The Battle of Midtskogen - The King's Choice (2016)
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- A clip from the Norwegian movie "The King's Choice" where a group of soldiers from the Royal Kings Guard and some volunteers fight off a German raid with the goal of capturing the royal family and cabinet of Norway. English subtitles can be turned on for this clip.
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I love the restraint that Nordic films + TV are always shot with. UK/US films always want lots of coverage so the audience knows what's going on, and Russian/Asian war films always tend toward melodrama and spectacle. I love that the filmmakers keep the perspective here pinned to one person, that the battle is confusing, that there's no score. It's so immersive, and was probably shot with a fraction of the budget used in other countries.
I agree
Australian war films are like this too look up Kokoda
Verdun is like this. It shows the main character watching one of his comrades drop his rifle and strip off his gear, wading into the English Channel out of pure desperation to escape the Germans, they're the only two characters in the scene and there's no music or anything. It's heartwrenching.
KingdomEnfilade a lack of technical skills and resources can lead to good results
Norwegian film companies don't have the same budget like a Hollywood movie. But i think the norwegian movies trump some Hollywood movies in quality and story. Most of our ww2 movies are ofc based on norwegian resistance and theyr stories of things that really happened.
I always tell my friends to watch more European war movies, while we’ve become very comfortable with the big spectacles, these ones really show the horror of it all.
What always gets me about this battle is many of the Norwegians were volunteers from a local rifle club. One minute they were civilians, the next they were fighting an invading army.
I feel oddly proud knowing my grandfather was one of them. He told me how afraid he was the entire time, but at the same time determined like crazy to protect his King and country.
I still have his bolt-action rifle-a Krag-Jørgensen- in the shed.
@@FiendMatadorSlayerOfNoobsI have two American Krag's and I love them. They were great rifles. So smooth. I do think that the successor in American service (the 1903 Springfield) was better but I also think that the blame which is often put on the Krag is misplaced. It was a scapegoat for other American failures in the Spanish-American War.
@@FiendMatadorSlayerOfNoobs No need to feel odd, you should be proud
@@FiendMatadorSlayerOfNoobs I always respected the Norwegian contribution to WW2 - your country fought as best it could in the circumstances. I think that if the Norwegians had been able to mobilise properly and man all their coastal defences that there was a good chance that the German invasion may have been beaten.
I appreciate how "subdued" the scene was. Had Hollywood made the movie the field would have been littered with dead.
Grenade explosions made well too. Over all, very nice cinematography.
Not in that instance. Hollywood has the tendency to greatly accelerate battles or significantly exaggerate the numbers or types of troops involved. Take the last battles in Fury or Saving Private Ryan for instance. Please tell me about the battlefield being littered with dead in this historical instance.
Saving Private Ryan was accurate. Fury was an absolute shitshow in terms of tactics, just a buddy/coming of age movie with tanks basically.
in Hollywood you only see 300 soldiers on 10 square meters in real life it is much more spread out
also wounded people are removed from the field and 19/20 shots misses target if it isn't suppressing fire
firefights (if it isn't hit and run) usually last for hours. I see all of these things (except time because they can't fit hours in a 5-10 min scene) in this movie and that makes me happy.
If Michael Bay had made this movie, there would have been explosions every time someone shoots something. The acting would be terrible, and there would be as many historical inaccuracies as in his Pearl Harbor movie.
This could be called: Why It Sucks Having A Bolt Action Rifle When Machine Guns Are Firing At You."
Did you mean"...A Bolt Action Rifle Able To Only Load One Bullet At A Time"?
Referring to the Krag-Jorgensen's single loader magazine.
MrReded69 are those the same krags the Americans used during the wars against Spain and later the Filipino rebels in the year 1900? If they are how come they haven't become obsolete by 1940?
They were incredibly obsolete, but the alternative would have been no rifles at all. Norway expected to stay out of the war, just as they had in WW1. Why would anyone attack a poor country on the edge of Europe?
look back at world war 1, all nations were dragging black powder, single shot rifles out because they needed something that shoots. Mostly just to free up decent rifles for the front, but they were still around.
Kerro Guano The rifles that the Filipinos used in the 1900s were Spanish Karabiner rifles but they were supplied with Krag-Jorgensens or Lee-Enfields in low amounts since the Filipinos couldn't afford enough for their army, thus why they used melee weapons constantly like the bolo.
that wilhelm scream kinda ruined this scene
It ruins every scene it's in :(
Yeah, it is sometimes ok in a large massive battle scene, but in this setting it just sounds ridiculous.
that scream is being put in by the guys in charge of the sound as a private joke that is now too known, if you were from the masses who don't know the term you will shut up about it.
Its not a funny joke though and it literally ruins the scene
That particular soldier probably was named Wilhelm.
Nice that they included the silence that you get with snow covered ground at the start... the stillness of the air. :-)
that's a very astute comment, there is almost never true silence in most of today's developed world. The sound design alone is absolutely outstanding in 'The King's Choice', never mind the cinematography. I refer you to the scenes depicting the sinking of the German warship 'Blucher', in which the distant tolling of a bell attached to a coastal bouy only serves to emphasise both the approaching menace and that moment of supreme tension before the battery's guns open fire. I have experienced something near to it only once, and that was only for a few moments very late on a still winter's night in a deeply rural part of England, several miles from any town. After my ears attuned I gradually became aware of a soft sound coming from a small brook running nearby, which I'd never noticed before. But it seemed to be somehow cocooned within the silence itself, only making it deeper. 'The King's Choice' contains sound design at the highest artistic and creative level, and it's all in the detail of small inconsequential things
This is the best depiction of combat I have ever seen.
Yapp, its shit and no place to be ...
Yes very realistic in terms of tactics, weapon sounds. Even the grenade looked and sound and acted similar to what it actually does. I might have to binge watch norweigian war movies👍
Except for the Wilhelm scream. Just why?
Watch "The Unknown Soldier."
@@Comrade_Peavey Yes, so annoying.
This is one of countless delaying battles along the roads leading North, giving time for the King to escape, and also ensuring a long elastic retreat; there may have been slight temporary hopes of holding the Germans back more permanently, but they kept bringing in more and more and more and more.
Tanks, CAS, mortars, towed support.
The first allied victory of the war was at Narvik, where Norwegian, Polish, French and British troops followed a joint battleplan. Perhaps the hardest part and bravest fight was on the Poles.
The British initial "help" was one out of arrogance and old outdated traditions - they got absolutely slaughtered. They ignored Norwegian commanders, which is stupid for obvious reasons (they also had fought the Germans already).
The Battle of Narvik was after this.
The Fall of France (and the evacuation at Dunkirk) meant that the Brits recalled every living person and his cat and dog to the Isles.
Norway was left to her own.
Battles continued, but eventually Norway could not put up any further organized resistance - the armies surrendered and the Germans put up a puppet regime lead by a traitor.
Resistance continued through organized partizan/commando activity, and straight up commando activities - like sinking of ships, burning of penal archives, and, ammunition and supply disruption, and the operation at Vemork and the sabotage of the entrenched heavy water factory.
The leader of the puppet government in Norway was Vidkun Quisling, whose name is now synonymous with being a collaborator and a traitor.
What I find interesting is that some norwegian soldiers that was in active combat against the german invasion later on joined up either The Norwegian Legion or Waffen SS and fought on the eastern front. They signed up. They were never drafted or anything. I think as many as 15 000 norwegian men joined the German armed forces as volunteers throughout the war. Even some fighting the Germans in this scene later on joined up with the Germans with the SS.
@@SaxonTrue many of em were promsied things that they never got
@@SaxonTrue possibly realized at some point the Soviets were a much bigger threat.... and they would not have been wrong
the King answered a "help wanted" post, and he was magnificent when the rubber met the road, the whole family and the Norwegian people were heroes.
This is actually a good representation of early German squad tactics in WW2. Suppression with the MG while other forces flank and take out the enemy.
Also I heard that Wilhelm scream
It’s a really good tactic honestly having an MG34 in every squad was very important in the invasion of Poland
It’s really cool that every filming angle in the shot is where a soldier would have been or would be seeing what they are seeing.
Until that scream…
Oh that Bloody Scream...
@@angieroxy7550 yes.... that and the scream...
@@oscarchan2624 The Scream...
@@angieroxy7550 The Wilhelm Scream is a tradition.
@@Briselance I see
The absolut absence of music in this scene fits so well, idk why.
And yet another of the Wilhelm family falls in combat, like many before and after.
This scene was fantastic... until I heard a Wilhelm scream.
4:17 who in the production team decide to put that sound effect yo.
Hahahah good one😅
It was Wilhelm
@@jonasemilaksnes LMAO THAT RUINED THE WHOLE MOVIE
@@koshirma618 why
@@jonasemilaksnes You domt understand?
The Norwegian army weren't cowards, but at the same time they were not ready. It's not like in Finland where they were shooting from behind trees, here they're fighting on naked terrain.
Finland also fought an uncapable red army due to Stalins purge
Norway did not see that coming ;^;
Doesn't help either when you have a traitor in your midst (Vidkun Quisling) who collaborates with the enemy and screws up the mobilisation by sending counter-orders and orders to surrender or not fight the germans.
Wasn't there a civil war in Finland around 1920? So when Soviet invaded them the Finish army had a core of experienced officers and NCO's.
Morten Ringdalen Indeed, though those men were in their 40's and older by the time the Winter War broke out. What set Finland apart from many of the other countries of the time was the length of quality and training they invested in their troops. Finnish pilots for example had the longest training of any in the war and the results are clear when you look at how well they fared.
I can only imagine what the owner of that farm was thinking when the gunfire woke him up.
HMiche93 Actually, if memory serves, the owner of that farm turned up an hour before the battle with a hunting rifle and a pair of horses. He and his sons were involved in the battle. The horses were what the law required him to contribute to the militia and he was going to contribute whether or not they'd actually got around to calling in the militia and regardless of who was attacking. The farm is still in use today by his descendants, it's stone walls pocketed with bullet craters and a small shrine to the fallen (on both sides) just across the road. The old bridge the nazis were ambushed on is gone, however, and the road's been moved a few hundred meters upstream.
HMiche93 haha
@@gnaskar *germans, not nazis
@@kapitan19969838 No those were not germans, they were indeed Nazis.
@@podshortsdose No, they were Germans
1:56 heh. One of them slipped.
Hahahah
Still authentic enough.
@@carpetclimber4027 e x t r a a u t h e n t i c i t y
@@EthanDyTioco Yup!
Accurate i guess
no one speaks german, but when you hear them scream "feind auf 2 uhr! kontakt!" you are dead xD
I guess you could say Seeberg didn't *SEE* that grenade coming
Kyle The Crusader
OOH OOH HA
Ha haaaa
Har! That seemed better than what Xiao Long makes for puns.
stupid inappropriate response teen age joke yuk
Sadly, the last living veteran of this battle, Fredrik Seeberg, passed away at the age of 96, August last year.
Apparently the Norwegians only had 3 men wounded, while the Germans had 5 KIA including their commanding officer.
Takk for klippet, meget bra film, frister å se den igjen.
The Norwegian infantry helmets remind me of the Japanese Army type with the shape of their shell.
The Norwegian helmet is a m exact copy of the Swedish hjälm m/26 and has nothing to do with the Japanese helmets of the WWII era!
he didn't say that they were the same just that they looked like each other
This is a copy of Soviet helmet.
cobbvd no
The Japanese Army type is a modified version of the French WWI Hadrian helmet and “kabuto” samurai helm.
Takk for dette viktige klippet fra tidenes beste norske film. Dette er også en utrolig viktig film for ettertiden og betyr mye for oss som hadde en bestefar som deltok i motstandskampen. Plutselig er man der sammen med dem!
Im a Norwegien and i live only 5 or 6 km from Midtskogen and it is very special for me.
If the setting of the next installment of Battlefield is set during WW2, DICE should seriously make Midtskogen a map in the multiplayer!
Hans Olafsen Melbye Or maybe a campagn mission
+Hans Olafsen Melbye Only about 6 people died in the battle. It was not exactly much more than a small skirmish.
That would be nice, but it would be soooo small! I've been to Midtskogen quite a bit (drive past it quite often), and it would take about 20 seconds to run at full sprint from the German position down the road to the farm itself. But if including a lot of the surrounding countryside, the map would be awesome!
Well it's confirmed that it's WW2 and that they are including norway in it :o
Narvik is in BF5
2:34 he basicly said «we are out numbered»
The cinematography is amaxing
The flim clip is reversed, look how they are loading their Krag rifles-they load from the right.
Yes, it's been mirrored to avoid automatic detection and deletion due to copyright.
In reality, if you get shot with a 7.62 in the chest, you won't even be able to scream due to the shock. Other than that, I could say that this scene is well-made quite realistically.
But the problem is it isn't like showing in Pubg D: Mauser Kar 98 was using 7.92 mm ammunation not 7.62.
I mean there's no guarantee of that, adrenaline basically works like magic. Most likely you're just going to drop or yell, but there's people who's taken a dozen 9mm before dropping.
The scream ruined everything XD
anime is trash
@@rockybrown7678 yeah
Lol good ole Wilhelm scream
It did. It took what was a tense and serious scene and made it awkwardly comedic. Also, anime is trash.
I conquer with everything the poster above me has typed, including his opinion that anime is trash.
It's all so serious and horrifying and then that damn Wilhelm scream comes in.
big fucking deal 😂
A brave nation. The Norwegian Royal Family were amazing during the war.
The Wilhelm scream at 4:17 destroyed it all for me. Why the fuck do they put that scream in so many cinematics and movies? It makes me so sick.
That is what people do when they are confronted with horror and anger.
They initially Scream when confronted with mortal loss!
Then they fight as if in rage for vengeance.
You'll live
hyperbole much
@deeperinsider2544 nah he's right. Stupid joke took me out of the scene
All Norwegians should be very proud of your countries efforts to fight the Nazis invader.... many of us in the Canadian Military learned much from the fighting that took place in both Norway and Finland so as to understand what fighting an invasion force would be like if we in Canada had ever to prepare or just what to expect since our Canada is similar in geography and remoteness! My Great Uncle was an officer in the Royal Navy and fought to aid Norway in those dark days of April 1940 and was there when the Royal Navy sailed up and destroyed the German invasion Flotila at Narvik. He wrote to his sister (My Grandmother) how much they wanted to make the Germans pay for their invasion of Norway a very proud and peaceful people that had no desire to be involved in the WAR!
I only wish that this movie "The Kings Choice" was available in full with sub-titles so those of us outside Norway could watch it! This is real history in a Movie and not that propaganda utter fiction that Hollywood produces of America in second world war! (I just have one question this clip ends with the young man dying but Wikipedia has that the Norwegian Forces inflicted a Victory @ The Battle of Midtskogen on the superior forces of Nazis Germany with no fatalities, just a few wounded compared to 2 dead and 6 wounded on the losing German side). I hope this was just trying to show the horrors of war kinda artistic license.
David Parent Thank you for the nice comment, I agree with you on all points! Regarding the fatality at the end, he was actually just knocked unconscious and badly damaged by the blast, but not killed. His name is Fredrik Seeberg and he's still alive today. I think he worked as a historical advisor for this scene in particular.
David Parent Just to say, I neither take any pride in NS Regime days, nor do I defend any atrocities nor attacks on other countries. I just deeply dislike your offensive language, "how much they want the Germans to pay..." First of all, Churchill was ready to invade Norway, to prevent it being under German control. The so-called Altmark affair, when British soldiers seized the Tender Altmark, sailing in Norwegen waters, with two Norwegion war ships not interferring, proved a lack of real neutrality. Germany was faster in reacting to the threat, occupying Norway. Secondly, the German "invasion flotilla" you mentioned, consisted, in this case of Narvik, of 10 destroyers, while the Royal Navy attacked with the battle ship Warspite and 9 destroyers. Three German destroyers were sunk by the British, the remaining ships, running out of amunition chose to rescue the crews and put their ships on the ground. Against the sailors of the destroyer "Erich Giese" an act of British war crimes is documented. The British destroyers were firing on the ship-wrecked. So far, I share with you to condemn the act of aggression towards Norway. I share likewise to condemn the NS Regime, and I confess, as a German, to the guilt of Germany on all crimes comitted in the name of Germany. But as the son of an honorable German Navy soldier, I do not listen quiet to your insulting words.
Seeberg was not killed during the combat at MIdtskogen, but seriously injured. He was carried into an undamaged building after being knocked out, but was temporarily abandoned. Germans took command of the building for a short while, before they retreated, and he was later recovered and rescued. His injuries were severe. This is a link to a Norwegian article. He was the youngest soldier in that battle, and the headlines are "the lungs were exposed on the body". He survived his critical injury however and is still alive today, now 96. The article is from 2015 and was written during the movie's end production. Sorry, but it is in Norwegian...
www.ostlendingen.no/kongens-nei/kultur/elverum/lungene-hang-utenpa-kroppen/f/5-69-302403
Its funny because the Germans DID invade canada, you just didn't find out about it until the 1970's. A small group of German comandos were smuggled into Canada by submarine, their goal was to set up a weather station to monitor the North American weather, they marked the weather station "Property of the Canadian weather service" and the people who came across it didn't think anything off it
do you have sources of this incredible story? it's very interesting
RIP Seeberg He died 23. august 2018
he live in the movie
@@zockerkartoffel13 yes, and he dies on the 23rd of August 2018, at the ripe old age of 96, as OP originally stated.
The cinematography of this movie is Preety good :)
i hope the cameraman is okey right now from that bang of grenade.
These brave norsemen held out against evil longer than anyone else during the war! ALTA NORGE!!!!🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴
4:25 CoD death quotes pop up
im pretty sure he shouted ''Simen'' instead of Seeberg. Simen is a common name in Norway :P
You were killed by a grenade. Look out for the grenade indicator
CoD Reference also wasted
i like hpw realistic this is, like youre in the moment
Wilhelm really likes to travel. He was even in Norway in 1940.
Well done.
to be fair all the people comparing the subtlely to hollywood are sort of forgetting that in the battle only 2 germans actually died
Eh. Most western historical movies turn any engagement into a bloodbath from what I recall. I guess it's just nice to see the other ones.
Actually 5 died at least an unknown number of wounded. Norwegian side a few wounded but considering it was a few hundred on each side fighting
machine gun fire will keep your head down, lol. they ruled in an engagement like that. fun scene, very well done.
LOOKS GOOD
4:18 det måtte være et willhelm skrik xD
Veldig synd at de falt for fristelsen.
My father in law was from western Norway, was 20 years old when they invaded in 1940. The stories of heroism and sacrifice you never hear about, like the Norwegian who was made to drive a busload of German troops, and instead veered off the road and over a cliff.
To sad that the Allies never kept on the war in Norway after the fall of France. Binding German Forces on the ground would have made the ongoing war hard for the Germans and the British were certainly capable of keeping the supply chain up into the North.
Britain lost basically all of its heavy weaponry in France, and would have been hard-pressed to provide any substantial weaponry other than rifles to the Norwegians at this point; by contrast, Germany had plenty of artillery, tanks, and trucks, not to mention everything they captured at Dunkirk and in France (several thousand tanks, most of which outgunned the bulk of their own Panzer II-reliant tank forces).
Britain wasn't even sure it had enough troops to defend England itself by the Fall of France.
That might be true but at this Point the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine would have had their Hands full if Britain would have decided to take the Norwegian Front a bit more serious. On Sea the Brits had still advantages and the U-Boots were by no mean numerous enough to deal with the entirety of the Royal Navy. Sure Churchill and such were afraid of further losses but at the end the Brits outnumbered the Germans in Norway and still retreated. Sure bigger number are not always a garantie for win but the Germans had pretty much their Hands full until the last brit departed.
Hey wanna hear a fact?
The brits wanted to invade norway before the germans did to cut off the iron from sweden to germany but the germans was the fastest to invade, is kinda weird to think about an ally wanted to invade a neutral country just to cut off the enemy iron supply
@@MNM-lq9te They invaded Iceland as well.
@@MNM-lq9te The plan was to send a force to help Finland, but occupy the iron ore fields in northern Sweden on the way there. The plans were scrapped however as the british and french didn't have enough forces to both aid the finnish and occupy northern Sweden and the Winter war ended which removed the whole reason for sending the force in the first place.
It did however mean that both France and Britain had an expeditionary force ready to send to aid Norway with short notice when Germany invaded.
Great scene, very well done, but did anyone else notice that it was reversed, I've lived in Norway for 18 years and fired old Krag rifles and never seen a left hander before...... I hope the movie is not like that, I ordered the DVD and will wait and see!.
The clip has been mirrored to avoid automatic copyright deletion here on CZcams.
@@AshtonmartinVids You are a good CZcamsr you post Clips from 2nd Worldwar and clips whit MY country ❤️Norway❤️ l
Nice Wilhelm scream at 4:20 sneaky audio ppl lol
nei nei Seeberg. Alt for Norge
And there was the classic Wilhelm scream
slutten av denne videon var gangske trist!
Han var faktisk heldig og overlevde :)
hæ overlevde han!?=?????
Sjokk granater :)
Lite splinter fra tyske håndgranater, heldigvis
AshtonmartinVids ja han gjorde det
SAD😭😭😭 FOR NORWAY
Hatırlıyorum da bütün o dehşet sahnenin içinde Wilhelm çığlığı geldiğinde gülmüştüm 😅😂
The German soldier just got "Its a flesh wound"
4:17 that wilhelm scream got me!
What type of scream would be acceptable to you from someone hit by bullets.?
Norway surrendered after two months of fighting, from April 9th, to June 10th. They did the best the could, and the sinking of the German ship was amazing!
No, the Norwegian Army surrendered 62 days after the skirmish, making it the country which held longest against a German land invasion after the Soviet Union.
Mmmmmlook at Wikipedia, maybe THEY have it wrong!
@@SKY-jv9ue The Wikipedia article on Operation Weserübung lists the surrender as being 62 days later (June 10), so I'm not sure where you're getting your info from.
Sir, you are correct, the German invasion started April 9th, and lasted 'till armed resistance ended on June 10th. I plan on getting the King's Choice movie, and learning more on this part of the war.
@Dan Gurău See, it does happen...once in awhile!
Weapons used by the Norwegian military in ww1 and ww2:
Krag Jorgensen M1894
Krag Jorgensen M1894/34
Krag Jorgensen M1925
Krag Jorgensen M1904 engineer carbine
Krag Jorgensen M1895 Calvary Carbine
Krag Jorgensen M1912/22
Krag Jorgensen M1912
Krag Jorgensen M1930
Krag Jorgensen M1906 Guttekarabin
M/29 colt
Madsen LMG
Swedish Sabatogue
Landstad 1900
Krag Jorgensen NRD-100
Where can i stream this film?
came here to see vikings with machineguns, stayed for the wilhelm shriek
That German soldier got an afterlife kill with the grenade.
Martyrdom
He actually survived, he died a couple of years ago at 96.
Has this film been reversed or are loads of Norwegian lads left handed with L/H bolt action rifles?
Reversed.
For ur information, no Norwegians died under the battle and only three people got hurt (Norwegians)
Actually the guy survived the grenade
Wich mashinegun was it? How manny shot pr seckound
Norwegians used the Colt M/29, close to 600 rounds per minute, Germans had the MG34 which fired at around 900 rounds per minute.
2:24 spongebob and Patrick
Does anyone know where I can watch this movie?
you can rent it from you tube
I am swedish so i understand norwegian
I think that German soldier was named Wilhelm.
Where can i watch this movie?
Here
No Norwegians were killed in this battle, amazing
Tror du at du kunne lastet opp et par videoer fra kampscenene fra dokumentaren "Alliert og alene"? Tror det kunne vært interresant for mange her.
Jeg har serien nedlastet, men er rimelig sikker på at NRK eller Ekkofilm ville fjernet den hvis den ble lagt ut på CZcams. Sånn sett har Nordisk Film vært greie på den måten med klippene jeg har lagt ut fra Kongens Nei. Er ikke så veldig gira på å få copyright-strikes på kanalen min. I tillegg er det en massiv jobb å tekste alt sammen for de som ikke prater norsk.
@@AshtonmartinVids Skjønner den godt. Bare et ønske. 👍
@@isakgurrik5208 Heldigvis er hele serien gratis på NRK Nett-TV, og den kommer til å være det en god stund fremover.
Youngsters, Norwegian heroes. Our enemies once because of the stupidity of fighting between the different Scandinavians/Swedish Johan R.
Hold up r those krag Jorgensen rifles?🤔 was that Norway's service rifle during the war?
Yes. The Krag was a Norwegian design, and is still used in shooting competitions to this day.
Mr.M1Garand 25 The army was inadequately armed but put up a good fight
A good example was the battle of drobak sound,battle of hegra fortress and battle of dombas
Wilhelm was always good with throwing grenades.
There like few of em against odds
Some of the bolt action rifles in this movie go fully semi-auto lol
You're underestimating how quickly you can work a bolt-action rifle. Especially if your life and country depend on it.
Good example on how it took 32,000 rounds for every kill in WW2
4:17 Ow shit, they got wilhelm!
@4:17 sees a William srceam. No war movie without!
It is kind of overused now. But the movie is great nonetheless. My grandfather fought in WW2. It really took a toll on him. He never talked much about it. He passed away in 1984. I have never fought any war myself though. But it must have been hard on him and any war veteran for that matter.
To bad the entire scene is shown mirrored! The Norwegian Krag-Jørgensen M/1894 rifles seen in the scene has it's bolt handle on the right side in reality, and not on the left hand side as seen here!
To avoid automated copyright programs maybe?
youre watching it on youtube that's why
Are they wearing swedish helmets?
Its a copy
I hated night actions in the Army. So easy to get confused.
the pocket of the krag is on the wrong side of the rifle !
The video is mirrored to avoid automatic deletion due to copyright.
Sooo much shaky-cam. Such a shame
The Germans arrive in a tourist bus.
@Op PO Wrong.
This is the battle where the Norwegians successfully ambushed a wermacht unit led by Leutnant Spiller, who lost his life together with over a hundred german soldiers. With this brave battle and with the sinking of german cruiser Blucher in the fjord leading to Oslo the Norwegians showed the whole world it was possible to resist invasion and inflict remarakable casualties to the overwhelming Nazi troops.
You are right about the context of the battle, though the casualties were not anywhere near those numbers. The Germans had 5 or 6 killed, while the Norwegians had 3 wounded soldiers by the end of the battle.
@@AshtonmartinVids According to the memories of Eiliv Hauge, a clerk who volunteered for Norwegian Army, on 11th April 1940 a column of German buses filled with troops was intercepted by his unit that had blocked the road with tree trunks. As the Germans began to leave the buses the Norwegians opened fire. Within minutes, Hauge recalled, 4 buses were ablaze and dead and wounded Germans lay in the road. The Germans then waved white flags for truce, but in vain. Hauge and his comrades fired on these too, until two hundred Germans lay silent in the snow.
Source: Martin Gilbert, Second World War, Phoenix Press.
This was the detachment of Leutnant (or perhaps Hauptmann, I'm not sure) Spiller. And if you read the diary of German operations during invasion of Norway the story is confirmed by their sources too.
Unless we're talking of two different battles that's how things went ...
@@RDeckardN6 The Germans never had anywhere close to 200 casualties during a single engagement in southern Norway. You will find all sorts of weird exaggerated numbers in post-war Norwegian literature, and the myth of these numbers is troublesome when researching the campaign to this day, as its all essentially folklore. Nowhere in German sources will you find casualty numbers this high, and if you do find anything like that it's all bogus. The deadliest battle for the Germans in Southern Norway was either at Gloppedalsura, Bagn or Fossum bridge where they suffered 30-50 dead in each of the battles. If you combine all the "supposed killed" Germans in Norwegian battles you end up with a total number which has no basis in reality.
The battle you are referring to can't possibly have happened on April 11, as Spiller was already dead by then, and his raid detachment had ceased to exist as a unit - the battle of Midtskogen happened during the night of April 9-10.
@@AshtonmartinVids Excuse me, who are you ? A professional historian ? Did you publish anything ? If so please tell me what you have published.
I can agree that some literature regarding world wars (both first and second) often is not accurate and figures are exaggerated. Still did you read the German daily diary of invasion in Norway ? All of it ?
Even Hitler was disappointed of Norwegian resistance (though certainly there were British, French and Polish units supporting them) and he didn't expect to lose a cruiser like Blucher by the Norwegians.
BTW according to my sources when Blucher capsized and sunk around a 1.000 german sailors drowned. Or even this figures according to you is invented ?
Of course the casualties inflicted to Nazis by Norwegians are absolutely not relevant compared to other Nazi campaigns, still it made the Nazi invasion more costly than other ones, like Holland (surrendered in less than a week) or Yugoslavia for example (just a hundred casualties to occupy the whole country in few days, then later on when communist partisans led by Tito got organized it became a totally different story).
I admire Norway, it resisted at best it could and Nazis were appalled by the resistance of such little country (in terms of population I mean).
@@RDeckardN6 I've researched both German and Norwegian battle reports since 2016 when I caught an interest for the campaign. It's common knowledge among historians here in Norway that the casualty numbers listed in Norwegian literature written both during and after the war are highly unreliable and overly dramatized to paint a more heroic and stoic image of the Norwegian defenders. I've read and compared Norwegian and German battle reports, and they claim wildly different casualty numbers. The battle of Fossum bridge is a good example, with the Norwegians claiming 200+ German dead, while the German reports say only 10+ was the actual number.
I'm not claiming Norwegians didnt make resistance - im simply saying that the numbers you are tossing around are a falsification of history, and a myth which is sadly still prevalent, especially on sites without quality assurance like Wikpedia.
As for the facts I presented about Midtskogen, they are grabbed from several books, among them "Kampene i Norge 1940 B1" by Andreas Hauge and "German paratroops in Scandinavia" by Oscar Gonzales. I highly recommend both of them.
I did not include the sinking of Blücher in my last comment as it was not a land battle.
If I actually have to be a "professional historian" with published works to prove all this, I won't be able to satisfy you.
Shame about that scream at the end
Why did they use audio of a .50 cal for the Vickers?
Its probably just a generic sound sample for productions. The gun is a Colt M/29, not a Vickers
4:15 wilhelm scream from the German side lol
Why did they not light the bus up the minute it came into view? You dont allow them to get off the bus like theyre coming to a soccer match. Geesh.
In real life the buses stopped out of range and view of the MG's, I guess they sort of tried to emulate that.
Press F to pay respects to the animals trapped in the burning barn
wtf these guys don't cycle their bolts?
The Norwegian Dunkirk moment
Brave men.
RIP Seeberg
Han overlevde Han døde 23. august 2018 RIP
In snowy countries, do they make snow bags instead of sand bags?
An interesting idea but no, snow just doesn't do a good job in protecting you against shrapnel or bullets.
Are those Krag-Jorgenson rifles?
Yes
yes it is
The Wilhelm scream ruined the whole scene
Poor cows😭