Rare film from the "German war files" pack Uploaded only for research and informational purposes only. legal: I do not own any right on this film, nor I will keep it public if any copyright claim will be raised.
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@andrewstrongman3055 жыл бұрын
This is without doubt the best documentary about German armoured cars and half-tracks ever produced.
@Smuri4 жыл бұрын
andrew strongman do you know about another one?
@leosypher99933 жыл бұрын
Yeah, i havent found anything to top it yet, and it's been a few years
@electronicfarts51052 жыл бұрын
Nothing comes close this. Nothing ever will. These documentaries were made in the 1970's, 80's. Long before Internet misinformation and unqualified people giving their take on WW2 with an education of a potato.
@aliasunknown7476 Жыл бұрын
No doubt.
@johnnyzippo71097 ай бұрын
Agreed
@miridian20129 жыл бұрын
@HistoryChannel..... Plz take note ..... This is what an actual ww2 documentary looks like .....
@discoverynorthcarolina98245 жыл бұрын
miridian2012 agree
@TommygunNG5 жыл бұрын
But where's Chumley???
@darthjarjar53095 жыл бұрын
miridian2012 "History Channel" is busy making trashy "reality" tv shows.
@neganrex56935 жыл бұрын
Sorry the history channel has went the way of socialist low IQ MTV. No history no music and few viewers.
@TommygunNG5 жыл бұрын
@@neganrex5693 Precisely. I've thought of the MTV comparison before, that niche programming has limited audience and can't hold people for long periods at a stretch. Maybe both were doomed as mainstream cable channels.
@ocm4r12 жыл бұрын
The "German War File" series are really good and well researched without forcing a moral opinion on the viewer.
@roystonszweda15859 жыл бұрын
At last a TV doc that actually refers to the footage on screen rather than just using it for eye candy.
@trueKENTUCKY Жыл бұрын
Did you just call Nazi stuff Eye Candy 😅
@PpAirO510 ай бұрын
@@trueKENTUCKY.. Just because it's nazi and/or German doesn't mean it can't be pretty, nice, cool etc.
@blend436 жыл бұрын
Excellent footage of the 88mm being brought into action, 44:50 onwards. You can get a great look at most of the support equipment - for all you modelers looking for references!
@2serveand2protect9 жыл бұрын
AWESOME documentary! Usually people tend to "concentrate" on tanks or tank-destroyers, but forget that without proper fast "scout" vehicles, a "Panzerdivision" was virtually blind... Some of those vehicles became legendary, no matter they were suposed to "engage only forces of similar strenght", as they say at the 7th minute, like that "PUMA", that was very probably the BEST vehicle of its type of the whole war, and was used even after the war by many countries of the "Ally"-coalition (...France in first place, if I'm not much mistaken...). Some of the best German tankers and top "Panzer-aces" were sort of ..."brought up" and trained in scout units afterall (like - if I remember well - Wittman). BIG THANKS FOR UPLOADING! Have a nice day everybody.
@ands6607 Жыл бұрын
It's not they forget it's just some people are very part time WW2 people and they concentrate on the main topics which is fine and understandable. 😅
@strilight11 жыл бұрын
Dear Military Channel- THIS is a documentary.
@MyFabian949 жыл бұрын
This is probably the best Documentary series of WWII.
@thomascurry39304 жыл бұрын
No! Battle Of The Bulge
@Booozy30504 жыл бұрын
As a kid when I saw pictures of the puma I thought it couldn't be a WW2 vehicle, it looked to futuristic. Still one of my favorite WW2 designs.
@gastankerdriver9 жыл бұрын
My favorite scene (29.50) is the German Shepard riding shotgun in the halftrack.
@cgod2416 жыл бұрын
yup saw that one. very col
@irvan36mm6 жыл бұрын
He was actually the vehicle commander
@soilhands78535 жыл бұрын
the german shepard was like HELL YEA!
@kevinpride65434 жыл бұрын
Panzer Grenadier Blitzhound !
@wernerheisenberg714 жыл бұрын
Germans even tried to make the speak and use them as soldiers... Very interesting topic if you look deeper into it
@DesolationAngel10110 жыл бұрын
Damn the Germans had some sexy war machines!
@howardfortyfive96767 жыл бұрын
Spoken like a *TRUE MOTORHEAD.*
@marze725 жыл бұрын
Didn't get them far though! Literally speaking no oil meant no movement.
@mrmaje15 жыл бұрын
Yes...but really shockingly shite music!
@darthjarjar53095 жыл бұрын
DesolationAngel101 too bad their leaders (nazis) were evil animals.
@darthjarjar53095 жыл бұрын
wood1155 lol, Italians were not even ready for war during WW2, they got their .sses kicked quickly in Africa, they were probably the weakest Axis country lol.
@tannerjones96879 ай бұрын
Love the Schachtellaufwerk (overlapped interleaved) track design.
@synthilein12 жыл бұрын
I think so too. This video is just about engineering, so you shouldn't distract from this to policy and the ethical side.
@japhethwar11 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading these. Excellent documentaries with amazing footage.
@pommel479 жыл бұрын
Very interesting review of important vehicles that are mostly overshadowed by Tanks.
@Desertduleler_887 жыл бұрын
Great footage, we'll never see the likes of these vehicles again.
@neganrex56935 жыл бұрын
You will never see it on the history channel anymore. They only have dumb shit like MTV.
@djtrainspotter5 жыл бұрын
These war file docs are very good i must say. Most informative and so much unseen footage, nice.
@tedhenkle3 жыл бұрын
I've seen all sorts of war documentaries, but never saw any of the footage utilized in this video. Very informative!
@cf80to0112 жыл бұрын
I have watched a lot of WW2 documentaries and have never seen a series that goes as in depth and the video actually matches the veh/weapon they are discussing.
@BULLOCK19739 жыл бұрын
great docu, only problem is when the music starts. its difficult to here the speaker. thanks.
@TommygunNG5 жыл бұрын
It confuses copyrighted material detection.
@alexrennison80704 жыл бұрын
Lee T. Walker what copyrighted material? Archive footage in the public domain?
@tonyromano62203 жыл бұрын
BULLOCK what?
@tonyromano62203 жыл бұрын
Crawled Out Of Plato's Cave dick
@tonyromano62203 жыл бұрын
Crawled Out Of Plato's Cave insulting to dicks.....
@blaugot9 жыл бұрын
Germany made some bad ass vehicles...
@Patton30039 жыл бұрын
Alex Sturm maybe, but they couldn't keep up with the Allied military production machine!!
@andreipaul9689 жыл бұрын
Patton3003 Well, you said it correctly. Allies= URSS +UK+ USA; of course they couldn't fight alone against 3 countries.
@Patton30039 жыл бұрын
andrei paul then why plunge the country in an unwindable war?
@Patton30039 жыл бұрын
andrei paul Germany might have won if they hadn't declared war on the US on December the 10th 1941! Once they awoken the might of the US industrial military potential the war was lost. For Germany and Japan!
@Cheburashka2079 жыл бұрын
Patton3003 And yet your US waited untill 44 to actually help in war. So shut it.Russia carried the war.
@jessemilstead8106 ай бұрын
Absolutely love these German war files docs Do wish the music wasn’t louder then the speaker
@Ralphieboy6 жыл бұрын
They describe vehicles being produced in the hundreds while allies were turning out vehicles by the thousands or tens of thousands
@sku3295611 жыл бұрын
My point is Germany could not produce enough good heavy semi heavy trucks with a 2 front war.The Red Army,with their logistical support was provided by hundreds of thousands of U.S.-made trucks. Indeed by 1945 nearly two-thirds of the truck strength of the Red Army was U.S.-built. Trucks such as the Dodge 3/4 ton and Studebaker 2½ ton, were easily the best trucks available in their class on either side on the Eastern Front. The USA simply put was able to supply all its allies with trucks.
@ManilaJohn0111 жыл бұрын
I couldn't agree more. I have the whole series, and have only picked up one error in the whole thing. This series and the "Battlefield" series are among the best available.
@Treetop6411 жыл бұрын
Indeed. Objective documentaries are a rarity these days.
@alcarr10549 жыл бұрын
Great document, the Wermacht had so many variations it´s a vast inventory some really great, like the Blitz or the puma
@MTXwhites8 жыл бұрын
Guess it was a logistic nightmare tough
@alcarr10548 жыл бұрын
+MTXwhites for sure a real nightmare...
@johnnyzippo71097 ай бұрын
This doc is very good , maybe one of the best on this specific topic .
@alanmoffat44542 жыл бұрын
NICE PICTURES NOY OFTEN SEEN 👌 GOOD FULL DOCUMENTARY ON WHAT WAS PRODUCED .
@user-bn2lf3mx3e8 ай бұрын
I arrived at this video due to my fascination with the Kettenkrad. I was so glad to see the coverage and amazing video provided in this documentary. Thanks for this film.
@magnusmcgraw3 жыл бұрын
y The so-called "Blitzkrieg" of the German Wehrmacht was carried out mainly by the Pz.I and Pz. II combat vehicles in Poland and France . During the restructuring in 1940/41, the vehicle was no longer used as a battle tank, but as a reconnaissance tank. Due to the simultaneous reduction, there were 65 Type II tanks with a target stock of 200 tanks per division. In 1942, with a target stock of 164 tanks in total, only 28 Panzer II were planned. The following year the type was finally retired. Since the German armaments industry did not succeed in providing the Wehrmacht with the intended standard tanks of the types Panzer III and Panzer IV in significant numbers until the outbreak of the Second World War, the Panzer II with almost 1,100 were operational in the first two years of the war Vehicles the backbone of the German tank weapon. At the beginning of the western campaign, the divisions deployed there had 955 Panzer II at their disposal. At the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union in June 1941 there were just under 1200 vehicles; in May of the following year this number fell to 860 vehicles. [1] The Panzer II bore the brunt of the fighting in Poland and France and it became apparent relatively quickly that, like its predecessor, it was too weakly armed and armored and could only be viewed as a makeshift tank. It only offered advantages in street fighting because of its small size. Panzer II were also used to fight partisans. The total losses can be quantified as follows: 1939: 83 pieces 1940: 240 pieces 1941: 460 pieces By April 1942 a total of 921 Panzer IIs had been recorded as total losses.
@ThePrader2 жыл бұрын
I know that there are many out there that love the half-track. But they never had to drive one. Realize that they are powered by a track that has no ability to steer the machine. Both tracks are either in "forward" or "reverse', all steering is done by the 2 front wheels. Now plop that machine into mud, ice or deep snow. You might be able to go forward or back OK, but turning? Not so much.
@michaelbrogan7537 Жыл бұрын
During a hurricane in South Carolina a fire department used a half-track to help rescue people. My brother and I helped. It wasn't really that bad to ride in. Rough ride though, as the rear end basically has no suspension to speak to of. Was a seriously interesting experience
@ShamanKish5 жыл бұрын
I like this series because they are not repeating for the thousandth time same and same clips.
@HARRYMILT9 жыл бұрын
An EXCELLENT video. WEll researched and a comprehensive coverage of the German vehicles. Don't worry about the negative comments:as some viewers aren't very bright.
@rickvelocity55789 жыл бұрын
Harry Johnson And there just dumb ass kids, know nothings.
@elrjames77997 жыл бұрын
+Rick Velocity: that should read they're (they are), not there.
@sam84046 жыл бұрын
chris hackney I mean, if he's going to call people "dumb ass kids who don't know anything" he should probably use correct grammar. Otherwise he looks like a dumb ass kid who doesn't know anything
@Thebigbun6 жыл бұрын
sam8404 could be from another country and doesn’t have a perfect grasp of the English language, doesn’t mean they are a dumb ass. It’s the internet, you never know who someone is or where they come from.
@neganrex56935 жыл бұрын
@@Thebigbun They could be from Mars. I wounder if they are full of dumb asses there like we have here..
@jonbocz9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading, but I wish the people who made the video had listened to it so they would know that the music is louder than the narrator. There are some people in the house that don't want to listen to the music while I'm trying to make out what the guy is mumbling about.
@MrSpecter0579 жыл бұрын
I found that ear phones help. I agree, the music is very distracting and annoying.
@WildBillCox136 жыл бұрын
It's just the intro and outro. There's little music inside the vid.
@nonamesplease62884 жыл бұрын
I've built a few models of German halftracks because they are ridiculous. Great documentary. These are often overlooked in favor of the wunderwaffels.
@justusP910110 ай бұрын
How dare you insult sdk.frz 251
@rexterrocks11 жыл бұрын
Its nothing to do with the loss of scientists. They had plenty of the greatest thinkers in Germany during the war.Heisenberg was one of the greatest. German scientists Hahn and Strassman discovered nuclear fission in 1939 but it wasnt seen as a war winning priority. The fact that over a 100,000 people were needed to make the American bombs at a cost of over 30 Billion dollars it was never going to happen.Germany didn't have the manpower or the uranium.
@ForlanceAbice11 жыл бұрын
Both are equally formidable, and are not to be underestimated. Those who do are left in complete defeat.
@pistonar7 жыл бұрын
Just a bit of editing to reduce the level of the background music would improve this. Otherwise, extremely interesting. I love seeing little bits of esoterica that you're not normally aware of; the air dropped fuel canisters to resupply the forward recon units was fantastic. I've never seen that before.
@cj29211 жыл бұрын
No, he was saying how Ford and other American manufacturers built mules similar in design to the German half track trucks.
@PaulaTSGirl7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting these different WW 2 Videos. WW2 KZfaq buff here!
@DANIEL666YUSUPOV_KAZANOVA Жыл бұрын
Great documentary thanks for posting
@572Btriode2 жыл бұрын
I think the narrator's script may lead to confusion with the weight designations of the half-tracks, which are really 3/4 track anyway, the various ton designations do not refer to the vehicle weight at all but the weight of the intended maximum towed load. There seemed to be no mention either that all the half-tracks also had a simple peg and slot arrangement from the steering box that progressively applied track brakes after a relatively small angle of the steering wheel.
@nigelanderson636711 жыл бұрын
even Odder, Maxim's Machine Gun was used by Every side in WW1, he made a fortune
@salvatorepitea58622 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how futuristic some of these vehicles look , The sloped armor is a blueprint for pretty much all subsequent armoured vehicles
@andrewrobertson38947 жыл бұрын
In my last Panzer General II campaign, two Sd.Kfz. 234 platoon's survived years of combat and were easily worth their weight in gold.
@msgfrmdaactionman3000 Жыл бұрын
Great video, thanks for posting it! I wish they had done one on Allied arms too.
@warrenmalpas9875 Жыл бұрын
This great series will be even greater, when it is colourised!!
@ulrichkalber90395 жыл бұрын
the tonnage given for the unarmored halftracks is NOT their weight. This vehicles were classified by the Tonnage they could pull. Hence the 18ton ZKW(Zugkraftwagen/motorized Vehicle for pulling) is to pull a weight of 18 tons.
@McRocket6 жыл бұрын
Extremely interesting. Thanks very much for posting this.
@justforever969 жыл бұрын
I thought the German army is criticized for still being 3/4 horse-drawn by the end of the war, let alone at the beginning. Germany made good use of the mechanized units that it did have, but it wasn't like they had more tanks and trucks than the Allies...they just use the ones they did have to better effect in the beginning. Notice how German artillery, with a few exceptions (such as 88mm Flak guns) were always mounted on steel wheels with solid rubber tires? These are called "low-speed" carriages, and are meant for speeds you'd expect being drawn behind a team of horses. Russian, British and US artillery was mostly mounted on rubber tires and equipped with shock absorbers. This is because their entire artillery arms (for starters) were designed and equipped for motor transport before the war even began. Trying to tow a low-speed German gun behind a truck would have shaken the mounting to pieces within 20 miles, and/or screwed the accuracy all up, even if the gun didn't go out of control or flip over the first time you hit a rough stretch of road. The Germans put their high-speed units to good use,, but mostly it was good armor tactics and coordination that won the day for Blitzkrieg, but most of the infantry and artillery still moved up in the same fashion as a forced march done during the Franco-Prussian war. The mechanized units just broke the enemy in areas and drove spearhead behind their lines, allowing the slower units to come in an mop up. Yet popular "knowledge" since WWII has been that Hitler built this highly modern, completely mechanized army, and this was how he beat the Allies, who had neglected to do this. That was not at all how it happened. Not only that, by the end of the war, the Allies armies were almost 100% mechanized, while most of Hitlers troops still marched on foot, most guns were still drawn by horses, and supply trains were still mostly horse-drawn wagons. Only the relatively few mechanized "spearhead" units (also often used as fire brigades after Russia started beating them in 1942) were given motorized logistic trains, because horse-drawn wagons couldn't keep up with mechanized units. Germany went through like tens of millions of horses lost in combat during WWII. How many horses did the US army loose during fighting, just out of curiosity?
@markgranger91504 жыл бұрын
The Germans used captured.French and British vehicles and they also used T34s that were abandoned and repaired they were always short of motor transport
@ceca199710 жыл бұрын
Very nice documentary. Needless to say some of those same designs have been mimic by the Allies after the WWII.
@prevost86864 жыл бұрын
Germany was far ahead of all of the Allies as far as technology at the beginning of WW2. Their Achilles heel was the lack of uniformity and ease of field repair. Simplicity is the greatest attribute of military equipment in actual war. This is why the Russian T34 proved to be the best tank design of WW2. I hate Communists but there’s no denying that the T34 was the best tank of WW2. Simple to build, simple to repair and simple to operate. Not to mention that it had great frontal armor. Hitler was constantly awarding military contracts to various companies that kissed his ass and as a result there was little uniformity of parts. Once his armor broke down on the battle field it was extremely difficult to quickly get the parts and get it back into the fight. Not so for the T34 and to a lesser extent the Sherman.
@TheInquisitiveCat3 жыл бұрын
As Dr. Atwater said, "good enough will work"
@wolfsoldner90292 жыл бұрын
Careful. You are making the Potential History fans angry.
@ManilaJohn0111 жыл бұрын
The primary reason that the Germans did so well was NOT that their equipment was far superior to that of their opponents. Some of it was, but much of it was not. German discipline, training, armored doctrine, and tactics were the reasons. In other words, human factors.
@KoKissaki Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: the Sdkfz. 251 was one source of inspiration for the Star Wars Walker.
@jonbocz9 жыл бұрын
This was interesting and I appreciate the upload. The background 'music' was very piercing; too bad it couldn't have been eliminated. It would also have been good if the images could have been frozen, even for a few seconds, when a new model is mentioned and a decent shot is available. i realize it's too much to ask for a caption of the model to be included. But this is niggling - Thanks again for uploading.
@scottyfox63766 жыл бұрын
The Puma is rarely acknowledge for it's invaluable service for the Werhmacht.
@MH-fb5kr Жыл бұрын
I can hardly imagine keeping a useful inventory of spare parts for all these machines.
@garypanter18817 жыл бұрын
I use to have a bunch of these videos on VHS. They're just not making good documentaries anymore.
@FroggyFrog90004 жыл бұрын
I never really ponder the half track, but this is very good.
@asullivan4047 Жыл бұрын
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job. Good investigative research. Good reviews of the different armored vehicles. 1st class documentary.
@thewulfone11 жыл бұрын
The Germans had the best military technology. Way ahead of its time.
@TheInquisitiveCat3 жыл бұрын
but the feckless bureaucrats got in the way of effectiveness
@matthewjones397 күн бұрын
No, not really. Their tech was average at best.
@wttncfrep362811 жыл бұрын
Apologies for the long string of replies but I neglected to mention the array of Soviet heavy tanks, most importantly the IS-2 in my previous post. In addition the Soviet Union also fielded several self propelled guns such as the SU-155 which was designated a "Big game hunter" designed to knock out the German "Animal" heavy tanks such as the Tiger, Panther, Royal Tiger and Ferdinand (formerly Elefant). Finally ignorance of the Gloster Meteor does not diminish its importance.
@glenbrugge74309 жыл бұрын
I was also perplexed by all the downvotes. Maybe not enough CG? This is an absolute gem, along with the one about the STUG and Hummel. This is well researched, and certainly more academic than the vast majority of the documentaries one finds on German fighting vehicles, and very niche, only something a person who knows his stuff would appreciate. The music was a bit much though.
@MrBandholm9 жыл бұрын
Glen Brugge more likely that the music is so damn high in places
@MitchofSmeg11 жыл бұрын
That blockade had ended by 1919 (and in place by all btw with food shipments being allowed but delayed, heavily condemned in the UK by the opposition might i add so not "the general view" at all and was supported by all the allies and even demanded by some such as France), What i am on about was the major post war damages, such as the taking of German lands by France etc etc.
@roknikov11 жыл бұрын
I couldn't agree more, looking at battlefield, what a great series. Although the fact they used the same slow music in every single episode wasn't something i was particularly thrilled about ;)
@lynx69able11 жыл бұрын
Taking a shot at America, that's not tough to do. Europe wanted US troops during the cold war in case of a Soviet invasion. Japan had attacked the United States at pearl harbor and the US occupied and allied the country very appropriately. It's not just America "destroying" the world but you can thank every other human on earth for that too.
@mikegord4 жыл бұрын
Yeah they had some sexy war machine but their field transport during the entire war was heavily dependant on horses. During the Battle of the Bulge the US were able to move men and supplies quicker. The troops were not exhausted when the reached the front lines from marching - cold yes and initially low on supplies but this was soon retified because of their STANDARDISED mechanised transports.
@jeffyoung13493 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙏, I’m a history nut, love ❤️ this video. I build models and now I’m going to have to expand my diorama of North Africa Corp, I new there were variants, didn’t realize how many, very informative, my hobby store is in for some work
@alexbrown122211 жыл бұрын
I love this type of uploads, thank you you tube and geesusdb :)
@carlosperez-gb1fk11 жыл бұрын
Super great show. I like the fact that it is strictly informative without all the politics and B.S. Thanks for posting!!!
@Shelty478 жыл бұрын
Surprised to see the motorcycle outfit at 9.16 has the chair mounted on the left.
@nealteitelbaum86608 жыл бұрын
+Jeffrey Rollings I see what you mean. Not sure if it is truly mounted on the left, if it is i'd like to know why. What i'm guessing is the documentary makers flipped the film during editing to make it look like all the traffic was going left to right, or from Germany to Russia. They are taught to keep the direction on the screen consistent and the shots before were left to right. Just a guess
@MrBMBuilder6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing just picked up a couple of these in 1/35 by Tamiya and AFV
@Gorilla_Jones7 жыл бұрын
Without Lend/Lease the USSR would have caved.
@dkompres68894 жыл бұрын
I had no idea Ford was still building vehicles for Germany in 1944 or did I hear that wrong?
@Arno_L4 жыл бұрын
It's true and well documented
@oldgysgt4 жыл бұрын
The Ford truck plant was taken over by the German Government before WWII started. Henry Ford was defiantly anti-Semitic, and admired the German Government's way of during business in the 1930's, but by the time Germany invaded Poland, he no longer had any control over the German Ford truck plant. Also, the German car and truck maker Opel was a General Motor's subsidiary, but the German Opel truck plant had also been taken over by the German Government before WWII. Check out the WWII Japanese Navy's Type “0” Transport Model 11. It was a DC3 built before and during WWII by the Showa aircraft plant under a Douglas Aircraft license.
@sirrathersplendid48256 жыл бұрын
FFW to 3:45 if you want to see the proper beginning of this vid. Far too much waffle in the narration, but some great footage together with descriptions of the vehicles being shown.
@Scoobz1874 жыл бұрын
*lol* That German Shepherd commanded that SdKfz very good. XD
@luvr3817 жыл бұрын
So the Germans used sloped armor for increased protection on their armored cars and halftracks, but were surprised when they came across the T-34?
@MrZauberelefant7 жыл бұрын
I think they were surprised on how advanced a concept the T-34 was and how it outmatched anything the Wehrmacht had. The Panzer III and IV as well as the Tiger were concepts from the mid 30s, with their vertical armour. And given the results in western Europe, they were deemed "good enough". The Panther is the only german design actually made for tank vs tank combat and stood up against allied armour until the war's end. The long barreled Panzer IV and the StuG were stopgap measures, well done but flawed from the start.
@milky55way20127 жыл бұрын
Another comment I shake my head at....."....flawed from the start" The PZ IV was successful until the T-34 arrived....The Stug III was not a flawed design, they accounted for over 20, 000 Allied tanks destroyed alone. It was not a "Stop gap measure" but an intended design to counter enemy strong points, then only later became a tank destroyer. The PZ IV saw production till the end of WWII. The Panther was a direct result of the T-34.
@ShamanKish5 жыл бұрын
Germans were surprised by T-34 because they had no previous information about its existence. Pretty clear that one.
@jonathancarshow95734 жыл бұрын
ShamanKish Rommel at el alemien told his 88s to shoot at 800m since every British tank shot 600m or less that was the first day the Sherman was employed and it shot up to 800m he was low on supplies so he was trying to conserve ammo that was the main reason he lost that battle
@stevep5408 Жыл бұрын
The eighth Air force was the sacrificial lamb of the western allies. As huge Soviet casualties racked up, the eighth Air force cause they Germans to retain 80% of 88s to be as AA units. The huge number of allied airman sacrificed served a very real, very important diversionary purpose as the western allies contribution to total war. It would have been a slaughter to allow 5x times the number of 88s to proceed to the eastern front of Germany!
@MrSpecter0579 жыл бұрын
Good video. It is amazing how many vehicles (different types) were used by the Germans. 14,000 Ford trucks, haha. Me thinks old Henry made out pretty good on the war. Playing both sides against the middle. The other video about the mobile artillery is very good too. Ford didn't get to make any artillery. lol
@ihatecabbage727010 жыл бұрын
Guys, I am not here to ignite racism, I am here to watch a documentary
@glenbrugge74309 жыл бұрын
Killian Billian But it's about WWII, which inevitably means someone will bring it up :P. Just like the idiots who go on and on about who had the best tanks etc. etc.
@ihatecabbage72709 жыл бұрын
Glen Brugge People can start a fight over Pepsi and Coca-cola. Even stab or shoot people over it. Even if Pepsi and Coca-cola are piss....... and bad to your health.
@glenbrugge74309 жыл бұрын
Well, given the nature of the subject, Nazism, and race are bound to pop up. Some fellow actually came up with a law that states that the longer an internet discussion goes on for, the more likely it will end up being about Nazism (no matter what it was initially about). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
@ihatecabbage72709 жыл бұрын
Glen Brugge Errmmm......oh yeah May 1st is Labor Day, Happy Labor Day in advance.
@galeng739 жыл бұрын
Glen Brugge I did not open your link. I just want to say "Hitler." It is seemingly as true as Poe's Law (not to be confused with coleslaw).
@dhchilton40647 жыл бұрын
The word 'Greif' on the side of Rommel's Sdkfz 250 meant 'take' or 'seize' - not 'Griffin' as stated.
@ShamanKish5 жыл бұрын
Yep, it means "grip", like in wrestling ;-)
@Arno_L4 жыл бұрын
No, it refers to the Greif Vogel, a legendary beast, the griffin, a winged horse with a falcon or eagle head. The other Rommel's command vehicle, another sdkfz 250/3 was the "Adler" for "eagle".
@silver76010 жыл бұрын
Would there be a market for a limited production run of the Sd.Kfz. 222 to the original drawings?Just wondering (Obviously engine,transmission and final drives would be sourced from a current production vehicle so as to comply with modern emissions and "Construction and use" regulations).Ideas anyone?
@cgod2416 жыл бұрын
you said it yourself emissions would be the killer. for the movies they use wooden vehicle or miniature models which are very convincing
@japekto21385 жыл бұрын
Didn't Rommel like US halftracks? I remember seeing a video where he was quite taken with one.
@ronaldweed61034 жыл бұрын
My uncle was in a American half-track under Pattons Command but ran out of fuel,hand to hand combat etc.
@thomasv.cantwell12542 жыл бұрын
they were very well engineered and a lot roomier than the SKFZs. Very simple design using mostly off the shelf automotive components and flat plate sheet metal.
@meowmixy111 жыл бұрын
wow, only 800 of the 8 wheeled reconaissance/armoured cars were made? seems like a pretty low number, i thought they were more common than that...is that correct, can anyone else verify that?
@solidsnake211211 жыл бұрын
no it wouldn't have been, considering the united states held Germany to a pretty high regard before the propaganda hit the fan.
@justforever969 жыл бұрын
And the KwK 30, et al, are NOT "derived from the weapons carried on the Messerschmitt 109". The Bf 109E used two MG FF cannon, derived from the Oerlikon 20mm cannon, itself derived from the Becker cannon. The KwK 30 is derived from the Solothurn ST-5, and is unrelated although sharing certain similarities (besides both being 20mm autocannon). The later MG 151/20 is a totally different weapon altogether.
@ralphbernhard17579 жыл бұрын
+justforever96 Well spotted. The KwK 30 was derived from the FlaK 30, and fired the same ammunition as the Flak 30 and the later Flak 38.
@roknikov11 жыл бұрын
The germans did so well because they were the only ones to have a good overall tactic that actually worked, whereas other countries had outdated tactics. Secondly the germans had the equipment(and built it in good numbers, because their economy was designed solely for that purpose) to be able to implement said strategy. So they mainly did so well because the rest was incapable or unwilling to react effectively.
@wonderboy49935 жыл бұрын
roknikov they lost....................
@TheIhredpower7 жыл бұрын
Splendid presentation!
@iriewaregl11 жыл бұрын
In early 1944 when US General Doolittle told P-51 fighter pilots to stop flying in formation when escorting bombers and go directly after German fighters, the Luftwaffe lost over 17% of their remaining fighter force in just over 1 week. Goring was stunned & he speaks of this development as the beginning of the end because that signalled Allied air superiority over Germany. I don't dismiss the fact that the FW190s & ME109s were innovative fighters, BUT they were TOTALLY outclassed by the P51.
@Ubique29277 ай бұрын
The German “ArmouredCar” designers were way way way ahead of the times. Just think what those engineers could do with the technology of today.
@krammad11 жыл бұрын
Did he say Ford built 14,000 halftracks for Germany?
@neganrex56935 жыл бұрын
Yep Henry Ford was an asshole. GMC would never do such a thing.
@JeffBey-sd5lc10 ай бұрын
Take out the overwhelming load music.. Gud Lawd! Fantastic film footage.
@cgod2416 жыл бұрын
great video. Never imagined how many armored vehicle where involved how the heck did they lose??
@Crashed1319636 жыл бұрын
Fighting 3 other super powers with the same (UK) (USSR) or four times more (US) manufacturing capacity. Germany was basically fighting 6 other Germanys.
@seanmalloy72492 жыл бұрын
They produced a wide variety of vehicles, often to the extent of diluting their manufacturing capacity for another new vehicle, then -- particularly with the later tank designs -- came back with modifications that pushed their weight up and reliability down. And Gernany found itself having to employ its weapons outside of their intended purpose -- the Tiger was developed in response to a pre-war requirement for a heavy breakthrough tank; it was intended to be used in an initial assault, creating a breach in the enemy lines, which the regular panzertruppen would exploit while the Tiger units were pulled back to be refit and sent to the next schwerpunkt. Instead, they had to be used alongside the regular tank units to provide additional strength, kept in action far longer than their intended role, and acquired a reputation for unreliability when they could not be given their required maintenance.
@Ubique29277 ай бұрын
Logistics. Logistics. Logistics. I think you would be surprised how many horse drawn trailers the Germans used and also horse drawn artillery.
@howardfortyfive96767 жыл бұрын
I enjoy background music in documentaries. So if one *can get through the first **15:30** or so one can actually HEAR the narrator.*
@stinkybuddydog7 жыл бұрын
Flak Panzer has great looks and the best name.
@davedavidson283311 жыл бұрын
Yes and there is a massive amount of forbidden history.
@llVIU10 жыл бұрын
the music is WAY too loud
@luciusavenus87156 жыл бұрын
I liked it very much
@vacuette95816 жыл бұрын
llVIU Indeed
@sam84046 жыл бұрын
Sweegy Swag no, he says it like whoever originally put this series together made the music too loud in the mix
@acceptablecasualty53195 жыл бұрын
We can assume this is because this was cut in the traditional sense and then spoken over; there's no mixing when your audio is analogue.
@nickraschke47375 жыл бұрын
I can hear everything and I'm half deaf.
@roflcopterkklol4 жыл бұрын
Old docos are the best. no political bullshit just information
@bettyswollocks16704 жыл бұрын
Excellent documentary just wish the music was a lower volume as it drowns the narrator out