No more brother wars.

Every solider had a story. May they all be remembered forever. Respects from Canada.

I always wanted to see the German's perspective from D-Day this is really chilling

What a brilliant way to end my week, a Friday History at war Documentary

¨He never before fired a shot¨ you do know what basic training for operating machine gun includes? SHOOTING

Have read brief accounts of this man’s actions and experience of that morning on Omaha Beach. This video offers far greater insight into the events of the terrible longest day. Thank you for this post.

Incredible work…. It is all so incomprehensible for someone who was not there and will never have a similar experience.

Rommel was not away on the other side of Normandy. He was back in Germany for his wife’s birthday.

"A cornered fox is more dangerous than a jackal"-Gray fox metal gear solid

Great take everyone is tired of allies perspective and they seen it all But German and Russian perspectives is the key interest factor keep it up

This is way they have been anointed THE GREATEST GENERATION

The Americans attacked his Position and he ,as a German Soldier , defended it.! That’s all there is to it..! What a bunch of Stupid Comments by some Play Station Heroes…

What a touching story. Thank you.

Love how well you put footage together to show these historical events. Mad props

i love this chanel . even love how he tell the story with simple and good explaination . he is the only one person at german side and as we imagine how we are at their own place . heroic😢 ❤❤❤

Great job on making this video

An increible story, impeccably told. Thanks.

It's generally harder to attack than defend.

This was EXCELLENT history sir, well presented and narrated. ❤❤

Love these vids, keep it up

The whole west has fallen with Germany. May the last defenders of Europe rest in Peace.

A very valuable,in depth story og war and healing.Much needed.Thanks

WOW ! what a story ! He is very lucky he survived the Battle!

So far, this is my favorite narrative out of all of them this channel has put out. It is so very personal and really pulls at your heartstrings... At least it did for me

Great video

I love all your videos. Look forward to more. Thank you history at war.

A true hero. To stay strong against such overwhelmung forces is something most allied soldiers would have never experienced in ww2. Nothing more horrific than to know you have extremely small chances of actually surviving a battle to see the next day.

Really well made video

Excellent work. Your efforts were extensive and added valuable perspective.

@ HAW ; You guys never disappoint . TNX !

Aaaaah,Heinrich Severloh- the beast of Omaha

GREAT VIDEO!!!!

Excellent work once again!

Festung Europa!

Great job! Keep up the great work brotha🤙

You make the best videos bro

MG 42 has a firing rate not of 1.200 shots but of 1.500 shots, MG 3 of the Bundeswehr has the lower firing rate of 1.200 shots.

Good video, the Title, calling the young soldier, who was following orders and doing his job,A Beast, is uncalled for

I love history. I found this channel about 2 weeks ago, and I can stop watching your content. You're doing great. Keep it up, and can I have a shout-out in your next video, please?

Every night now i go to bed drifting off to my playlist i made up of this Channel.Your narration is much better already! My playlist carries on untill i wake up next morning! So expect to see your views rise :)

The Germans knew why they were fighting. The average allied soldier did not! Salute this great German soldier.

What choice did he have? Young men dying for old mens riches. RIP

Fantastic the way you put this episodes story together,i know of Franz Gokel etc but hadnt heard of any of the others untill today.Apart from hemingway and the other American photo journo Robert Capa

6.6. 6 o'clock. must have been important to the people in power.

Finally not a stupid AI voice!

14,000 views in 16 hrs. nuff said. GJ.

Looking some the comments they dont understand nothing about war it like a video game or just a story it was life or death cause it was 80 years ago dont make it less very sad

beautiful

You would have thought the germans would have organised water troughs to cool the barrels. The other fact which seems odd, once he had expended 12000 rounds, the only ammo available was all tracer, if you can supply tracer why not ball ammunition, just a couple of thoughts. I saw a docudrama made by the BBC, and it featured Franz Gockel actions, it depicted him firing a MG42, not a captured water cooled machine gun.

They were all heroes on both sides.

Why insane? He was just doing his job... would he have been american, you would have called him "hero"!

I like when the other narrator briefly comes in great work as always keep it up

I am so sure that this country boy who seems like a metal round young man, well, disciplined, coming from a country family farming community really doesn’t like the nickname of the “ beast of Omaha”

It just goes to show how one man with a MG that can fire 🔥 like no other Machine gun 🔫. This Guy who has night mares,,,no wonder 🤔 he took many lives and just a soldier for his country 🇩🇪🔥⚔️ He will never forget what happened on that day. My Father was 15 and Dad got inlisted for the last 9 months of the war.

I'm surprised smoke wasn't used.

AMAZING!

please release more videos of tiger tank battle🙏🙏🙏 i love ur voice to tell that story..❤❤❤

I can just pitchure Hemingway being like " "NO! NO! WRONG WAY!" ..most likely just making a show of it🤣

Thumbs up ! 👍🏻

Enjoyed that..

It was a miracle that we were able to take the beachs they went through hell straight facts

This story is ridiculous and I'm tired of seeing WWII history channels use it for clickbait... To start, Severloh was not a machine-gunner in a static infantry unit along the coast; he was an aide to Bernhard Frerking, who was an artillery officer. So the idea that Severloh would have a machine-gun, let alone something like an MG42, when he was merely an aide to an artillery officer, is highly dubious. Machine-guns along the Calvados coast tended to be older like MG34's or captured guns like French MAC 31's or Polish Wz.30's. The MG42 was not as ubiquitous as most people think. So, if the artillery troops at WN62 happened to get their hands on a state-of-the-art MG42, I doubt they would just hand it off to some officer's aide who was not even a trained machine-gunner. The 2,000-some Americans that Severloh claimed to have killed is also ludicrous. The documented number of Americans killed on ALL of Omaha Beach is 856, with 715 missing. Factoring in that a large chunk of 'missing' were likely killed in action, the total number of American deaths on Omaha Beach is approximately 1,000 to 1,500. It's an estimation, but all documents point to these numbers. Severloh's position only covered Easy Red sector, and the main American force landing on Easy Red sector was the 1st Infantry Division. The documented casualties of the 1st Infantry Division on Omaha Beach are 86 killed, 528 wounded, and 357 missing. So how can Severloh kill 2,000 men when he would have only been covering one section of the beach where there was only part of one division that in total suffered 971 casualties (killed, wounded, and missing)? There were also 7 other machine-gun positions at WN62, and there were other WN's covering Easy Red sector besides WN62; so it's not like Severloh was the only one killing everyone on Easy Red sector. Another claim Severloh made was that he fired 12,400 rounds, and the ammo was brought to him throughout the day by an unknown NCO, which also makes no sense. All the trench networks had 'munistionsablage' units to store ammunition for nearby MG positions, and they could only hold a limited number of cans. A German ammo can for a machine-gun belt held 250 rounds. If Severloh fired anywhere near 12,400 rounds, he would have gone through about 50 ammo cans... which means the mysterious NCO was going around all of WN62 and stealing ammo cans from the other MG positions. Also, how could have Severloh fired on David Silva's boat when Severloh's position covered Easy Red sector, but David Silva was in Company D of the 29th Infantry Division landing on Dog Green sector 3 to 4 miles west from WN62? I believe Severloh was there, but I highly doubt he fired a machine-gun, and even if he did, there is no way he killed as many men as he claimed. It's a dramatic story people like to talk about, but it does not make any sense when you think about it. I actually did a whole episode on it on Paul Woodage's KZfaq show about it. If you want to watch that, just search "Myths of WWII, Heinrich Severloh" and you'll find my name on the episode.

Do you know what that flamethrower would have done if he hadn’t took it out?

2:15 "never fired a shot before"? 7:20

War is a racket

Pretty cool

This man was a real hero, and not a monster as described in this video.

Thank you for that clip of the Fuher snoozing, omg, I needed that chuckle today, lol. The craziest part of D Day, the fact that everyone was too scared go wake him up! Dude, get your lazy pea soup eating ass up! Lol

I wonder how long bodies and kit were washing up on the shore for...

Another thing, the Bombers were actually instructed to drop their bombs further inland so as not to kill their own troops.

The 'German' Audy Murphy

Yesss🎉

Subbed!

Hello here is a history nerd. He was born in todays Lower Saxony not Baden-Württemberg. (2:10)

Thank you for your neutral reporting of that historical event by portraying a german Wehrmacht soldier as human.

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Amazing video I love hearing from both sides of the coin. Specially a story from the point of the fighting infantry men who were there.

Great video, not sure if this happened or not but why didnt the allies smoke the beaches to interupt German vision?

The Mg42 was actually fired in very short burst otherwise it over heated and needed the barrels to be changed out. Never like this shows.Barrel changes didn't take long but they were equipped with just one spare. I am sure they took time to cool down unless they used the old American trick of peeing on them.

About time

Gott mitt uns

How much darkest, bloody night, explosion forestry concur skies occurred. Isn't vanishing and hiding the brilliance of some stars ....

I wonder how much would change if Romal was at Normandy, Hitler was awake, and reinforcements from the south of France had arrived on time(I forgot their name but it was an SS division which was slowed down by resistance)

You call him a beast and an insane, I say he was a hero and a good soldier.

Stupid question but none of this at the beginning is real footage right?

Sorry my brothers,, on every side

You made Saving Private Ryan movie clips black and white and called it real lmao

Lesson never trust the media

Delete the elete,easy

As always; Americans show up, with very little knowledge of what they are getting into, we can thank the politicians for that.

And while we're at it, no sister wars either.

No..

They had not learnt a single lesson since Gallipoli

No more Brother wars !!!

One soldiers horror story among millions . If but one of those stories prevents the next "world war" , we may have a chance as the human race .

Is this that ridiculos story of an MG42 gunner that killed more than 1000 allied men ? Do you people realise how stupid this is given that the Allies lost around 2000 men at Omaha ? And what ? One guy killed more than 1000 ? With one gun ? Please tell me people are not that stupid.

just as well he kept his role quiet or I dont think he would have been alive to tell his story,terrible all round

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Anyway, the wars are always bad, the planet is the first which suffers.