Joachim Peipers Best Man: "Werner Wolff" | The Forgotten Knight's Cross Holder

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Explore the gripping WWII story of Wolff, Who's fearless actions on the battlefield turned the tide of battle. From leading a desperate defense to engaging enemy tanks in close combat and confronting the enemy's commanding general, his leadership is nothing short of legendary. Discover the indomitable spirit of this in our latest video. Don't forget to subscribe for more inspiring historical narratives!
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@historyatwar 10 ай бұрын

at 0:38 we meant commander within the LSSAH, not the Commander off :)

@ricoriofrer3706 10 ай бұрын

Put that on the screen, so knowledgeable people won't have to go here comment section and correct you. Better if you avoid this basic mistake in the first place.

@ArnieC1974 9 ай бұрын

When do you STOP lying on the SS that they are war criminals? JUST WHEN? As we all can see right now every day that Russia is the war criminals! The US army used atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that's a war crime! Germans where severe punished for war crimes! You can read that in all the diaries found. Also last year in France and Belgium there were found mass graves of thousands of Germans who where killed bij blunt force trauma, why not telling this? The German army is and will always be the best army whether you like it or not. SO STOP WITH LIES OR STOP THIS CHANNEL! No more hearsay stories. The soldiers who freed Europe where the real war criminals! Do your research! Rest in peace warriors of Germany! You where the true heroes! We won't forget you,!

@dorianwolf2198 9 ай бұрын

U tube are biggest BULLIES thikos

@davidtorre7370 9 ай бұрын

Peiper was leader of the panzer regiment at the Battle of the Bulge.

@davidtorre7370 9 ай бұрын

Can't believe they were still using a 37mm pak at Kursk.

@paulwhite5886 10 ай бұрын

No matter what your thoughts on the Germans you can't deny there bravery and courage.

@user-vh4pm9xr3l 10 ай бұрын

💖💖💖💖💖💖💖👍👍👍👍👍👍

@jerryjeromehawkins1712 10 ай бұрын

Thse were brave men fighting for their country... That's what I see. No different than other brave men who have fought and died for honor and loyalty. Pre ww2 Germany was roughly the size of the state of Montana... going up against the world's largest countries. Amazing.

@hakapeszimaki8369 10 ай бұрын

Best nation of Europe!

@Warcrimeenthusiast 10 ай бұрын

@@hakapeszimaki8369not anymore they are emasculated

@christopheterre4413 10 ай бұрын

They were the good guys

@marcuscelt7014 10 ай бұрын

One of Europe's greatest sons. RIP

@jonathans9537 4 ай бұрын

Well said

@chriswood9836 10 ай бұрын

Wish men were still made this well

@jameswatson9641 10 ай бұрын

An incredible warrior by any standards.

@BrianHayter-zl2uc 10 ай бұрын

Very brave men

@Russell-re8te 10 ай бұрын

Werner Wolf's acumen for destroying T-34s with the 37mm Park, (commonly referred, by soldiers on the Eastern Front, as the "door knocker", is truly remarkable!

@vincelong3132 10 ай бұрын

Yes! Extremely weak punch

@craigkemmerzell5741 10 ай бұрын

One hell of a soldier

@yungcaco1443 10 ай бұрын

What a legend. RIP.

@dorianwolf2198 6 ай бұрын

Top he is kia

@flak88gun 9 ай бұрын

An absolute ARYAN STUD.

@GreyWolfProject 6 ай бұрын

the Aryans never entered Europe. Rather, they migrated south from the Steppes, with half of their tribe settling on a vast grass plain they named Aryan (now known as Iran). The other half continued south and invaded northwest India, establishing the Aryan/Sassinid Empire. Today, their descendants occupy the top caste in India. It is crucial to note that Aryans had black hair and brown eyes, not the blonde-blue eyes propagated by the Nazi myth machine.

@BARBARYAN. 10 ай бұрын

This Wolf man was such a Chad. Even in his photos you can feel his chad radiance.

@craigbritz1684 10 ай бұрын

Chad??

@aldosigmann419 10 ай бұрын

His Chadiance is indeed evident...

@craigbritz1684 10 ай бұрын

Chadiance?

@aldosigmann419 10 ай бұрын

@@craigbritz1684 Fret not scooby, ‘Chad’ will always elude the NPC programming loop. It’s not your fault fren...

@arslongavitabrevis5136 5 ай бұрын

I find that American expression (Chad) very funny (LOL)

@traxel14 10 ай бұрын

After seeing and hearing all of this, this man could possibly be one of the very best soldiers that have ever taken to battle. Just because he proved his extraordinary worth not just once, but over years countless times! A great shame that he was not able to survive the war. And at such a young age, too. If Werner Wolff would have been an American, he would be top notch and glorified still to this day! Seemed to be a brave man and greater soldier.

@19Snow77 7 ай бұрын

Es war und ist bis heute die beste Armee aller Zeiten ❤‍🔥 It was and still is the best army of all time !

@dorianwolf2198 6 ай бұрын

Don't think so

@shelbynamels973 5 ай бұрын

Jochen Peiper was also part of that Spring Awakening offensive. That's why he was found and taken prisoner there when the war ended.

@davecopp9356 10 ай бұрын

To all german soldiers of WW2: Respect and RIP.

@jmaaybraak 10 ай бұрын

Indeed...⚡⚡

@IosifStalin2 10 ай бұрын

No….they fought for a vile regime…and they fought with relish for that ideology

@booneclaudi753 10 ай бұрын

Ruhet in Frieden

@thedukeofnorton 10 ай бұрын

Nah, good riddance to those Nazi skum.

@roberto6536 10 ай бұрын

No respect for the blood eaters that cowardly killed thousands of innocent people

@romegavadquez6310 10 ай бұрын

Respect the wolf

@christiansimmank9619 5 ай бұрын

Die besten der besten. Echte Helden. Respekt.

@Occident. 10 ай бұрын

Joachim Peiper was a great warrior. Brave till the bitter end. May Joachim Peiper and his equally brave comrade Verner Wolf rest easy in Valhalla. \o. PS. Brilliant Video. I'd never heard of this great warrior before. Keep the videos coming. 👍

@davecopp9356 10 ай бұрын

Well said. RIP and Respect to the german soldiers.

@scheffsache 10 ай бұрын

stop talking bullshit, they are not great warriors...

$@anfrac3700$

@anfrac3700 10 ай бұрын

Wolff is alright. Fuck Peiper.

@rick1159 10 ай бұрын

He had civilians and Pows killed everywhere It fought

@tancreddehauteville764 10 ай бұрын

@@rick1159 BS.

@MrNaKillshots 10 ай бұрын

Having read many accounts of soldiers, the experiences they found themselves in is breathtaking.

@mikeypeinado383 10 ай бұрын

It’s truly amazing these guys r who we should be studying they have nothing but valor and will as United a divine instrument that conquers worlds for the better of humanity as they prove they really are the superb race . But knew that being superb meant they had to have power so that they’ll rule righteously unfortunately the Freemasons won ww2 and yeah

@stephenlawrence606 10 ай бұрын

He was a fantastic soldier we can't deny that that's for sure 👍👍👍

@davidjohnson4298 10 ай бұрын

He was a great soldier

@hansgruber650 10 ай бұрын

Great soldiers.

@maxrpm2215 10 ай бұрын

The best soldiers to ever walk the planet even today there isn't anything like it. All have copied and adopted the tactics.

@dorianwolf2198 10 ай бұрын

They were beat lol

@omiga5 9 ай бұрын

Unsere tapferen MANNEN sind mitten unter uns. DIE SIEGREICHE Befreiung unseres Deutschen Reiches ist schon vollendet, jedoch noch nicht nach außen sichtbar.

@noone-sg5tu 9 ай бұрын

@@dorianwolf2198 everybody dies, noone defeats death. so what is your point?

@dorianwolf2198 9 ай бұрын

@@noone-sg5tu They lost good riddance

@AethelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333 8 ай бұрын

@@dorianwolf2198It took like 50 different countries to beat the Third Reich. The Germans may have lost, but the Allies never won. The Germans killed 30 million Soviet citizens alone. It was like a 1:10-30 attrition advantage for Germany, LOL. Smile because it happened, not because it's over.

@tommykankare6775 5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for making these great videos on German 'forgotten' soldiers!! 👏🏻 R.I.P. Werner Wolff🕯️ b. November 28, 1922 d. March 19, 1945 aged: 22

@SeamHead33 10 ай бұрын

R.I.P. Hero

@adamstephenson7518 10 ай бұрын

Interesting video. R.I.P. to all those that fell in duty to their country

@ToddiusMaximus 10 ай бұрын

Best army to ever fight

@wearabo 10 ай бұрын

They still lost genius

@user-ny4nv5qu2p 10 ай бұрын

bullshit they only were succesful in the countries that bordered Germany

@dorianwolf2198 9 ай бұрын

Lol clown

@ToddiusMaximus 9 ай бұрын

@@dorianwolf2198 John Wayne Gacy ?

@ToddiusMaximus 9 ай бұрын

@@wearabo how many armies did it take ?

@kurt8597 10 ай бұрын

joachim peiper was a hero who fought bravely against the bolsheviks and their allies, the united states. he died a martyr, burned by french communists long after the war. respect to this modern knight.

@mikeonly8554 10 ай бұрын

What happened with those french communists?? Police report?

@kurt8597 10 ай бұрын

I don't know, but I'm sure they weren't identified, and if they were, I'm sure they weren't condemned enough. France has always protected the Communists, and that's still true today. The Communists massacred many French right-wingers and others who didn't think like them (probably 50,000 people - the same figure as the 50,000 civilian victims of Allied bombing in France). Joachim would have been recognized in the village where he lived by Communist partisans who would have come to burn down his house and him along with it.the culprits were undoubtedly protected by the justice system, since in France judges are radical leftists. .@@mikeonly8554

@thoorwulfn9z383 10 ай бұрын

nothing @@mikeonly8554

@jean6872 10 ай бұрын

This war criminal is not the subject of the video.

@thoorwulfn9z383 10 ай бұрын

@@jean6872 so?

@royroach5328 10 ай бұрын

Herr Wolf your ehre is forever true. RIP

@RupertMay 10 ай бұрын

Pieper WASN'T at Malmady but got blamed for it!!!

@kriegsmarine7901 9 ай бұрын

Respect .glory for him.

@MrNaKillshots 10 ай бұрын

Excellent memorial.

@user-co7dr3rl8b 10 ай бұрын

He was the type of leader men would follow to the gates of hell.

@michaelstudd533 10 ай бұрын

Great video, never heard about this man before

@MrJeffgonz 7 ай бұрын

What an absolute legend 🫡

@linomoro6974 10 ай бұрын

What a legend great story

@geoffrysteiner8532 10 ай бұрын

Makes me very proud of my heritage......

@stefanhorlacher1583 10 ай бұрын

legend indeed, WernerWolff & also Eugen Wolf (Prinz eugen & totenkopf)...

@ambrosiusdalfinger9223 10 ай бұрын

Brilliant warrior!

@cryeordie 10 ай бұрын

The greatest and holiest warriors we have in hundreds of years. May their glory and honor never fade. Many thanks to this channel for commemorating their illustrious service to God and our people.

@dorianwolf2198 9 ай бұрын

Lol

@dorianwolf2198 8 ай бұрын

Aye holes in their socks lol

@josephstabile9154 6 ай бұрын

"Our people"? Pray tell, who may that be? "Our God"? Seriously? Because, I really doubt Jesus would place his stamp of approval on the beliefs & acts of the SS. Allah, certainly. Odin, maybe.

@dorianwolf2198 6 ай бұрын

Haha wot a clown

@cryeordie 6 ай бұрын

@@josephstabile9154 nobody mentioned jesus 🤡🤡🤡 Im sure as hell no jew worshipper.

@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 10 ай бұрын

Infamous? He was found innocent of the Malmedy massacre in a period of time that saw way too many innocent men wrongly convicted an executed for war crimes.

@episodebeats2817 7 ай бұрын

So humbling the lessons learned. No matter how talented & brave you can always be outnumbered. Any country on Earth could get into Germany's position. No country can take on the whole world...

@appsstore11 10 ай бұрын

Excellent vid thanks for your hard work guys

@oscarmadison8530 10 ай бұрын

He had paid his dues.

@19Snow77 7 ай бұрын

Mögen sie heute alle in Frieden ruhen 🙋‍♂❤‍🔥 Danke Jungs!

@user-vk6tn1ie7k 10 ай бұрын

Such a waste of brave men and the loss for humanity when will we ever get our act together before it’s too late

@borgenpb413 10 ай бұрын

Great video well done

@cjb5003 10 ай бұрын

How we wish an army like this now in our time.

@charliemunk2947 10 ай бұрын

I guess who have not picked up a book in the last 3 or so decades. Thr USA is the greatest that ever existed. We won ww2, not them. We have invented and mass produced the best war machines in the world. Germany lead the world in many things before Hitler got into power. Rhey spent tons of money in ww2 to develop the V2 rocket. In reality it killed very fee people. Five countries had also invented thr jet engine. But we knew it could not me mass produced until the 50s, so we wisely scraped it. Great army them Germans in ww2, but a little over rated. They were the losers, don't forget that.

@yuppy1967 10 ай бұрын

Awesome story, thank you for sharing this!

@denal-501st 10 ай бұрын

I love your videos. Can you maybe make a viedo of Rudolf von Ribbentrop? He was a Tank Commander.

@russelder9743 10 ай бұрын

BZ---one of your best...such an interesting warrior.....2 thumbs up

@jpmtlhead39 10 ай бұрын

What never ceases to amaze me, specialy from the beggining of 1944 until the end of the war the was the Average Age of a German Panzer crew. The oldest was the Commander and he was 23,24 while the rest of the crew was abaut 18,19 years old but already with so much Death and Misery inside of them,that is remarkable many of the survivors getting out of that Meat Grinder that was WW2 with a good mental health. The majorety i Guess that were scared for life. So Young but so good at killing. Doesn't make any sense but was the truth.

@mneus 10 ай бұрын

“War crimes” only for the defeated

@vojtasmejda1254 10 ай бұрын

Murder, rape and enslavement of milions of people is "war crimes"? So nazis did nothing wrong?

@esothetics 10 ай бұрын

7:20 Incredible.

@fishpoem1433 5 ай бұрын

Excellent documentary. One of the amazing things about WWII is that new information and fresh insights keep emerging 80 years later.

@rburrows7786 10 ай бұрын

Salute👏👏👍👍👍

@jim7544 10 ай бұрын

JP was never the commander of the LSSAH division. He did command a battle group, basically a regiment.

@marcelmetzler-gw8mb 10 ай бұрын

Great man great viedeo great unit

@oconnem1 5 ай бұрын

I visited the site of Hill 252.2 in 2019. Peiper's battalion had seized it the previous day. His battalion was the focal point of an attack by the 29th Guards Tank Corps which launched 199 tanks at his position. Peiper's battalion was quickly overrun and most of the Soviet tanks carried on to break more deeply into the german lines. However, they ran straight into a large anti-tank ditch which had been built by the Soviets prior to the battle (IMO this was an incredible screw up as it was a well established and marked soviet tank ditch). The much overgrown anti-tank ditch is still there. The only immediate reserves available to the Germans were 7 Mark IVs commanded by Rudi von Rippentrop (son of the Foreign Minister). He crossed over the anti-tank ditch at a crossing point with his 7 tanks to meet the soviet onslaught. Incredibly two of his tanks were still operational at the end of the day. The Soviets ended up as sitting ducks on the wrong side of the ditch. 153 of the 199 tanks launched by the Russians were destroyed. Hausser, the Corp Commander, visited the site and there were so many destroyed Russian tanks he used a chalk to mark each kill. Of the 1,990 men of the 29th Guards Tank Corps that launched the attack on Peiper, and beyond, over 1,000 were listed as killed or missing at the end of the day. Russians today under Putin would probably seek to deny all this as "neo-nazi propaganda" but my primary source is the book by Russian Historian Valerii Zamulin whose book "Demolishing the Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk" was translated into English. He is a member of the faculty at Kursk State University. He had access to all the Russian military archives. He also seems to answer the question why everyone for decades accepted the version that the Russian tank behemoth crashed into the advancing German onslaught resulting in a huge tank melee. Never happened. The Russians suffered such a disaster the only way to explain it to Stalin was along the lines of "We took heavy casualties but you should see what we did to the Germans when we hit them." The Germans had already been ground down by over a week of attritional fighting and were close to exhaustion. Although the Germans convincingly destroyed the Russian assault at Prokhorovka for relatively few losses themselves, the shock of this unexpected massive counterstroke was the last straw. They did not advance further and were pulled back shortly thereafter. The LAH was then sent to Italy where the Allies had just landed in Sicily.

@tonyelberg7814 10 ай бұрын

great video mate

@booneclaudi753 10 ай бұрын

What a video!!! ❤❤❤

@johnaguirre9196 10 ай бұрын

Good story.Thanks for the bios of these men.

@asullivan4047 10 ай бұрын

Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. He was definitely a do or die commander. So what he didn't have razors to keep clean shaven. Those were items were in critically short supply. Or that he committed a few war time atrocities. No different than the Russians committed. Mis fortunes of war.

@jamesmcdaniel70 10 ай бұрын

Great video. It is a terrible thing to see. The very heart of so many nations, torn from the chest. The lives of so many men, literally forfeited for nothing. German, British, Russian, American, and all of the others wasted in wars. Hard to calculate the loss of millions of young men who could have made valuable contributions to there country and even the world, if not for these wars.

@jamesbodnarchuk3322 10 ай бұрын

Interesting!

@carlitobasa2059 10 ай бұрын

Hope for a movie about Werner Wolf

@malemesjager41 10 ай бұрын

There are so many brilliant badass movies that should be made of the Germans in WW2 but sadly the world will never know except unless it's on German crimes....

@esothetics 10 ай бұрын

@@malemesjager41If there was one on any of them, it would be a balderdash tale of flamboyant, histrionic sadism imposed on the poor wittle minority and their imperial masters who masquerade as “hero’s of self determined tyranny.”

@wunderwaffe7998 10 ай бұрын

I’m glad he didn’t see after the end. Rip

@digitalincometactics9858 10 ай бұрын

Very interesting thanks!

@SARGE11963 10 ай бұрын

Peiper never commanded LAH. He attained the rank of Standartenfuhrer,Colonel ,(The youngest in the Waffen SS) and was a regimental commander in that unit.

@historyatwar 10 ай бұрын

We do apologies about that part, the divison was led by Theodor Wisch.

@SARGE11963 10 ай бұрын

Theodor 'Teddy' Wisch was division commander from July 43 to Aug 44.

@danielgreen3715 10 ай бұрын

Interesting character

@oatis053 5 ай бұрын

He was not the commander of the leibstandarte. He commanded the 1st SS panzer regiment. These are the commanders of the 1st SS panzer division, Julius Schreck (January - 9 November 1923) Sepp Dietrich (17 March 1933 - 1 August 1944) Paul Hausser (1-28 August 1944)

@WhiskyandBacon 4 ай бұрын

Great video👍Wolffs hometown Memel is called Klaipeda today.Its a port town in Lithuania.Before WW2 the town had a large German population.

@peterrobbins2862 4 ай бұрын

A brave man

@georgeszaslavsky 4 ай бұрын

Very interesting story, thanks for sharing

@altenburg55 9 ай бұрын

Das waren Maenner...

@christophlima7982 10 ай бұрын

@all history pros: How common it was in the Wehrmacht to use a PAK to eliminate enemy AT-Guns? I mean manning a PAK 36 in 1943 is not a walk in the park!

@mikebrase5161 10 ай бұрын

It was mounted on a command SPW.

@AVCI711 10 ай бұрын

You have made a video about 3rd Ss Panzer division Totenkopf and 1st SS panzer division LSSAH. Now ıt is time for you to make a video about 2nd SS Division DAS REİCH

@MrWolfgangtube 10 ай бұрын

Peiper never commanded the LSSAH

@jimmilton9682 10 ай бұрын

Glad we are all allies now. God bless the men who had no choice but to serve in the worlds worst war, from all sides

@mattclements1348 3 ай бұрын

Outstanding

@ralphcox5731 10 ай бұрын

fascinating

@arijanrietkerk3932 10 ай бұрын

At 9:16/17 the frame shows a foggy picture of a 1/35 scale diorama. Mostly Tamiya models. Left, swimwagen and right an 88 Flak. The figure at the centre is from an other 1/35 brand.

@frankvandergoes298 10 ай бұрын

Opening clip shows the battalion marching unarmed through Milan, singing as they went. This was done as a show of force to partisans and the civil population.

@andyx2299 10 ай бұрын

RIP heiliges Deutschland ❤

@dorianwolf2198 9 ай бұрын

CLOWN

@andyx2299 9 ай бұрын

SCHWACHKOPF 🤡@@dorianwolf2198

@Beauloqs 10 ай бұрын

Politics aside, one serious soldier.

@antoinerozes7420 5 ай бұрын

I believe the caliber of the pak gun is by 1942 75mm, and not 37mm. The later was too weak for the armour faced on the Eastern front by then.

@kriegsmarine7901 9 ай бұрын

Fight your fear

@seanodwyer4322 5 ай бұрын

needed it last night when a savge violent polynesian attacked me in auckland city at night. there was a big full moon too that seemed surille and strange and made volk insane. - ahh am 65 son off a w.w.2 trooper

@davidwatt4511 8 ай бұрын

iv read pipers book but never heard of this guy was he in the book "ss pieper".

@jonathans9537 4 ай бұрын

Powerful and based video

@Lonelyfanslol Ай бұрын

Rip bro

@kennygottlieb3628 10 ай бұрын

He could have lived 101 years Old if not dement it would be a interresting man to hear telling real live from ww2 various fronts..

@johnmcpherson1713 5 ай бұрын

He is less known I suspect because he did not survive the war AND he was a junior officer. Peiper was of higher rank, leading a Kampgruppe during the Bulge and his association with Malmedy thrust into the popular imagination as well.

@MrYuso-tr5vi 6 ай бұрын

0:02 that hairstyle 🔥

@bulgariannationalist5719 10 ай бұрын

Damn,but why was he a tanker, when under Prokhorovka he was an infantryman!?

@Kallogee 10 ай бұрын

When there wasnt enough tanks, The crews would fight as infantry

@jukkastupormundi2097 10 ай бұрын

WaffenSS panzerdividions were originally motorized divisions. After they started getting their panzers many men from those divisions were trained to panzers and they became Panzer crews.

@bulgariannationalist5719 10 ай бұрын

@@jukkastupormundi2097 Oh really,damn that's cool 🆒

@bulgariannationalist5719 10 ай бұрын

@@Kallogee damn

@iamconsumerrr 3 ай бұрын

Veterans of Red army respect germans soldiers. Many veterans told me that Germans were brave men. Respect from Russia. We must remember about horrible war and don't make mistakes again. Peace to all people of the World.

@EuropeAryan 7 ай бұрын

❤

@j.langer5949 5 ай бұрын

As if the Allies had not committed war crimes. The only difference is that the Germans were dehumanized and lost, therefore everything was allowed against them with impunity.