Shame....314 could still be taking out T34’s to this day ⌛️

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try to read the US report of their caltuties in the Iraq war. Most was hit by own us forces...

Henrik H Try to write a sentence in English.

Nothing ironic about it! All tanks in history were designed to take hits on the front, sides & rear, but given only enough armor on the bottom to defend the crew but not the tank, for weight purposes. This is because in the vast majority of operations, tanks get hit by other tanks, not mines

Well, after they already had one for their museums, it was useless and had no place on their military doctrine.

I can see why they scrapped it even though it was an amazing tank for its time. Nothing could match it.

agree that machine deserves to be in a museum of war.

You left out, makes a big target.

True...

Hans Ulrich Rudel, the greatest combat pilot of all time has credit for over 500 Ruskie armor alone flying his Ju87.

I agree, they look better than any Allied tanks. Too bad they didn't perform as well.

idiot

@@nanuvasile9983 lol

@@homiespaghetti1522 actually I liked the look of the Sherman tank, the Comet tank, and the M18Hellcat tank destroyer.

BHAAA The Blue BlobFish what!!! Why were they so reliably better the Sherman that is because of spare parts! The t34 in 1941 and 42 only had a reliability rating of 50% yet people talk about it being as good as a Sherman or second best reliability wise... But Sherman's who apparently were 98% reliable seam to have bean missing replacements/spare tanks from the front line But German tanks struggled to get over 50% yet were still able to put 60% of there tanks in the fight..... Germany had the most reliable heavy tanks in the war anything over 40 tons. There is a great Swedish off road performance test compeering German tanks to Sherman's the panther won easily. UK tanks were pretty much the worsts of the top 4 main powers only just superior to Italy and japan best or even to them.... Half of the Sherman best models were slower then a king tiger and up to 10 tons more then the first 30,000 models making there brake downs quite often American and USA tank kill claims put Germany tank numbers at almost 61,000 tanks then we add in UK commonwealth 71,900 Germany only had 49,700 German allies in Europe lost 4,300 to 5,000..... 3,300 were Italian plus German captured tanks of at most 500 many were given to lesser allies over 90 t34 were given to lesser allies to refit and about 440 were French somua s35..... USA tank claims are 21,200+ USA losses were 10,000 Soviet tank claims are 42,700 Soviet losses 110,000 UK/commonwealth tank claims 8,000 losses 16,000 German records Eastern front not including after November 1944 was 33,324 German records western front including Italy front 13,000+ to 14,000 tanks lost when Germany surrendered 1,500 stugs were still in operation in the German army with total tank force of 2,000 to 3,000

Avtomativan A great rebuttal my friend! You really outsmarted him with your superior wit and extremely well thought out argument! I'm convinced.

Yeah sad to lose all those brave young men fighting on behalf of an insecure tyrannical midget who wanted to exterminate all non wasps from the planet. GTFO

+Possibly SkuntCarp / The German's didn't do anything that the British, Russians, and US didn't do as well *including* mass genocide or perhaps you're just ignorant of history. Look up Eisenhower's death camps for one.

Calm down and read the guys comment, he says it's a waste of human life, he doesn't defend the SS.

Yeah and the allies where saints right xD ? we germans killed less russians then the communist , so sovjet soldiers had no right to live aswell ?

David Hunter Well it is surprising to see how the west and east treated their prisoners after the war. The east used them to remove mined areas and stuff like that and helped rebuild cities like Stalingrad, they weren't living in good conditions but they weren't living in bad conditions either as they were given food from the large supplies the Soviet had and volkssturm were often sent back home after the war. On the other side, the west had small supplies of food in Europe as they had to supply it from over the sea, most Germans soldier (even volkssturm) were sent in mass to demine the atlantic wall with little food and with little to no care of their supervisor.

That sort of things happens when you fight Soviets.

Which is entirely false, and made up.

Yeah true, Soviets reformed their military and came up with new strategies to counter German ones throughout the war while Germans stuck with the good old blitzkrieg. Battle of the bulge, Kursk.

Intescy Avenger Blitzkrieg still works, to a degree. But the it relies on surprise. Which the Nazis did not have.

The ardennen offensive was a surprise attack. However nobody had calculated correct regarding the narrow streets avaialbe for the german tanks. It was the same streets used in 1940 but at that time the tanks was much smaller. So it ended up that the Tiger II alwas was lacking behind and the calculation for the fuel needed for the operation was just to low of that reason that the Tiger II tanks used to much time to wait with turned on engine and drive forward to the front in a speed there were to low ending up that most of them actual run out of fuel. That was the reason for germany lost the battle of the bugle. Hitler did know that hes plan of an attack at Kursk was not going to be a surprise but this time he told his generals that it was not a big thing sinse he would have 600 new Panther tanks as a surprise for the russians. But most of the was not able to participate in the battle because of engine fires or final drives breaking down. So it was not possible to smash through the russians lines as fast as expected for the germans. Actual The generals told Hitler it was still posible to win the battle if time was prevented for them. But Hitler knowing that the allied had landed on Sicily stoped the campaign because he needed the troops for defense of Italien.

Rick Stuifzand incredible means unbelievable, not glorifying the nazis at all. In other words, I cannot believe their continued futile resistance, is the meaning of the comment. And, I do not appreciate the tone of your rude comment.

about spells it out...the MK IV could have done the job.

Bitcoin Broker dude i hope your joking It’s not the videos fault

lampshade I think you’re idolizing something that to these men were just killing machines. They wanted no sign of the reich’s war machine intact.

lampshade well wtf you gona do with it? The soviets already captured some before the battle of Berlin.

if this is your only concern in this context * facepalm *

they didnt... they also had crap transmissions

Go big or go home.

Yeah, and what's more important is that the French, THE FRENCH have the only working king tiger. . .

@@kennethbowers2897 Just take it they surrender easily enough.

Kenneth Bowers oh yeah the French, as you are speaking about them as if they didn't even fight when they had to fight a battle that they couldn't win, being forced to retreat on roads blocked by fleeing civilians having to flee their homes only to later see their countries occupied and violated. Yeah you know, the French.

OnlineLegend just take the fact that the french surrendered once in two world war and that Germany surrendered twice

Actually a large percentage were saved, they didn't make that many.

Seelow Höher.. Bloody mess

@@batuhanaca2214 indeed!

Brian Haney He didn't fight for the Nazis you idiot. Learn history before you opine.

Protestnik Vorgon My father was a Tiger Tank commander at the battle of the Bulge. To listen to him, the only reason they lost is that there was no support with fuel and ammo beyond four days. When they finally ran out, the two tanks he was joined up with surrendered to the Americans. He was promptly hired by the USA after the war and sent to Venezuela.

Mordalo once i met a Vet that fought in the battle of the bulge in a nursing home, humbling experience to see and hear what he had to say

''Quality'' -Hallo, Tiger II? -Engine broke -Understandable, have a nice lebensraum

Ernesto León litterally use stuff found on the ground to replace the missing materials

Wave Emperor yeah 20 million deaths later LOL

There's something that needs to be considered here. The Soviets had thrown caution to the wind, there was a race between generals to get to the Reichstag. Therefore, the Soviets threw massive amounts of tanks forward with no regard for losses. This is why it was easy pickings so to speak. The Soviets lost an incredible amount of armor in the battle for Berlin, it also from AT guns, Panzerfaust, tank mines, etc. King Tigers NEVER had this level of success in other theaters and scenarios. On balance, the King Tiger was not a good logistical weapon. They could have built many, many more Tiger 1's with the resources that went into developing King Tiger.

Quantity has a quality all of its own

So why did they lose if they were the best?

Indeed. I regret the Bismark and Yamato didn't survive the war, to be displayed beside the Missouri....

xzqzq hm I agree, it’s also sad that there only a handful of tigers and panthers around.

You are too kind

Too many nazi fanboys. If only they understood that had the germans won, they probably wouldn't even be alive.

Makes more sense....

I think on both sides the rahrah, and the dismissers are annoying. I look at it from the standing of a WWII fan. As an American I cannot doubt the proficiency of the German armor. I would have loved for my boys to have the Panther/Tiger/Stug IV instead of the Sherman, would have made our job much easier. I know there is a stigma because the Nazis where the dark side. But the fact remains that allot of the time their equipment was better. If you put the Tiger in American arsenal many would change their tune.

@joe green exactly what the Russians knew which is why they produced 500 to 1 and won....500 fords can beat one Ferrari and Hitler never understood this.

@Razor Ramone Apples and oranges. In WWII you had enemies of equal battle hardened levels in an absolute meat grinder. In Iraq the Abrams might as well have been a space ship from an advanced alien race vs. The dilapidated, poorly trained and obsolete garbage the Iraqis put up.

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Brainwashed?

True,

True. Luckily most Nazis are in hell now.

Valhall*

And they still lost against the British

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Aaron Laundry And they underestimated my Desert Rat grandad.

@@fudgedog123 muh supply lines, rommel was a hack.

Nah they had plenty of extra tanks and planes, but no fuel to use them :/

Produce enough with what it isnt only production it has to do with resourses wich it barely had the whole idea of blitzkrieg was to defeat the allies and grab their resourses before they loose theirs in a war of atrition

Aaron Laundry also they ran out of fuel

at least they saved a few unique tanks like the maus at kubinka

Muhibullah Hamza they already captured some tiger 2 before the battle of berlin

Scrapping knocked out tanks was common practise by all nations after the war. People were understandibly much more concerned with clearing up and rebuilding than going to considerable efforts to save crippled and wrecked tanks, especially ones belonging to to country that started the war in the first place

Think of how much concrete reinforcing bar can be made out of 68 tonnes of scrap steel. A damaged immobile tank is only so much scrap iron. Steel was at a premium at the end of WW 2 when all the rebuilding was to be accomplished in the bombed out cities across England and Europe.The Egyptian scrap metal merchants scrapped the Y Bar picket and barbed wire fencing around the desert minefields the Commonwealth and British forces had left there for public safety.

They had several already for museums, why would they need another?