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    ‘The Panzer’ the history of Germany’s legendary ‘Battle Tanks’ during the Second World War.
    With veterans of the ‘Panzertruppe’ this film documents with accuracy, the development and effects the various marks of Panzer through vivid recollections, depicts the experiences shared by crews, of going into battle in their steel chariots, knowing perfectly well that within one blazing moment, their tanks could become steel coffins.
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  • @drj.r.cooper2493
    @drj.r.cooper2493 Před 3 lety +60

    One of the best, most even handed presentations on WW2 tanks I've seen! No tank was romanticized...it was based on data & analysis. Well done!

    • @kaiser413
      @kaiser413 Před 2 lety +4

      As all things should be

    • @oliverattwell8013
      @oliverattwell8013 Před rokem

      Hmm, I romanticise the big cats? Regardless of stats!

    • @mustangmanmustangman4596
      @mustangmanmustangman4596 Před rokem

      Another f"n idiot see above

    • @kirkstinson7316
      @kirkstinson7316 Před rokem +1

      It sure as hell was not. Panzer 1 was not armed with mg34s. The Germans used 38T tanks with the panzer 1, 2, and later with 3&4. Right from the beginning this shows that this was not well researched

  • @pmcleod6844
    @pmcleod6844 Před 4 lety +22

    my uncle perished at Falaise, with Canadians...my other uncle was in Belgium..thanks for the footage, I oftened wondered what it was like, now I seen..

  • @justinwilliam2865
    @justinwilliam2865 Před 4 lety +12

    First,the Panzers "practiced" in Poland,then they outsmarted the Allies in France!Love the teamwork a tank crew shared!

  • @raginasiangaming910
    @raginasiangaming910 Před 4 lety +7

    I think it is hard to overstate how much of an advantage Guderian's ideas gave the Wehrmacht at the start of the war. The idea of integrating recon, armored units and close air support via radio was something that no one had really tried on a doctrinal scale before. In addition, despite the totalitarian nature of the Nazis, German field commanders were given much more initiative than their Allied counterparts. Whereas a German commander could make decisions to exploit a battlefield situation, an Allied commander had to call to higher ups, some of which might involve actual telephone communications and could take hours or even days (for some French units). By the time orders came back down to Allied commanders, the rapidly changing battlefield had rendered those orders obsolete.
    Air support was the other key feature where the Germans were way ahead of times. The Luftwaffe was the first air force to really pioneer the idea of keeping close air support 'on station' so to speak. In other words, have close air support on stand by or even airborne to respond immediately to requests from the army. This allowed the Germans to mass CAS when and where it was most needed and provided a definitive advantage in the Battle of France.
    Nowadays, at least in the US Army, we take these factors more or less for granted. Close air support is almost always on standby during combat operations, with everything from helicopters to fighter bombers stacked up and waiting if needed. Radios are distributed down to the fireteam level in many cases and everyone from the lowest private to the Company Commander is trained to get on the radio and report information, call for medevac and call for fire support (theoretically anyway). Recon units report to their headquarters via radio in real time. Even today, this gives the US Army significant advantages over many enemies.
    Back then, the ideas were truly revolutionary. When you sit back and realize that, it's not nearly as surprising how quickly the Germans destroyed the French and British.

  • @SliceofLife7777
    @SliceofLife7777 Před 4 lety +25

    The evolution of armor was impressive in regards to the Russo-German War during WWII. Tanks were the solution for the meat grinder tactics of trench warfare. Although the British invented the tank in WW1, It was the German lighting war tactics in the opening stages of WW2 that demonstrated the proper application of mechanized assets on the battle field. This being not the best or worse of documentaries, told the overall story, as if they had read about it somewhere. Modern documentaries are generally free of the mindset of those times, but they often fail in capturing the smaller details. I have been somewhat fascinated with WWII since the 1980's. I too have only learned what happened by the tales of those that witnessed it all. The old books on the subject, retain that old generation's perspective. The more perspectives I have watched, heard, and read, has taught me that no one documentary can get it all. This one did a fair job of tank evolution in Germany during WW2. It seem the narrator would gloss over the few interviews they could scrounge up. I learned that the panzerkampfwagon II was difficult to steer. I learned that Soviet infantry used a device called a tank can. Both of these facts from the interview portions of this documentary.
    The window for getting more of these kinds of interviews is almost shut.

    • @brianrusher3617
      @brianrusher3617 Před 3 lety +2

      1.) Battle of Cambrai, August 1917, 376 British Mark IV tanks used, first use of preregistered artillery; 2.) Battle of Amiens, August 1918, use of aerial reconnaisance and attack, surprise pre-targeted intense artillery bombardment, large numbers of both light and heavy tanks (British Mark V) and armored cars, with cavalry follow up, it engulfed 5 German divisions and resulted in over 16,000 German soldiers surrendering as well as nearly 14,000 German dead and wounded. Then German Chief of Staff Paul von Hindenburg noted how the Allies had used aerial recon. to pre-target both their lines of communication (to prevent relief from other forces) and their supporting artillery. General Heinz Guderian (was part of German General Staff by the spring of 1918) took note of all the things the allies did in what was later referred to as the "Hundred Days Offensive" and wrote about them. If you really want to understand WW II both militarily and politically study WW I.

    • @annoyingbstard9407
      @annoyingbstard9407 Před 2 lety +1

      Not sure about your claim of the “proper use” of armour. It was certainly one way of using armour - however the lightening war tactics were soon neutralised by the simple use of blunting the attack by strategic withdrawals leaving tanks and armour stranded without support as the Germans soon discovered.

    • @SliceofLife7777
      @SliceofLife7777 Před 2 lety

      @@annoyingbstard9407 My point is (and the Brits were guilty of this) that armor should not be used to support infantry, but that the infantry should support the tank. As for Germany overextention, that mostly was a problem on Germany's Eastern front. Russia was vast, and her forces could afford to retreat 100s of miles without exposing their industrial centers( which were themselves retreating East by way of an almost super human effort by the Soviets). Combined with Hitler forbidding his own commanders the option to retrograde, or retreat, the Soviets were able to use Germany's own mechanized pincer strategy against them. Adolf should be given much credit for helping the alliance defeat Germany through his own paranoid micro-mismanagement of Germany's forces. Late in the war, the Luftwaffe was mostly destroyed or deprived of fuel. Germany's mechanized force was also short on fuel and other supplies. Without air support, and under relentless air attack, they themselves became susceptible to Patton and Montgomery's high speed mechanized attacks.

    • @SliceofLife7777
      @SliceofLife7777 Před 2 lety

      @@brianrusher3617 Very educational, at that time, no one had much experience with armored warfare tactics. By plowing through the German trench lines, the British gained an initiative that went on for, as you pointed out, 100 days. So ok, perhaps the British did more to advance the tactical application of their invention than I gave them credit for. Thanks for the reply. However the Germans, as you also pointed out, learned from what they witnessed, and perfected the art of mechanized warfare, augmented by air superiority and close air support. These tactics served Germany well in the early stages of WW2. But said tactics didn't work so well against the English Channel, or the vast steppes of Russia in the winter months. It was German strategy not tactics that lost them the war. And Hitler helped us quite a bit too.
      Thanks Brian, I should read about this battle of Cambrai

    • @hutt716
      @hutt716 Před 2 lety

      what is a tank can? are they referring to the anti-material rifle?

  • @skipmichaels6184
    @skipmichaels6184 Před 4 lety +9

    Janson Media has some good stuff. I enjoyed this documentary very much.

  • @tonnywildweasel8138
    @tonnywildweasel8138 Před 4 lety +10

    Tanks for sharing this docu!

    • @TheBrianFlanagan
      @TheBrianFlanagan Před 3 lety +1

      Damn! With jokes like that no wonder your middle name is “Wild”! 😜

  • @lovermanking9293
    @lovermanking9293 Před 2 lety +5

    Who is here in 2022 during Russia and Ukraine 🇺🇦 Conflict?

  • @mikehartsook5281
    @mikehartsook5281 Před 4 lety +6

    THANK YOU GREAT DOCUMENTARY LOVED THE OLD COMBAT FOOTAGE.

  • @waltsears
    @waltsears Před 4 lety +23

    I did not realize Germany envisioned the tank as a means of avoiding trench warfare! Also interviews with former SS are fascinating! Great footage.

    • @jackt6112
      @jackt6112 Před 4 lety +2

      That's why the British invented them in WW I.

    • @harrylarry4672
      @harrylarry4672 Před 4 lety +1

      Your late. By no means are you a military history buff

    • @theblackhand6485
      @theblackhand6485 Před 3 lety +1

      Where have you steen ss men interviewend? Not all soliders are ss. Infact, there was the German Army and ss units in the field.
      Anyway, you can not, and may not conclude that soliders in this documentary are of the ss.

    • @cyrosubod2317
      @cyrosubod2317 Před 2 lety +3

      @@theblackhand6485theres a lot of ss interviewes on some youtube documentary mostly ss panzer

  • @garyhill2740
    @garyhill2740 Před rokem +4

    An interesting aspect of this documentary is it highlights the fact that early in the Eastern war, the Germans found themselves in a similar predicament to what the Western Allies found themselves facing in the West in later 1944 and early 1945. The enemy had introduced new armor that gave them technical superiority at longer range, and they had to resort to maneuver tactics and attack at close ranges. German success in the early stage was not because of better armor, but better fighting technique.
    It is also interesting hearing the German impression of the Panther strengths and weaknesses. Of note is that even though the Panther had a somewhat better power to weight ratio than the Tigers, the German veteran interviewed at 45:00 still considered the Panther as well to be somewhat weakly powered for its size.

    • @jakobquick6875
      @jakobquick6875 Před rokem

      Not true. Propaganda…. Look up statistics done in then90s when Soviet Russian collapsed😪 not. But they let researchers into their file vaults and in reality, more t-34 were taken out by panzer 3 and 4s than any others even come close. Guderian lied about not being able to deal with them because he was a spin doctor and pure full of dark and sick shit and got to live to serve nato after the war along with all the other nullshitters who blamed the tanks instead of their dumbass short sighted popularity in the newsreels. Hitler said it best and guderian told the truth for once when in his book h says “we need Moscow, and Hitler says nope we need oil dumbass and guderian argued and Hitler straight up said, “you think tanks fall the sky basically and you generals have no sense of economic strategy and guderian basically didn’t even retort or think about it and said Hitler wrong I was right. Huh.? That’s guderian in a nutshell, full of shit and thought he invented deep battle “blitzkrieg” even though deep-battle was invented by the soviets in the 20s, when guderian was training with the soviets in Soviet KAMA where the German army trained after the Versailles treaty.

    • @jakobquick6875
      @jakobquick6875 Před rokem

      Check out Lazerpig - t34 was garbage documentary. It’s funny and dead serious with statistics from all sides. And brought me out of the wehraboo denials. Haha

  • @johnadams5489
    @johnadams5489 Před 3 lety +76

    One of the most important factors in the war was production. The Soviets manufactured 65,000 tanks, the US 88,000, and the Germans only 25,000. For the legendary Tiger tanks, Germany produced less than 2000, and the Panther 6,000 during the entire war. Both American and Soviet tanks were simpler to manufacture, and they had replacement parts available in the field. German Tanks had to be shipped back to Germany in most cases. Can't win a war that way.

    • @thomaslinton5765
      @thomaslinton5765 Před 3 lety +2

      THE ACCEPTED FIGURES FOR ALL MODELS OF TIGER TANK IS 1355 OF THE FIRST MODEL (FINALLY CALLED "TIGER E") AND 489 OF THE TIGER B. 1864 TOTAL

    • @randyadams0705
      @randyadams0705 Před 3 lety

      @@thomaslinton5765 )

    • @bryansammis998
      @bryansammis998 Před 3 lety +4

      Even though the panzer IV was 75% of Germany’s armored force

    • @leonleon2276
      @leonleon2276 Před 2 lety +1

      Well they was very close. And it wasn’t down to the tanks why they lost….

    • @Vlad79500
      @Vlad79500 Před 2 lety +2

      Pre-war ones do not count: T-27, T-18, T-26, T-28, BT-2, BT-5, BT-7, T-35, T-37A, T-38, T-40, HT -26
      The Soviets produced 88,000 tanks.
      Self-propelled guns 23700
      Armored vehicles 12500
      T-50 from 65 to 75 In terms of its combat, technical and operational properties, the T-50 is considered one of the best tanks in the world in its class.
      T-60 - 5,920 pieces. Production of the T-60 continued until February 1943, when it was replaced on assembly lines by the more powerful T-70 light tank.
      T-70 - 8,231 The apogee of the T-70's combat service was the Battle of Kursk, after which they began to disappear from the Red Army, although individual copies were used until the end of the war.
      T-80 from 75 to 85 Due to the unreliable operation of the propulsion system, weak armament for 1943 and the great need of the Red Army for self-propelled guns SU-76M, the T-80 was discontinued.
      T-34-76 33929
      T-44 1823
      T-34-57 50
      T-34-85 over 35,000 25,914 during the war.
      KV-1 2 769
      KV-2 334
      KV-1S 1085
      KV-85 148
      IS-1 130
      IS-2 3 475
      IS-3 2 311
      KV-6 4
      KV-8S 139
      OT-34 1 170
      Self-propelled guns
      SU-76 14 292
      SU-122 638
      SU-76i 210
      SU-85 2650
      SU-152 670
      ISU-152 2825
      ISU-122 1735
      ISU-122S 675
      ZSU-37 70
      Armored vehicles.
      BA-64 9 110
      BA-10 3 413
      Etc.

  • @jebbroham1776
    @jebbroham1776 Před 3 lety +97

    If you consider September 1939 to March 1943 as "the opening part of the war" then yes, the Germans were doing very well during that time.

    • @jesserivas1387
      @jesserivas1387 Před 3 lety +11

      But they learned their tactics in the Spanish civil war. Where my grandfather fought for the nationalists.🇪🇸

    • @krobar999
      @krobar999 Před 3 lety +4

      @@jesserivas1387 Yeah, do you happen to know of a good documentary series you've seen about the Germans in the Spanish Civil War?

    • @jesserivas1387
      @jesserivas1387 Před 3 lety +13

      @@krobar999 there’s actually quite a few. You can look up the German condor legion in the Spanish civil war. The condor legion was both German aircraft and panzers during the war. And as a side note, Franco volunteered troops to fight for Germany during WW2. The German 250th infantry division. Also known as the blue division.

    • @krobar999
      @krobar999 Před 3 lety +2

      @@jesserivas1387 ok I'll have a look, thanks.

    • @cowboythomas5904
      @cowboythomas5904 Před 3 lety +2

      @@krobar999 Yeah I just watched a couple the other day one that mentioned it and on just on Germany's role. I think The German intelligence doc has a little part about intelligence gathering beginning in Spain and I saw another that someone re uploaded about a month or so ago focusing on German involvement in the Spanish civil war

  • @jackt6112
    @jackt6112 Před 4 lety +7

    Eisenhower was in the middle managing some talented generals who each had a track record of getting things done. He had no field experience himself. Underneath the theatrics and adopted personalities, there is thread that governs them. You don't know what that thread is until they are in situations that make it visible. What is telling for me is how each handled intelligence.
    Market Garden was a gamble presented by Montgomery. Montgomery had the support of Roosevelt and Churchill, and he was the British people's hero after the North Africa campaign. He explained is failure to take Caen anywhere near on schedule was to keep the Germans engaged to the north so the US could break out. It in fact did accomplish that to some degree, and there is one order of his that supports that late in the game, but it was not the agreed upon plan, and he communicated this to no one. During the discussions a Polish general coined the phrase when talking about the bridge at Arnhem as "a bridge too far". Bradley and Patton were against it wanted the number one priority to be clearing the Scheldt Estuary so the port of Antwerp could be opened, which was another Montgomery assigned objective he failed to take. It doesn't require hindsight to know Allied supply lines had stretched farther and farther from the Normandy beaches, the problem of supplying the advancing troops was rapidly becoming unmanageable, and momentum was being lost. However, Eisenhower went with Market Garden. Market Garden depended on Fritz sleeping at the switch, being in disarray from previous setbacks and partisan activities, thereby not eliciting a mobile effective response in a timely manner, and local German forces seeing their situation as hopeless and retreating back into Germany. However, the failure of Montgomery to encircle the German army in the Scheldt Estuary enabled the Germans to regroup in the Netherlands, and form a consistent line of defense which he knew. Naturally the importance of the port to the Allied advance was just as well known to Germany as it was the Allies. The last thing the Germans would want to do is abandon support for the troops keeping the port closed. It was only logical that the Germans anticipated there would be an offensive launched with the objective of seizing Arnhem, Wesel, and Nijmegen, and that the British and that the Americans would use airborne troops, just as they had during D-Day. German intelligence was able to provide the High Command with the information they needed to prepare for any planned Allied attack. SS units were positioned in Arnhem, a Montgomery must-have for the operation to be a success. Montgomery was also given reliable information on the movements of the Germans from the Dutch Resistance and they could also employ aerial reconnaissance planes to obtain photographic intelligence. One reconnaissance mission was able to provide images that seemed to show German forces in the Arnhem area. This was confirmed by information from the local resistance. This was compelling proof that the Germans had significant forces and that any air assault on the region, would be a great risk. The intelligence officer who reported this to Montgomery was not believed, and when he tried to persuade Montgomery that there was a large build-up of German forces near Arnhem, he was relieved of his command and rumors spread that he had a nervous breakdown. Also during that time he said, "I have what I need. With Antwerp open, everyone will have what they need." This was exactly right, Montgomery had paralyzed the war effort for Bradley and Patton. It is theorized that his motivation was to beat the US and Russians to Berlin, and both he for personal reasons and Churchill for Britain's image had tainted motives. Market Garden did indeed catch Fritz sleeping at the switch, but it didn't take him long to respond. The marshy lowlands forced Montgomery's armor to use the elevated roads on the way to relieve his troops, where the Germans could disable lead and trail vehicles and destroy them in detail. Airborne is too light to withstand mechanized attacks and many were killed or captured. These things are known by the time you are a lieutenant. By now, the Germans had been able to dig in and resupply the defenders of the Scheldt Estuary, which made it much more difficult to clear. Montgomery still wouldn't allocate the resources to clear the Scheldt Estuary even after the debacle, and Montgomery publicly criticized Eisenhower's leadership and how he should be made Land Forces Commander again. Eisenhower told him that's not the arrangement and he either makes clearing of the Scheldt Estuary his number one priority or he would be fired. It happened. However, these are not the actions of an aggressive general taking calculated risks, this was a Montgomery hero show.
    The Battle of the Bulge breakthrough occurred in Bradley's area. Bradley had plenty of intelligence given to him but it was not evaluated in any serious manner. They were in an R&R area where the terrain did not favor an attack. It seems they were operating as though they were no longer in theater. When it was spelled out in a briefing, Bradley said, "Let them come." Even while it was happening and given the intelligence to access the scale, it seems it was something Bradley could not wrap his mind around. Bradley drove to Eisenhower’s headquarters to dismiss the reports of German activity as a spoiling attack designed to disrupt Patton's offensive. Having watched the indicators develop on the map, Eisenhower responded, “That’s no spoiling attack.” Eisenhower had realized that Bradley's troops were north of the bulge and he was south, and gave his troops to Montgomery since Bradley, south of the bulge, was in no position to command them. Bradley was not happy and effectively a mere spectator. Bradley and his staff were derelict, and incompetent to know what they were looking at even after it was laid out for them. Eisenhower had to draw him a picture.
    The Battle of the Bulge was a different scenario for Patton. He was very engaged and had already established a bridgehead for his push into Germany. He was very hands-on and appointed staff that were very much like him that were very much into their mission, not the least of which was Koch, his intelligence officer where they would discuss and interpret their opponents moves. He did not depend on ULTRA. His diary shows, "End of October four panzer divisions refitting north, November 10 five more panzer divisions out of the line with only 5 of 15 remaining in contact in the west, 17th huge German rail movements north of our zone, 23rd newly established Sixth Panzer Army, December 2 the Panzer Lehr Division south of us disappeared, December 7 13 of the 15 panzer divisions are missing, there are no panzer divisions in front of us anymore..., had operations to draw up specific contingency plans for a Third Army counterattack to the north, ...15th German radio traffic stopped, told staff to start making plans for pulling the Third Army out of its eastward attack to execute a contingency plan to attack north., 17th we're under attack and another further north. This one has to be the feint, the one further north the real McCoy. 19th call from Bradley for meeting. Told staff to be ready to implement one of the contingency plans, things must be worse than Brad is can let on over the phone." Patton was very surprised how far thing had advanced in such a short time. Eisenhower says, "It's all yours George. When can you attack?" This is the context in which Patton responded with, "I can attack with 3 divisions in 48 hours." That was incredulous to them, but it had been concern of his for quite a while. Eisenhower said, "You'll make it the 22nd. I want them ready, not piecemeal and to hit hard, take until the 23rd if you need to." He had 3 plans that only required a phone call to put in motion. Movies sensationalize this, but he told them this. He made it the 22nd, which still shocked everyone. The 23rd was one day of clear skies and the air force was able to drop supplies to Bastogne and troops and attack German supply lines. The thread underneath Patton was that of a chess player who took calculated risks and executed them violently and with commitment. It seems what people saw was what he used to motivate his men, and make sure he would never get the job of being a "manager". He wrote his wife, "I'd be a better commander than Ike, but I don't want his job." If you read the letter to his son that he wrote just before D-Day, you'd get a read on the real Patton.
    Montgomery did a press conference taking credit for winning the Battle of the Bulge. Eisenhower now had real problems, the American people, and the troops under the command of Bradley and Patton. The US troops in the war are 3 to 1, and they took all the losses while Montgomery played it safe. Bradley and Patton show up at Eisenhower's and demand you either expose him and fire him, or we resign. Churchill addressed the House of Commons and states this was an American victory to correct the record. Eisenhower is out to fire Montgomery. Montgomery talks his way out of it for now and Eisenhower has to do a lot to cool off Bradley and Patton. You didn't hear hardly anything about Montgomery for the remainder of the war. If it hadn't been for the late clearing of the Scheldt Estuary and Market Garden, there wouldn't have been a Battle of the Bulge, the war would have been over by Christmas, and the USSR wouldn't have occupied a threatening position because all of Germany would have been in US and British hands before they arrived.

    • @jessiepinkman7736
      @jessiepinkman7736 Před 4 lety +3

      Market Garden was the true measure of Monty's incompetence that had began even before North Africa, where Monty beat Rommel by supply and only supply! Now it does not matter HOW you beat the enemy in 20th century warfare so that's no smear on Monty, BUT Monty's learning the drop zones at Arnhem were right on a full-strength SS Panzer division and STILL going through with the operation (despite knowing the paratroopers had only light weapons and dodgy stuff like PIAT's to fight back against them?) This is arrogance and stupidity of the highest order, throwing away lives of his men is unforgivable but exactly what Monty did!

  • @christophersmith5691
    @christophersmith5691 Před 3 lety +4

    Whereas the Panther served in the Panzer divisions, the Tigers were strategic units, in independent battalions under the command of higher HQs. There were never more than about ten of these (though separate company sized units were attached to certain divisions eg Gross Deutschland, Lehr, some SS divisions)

  • @princeofcupspoc9073
    @princeofcupspoc9073 Před 6 lety +31

    They show the befels version of the Panzer I in a museum, while talking about using the turret. The befels did not have a turret.

    • @AI-GIRL-197
      @AI-GIRL-197 Před 4 lety +3

      Princeofcups Poc The kleiner Panzerbefehlswagen (English: light armored command vehicle), known also by its ordnance inventory designation Sd.Kfz. 265, was the German Army's first purpose-designed armored command vehicle; a type of armoured fighting vehicle designed to provide a tank unit commander with mobility and communications on the battlefield. A development of the Army's first mass-produced tank, the Panzer I Ausf. A, the Sd.Kfz. 265 saw considerable action during the early years of the war, serving in Panzer units through 1942 and with other formations until late in the war.

    • @Dahblackrussian
      @Dahblackrussian Před 4 lety

      Who cares

    • @AI-GIRL-197
      @AI-GIRL-197 Před 4 lety +5

      abcfitness clearly not you so why watch the video and read the comments

    • @MrBobthebird
      @MrBobthebird Před 4 lety +2

      @@AI-GIRL-197 Well said, Such ignorance.

    • @sparkle4223
      @sparkle4223 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Dahblackrussian are you standing in front of the mirror crying,, PLEASE LOVE ME,, while flexing..

  • @spanishcastlesinspace2899

    This footage is incredible. This is definitely one of my favorite documentaries on youtube.

    • @rastabg23
      @rastabg23 Před 4 lety +2

      you serious dude. Type in "WWII in Color". free series on youtube. 8 hours of pure color high-definition professional remastered footage from all fronts. it is the clearest footage in history.

    • @rastabg23
      @rastabg23 Před 4 lety +2

      thank me later go head and send the money to my paypal account, you're welcome..

  • @loganmpe7559
    @loganmpe7559 Před 3 lety +6

    This was first posted _3 years ago!_ and I'm just getting notified now?
    Thanks YT!

    • @vasili1207
      @vasili1207 Před 3 lety

      It's probably 15-20 years old anyway

    • @stever3119
      @stever3119 Před 4 měsíci

      This was posted 6 years ago now. . And I'm just being notified. .

  • @yegorzhdanock3391
    @yegorzhdanock3391 Před rokem +1

    A nice ww2 tank documentary!

  • @edoedo8686
    @edoedo8686 Před 4 lety +9

    Excellent documentary. As noted, the translation is not poor; it just highlights the main points. Now, I assume the tank "cans" refer to the PTRS Soviet anti-tank rifle?

    • @creativecorner2071
      @creativecorner2071 Před 2 lety +1

      The way he described it being a long thing that was buried in the ground made me think of a Bangalore torpedo. But then he later was talking about their shoulders being hurt from firing it. So I dunno?

    • @bobpoobottom7080
      @bobpoobottom7080 Před 2 lety +1

      The CZcams video ‘Soviet Anti-Tank Rifle Tactics Of WW2’, posted by Military History Visualized, quotes a 1942 Soviet manual for users of both the single-shot PTRD and the semi-automatic PTRS. Users are instructed to create several foxhole firing positions linked by trenches to a covered dug-out used for shelter during barrages.
      The manual also includes the scary instruction, to ideally ‘Let the enemy approach to a close range (50-100 meters).’ You can see why the Germans might have a sneaking admiration for their bravery.

  • @kawythowy867
    @kawythowy867 Před 3 lety +18

    Must have been awful to be in one of those tanks. Just awful. I heard stories of Sherman’s getting hit and killing everyone inside. The tank was repaired and the holes were patched. The blood and carnage removed and a fresh coat of paint put inside. And the guys knew what had happened. They were about to take over a tank where all it’s crew members have been killed. Also despite the paint it still smelled like rotting flesh in those tanks those guys said. They couldn’t get all the blood out of noooks and areas in that tank

    • @thomaslinton5765
      @thomaslinton5765 Před 3 lety +6

      Sherman crew were 3x as likely to survive as Allied infantry and more likely to survive than German tank crews. Anecdotes, movies and games are a questionable source of facts.

    • @raugasai9135
      @raugasai9135 Před 2 lety +1

      @@thomaslinton5765
      Movies & games are questionable sources of facts but anecdotes? These are the accounts of the men who actually fought in the war, who are we to question anything they said? I mean you weren't out there in the battlefield, neither was I, we had no idea what these men went through & yet you feel you can tell facts from fictional tales? SMH.

    • @thomaslinton5765
      @thomaslinton5765 Před 2 lety +2

      @@raugasai9135 The plural of "anecdote" is not data. The data gives us a good idea of how relatively safe it was in an M-4 compared to in the open. But I had a stepdad and uncle in M-4's, and they were both wounded while outside the tank.

    • @thomaslinton5765
      @thomaslinton5765 Před 2 lety +1

      @@raugasai9135 And I have never seen a movie that said tanks were safer than infantry, and do no play video games. Wrong generation.

    • @thomaslinton5765
      @thomaslinton5765 Před 2 lety +2

      But I did teach military history at a university. You?

  • @hardyakka6200
    @hardyakka6200 Před 4 lety +3

    The German blitzkrieg idea was used against them in WWI . Planes even dropped supples in WWI The battle of Hamel was a perfect example even if the weather delayed the aircraft support. MONASH invented the blitz kreig.

  • @anthonywalsh785
    @anthonywalsh785 Před 3 lety +2

    a tremendous and informative video. thanks for posting.
    ps i see one of the cameramen was tony walsh too.

    • @alanburke1893
      @alanburke1893 Před 3 lety +1

      Thanks for acknowledging a great post 👍

  • @allanallione4766
    @allanallione4766 Před 3 lety +2

    VIELEN DANK ! FUR DIESES GUTE PANZERKORP DOKUMENTATION !

  • @erwinbreyson
    @erwinbreyson Před 2 lety +3

    The greatest tank unit in the history of the world.

  • @flyfish4fun
    @flyfish4fun Před 4 lety +77

    I understand a bit German , and I must say some of the interviews are much more interesting to hear what they say in German , rather than the poor translation in this film

    • @stevenniklaus5810
      @stevenniklaus5810 Před 4 lety +13

      Panzerbüchse = panzer can??? makes me laugh!

    • @JT-gq8wv
      @JT-gq8wv Před 4 lety +5

      Christopher Bell Blomquist
      - _I understand a bit German , and I must say some of the interviews are much more interesting to hear what they say in German , rather than the poor translation in this film_
      You say the Original is better than the translation?
      There has NEVER been a translation better than the original.
      Thanks for stating the obvious.

    • @scottleft3672
      @scottleft3672 Před 4 lety

      @@joshrayborn1418 You realize grass always looks greener, on the other side of the hill, it rarely ever is.

    • @scottleft3672
      @scottleft3672 Před 4 lety +4

      @@JT-gq8wv Don't be such a prick....it made you miss the obvious, the original, though in German, is EASIER to understand, for someone who ONLY speaks English, than the piss poor translation....savvee smartarse?...Jah dumkopf?

    • @MT-su2lq
      @MT-su2lq Před 4 lety +4

      @@JT-gq8wv Don't be a dick. its not about the translation quality itself. Its about the german speaker says alot more in detail and the english text do not translate it (poor or good) but tries to short it up in some sentences. There alot information and details get lost because they do not get translated at all.

  • @jeffestrada6857
    @jeffestrada6857 Před 2 lety +1

    Thankyou for a great documentary 👍

  • @hansnews5270
    @hansnews5270 Před 3 lety +5

    All that advanced German weapons research - for tanks, rockets - they simply didn’t make enough of it - one would think they would’ve invented the atom bomb

    • @tommysimmons3258
      @tommysimmons3258 Před 3 lety +1

      They did, we took their scientist.

    • @rafaelmarcus1157
      @rafaelmarcus1157 Před 3 lety +1

      @@tommysimmons3258 come on, this Hitler pig threw the Jewish physicists out of Europe and they joined the Manhattan project with joy. Enrico Fermi had a Jewish wife and he discovered fission in Chicago. Also there is an interesting BBC play named "Copenhagen" about a meeting in 1941 between Heisenberg and his mentor Niels Bohr (had Jewish mother).

    • @N4CR
      @N4CR Před 3 lety

      @@rafaelmarcus1157 why did he keep one as his doctor, or the other one they used as the SS poster boy? You boomers believe every lie you are told.

    • @rafaelmarcus1157
      @rafaelmarcus1157 Před 3 lety +1

      @@N4CR I am 73 years old, so not very "boomer"!

  • @bhimasolberg4767
    @bhimasolberg4767 Před 6 lety +15

    Got to love it! Thanks for the great share!

  • @syntaxed2
    @syntaxed2 Před 4 lety +6

    My grandfather was in the war, german-romanian front, north of stalingrad.
    He said the only thing they feared was the russian T-34 tank...and the russians attacked their lines with 1200.

  • @supratiksaha2001
    @supratiksaha2001 Před 4 lety +2

    Very good documentary. Please do another one like this on Luftwaffe.

  • @larrylaurenzi1625
    @larrylaurenzi1625 Před 2 lety +1

    It would have been NICE if honorable German Soldiers could have been the decision makers for the German Army during that invasion of Poland. The sad part is Poland would have been so happy to fight Russian Communist as allies of Germany. Hitler did not know how to judge “friend vs foe.”

  • @charleswatson7841
    @charleswatson7841 Před 4 lety +14

    Great documentary. I really enjoyed it!!

  • @MrYodin
    @MrYodin Před 5 lety +11

    Invasion of Poland 1939 didn't finish in four days. Soviets join Germany in 17 september. The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland under the terms of the German-Soviet Frontier Treaty.

    • @Diwana71
      @Diwana71 Před 5 lety

      MrYodin Poland was busy carving up Czechoslovakia with the Nazis after the Munich Pact in 1938 not realising that its own turn was coming soon. But Poland was wrong thinking that with British blessings it would be immune from the Nazis or even partner with them in future war against Russia. Russians only corrected the wrongs of Brest Litovsk treaty of 1918.

    • @MrYodin
      @MrYodin Před 5 lety

      @@Diwana71 Please next time read bit more historical facts before putting some coments. Poland was taking back land which should belong to Poland. This part of Poland was lost to Czechoslovakia during Polish-Soviet war in 1920. Czechs were so sure that Poland will loose this war that invaded southern Poland and just took Zaolzie. When Poland defited Soviet Russia they tried resolve this problem with Czehs by diplomacy. Unfortunately Czehs refuse to even enter negotiatioin. That is why when state of Czehoslovakia has been ivaded by Germany Poland has to take back this land to protect polish people living there.

    • @MrYodin
      @MrYodin Před 5 lety +1

      @@Diwana71 Now you just playing stupid and nasty. Poland would never go with Hitler. British or not they know that war with Germany is imminent.
      With your beloved Soviets Poland had a pact and there was not Poland who brocked this packt. Just go to some normal school if you can find one and start education from beginning. You living in some marxist shithole and dreeming about world communism. Will never hapen.

  • @murtd3268
    @murtd3268 Před 4 lety +2

    Great video

  • @adicats
    @adicats Před 4 lety +30

    In the end the German war machine was “starved” - no replacements,no ammunition,no fuel no nothing! Whereas the Allies had endless supply of everything!!

    • @jmehn203
      @jmehn203 Před 4 lety +6

      Exactly... perfectly said....
      People mistakenly say that Russia defeated Germany on pure army power, but the truth is that the UK and the US literally starved and destroyed the German war machine....

    • @jessiepinkman7736
      @jessiepinkman7736 Před 4 lety +10

      The USA was the ultimate factor here, the British could not beat the Germans, even the British + USSR could probably not beat the Germans but once the USA's industrial might came into it - game over and most Germans knew it...

    • @jmehn203
      @jmehn203 Před 4 lety +5

      jessie pinkman , True... a prime example is the British attempt to save their old friend & neighbor, France, at the battle of Dunkirk where Hitler let almost 1/2 a millón French and British soldiers be rescued by private civilian boats....
      This proved that the UK couldn’t even help themselves against the onslaught of Hitler’s war machine....

    • @jmehn203
      @jmehn203 Před 4 lety +3

      Feldgrau Fox , They did not succeed an invasion. The Saar Offensive was a French ground invasion of Saarland, Germany, during the early stages of World War II, from 7 to 16 September 1939. The plans called for roughly 40 divisions, including one armored division, three mechanised divisions, 78 artillery regiments and 40 tank battalions to assist Poland, which was then under invasion, by attacking Germany's understrength western front. Although 30 divisions advanced to the border (and in some cases across it), the assault never happened. When the quick victory in Poland allowed Germany to reinforce its lines with homecoming troops, the offensive was stopped. The French forces eventually withdrew amid a German counter-offensive on 17 October.
      Also, On September 3, 1939, in response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany. ... As for Britain's response, it was initially no more than the dropping of anti-Nazi propaganda leaflets.

    • @chriszelez7970
      @chriszelez7970 Před 4 lety

      @@jessiepinkman7736 It was called lend-lease. The US gave the Reds their trucks, food and clothes so that they could build tanks and guns and fill out their fighting units.

  • @hhavana7568
    @hhavana7568 Před 4 lety +7

    Panther wasn't heavy, it was medium.

    • @aceous99
      @aceous99 Před 4 lety +1

      if its so light, why dont you go pick it up then?

    • @tonyromano6220
      @tonyromano6220 Před 4 lety +1

      Very heavy medium.

  • @pieterzwaan4451
    @pieterzwaan4451 Před 5 lety +6

    Panzer soldier Paschke:two soldiers were very heavily wounded and screaming for half an hour and they were dead.O what a lovely war.No! just terrible to throw away human lives.

    • @larrysmiths1
      @larrysmiths1 Před 4 lety

      some one should have handed them a pistol and let them make a choice

  • @docgreenthumb9268
    @docgreenthumb9268 Před 4 lety +2

    Showing the Tiger I as a Panzer IV and then later on showing the same exact clip now calling it a Tiger....in the words of our nobel king, "Yourrr Fired!!!!"

  • @tburro915
    @tburro915 Před 6 lety +352

    First Tour de France winner?
    7th Panzer div.

    • @kennethbarnard9065
      @kennethbarnard9065 Před 5 lety +21

      Commanded by the desert fox

    • @kiwidiesel
      @kiwidiesel Před 5 lety +12

      Hahahaha that's gold!

    • @neganrex5693
      @neganrex5693 Před 5 lety +8

      Good one. lol.

    • @JackBarrett7
      @JackBarrett7 Před 5 lety +6

      It was Maurice Garin, in 1903. I know you were joking, but it would have appealed to a broader audience had you said the 1940-45 winner.

    • @jessnellaf2401
      @jessnellaf2401 Před 5 lety +2

      @@kennethbarnard9065 correction.. that was later,in France (before the desert) the 7 was called the "ghost div" bcs he was always deeper than either the allies or the Germans thought as he moved so fast.

  • @eriktronstad8063
    @eriktronstad8063 Před 2 lety +8

    The Panzer Mark lll was a damn good looking tank. It was just hard to give it the needed punch.
    The King Tiger was a massive tank and good.
    The Panther was an incredible tank.
    The Tiger Mark IV was I think the best tank in the war .. the Germans just couldn't make enough of them.

    • @mustangmanmustangman4596
      @mustangmanmustangman4596 Před rokem

      All 3 tanks mentioned constantly broke DO the RESEARCH instead of proving how stupid you are and to prove I am no keyboard warrior I live in calgary come and meet me or send a message and I will give you my real name cause I couldn't care less anymore

  • @lamarkingram5320
    @lamarkingram5320 Před 4 lety +19

    Part of the reason the Russian tanks were difficult to contend with was their sloped armor. An aspect Germany later incorporated in the Panzer tank designs.

    • @stevebrownrocks6376
      @stevebrownrocks6376 Před 4 lety +6

      Lamark Ingram sloped armor was nothing new, it was even used in WW1. It did give better protection, but also caused the interior to be smaller & cramped. One of the best advantages the Germans had were the radios allowing them better communications without exposing the tank commander.

    • @luxboss2388
      @luxboss2388 Před rokem

      @@stevebrownrocks6376 wow never knew that thanks

  • @larrylaurenzi1625
    @larrylaurenzi1625 Před 2 lety +1

    The Sherman Tank was able to get to wherever it was needed and ready to fight FASTER than any other tank in WWII, including the T-34.

  • @Malibutomi
    @Malibutomi Před 4 lety +2

    Talking about first Panzer III showing a Panzer IV with the short 75 gun

  • @PeterMayer
    @PeterMayer Před 5 lety +16

    I don't understand why so many historians and programs hardly ever talk about our loss in the Hürtgen forest battle.

    • @robertm4735
      @robertm4735 Před 5 lety +7

      Maybe because history is written by the winners, that does not mean I agree with it. it just seems to be how it is.

    • @spilttaco3343
      @spilttaco3343 Před 5 lety +2

      Peter Mayer The answer is in your comment. Why do you think it’s called a program? Because it’s programming you.

    • @diegorivera9517
      @diegorivera9517 Před 4 lety

      @Shon Seibert A entertainment program isn't the same as war. The victors don't rewrite history.

    • @diegorivera9517
      @diegorivera9517 Před 4 lety

      @Shon Seibert Thank you for your service.

    • @diegorivera9517
      @diegorivera9517 Před 4 lety

      @Steve Lyden-Brown Just because the Americans lost that battle doesn't mean its ignored. Battles lost by Allied forces are acknowledge to this day.

  • @wolfmoon7745
    @wolfmoon7745 Před 5 lety +30

    My great grandfather was a Tiger Tank Commander. Wish I was there with him just to see what He went through...

    • @igogoplatayobitch7566
      @igogoplatayobitch7566 Před 4 lety +6

      What a stupid statement

    • @itz_bk
      @itz_bk Před 4 lety +6

      @@igogoplatayobitch7566 you are a stupid that doesn't means everyone is stupid

    • @submariner55
      @submariner55 Před 4 lety +2

      Hitler kaput

    • @aesop8694
      @aesop8694 Před 4 lety +9

      WolfMoon. May your wish be granted. Than you will understand the bullshit of your dreaming.

    • @kingjames7273
      @kingjames7273 Před 4 lety

      Hell

  • @FeldwebelWolfenstool
    @FeldwebelWolfenstool Před 3 lety +1

    ...Germany ran out of Germans...

  • @johnfoster3089
    @johnfoster3089 Před 3 lety

    Who finally won? What a waste of fine young soldiers, magnificent and horribly expensive armor. But thoroughly enjoyed the report. And we've been free and at peace for 75 years......

  • @laopang91362
    @laopang91362 Před 4 lety +7

    My conclusion, don't be in a tank.

    • @TigerBaron
      @TigerBaron Před 4 lety

      If you actually care to read some statistics you'll see the tankers had less losses than the infantry, especially in the German and US Armies.

  • @antiochusiiithegreat7721
    @antiochusiiithegreat7721 Před 6 lety +18

    I don't understand why they showed a pz35t as a pzII.

    • @EdwardKelleySkopovski
      @EdwardKelleySkopovski Před 6 lety +1

      Maybe because it was mad like second tank after first one..interesting is, that in those tanks was Škoda motors inside...so when it happened then?...after invaded Chech?

    • @antiochusiiithegreat7721
      @antiochusiiithegreat7721 Před 6 lety +1

      Yeah they adopted the 35t and 38t after the occupation of Czech.

    • @FrantiC119
      @FrantiC119 Před 6 lety +4

      Watch the other documentary in this series on Stormtroopers. They talk about the invasion of Poland while showing guys with panzerfausts and STG44s. I just think whoever edited these completely failed.

    • @princeofcupspoc9073
      @princeofcupspoc9073 Před 6 lety +1

      The clip editor was all over the place. There are tons of mistakes. Taking about one tank, and showing another.

    • @tonyromano6220
      @tonyromano6220 Před 4 lety

      Frantick funny stuff!

  • @timeisapathwalkingtounderstand

    Here in New York City Saturday, February 15th, 2:40 a.m. Watching and listening to a great documentary. Thank you for posting it. World War II was terrible. I'm glad I wasn't there.

  • @randyhavard6084
    @randyhavard6084 Před 3 lety +1

    They really play up Guderian in this documentary. Historians tell a different story today since all the archives are becoming more open and the source documents can be studied instead.

    • @randyhavard6084
      @randyhavard6084 Před 2 lety

      @REV0 you must have read his book. Being a good general is one thing, but Guderian did not create the panzer divisions or single-handedly write the doctrine for the Panther divisions. There are lots of primary source documents that prove much of his book is lies and exaggeration. You can't believe everything in memoirs that are written 30 or 40 years after something happens

    • @randyhavard6084
      @randyhavard6084 Před 2 lety

      @REV0 I never said he was not a good leader. He was a great General, but he played up his involvement in creating the German armor divisions later on in his memoirs and historians took his word as fact and then repeat it over and over. There were several other generals that had major influence in the '20s and '30s Gudarian was a Colonel. In his memoirs he takes credit for these other men's work without giving them any mention, and for many years they believed it until The archives were opened up and people started looking into what he said.

  • @alisdairmclean8605
    @alisdairmclean8605 Před 2 lety +3

    I can't help wondering what impact would the centurion tank have had on the Normandy and later campaigns if it had been brought out a year earlier than it was. Especially any tiger to centurion duels..

    • @souleater9574
      @souleater9574 Před 2 lety

      The centurion would have destroyed the tiger hands down easily

    • @michaelbrogan7537
      @michaelbrogan7537 Před rokem

      The Centurion is a freaking modern tank shooting modern antitank rounds! Hmmm wonder if the F15 would have effected the outcome of WWII?? Lol come on!! 🤣😅

  • @JCMC57
    @JCMC57 Před 4 lety +15

    at 53:20 that Panther was destroyed by a Pershing M36 tank in the city of Cologne not in the Bulge. Love catching documentary wrong.

    • @chriszelez7970
      @chriszelez7970 Před 4 lety +5

      It was a M26, otherwise you are dead on.

    • @waynepetralia8105
      @waynepetralia8105 Před 3 lety +2

      Pershing is M26, not M36. But at least you caught the other guy's mistake.

    • @Voice-Actor
      @Voice-Actor Před 3 lety +1

      I'll go back in time and re-voice it for you. 😊

    • @juliehildahl2758
      @juliehildahl2758 Před 3 lety

      @Richard Blake we all agree, but stay strong lil guy

    • @juliehildahl2758
      @juliehildahl2758 Před 3 lety

      @Richard Blake disregard, wrong dude

  • @vatanenj
    @vatanenj Před 3 lety +2

    When Hitler visited Finland during out Marschall Mannerheims birthday, he said in a secretly recorded personal converstion that "He could not understand how Stalin could still wage a war, when Germans had destroyed 3.500 tanks and made un operational about the same amount"... Our Marchal instantly understood that Hitler had not a clue of realities: When germans built one tank, russians built 5 at the same time in the factories behind Ural mountains. Hitler thought they had occupied whole russia, when they in reality only maybe one fourth, even the had killed millions and took hostage also million (which they could not feed)... The armed forces. There was still at least same amount of men in eastern areas in sibiria and near Japan.. Finnish marschall Mannerheim understood that Finland had to get itself out of war with germany as soon as posible

    • @luxboss2388
      @luxboss2388 Před rokem

      Wow I never knew that thanks 👍🏾

  • @izaakfewton7536
    @izaakfewton7536 Před 4 lety +1

    Perhaps Polish air force was demolished but it wasn't last time Germans faced polish pilots. They had bad luck to meet them over Britain again...

  • @rsmith8365
    @rsmith8365 Před 4 lety +4

    rollin' through a hemp field at 3:00

  • @oceanhome2023
    @oceanhome2023 Před 6 lety +54

    Yes Poland and France were all defeated with essentially “Armored Cars” and they were fast

    • @nightlightabcd
      @nightlightabcd Před 6 lety +3

      The main weapon of the Germans used against France was sucker punching, as they did with other nations, such a Poland!

    • @nightlightabcd
      @nightlightabcd Před 6 lety +1

      The main weapon of the German attack of France and Poland was Germany sucker punching their none warring neighbors!

    • @christopherjones8448
      @christopherjones8448 Před 4 lety +1

      um no they were beaten by "armored cars" and massive amounts of air support and surprise.. ok actually there were a lot of factors but it absolutely was not just "some fast armored cars"

    • @jaroslawgarbus5676
      @jaroslawgarbus5676 Před 4 lety +5

      Poland give up because coward russia invaded from behind two weeks later .Warsaw back than was close to german polish border. Even they surrender Warsaw poland could still fight look the borders back than...on top slovakia attack from south

    • @edwardjj4224
      @edwardjj4224 Před 4 lety +10

      @@jaroslawgarbus5676 Right about that -the British who declare war on Germany should be helping Poland in 24 hrs Nothing happens What happened in 1940 Polish pilots protect England doing WW ll After the War in return big drunk Churchill and F.D.R democratic and commis loved idiots sold out Poland and half of the Europe to BOLSHEVIKS Poland should never trusted the British Joined the Germans force's with many another European countries take Moskau just like did in 1812 with Napoleon Bonaparte In resold No Bolsheviks in Europe no more federal reserve crooks bankers robbing good citizens

  • @christophersmith5691
    @christophersmith5691 Před 3 lety

    The Tiger tank came into it's own as master of the battlefield in the aftermath of Kursk. German soldiers coined a phrase 'whenever a T34 meets a Tiger, it tips it's hat' - the turret being blown off by the 8.8 cm hit and resulting ammunition explosion. The Panther had severe engine teething problems, many were in repair, and others burned out when the engine caught fire spontaneously

  • @daveybyrden3936
    @daveybyrden3936 Před 4 lety +1

    Wow !
    Look at 26:52. When the commentary says "Panzer 4" and they mistakenly show us a Panzer 3.
    The tank is fitted with S-mine launchers ! That's extremely rare !

  • @elijah24567
    @elijah24567 Před 6 lety +13

    40:27 well i certainly don't want to be on that kv-1

    • @decafdankdoge
      @decafdankdoge Před 4 lety

      Then why did it fire?

    • @stuartlawsonbeattie1411
      @stuartlawsonbeattie1411 Před 4 lety +1

      @@decafdankdoge Most guns fire.

    • @decafdankdoge
      @decafdankdoge Před 4 lety

      I know most guns fire I'm just saying if no one was in the tank how did it fire? either somebody was in it or the producers just used some mechanic to make it fire

  • @jphaolai526
    @jphaolai526 Před 4 lety +7

    To me German is indeed such a powerful discipline army the early 20th century ever witnessed. But I am not a fan of what they try to accomplish with that.

    • @crimsoncloud6352
      @crimsoncloud6352 Před 3 lety

      Nah I'd give it to the Russians lol they had men and women in front lines. Equality = Respect.

    • @m10tankdestroyer94
      @m10tankdestroyer94 Před 3 lety +2

      @@crimsoncloud6352 It's mostly just their leaders willing to send anyone to the frontlines for the sake of victory

    • @krisshnapeswanipeswani3190
      @krisshnapeswanipeswani3190 Před 3 lety +1

      @@crimsoncloud6352 the only think that terrified them hearing The night witches come night bomber regiment 588

    • @thomaslinton5765
      @thomaslinton5765 Před 3 lety +4

      @@crimsoncloud6352 TO BE CANNON FODDER - TO CLEAR MINE FIELDS BY STEPPING ON THE MINES. BEHIND THEM, THE KGB MACHINE GUNNERS. EQUALLY OF LITTLE VALUE TO THE STATE AND THE PARTY ELITE.

  • @trevorplows7494
    @trevorplows7494 Před 4 lety +1

    Manish yes there are photos of film posted in error but on the whole a good narrative trying to encompass the whole war in a short your. Look forward to seeing if MrNegative and superior can do better. Exactly when is your perfect documentary due to be released.

  • @johnbamba3052
    @johnbamba3052 Před 23 hodinami

    British army looks like they were knocking door to door selling cookies. 😂

  • @albertdaniel1000
    @albertdaniel1000 Před 4 lety +4

    Thank you...

  • @mrmacedon
    @mrmacedon Před 4 lety +15

    they forgot to mention that the Ferdinand was also used at the battle of Kursk

    • @KuvDabGib
      @KuvDabGib Před 4 lety

      I would say that those were attempts to use them - since it failed miserably.

    • @Idcanymore510
      @Idcanymore510 Před 4 lety

      Where it was an absolute disaster! Having no secondary amrmament and very limited vision it was hunted down and picked of by Soviet anti-tank teams. The Ferdinand was basically annihilated at Kursk.

    • @KuvDabGib
      @KuvDabGib Před 4 lety +1

      @@Idcanymore510 Yep, those which didnt got broke on their own were blown up or captured by Soviet infantry. In short they had zero impact on the outcome of the battle.

    • @olaflange5254
      @olaflange5254 Před 4 lety +3

      During the Battle of Kursk, sPzJgrAbt 653 claimed to have knocked out 320 enemy tanks, for the loss of 13 Ferdinands. Doesn´t sound like a disaster to me.

    • @KuvDabGib
      @KuvDabGib Před 4 lety +2

      @@olaflange5254 I can claim that i have fucked J Lo and Shakira... But those are just claims.

  • @thomaslinton5765
    @thomaslinton5765 Před 3 lety +1

    TIGERS WERE AT THE REAR OF THE GERMAN COLUMNS IN THE "BULGE" DUE TO ROAD CONDITIONS, YOU GOT IT BACKWARDS. D- AND FALLING.

  • @nickwojcik4391
    @nickwojcik4391 Před 3 lety

    Poland capitulated attacked by Germany and USSR from both sides alone after 4 weeks and France capitulated after 7...with help of British, along with Belgium and Holland...how about compare it this way?

  • @KernowekTim
    @KernowekTim Před 4 lety +3

    German engineering gave rise to some excellent Panzers that's for sure. The latest variant of the 'Big Cats' certainly endorses this, I think. The superb Leopard Mk2 MBT is one helluva beast. Lucky for Britain, her Allies, and the Russians too, that Germany's High Command was overseen by Hitler,( who couldn't 'see the woods for the trees', and hence made the gross error of initiating the start of WW2 way too early ), and not men with the genius and foresight of Guderian.

    • @derin111
      @derin111 Před 3 lety

      Well, Hitler didn’t think he was starting World War 2! He invaded Poland.

  • @warrenchambers4819
    @warrenchambers4819 Před 3 lety +7

    Those 1st Panzers with their commanders poking out the top with that goofy looking hat look more like a pizza delivery than a dangerous enemy.

  • @brothermaleuspraetor9505
    @brothermaleuspraetor9505 Před 4 měsíci

    I was hoping we'd get to have a chuckle at Monty's fake tanks in North Africa. But never mind. It baffled Rommel. He admired Monty and the feeling was mutual.

  • @mikedixon7651
    @mikedixon7651 Před 3 lety

    Good film.

  • @timberry4709
    @timberry4709 Před 3 lety +15

    17:15 - - I wish people would stop with the whole "Polish cavalry attacking German tanks" myth. Never happened. A Polish cavalry unit that was attacking an infantry unit was counter-attacked by German armored cars but they never attacked tanks.

    • @bryanknecht6860
      @bryanknecht6860 Před 3 lety

      Heinz guderian wrote of a polish cavalrycharge in his book "panzerleader"(S.72). "The polish Pomorska cavalry brigade, in ignorance of the nature of our tanks, had charged them with swords and lances and had suffered tremendous losses."
      But steven zaloga and victor madej wrote in "The Polish Campaign" about the same charge which tells the same story you mentioned.
      But accounts like the one from guderian still keep that myth alive. 🙄

  • @StromBugSlayer
    @StromBugSlayer Před 6 lety +13

    Russian "Tank cans?" I thought maybe he meant mines, but he mentions 100 yard ranges... No idea what he is talking about.

    • @StromBugSlayer
      @StromBugSlayer Před 6 lety +3

      I thought of anti-tank rifles, but he was giving them so much respect lethality wise that I though maybe it was some sort of shaped charge weapon...

    • @robashton8606
      @robashton8606 Před 6 lety +4

      Yeah, he's talking about anti-tank rifles. The translation on this definitely leaves a little to be desired. Both the British and Soviet anti-tank rifles would have been effective against the Pz I and Pz II, but for the PzIII and Pz IV, the rather scary sounding practice of trying to shoot the tanks in their weak belly armour from a hole in the ground would have been necessary. I'm guessing that it was the Russians that came up with that one. Crazy buggers.

    • @scottyfox6376
      @scottyfox6376 Před 6 lety +1

      Yes it's quite confusing when he said that they were often buried so I was was wondering what is this "Tank Can" that can be buried but could shoot from a 100meters & needed a strong shoulder. The Soviet anti tank rifles did cause considerable damage to panzers but I guess it's all in the translation.

    • @kakashi4hokage401
      @kakashi4hokage401 Před 6 lety +1

      by tank cans, you can tell he is referring to the anti tank rifles, also known as "can openers" because infantry referred to panzers as cans

    • @bbbabrock
      @bbbabrock Před 6 lety

      Beware Of The Austro Kraut Yeah. I'd always understood "molatav cocktail" to have been Finnish too.

  • @jgvgjv2980
    @jgvgjv2980 Před 4 lety +1

    Very good explanatory documentary, enjoyed watching it

  • @LemonHead-sq5ws
    @LemonHead-sq5ws Před 3 měsíci

    The wireless operator made sandwiches 🥪 lol that’s adorable ☺️

  • @jabiantakarua9347
    @jabiantakarua9347 Před 4 lety +4

    Starts discussing Stalingrad...shows a burnt out Sherman in Bocage, France....the hell with the inaccuracy

  • @thomaslinton1001
    @thomaslinton1001 Před 6 lety +5

    Pz I was, relatively, slow and had short range. 14mm anti-tank rifles shot them up easily.

    • @gelraldoldo5152
      @gelraldoldo5152 Před 5 lety +1

      Don't u be knocking my Pz 1, i worked really hard on that tank.

    • @hansmueller3029
      @hansmueller3029 Před 5 lety

      True the 14.5 mm a.p. round could penetrate up to 35mm of homogeneous plate, but just because you put a couple holes in a tank doesn't mean you've stopped it.

    • @diegorivera9517
      @diegorivera9517 Před 4 lety

      The Panzer I was actually built mainly for infantry support from a point of view since they were only equipped with the MG34.

    • @Chironex_Fleckeri
      @Chironex_Fleckeri Před 4 lety

      It was mainly a prototypical project. Its failures paved the way for more modern designs.

  • @TeknoWarMachine
    @TeknoWarMachine Před 5 lety +2

    I'm on a quest to find documentaries that aren't one sided about Germany during WWII. Yeah, I'm having a very hard time. This seems like a step in the right direction, though....

    • @mookins45
      @mookins45 Před 5 lety

      trumpies feel sorry for the poor nazis

    • @TheGillenium
      @TheGillenium Před 5 lety +1

      What the hell are you looking for? They tried to invade the world and got beat down into submission. End of story.

    • @arnepietruszewski9255
      @arnepietruszewski9255 Před 4 lety

      It is pretty hard to not judge what our forefathers did. Yes they had some success in the beginning, but even the german army supply corps knew that we couldnt get to Moskau and that we would have to stop at Smolensk. There was not enough fuel to go there and no infrastructure to get the supplies to the front. That is also the reason why they had no winter clothing, if you have to decide Ammo or Clothes you take Ammo cause not being able to shoot back will get you killed faster than not having warm clothes. The germans missed out on having intelligence data on their enemys while the enemys knew pretty much what would happen, at least in 1941. It is really surprising that we could beat France and Britain on the Continent. Hitler was like I want that and after saying it he believed it came out of the air, he (and the army command) never really assessed the true situation for germany (no Oil, short on Ammo, short on transport vehicles) or he would never have started this war. That you cant fight russia by taking some cities should have been known since Napoleon. We basically made the same mistakes he made and we paid somewhat the same price.

    • @itz_bk
      @itz_bk Před 4 lety

      Hitler fucked you all stupid , you were a bunch of like hundreds of fox and he was all alone like a tiger and you jointly defeated him but still fox is fox and tiger is tiger.

    • @chassuppanz9018
      @chassuppanz9018 Před 4 lety

      And Clintonite-Obamaist-Pelosians love that cheap illegal immigrant Mexican labor.Build the Wall Flush the Swamp Trump 2020

  • @errolkim1334
    @errolkim1334 Před 4 lety +2

    There were NO Panzer IV' with the big 76mm gun in France in 1940. I wish they wouldn't put in any old footage from any old era.

    • @chriszelez7970
      @chriszelez7970 Před 4 lety +2

      They did not expect you to be so smart about this topic. They are feeding the masses with info.

  • @CENTURION-xs6ky
    @CENTURION-xs6ky Před 4 lety +12

    They made the rest of Europe look like Neanderthals, I'm never short of admiration for the structure, training, equipment and calibre of the men from that time.
    I'm no Nazi, but respect where respect is due, they were much more advanced than we were in every way. Great video, thank you.

    • @HiTechOilCo
      @HiTechOilCo Před 4 lety +1

      Never respect evil.

    • @juliehildahl2758
      @juliehildahl2758 Před 3 lety

      So far advanced that the Untermenschen (nazi term for Russians) whipped their asses & relegated them to the dust bin of history.

    • @cyrosubod2317
      @cyrosubod2317 Před 2 lety +1

      @@HiTechOilCo they’re not evil they’re fighting force

  • @raval87
    @raval87 Před 4 lety +7

    Polish cavalry never fought with tanks on horseback.
    The horses only served as a means of transport for battle. dismounted and fought like infantry with the support of artillery and anti-tank rifles. Propaganda of the USSR and the Third Reich strengthened the view that Polish cavalry fought horses on tanks.
    The Polish army had 7TP tanks, which exceeded the performance of PzKpfw III, but they were too few.
    And Polish airmen, on outdated aircraft, shot down over 120 German aircrafts.

  • @markmccormack9413
    @markmccormack9413 Před 5 lety +1

    Dencil Dean. I am assuming you were a tanker yourself sir? Kudos.

  • @toto3777
    @toto3777 Před 2 lety

    Yet another great video. However, it sounds to me like the interview translations weren't comprehensive and simplified. Unfortunate. Also, the hell is a "tank can"?

    • @ralphbernhard1757
      @ralphbernhard1757 Před 2 lety

      "Panzerwanne".
      Or literally "tank tub/can".
      What is meant is the armored body.

  • @bokvarv1926
    @bokvarv1926 Před 3 lety +3

    Most effective anti Tiger Tank weapon was the Tiger tank

    • @TheBorg01
      @TheBorg01 Před 3 lety

      actually it was SU 85 and especially SU 100 that was built to deal with German heavy tanks !

    • @TheBorg01
      @TheBorg01 Před 3 lety

      but most effective anti tiger weapon was engeniering malfunction and breakdowns also lack of fuel hahhahahaha

    • @bokvarv1926
      @bokvarv1926 Před 3 lety

      @@TheBorg01Actually no, more Tigers broke down from being a tiger, than were ever destroyed in combat, ergo the best without anything e en close to "destroy a tiger tank" is to build a tiger tank and try to use it.
      A totally useless device that tiger tank, useless nothing less, maybe the worst tank to ever see combat.
      It looks Amazing, and it has a cool factor of 200 but it is so pone to mailfunction that it is besically useless.
      I think it was in france, where 1 in 10 tigers actally managed to get to ront to break down, the 9 others broke down in transit

    • @TheBorg01
      @TheBorg01 Před 3 lety

      @@bokvarv1926 yea average reliability of the Tiger tank in the second half of 1943 was similar to that of the Panther, 36%, compared to the 48% of the Panzer IV and the 65% of the StuG III.. it got bit better later on.. Highest number of Tigers wore knocked out on Eastern Front !... prob at Battle of Kursk

  • @mynameis9057
    @mynameis9057 Před 6 lety +7

    3 minute mark,cruising through hemp fields.

    • @scottyfox6376
      @scottyfox6376 Před 6 lety +4

      I'm sure they burnt the hemp fields a gram at a time...😊

    • @mynameis9057
      @mynameis9057 Před 6 lety +2

      ScottyFox lmao! hysterical! thanks for the great wit,I really appreciate someone with a wonderful sense of humor! thank you !

    • @anchorbait6662
      @anchorbait6662 Před 6 lety +4

      Smoke em if you got em

    • @MrGP-qk8rc
      @MrGP-qk8rc Před 5 lety

      War can be very stressful on the nerves. Marijuana helps

    • @confusedwolf7157
      @confusedwolf7157 Před 5 lety

      oh wow...Scooby you got the papers man?

  • @jacobbuxton932
    @jacobbuxton932 Před 4 lety +1

    Fascinating documentary!

  • @jackkarnau8611
    @jackkarnau8611 Před 3 lety +1

    WE ARE THE PANZER ELITE

  • @eisenhertz
    @eisenhertz Před 4 lety +5

    not one word about the stuck,and the 1000 meter club!

  • @trevorplows7494
    @trevorplows7494 Před 3 lety +9

    Excellent video but poor continuity. Talking about the PZ 3 showing a PZ 4 forgets the35t which was also important in Poland and France. The narrative is however good and informative the accompanying footage somewhat dubious

  • @harrypalmer5603
    @harrypalmer5603 Před 3 lety

    Very interesting

  • @MrMeatman11
    @MrMeatman11 Před 3 lety +1

    I'd rather be in the trenches than be in one if those metal coffins

  • @bodasactra
    @bodasactra Před 5 lety +6

    Is there a video on those blown up Shermans at Stalingrad? I had no idea they had them that early in Russia.

    • @diegorivera9517
      @diegorivera9517 Před 4 lety +3

      The Russians got lend leased from both British and American forces, with Churchills, Matildas and Shermans being transported and given to the USSR.

    • @seanmalloy7249
      @seanmalloy7249 Před 4 lety +4

      @@diegorivera9517 Don't forget the M3 Medium (Grant/Lee), which the Russians sometimes referred to as the "coffin for seven brothers".

  • @petersclafani4370
    @petersclafani4370 Před 4 lety +9

    The early german armor corp were mark 3 and 4.

    • @AFT_05G
      @AFT_05G Před 4 lety +1

      Well Mk I did his job pretty well in early stagest of the war.

    • @chriszelez7970
      @chriszelez7970 Před 4 lety

      @@AFT_05G It was a training tank, but the Nazi were short on Panzers. So they used them in 1939 while routing the Poles.

  • @elijah24567
    @elijah24567 Před 5 lety +2

    I just wish they use the metric system.

  • @thetreblerebel
    @thetreblerebel Před 4 lety +2

    Tanks. A WWII weapon that came into it's own. Germans make good tanks too

  • @weareabove4233
    @weareabove4233 Před 5 lety +4

    Eventually all nations looked at this tank as the beginnings of the main battle tanks for modern armored corps

  • @bodasactra
    @bodasactra Před 4 lety +7

    This includes the famous clip of a Panther that just took out a Sherman. Its taking 3 hits from the new Pershing American heavy tank 90 mm gun.There is more of this clip showing the Sherman commander jumping out with one leg blown off. He bled to death moments later. Full video with Sherman hit: czcams.com/video/D6LqB-RYUvY/video.html

  • @marchellochiovelli7259

    No better intro music than that.

  • @fabiosunspot1112
    @fabiosunspot1112 Před 4 lety +2

    Tank are a true break through weapon...