In several hours, Severloh fired 12,000 cartridges with Mg42 and 400 with the carbine and later said: I felt sorry for the poor guys, but they wanted to kill me too.
On the 50th Anniversary of the D Day landing, STARS & STRIPES interviewed two German soldiers who were posted there. When asked how they could’ve committed such atrocities, they replied that the Allies were there to kill them. So it was “kill or be killed”.
A gunner is a gunner , that is their job , they fire at targets , they do not relate their targets to be human beings , they fire at targets, this is the mentally they were taught, they can not see their targets as people , .....they are targets , .....this is what I was taught, every gunner in the military is taught the same , targets are targets , ..........it helps gunners sleep at night , .....but not always ,
Still, nothing to show off about. He would have been lucky to live, too, seeing my mates being slaughtered like that l don't think l would be shaking his hand...oh no.
I remember in army basic and infantry school at Ft Benning, they had some plastic bayonet targets that were molded and painted to look like Russian soldiers.
During WW1 mowing down the enemy with heavy machine guns was an almost daily occurence. During WW2 it bacame less common but still happened. Blaming the guy operating the machine gun is like blaming the guy who invented it in the first place. The enemy soldiers aren't coming up the beach to shake your hand. They are here to kill you unless you kill them first.
Well, that is true for the soldiers that fight other soldiers, but of course soldiers on all sides commit crimes as well (killing civilians or prisoners for example).
@@KatGlos Hello !!! You didn't really get my message :-)))) My message is : Without Corrupt "Politicians ", whom have Never sent their family to die, we would Not have Senless and Endless wars !!! Got it ?!? :-))))
He was fighting for Fascism the Allies was fighting for Democracy . Now Democracy is not perfect but for me it's a lot better than swearing an oath to Hitler. Who by the way had his soliders slaughter Jews and other undesirables in his sick mind. Would have been no Hitler without the German people.
War is hell. It makes young men who don't know each other, and don't hate each other, try to kill each other because old people that hate each and won't kill each other nor settle their differences.
@@INFJ-ThaneTr They all were not Nazis any more than the Yanks were Democrats or Republicans. Just a bunch of teenagers, scared shitless and trying to figure out why they were there!
Not really. When your weapon fires 1100 per minute and 10002 of men are wading slowly in water directly into your fire. Very likely! Sad thing is, men on both sides died so politicians and rich people could get richer!
@@darrinfry2251 It wasn't, official statement by army was roughly 2000 (on omaha) THE MOST claimed by a random historian claimed MAYBE 3000-4000. But no factually not your mentioned numbers.
@@zylox_lacks_IQ Believe what you want to believe? But the ones that didn't survive on the island or the beach is the one you need to count for as well. Yes, you've been brainwashed and the state department in the pentagon tells you different.
My grandmother's brother was on the U.S.S. Emmons which got closer to the coast and opened fire on German's positions. George was killed on the Emmons off Okinawa.
We owe your great uncle so much. I want to say thank you to your grandmother and to your family. It takes a special kind of courage to run at the shooting and not away from. It’s families like yours that makes me so proud to be an American.
Every "Gold Star" mother in the US is owed more than any and all of us could possibly ever compensate her for her loss. For in essence together with their child, they physically, psychologically and spiritually gave a very precious part of themselves they can never get back in this life. A mother and child reunion will one day come to pass, but not in this sorrowful and wicked world. I know this to be because the Lord told us so! And because if it wasnt that way He would have told us. God Bless every "Blue Star" family and may The Almighty's divine grace and mercy find it's way to comfort, give peace and courage to all the Gold Star parents of those fallen warrior heroes. One day there will be no sorrow, no tears, there will be no pain or goodbyes! Death and misery will be things that have past away and became no more. For the love, mercy, joy, compassion and contentment of the Lord shall feel every heart, mind, soul and spirit. The glory and majesty of Almighty will be given praise from the birds of the sky and the fishes of the sea. All will be right, all will be peaceful, all will be kind, and all will be thankful! All will be childern of the one and only true living God!
The timing of this video being posted today is interesting, as I just finished reading Hein Severloh's "WN 62" memoirs earlier today. For those who haven't had the chance to read it, it's worth noting that Severloh indicated that he did not discuss the number of casualties he believed he inflicted until the 40th anniversary of D-Day when he was repeatedly pressed by an ABC news reporter to estimate the number of casualties, and the reporter asked whether it was more than a thousand and Severloh was apparently greatly affected by this question (and apparently a bit annoyed by the repeated questioning), and he answered that it was almost certainly more than a thousand and likely more than two thousand. Nobody knows how many casualties he inflicted that day firing over 12,000 rounds alone from his MG42 (he estimated this based on the amount of ammo boxes another soldier brought him) over a 9-hour period from 6:30am to 3:30pm (I believe this was the last or one of the last strongpoints to fall on Omaha), but I'm sure he was under a significant amount of strain from everything going on and seeing the amount of bodies lying on the beach in front of his position, so it probably seemed like more than 1,000 to him, when in fact it may have been somewhere in the hundreds (which I can easily believe given the available info). Regardless, he was doing his duty like the other soldiers on both sides that day and this weighed on his conscience for the rest of his life.
I remember being at Normandy in about 1999 and we did a tour of the entire beach front from Caen to Point du Hoc. We also toured a German cemetery which is some miles inland, behind a rest area and on low land. Inside the cemetery I read diaries of German soldiers (I can read German). One said, "we fired for 8 hours, they just kept coming, the barrels of our machine guns were melting so we had to switch them out." The tone was of desperation - as if he was saying I can't believe I have to do this but also there is no end to it.
Heinrich Severloh did not kill 1000, 2000 or 3000 (the claims varied with time) Americans on Omaha Beach on D-Day. From his position his arc of fire encompassed the Easy Red Sector of Omaha Beach, the landing spot of the 1st Infantry Division. The confirmed KIA number for the 1st Division on D-day was 86. The confirmed casualty count, killed wounded and missing was a little over 900. Even if the actual number of killed was double the number confirmed it was nowhere near 1000. Remember there were artillery and mortars registered on Easy Red and there were 6 other machine guns at WN62, the resistance nest where Severloh was stationed. For whatever reason Heinrich Severloh’s claims of thousands killed are grossly exaggerated.
@@derek_3054 So, what was that German doing in France? He had nothing to search there. He was an intruder, he occupied a foreign country, he supported a war of destruction.
Young German Nazi man. Don't forget the Nazi part, it's very important. It's funny how many people forget that the Germans were Nazis and what that means while trying to justify their actions.
A Nazi solider. You see, you seem to forget that the Germans were Nazis and what being a Nazi means while you sit there and try to justify their actions as Nazis.
While I find his estimate of the casualties he inflicted were grossly over-estimated, there is no doubt as to the carnage he caused on the beach that day. A competent soldier with a weapon as devastating as an MG42 would be capable of killing and wounding hundreds of men within a very short period of time.
-My grandfather operated the forerunner of the MG42 which was the MG34. Functionally it had the same performance but was replaced from 1942 by the MG42 due to the complexity of manufacture of the MG34. It's important to realize that the best marksmen were chosen to operate the MG34. The German squad had often gone to school together and who was a good shot was established in the annual inter village shooting competitions. Accurate sniping is a IQ loaded task. You have to pull the trigger as the site raises with ones heart beat and then pull the trigger so the bullet is discharged when the muzzle is lowering. He took that into account. -The story I got via my aunt and mother was that they were trained to fire in 3-4 round bursts. Each individual bullet was aimed. There was no spray and pray. -he was a quite, polite slender man. He had taught himself 4 language before the war: French, English, Esperanto and Russian because he wanted Europe to come together. A music instrument maker who assembled his own kit car in 1930s. -On the way through to Crimea (heading to Gorzny I assume) a Russian sniper hidden in a tree fired upon his squad an killed his friend. They were all school friends. Because he had never killed a man before he hesitated allowing the Russian to kill his friend.. -As a result he began to drill himself relentlessly in hand to hand combat and marksmanship. As result he received an iron cross 2nd class for hand to hand combat. He did;'t like it but said "he had green eyes and red hair and looked just like us" -I heard stories that he would bounce bullets using rocks and walls to get Russians behind cover. -He was not boastful or ashamed. He did not have PTSD despite loosing his eyesight. I only knew him for a year at 6 He often walked arm locked with an old comrade.
@@christophercook723 why do you think Gen Patten was assassinated? Yeah, pose the mistreatment of POWs, who are being raped, beaten, and slaughtered by Americans and British after the war was over. That violated every law related to the treatment of prisoners of war they wiped out nearly every German woman and child.
Correction, brother: The Allies, including us Americans, beat you. My grandmother's first husband was beaten and tortured to death by civilians when he had to bail out of his B-17 on the way out of Germany. Yet, we have forgiven your nation without reservation, and Germany is once again flourishing, and now we are Allies. Soldiers of the Wermacht, like your Grandfather, are respected, or at the very least understood, here. The SS will never be.
@@MgalacticableWhy do Americans always have to think in these ways? “We beat you hah!” Like, it’s not about beat or win. Every country lost that war. Every dead men was one too many.
To be honest the americans weren't "slaughtered" by the germans they were killed by their own senior officers who decided the DD tanks would be launched half way back to England.
Only a small proportion out of 1,000 of tanks sank, (mainly from one group who lost 27 of their 29 tanks - yes only these ones did launch too early but then the heavy sea side swell pushed them off course and perhaps lack of seamanship by trying to keep steering straight made them take on water) but most crew men survived, I understand. Sad
Or they could have just went to one of the beaches that wasnt defended. This was all by design to get their number of dead up. They knew how terrible of a look it was showing up years after stalin begged them to. They waited to see if the Russians were going to defeat the germans and once it was a certainty they showed up. Then put on this big spectacle like they saved the day in some fierce fight when the reality is the vast majority of landing craft faced little to no opposition. They knew if their death toll was in the triple or double digits it would be a bad look. Thats why they sent men with no cover straight into the machine gun nest.
@palemale2501 The tanks launched by the British and Canadians landed WITH the troops on Gold, Juno and Sword. They had mine clearing tanks, tanks equipped for climbing sea walls, tanks for traversing shingle beaches called 'Bobbins' and petard tanks used for cracking concrete bunkers. The fighting on those beaches was every bit as tough as Omaha but armour on the beach with the troops was key to the beaches being cleared within a few hours. The americans unfortunately have a record of not listening to advice from friends and refused the use of the vehicles and only used the DD tanks with reluctance. A lot of good men died through the intransigence of their commanders.
Dresden was one of the final critical railway junctions for the transport of Wermacht and SS troops in the final days of WWII. It was a military target. The numbers of casualties were inflated by Göring following the bombing. Kurt Vonnegut further inflated those numbers in "Slaughterhouse-Five." One civilian death is too many. Was it called for? Yes.
The following is a quote from a team of German scholars commissioned by the city of Dresden to estimate the true number of civilian casualities inflicted: "The commission, in this preliminary report, believes there were a maximum of 25,000 people who died during the February aerial attack." 25,000 is awful. It is not 100,000, nor 150,000, nor 300,000.
Im an American and i dont blame him nor do i think he's some monster. He was merely doing his duty. That being said, the mg42 has an extremely high rate of fire. Maybe one out of ten were hits. The one to two thousand kills/injuries he supposedly inflicted, are incredibly embellished and unrealistic. You have to also remember that he was under an awesome and incredible amount of stress. People also dont realize how difficult it is to fire for effect using an mg42, whilst a hailstorm of bullets and bombs, the likes of which he's probably never been on the receiving end of before, were being aimed at him. I'd say a realistic number would be fifty kills and maybe fifty to seventy five injuries inflicted, and im being extremely liberal with those estimations. Had he been so effective as to kill even a few hundred, he would have drew an unforeseeable and unforgiving amount of American fire.
It's easy to be brave when you're snuggled inside a bunker. The heroes were those men with the courage to come up that beach knowing they might not survive it.
When Bob Hope told of his War exploits, it was 3 against 1,000...He fought bravely, hand to hand Combat,... 3 against 1,000...."They were the toughest 3 guys we ever fought"
Ima trust that number lol I don't memby but it's prolly close to 1k bc from all the footage its kinda confirmed on easy red 62 was the last to fall on the later waves you can see mg42 bullets hitting the water from the direction of 62 and nothing els going on really I've heard that he was there at 62 for like 9 hrs too and ik a story from wn 72 I'd have ti confirm but from his story they had 3 mgs on that section and 1 was took out along with one of the 88s during the navel bombing bf the ramps even dropped I'd have tk look at the map but if it's on the other side it's prolly gonna be closer to 1000 between the 2 mgs allot died from the 88s and Mines too so its so hard to say but I can see it Dan Daley took out 200 mfs on his mf by himself and Jake mcnasty and 35 paratroopers took out a whole battalion of Germans in Normand of 700 35 with a few mgs took out 700
That's Still insane tho bc not everyone he directly shot at if you watch how they walked to shore all clusters and in a line the mg42 would go thru a body and hit the man or 2 behind him from what the guy at wn 72 said so that's how it was so many dead so fast
I worked for a man named Troie Webster in the 80s. I think I'm spelling his name right, it's an unusual first name, anyway Troie was on Omaha Beach and as soon as he hit the sand on the beach a bullet struck him in his upper chest and exited his lower back, and as he started falling forward, another bullet struck his upper back and exited his lower stomach. Most certainly that would have been a machine gun burst to hit him that fast. I'd say it's 99% sure this is the man that shot him. I have a lot of respect for Troie! I really respected the man, he was a farmer Texas cattle rancher and a good man, he was tough as hell! He had a twin brother named Loyd again I know I'm not spelling it right, but Loyd was very religious and I believe he stayed home and prayed for his brother and his brother made it home. Troie cursed like a sailor, he was very patient and good to work for! I have nothing but respect for the German either, he was doing his job, Troie was doing his. I just hope Humanity learns from our past, and we don't have more wars. At least most people are not falling for the current Wars.
I'm grateful for those who fought in these wars, even if wars are not going anywhere. These men proved the cost and downsides of using meatgrinder strategies, and the west learned from that. The Slavic military mindset in Russia-Ukraine-War is the opposite. There's an American soldier called Justin who fought with the Ukrainians before there was a separate unit for foreign fighters, and his entire squad was killed practically because of "Go knock on the front door and see what happens".
There were perhaps a thousand soldiers killed on Omaha beach. To credit Hein Severloh , who could cover perhaps an eighth of the 4 mile long beach, with all that, is bloody ridiculous.
This is completely exaggerated numbers, there were well over 90 machine gun nests trained on Omaha Beach and this guy is claiming nearly half the kills for the whole miles long beach with his one MG and rifle ? I call BS, a big load of BS
@@bradsanders407 "The beach defences at Omaha consisted of eight concrete bunkers containing 75 mm or greater artillery, 35 pillboxes, 18 anti-tank guns, six mortar pits, 35 Nebelwerfer (multi-barrel rocket launchers), 85 machine gun nests, 6 tank turrets and supporting infantry." 85 machine gun nests + whatever the 7700 german infantry is carrying around. Well over 90.
Not entirely. Most of those machine gun nests were empty of machine guns and the 7,700 men of the division were actually spread out over dozens of miles. There may have been less than 1000 Germans defending Omaha beach that day. Severloh operated only 1 of like 5 known MG 42’s on the beach that day.
@@lucas82 He fired thousands of rounds over several hours, most from a machine gun. He also said he deliberately fired his rifle at men jumping over the side. At the very least, he killed and wounded hundreds of men.
His estimate of 1,000 to 2,000 is a gross exaggeration. There were around 2,500 casualties that day and, there is no doubt, he was responsible for a large number of deaths. But to suggest that almost all the casualties on the beach that day were down to him is ridiculous.
Highly unlikely. The MG42 has a high rate of fire, and suppose that 1 in 10 bullets hit (which is VERY generous and most certainly not the case), he would have needed 10.000 rounds to kill 1000 Americans. Considering that an average MG team had about 1800 rounds, that would have meant a lot of trips to get extra ammo (and these defenders did not have that much ammo to begin with). For comparisson, a fully supplied Panther tank had 5000 machine gun rounds. I would be surprised if his kill score is closer to 100, if even that. Most probably artillery shares significant blame for the casulaties suffered.
Precisely what I was thinking as well. Then add onto that, him being on the recieving end of a hailstorm of bullets and bombs, while trying to fire for effect and having to reload constantly. I'd say a realistic number would be fifty kills and maybe seventy five injuries, and I'm being extremely liberal with those numbers. People dont realize how difficult it is to use what he was using that day, while constantly drawing direct fire from an enemy that just kept coming.
There were approximately 2500 Americans killed, wounded or missing on Omaha Beach on D-Day. If Severloh's claim were true, he would be responsible for 40% of these casualties. When pressed by a news reporter about the number of men he had killed, Severloh become rattled. he reporter picked the random number of 1000. which Serevloh desperately agreed with to end the interview. He would later be ridiculed and shamed by former Komrads, friends and family. He rued doing the interview the rest of his life.
The abhorrence of the overall NAZI ideology aside, actions just like that are entirely acceptable during war. Audy Murphy, portraying himself, was shown in his war bio pic, killing almost that many enemy combatents w that German machine gun he captured.
There isn't an exact head count, but there has never been a credible report of more than 800 killed in action on Omaha Beach. The National D-Day Memorial Necrology Project database has confirmed 759 deaths. No matter the exact count, he couldn't have been responsible for anywhere close to 1000 killed on his own. It is an impossibility.
WN62 is a definite clear advantage view of the entire beach and a perfect angle to see the entire circumference of anything on it I was able to be fortunate enough to walk along most of the beach on Omaha for the 80th anniversary of D-day and chose to take multiple still pics, and videos from my phone just overlooking WN62 for this reason. The Americans were lucky that day, the Germans, for whatever reason, did not employ more machine-gunner nest on this position, because the slaughter would have been far worse .
Well he did VERY well (1000 - 2000 casulties from a long way away, that he could only see through telescope, and he could see a guy he shot through the head with an MG42) because I think total casualties on Omaha were in the region of 3000? I think not.
It was. However he was shooting from a long way away and at that sort of range the spread pattern goes everywhere. He was not even close enough to even really see if he was hitting "targets" The story is total bull****. @@ziggypop79
Wether or not he is correct about the numbers he claims. In that poor mans mind it was thousands. I've never been to war but I know it's surreal and terrifying. It's raw carnage and enough to break anyone's heart and mind. He very well may have hit 1000 soldiers but he's probably closer to less that half that number for actual fatalities.
The beast of Omaha. Or the best of the worst, meaning he overperformed amongst the worst foreign SS units including former POWs offered a spot in the Heer.
set up on high ground with set fields of fire it is not far fetched to say hundreds up to a thousand could have been wiped from a machine gun position. troops had rush off transports, through mines, barbed wire, dragons teeth all exposed with no cover. we weren't there.
I believe that in war, it's hard to blame individual soldiers for doing their duty. While I understand that there are extremists, it's important to remember that in war, both sides are trying to harm each other. Each soldier has the right to defend or attack in such circumstances. Not saying its right just saying it happens.
Where do people get these numbers from? Around 770 died on Omaha beach. Hollywood made it seem like a slaughterhouse only the first wave and the second we’re savaged. It’s so blown up in people’s heads it’s insane
@@fasthracing Sherman DD, Duplex Drive, propeller driven, they floated by means of a collapsible canvas skirt. They were released too far out, in rough seas, many were swamped.
The US Navy were idiots and dropped off the tanks nearly a mile off the coast.The navy knew the flimzu floatation devices on the tanks would never work that far out.
A 1000 ? A little ambitious number..might want to revise that. The Allie’s has 2400 casualties on Omaha beach… might want to relook at this ridiculous claim
@@TexanInItaly No less than you. Americans invaded France in 1944 to make Eastern Europe safe for Communism. Otherwise they would have landed in Greece the year before.. Blacks were in segregated units n the American Army in 1944.
There is no meaning to words anymore, slaughter is the opposite of what happened here, words have meaning, and using those word wrongly destroy that meaning. This ain't worth watching before the title change.
British took heavy casualties at bunker Hill 1775 200 odd killed and 800 odd wounded Always a problem taking a Fortified position! Also americans at hamburger Hill vietnam!
It's amazing how little resistance the allied forces met that day, relatively speaking. Most soldiers landed on the beaches without resistance at all. The Germans really had a bad intelligence at the time.
@@dominicdavino252 That was one little part of the landing area. At the same time tens of thousands of men died on the Eastern front every day. Start reading your history book.
Some smart guys figured out how many people landed within range of his gun and it is impossible that he could have shot that many soldier. Urban myth!!!
The way the German bunkers were constructed, they were almost impossible neutralize from sea bombardment. Their guns fired down the beach to the left and right and they had cement wings guarding their firing positions.
A civilian cannot understand a soldier in the heat of a battle. This is a reason I pray for peace in the world. However “ 1000 to 2000 killed” by one gunner is a BS statement to get clicks on the video…
his gun would have melted long before he could do that,,sounds like BS to me even changing barrels would have delayed the results.Nobody even claimed that with the human wave assaults on the eastern front.I studied in Germany before going to Vietnam and most of their vets were reprobates and hated Americans they made up a lot of crap about Poor Adolf .how he was misunderstood.My Uncle died at Anzio and when they found that out they stopped giving me their twisted views . You can;t believe anything if he was a machine gunner as he said he wouldn't have survived ,That's what they go to knock out first,,.I have plenty of experience with that in combat, t
Opposing the Americans were 12,020 Germans on Omaha beach alone. I find it very hard to believe one German soldier is responsible for almost half of the total 2,400 American casualties. 34,000 Americans landed on a six mile stretch of beach. If what this video is saying is true, then the other German soldiers were sucking on their thumbs while this one guy did all the killing? I think either the creator of this video is just trying to get viewers with a catchy title, or the source he is getting this from is wrong.
@@ivanconnolly7332 Not all of he 2,400 casualties were deaths, so his kill total does seem grossly exaggerated. Still, it is sobering to stand at his position and imagine the carnage he inflicted.
Slaughtered...he fired onto the beach....one side attacks and fires, the other side fires back. Such is war....
Except he was a Nazi
Yes total BS double standard
In several hours, Severloh fired 12,000 cartridges with Mg42 and 400 with the carbine and later said: I felt sorry for the poor guys, but they wanted to kill me too.
That's why it's so hard to discuss European Wars, you have to honor both sides and should
@@outcast668Why would you honor the Germans at all when they committed GENOCIDE
@@outcast668That can be said about any war
Any Allied soldier in the same situation will do EXACTLY the same job.
All he was doing was carrying out duty as a soldier when their lines were attacked by the enemy!
On the 50th Anniversary of the D Day landing, STARS & STRIPES interviewed two German soldiers who were posted there. When asked how they could’ve committed such atrocities, they replied that the Allies were there to kill them. So it was “kill or be killed”.
Americans have done farrrr worse to women and children.
Except german soldiers were Nazis
@@user-rf5rj7ee2vas a Nazi, don't forget that, as a fucking Nazi
A gunner is a gunner , that is their job , they fire at targets , they do not relate their targets to be human beings , they fire at targets, this is the mentally they were taught, they can not see their targets as people , .....they are targets , .....this is what I was taught, every gunner in the military is taught the same , targets are targets , ..........it helps gunners sleep at night , .....but not always ,
Exactly he did nothing wrong, did his job as he had to during the war.
Still, nothing to show off about. He would have been lucky to live, too, seeing my mates being slaughtered like that l don't think l would be shaking his hand...oh no.
I remember in army basic and infantry school at Ft Benning, they had some plastic bayonet targets that were molded and painted to look like Russian soldiers.
These were Nazis, they absolutely knew targets were humans
@@rexoates4484When I was basic, they were called Ivan.
"the beast".....WTF are they talking about...a soldier doing his JOB
During WW1 mowing down the enemy with heavy machine guns was an almost daily occurence. During WW2 it bacame less common but still happened. Blaming the guy operating the machine gun is like blaming the guy who invented it in the first place. The enemy soldiers aren't coming up the beach to shake your hand. They are here to kill you unless you kill them first.
Nazis
It's not the obedient Soldiers, whom committed crimes. It's the Politicians, up till date !!!!
Well, that is true for the soldiers that fight other soldiers, but of course soldiers on all sides commit crimes as well (killing civilians or prisoners for example).
@@KatGlos Hello !!! You didn't really get my message :-)))) My message is : Without Corrupt "Politicians ", whom have Never sent their family to die, we would Not have Senless and Endless wars !!! Got it ?!? :-))))
@@eugene-hungaroserv1559 Ok yeah I do agree with that
He "slaughtered". ........ Allies "killed"...... you notice the difference????
Winners always write the history
Seems they basically mean the same thing. What would you prefer be said so i can update wiki?
He was fighting for Fascism the Allies was fighting for Democracy . Now Democracy is not perfect but for me it's a lot better than swearing an oath to Hitler. Who by the way had his soliders slaughter Jews and other undesirables in his sick mind. Would have been no Hitler without the German people.
Nazis, not Nazis. See the difference?
@@INFJ-ThaneTr no
War is hell.
It makes young men who don't know each other, and don't hate each other, try to kill each other because old people that hate each and won't kill each other nor settle their differences.
Except Nazis hated everyone who wasn't them, so there's that
@@INFJ-ThaneTr. Not true. Not all Germans were Nazis. Many people tried killing Hitler.
@@INFJ-ThaneTr They all were not Nazis any more than the Yanks were Democrats or Republicans. Just a bunch of teenagers, scared shitless and trying to figure out why they were there!
@@INFJ-ThaneTrexcept, the only ones who were Nazis were the ones in the actual Nazi party, are all Americans Republicans or Dems? NO, DITTO.
He could very well have been the man who shot my uncle there that day. RIP uncle Herbert.
Probably it is more correct to say that the "man" who caused it was a paralytic f.....t on wheels.
Wow powerful post
About 2500 troops were killed on Omaha that day….in total. It’s a bit far fetched to give 40% to one soldier.
So you think the Germans were lying?
I don't think so I think it was more like 4500 that day or 6000.😤
Not really. When your weapon fires 1100 per minute and 10002 of men are wading slowly in water directly into your fire. Very likely! Sad thing is, men on both sides died so politicians and rich people could get richer!
@@darrinfry2251 It wasn't, official statement by army was roughly 2000 (on omaha) THE MOST claimed by a random historian claimed MAYBE 3000-4000. But no factually not your mentioned numbers.
@@zylox_lacks_IQ Believe what you want to believe? But the ones that didn't survive on the island or the beach is the one you need to count for as well. Yes, you've been brainwashed and the state department in the pentagon tells you different.
My grandmother's brother was on the U.S.S. Emmons which got closer to the coast and opened fire on German's positions. George was killed on the Emmons off Okinawa.
We owe your great uncle so much. I want to say thank you to your grandmother and to your family. It takes a special kind of courage to run at the shooting and not away from. It’s families like yours that makes me so proud to be an American.
@@partickthompson1164 thanks
Every "Gold Star" mother in the US is owed more than any and all of us could possibly ever compensate her for her loss. For in essence together with their child, they physically, psychologically and spiritually gave a very precious part of themselves they can never get back in this life. A mother and child reunion will one day come to pass, but not in this sorrowful and wicked world. I know this to be because the Lord told us so! And because if it wasnt that way He would have told us. God Bless every "Blue Star" family and may The Almighty's divine grace and mercy find it's way to comfort, give peace and courage to all the Gold Star parents of those fallen warrior heroes. One day there will be no sorrow, no tears, there will be no pain or goodbyes! Death and misery will be things that have past away and became no more. For the love, mercy, joy, compassion and contentment of the Lord shall feel every heart, mind, soul and spirit. The glory and majesty of Almighty will be given praise from the birds of the sky and the fishes of the sea. All will be right, all will be peaceful, all will be kind, and all will be thankful! All will be childern of the one and only true living God!
He was not the sharpest tool in the shed to endup in this situation.
@@partickthompson1164 I don't think that he was very smart , otherwise he will not endup as foot solider cannon folder for politicians & bussiness
It was a question of survival....
The timing of this video being posted today is interesting, as I just finished reading Hein Severloh's "WN 62" memoirs earlier today. For those who haven't had the chance to read it, it's worth noting that Severloh indicated that he did not discuss the number of casualties he believed he inflicted until the 40th anniversary of D-Day when he was repeatedly pressed by an ABC news reporter to estimate the number of casualties, and the reporter asked whether it was more than a thousand and Severloh was apparently greatly affected by this question (and apparently a bit annoyed by the repeated questioning), and he answered that it was almost certainly more than a thousand and likely more than two thousand. Nobody knows how many casualties he inflicted that day firing over 12,000 rounds alone from his MG42 (he estimated this based on the amount of ammo boxes another soldier brought him) over a 9-hour period from 6:30am to 3:30pm (I believe this was the last or one of the last strongpoints to fall on Omaha), but I'm sure he was under a significant amount of strain from everything going on and seeing the amount of bodies lying on the beach in front of his position, so it probably seemed like more than 1,000 to him, when in fact it may have been somewhere in the hundreds (which I can easily believe given the available info). Regardless, he was doing his duty like the other soldiers on both sides that day and this weighed on his conscience for the rest of his life.
My grandfather was there! A PFC when he got on the beach, at end of day he was a sergeant because of all the causalities
I remember being at Normandy in about 1999 and we did a tour of the entire beach front from Caen to Point du Hoc. We also toured a German cemetery which is some miles inland, behind a rest area and on low land. Inside the cemetery I read diaries of German soldiers (I can read German). One said, "we fired for 8 hours, they just kept coming, the barrels of our machine guns were melting so we had to switch them out." The tone was of desperation - as if he was saying I can't believe I have to do this but also there is no end to it.
Just a grunt that didn't want to be there doing his job.
Heinrich Severloh did not kill 1000, 2000 or 3000 (the claims varied with time) Americans on Omaha Beach on D-Day. From his position his arc of fire encompassed the Easy Red Sector of Omaha Beach, the landing spot of the 1st Infantry Division. The confirmed KIA number for the 1st Division on D-day was 86. The confirmed casualty count, killed wounded and missing was a little over 900. Even if the actual number of killed was double the number confirmed it was nowhere near 1000. Remember there were artillery and mortars registered on Easy Red and there were 6 other machine guns at WN62, the resistance nest where Severloh was stationed. For whatever reason Heinrich Severloh’s claims of thousands killed are grossly exaggerated.
And Nazis
yep, americans never lost men in combat only in training accidents............
I used to date a girl when I was in the Army. Her grandad was German soldier at Normandy. He was just young German man doing his service.
That German had nothing to search in Normandy
@@KK-rg1wzyou’re completely missing the point
@@derek_3054 So, what was that German doing in France? He had nothing to search there. He was an intruder, he occupied a foreign country, he supported a war of destruction.
Young German Nazi man. Don't forget the Nazi part, it's very important. It's funny how many people forget that the Germans were Nazis and what that means while trying to justify their actions.
That is so true.
Just a soldier doing his job,war is nasty on wich ever side youre on
A Nazi solider.
You see, you seem to forget that the Germans were Nazis and what being a Nazi means while you sit there and try to justify their actions as Nazis.
While I find his estimate of the casualties he inflicted were grossly over-estimated, there is no doubt as to the carnage he caused on the beach that day. A competent soldier with a weapon as devastating as an MG42 would be capable of killing and wounding hundreds of men within a very short period of time.
-My grandfather operated the forerunner of the MG42 which was the MG34. Functionally it had the same performance but was replaced from 1942 by the MG42 due to the complexity of manufacture of the MG34. It's important to realize that the best marksmen were chosen to operate the MG34. The German squad had often gone to school together and who was a good shot was established in the annual inter village shooting competitions. Accurate sniping is a IQ loaded task. You have to pull the trigger as the site raises with ones heart beat and then pull the trigger so the bullet is discharged when the muzzle is lowering. He took that into account.
-The story I got via my aunt and mother was that they were trained to fire in 3-4 round bursts. Each individual bullet was aimed. There was no spray and pray.
-he was a quite, polite slender man. He had taught himself 4 language before the war: French, English, Esperanto and Russian because he wanted Europe to come together. A music instrument maker who assembled his own kit car in 1930s.
-On the way through to Crimea (heading to Gorzny I assume) a Russian sniper hidden in a tree fired upon his squad an killed his friend. They were all school friends. Because he had never killed a man before he hesitated allowing the Russian to kill his friend..
-As a result he began to drill himself relentlessly in hand to hand combat and marksmanship. As result he received an iron cross 2nd class for hand to hand combat. He did;'t like it but said "he had green eyes and red hair and looked just like us"
-I heard stories that he would bounce bullets using rocks and walls to get Russians behind cover.
-He was not boastful or ashamed. He did not have PTSD despite loosing his eyesight. I only knew him for a year at 6 He often walked arm locked with an old comrade.
How many Germans were slaughtered by Eisenhower, Roosevels and Churchill?
Far fewer than the number of Jews slaughtered by germans.
Every German who supported the cruel war Germany started
Nowhere near Enough!
@@KK-rg1wz you do not know history. The Germans were attacked in WWI as well.
@@christophercook723 why do you think Gen Patten was assassinated? Yeah, pose the mistreatment of POWs, who are being raped, beaten, and slaughtered by Americans and British after the war was over. That violated every law related to the treatment of prisoners of war they wiped out nearly every German woman and child.
Americans fought us for their own risk. Yes, my Granddad shoots back
Correction, brother: The Allies, including us Americans, beat you. My grandmother's first husband was beaten and tortured to death by civilians when he had to bail out of his B-17 on the way out of Germany. Yet, we have forgiven your nation without reservation, and Germany is once again flourishing, and now we are Allies.
Soldiers of the Wermacht, like your Grandfather, are respected, or at the very least understood, here. The SS will never be.
@@MgalacticableWhy do Americans always have to think in these ways? “We beat you hah!” Like, it’s not about beat or win. Every country lost that war. Every dead men was one too many.
To be honest the americans weren't "slaughtered" by the germans they were killed by their own senior officers who decided the DD tanks would be launched half way back to England.
You are correct the Captain of the ships with the tanks were cowards let them go way to soon.
Only a small proportion out of 1,000 of tanks sank, (mainly from one group who lost 27 of their 29 tanks - yes only these ones did launch too early but then the heavy sea side swell pushed them off course and perhaps lack of seamanship by trying to keep steering straight made them take on water) but most crew men survived, I understand. Sad
Or they could have just went to one of the beaches that wasnt defended. This was all by design to get their number of dead up. They knew how terrible of a look it was showing up years after stalin begged them to. They waited to see if the Russians were going to defeat the germans and once it was a certainty they showed up. Then put on this big spectacle like they saved the day in some fierce fight when the reality is the vast majority of landing craft faced little to no opposition. They knew if their death toll was in the triple or double digits it would be a bad look. Thats why they sent men with no cover straight into the machine gun nest.
@palemale2501 The tanks launched by the British and Canadians landed WITH the troops on Gold, Juno and Sword. They had mine clearing tanks, tanks equipped for climbing sea walls, tanks for traversing shingle beaches called 'Bobbins' and petard tanks used for cracking concrete bunkers. The fighting on those beaches was every bit as tough as Omaha but armour on the beach with the troops was key to the beaches being cleared within a few hours. The americans unfortunately have a record of not listening to advice from friends and refused the use of the vehicles and only used the DD tanks with reluctance.
A lot of good men died through the intransigence of their commanders.
@@bradsanders407 their tactics on these beach landings were strange indeed - I always wondered about why they applied very poor strategy. Mad even.
No more brother wars
''NEVER AGAIN SHALL ONE GENERATION OF VETERANS ABANDON ANOTHER''. Said By A Friend Of Mr. Sandy Harbutt.
Americans arent white.
1:18 That is Bernard Frerking, not Severloh.
Look what they did to Dresden that was uncalled for ....
You'll have to talk to Air Minister Harris about that.
War is war
No rules
Dresden was one of the final critical railway junctions for the transport of Wermacht and SS troops in the final days of WWII. It was a military target. The numbers of casualties were inflated by Göring following the bombing. Kurt Vonnegut further inflated those numbers in "Slaughterhouse-Five." One civilian death is too many. Was it called for? Yes.
The following is a quote from a team of German scholars commissioned by the city of Dresden to estimate the true number of civilian casualities inflicted: "The commission, in this preliminary report, believes there were a maximum of 25,000 people who died during the February aerial attack." 25,000 is awful. It is not 100,000, nor 150,000, nor 300,000.
Im an American and i dont blame him nor do i think he's some monster. He was merely doing his duty. That being said, the mg42 has an extremely high rate of fire. Maybe one out of ten were hits. The one to two thousand kills/injuries he supposedly inflicted, are incredibly embellished and unrealistic. You have to also remember that he was under an awesome and incredible amount of stress. People also dont realize how difficult it is to fire for effect using an mg42, whilst a hailstorm of bullets and bombs, the likes of which he's probably never been on the receiving end of before, were being aimed at him. I'd say a realistic number would be fifty kills and maybe fifty to seventy five injuries inflicted, and im being extremely liberal with those estimations. Had he been so effective as to kill even a few hundred, he would have drew an unforeseeable and unforgiving amount of American fire.
i used to be an American lol. I rock them Bolts now tho.
the question is why they landed on that beach, did they do not that machine guns were waiting for them
The bluffs had been heavily bombed prior to the invasion. But unfortunately, that did not slow the German defences down one bit.
It's easy to be brave when you're snuggled inside a bunker. The heroes were those men with the courage to come up that beach knowing they might not survive it.
When Bob Hope told of his War exploits, it was 3 against 1,000...He fought bravely, hand
to hand Combat,... 3 against 1,000...."They were the toughest 3 guys we ever fought"
Total casualties at Omaha beach was 2400, so the number may not be right.
Ima trust that number lol I don't memby but it's prolly close to 1k bc from all the footage its kinda confirmed on easy red 62 was the last to fall on the later waves you can see mg42 bullets hitting the water from the direction of 62 and nothing els going on really I've heard that he was there at 62 for like 9 hrs too and ik a story from wn 72 I'd have ti confirm but from his story they had 3 mgs on that section and 1 was took out along with one of the 88s during the navel bombing bf the ramps even dropped I'd have tk look at the map but if it's on the other side it's prolly gonna be closer to 1000 between the 2 mgs allot died from the 88s and Mines too so its so hard to say but I can see it Dan Daley took out 200 mfs on his mf by himself and Jake mcnasty and 35 paratroopers took out a whole battalion of Germans in Normand of 700 35 with a few mgs took out 700
That's Still insane tho bc not everyone he directly shot at if you watch how they walked to shore all clusters and in a line the mg42 would go thru a body and hit the man or 2 behind him from what the guy at wn 72 said so that's how it was so many dead so fast
Pretty sure that number was the first 8 hours of the invasion
Historians have predicted there was far more then 2400 gosh people are stupid and think they know everything
@@mattcat5668 "he would claim that he shot between 1000 and 2000 US Soldiers who landed on the beach." Notice on the beach.
Bullshit , He was a Soldier Defending his Country from an Invading Force ....
France was not his country. A soldier doing what he was trained for yes but again not his country.
France not his country.
Read your history bro ..they were in France
@@dominicdavino252 They were on their way to Germany. You have to fight them before they get there.
What awful memories that mere boy must have had . A farmer probably not wanting to go to war .May he RIP & all solider’s on ALL SIDES .
A job is a job . He did it well . Was he a murder ? I do not think so .
I worked for a man named Troie Webster in the 80s. I think I'm spelling his name right, it's an unusual first name, anyway Troie was on Omaha Beach and as soon as he hit the sand on the beach a bullet struck him in his upper chest and exited his lower back, and as he started falling forward, another bullet struck his upper back and exited his lower stomach. Most certainly that would have been a machine gun burst to hit him that fast. I'd say it's 99% sure this is the man that shot him. I have a lot of respect for Troie! I really respected the man, he was a farmer Texas cattle rancher and a good man, he was tough as hell! He had a twin brother named Loyd again I know I'm not spelling it right, but Loyd was very religious and I believe he stayed home and prayed for his brother and his brother made it home. Troie cursed like a sailor, he was very patient and good to work for! I have nothing but respect for the German either, he was doing his job, Troie was doing his. I just hope Humanity learns from our past, and we don't have more wars. At least most people are not falling for the current Wars.
I'm grateful for those who fought in these wars, even if wars are not going anywhere. These men proved the cost and downsides of using meatgrinder strategies, and the west learned from that.
The Slavic military mindset in Russia-Ukraine-War is the opposite. There's an American soldier called Justin who fought with the Ukrainians before there was a separate unit for foreign fighters, and his entire squad was killed practically because of "Go knock on the front door and see what happens".
But he was allowed to become an old man? Coward justice system
Übertreiben ist auch eine Fähigkeit...
Maybe he had a sore throat... for a ritterkreuz.
There were perhaps a thousand soldiers killed on Omaha beach. To credit Hein Severloh , who could cover perhaps an eighth of the 4 mile long beach, with all that, is bloody ridiculous.
This is completely exaggerated numbers, there were well over 90 machine gun nests trained on Omaha Beach and this guy is claiming nearly half the kills for the whole miles long beach with his one MG and rifle ?
I call BS, a big load of BS
Lol there wasnt 90 machine guns at Omaha
@@bradsanders407 "The beach defences at Omaha consisted of eight concrete bunkers containing 75 mm or greater artillery, 35 pillboxes, 18 anti-tank guns, six mortar pits, 35 Nebelwerfer (multi-barrel rocket launchers), 85 machine gun nests, 6 tank turrets and supporting infantry."
85 machine gun nests + whatever the 7700 german infantry is carrying around.
Well over 90.
Not entirely.
Most of those machine gun nests were empty of machine guns and the 7,700 men of the division were actually spread out over dozens of miles.
There may have been less than 1000 Germans defending Omaha beach that day.
Severloh operated only 1 of like 5 known MG 42’s on the beach that day.
@@sijeremy7558 lmao no, and the beach itself was several miles long, dum dum
1.000 Americans, 1 German gunner? Ridiculous!
I mean considering they only had 3 and one was taken out during bombardment, I'd say its very plausible.
@@bradsanders407 It's not even remotely plausible.
@@lucas82 He fired thousands of rounds over several hours, most from a machine gun. He also said he deliberately fired his rifle at men jumping over the side. At the very least, he killed and wounded hundreds of men.
0 w n e d
My dad was on Juno
A skirmish compared to the eastern front.
If the Airdales did their job right, he would’ve been the one that was killed
The bombers were afraid of the anti aircraft guns so rather than do the job they were assigned they dropped their bombs inland on farms and pastures.
His estimate of 1,000 to 2,000 is a gross exaggeration. There were around 2,500 casualties that day and, there is no doubt, he was responsible for a large number of deaths. But to suggest that almost all the casualties on the beach that day were down to him is ridiculous.
So they say, it's debatable.
You clowns don’t know what you’re talking about historians have said there was most likely far more then 2500
Exactly total clickbait
R.I.P. Unteroffizier Erich Lusch 1944
Highly unlikely. The MG42 has a high rate of fire, and suppose that 1 in 10 bullets hit (which is VERY generous and most certainly not the case), he would have needed 10.000 rounds to kill 1000 Americans. Considering that an average MG team had about 1800 rounds, that would have meant a lot of trips to get extra ammo (and these defenders did not have that much ammo to begin with). For comparisson, a fully supplied Panther tank had 5000 machine gun rounds. I would be surprised if his kill score is closer to 100, if even that. Most probably artillery shares significant blame for the casulaties suffered.
Precisely what I was thinking as well. Then add onto that, him being on the recieving end of a hailstorm of bullets and bombs, while trying to fire for effect and having to reload constantly. I'd say a realistic number would be fifty kills and maybe seventy five injuries, and I'm being extremely liberal with those numbers. People dont realize how difficult it is to use what he was using that day, while constantly drawing direct fire from an enemy that just kept coming.
Its now thought this number was exaggerated.
There were approximately 2500 Americans killed, wounded or missing on Omaha Beach on D-Day. If Severloh's claim were true, he would be responsible for 40% of these casualties. When pressed by a news reporter about the number of men he had killed, Severloh become rattled. he reporter picked the random number of 1000. which Serevloh desperately agreed with to end the interview. He would later be ridiculed and shamed by former Komrads, friends and family. He rued doing the interview the rest of his life.
He claimed to of killed 1000 to 2000. Total bull****.
The abhorrence of the overall NAZI ideology aside, actions just like that are entirely acceptable during war. Audy Murphy, portraying himself, was shown in his war bio pic, killing almost that many enemy combatents w that German machine gun he captured.
There isn't an exact head count, but there has never been a credible report of more than 800 killed in action on Omaha Beach. The National D-Day Memorial Necrology Project database has confirmed 759 deaths. No matter the exact count, he couldn't have been responsible for anywhere close to 1000 killed on his own. It is an impossibility.
Thats what you do in a war
Exactly moronic this guy 🤣
WN62 is a definite clear advantage view of the entire beach and a perfect angle to see the entire circumference of anything on it
I was able to be fortunate enough to walk along most of the beach on Omaha for the 80th anniversary of D-day and chose to take multiple
still pics, and videos from my phone just overlooking WN62 for this reason.
The Americans were lucky that day, the Germans, for whatever reason, did not employ more machine-gunner nest on this position,
because the slaughter would have been far worse .
Well he did VERY well (1000 - 2000 casulties from a long way away, that he could only see through telescope, and he could see a guy he shot through the head with an MG42) because I think total casualties on Omaha were in the region of 3000? I think not.
Then again an MG was a hell of a weapon.
It was. However he was shooting from a long way away and at that sort of range the spread pattern goes everywhere. He was not even close enough to even really see if he was hitting "targets" The story is total bull****. @@ziggypop79
2400 casualties.
So this guy with his MG42 caused nearly all of them it would seem.@@Dallas-us6xm
Wow, that superhuman could have driven back the whole American Army by himself, just given a few more bullets by high command!
There are no winners in war; we ALL lose!
Wether or not he is correct about the numbers he claims. In that poor mans mind it was thousands. I've never been to war but I know it's surreal and terrifying. It's raw carnage and enough to break anyone's heart and mind. He very well may have hit 1000 soldiers but he's probably closer to less that half that number for actual fatalities.
The beast of Omaha. Or the best of the worst, meaning he overperformed amongst the worst foreign SS units including former POWs offered a spot in the Heer.
set up on high ground with set fields of fire it is not far fetched to say hundreds up to a thousand could have been wiped from a machine gun position. troops had rush off transports, through mines, barbed wire, dragons teeth all exposed with no cover. we weren't there.
Sad. The Sherman tanks were available and could have been sent first saving thousands but were held back because they were considered non-expendable!
I believe that in war, it's hard to blame individual soldiers for doing their duty. While I understand that there are extremists, it's important to remember that in war, both sides are trying to harm each other. Each soldier has the right to defend or attack in such circumstances. Not saying its right just saying it happens.
A huge number of Allied soldiers stormed the coast. It’s just that the Americans had very poor leadership. Result? Heavy casualties. Nothing new.
Where do people get these numbers from? Around 770 died on Omaha beach. Hollywood made it seem like a slaughterhouse only the first wave and the second we’re savaged. It’s so blown up in people’s heads it’s insane
It was killing not a slaughtering. Why did they not have armoured shields?
They did on other beaches. The Americans had floating tanks for Omaha but they released them too far out to sea and they sank.
@@fasthracing Sherman DD, Duplex Drive, propeller driven, they floated by means of a collapsible canvas skirt. They were released too far out, in rough seas, many were swamped.
Yep@@derekwordley1837
The US Navy were idiots and dropped off the tanks nearly a mile off the coast.The navy knew the flimzu floatation devices on the tanks would never work that far out.
It's called war...
3:22 You said nest too fast , do it again and be consistent nestttt
At 3:51, that is Severloh.
Your first German photo is Lt Frierking, not Severloh.
A 1000 ? A little ambitious number..might want to revise that. The Allie’s has 2400 casualties on Omaha beach… might want to relook at this ridiculous claim
probably 100, not 1000
Many of the American troops onto Omaha Beach may have been Southerners and hated blacks no less than Germans hated Jews.
Are you delusional?
@@TexanInItaly No less than you. Americans invaded France in 1944 to make Eastern Europe safe for Communism. Otherwise they would have landed in Greece the year before.. Blacks were in segregated units n the American Army in 1944.
@@TexanInItaly The Americans landed in France in 1944 to make Eastern Europe safe for Communism. Otherwise, they would have landed in Greece in 1943.
Yeah, I didn't have to know this
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see who the brave ones were ...
There is no meaning to words anymore, slaughter is the opposite of what happened here, words have meaning, and using those word wrongly destroy that meaning. This ain't worth watching before the title change.
British took heavy casualties at bunker Hill 1775
200 odd killed and 800 odd wounded
Always a problem taking a
Fortified position!
Also americans at hamburger
Hill vietnam!
Based. Über-based, even.
It's amazing how little resistance the allied forces met that day, relatively speaking. Most soldiers landed on the beaches without resistance at all. The Germans really had a bad intelligence at the time.
You land there and ask yourself if there is little resistance when thousands are killed and wounded. Rediculous
@@dominicdavino252 That was one little part of the landing area. At the same time tens of thousands of men died on the Eastern front every day. Start reading your history book.
With a gun that shot 600 rounds a minute he probably killed several dozen at the very least.
Some smart guys figured out how many people landed within range of his gun and it is impossible that he could have shot that many soldier. Urban myth!!!
Just like Audi Murphey !
Why didnt they smoke the bunkers out with well placed shells?
Yepp, wondering that too!!!???
Well, they tried actually, but they aimed too far.
... cause all radio walky talky went wed and didn't work, so they coudn't tell the ships where to fire
The way the German bunkers were constructed, they were almost impossible neutralize from sea bombardment. Their guns fired down the beach to the left and right and they had cement wings guarding their firing positions.
@@katazack ... yes, and had gas and smok protection and ventilation systems. No way to smoke them out. Walls 5m thick
Just shows what a stuff up D day really was when, obviously, the attack of beach defences was entirely inadequate by any measure. WW1 lessons ignored.
A civilian cannot understand a soldier in the heat of a battle. This is a reason I pray for peace in the world. However “ 1000 to 2000 killed” by one gunner is a BS statement to get clicks on the video…
Air force and the ships failed to knock out the fortifications on the beach ..That's why the allies were sitting ducks
I thought that German soldier was Federick Zoller?
Dont you hate when theres 2 americas but some idiot makes title saying 'americans' without specifying if south or north americans....
What pillboxes on Omaha beach? There were none! I have visited the beach, seen the fortifications - no pillboxes whatsoever.
How many guys wished they rolled out of the boat a half mile from shore?
his gun would have melted long before he could do that,,sounds like BS to me even changing barrels would have delayed the results.Nobody even claimed that with the human wave assaults on the eastern front.I studied in Germany before going to Vietnam and most of their vets were reprobates and hated Americans
they made up a lot of crap about Poor Adolf .how he was misunderstood.My Uncle died at Anzio and when they found that out they stopped giving me their twisted views . You can;t believe anything if he was a machine gunner as he said he wouldn't have survived ,That's what they go to knock out first,,.I have plenty of experience with that in combat,
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Opposing the Americans were 12,020 Germans on Omaha beach alone. I find it very hard to believe one German soldier is responsible for almost half of the total 2,400 American casualties. 34,000 Americans landed on a six mile stretch of beach. If what this video is saying is true, then the other German soldiers were sucking on their thumbs while this one guy did all the killing? I think either the creator of this video is just trying to get viewers with a catchy title, or the source he is getting this from is wrong.
It’s an of war. Brutal sad it seems it is the same as the artillerist shooting from a distance.
I bet he survived and Joined NATO Forces .
Did he get German MOH ?
same is happening in Palastine even now... in our life time.
They should have prepped better . But the fog of wars
Does it says in this video if he was commemorated anyway? Because if he killed that many people he would be made a general
Never heard if him
Weaker people always trying to downplay what others do.
2500 did he shoot
2,100 Americans died on D day on Omaha, considering its 2 miles long why would half of these fatalities cluster to catch every bullet he fires.
About 2,400, Omaha is 6 miles long.
@@katazack I rest my case.
@@ivanconnolly7332 Not all of he 2,400 casualties were deaths, so his kill total does seem grossly exaggerated. Still, it is sobering to stand at his position and imagine the carnage he inflicted.
@@katazack The 2,000 were all fatalities.
Theres no way he killed that many.
It's ' Rommel ' pronounced as ' rah-mull '. It is not pronounced as ' ruh-mull ' as you pronounced it.
He needed a tank shell to the dome