Fantastic content. Hope to see more uniforms apparel videos.

Was this a Hugo Boss design?

@@billbolton Nothing ever was.

@@comsubpac thanks.

If in a defensive position, is it better to have two units firing arc crossed over each others?

Rock God or Lemmy as he's often called can make any jacket look cool ...

Either that or the German BDSM community

@@wm2922 "Either that or the German BDSM community" lmao

@@wm2922 "Les boys got leather straps / Les boys got SS caps / But they got no gun now"

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Interessante Geschichte. Danke dafür!

what make the wehrmacht and waffen ss so difference? are in battlefield both of this branch join company? or serve under one or seperated general?

@@firelordazula386 the Waffen SS was under the leadership of the Wehrmacht, but they were also the party army of the nsdap, they were the armed forces of the party.

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@@firelordazula386 the waffen ss units were operationally placed under wehrmacht command. But administratively placed under SS command. Depending on the task. When guarding Hitler, they would be under ss operational command.

Oh, that'd make sense. That thing's not going work with a tall, stiff collar.

@@catfish552 Of course the microphones will work. But inside a tank, the crew will just end up breathing like Vader and sweating like crazy :-)

@@ralphbernhard1757 I don't think they would seeing as the Kehlkopfmikrofon is a throat microphone... A stiff collar would severely interfere with it's operating principle, which requires solid contact with the larynx.

The uniform design predates the availability of the microphone by several years, so unlikely.

The microphone wasn't all that unusual, as during the war the USA issued a superior design to its airforce and tankers, and the RAF used it in aircraft, although the UK seems not to have done so very much or at all for tank crew. As far as I know it was first developed in the USA.

One of my friends actually wears a reproduction version of this (as you said, with insignia removed) lol

I got one reporduced by Richard Underwood Militaria, it is made of heavy wool and works perfectly in autumn/not so cold winter/spring weather. Pairs perfectly with the M43 Field cap. With piping and insignia removed, nobody will tell, save for militaria geeks.

Never remove the insignia if it,s an original. Not even when it,s a replica. The Waffen SS officers insignia up to Obersturmbannführer look cool because they have the Sigrunes.

@@papasaruman That's awesome. They look so formal yet relaxed.

@@dickvansteijn4115 if you plan to wear the jacket outside of reenactments you have to remove the insignia off the reproduction to aboid being crub stomped.

Yes until now I never knew the difference. So glad I saw this video.

@@bama1usaf Now you can spot costume mistakes in movies and television shows. They often will get the uniforms wrong by having an "SS" uniform with the eagle on the breast pocket. If you watch carefully, you'll be able to tell which programs made the effort to be historically accurate, and which were lazy. ; )

Nope, that came 74 years too late... Easiest way to recognize is the rank sign, since SS had different rank symbols

@@robinderoos1166 Good point. But I still find it easiest to look for whether there is an eagle on the breast pocket.

@@robinderoos1166 Considering their rank insignia at the time, not that easy. It was like the US with a distinct symbol for each rank of officer and varying numbers of stripes for enlisted. Both the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS had braided epaulets with pips for officers and less complicated braided epaulettes (and I think pips) for enlisted. While you may be able roughly tell how high a ranking a German soldier was by how fancy, or not, their epaulets were, but I'm not sure that the average Allied soldier could do much more than that without looking at some sort of chart to tell them the difference.

cant agree more. ignoring the ideology of who are wearing it, black color uniform from SS and Panzer crew are my favorite of any ww2 uniform simply because it just look nice.

@@prd6617 Yes the colour and the cut is is very distinctive and appealing. Jacket does look like a lot of 1930's style ski jackets but it also resembles a hussar's pelisse, perhaps the inspiration is a hybrid of the two.

Overrated.

@@ulysses2921 tru

Best of any war. Hands down.

11?! Then his name has to be in archives, do you have it ?

Two golds and a silver?

@@GetUpTheMountains would have been. But there were soldiers wearing more than 5 silver ones too.

Did we all watch the same video? Ralf specifically addressed this point and said there’s no historical evidence for this often supposed link. This guy studies this stuff professionally every day and runs a museum. Why would you not trust that he knows more about the subject?

@@Grnhrz Never said he was wrong. In fact in my comment I say that the skull design similarity of the Prussian and Panzer skulls contributes to the "assumed link". I agree with him that there is not definitive explanation for the origin of the skulls; but note that director Raths says that they "most likely" came from the A7V crews. The fact is that there were many totenkopf patterns; the Prussian pattern worn by the 1st and 2nd leib hussars/panzer skulls, the Braunschweig pattern worn by 17th (1. Braunschweig) hussars and Infantry Regiment 92, etc. I've seen pictures of the Braunschweig pattern being worn on the panzer wrap and the Prussian pattern was worn by the early SS before they designed their own. Maybe neither the cavalry hypothesis and the A7V hypothesis are correct or both are partially correct and the Germans just used an existing pattern for the cool factor because it was what they had. Maybe the A7V skulls inspired the Freikorps which in turn inspired the Panzer skulls. I'm sure Director Raths is correct that there was not a huge cavalry tradition in the Panzerwaffe; but that doesn't mean that there weren't influences. 24th Panzer Div. was converted from a cavalry division and kept their yellow cavalry piping and several panzer generals such as Manteuffel and Strachwitz were ex Imperial cavalrymen. At the end of the day its an interesting piece of military history we can speculate about; no need to demand conformity of thought from everyone. You can respect someone's expertise and have a discussion about a topic. And I'm not even saying he's wrong.

Aren't the skulls one the a7v only on the ones used by the freikorps, which they used to mark them as there's.

@@Apophis40K I'm not an expert on the Freikorps but it does seem likely that they took inspiration from the A7V crews for their totenkopfs. The Freikorps seem to have gone with similar patterns to the A7V crews. Interestingly though there are photos of Freikorps members wearing the Prussian hussar pattern skull on their caps. I don't know if these individuals previously served in a hussar regiment or if they picked up the insignia for the asthetics.

@@wraithoftime4221 I was saying that the A7v crews you where talking about (with a skull on them) where probably the ones used by the freikorps (between ww1 and ww2). They used a deathskull as there logo

@Mialisus Hugo Boss did not design any uniforms... I find this story highly unlikely anyway since the SS did wear standard issue army uniforms once the war started (grey uniforms) and only the rank insignia were different.

The SS actually wore the black uniform throughout the war. True, the feldgrau uniform was worn for undress and combat and was much more common. The black uniform continued to be worn for ceremonial and formal duties, and some sentries and guards continued to wear it in certain locations where they needed to be showy.

@@nonamesplease6288 yes, but even those tried to avoid it whenever possible. Even the members of the Allgemeine SS switched to grey uniforms once the war started to look more military.

@@comsubpac did not design uniforms? He designed the uniforms worn by the SS. His company also made the uniforms for the Hitler Youth. Where the fuck do you get your "information?"

@@comsubpac My impression this was about 1940, and it was out on the town so everyone wore their dress uniforms. It was a great read and he was a barber who drove a Panzer II in Afrika and once gave Rommel a haircut. They informally called Rommel "father" among themselves since they were mostly 19-22 years, and really respected EW. He was captured I think in 1942 and sat out the rest of the war.

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The Lancers death's head badge dates back to 1759, when Hale's Light Horse adopted the the motto "Death or Glory" in honor of General John Wolfe. Became 17th Lancers, then amalgamated with the 21st Lancers in 1922 (hence the classic Deaths Head cap badge of the 17th/21st Lancers who campaigned in North Africa and Italy during WW2), and finally with the 16th/5th Lancers in 1993 to form the current Queens Royal Lancers.

@@markasimmons it's just Royal Lancers now as they amalgamated with 9th/12th Lancers a few years ago.

In actual fact the only regiment in the regular British Army to wear a black beret is the Royal Tank Regiment. The Royal Lancers wear a blue beret, although it's such a dark blue that it could be mistaken for black !

There's quite a lot of cavalry units from different european armies which use or used those skulls.

deaths head? so they must be SS!!

I don't think they need your approval

@@iota515 We do, were Germans..

They were tough and disciplined fighters, props to them for that. No regime deserved such a superior army LESS or MISUSED THEM MORE. My gramps fought against them and had the highest respect for them. The OTHER army though, he called ‘a bunch of wise guys’. (The one that starts with the letter S and ends with the letter S lol)

That’s the problem it’s touchy to modern Germans the vast majority of Germans in ww two were coscripted and patriots fighting for their country modern Germans should get over eighty year old history and be proud of the veterans who fought valiantly for their country and who had nothing to do with the nazis they deserve their respect even the men who fought them respect them

Did you get to talk to him much about it? If so what interesting stories. When I was stationed in Germany my landlords brother was in the Wermacht and would tell me stories with his granddaughter translating. He has his left arm blown off by an American hand grenade, and laughed, saying It was war and had no ill feelings. Very good people. Being a fan of WW2 I was in heaven being in Grrmany.

My grandpa also had this uniform, he was tank commander and wasn’t drafted. He joined the Army in 1940, few months before his 20th birthday and came to the Panzertruppe. He saw action on the balkans during the invasion of Yugoslavia and afterwards he, luckily, became part of the Panzertruppe West and was stationed in France. The tank, he commanded, was part of the first tanks which were sent towards the beaches on D-Day. They were active between Caen and the CW beachheads. His tank got shot on June 7th by AT fire during a suicide mission - they engaged British paratroopers and infantry coming from the beaches in a bocage like area, after a short tactical withdrawal they reorganized and saw that one tank was missing, my grandpa got the mission to break through the hedgerow and look for the missing tank... They took 2 hits. My grandpa and the gunner survived, the other three crewman died in the flames below. He became prisoner of war, first in the UK, then in Canada. He told most of these things, but the details (like the fact he was on a suicide mission) came from another source - when he died in 2008, my mother and I found letters. Letters from my grandpa and former comrades of him, these letters were some kind of an AAR - they talked about the battle and what happened. There is also a kind of copy of an report, written by his company commander. His tank was the first confirmed knocked out tank of his company.

@@bama1usaf yes he was my best friend growing up, he moved to the states and served in the Korean war. Then he was a maintenance director for a carbon plant in Fostoria Ohio and then he retired at the age of 70 and live to be 98 years old

@Justin 12O16E26 Frag grenades very much can and will do that.

@Justin 12O16E26 You have swayed my opinion with your moving words of wisdom. Good day sir.

Whew...thank god for your great uncle! American and British anger at the WSS was red hot by 1944 and positively volcanic by 1945.

I made a mod for HOI4 where the counters are color coded with the branch color.

Pink was the colour for boys as red was a masculine colour and pink is just a weaker form of red. It wasn't until the 1950s that pink became a girl's colour.

@Dalle Smalhals weird flex but okay

@Dalle Smalhals So what. I am a Vet and I play wargames. And vets who boast are probably lying......

Douche

Yes; American, Canadian, British, Aussie and Kiwi anger at the SS was RED HOT by the time 1945 rolled around, I’m surprised any of them survived captivity, or at least the first hours of being taken captive.

The color black didn’t help either, but they were defiantly regular army guys. The deaths head came from ancient Prussian tradition....too bad the SS ruined it.

So what

sehr fucking gut

USMC dress uniform. But yeah. Wehrmacht and ussr officers were badass looking.

I've read in in several books over the years

Yes thats what i heard too - it was worn to honor ( The last Hussar) Anton Ludwig Friedrich August Mackensen (6 December 1849 - 8 November 1945) , He was a German field marshal. commanded successfully during the First World War of 1914-1918 and became one of the German Empire's most prominent and competent military leaders.

@Jim lastname Indeed - An Emblem worn by The Prussian & Brunswick "Black" Hussars 1809 during the war against Napoleon , Theres even similarity to the emblem of the British 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Motto : Death Or Glory !

@Jim lastname Yes , that was Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Braunschweig ( pronounced " Brownshweig " :-D ) His wife ( Augusta Sophia von Hannover / Princess of England & Ireland ) was the daughter of King George the 3rd . Correct me if im wrong .

@Jim lastname Yes - all that monarchy leading to WW1 , Insane .

@Jim lastname Brunschweig

yes.

Fallinbostol, hohne or celle? I was actually Munster lager itself so only 5 mins from the front of the camp gates...

@@fishyc150 celle, I was born in hannover, dad was with 94 loc ra then my brother wound up in celle with the fusiliers in 05

@@scrubsrc4084 BMH hannover? Happy times. I did 12 years in the area... Munster (munster lager as it was known) then began hohne/ belsen with 32 armoured engineers. Off to Hamburg, luneburg, lauenburg, hannover of a friday night 😊 Take care

@@fishyc150 never ceases to amaze me how many were out there in the baor

@@scrubsrc4084 when I arrived mid 80s we had 1 BR Corp. 3 full divisions. I heard that nearly 1 million men rotated through BAOR since the end of WW2...

I did film it, but sadly I have almost no source on it :(

@@MilitaryHistoryVisualized oh bugger. 🙂 Thx for your great content

you are right. Today Germany wears them on both sleeves.

If you google Michael Wittmann or Michael Wittmann tank ace, you will see the type of uniform the SS tankers wore. It was basically the same, but as you say, had he double sig runes on one side of the collar, then the soldiers rank on the other side.

Unfortunately for panzertrupoen lots of the Allis thought this back in 1942-45.

@@Mugdorna I suspect this is why they changed the collar patches to standard Heer double 'I' patches later in the war. Death Heads can get you killed...

The Pink color lining is still used today in the Panzertroops of the Bundeswehr .

@@motorrebell yes but these strike an imposing image is what I was going for but thank you for the info 👍

True, but the main influence for the transfer most often cited are the blue coveralls the industry workers wore. Through them blue became more and more connected to "masculinity" and "strength" .

@@DasPanzermuseum Ah, ok thanks. Didn't know that.

Don't forget the various Panzerjäger units that wore pink and red piping. Even some had black piping. There were some that switched to Panzergrenadier green piping too!