FIRE THE PANZERSCHRECK!

*BUUUUUURN THEIR WHEAT FIELDS*

@@seanbattersby7361 AGAIN!

Haha I knew it sounded familiar! Good old Reznov, maybe they should make the next game all about him...or woods, just no more space!

“Dimitri! Ready the flame thrower! Good. Now take a closer look at those rats on the horizon!”

I saw a weird video that blended a Warner bros cartoon song about geography and WW2 casualties. When it got to Russia it was terrifying! Such a cherpie song blended with death reall got to me tbh. Found it ..... 'Yakkos world but counts the fallen of ww2'

if you really think about those numbers, and realize there are so so many families who lost a brother/father/son, it makes you hope this never happens again

@@MrBizteck The irony. My gaming handle online is Yakko1977. But yeah, the numbers are staggering. Some people openly speculate it took a tyrant like Stalin to withstand the onslaught. I'd like to think Western democracies could've eventually won as well but who knows. Let's hope we never find out.

@@Ekstrax I'll wager more than a few entire families were wiped out throughout the war. But yeah, I'm not sure how many, if any, families could say they didn't lose at least one family member given the scope of the conflict. Supposedly there are towns in the Eastern U.S. that never recovered from the Civil War as they lost so many young men so imagine that. Considering the loses in the U.S. Civil War was just over half a million and the Russians lost around 26 million, well, it's no wonder the Russians are seemingly so desensitized to death.

Couldn't have been better stated Daniel

damn

Have you visited the monument in Seelow?

@@ipodman1910 Yes, and the museum.

@@vinyalonde is it worth it? I passed it many times and never had a time to do it…

@@ipodman1910 The guide was a former member of the British army and was very interested in the history of warfare. He made the tour very interesting and so I thought it was worth it thanks to his insights and his knowledge. Of course, that is only my experience.

Yeah, its like Georgia that went to war against Putin. Was it 2008? Very fascinating.

@@TheKsalad Turns out the commies weren't any better.

@@tackytrooper The Soviets were way more merciful than the Nazis even in vengeance. The Germans killed around 14 million Soviet civilians.

@@zeljkokaravida3934 And Stalin killed about 50 millions of his own people, including starving 8 million Ukrainians to death

@Romgor gr These numbers they pull out of their ass get bigger and bigger every time, it's always Cold War era bullshit coming out of the same people who praise Germany for attempting to genocide entire races.

If it was Chicago, Frisco , New York so would we.

@@alswann2702 no we wouldn't

I remember someone did a investigation over this and I believe they said every german was worth at least 3 allied to one german whish I could find the report

@@alswann2702 😂doubt it

@@curiousfiend1169 it is easier to defend then attack why do you think germany did so good

I wouldn't be surprised. The Soviets literally lined up their artillery wheel to wheel. I forget that amount of explosives per mile, but be assured that there wasn't a patch of ground in the target area that escaped getting hit--many times over.

The funny thing is, this artillery barrage did make very little casualties despite how devastating it looked.

No, the most concentrated bombardment should be the one on August 23, 1958 at Kinmen island. Mao Communist fired 480,000+ shells onto the little island of size 2.5 square kilometers outsides FuKian province. However, the army of Republic of China held the island and retained the Democratic government at Taiwan.

Or when Haig tried his barrage on the first day of the Somme.

They also used the largest bombardment after battle of Verdun 1916 in the Winter War when they couldn't succeed in attacking the Finns (even though they had unlimited number of troops, unlike the Finns) without that massive artillery power.

"World at War". That was an excellent documentary. The best part was the many interviews and first-hand accounts of soldiers from both sides.

The world at war is the doc. So good. Oops someone was on it.

The Germans called to them "Stalin's organs" for their distinctive sound.

haha COD World at war, at the battle of seelow heights ^^

Our**

Yes I saw that. On the video.

Best cod

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And to think teenagers now are largely ignorant of these events. (UK, 49 yr old)

@@rob5944 Truly a shame, across the board.

Yeah me too. It's my hobby since I was a kid

getreu bis in den tod, jeder tag eine chance näher bei gott zu sein. da ist noch walhall und tacitus der kampf gegen die römer in the mind from the germans

@@rob5944 as a teenager I would disagree, there is always going to be a balance of those who enjoy history and those who don't- I'm sure your generation also had those ignorant of history. It's not that teenagers are too lazy, it's just that some enjoy it and some dont- most of my mates are the prior.

From watching documentaries citing russian sources (or at least pretending to), I always heard that point of the searchlight was to blind the enemy, but thick fog and dust lowered intensity of the light, so it didnt rly blind the germans . (not an expert, just an opinion) but if you want to illuminate the area by creating artificial moonlight, you would likely not aim searchlights down but up, thus silhouettes would not rly be a thing? Also if illuminating the area is such a big deal, that you have to get so many big searchlights from air force and air defences, woudnt it be better just to wait on daylight?

that's very interesting. I didn't know that but it makes perfect sense. Glad I read your comment. gave me a lil more insight

It exposed the body outlines of Soviets making them sitting ducks in front of MG-42.

in the 70's us US army grunts trained with M60s bouncing their xenon searchlights off cloud cover - "supported illuminated night attack". pretty surreal looking.

@@Cruiserczcz Zhukov wanted his attack and the movement of his armies quickly, because Stalin had the timetable set for Berlin to surrender on May 1st, which is International Worker's Day. So, Zhukov had just a little over 2 weeks to accomplish that mission. That includes also to make sure the some 200.000 men of the 9th Army wouldn't retreat back into Berlin and create this long and bloody siege warfare and turn into a Stalingrad 2.0. He just did that.

The german army continued to fight to the bitter end and maintained good disciplen and moral on the eastern front, on the west they were quickly desintegrating tho

​​@karimchaffai5922 you said "they are disintegrating in the west" why is that?

@@karrole88im no historian, but it probably had alot to do with WHO they were fighting. The Germans did not want to surrender to, and be taken prisoner by, the Soviets at all. They knew how badly soviets treated pows and civilians alike. There were actually quite a few German units who requested permission to and/or did launch small offensives to fight through soviet encirclement and reach western lines to surrender to the Western allies

Yes I agree Felton's videos are excellent.

These last stands of the Germans, by which any other country would have long given up/been forced to surrender, is just inspiring against the insane onslaught of the Russians who would stop at nothing to capture Berlin.

Gipsy Danger Yes. And they did take out a lot of soviet armor

@Gipsy Danger and were quite successful

Neil Allen not socialism, national socialism. Socialists were quite disliked by the NAZIs along with the communists

@@jacb2997 national socialism is socialism, just different branch than Marxist socialism

@@robobertob I didn't say that, I said that there is different socialist ideologies, others than Marxism

How long would you advise for a stop therethere, to see the site well? I hear they also have a museum. I'm trying to plan going to Poland and Ukraine next year, and thought of taking that route from Berlin past Seelow Heights.

@@larsrons7937 Give yourself at least an hour. The museum is small but you get a nice view of the valley and there is a small cemetery there as well. Then continue over to Kirstin in Poland where there was fighting but you wouldn’t know it unless you do your homework and know where to look.

@@Grandizer8989 Thank you for the recommendation. Then I probably will do my homework and see the Kirstin area too. I guess an off-the-track walk in the forests would reveal trenches and such.

I'm sure nobody heard anything with a solid 30 minutes of thousands of shells exploding from hundreds of artillery pieces firing all at the same time. What was left of their bloody ruptured eardrums probably didn't hear much after that.

thats the german nebelwerfers

That's why it's called " total war" not engagemennt.

@@shirleybalinski4535 One just needs to look at Stalingrad.

I feel that homie. What rar u from?

Ukraine war

Concur. However, that mindset is partially responsible for what we're seeing in Ukraine. Massed assaults by partially trained infantry ; tanks not moving by bounds/overwatch. Also overly centralized planning especially with artillery.

Not the BBC, the World at War was made by Thames TV.

@@oregongaper Am sure it was the BBC,

jeep23862 mate, I do stand corrected, you are correct. Swear to God that I watched it on BBC late Sunday evenings in the very late 70’s or early 80’s.

@@pashvonderc381 To be honest I had to do double take when I read Mathews comment. If somebody had told me face to face it was a BBC production it would have been a few minutes before my brain woke up and said, nope, it was ITV.

Love World At War and the amazing narration by Laurence Olivier, my favorite WW2 documentary series. They don't make them like that any more sadly.

Dear Steve, as one Holmes to another, what do you have against punctuation? Punctuation is your friend.

@@TheDesertwalker and as one to another who made you u tube and grammar police. Please do tell sorry boss i didn't do much book learning i was away serving my country England for 15 years. What have yoj ever done for your country except be a complete plum commenting on people's grammar and punctuation make a comment on the video nothing else please

Would like to metal detect there and would also like to search the river.un exploded ordnance be dammed....they dig up goodies all the time in Russia especially in the rivers and swamps

I dunt leve cuments animore because pople like dedesirtwaker criticise my spelin

@@terrywilson1002 It's " speeling " is wull yu shud no?

The reason you haven't heard of General Gothard Heinrich, Herman Balck, Because historian tendency to deliberately bypass these great generals and only focus on Ervin Rommel

@@christopherbeckford3102 Didn't Heinrici abhor Hitler?

@@shanewright2772 Yes, he was a devout Christian and fell afoul of the Nazi leadership because of it.

@@christopherbeckford3102 mo

@@christopherbeckford3102 Not really, not just him. German simply had so many impressive generals, like Manstein, Guderian and etc...

My second cousin of my mother was George Washington

Americans using Nazis instead of fighting them? Colour me shocked

@raymondhertz1476 - What was the panzer cousin's name? I tried to look it up and search. Chief of Staff of the Army would be "inspekteur" of the Bundeswehr "Heer". I found one possible match: Josef Moll, captain and from 1941 second staff officer of the 20th Panzer Division. In 1942, major, and second staff officer of the 3rd Panzer Army (under Reinhardt). 4-5 later staff assignments in WWII, promoted to Lt. colonel in 1944. In the Bundeswehr Heer, among others, in 1963, as major general, commander of the 10th Panzer Division. 1966-1968 "Inspector (chief of staff) of the Army". Could it be him?

I was just wondering about that sort of a scenario last night. Another words, Americans who came to live in Germany or who have family in Germany and maybe some of them even became German citizens even though they may have basically been Americans originally, what it was like for them living in Germany when the war broke out. There must have been cases where people who grew up in America and spoke english ended up becoming German soldiers... I already know that this happened in the US Army with people from Germany Coming to America Etc

@@matthewmaurysmith2486 Naturally there were Americans who joined the German Army (Wehrmacht), but I don't think they were many, and they only could if they were officially German citizens. For all foreigners the only choise was the Waffen SS. During the war there was a Waffen SS unit for (non-citizen) American and British POWs who had switched sides to fight for the NZs, but I don't think that unit was ever more than a couple of dozen man strong.

TIK is also a great ww2 youtuber

@@nukemwill15 When TIK announced he was finally doing Stalingrad I joked about which would be longer, his videos or the actual siege? At this point the series might be the longer of the two.

@@christopherconard2831 And I am completely fine with that!

@@nukemwill15 TIK is good until he goes on his "everything that isn't anarcho-capitalism is Communism" rants.

This channel is gold, but so is montemayors channel!

That killed no one.

It hit a big empty bag. Gen Heinrici pulled his troops back at the last minute.

Joe Smith...would you find a body afterward?

The Soviet soldiers serving those artillery pieces suffered from concussions and bleeding eardrums during that barrage.

@@BELCAN57 They apparently had to keep their mouths open when firing to prevent their ears from popping

"manteufel" = "man who is a devil"

From what I've read, there is some doubt as to that actually happening, but I can't swear it isn't true.

That's a long name

Manteuffel later coined the word Bundeswehr for the new post war Armed Forces.

@@oldesertguy9616 Just from the sound of it, I'm calling bullshit.

I'd say there were a fair few, Model, Balck, Schorner, Friesner, all were pretty good defensively.

Yes with make do and lack of resources due to the end

weirdshibainu I think he even won the last battle ever in ww2 correct me if I’m wrong

"defense in depth".,makes sense when you know an artillery strike was the signal for a Russian advance!!

Let's not forget Smiling Albert Kesselring

Thank you brother

NOT COOL

@@EricToTheScionti lmfao

Eric Scionti yeah I get it maybe I should’ve used respect, not because who they were fighting for but personally because anyone who lived through that Battle or war has incredibly deep and strong memories so my blessings go out to all those who fought in World War II

I had my surround sound on so when explosions started happening I had to throw my controller down and hit the deck.

Gipsy Danger , Yes, a truly terrifying time for the German civilians.

Speaking of the final days I wonder if there might be a video about Willy Herrald (sp?) forthcoming?

You ever watch Downfall?

Eric Scionti yes, loved it.

@Gipsy Danger If they dont fight probably they would die by the hands of the soviets

WHAAT!!?

That's why the are the elitest of elite.

@@taylorc2542 As an eastern european, I do have to say that I would agree.

You lost fritz. suck it up.

Do not forget that the Panzer-Division "Müncheberg" started the battle with 6 thousand people and 35 tanks, and as a result retreated to Berlin with two hundred soldiers and four tanks in service.

@@taylorc2542 I'm sure all the people in the death camps would agree with you

Freefall one of those morons, is braver and manlier than your whole bloodline you internet troll

Freefall remember those American morons who got mowed down at Omaha beach?

I bet Freefall doesn't understand how D-Day was only barley won by the allies due in part to a great deal of luck. Remember that the invasion was suppose to be on the 5th and not the 6th. Guess what else was on the 5th? Some Nazi's birthday. Hitler went to a party the night of the 5th and got totally trashed, leading to a hangover that caused him to sleep in late the morning of June 6th. This is important because Hitler was so paranoid and delusional at this point he insisted on maintaining personal command of the Heavy SS Armor. No one in his command staff had the balls to wake up Hitler until later in the morning and as such those Heavy tanks were sent to the beach late. Had the invasion been on the 5th as originally planned Hitler would have been awake and able to dispatch the armor sooner which in turn could have killed all of the paratroopers dropped behind the beaches, preventing encirclement of the fortifications. This could have ruined the entire invasion. This isnt spoken about much because it reveals just how close the invasion was to failing. And all because of a coincidence of timing and Hitlers incompetent leadership style.

Germans army were the strongest at that time, but too bad taking on too many countries, which is not smart. Plus the longer the war go, the harder it is for them to replenish. On top of that they were fighting multiple fronts. A lot of bad combinations combine.

@@alejandrorojas1423 I wouldn't say it would lead to the entire invasion to fail. They had air superiority and were probably landing armor etc by the time the tanks moved in or got there. It wouldn't be a failure, just a brutal success.

Yeah I'm sick of quotes from that stupid game, it wasn't even good compared to the original CoD.

@@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge you have no idea what you're talking about.

@@Mike91337 Oh yeah, and what gives you the authority to tell people what's a good game and what isn't?

Comment sections often resemble a war of words!!!!

@@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge just because you got destroyed doesn't make it a bad game.

@KOBRA yes, from CoD World at War actually.

Stop following me

"DIMITRI! Ready the flamethrower. Good! Now take a look at those _rats_ on the horizon!"

Lesser known???? Is one of the most popular battles of the 1945

@@nikodemdyzma9330 but not one that people now a lot about. When u ask people about WW2 battles they'll talk about Stalingrad, Kursk, D-Day ect.

SirVolkerStein A battle the nazi would loose no matter what

@@sirvolkerstein Seelowe Heights is hardly "pivotal" by early March 1945 the collapse of Nazi Germany was basically inevitable. It simply was a mopping up exercise prior to Berlin.

Pivotal???? The only thing that turned on this was which Red Army unit got the bragging rights for raising the red flag over the Reichstag...

In Germany its realy well known.

@@yanniklemm4108 I'm very glad to hear that! Such things should never be forgotten.

Very well known in Russia

Yes he’s great, also love armchair historians animations. Indy nidel’s WWII is great for learning about the war as well. But mark is good for learning about those obscure or forgotten events you’ve never heard of! Quality content, especially for a small-ish channel

@@CitizenSnips69 I like how youtubers are making better content than actual history channels lol

Sadly the comments are full of wehraboos

Gay.

Churchill’s “Second World War” won the Nobel for Literature

Ah, beautiful CoD: World At War

ONCE THIS PLACE ECHOED WITH THE LAUGHTER OF FRIENDS AND LOVERS....NO MORE.....

Back when Call of Duty was awesome.

Infantry clearing way for tanks? Bloody Soviets, man.

Every sacrifice paid for in rape and murder.

I’ve Just come to the video now and there are plenty 👌

Look above you lol

THEIR LAND, THEIR PEOPLE, THEIR BLOOD!

@@sumvs5992 BURN THE WHEAT FIELDS!

@Richard Wilson are we to shoot them in the back?

I just want to add as i read the comments of this video that our landscape is still very fucked up. We have a site called Brandenburgviewer where you can see geographical cut outs of brandenburg and you can trace every trench and every bombcrater just by looking at this monstrocity of destruction

Reitweiner Sporn, and Brandenburgviewer, thanks for the recommendation. I hope to pass by the area next year and stop for some exploration before I move on.

Yep his men fought extremely hard I never look at them as nazis I look at them as men who had no choice but to fight for there own sake and survival

@@KR0TE7too bad they lost eh😂

No kidding huh? he really over did it. or maybe, he portrayed it as how it actually was, given the enormous amounts of fire power the Reds had.

Strange how Germany was so bent on mobile war, that when backed into a defence, they forgot how well they had done in WW1 with their artillary.

@@scottleft3672 Y:ou are so right. Sometimes flexibility can be hard to do.

Gary Miller well I had posted that comment before I watched the video. I just knew the battle was a lot of artillery. And yeah that’s how it was loud as hell I’ve seen pictures and it’s just lines of guns.

Babies first war footage?

Actually, soviets produced more SVTs than Americans Garands

@Old Iron Interesting. It was unique to SVT or it was problem for all arms using 7.62x54R?

@Old Iron It wasnt too bad compared to other rifles of the day. Problems occured when automatic fire mode was added. Especially with optional drum magazines. For people who tried to use this weapon as assault rifle it was extremely unreliable. But when used properly (as a sniper rifle with increased rate of fire) it was doing fine.

@Old Iron After that the SVTs were issued to more professional/specialist units, like Naval troops...they had enough time and experience to understand the need to take meticulous care of their equipment.

@@Igor_lvanov You're wrong, it is the other way around.

@@freefall9832 don't know about your nationality, but reading about your comments which are not only insulting, but also totally dimm-witted, you are truely a shame for any country you belong to.

The East German national anthem was "From the Ruins" yet they never fully emerged from the ruins the way the West Germans did.

Its about time to remove those T34 tanks from German cities and put them on a museum. Its an awful view. Greetings from Portugal.

Are those remains from Dresden bombings ?

I hate to think, so many dead.

OORAH!

@ Easy for a Brit like you to say sitting behind the Channel My bet is that you Chaps would of folded a lot faster than the French after all your royalty were Nazi sympathizers. As for the French history bears out that they came out the best on top. Their cities intact and few dead. Compared to the Germans and you closely kin Anglo Saxons

@@luisromanlegionaire Churchill kept a gun in his desk. He vowed that if the Germans invaded, he'd shoot at them as they came through the door and would save the last bullet for himself. By 1941 defences were established in depth for fierce battles over every hill and street, every beach and landing ground.

Battle of the Tennis Court, Burma.

@@luisromanlegionaire - as usual, foreigners overestimate how far the aristocracy influence actual British people... Not a commie, just saying.

@ Gonna fact check that.

Chances are that someone is probably smoking crack whilst watching these videos, now that's a man with problems-- do I go out and buy more crack or do I watch another Felton video?

So...they're like Pervitin? ;-)

Crack at all that.

I don't understand why people think smoking crack is addictive. I've been smoking it for 15 years and I'm not hooked.

Hahaha. Even Felton himself gave this comment a heart!!

Don't worry, a German will come along soon to correct you. 🙂

poor chernov always getting shout at by reznov

@@arnoldshmitt4969 always writing in his stupid diary, nobody will ever read that

@@xanderdekegel2559 Yet someone should read it...

Gerardo Guijarro to their people their blood!!

Stalingrad to Berlin: you see how things have changed dmitri? now it is THEIR LAND, THEIR PEOPLE, THEIR BLOOD.

My family fighting in the Pacific for America, were from German descent. I wonder if they would fight Hitler??

Me too

Same

Me too . I was saddened by the destruction of the Berlin zoo. Tragedy upon tragedy . The Last Battle . Cornelius Ryan . The Battle for Berlin. .

The Germans had that problem back in 41

@@IrishCarney Zhukov was an overrated General, General Chuikov should have gotten more praise.

Soviet easily reached berlin because Germany was fighting with all sides and had support with U.S

@@mrcool2107 80% germans were killed by USSR i mean gosh you are impossible from 1941 there were at least 3 -4 millions germans against USSR and only 1 million in other fronts such as africa or later france

he was practically the one who organised the ​defence of Moscow and Leningrad and came up with the idea of surrounding the 6th army in Stalingrad

Will you Tell us her story, please!?

joe green the people that died for your freedom? You’re referring to them as demons. I’m not a communist and I’m aware that Stalin was awful but remember that millions of soldiers fought and died in the red army to protect their homes from the Germans who brutalized Eastern Europe.

@joe green Good job burning that hospital 😂

Hitler's friends cry that they fell into the hands of the Communists. It’s funny.

He still ended up losing more men than the attackers.

She's lucky they didn't kill her.. anyone behind the lines was seen as a collaborate

@KOBRA You might not know that religion was pretty much loosened up in the USSR during WW2 because it was seen as an effective tool of boosting morale. After the war, the USSR even had permitted Orthodox, Islam, and Judaism organizations.

@KOBRA religion wasnt outlawed, soviets did just one thing with religion - they cut off the cash flow. And thats all.

Changed? The Sovjet Union lost big time. Communism is dead.

@@opoxious1592 During ww2 you brain dead piss-ant ...focus, focus..LOL ...oh i give up. (you really are obnoxious, good choice of your name)

@Andi B ok so you like torturing people to death then...to each his own i guess