Yup, mangled nonsense.

Correct

"...when Germany during this period is looked upon with disdain..." Well, you've got to admit it wasn't their finest hour. I can sort of understand a few hard feelings.

Hitler had the trait of all narcissistic sociopaths….he always blamed someone else. Does that sound a bit like someone we know about today?

Yep Joe Biden.

@@georgesouthwick7000 yup Donald Trump

Yep TRUDEAU SOROS OBAMA SCHIFF PELOSI CLINTONS ETC ETC.

Well, not really. 6th Panzer Army actually did have best equipment Germans could muster at the time. Including King Tigers and Panthers, which many regard to these days as best tanks of the war (heavy and medium) . They even had decent LW support which was rare this late in the war. And whole SS was based on idea of their superiority over Slavic Untermensch, belief that surviving members of SS (and Germans in general) held long after the war has ended. Plus, bulk of the Soviet forces was in East Prussia (modern Poland) . Therefore, they should have won, right ?

He could not. At the time they were fleeing so fast they could not pick up dead bodies 😁

@@aleksazunjic9672 That wasn't the point of his comment.

@@robertkarp2070 Point is that SS did not bravely sacrifice their lives for the sake of Germany. Instead, they were trying to save their own skin. In fact, from March 1945 till the end, SS did not distinguish themselves in combat anywhere.

Why? So more innocent people could be slaughtered on both sides for longer? The vast majority of ordinary Germans wanted nothing more by 1994 than for the war to end…..yet you want to prolong it.

He was aware of Stauffenburg plot and did nothing to warn Hitler or stop it.

He was made aware as were most commanders in the west. I think he would have backed Rommel, but the truth of the matter was after d-day the allies were not going to say we will accept peace, and let you focus on Russia.

Uh, NO.

@jasonschweigert8069 As far as I know, that's only speculation, but even if he did, it was a silent approval that faded to subservient obedience after the failure of the coup.

That's because the Americans and the British had a deal with Stalin that anyone who had fought at the Eastern Front against Soviets would become Stalin's prisoners of war.

Exactly, plus the Russians just had too many men and materials.

That was something Hitler said, The best have all ready fallen.

@@armyvet8279🇺🇸Lend and Lease, 🚩do not like the truth of Soviet power was 🇺🇸🤫

In 70 oder 80 Jahren wird der Krieg von anderen an anderem Ort fortgesetzt. Sagte Göbbels zum Abschied.

Thank God😊😊😀😀​@@caractacusbrittania7442

Your friend is a bit delusional, considering his advanced age 😁

@@aleksazunjic9672 He didn't tell me yesterday. I'm in my 70s

@@Alphaskeptic In reality, neither side attacked across the lake, because it was not necessary. Lake goes in almost east-west directions. First Germans attacked on both northern and southern shore towards east. When their attack stalled, Soviets counterattacked from the north, in order to cut of German penetration. German defenses quickly crumbled and they started panicked retreat . In a couple of weeks they were already in Vienna.

@aleksazunjic9672 Maybe so but I knew him well. He saw it himself. I'll take the eye witness account.

@@Alphaskeptic When someone hates Soviets like certain Hungarians do, all kinds of hallucinations do appear 😁

Ty

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@mohammadaminbehdarvandan603 It wouldn't have made much of a difference bro

@hollowgonzalo4329 at least berlin and possibly vienna could save and east germany until pomerania and west prussia could be recapture until western allies arrive and it could inflict hundreds of thousands casualties more to the soviet troops and make them temporary weak and force them to fight with more than 1 milion german soldiers arrived from those fronts.

You REALLY think they had enough fuel to conduct such an operation? The tanks would've been out of fuel by the end of the first day.

@RustyShackleford they had still vienna and balaton oil reserves at that time. And synthetic oil reserves. They could use those fuels that they wasted it in operation spring awakening or they used it for operation hannibal. Luftwaffe was still active in battle of berlin 1945. It shows that germany still had fuel even in April 1945.

The Vienna reserves were fairly insignificant. The only substantial oil fields still under German control were Balaton, their synthetic fuel refineries were being heavily targeted by allied strategic bombing at that point (even the Soviets airforce was involved by that late stage in the war). Also, there is a major difference between having fuel in depots and having the logistical capacity to deliver said fuel to an area of operations - I don't deny that Germany had some petroleum/ersatz in some depots which had not yet been destroyed by strategic bombing, however the quantity of fuel required to conduct effective combined-arms operations by 1945 can only be described as: enormous. Apparently Tiger 1/2 tanks fuel consumpion = 1-2 mpg on the battlefield and even the lighter Panther tank used a similarly large amount of fuel compared to the much smaller early war Pz.II and III. Furthermore: Germany was unable to supply it's dwindling airforce with high-octane aero fuel and therefore, the Luftwaffe would not be able to provide effective air cover let alone close air support. It's true that the jet engined aircraft such as me-262 were able to operate using "less refined" fuel but we both know how few of those jets were in service. Certainly not enough to do the job... German ground forces would have been at a huge disadvantage operationally. The Soviets would have a massive advantage in recon and unlike the Germans, could conduct armoured movements that were wasteful on fuel (recon in force, etc) at will - by comparison, the German armour would have to conserve their supplies and follow a precise set-piece battle plan which would be inflexible. There is no doubt the German Panzer divisions were capable to stunning localised victories even in the final days of the war, however, they just did not have the material to conduct the grand operations that had won them such success earlier in the war. The failed attempt by the LSSAH to break the siege of Budapest is a prime example of this - they just did not have the staying power, the ability to keep a push going and smash through the enemy was no longer there. The men were courageous, highly skilled warriors - we all know that... and the fact that they were swept aside so easily is indicative of the overwhelming material advantage the allies enjoyed in 1945. German forces were still capable of tactical victories right up until the surrender, however strategic gains of any meaningful degree were simply beyond the capacity of the Wehrmacht/Waffen-SS. Not to mention the fact that skilled/experienced Panzer crews were being killed off and replacements were not available or if available, they were of much lower combat effectiveness than the men they replaced. There are multiple examples of Tiger tanks being lost on both fronts because the inexperienced crews panicked and showed their side/rear to the enemy rather than braving the enemy fire/keeping the glacis pointed at the enemy line of fire. The Soviets managed to kill Kurt Knispel. That says a great deal about Germany's armour in the late war - they were beleagured. Outnumbered, outgunned, over-stretched and doomed, despite their obvious individual superiority to their enemy. Beyond all that, the quality of the average German soldier had declined steeply by 1945. They were scraping the bottom of the barrel and the Soviets were not. I don't like that history took this path but it is what it is. After the failures at Stalingrad and Tobruk/El Alamein, Germany lost the ability to take the initiative. They were purely reactionary from that point, even the Battle of Kursk was purely reactionary - same with the Battle of the Bulge. The allies were calling the shots and had broken the German codes so they had an enormous advantage in intel - I suspect an operation the size that you describe would have been impossible to keep secret and would have been Kursk v2.0. Just my 2c@@mohammadaminbehdarvandan603

many atrocities? and the soviets and then the yankees didn't any , of course

Yes

Why you should never trust your leaders!! Same with my family...had an uncle and my father fighting against their cousins in WW2, both sides of the Atlantic...

Your comment reminded me of Gonzalo Lira. R.I.P. Coach.

Polish soldiers fighting in France and the Low Countries weren't inclined to take SS prisoners, either, especially after the Germans started leveling Warsaw.

My grandfather was a R.A.F. Sgt his plane went down it was shot and damaged he landed in St Omer France he was captured by some German soldiers luckily all 6 men of that plane survived and were taken prisoners however the German army loathed civilians who did not fight with a uniform to identify them as a combatant they felt the partisans were dishonorable and it's why they executed these people honestly that makes perfect sense.

@@joshi3518 The only thing that was "dishonourable" was the Nazi presence on sovereign French territory. Give your head a shake.

@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry Well just to say after the defeat of Germany in WW1 the french treated the Germans badly it's what goes around comes around

@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry Also the fact that France surrendered in 3 months and a small nation like Greece took on Fascist Italy and pushed them out they needed the German army to come in to take Greece even then the Greeks were more effective with a small populace at fighting the Germans, so as I said France got it's just desserts way of the world and in the 2nd world war Germany Japan Italy were also humbled, soon it will happen again in Europe and in the U.S. all these nations will get it back what they put out

...oh sorry they told it at the end of the video 😂 I read the comments first

@@scooter66133 Many ripped them off because theyk new the Soviets and Americans (after Malmedy ) would kill them on sight.. GrossDeutschland soldiers (non-SS) ripped off their armelstreifen so they wouldn't be mis-identified....and killed as SS-men....got that from several veterans of GD

Waffen SS was under OKW operational command, Dietrich was not a Fieldmashall. Notably the LSAH was used by Fieldmarshall Model on the eastern front to great effect.

The SS were used with great effect especially during the Normandy / Caen battles by Avon Rundsdet

They did not fail Hitler, they failed Germany. It supposed to be German last chance to somehow remain in the war (although even that was doubtful) . When they failed, and subsequently fled towards Vienna and further, all chance was lost.

It's an AI computer voice

And a bad one!!!!

Nope. Soviets detected massing of the armor. It was practically impossible to hide as they were forced to move everything by rail.

"Waa-fen SS"

@@gripmann “V”. The “W” in German is pronounced “V”.

No, 'leibstandarte Adolf Hitler' was name of the division. Armband read only 'Adolf Hitler' as shown in the video

No such thing as Leibstandarte patch. It,s the signature cufftitle.

@@alansmith3327 the info i have IS that it was a motto "leibstandarte Adolf Hitler" not the signature. It was a shoulder patch.

​@joseraulmiguens6699 your information is wrong. The insignia worn on the shoulder strap was LAH interwoven or worn as a slip over Not a patch. The Cufftitle which is the subject of the video was his signature. Check out Google for confirmation.

@@joseraulmiguens6699 17th Waffen SS Panzergrenadiers were known as Goetz von Berlichigen and had the "EisenFaust" color tab on the left.....they were known as the LMA division (Lech Mein Arsch).....look up Goetz on Google and you will understand!! It was something he said and did!!😀

Hungary was overthrown in a coup de tat by fascism. Thus resulting Hungary into conflict and destroying the entire country.

And still lost 😂😂

Armelstreifen auf Deutsch

It's Al narrated.

Plus "mythologized", really?

Yes ; I second that . !

WAAA -FIN SS. Stupid AI needs to be trained