The Stg-44 Was the first weapon to bridge the gap between
the Sub-Macinegun and the Bolt action Rifle succesfully with its 7.92x33mm "Kurtz" Bullet
And is the First True "Assault Rifle".
Had the Stg-44 been put into production in 1942 when it was originally conceived
and made in sufficient Numbers,then there is no doubt it would have had a huge impact in all theatres of WW2 and beyond,negating the need for an AK-47.
But it wasnt to be and the AK became the rightful Heir to the Throne.
It puts so much emphasize on Normandy. Why don't they talk more about the Eastern Front (aside from just winter), where the German really commit the BULK of their force and where many German weapon designs were inspired? (eg. SVT-40 for G-41/43)
if the black people right next to all our asses can't take criticism to protect our ass or back off to prove they aint doing this to our ass they got no business being next to our asses. period.
Well they did finally, but during the war I think the main reason was, that because Allies weapon industries were already producing machine guns to their troops it was very hard to give any resources to start producing another weapon. Plus I think even though Allies got MG42s as spoils, they didn't get their blueprints until the very end, so they had no idea how did they work etc.
what for ? the german lost though...more seriously, the german infantryman thought in 1942 as it was a wonder weapon which would greatly help slaughter the russian army ...although a very efficeint weapon, it was not enough...
@kaa13 because it was a better MG than anything the allies had. just because the germans lost does not mean all their weapons were inferior. the allies waited until the war ended to start copying superior german weapons
@00MSG the mg42 uses the old nazi caliber 7.92 and a faster bolt system. that lowered durability but it fired 1500rpm instead of 1200. you can tell it by the sound. the first mg42´s sound like a saw. even on video its still frightening.
to compare the mg3 of the bundeswehr to wehrmacht mg42 is like rammstein to tokio hotel. :)
(no offence intended just regular german smartass reacktion)
its not showing the germans as idiots or cowards ive watched a lot of history channnel documentarys about WWII and they are all pretty wrong if it comes to casualties or how weak, pathetic and cowardly the germans were and are focused on how 5 US soldiers butchered the entire wehrmacht on one single day
and such historical complete incorrect things as we can see them in all hollywood movies about WWI or WWII...confusing...
@Dresden1065 They did had the weapon earlier..by 1942. Hitler just didn't like the weapon and didn't wanted it produced. If he did approved it back then..I could only imagine that engagements such as Normandy would have been very different since the stg 44 practically negated the advantages Americans had in the M1 Garand.
A psychotic, uneducated, Meth addicted Austrian Corporal didn't DESERVE to lead such a fine people and it's superior army. Death to Nazis and long live Germany!
the german produce the best weapons ever the mg 42 is amazing and the best ,and popular machnie gun they we ever had in the world the other machine gun s cannot compete with the great MG 42
schade wir hätten heute die besten waffen haben wir ja zum teil auch aber sie werden nun mal nicht gefördert von unserer politik
Please! Don't blame the germans! This is just pure stupidity... These people are so ashamed of WWII, that they don't even want to talk about it. I don't blame them. "Live long and prosper."
One thing about logistics you can see in our modern fps computer games. Bullets seem to fall from the sky, or are readily found on the ground. And it sucks running out. It is the one thing games just can't deal with. Logistics, so game designers cheat.
In reality, units in modern wars are often starved of neccessities. Dozens of people are behind each soldier supplying these items.
So love these weapons... but love the guy with the box of bullets even more.
Tigers, 88's, MG42's... astounding weapons, but it makes little difference if the spare parts, ammunition, or fuel isn't available.
Many german officers prefered the MG34 simply because the ammo didn't run out so quickly. More tiger tanks ran out of fuel than were destroyed in the ETO.
Logistics without an effective army, good strategy, and tactics is useless (look at ww1), , cuz your guys are probably going to be dead or using the white flag before they can benefit from logistics on the long run.
"Their Bark is Worse than their Bite..." Those might be the last words to pass through your mind as you lay in a field in Europe riddled with 7.92 mm holes. MG42 was the grandaddy of the US M60 and our current SAW. The Krauts were way ahead of their time when it came to warfare...
the day and night bombing destroyed not only our factories but also our cities and murdered thousands of people, I am not nazi but i liked our medieval towns.
and so you should be, the STG44 was an amazing weapon. Im British, and yeah we've committed atrocities, but that still doesnt stop me from feeling proud of the Lee Enfield series :)
"No, he was stupid enough to wage war and fail at knocking out England."
True, but the English government was moronic enough to start a war for Poland, and lose nearly a million men in the process, for what? Hitler did not expect England to wage war for the neutrality of Poland, a country governed by a military Junta. Chamberlain was a fool to let himself being influenced by the haws in the press and his government.
Hell, im dissappointed because they dident talk about the FN Browning Hi-Power pistol, givin the fact that in addition to the brittish and the canadians, they (the germans) also used it after they took over the FN plant in Belgum. In fact, if you go to the part about the pistols, theirs even a scene where a German solder is squatting down, and holding one in his motherfucking hand!
@williamwissian True, but just because a gun failed ass and broke doesn't mean that this video series won't feature it. Just watch the "Japanese Weapons of WWII" episode.
@PraetorianMan That is VERY true my good man, but still, that's all they had, the Germans had WAY better weapons they did. So why bother featuring the ones that just, well, sucked? That's like taking someone to meet your family, and showing them your hemophiliac in-bred mistake baby that you keep in your closet. See what I'm saying?
@williamwissian how comes that you think the G43 sucked? it was even better the the m1 garand at least until the germans had to use poor metals to produce the barrels( after that the weapon was much more inaccurate then that it would have been)
It was the Holocaust. The NAZI states sole purpose was Jewish eradication. Millions of marks were spent for the murders of millions. Had those funds been reallocated for the preservation of Germany, the world would be clearly different.
Gross expenditures for the FINAL SOLUTION diverted funds away fromt the WEHRMACHT.
As the war dragged on, many JEWS were spared for slave labor which proved deleterious to the material needs of the German Army particularly in the sabotage of spare parts and equipment.
The real reason the Germans lost was because they were overwhelmed by Allied and Communist troops on both Western and Eastern Fronts also their supply trains and suppliers were completly cut off because they were either destroyed or sending Jews to concentration camps and resources were now, yes, being sent to the death camps. Finally Hitler's main strategy was attack and that was also his only defence. He would not retreat so all the forces needed to defend the home front were dead.
There is really nothing wrong in the history mentioned by you. But Hitler's first primary goal was the extermination of the Jews and other "undesirables." Money was funneled to that purpose as was manpower.
There were many factors which led to the defeat of the WEHRMACHT. Allied manpower, unlimited resources, airpower, sea power, and of course, cracking the ENIGMA. But principly, it was Hitler's obsession with murder. It was all him.
At the beggining Jews were deported on only a small scale and the hatred grew and grew through out the war. The Allied powers also grew, first Russia, then America, then Italy fell and then Finland turned on Germany, Norway imploded. It was to much for Germany to bear. Constant bombing and V Weapons programs drained money along with the killing of Jews but since slave labor is used the money lost for killing jews is regained when the Jews manufactured the V-2 rockets.
What I'm trying to say is, yes, killing Jews was on the top of the list for Hitler, but even without the final solution Hitler would be easily defeated. His lack of defence strategies wasted Germanies limited replacements, and the military might of the rest of the world was just growing. The increasing manpower of Russia, the industrial strength of America, the growing moral of the British, the brave resistance fighters of France Norway and others and the food and rations from Canada.
Without the FINAL SOLUTION? If there had been no rabid anti-semitism, who knows how history would judge the outcome.
It all comes down to the Final Solution and the mental state of the Fuhrer. He was insane and the people that bled for him were as unstable or moreso.
Afterall, whom is more insane? The man that gave the order, or the men that obeyed?
Still, Germany had limited man power, so yes the final solution made the 1000 year Riech a 12 year Reich but without the Anti Semitism I still see the war coming to an end with Germany defeated. The defeat would be delayed but still Germany and the Axis would see defeat. I recently read an article about what might of happened if Germany had defeated Russia, and it to sees Germany surrendering around the late 1940s. Why, America went Atomic bomb crazy that's why.
America is the only country to use an A bomb on another, and it was two unescessary times! If Germany refused to surrender after the A bomb was developped, America would drop A bombs on every important target, and if one was Berlin Hitler would be killed. Truman didn't know there was dangerous side effects he just saw a big explosion. Back to the real issue, it is extremely blind to accuse one reason that defeated Germany, tell me what would happen if there was no final solution!
Two unnecessary times? Remember, it took two to get the Japanese to talk. No friend of the assaults mind you, just understand that the NAPALM raids over Tokyo cost more lives than either of the two A-bombs.
Truman didn't know there was dangerous side effects he just saw a big explosion.
Yes, he did know of the effects. Even as the scientists warned him in advance not to use it.
If there had been no FINAL SOLUTION... The Wehrmacht would have been sipping Vodka in Red Square.
Yes Truman knew but do you think he cared enough to remember when he was dropping, them. Also Napalm wasn't developed until 50s and 60s, instead they used incindiaries and sice Japanese homes were made of wood and paper, they went up horribly! Remember the Jap[anese thought it was a natural disaster, not a bomb and the Emperor new the end was near. He didn't give up because of 2 "natural disatsers". Agian your blaming one reason when there are many. I want actual reasons and proof...
Not that he forgot he was dropping them but that he neglected to care about the side affects. America could still win without the Atom Bombs and we are drifting away from our original subject. So explain to me in detail what would happen if there was no Final Solution but still Anti Semitism.
I answered you. Had there been no Holocaust or a forced removal of Jews or systematic or indiscriminate murder of Jews, Slavs, homosexuals, Gypsies, Cossacs, political outcasts, intellectuals, rivals, ETC. The WEHRMACHT would have been sipping vodka in Red Square.
No army has anything to gain with systematic or indiscriminate acts of murder. It only draws retribution. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, people accepted them with open arms and flowers as liberators.
The Ukrainians in particular joined the German Army, with many donning SS uniforms. Why? Because they feared Stalin. Stalin was murdering people a full decade before Hitler was even nasty story in a newspaper editorial.
Well you do get some facts right, the Final Solution was only in full gear at about 1944, after the Russians had turned the tide of the war on the eastern front. Yes Stalin was the more evil dictator, but there were bursts of patriotism as large as Churchill's from many parts of Russia. In fact Russia had one of the biggest groups of partisans like France and Norway. Anyway, even with Jews locked up it only costed a few cents to maintain and/or kill Jews.
With Germany spanning over Europe, money wasn't the problem, it was supply lines and oil again not MONEY. Even with Germany trampling Moscow, there would many Russians willing to carry on the fight. Also your going to see America comming to kick some ass, along with the rest of the Allies from England to Canada from Australia to the Free French.
Talking about oil now? The Germans had plenty being pumped out of Ploesti.
But that is regardless. It takes money to herd, house, and even kill people.
The Holocaust was indeed accelerated in 1944. But it began in 1936 with the first relocations. Had they not happened there would be 6 million people whom were not dead providing taxpayer funded war against Germany's enemys. 6 million people paying taxes by going to work for the war industry, food, and hospitalization.
it only costed a few cents to maintain and/or kill Jews.
6 million Jews? Not counting the aforementioned "undesirables." It costs money to replace bullets. Lots of money. Bullets that were used to kill unarmed people throughout Europe raising the ire of those very resistance groups. Remember, the Germans were lauded as liberators in the east. They weren't lauded over for long once the army left and the SS and police battalions moved in killing people.
^ million people Germany could apparently live without. Nothing happened when the Final Solution came up and nothing ever did, and blaming it for everything is IGNORANT, you have become blind and have no proof or evidence, you go on with the same points and yes oil was short. Why do you think Hitler wanted the Caucases as much as he wanted Moscow. Why do you think he aided Mussolini in Africa. One word OIL. The money gained from 6 million tax payers don't matter when you have 50 million...
more at your disposal. I mant cents per Jew. The only thing you got to worry about when you do such a thing is the guards. Bullets can be made cheap and it only takes one. I don't know why you choose to go on because none of your comments hold ground. Liberators that would love to put bullets through your brains are people who are lauded over. Think about it. Are you saying the Wehrmacht has its hand clean. They killed just like the SS, they wore different uniforms, had same goals.
Words cannot express the the frustration with dealing with your argument.
As I stated in an earlier post, there were many reasons why Germany lost the war. Of course there is the obvious reasons mentioned by you, which I agree upon.
Unfortunately, you did not mention Hitler's mental state. In the final analysis, it was never material supremacy which the allies enjoyed, but the complete and total waste of human life in order to promote the "folkish state."
Again with oil. Firstly, Mussolini failed in Africa. And it took Rommel and the Afrika Korps to accomplish what they couldn't.
But they failed because the German codes were cracked.
All of that is beside the point. There are right ways and wrong ways to fight a war. (Hitler fought incorrectly.) Killing people indiscriminately and systematically will not win wars. Strategy, tactics, secrecy, and guts win wars.
Well, Hitler had Strategy, Tactics, Secerecy and Guts and he lost. See Germany bit off more than it could chew and there was no strategy to get them out after 1941. Why Because after facing the two world super powers at the same time he was bound to lose. America, England And France to the West and Russia to the East.
About "million people Germany could apparently live without" is not a racsist comment it is the message Hitler tried to give. Thats why I said apparently, so sorry if you thought so.
No, quite the contrary. As exactly what you had just stated afterward. The German High Command might have prevailed at such things, but Hitler did not. He had no military tact.
It's assuring to know that you are seeing the main thesis of my argument. The total undoing of Germany was the fault of Hitler's mindset. Death was his modus operandi.
Again right and wrong. Yes YOU SAID GERMANY'S Downfall was HITLER'S MINDSET not the FS. Second, Hitler helped engineer Blitskrieg from previous Sturmtruppen tactics that proved extremely effective. Secerecy to this day can be said by ENIGMA. The only reason the Allies cracked the codes was because a U-Boat was captured carrying one such Enigma machine. Guts is defined by Hitler's invasion of France. Attacking Through the Ardennes was very gutsy.
That's where your wrong, LIVING SPACE, and REVENGE were what took Hitler to war, not the Jews. Yes he was anti semetic but he wasn't stupid enough to start a war for that one reason.
No, he was stupid enough to wage war and fail at knocking out England. Then he was either insane or stupid to invade Russia while already engaged in fight with England.
Yes he was insane during the last stages of the war. Hitler had another in command of his army until 1941 and that's the year he took the armed forces into his command and invaded Russia.
That's where your wrong, LIVING SPACE, and REVENGE were what took Hitler to war, not the Jews. Yes he was anti semetic but he wasn't stupid enough to start a war for that one reason.
"Battle of The Bulge" in Ardens it was't German counterattack it was large offensive even in Paris people were scared that germans are comming back.
TySooN66 1 month ago
04:30
*cough*Fedorov avtomat*cough*
Tarik360 2 months ago
Ha its just soooo Funny how the Americans pronounce ,,sturmgewehr" if u say it, it Sounds like ,,stuouorrrrmgeeäwäöhr"
But Nice Clip,
Greetings from Berlin
xyvvz 3 months ago
Kraut guns suck? Give your head a shake. The German 88 was worse than US weapons? Retards like you should stay in the mental hospital.
spudnic88 4 months ago
these kraut guns suck! American artillery was way better!
TheStickUpKid187 5 months ago
@TheStickUpKid187 Even allies forces said that the fight wasn't always "fair" against the germans, because their guns were way better....
bosshunterman 3 months ago
Hugo Schmeisser had nothing to do with the mp40
bargunner18 5 months ago
FK HITLER, FK NAZIS, but atleast they did somthing good - weapons
userarefull 5 months ago
mg34 ta da dad ta dad
mg42 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzd
029716239 6 months ago 2
"It's bark is worse then it's bite".. The fact of the matter is that it's bite is worse then it's bark...
durgymp 7 months ago
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The Stg-44 Was the first weapon to bridge the gap between
the Sub-Macinegun and the Bolt action Rifle succesfully with its 7.92x33mm "Kurtz" Bullet
And is the First True "Assault Rifle".
Had the Stg-44 been put into production in 1942 when it was originally conceived
and made in sufficient Numbers,then there is no doubt it would have had a huge impact in all theatres of WW2 and beyond,negating the need for an AK-47.
But it wasnt to be and the AK became the rightful Heir to the Throne.
CheckMySix 7 months ago
It puts so much emphasize on Normandy. Why don't they talk more about the Eastern Front (aside from just winter), where the German really commit the BULK of their force and where many German weapon designs were inspired? (eg. SVT-40 for G-41/43)
mokyeungchung 7 months ago
if the black people right next to all our asses can't take criticism to protect our ass or back off to prove they aint doing this to our ass they got no business being next to our asses. period.
billslusser 8 months ago
i dont want to know what the body does look like when shot with a burst of mg42
Scahhi 10 months ago
I've seen thos on tv before, just don't know where.S
Ultimatepanzer 1 year ago
why dont they just bomb berlin?
legodude56118 1 year ago
@legodude56118 bombing raids on Berlin started in 1943 by American and British.
LoneWolf051 10 months ago
Can you imagine what would've happened if Germans actually had STG-44 as their main weapon for the soldiers?
Deaths, deaths and more deaths for allies.
Killjoy45 1 year ago
Why didn't the allies just copy the MG42 design? Too proud?
jackzero99 1 year ago
@jackzero99
Well they did finally, but during the war I think the main reason was, that because Allies weapon industries were already producing machine guns to their troops it was very hard to give any resources to start producing another weapon. Plus I think even though Allies got MG42s as spoils, they didn't get their blueprints until the very end, so they had no idea how did they work etc.
Killjoy45 1 year ago
@jackzero99
what for ? the german lost though...more seriously, the german infantryman thought in 1942 as it was a wonder weapon which would greatly help slaughter the russian army ...although a very efficeint weapon, it was not enough...
kaa13 1 year ago
@kaa13 because it was a better MG than anything the allies had. just because the germans lost does not mean all their weapons were inferior. the allies waited until the war ended to start copying superior german weapons
jackzero99 1 year ago
@jackzero99 never said the German weapons were inferior, I just said that in spite of the high quality of their weapons the Germans lost the war.
kaa13 1 year ago
@jackzero99 M-60
LoneWolf051 10 months ago
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@00MSG the mg42 uses the old nazi caliber 7.92 and a faster bolt system. that lowered durability but it fired 1500rpm instead of 1200. you can tell it by the sound. the first mg42´s sound like a saw. even on video its still frightening.
to compare the mg3 of the bundeswehr to wehrmacht mg42 is like rammstein to tokio hotel. :)
(no offence intended just regular german smartass reacktion)
masterblaster12000 1 year ago
@masterblaster12000 HAHAHAHA love the analogy man.
xSSxAryanFury 2 months ago
The Mg42 is today still in use in the german army known as the MG3!
00MSG 1 year ago
MG42 is the most effective machine gun the Germans used in the second world war, but it is not as beautiful and sopfisticated as MG34.
notaire2 1 year ago
one thing surprises me about this documentary
its not showing the germans as idiots or cowards ive watched a lot of history channnel documentarys about WWII and they are all pretty wrong if it comes to casualties or how weak, pathetic and cowardly the germans were and are focused on how 5 US soldiers butchered the entire wehrmacht on one single day
and such historical complete incorrect things as we can see them in all hollywood movies about WWI or WWII...confusing...
Kikuta1Kotaro 1 year ago 12
@Kikuta1Kotaro Umm, I think everyone knows that movie is not real.
kristopher081 1 year ago
0:03 - did he say asbestos pad? im not sure
AZKOJYUN 1 year ago
Why do Americans pronounce his name as A - dolf Hitler? It was pronounced AH -DOLF Hitler.
And the Nazis should have come up with the Stg 44 alot sooner.
Dresden1065 1 year ago
@Dresden1065 They did had the weapon earlier..by 1942. Hitler just didn't like the weapon and didn't wanted it produced. If he did approved it back then..I could only imagine that engagements such as Normandy would have been very different since the stg 44 practically negated the advantages Americans had in the M1 Garand.
meatwad4900 1 year ago
A psychotic, uneducated, Meth addicted Austrian Corporal didn't DESERVE to lead such a fine people and it's superior army. Death to Nazis and long live Germany!
randy95023 1 year ago 2
@randy95023 so true.
FloChris 1 year ago
If I was a soldier against a mg-42 I would be scared shitless.
bf15thairborn 1 year ago
if the Germans would have been able to produce the stg 44 and it's ammo in millions right now we would have been speaking German. lol
juan9969 1 year ago
@juan9969 no at that time they were already losing too many soldiers and made the mistake of attacking russia
Knollnase 1 year ago
the german produce the best weapons ever the mg 42 is amazing and the best ,and popular machnie gun they we ever had in the world the other machine gun s cannot compete with the great MG 42
schade wir hätten heute die besten waffen haben wir ja zum teil auch aber sie werden nun mal nicht gefördert von unserer politik
budspencer1929 1 year ago
Please! Don't blame the germans! This is just pure stupidity... These people are so ashamed of WWII, that they don't even want to talk about it. I don't blame them. "Live long and prosper."
Unwarranted 1 year ago 4
@Unwarranted wtf haha
airsoftgunner1313 1 year ago
Revolutionise? Yeah, right... German weapons were superior in WWII... "Lang lebe deutschland,"
Unwarranted 1 year ago
The STG44 is not the predecessor to the AK47. Just look at the workings of them. Nothing alike.
If you take them apart. nothing alike.
They function differently, are designed differently. The only similarity is it's silhouette.
VonCakeMaster 1 year ago
@VonCakeMaster and yet, the STG44 has inspired the creation of the AK47
kalchnikov came up with the idea when he was wounde and treated in the hosipital fiddling around with an mp44
Yorsefener 1 year ago
@Yorsefener
Inspired, yes. but nothing more.
VonCakeMaster 1 year ago
@VonCakeMaster wrong
drglibrl 1 year ago
@VonCakeMaster It is the predecessor. Mikhail Kalashnikov had one in the factory to strip and make a more improved version.
xSSxAryanFury 2 months ago
german army still uses the mg 42.
tresckow 2 years ago
no it doesn't use the mg42. It uses the mg3, that is based on the mg42.
MrKabanosi 2 years ago 3
One thing about logistics you can see in our modern fps computer games. Bullets seem to fall from the sky, or are readily found on the ground. And it sucks running out. It is the one thing games just can't deal with. Logistics, so game designers cheat.
In reality, units in modern wars are often starved of neccessities. Dozens of people are behind each soldier supplying these items.
So love these weapons... but love the guy with the box of bullets even more.
*insert chuckle*
QPhilms 2 years ago 2
A weapon is only as good as it's logistics.
Tigers, 88's, MG42's... astounding weapons, but it makes little difference if the spare parts, ammunition, or fuel isn't available.
Many german officers prefered the MG34 simply because the ammo didn't run out so quickly. More tiger tanks ran out of fuel than were destroyed in the ETO.
Logistics logistics logistics. Unglamorous, boring...
...a man and a truck...
....but it's what wins wars.
QPhilms 2 years ago
"Logistics logistics logistics. Unglamorous, boring...
...a man and a truck...
....but it's what wins wars. "
No, it does not.
Logistics without an effective army, good strategy, and tactics is useless (look at ww1), , cuz your guys are probably going to be dead or using the white flag before they can benefit from logistics on the long run.
You need both.
PanterausfG 2 years ago
The STG44 reminds me of the Kalashnikov.
thadus232 2 years ago 4
that is because the ak47 is based on it
droodmann 2 years ago 4
@droodmann Sorry, the ak47 is not based on it, its an urban legend
MDK775 2 years ago
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MrKabanosi 2 years ago
the STG 44 was a very advanced weapon in ww2 truely ahead of its time.
Krust666777 2 years ago 6
the 7.92x33 looks so cool
JayJay1990fromwiehl 2 years ago
agreed
kalinga01 2 years ago
I am german
azyalius 2 years ago
und weiter?
Nogger86Germany 2 years ago
its crazy watching the real footage of D-day...you can actualy see guys dropping dead...crazy.
MAKER6450 2 years ago
yeah i know. once i saw footage of a guy getting shot in the head by an american with a pistol. his head turned into a fricken fountain of blood!
kalinga01 2 years ago
"Their Bark is Worse than their Bite..." Those might be the last words to pass through your mind as you lay in a field in Europe riddled with 7.92 mm holes. MG42 was the grandaddy of the US M60 and our current SAW. The Krauts were way ahead of their time when it came to warfare...
randy109 2 years ago 24
"THAT THING SPREADS ALOT OF LEAD"
lol
Soldier: NO SHIT NARRATOR!
TheProjektcc 2 years ago 66
the day and night bombing destroyed not only our factories but also our cities and murdered thousands of people, I am not nazi but i liked our medieval towns.
S4xtus 2 years ago 17
and the brits had some lovely places wiped out too, so did the japs. everybody got fucked up in ww2.
cladam81 2 years ago 4
...Who else do we know that murdered thousands (oh wait, millions) of people....?
SolomonJonesIsBack 2 years ago
YOU ARE GERMAN?
bentenren 2 years ago
yes i am
S4xtus 2 years ago 3
wonderful youre suprior! i love german guns!!!! go germany go go go :D
bentenren 2 years ago
and so you should be, the STG44 was an amazing weapon. Im British, and yeah we've committed atrocities, but that still doesnt stop me from feeling proud of the Lee Enfield series :)
Robaaaayy 2 years ago 6
"No, he was stupid enough to wage war and fail at knocking out England."
True, but the English government was moronic enough to start a war for Poland, and lose nearly a million men in the process, for what? Hitler did not expect England to wage war for the neutrality of Poland, a country governed by a military Junta. Chamberlain was a fool to let himself being influenced by the haws in the press and his government.
ftorresgamez 2 years ago
I'm VERY disappointed that this entire video series didn't cover the Gewehr 41 or Gewehr 43
PraetorianMan 2 years ago 83
Yeah Im Disappointed to,
MetalHeadMassacre 2 years ago 6
Yeah, my thoughts exactly.
Oh well. I found these series omit a few pieces.
ALAPINO 2 years ago
Hell, im dissappointed because they dident talk about the FN Browning Hi-Power pistol, givin the fact that in addition to the brittish and the canadians, they (the germans) also used it after they took over the FN plant in Belgum. In fact, if you go to the part about the pistols, theirs even a scene where a German solder is squatting down, and holding one in his motherfucking hand!
SdM45 2 years ago 3
yeah but they didnt make the damn thing did they? this doco is about the weopons they actualy made in germany.
guns with the stamp "MADE IN GERMANY".
MAKER6450 2 years ago
Well more Belgen Hi-Powers where used by Germany than by Great Brittan. So there.
SdM45 2 years ago
@PraetorianMan Because they failed ass and broke, it was issued only two per platoon.
williamwissian 10 months ago
@williamwissian True, but just because a gun failed ass and broke doesn't mean that this video series won't feature it. Just watch the "Japanese Weapons of WWII" episode.
PraetorianMan 10 months ago
@PraetorianMan That is VERY true my good man, but still, that's all they had, the Germans had WAY better weapons they did. So why bother featuring the ones that just, well, sucked? That's like taking someone to meet your family, and showing them your hemophiliac in-bred mistake baby that you keep in your closet. See what I'm saying?
williamwissian 10 months ago
@williamwissian how comes that you think the G43 sucked? it was even better the the m1 garand at least until the germans had to use poor metals to produce the barrels( after that the weapon was much more inaccurate then that it would have been)
Kikuta1Kotaro 9 months ago
The weapons did not fail, nor the soldiers that used them, or the quartermaster corps that supplied them. It was all Hitlers fault. All of it.
katey1dog 3 years ago 9
i think the first mistake was back stabbing russia
Shadow2271 3 years ago
It was the Holocaust. The NAZI states sole purpose was Jewish eradication. Millions of marks were spent for the murders of millions. Had those funds been reallocated for the preservation of Germany, the world would be clearly different.
katey1dog 3 years ago
did your history teacher tell u that parrot shit?
SS13E3 3 years ago
Gee, let me think, YES.
Gross expenditures for the FINAL SOLUTION diverted funds away fromt the WEHRMACHT.
As the war dragged on, many JEWS were spared for slave labor which proved deleterious to the material needs of the German Army particularly in the sabotage of spare parts and equipment.
katey1dog 3 years ago
The real reason the Germans lost was because they were overwhelmed by Allied and Communist troops on both Western and Eastern Fronts also their supply trains and suppliers were completly cut off because they were either destroyed or sending Jews to concentration camps and resources were now, yes, being sent to the death camps. Finally Hitler's main strategy was attack and that was also his only defence. He would not retreat so all the forces needed to defend the home front were dead.
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
Then how come they were winning in 1940 and 1941?
There is really nothing wrong in the history mentioned by you. But Hitler's first primary goal was the extermination of the Jews and other "undesirables." Money was funneled to that purpose as was manpower.
There were many factors which led to the defeat of the WEHRMACHT. Allied manpower, unlimited resources, airpower, sea power, and of course, cracking the ENIGMA. But principly, it was Hitler's obsession with murder. It was all him.
katey1dog 2 years ago
At the beggining Jews were deported on only a small scale and the hatred grew and grew through out the war. The Allied powers also grew, first Russia, then America, then Italy fell and then Finland turned on Germany, Norway imploded. It was to much for Germany to bear. Constant bombing and V Weapons programs drained money along with the killing of Jews but since slave labor is used the money lost for killing jews is regained when the Jews manufactured the V-2 rockets.
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
What I'm trying to say is, yes, killing Jews was on the top of the list for Hitler, but even without the final solution Hitler would be easily defeated. His lack of defence strategies wasted Germanies limited replacements, and the military might of the rest of the world was just growing. The increasing manpower of Russia, the industrial strength of America, the growing moral of the British, the brave resistance fighters of France Norway and others and the food and rations from Canada.
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
The Allies were becoming invincable.
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
Without the FINAL SOLUTION? If there had been no rabid anti-semitism, who knows how history would judge the outcome.
It all comes down to the Final Solution and the mental state of the Fuhrer. He was insane and the people that bled for him were as unstable or moreso.
Afterall, whom is more insane? The man that gave the order, or the men that obeyed?
katey1dog 2 years ago
Still, Germany had limited man power, so yes the final solution made the 1000 year Riech a 12 year Reich but without the Anti Semitism I still see the war coming to an end with Germany defeated. The defeat would be delayed but still Germany and the Axis would see defeat. I recently read an article about what might of happened if Germany had defeated Russia, and it to sees Germany surrendering around the late 1940s. Why, America went Atomic bomb crazy that's why.
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
6 million men serving in the Wehrmacht is a limitation?
Remember Hitler declared war on the United States against the wishes of his advisors. Stupidity, thy name is Hitler.
Atomic bomb crazy? Are you joking? Hitler also went atomic bomb crazy. The great benefit of his insanity is that he couldn't develop one.
katey1dog 2 years ago
America is the only country to use an A bomb on another, and it was two unescessary times! If Germany refused to surrender after the A bomb was developped, America would drop A bombs on every important target, and if one was Berlin Hitler would be killed. Truman didn't know there was dangerous side effects he just saw a big explosion. Back to the real issue, it is extremely blind to accuse one reason that defeated Germany, tell me what would happen if there was no final solution!
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
Two unnecessary times? Remember, it took two to get the Japanese to talk. No friend of the assaults mind you, just understand that the NAPALM raids over Tokyo cost more lives than either of the two A-bombs.
Truman didn't know there was dangerous side effects he just saw a big explosion.
Yes, he did know of the effects. Even as the scientists warned him in advance not to use it.
If there had been no FINAL SOLUTION... The Wehrmacht would have been sipping Vodka in Red Square.
katey1dog 2 years ago
Yes Truman knew but do you think he cared enough to remember when he was dropping, them. Also Napalm wasn't developed until 50s and 60s, instead they used incindiaries and sice Japanese homes were made of wood and paper, they went up horribly! Remember the Jap[anese thought it was a natural disaster, not a bomb and the Emperor new the end was near. He didn't give up because of 2 "natural disatsers". Agian your blaming one reason when there are many. I want actual reasons and proof...
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
That says the final solution ended it all, not you and your unreliable sources. Reference to napalm.
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
WIKI napalm.
katey1dog 2 years ago
Yes Truman knew but do you think he cared enough to remember he was dropping them.
Pardon? Truman wanted what the nation wanted. An end to the war.
katey1dog 2 years ago
Not that he forgot he was dropping them but that he neglected to care about the side affects. America could still win without the Atom Bombs and we are drifting away from our original subject. So explain to me in detail what would happen if there was no Final Solution but still Anti Semitism.
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
I answered you. Had there been no Holocaust or a forced removal of Jews or systematic or indiscriminate murder of Jews, Slavs, homosexuals, Gypsies, Cossacs, political outcasts, intellectuals, rivals, ETC. The WEHRMACHT would have been sipping vodka in Red Square.
No army has anything to gain with systematic or indiscriminate acts of murder. It only draws retribution. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, people accepted them with open arms and flowers as liberators.
katey1dog 2 years ago
The Ukrainians in particular joined the German Army, with many donning SS uniforms. Why? Because they feared Stalin. Stalin was murdering people a full decade before Hitler was even nasty story in a newspaper editorial.
katey1dog 2 years ago
Well you do get some facts right, the Final Solution was only in full gear at about 1944, after the Russians had turned the tide of the war on the eastern front. Yes Stalin was the more evil dictator, but there were bursts of patriotism as large as Churchill's from many parts of Russia. In fact Russia had one of the biggest groups of partisans like France and Norway. Anyway, even with Jews locked up it only costed a few cents to maintain and/or kill Jews.
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
With Germany spanning over Europe, money wasn't the problem, it was supply lines and oil again not MONEY. Even with Germany trampling Moscow, there would many Russians willing to carry on the fight. Also your going to see America comming to kick some ass, along with the rest of the Allies from England to Canada from Australia to the Free French.
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
Talking about oil now? The Germans had plenty being pumped out of Ploesti.
But that is regardless. It takes money to herd, house, and even kill people.
The Holocaust was indeed accelerated in 1944. But it began in 1936 with the first relocations. Had they not happened there would be 6 million people whom were not dead providing taxpayer funded war against Germany's enemys. 6 million people paying taxes by going to work for the war industry, food, and hospitalization.
katey1dog 2 years ago
it only costed a few cents to maintain and/or kill Jews.
6 million Jews? Not counting the aforementioned "undesirables." It costs money to replace bullets. Lots of money. Bullets that were used to kill unarmed people throughout Europe raising the ire of those very resistance groups. Remember, the Germans were lauded as liberators in the east. They weren't lauded over for long once the army left and the SS and police battalions moved in killing people.
katey1dog 2 years ago
^ million people Germany could apparently live without. Nothing happened when the Final Solution came up and nothing ever did, and blaming it for everything is IGNORANT, you have become blind and have no proof or evidence, you go on with the same points and yes oil was short. Why do you think Hitler wanted the Caucases as much as he wanted Moscow. Why do you think he aided Mussolini in Africa. One word OIL. The money gained from 6 million tax payers don't matter when you have 50 million...
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
more at your disposal. I mant cents per Jew. The only thing you got to worry about when you do such a thing is the guards. Bullets can be made cheap and it only takes one. I don't know why you choose to go on because none of your comments hold ground. Liberators that would love to put bullets through your brains are people who are lauded over. Think about it. Are you saying the Wehrmacht has its hand clean. They killed just like the SS, they wore different uniforms, had same goals.
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
Words cannot express the the frustration with dealing with your argument.
As I stated in an earlier post, there were many reasons why Germany lost the war. Of course there is the obvious reasons mentioned by you, which I agree upon.
Unfortunately, you did not mention Hitler's mental state. In the final analysis, it was never material supremacy which the allies enjoyed, but the complete and total waste of human life in order to promote the "folkish state."
katey1dog 2 years ago
million people Germany could apparently live without
Pardon me? That's a bit repulsive if you ask me.
katey1dog 2 years ago
Again with oil. Firstly, Mussolini failed in Africa. And it took Rommel and the Afrika Korps to accomplish what they couldn't.
But they failed because the German codes were cracked.
All of that is beside the point. There are right ways and wrong ways to fight a war. (Hitler fought incorrectly.) Killing people indiscriminately and systematically will not win wars. Strategy, tactics, secrecy, and guts win wars.
katey1dog 2 years ago
Well, Hitler had Strategy, Tactics, Secerecy and Guts and he lost. See Germany bit off more than it could chew and there was no strategy to get them out after 1941. Why Because after facing the two world super powers at the same time he was bound to lose. America, England And France to the West and Russia to the East.
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
About "million people Germany could apparently live without" is not a racsist comment it is the message Hitler tried to give. Thats why I said apparently, so sorry if you thought so.
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
Hitler had Strategy, tactics, Secrecy, and guts?
No, quite the contrary. As exactly what you had just stated afterward. The German High Command might have prevailed at such things, but Hitler did not. He had no military tact.
It's assuring to know that you are seeing the main thesis of my argument. The total undoing of Germany was the fault of Hitler's mindset. Death was his modus operandi.
katey1dog 2 years ago
Again right and wrong. Yes YOU SAID GERMANY'S Downfall was HITLER'S MINDSET not the FS. Second, Hitler helped engineer Blitskrieg from previous Sturmtruppen tactics that proved extremely effective. Secerecy to this day can be said by ENIGMA. The only reason the Allies cracked the codes was because a U-Boat was captured carrying one such Enigma machine. Guts is defined by Hitler's invasion of France. Attacking Through the Ardennes was very gutsy.
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
The mind is the Final Solution. They are inseparable.
katey1dog 2 years ago
That's where your wrong, LIVING SPACE, and REVENGE were what took Hitler to war, not the Jews. Yes he was anti semetic but he wasn't stupid enough to start a war for that one reason.
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
No, he was stupid enough to wage war and fail at knocking out England. Then he was either insane or stupid to invade Russia while already engaged in fight with England.
Again, it was Hitler.
katey1dog 2 years ago
Yes he was insane during the last stages of the war. Hitler had another in command of his army until 1941 and that's the year he took the armed forces into his command and invaded Russia.
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago
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That's where your wrong, LIVING SPACE, and REVENGE were what took Hitler to war, not the Jews. Yes he was anti semetic but he wasn't stupid enough to start a war for that one reason.
WarGamerHistorian 2 years ago