Interesting fact. Loader isn't credited for hits. never was. He was just a same extremly retarded Goebbels bullshit as Wittmann ........ which somehow managed to destroy 70 tanks with 44 (only of which some 15 where AP's) rounds of ammo ... and then lead his platoon of heavy tanks into most pathetic trap and being destroyed by few inferior Shermans and low calibre AT guns.

A good source is needed for this story.

after he destroyed the T34 he climbed out, drank a full barrel of beer, jumped into a new tank - all alone - and captured Moscow

@@iRichardi just to be back in Berlin before 6 pm

Would like to see a source for that

.... And Lived to tell about it, to me just about ANYONE who survived the Eastern Front is a LEGEND...... talk about a "No Man's Land". SMH

I Completely Agree with Jason. I can never imagine the Hell your father has witnessed, and by God's Grace survived.

Jason, Actually, more Tiger tankers who served on both fronts thought Normandy was tougher, especially those in Knispel's battalion who experienced the allied aerial carpet bombing during Operation Goodwood. Richard von Rosen called it "hell". Tiger tankers on the Eastern Front had it easier. Better fields of view, not so much close up action, definitely fewer air threats etc.

@@lyndoncmp5751 "To me just about ANYONE who survived the Eastern Front is a Legend", "Anyone" means..... well, really.... EVERYONE, Russian's, German's, Italian's, Romanian's, etc, in every, and any activity, "Talk about a No Man's Land". Thank you for the info on the Tiger tankers, I do understand how the open steppe is conducive to tank warfare, but not always inviting when it comes to the skies, as towards the end when the Luftwaffe did not control them definitely from 44' on.

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Thank you.

The 88 was said to be 100% accurate at 1000 metres. Presumably in battle conditions with moving targets it wasn’t quite so but still it’s a remarkable statistic. The British Firefly had a remarkable 17 pounder cannon but this had accuracy issues.

Longest Tiger kill I know of was 3,900 metres in I think July 1944 near Brody on the Eastern Front. A Tiger I of Abteilung 506. Whether true or not, who knows. The 2nd New Zealand Division cited a Tiger I knocking out one of their Shermans at 3,000 yards near Florence, Italy in September 1944.

Granted. But WW2 was the tank war and in a target rich environment.

And was never awarded the Knight's Cross because he was not, "a good nazi."

​@@seancooney297all modern wars are tank wars

American tanks did to my knowledge

All US Tanks during WWII had some sort of Gun Stabilization. These were single-plane elevations, I think the M3-M4 105's did not as it was basically a Howitzer gun. In order to use this single-plane stabilizer, the tank had to remain at a low speed, probably 10mph or so. I don't believe the Lend Lease vehicles were equipped with the gyroscopic stabilizer because of the training needed to use it and the expense. So Soviet and UK-Commonwealth tanks did not use them.

@@JuergenGDB The US often times sent the older stuff as lend lease. Isntead of their best halftracks and armoed cars tehy sent models like the m3 instead of the m4 while tanks would see rapid creations like the grant which was replaced for the british by the sherman

@@thirstyserpent1079 Yes, the Sherman tank had it.

Otto Carius said it wasn't necessary so never bothered to even try.

And yet allied aircraft only took out about 5%-7% of German armour. Notoriously inaccurate.

Exactly after weather conditions improved over Bastogne. Air force squadrons had a victorous field day over the Panzer tanks. Not mention severe fuel shortages

On 10 April 2013, Czech authorities said that Knispel's remains were found with 15 other German soldiers behind a church wall in Vrbovec, identified by his dog tags.On 12 November 2014, the German War Graves Commission reburied his remains at the Central Brno military cemetery in Brno.

Glad you like it!

What a nice name !! Congrats

Yes. Will surely do.

He died in France.. End of the story.

@@Nitroat-xo4tj czechia.

He died just before the end of the war

​@@Nitroat-xo4tjnope he died in Czechoslovakia

Thanks for watching

The long 75 on the panther had a higher muzzle velocity and flatter trajectory. The 88 was a scary gun but the long 75 was a better tank gun in most regards. The ammo took up less space and it’s penetration was equal or better than the 88 in lots of cases.

@@chrisg2739 That's exactly what Otto said.

@@captjim007 you read the book “tigers in the mud”? It’s a good book. Got it on audible.

@Will Rose I will try to find that one

@@chrisg2739 That's correct for the 88 mounted on the Tiger 1. The KwK 43 88mm L71 used on the Tiger 2 and Jagdpanther was a much scarier proposition and had slightly higher muzzle velocity than the KwK 42 75mm L70 used on the Panther.

Wittmann did it on both fronts though, including in Normandy which was tougher for tanks. Knispel didn't achieve anything of note in Normandy.

@@lyndoncmp5751 He got the fame, tough...

Hopefully they raise one in his honor

​@lyndoncmp5of note he survived 751

Also the soviets launched an offensive in the north forcing that arm of the german attack to pull out and retreat

There are plenty that disagree with you. The high command panicked and the battle could have been won.

The Soviets had key details about Operation Citadel in advance of the attack because Bletchley Park had cracked the Ultra code.

Not being a nazi but doing Nazi work makes him as bad.

He stole w0mens knickers?

I would be not so sure about that, Its a good fact that Knispel after the war didnt was a fan of interviewers and journalists because he knew they would mess up with his stories to favour the occupants which runs the media in post war Germany. Everything we actually rly know about this man is from stories told from near friends of him which the real interviews showed that they praised him and described as a calm guy which appreciated friendship and honesty, took the role of the helping and protecting big brother, and that he was proud to serve for his country. That part that he stole from others came first up when he and his comrade where all dead. There is even an incident known that he punched an officer k.o. Many say today that was because that the officer didnt wanted to recommend him because it was known that he didnt share the ideology or similar, which isnt true. The real reason why he did that was because that officer insultet the crews driver for his in oil and dirt muddy uniform, didnt realizing they came back directly from battle. Proving the "big brother" figure as described from his near comrades.

I read some of those stories too. I can't verify the good or bad stories, but the sum of the man seems to be that he was a good guy who had an amazing gift. I wish he and many others had lived thru the war to tell us themselves.

@@karstenseterbakken3617 There wasn't a Knispel after the war, he was killed before the war ended!

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The panzer 3 were removed from all Tiger companies in April 1943, before the Kursk battle.

@@daveybyrden3936 are you certain because panzer 3 wasnt took out of frontline roles until after kursk. The pz3L model had the side skirts just like the pz4

@@daveybyrden3936 you may be right!

@@chadrowe8452 According to "Trail of the Tigers" by Ron Klages, new Tigers to replace the Panzer III were issued in April and May 1943. We know that they replaced the Panzer III because we can see the tanks being renumbered at that time, in photos of several affected Tiger units, and the numbering scheme has no place for Panzer III within the Tiger platoons.

Germany needs to give him the highest ranking medal. Doesn’t matter if he served the nazis

Nearly everything in the film is fiction invented by Franz Kurowski who simply made up stories to promote his attempts to rehabilitate the SS.

Thank you!

The Befehlswagen/command version of the Tiger had actually a different intercom system with an headset for every crewman.

@@heinerheise703 That is true. But the video clips here don't show a Befehlswagen. e.g. in the same image, at 10:14, you can see a Kasten 5c junction box beside the escape hatch, but a Befehlswagen would also have a round power socket below it for the power cable of the turret radio set. Or look at 02:59, which appears to be from the same filming session. There is an ammunition bin in the sponson by the driver. Befehlstigers didn't have that.

0:16 is a genuine wartime Tiger interior clip. 1:02 is a wartime clip but is not a Tiger. 3:25 repeats 0:16 5:25 is a wartime clip but is not a Tiger. 10:29 repeats 1:02 All the other internal clips appear to be reenactors inside Bovington Museum's Tiger "131".

Story of couple of StuG aces are covered in this channel. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kKuVZdZmp86cdqc.html

@@FactBytes Thank you! I really enjoyed that video.

I think Wittman started off in stuhgs

Because Wittmann did it on both frontdt, including Normandy whereas Knispel didn't, even though he was in Normandy too.

Goran Knispel became a commander in 1944 though. He commanded a King Tiger.

You are correct. The outcome was much closer than the mainstream historians would like you to believe.

I have to make one correction regarding the often incorrectly stated "poor" cross country performance of the Tiger. The Tiger runs on the Schachtellaufwerk with overlapping road wheels, which is a huge mess regarding maintenance effort, but on the other side the huge number of roadwheels reduced the ground pressure (kg/cm²) insanely - it was even lower than T-34's!

@@heinerheise703 The British tested a tiger 1 and found the vehicle to have very poor performance in wet soil, muddy conditions. Infact when doing this testing they found the transmission and engine failures that were the Achilles heal of such heavy tanks. The Russians also examined captured tigers and found weaknesses they could exploit.! There are a number of reports of tigers being bogged and having to be abandoned in and around Leningrad and in other theatres of operation . Due to the swampy boggy marsh lands arround Leningrad the tigers were limited in their movement to the firmer ground and formed roads leading them to be taken out by artillary. Due to its weight which was also a factor for the 45 tonne Panther tank the German bridging equipment could only take a 30 tonnes maximum vehicle load. During the retreat from Normandy, the allied airforces took out the bridges across the Seine River, and the surviving german tanks in many cases were abandoned as there was no means to get them accross. During the battle of the Bulge the US army engineers had the intelligence to blow up any bridges in the path of the German armour. So the tiger1'S and the even heavier tiger 2'S and other german armour were rendered ineffective as they could not cross the waterways. Even though the tiger could wade across firm riverbed crossings this was impossible in the winter conditions with ice and snow. They eventually were forced to detour to find intact river crossing bridges and eventually ran out of fuel and were then immobile and abandoned by their crews. So the adage used was that the tiger killed itself was perfectly apt in many situations. The German tank crews feared greatly the allies ability of antitank artillary to destroy their tanks and placed a higher priority in taking out antitank artillary if they could, as this was a great threat to them. The tiger tank had many innovations and a good antitank gun but the allies found ways of disabling it with mines and other weaponry and it could be delt with when encountered. The sad truth is the tiger tank was intended to be a break through tank but was rarely used in its intended role as by the time it was in sufficient numbers the German forces were in retreat on all fronts.

So, do not declare war on the U.S.A. , while fighting the Soviet Union at the same time. This would have given the Germans 2 years to test the Tiger under carefully-controlled conditions; and rectify most of the flaws; before mass -production. In those two years on the Eastern Front; the Germans could have kept the Red Army at bay by emphasizing anti-tank guns for their infantry divisions while staying on the strategic defensive. This would have enabled the flaws in the Panther and Tiger tanks to be largely solved. Adequate field testing before production.

@@robertleache3450 The initial promoter of Blitzkrieg General Hinze Guderian, when things were looking bad on the eastern front, suggested seriously using defensive measures utilising antitank guns in defensive screens against Soviet armour. Hitler refused to even continence the suggestion, called Guderian a defeatist and relived him of his position i.e gave him the sack. Unfortunately the tiger 1 was only a stop gap measure for a breakthrough tank and was planned to have a short production period until the tiger 2 was developed and placed into production. Overall the interference in tank design and production by Hitler ensured that there was near anywhere enough of the Tigers produced and they started losing them in action when they were first delivered and employed on the fronts. Unfortunately the Nazis were not good economic managers and their foreign trade ties arround the world very poor, which lead to shortages of critical raw materials to wage war, and the British shipping trade embargo which was instituted on day one of the war slowly strangled the German wartime economy. So in truth the war was critically lost at sea, and through poor decisions. Poor decisions were made by both sides but in the end the German tally was far greater and resulted in complete defeat.

Heinz Guderian was also against the large scale Offensives in 1942 and 1943. With regards to Operation Blau 1942, he said: "We should be building up our armaments (not launching any large scale attacks)". I believe the Germans could have remained largely on the defensive in Russia in 1942, 1943 and 1944. The exceptions being: take Leningrad and Sevastopol in 1942. Murmansk and Archangel in 1943; and a slow, grinding advance along the Black Sea Coast. The main front would have stayed on the defensive and the line shortened by giving up the Demansk and Rhez salient. This would have given the Germans, Time to build up their armaments, mobilize their economy on a full war-footing; and develop the agricultural assets of the Ugraine; and the mineral deposits of the Donbass. No large scale offensive until 1945: with the aim of taking the oil-fields of Maikop and Grozny (not taking Stalingrad in 1945. All of this is predicated on the Germans Not declaring war on the U.S.A. A few more Japanese victories in the Pacific, and Roosevelt would not have dared to go to war with Germany; as American public opinion was largely against the Japanese and not the Germans. Hitler dug his grave when declaring war against the U.S.A. , at the end of 1941-and it need not have been that way if he had played his cards wisely.

Well trained Tiger tankers didn't encounter many flaws. The flaws are over exaggerate by modern armchair critics. In 1944 the Tiger had a 70-80% overall operational average. Even Otto Carius said a well trained Tiger driver could reduce technical issues by 90% and that none of his Tigers ever broke down in combat, only on long road marches when they were over exerted. Richard von Rosen said you learned to live with any flaws and that the benefits far outweighed them. Id rather listen to those who actually served in the Tigers and the operational stats than modern armchair critics.

A gallon of gas for every 1/2 mile is a flaw, especially when your motherland is not a petrol producer. Breaking down on long marches is still breaking down. It's a well known fact that German tanks were not easy to repair in the field. The tiger was a great tank but not without its flaws. Most tankers loved their machines and called them home, I doubt many would bad mouth them as they were alive to tell their tales.

They were the best fighter by far, but no. Wrong cause.

Still the German casualties were 200,000 while the Soviet casualties were 860,000 during the battle of Kursk

@@tiagomonteiro130 That is about the same ratio as anywhere on the eastern front. Russia simply had enough manpower to win a war of attrition.

Filthy propaganda, it was the Polish who found out about the enigma and it was them who cracked it....the Brits ware useless as usually, good for printing gold for their proxy wars only :P

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And now we are down to 60-70 million germans, in austria and germany combined.

@@nein236 And how many are real Germans?

@@usnchief1339 as i said, worldwide probably 60. 90 years ago, that number was over 100 million.

​@@usnchief1339 lol. What the hell is a real German? Thats like saying whats a real American-

You can respect his warrior spirit. I'm sure he didn't want to be in all of those battles.

All are guilty. All fall short of the glory of God. Even Knispel, even me, even you.

All facts.

Hitler called the OFFENSIVE off before the Soviets counter attacked.

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