard outside Stavelot, Waffen-SS troops riding in a Steyr truck and a VW Kubelwagen passing mobile 3.7cm flak detachments on 8t semi-tracks and an over-run American 3-inch anti-tank gun near a chapel at Merlscheid near Losheim.
10:16:41
Shots for the benefit of the Deutsche Wochenschau film editor showing young Waffen-SS grenadiers wearing thick winter coats advancing past the wrecked and abandoned Task Force Mayes column between Recht and Poteau and shots of M3 half-tracks on fire.
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These guys are legends forever.
yeah!
Idiot!
Based
jebał ich Pies i wszystkich, którzy ich uważają za bohaterów .
Legends of what? My great grandfather was bohemian and fought on the eastern front. Let me tell you they are legends of mass genocide of innocent civilians of even the White race . Nothing to be proud of unless you want to be a psychotic psychopath or leave with guilt and trauma for your remaining days
My father served as a paratrooper from 1940 (aged 18) until 1945 (aged 22), from theatres in Norway, North Africa, Russia, France, Italy (Monte Cassino), and finally in Holland. He was wounded several times. His contemporary photographs never show him, and his comrades that optimistic, as these (propaganda) films suggest. The authentic photos show self-certain, but worn-out faces. He was prisoner of war until as late as 1948 in England. Then he became an dedicated detective police officer. But as long as he lived (until 2009), everyone knew him as a charming entertainer, an engaged instructor, and an nurturing father. That generation was anything but lost.
Did you get any story' from him?
I would love to read whole book of yours father menories.
THE GREAT GOALKEEPER BEST TAUBER !!!
Bert
Are you German? Also you are father was a paratrooper as in those with parachutes? I heard they had very low life expectancy
1:33 these two soldiers one of the most iconic footage in ww2
My Grandfather was "conscripted", (expected to join the party as a teacher, policeman, postal worker, etc), into the Waffen SS as a school teacher in a remote Freisian Island. He died on the retreat in a place called Stűlweissenberg, North of Lake Balaton. Now called Székesfehérvár. The whole regiment was wiped out as they had no tank support, supply lines or communications, (he was a Panzer Grenadier). My Mother only knew of his death fifteen years later..told by a surviving member of his regiment who feined death. She lived with this for all her life and killed herself, on her own, in Normandy, many, many years later. There was one other man who survived and was badly injured. Basically, anyone who was alive was bayonetted or hanged to save rounds. My Grandfather was, I believe, 44 years old and sent to the front. With 3 months training, he stood no chance. This was in the last few months of the European War, April '44, perhaps? His name was Jansen Eggers, from the Island of Sylt. I would love to have met him. There is always another side to any story. The victors always write the history books. Any information would be gladly appreciated about my Grandfather. Thank you!
Hey sorry to hear about your family tragedy. Your folks were victim's of their criminal government.
@@thepub245 Cheers Neal. Indoctrination, propaganda and forced induction. Sound like anything that is going on today?
@@stevecowham1017 Yeah its funny how everything changes but stays the same. My own Grandfather fought on the side of the allies in WW1, volunteered at 14 (lied about his age) and ended up in pioneer corp doing the very dangerous job if venturing out into no mans land to spy on the enemy. He was an orphan who lived in a boys home. He was taken prisoner in 17 and sent to work in a coal mine near what was then Stettin, which is known as something else and is in Poland I think. He survived and went on to have a very long army career, including service in WW2, training new recruits. My Great Grandfather was killed in action on the first day of the battle of the Somme, with the 36th Ulster Division, again WW1.
@@stevecowham1017 Sorry, I meant to say also that I was lucky enough to have known my Grandfather. He lived in another country and I only spent time with him on a few occasions unfortunately. He died at an old age in 1985.
Sorry to hear about your grandfather, I'm sure he was a fine man. As far as your statement where "the victors always write the history books" goes - utter recycled rubbish! There have been countless THOUSANDS of books written by authors from losing countries. That's a tired and worn out falacy; repeating it only casts aspersions on everything else you've written.
Heroes. The last defenders of Europa and to an extent the greatest Western civilization.
you are 100 % correct !!
i am not white but i agree with you
"bad guy stuff look cool so i bad guy too"
@@MajorMilitron wheres the bad guy in this video
@@jung9399 I'm not gonna have a political debate with you, bro, millions of innocent jews dead, prisoners surrendering, executed and you think these guys are good? That's not politics. Thats psychopathy
When I was working in the ER, about 15 years ago, I met a gentleman who was a member of the Fallschirmjäger. He made something like 14 combat jumps (his words), was injured on the last one and ended up recovering in Texas in a POW hospital. After the war, he went back to (West) Germany, actually worked on the German side of Kennedy's security detail during his trip to Berlin and was a German investigator for the US military police.
He finally retired to my hometown, where I eventually got to meet this fascinating gentleman. Sadly, he passed away about seven years ago, and I only got to talk to him a few times. I would have loved to have sat down and listen to his life story.
THE GREEN DEVILS !!!We're NOT S.S. Admiral Cannaris WAS those NAVEL Commander & They Were UNDER the LUFTWAFFE they LOST SO MANY in Crete & They are REFERRED AS PROBABLY THE Cream Of the GERMAN VANGUARD !!! AND HELD IN V HIGH ESTEEM MY ALLIED FORCES AT THE TIME !!!IRONMEN !!!The Bloody too NAZIS EXECUTUTED Admiral Cannaris 😣😣😣😣 as He Was The Old Guard And Passed INFORMATION on to Us To Undermine The Nazi Regime 😕☝Then HIMMER & HIS BLOODY S.S. took them over 😨g
@@columbusjustice5183 4 to 5 thousand actually...where did you find that number?
@@rudedude1686 yes I agree your right I stand corrected my number are way off I got mix up I google the battle of Crete I was watching the history of the battle of Crete but Germany lost lot of paratroopers in this battle
@@columbusjustice5183 No worries.. it must have been a bloodbath, that's for sure
Maybe you wouldn't have liked what he told you!
0:07 thats a brand new StG 44
@Ilovethecoca94 that footage is taken from battle of the bulge 1944, StG 44 entered service in 1943 and its just year old considered new.
@@Irwin7488 ok
Dryps
According to the book Battle of the Bulge Then and Now, they are attacking in the wrong direction, as they are moving eastward. The burning US vehicles are facing west, so the soldiers should be going in the same direction.
Not anymore
I can't even imagine what it must of been like to fight in WW2
For soldier it's meth woman and boom boom
Mass rapes
Mass Lootings
Firefight
War crimes.
For all sides
@@xalthzdornier4805 based
@@cyrosubod2317
Yes, imagine getting watches for free😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
Have*
They went through hell and back. One can't judge these warriors now (Allies or Axis).
So many still shots in books taken from this reel, interesting to see it all together.
Not a cell phone in sight, just people living in the moment
Yeah man, just imagine the selfies!!😊
@@leedonovan8567 - Yeah, like ... "hey Mum, here's me and Hans, at the Minsk
massacre ... "we be fightin' fo' da Reich, y'all", you mean THAT kind selfy?
Moron, this is WAR, and one of the most MURDEROUS fuckin War's since
the last time the Mongols came to town, get a fucking grip, mate!! Selfies?ffs!
@@karlmuller3690 simmer down buttercup
Just ENJOYING the moment. fun times!
Many of the SS troops in the film just a few months before were Luftwaffe mechanics or Kriegsmarine sailors and suddenly issued camo uniforms and their soldbuchs stamped "Waffen SS"
Some of the best warriors the world has ever seen in World War II
You seem to have never really thought about the topic, have you? The fact that the Waffen-SS was an elite unit is pure Nazi propaganda. The armed units of the SS were already falling in droves during the attack on Poland.
If Germany was so “elitist,” why did they lose?
I could watch programs like this all day 100 percent better than the crap on tv now
Now I want a cigarette.
Now I want an STG 44.
i wanna fucking die
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@@user-jr8vh7vc8m пойди купи поштучно
@@user-jr8vh7vc8m ты не немец зачем ты тут?
This bunch looks like some battle hardened, life takers.
Also war criminals.
@@lostinspace013 aLsO wAr CrImInAlS
@@lostinspace013 Lies
@@stoggafllik what nationality are you ?
@@lassemann1677 millenials dont care about the historical facts. instead of reading books they play wolfenstein. here in germany every stairwall in our university has hammer and sickles sprayed on some levels. these people are behaving just exactly like the ones they claim to be radically against, justifying any cruelty against them. just as that famous mustache artist from austria
the last person that came close to saving the world
Underrated comment
He got so close.
@@mullythebully5557 I like to think that if the allies didnt call the Poland bluff, he coulda done it 😪enigma machine didnt help tho
Traduzir para o portugues
@@caleb2507 he never thought the French and British would act…boy was he wrong.
These guys would walk a mile (or wipe out an American tank column) for a Camel.
Lucky Strike
Great footage of some of the hardest fighting men of that generation. The greatest generation as we call them here on the UK. Never again will you see soldiers fight for their cause with such tenacity. 🇬🇧🇩🇪
Problem was it was the wrong cause,
@@Coolerman565 that’s beside the point.
@@MrTubbymarshall What is your point?
@@Coolerman565 Fighting communism was the wrong cause??? You are nuts!
@@maj8301 Well i didn't know when France,Holland,and Belgium were invaded the Nazis were fighting Communism,are YOU nuts? and when the Soviet Union was invaded most Russians were fighting for their Country against a foreign invasion,Communism wasn't the first thought in their heads,protecting their home and family was.
I talked to a Wehrmacht 88 gunner now living in the US...years ago..He said if the first shell missed you, and you were in the same spot...30 seconds later you better not be in the same spot....
I spoke to a WWII Vet who was blown out of a Jeep by a 88 shell, his buddy blown out other side , neither hurt - but quite shaken ...
Первый раз увидел когда солдаты рейха были подловлены в реальной беседе, а не слащавая пропаганда. Люди как люди, обсуждают свои проблемы. Такие лица, не одна пропаганда не потделает. Спасибо
Историю пишут победители, большинство о них это ложь, в будущем История расставит все на свои места, когда то наполеона и французов так же не любили в Европе в россие а шас для них наполеон великий полководец бля.
@@mrbond1304 не пиди.
@@mrbond1304 " Историю пишут победители, большинство о них это ложь, в будущем История расставит все на свои места, "
Историю пишут Господь Бог и падший ангел сатана,
отсутствие расовой иерархии в международном праве это
Божья Рука Красной Армии.
@@user-qt1cp1be3u Просто знай что коммунизм строился на атеизме
@@AYYAKS Просто знай что пророки коммунизма Карл Маркс и Фридрих Энгельс ненавидели Русских и славян в целом. Так что атеизм для Бога не препятствие.
What a tragedy war is. So many lives. Gone. Forever. I guess sometimes it is necessary to prove a point. " I am NOT at your disposal "
@AP Archive: Thank you for the exelent researched story in the discription!
They were definitely the not fukn around crew.
where'd you get this footage I always see it in small clips but this is like the whole thing
Original Wochenschau
Trevor N. Dupuy, a noted American military analyst, US Army Colonel, and author of numerous books and articles, studied the comparative performance of the soldiers of World War II. On average, he concluded, 100 German soldiers were the equivalent of 120 American, British or French soldiers, or 200 Soviet soldiers. “On a man for man basis,” Dupuy wrote, “German ground soldiers consistently inflicted casualties at about a 50 percent higher rate than they incurred from the opposing British and American troops under all circumstances [emphasis in original]. This was true when they were attacking and when they were defending, when they had a local numerical superiority and when, as was usually the case, they were outnumbered, when they had air superiority and when they did not, when they won and when they lost.”
Other respected military historians, such as Martin van Creveld and John Keegan, have made comparable assessments. Max Boot draws a similar conclusion in his detailed book, War Made New. “Man for man,” writes this influential author and military historian, “the Wehrmacht was probably the most formidable fighting force in the world until at least 1943, if not later. German soldiers were even known for showing more initiative than the soldiers of democratic France, Britain, and the United States.
Some of this is due to Germans fighting a defensive battle in depth. They knew the ground and they were formidable in their own right. They did not have the air power or supply the allies had in Europe. The Allies were green and most units only saw first action after D-Day. My opinion is the Germans were formidable foe though they had some advantages in the defense but they could never have hoped to win. They were doomed when they invaded Russia. The soldiers fought a good fight but they had no chance of winning or competing with USA in supply or manpower. The Brits were ok but they were not a challenge to Germans alone, they needed a big brother. If Brits would have invaded Normandy alone they would not have invaded. The U.S. entering war the key to victory, period. They relieved pressure on Russians and Brits. Rating each would break down something like: German tanks 7 plus, Russian 8 plus, USA 5, Brits 5. The infantry: German 8, Russian 4 or 5, Brits 6.5, USA 7. Air: German 6, Russian 3 then 7 later, USA 9. Support units German 5 (mainly horse drawn), Russian 7, Brits 8, USA 8 plus. resources German 4, Russian 5, Brits 7, USA 8. just my opinion whats yours? Thanks!
@@toddeutsey387 basicly the germans started the war and meant to take over the world through military might. 63,000,000 people paid the price.
they also took something similar to the effects of cocain, it also made them stay awake longer and made them more focus than listen to feelings like normal person do
German soldiers showing more initiative my ass. The fact that it took a personal order from Hitler to move a Panzer Division at Normandy (by which time it was too late) shows quite the opposite.
gerald miller Poland started the war after they ignored the plethora of negotiations for peace offered by Germany.
Why exactly do you think Germany wanted to take over the world?
The use of a rifle to hold up the St. Vith sign was inventive . Danger of smoking versus a bullet made sense as well .
Its just as hazardous as they can be shot to the head or face,they can be attack by artillery or mortar fire if the enemy sniper or spotter can spot their glimming red cigarrete glowing in the dark or at night.lol...
The nicotine acts as a stimulant. Very useful in combat. No one knew that smoking was deadly in those days either. I was surprised he wasted a rifle that way. I couldn't identiy the type so I guess it may have been captured.
@@mr.samurai901They hadn't suffered any casualties.
This was Kaiserbaracke crossroads, the rifle was a prop and later removed.
The film is shown out of sequence, the vehicles that turn right later ambush the American colum shown at the start of the video clip.
@@frankvandergoes298 Thanks for the info !
German troops with MP44 advancing past burning American half tracks, epic!
They got their ass kicked all the way back to Berlin. EPIC
@@chrislane5145
Yep. Epic all around. That's why it's SDI.
@@chrislane5145 Outnuberd 50/1 what did u expect
@@Mrbimmer11 The SS were bad asses when invading Poland, Austria, Denmark, Norway and Belgium. It is a different story when they had to face a real military that was backed by the industrial might that was similar to Germany's.
Your boy hitler thought he could intimidate other nations like he did France and Poland. His arrogance let him believe he could fight on 2 fronts. 50/1 or not, they got their ass kicked back to Berlin just like they deserved.
Excelente documento y así sin sonido resulta muchísimo más conmovedor es como un viaje a un pasado trágico
Pareciera una emboscada a los americanos ...no?
@@luisfernandobelen5343 todo indica que es la batalla de las ardenas ahí los alemanes tendieron muchas emboscadas a los aliados
@@jorgeaguirre2927 gracias por responder...sii ahi leia en los comentarios ...
I never see this footage complete, awesome man
It is also the basis of the famous "Ambush at Poteaux", which was in fact staged and not filmed during a real fight. The part which shows some SS looking at a maps on their car while smocking cigars has been for several years wrongly described as showing Peiper and some of his men.
Yes. It's actually SS officers Ochsner and Persin.
My Father's life was spared by one. It was at Monte Cassino, my Father an Army Engineer Officer on the left trying to put a bridge up., He momentarily was separated from his M-1 rifle and the others but he had his .45. All of a sudden he looked up to see a Falscrimjaeger coming out of the brush with his Schmeisser at the ready. They looked at each other for a moment then the German backed the way he came,apparently deciding not to kill that day.
Massive respect to your father for his service during mankind's darkest times. Also huge respect for that German that allowed your father to live I only hope he survived the war.
why not human vs human
This German Counter Offense wiped out quite a few American Units during the Battle Of The Bulge!
I talked to a living Paratrooper last week.
The last survival from the third Fallschirmjägerregiment.
He was in Hospitel when his Kameraden have been captured by the American forces.
And all prisoners were.....
There was an incident where SS troops had shot American pow’s. That news became public very quickly. I don’t think a single for SS man was safe after that.
@@valicourt no german was safe.... jenks did shot lots of pows and never got tried for that...
The better men didn`t win.
Dry your eyes nazi.
TROPAS DE ELITE DO EXERCITO ALEMÃO.
MEU RESPEITO AOS BRAVOS SOLDADOS.
CUMPRIRAM AS ORDENS !
A group of unknown German soldiers enjoying captured US cigarettes trade mark scene of that history
they will be never forgotten and they got children and now my grandpa is one of this childrens so they are not unkown... greetings from germany
Its fair, the americans enjoyed our tanks :)
@@zeroakazz from russia waiting of?
@@SSWaffenSs what do you think?
@@zeroakazz i think , that my life in russia in XXI century is consentration camp , i work only for food , my country is corruptioun , my family is poor , i have no choise , and a find some asylym in there , you toobe channel about arian and WW2 , about braywe men whowe faight against all of it , or for , and was a just viktim of rejim and all of thiss staff , and survive akim am i , and i find a samest.cold , rain , young , lose ,
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The Elite of all Time
The german army was the greatest in the entire world. They always moved as 1.
That is why they lost 1st and 2nd WW. And many wars before that.
@@romanmaltsev2870 How many countries did it take to defeat the German Army…America,Britain,Canada,Russia,Australia,France.All the aforementioned great nations had to form an alliance to defeat the German Army.There were other nations of course.Happy to have Germany on our side today.🇮🇪🇨🇦🇯🇵🇭🇳🇫🇷🇧🇪🇳🇿🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸🇷🇺🇵🇰🇳🇪🇵🇰🇰🇷
@@romanmaltsev2870 do u know how many countries it takes to take down 1 single nation.
@@dannymcnamara2554
Russia kicked their ass
@@Knight_Horus, it took British army in North Africa and Red Army in Europe to defeat Germany Italy Romania Hungary Bulgaria and Finland.
Invasion of Italy and Normandy accelerated the fall of Germany which was already inevitable after Stalingrad and Kursk.
"Entire world" outside of Europe is USA China and Japan.
Young men have become men with old faces. Damn war. My father was also only 20 years old when he had to go to war. With imprisoment 8 years became lost youth.
In all of the war films I see there are no casualties? Where do they go? Are they inside the vehicles? Or buried in a ditch somewhere?
The germans did not Film that.
Most of germans bury their enemy especially the western one
Censorship at that time was very selective about showing dead people.
Sitting in the cab gently making a nice human pork roast
Germans generally didn’t film that, but such footage does exist. I collect a lot from this war, and it’s generally mixed in. The Allies ironically broadcast more of stuff like that
"Franz, ich mache keine Witze. Das ist echter Tabak."
funny!!
Ich frag mich worüber sie sich unter dem Panzer wohl unterhalten haben..
😆Über die Weiber..
О том как огребут люлей от России в очередной раз)))
If they were English they would have been discussing the weather. As for these chaps…. No idea
Das Gespräch war wir folgt:
- Hans, dein Fressen ist unter aller Kanone. Ich werd diesen Frass nicht essen.
- Ich bin nicht deine Mutter, du Arschloch. Dann koch dir doch dein eigenes Fressen.
A horse walks into a bar. The barman asks “why the long face?” 🐴
1:28 M1 carbine used. Makes sense.
Wie ist der genaue Standort dieser strasse ?
Ist das bekannt ?
Alter, das waren Kerle...
leider viel zu viele von ihnen liegengeblieben !!
Viel zu viele- Leider!!!
SS LEIBSTANDARTE FOR EUROPE AND ALL THE WORLD
II have the book Battle of the Bulge then and now, it's great to see the "live" footage of the stills from the book
вот это кадры, обалдеть
The Poteau Ambush during the Battle of the Bulge. American column ambushed by Germans. These scenes reenacted after battle for German newsreels.
Yup
This is very good well known footage from the Ardennes campaign. Good to see it in full. But these are SS troops with some Fallschirmjager, not SS Fallschirmjager as tge title would suggest.
...gibt es eigentlich nicht mehr freigegebene Aufnahmen?
Man sieht immer die gleich Ausschnitte, ist da nicht noch irgendwo Filmmsterial zusichten?
Damn that was a fine ambush on that godfucked road...
Where is the bodies from that convoy ambush ?
@@greglaplante7593 cleared off for film purposes these film reels were used in german propaganda films In germany and they dudnt want people to see the death and suffering only the "victory" there sons and fathers were winning
Every kilometer for 600 miles.
@@dandtfarms5973 hahaha, American? 1:5 we think Till today, worth
@@greglaplante7593 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmedy_massacre maybe here
This shit is awesome, too bad it doesn't have any sound 😭
No mics in camera in that time sis.
Use imagination like me
Like the sound of people screaming?
I imagine alot of swearing in German...
We would need someone skilled in lip-reading in German, like here for English czcams.com/video/AdmAfsm18tA/video.html
Your vocabulary is as small as your mind.....it isn't awesome.....it's brutality at its worst. A most merciless band of marauders destroying everything in its path. Now, go in your kitchen and practice opening and shutting the fridge door..for you, that's AWESOME.
They look so friendly
They were bro, they're just german soldiers.
@@Momentum121 they are not soldiers
@@Momentum121 International tribunal in Nuremberg considered them a criminal organization.
Once captured by the Allies, they were not treated like soldiers, but criminals.
They manned all concentration camps.
i´m german and i´m scarred from faces of german soldiers in world war 2 they are looking so brutal hard you can see the kill-feeling in his eyes
@@romekkowalski8033 The Allgemeine-SS manned the concentration camps and the death camps, not the Waffen-SS.
Thanks for not adding some stupid music to this. Very interesting footage. Some of which you seldom see.
the best Soldiers in 20th Century....
got their asses kicked on the east though lol. at Minsk the sky was filled with the smoke of burning german trucks, guns, and ammunition they were setting fire to, there were the bodies of tens of thousands of dead work horses, the Nazis couldn't rout any faster and still got encircled, the soviets had a hard time even following them by the trail of burning equipment they were leaving. The panicking Nazis were just wandering around the forests and fields east of minsk until they gave up. Thank god for the soviets. The Nazis would absolutely still be in power if it weren't for the sacrifices of the red army. The Germans had that unbelievable confidence which couldn't shook until it was obvious they weren't the superhumans they told themselves they were.
@Supreet Virk Truthful Sikh a lot of that has been debunked by researchers. At Stalingrad they had nowhere to go. Either stay in the warm houses and fight for them as best they could or retreat into the permafrost and dig trenches and set up camp. The Germans believes especially early on that Soviet slavs were subhuman. They didn't even allow BELGIAN hardcore Nazi volunteers (wallonia) to be incorporated into the ss because they weren't properly Aryan. If the Germans we're winning in 41 with German strength why would they give captured slavs the honor of fighting with them as equals? Maybe in 44 they would have, that's around when they let wallonia legion join ss and their arrogance was quickly fading
Лучшие солдаты здесь не показаны. Лучшие солдаты подняли красное знамя над рейхстагом в 1945. А потом завершили Вторую мировую войну в Японии. Знай предмет, о котором начинаешь разговор, фрэнд.
@@TheGoodChap It is historically incorrect to say that "the Germans" believed that. Hitler and Himmler did. Even the ultra-extreme NS ideologue Alfred Rosenberg was in favour of taking up Ukrainians et al. into the German forces in the East from the get-go. He rightly observed that the Soviet Union was made up of numerous peoples, many of whom had a million reasons to hate Stalin, and that the Germans were initially welcomed as liberators. His appeals were ignored by Hitler again and again. As one might imagine, this attitude was even more prevalent in the Wehrmacht. A certain Claus von Stauffenberg commented time and time again that the oppressed Soviet peoples should be well-treated, offered independent states and hope for the future, and taken up into the German fighting forces.
@@TheGoodChap , yeah I know all of Eastern Europe was "just thrilled" with the Soviets, and I'm sure they were all "thanking God" for them for the 40 plus years of communist occupation. My Polish friend (who fought both)would probably have a thing or two to say in rebuttal to your statement if he were still alive.
I think Germany was the super power that time not russia america
A superpower that couldnt arm, fuel, feed or cloth its forces. Germany was not a superpower.
@@chrisr9380 o really may be that is the reason all so called super powers england france russia america takes 6 year to deafeat a single nation .
@Mandeep Purewal why are you being abusive just because i disagree with you. A single nation? So Germany wasnt allied with Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Japan? Think somebody is not up to scratch with their history. It may also have something to do with the fact that Britain and USA were fighting on two fronts too for most of the war.
@@chrisr9380 no im not abusing u
I think their was not any comparision between allies and axis powers i mean to say allies countries were more strong economically as compare to axis powers america soviet union france england have rich resorces and more wealth as compare to axis powers
@@chrisr9380 Bulgaria didn’t do jack sh¡t, japan was fighting their own war with china, Italy was a useless ally, and Romania didn’t contribute much besides oil. Germany fought 4 superpowers and many other minor nations. You can’t even compare, the germans were very strong. Nobody is being abusive, why are you so sensitive?
0:08 that sturmghewer tho
Sturmgewehr
Nein, das ist er nicht.
When watching WW2 combat in action you have to give lots of credit to the camara Men remember they were being shot at and they just kept filming.
St Vith , Malmedy, ces images ont été prises pendant l'offensive des Ardennes ?
Notes on Small Arms Weapons and equipment
At 0:06, MP44 or StG 45 and a late war Kar 98
0:11 another Kar 98-not fair to denigrate it in comparison to our self-loading M1 Garand-the infantry unit (squad- platoon?) in the Wehrmacht was built around the machine gun, not rifles …
0:45 is that a British tank-No, not a tank … motorized car-armored car
0:47 now a Sturmgeschutz Stg on a PzKw 4 chassis
1:01 what is that huge star on left screen-on a jerry can? Is that a Sherman M1 tank in center screen?
1:18 is that man smoking a joint?
1:22 soldier is not Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger, but Waffen-SS.
1:23 Man to left has a Panzerschreck or a Panzerfaust? Or is that a slinged MG? FG42? Might be if these are Luftwaffe paratroopers (Fallschirmjägerin).
1:28 now the man on left has what, a MP 40? Yes, by 1:31, MP40 submachine gun.
1:33 nice view of late war Mauser Karabiner 98 with late war front band but still has machined rear sights. These are Waffen SS troops given the Adler on their left upper arms and helmet side markings.
1:52 we see the Soldat featured in so many shots of Bulge actions.
2:00 MG 34 or MG 42?
2:12 very bad air quality-hazardous to sensitive groups-OKH could have delayed the action until the next day.
2:14 captured U.S. jeep?
2:18 PzKwV in background until 2:21 when the haze obscures it?
2:39 No looks now like an abandoned U.S. APC
3:04 ff best footage ever of Stug
3:17 Skoda Czech chassis self-propelled howitzers? Chassis from late 1930s?
3:40 Cannot find Wifi; I have same issue today.
4:15 better go with GPS
4:37 Late war Kar 98 no more brass buttplates
4:47 Da kommt ein Kubelwagen!
4:50 No that is Porsche’s VW Schwimmwagen, not a Kubelwagen.
4:54 Finally some big armor; the King Tiger or PzKw VI arrives in Belgium
5:00 BMW or NSU or DKW or other brand 500 cc Motorrad?
5:13 Best shot ever of Porsche’s VW Schwimmwagen. This is a 1938 production model VW automobile with modifications to allow river use.
5:19 always one who won’t suck on the American Camel cancer sticks …
5:22 And another.
5:27 Can barely make out his head gear emblem as a Totenkopf, symbol of the Waffen-SS.
5:29 What is the man on the left screen carrying? Lower left, we see a belt-fed submachine gun or machine gun … a captured U.S. Browning Automatic Rifle?
5:51 these troops have paratrooper helmets and must be the Fallschirmjäger.
5:54 with automatic rifles-MP45 or StG 45, the world’s first assault rifles, named by AH himself-Sturm Gewehr. Had to slip the MP43 and MP44 past him to get it in production …
6:05 Schwimmwagen in left field background?
6:15 always time for bird watching!
6:18 Finally a clear shot of the VW Kubelwagen-a reinforced 1938 VW production auto …
6:29 Kubelwagen. Air-cooled motor was an advantage over the U.S. Jeep in extreme weather.
6:32 Is that the same 155 mm U.S. gun that we’ve seen so many times? Is that a sighting tube on the main barrel, even though it looks to be the same bore diameter?
6:44 Mauser Kar 98 again, with straight bolt. Gew 98? I think the Kar 98 had a turned down bolt. No, it does have the turned-down bolt.
Very bad air quality. Amazing that any one survived.
7:24 U.S. Jeep on left edge.
7:31 two of them, damaged.
7:48 is that a Kubelwagen at right screen?
7:54 U.S. transport vehicle on fire. Many Jerrycans.
Its a STG 44
Its not a British car it’s a armored m8
No he’s just smocking cigarettes
At first it’s just waffen ss
Fashirm arrived at 4:55
The fallschirmjäger on the AFV on the left at 5:31 has a Mk2 Sten SMG with the later pattern skeleton butt. No chance of ID'ing the belt fed (?) weapon: it would have to be an MG34 or 42, or a Browning M1919, these being the only light role belt fed MGs in the NW Europe campaign....on closer inspection... a distorted view of an MG34.
Note also what looks like a 7.92mm Gew 43 semi-automatic rifle carried by the soldier in the centre.
I noticed something strange in this video, at minute 1:25, one of the German soldiers was walking behind the rest, then suddenly he stopped walking as if he froze and remained still like a statue while all his comrades continued to walk. What is the interpretation of this scene? Is it a malfunction of the camera used in That time or what? 🤔
I think he just pause thinking about something you can see the next part he is no longer there
LOL
He remembered he left the oven on at home.
Thanks for Videos
Did he leave his rifle hanging on the ‘Malmedy’ sign after he fixed it?
The last knights of europe
WTF?🇦🇺👎
Surely you mean drugged up murderous thugs hell bent on dominating "inferior" races with bloodshed and cruelty?
@BarbarossaBMW88ϟϟ I take your point: it's not okay and shameful.
All the nazi fanboys come out of the woodwork on these films, they think they are heroes then they go back to their loser lives at Walmart.
@@snowflakemelter1172 XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
The German army was very handsome I have to say.
Its those hugo boss uniforms… in case you didnt know yes they were designed by hugo boss especially for the SS and obviously made with “free labour”
@@bonfist1252 ya it’s prob the uniforms that helps with the handsomeness. But there still is something about them. I’m only talking about the Wehrmacht. The everyday soldiers out fighting in the war. Obv I’m not talking about the cruel SS and the people in the concentration camps.
@@bonfist1252 They were not designed by Hugo Boss, Boss simply produced some of them.
@Ultracrepidant Luabation what??!
@BarbarossaBMW88ϟϟ where are you from? Just curious. I’m in Europe.
I love the stg 44 design it was perfect the Soviet corrupted the design
AK 47?
Yep
Cope AK first assault rifle
As usual though, over engineered and delayed by tbe ultimate arsehole's interference
Na endlich mal einer der es bemerkt hat! Well finally someone who noticed it
The very opening scene shows two soldiers, one highly decorated, iron cross and close combat clasp carrying a rifle, the second carrying a stg 44. This soldier is also pictured crouched pumping his fist. He was killed two days later by artillery fire.
A second scens shows three men crouched under a M8 Greyhound talking and smoking, the officer Untersturmfuhrer Stieve was killed in January 1945.
It shows tiger 222 with passengers enjoying captured cigarettes, tank commander Unterscharfuhrer Kurt Siowa with earphones, one covering a ear for radio traffic, the other ear free to listen to local sounds, you won,t see that on any Americian movie.
This was great clear footage, they were very tired, cold, hungry and probably wet.
They are moving back and forth near destroyed vehicles for propaganda footage after the battle.
@@aceclash Yes the camera footage was taken after the convoy was shot up. It was staged the dead bodies were removed and the pictures taken.
But these were the men who shot up the American colum.
Correct. All that footage was staged. They were part of KG Hansen.
I must have watched this film 1000 times...
Exaggerated by 996 times
@@mrbranson73 figuratively, jeez man. I've watched it at least 50 times...
1:30 that's a captured M1 carbine interesting.
5:31 Captured sten as well it looks like
@@ShutUpBubi If you notice also riding on Tiger 222 with the Sten guy, there is also a German soldier with a rare MP-41. It's an MP-40 with a wooden stock...
it was risky to pick up enemy equipment, if he got caught with the M1, they`d shoot him on the spot.
@@shanemoore8055 what are you talking about? It was common practice for the Germans to capture and reuse equipment. This was part of the military doctrine especially later in the war.
@@kristjonpedersen9342 you know you lost when finding Enemy ammunition is easier then finding your own. The soviets were also all running around with German anti tank equipment.
The war was already lost at this point yet these men still found the humanity to crack smiles knowing they probably wouldn't be living much longer. The ones that did live would have ended up in one of Eisenhower's death camps dying slowly from starvation and exposure.
Better to die standing than live on your knees. I would trade my whole life to fight and die alongside these men. I can only pray I would have half the strength, tenacity, and bravery to stand with them.
Excellent presentation thanks, but the Malmedy sign eh
Minute 1:32 was für ein Kämpfer was für ein Gesicht er wusste dass er bald sterben wird den wollte ich nicht als Gegner haben! Respekt
A very weird comment?
Das dachte ich auch.
@@naturelove7398 was war das?
@@blueshirtman8875 Der Gesichtsausdruck, als könnte ihn nichts mehr erschüttern, absolute Entschlossenheit.
@@naturelove7398 Am Ende war es für alle das Ende!
Bonjour a tous du Canada At this moment of the war we can see all the fog it's impossible
for allied to give air support the German with her equipement and quality of her Army had
the advantage but when the bad weather stop and the sky is clear the advantage turn for
the allied + German are out of gas
What unit is this? Put their names, info and footage into the blockchain forever. May the liars never erase them. They earned their spot in history.
There are some Fine American Cigarettes over there
Waffen SS Guys: Here we come
1:51 Hey, that's me!
Судя по кадрам сигарки трофейные очень вкусные были
Да уж получше беломора и казбека
That guy at :22? He saw a semi go by, and was trying to get him to honk his horn.
Forgive me mein fuhrer for I wasn't there to help your Germany
LSMFT.Lucky Strike mean fine tobacco. German troops enjoying American cigarettes!
Wonder what they were talking about during the smoke break under the greyhound.
They were saying that the Americans were poor fighting troops but had good cigarettes.
Looks american cigaretes to me
about pussy
Maybe "I don't know how you lot can smoke those things. They're really bad for you. They turn your teeth and fingers yellow and make your breath and clothes stink - I'm telling you, they'll be the death of you..."
There's a CZcams video of a lip reader transcribing silent film footage of British soldiers in WW1. The same thing could be done here with a German lipreader. Would be fascinating to know.
00:46 Which type of tank was that?
@Warfare Panzer
It looks very very similar to a tank that the US developed towards the end of WWII. Looks almost exactly alike.
I would like this more with Sound.
if you can still find a copy of Landser's "Grandpa was a sturmfurher in the SS" it is a really good backing track
look at europe and western countries today , the wrong side lost
No doubt about that whatsoever. It's enough to make one sick.
We will rise again
damn and i thought america was the only ones wanting the guys who lost to rise up again
that's the same side, they were allied with muslims and western europe and america today are ruled by muslim supporters which try to islamize europe
Holyshit they took out so many US Army tanks jeeps and trucks!
Us army are noobs
Fine made !
Rare footage !
0:40
this is a rather unusual gun that looks like a long-barreled US 105mm.
Can you give more information on it ?
Thank you.
captured american arms most likely
@@IM_MILKO The gun was destroyed American equipment in the ambushed column..
@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy it could be a long barrel 105 it looks similar to it
@@IM_MILKO
then it's rather a rare model.
Perhaps it's of inferior caliber used for anti-tank purpose, but then it's too high.
I have to look up on google for the different versions of the US Army 105 howitzer.
My grandfather moved to poland from portugal in 1938, he was in western poland when the invasion began and was taken back to germany as a POW, he joined the waffen SS and was deployed to auschwitz in february of 1941, he was there until the soviets invaded and had to flee to iran, he then lived in the kurdistan region of iraq for many years and unfortunately passed away in northern iraq in 1975. all the same, I respect the man and the life he lived. I do believe the SS was one of the greatest military groups in the world
They're enjoying American cigarettes, which would have been sheer luxury compared to the end-war Wehrmacht cigarettes they would have been lucky to be issued. This was a huge deal even if they didn't do the damage. They would likely all be prisoners or dead within a few months from now.
7:04 the ole barbed wire coat snag trick
Thank you...all
Couple interesting shots of American 105mm howitzers with long barrels.
3:28;
"Hey, watch me scare the sh#t out of Franz....!"
At 4:25 where it says malmedy on the road sign gives me chills because at the town of malmedy hundereds of American POWs were executed during the ardennes offensive by the waffen ss AND it shows the man who gave the order to fire opon the POWs Joachim piper at 5:20 ....and before anyone says it ik it happens all the time on both sides but I just wanted people to know
He killed them because he had a schedule to keep. He didn't have the proper facilities. He had 2 options, let them go back to their lines and fight them again in a few days, ot get rid of them. Could it have been influenced by his SS training? Maybe. More than than likely he just made a quick decision.
@@andrewpestotnik5495 you’re right they had no time to keep the prisoners in a offensive their plan is to link up to the other troops before the allied reinforcements
My Grandfather moved through there with the 30th when the bodies were discovered. He fought in a lot of the areas in this video.
84 were killed not hundreds
That officer is not Peiper.
And the officer responsible for giving the order to shoot the American POW’s was Sturmbannfuhrer Werner Potscke.
Excellent historical clips nit from the winning side just war correspondent.
1:51 The German Giga-Chad is in this film! In famous photos, wearing the machine gun ammo.
1:52 IS THAT HANS????
Yeah he's the famous picture from the Ardennes offensive
HANS STURM
I noticed that all the video was taken on cloudy days, or under the trees in the forest - reminding me that the German armed forces were subject to relentless allied air attack in the last 2 years of the war.
That guy that used a rifle for a counter weight for the sign……if he only knew how much that rifle would be worth nowadays…..
Was the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS involved in this?
No only the 9th, 1st, 12th