The tiger was the spearhead of psy warfare. Trust me. If you fight a tank which non of your weapons can even penetrated you literally piss your pants. And the King Tiger was only a fail because the germans run out of proper quality steel.
One reason there wasn't a general surrender of Germany even though the war was lost, was to give troops more time to find western forces to surrender to.
The Wehrmacht and particularly the SS were horrible, but the Red Army wasn't much better.
@Yora21 The Wehrmacht were not intrinsicly terrible people! it was the average german citizen forced to serve thier country, whether they supported the regime or not
@Yora21 the fucking recd army and commie stalin murdered 30 + million ppl and you never hear of that.people try to keep that quiet!.in WWII We should have been allies with germany and kicked russias ass!
The German's nicknamed The Sherman The Ronson after the cigarette lighter, and also The Tommy Cooker, because it would light up and explode with one shot from a Panzer Tank. Tommy Cooker referred to the British whom also used the Sherman in large numbers. American soldiers nicknamed the Sherman The Purple Heart Boxes (ie, Coffins) because they knew that they were not going to live long fighting in those inferior tanks..
I am not sure that Wittman was so great, I mean he was hit numerous times but the Tiger saved him. In an even battle I am not sure he would have survived so long. I know for fact that his tiger was hit twice very early on that Bocage battle, only the Tigers thick armour allowed him to fight without any real fear of being taken out. The Allied tankers needed far far more skill to take out a Tiger with a Sherman, even a Firefly with the British 17 pdr gun, as it had much weaker armour,
@Xiolablu3 i agree but in the early parts of operation barbarossa he proved himself in his small panzer. he was a very good tank commander but yes he was saved alot by his tiger.
@Xiolablu3 yeah but because of the huge size, slow moveability and speed of the tiger it was easier to hit it. so a lighter, smaller and faster tank had a weaker armour but it was more difficult to hit it...
@tobi25586 But even then it couldnt penetrate the Tigers armour. Wittman could basically roam with immunity unless he came up against a British Sherman Firefly (1 in 4 Shermans we fireflies), and even then the Tiger had a big advantage in armour. I am just saying that you dont need much skill when your tank can withstand hits from your opponents, yet your tank destroys them in one hit. To me Wittmans story demonstrates how superior the Tiger was vs the Allies tanks, not how good Wittman was.
@Xiolablu3 yeah I know and my point was that its a matter of fact that you get hit more often in a slow, huge tank, but this doesnt mean you are a bad tank commander its just easier to hit it (and I dont mean penetrate the armour) and as waffenss893 said he proved himself in smaller tanks. he became the commander of a tiger in early 1943 but till this time he already got the iron cross 1. and 2. class by fighting the russians (including t-34 tanks) so he was a good tank commander
@PloKoonep3 - Are you nuts or just stupid? It may have made a small "Mushroom Cloud" plume upon explosion but that was soooo not a nuke. The SS were insane but not so insane as to carry nuclear weapons BY HAND... and thank goodness there was no such thing as a Nuke back then.
Interesting, but the STG 44 was actually prioritized for volksgrenadiers (2 weeks training, but later trained in the field by veterans). Oh, and besides: They were not "evil"!
lol. I don't think they would have hundreds of panzers, half-tracks and trucks. if they did they probably didn't even have the petrol to run them. lol sounds like bs to me. and of course he lost it. :P sounds fishy to me.
@jondeare probably traded it for something or sold it for cheap money, i once bought an SS pin from some stupid kid for 20 bucks, the damn ding was worth a good 2 grand easyly
@Durendal33 And it's not just that no one has found an answer to the guy planting an IED it's a guy wearing it and blowing himself up.The guy planting exposives in his baby sisters dol.
Why is it always Wittmann, and not Bölter, Carius, Knispel or Schroif or countless others. I understand that in this documentary they concentrate on the Waffen-SS ace, but this repeats on other documentaries as well.
Yeah and I personally with a machine gun could have easily defeated the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. This is why we dont compare units from different eras.
And secondly, the Spetznaz are special forces, and the SS were elite forces, and there is quite a difference between these two.
This sounds like one of those stories where the more times he told it, the German army who surrendered to him got bigger and bigger hahaha. In actual fact, there were 500 Americans and 3 Germans, but years later there were fewer Americans, and more and more Germans...
yes i agree s020015 the waffen ss raped t34's but they cannot handle more and were overwhelmed...........go live in an alternate world where the nazi's won world ww2....on this world it's not happening
yes i agree s020015 the waffen ss raped t34's but they cannot handle more and were overwhelmed...........go live in an alternate world where the nazi's won world ww2....on this world it's not happening
Really? "The Waffen S.S was the 20th century's most formidable and EVIL elite forces"
WTF... since when did a soldier's political standpoint get in the way of his ability to kill people?
I know this series on weaponology is trying to excel in entertainment value but is it all that necessary to mention how evil the Nazis are every 10 seconds? It's as annoying as watching an obnoxious guy in the closet try to prove how he's not gay.
@DualSMGsFTW Youre right, but not only the mentioning of 'evil' bothers me, but also describing the Waffen SS as elite forces. The Wehrmacht's true elite forces were called 'Brandenburg' and were operating behind enemy lines.
@iTzzEuphoriaaaaaa Of course I am not in WW2. But you are not there too. Therefore, shut your mouth up and read more historical non-fiction books. After a full analysis, you can try to jump off from a building seems to be 50 floors tall.
@iTzzEuphoriaaaaaa Ha! Ha! Ha! You are also fucking hopeless, and scatterbrain! You ignore the truth and you are no longer a normal man. Therefore, you are abnormal.
Why they always go crazy about Wittman (which is deserved surely), and always forget Carius, Bölter, Knispel and other Tiger Aces who really deserve their honor. Knispel took out 168 tanks, Carius 150+, Bölter 139 and Wittman 138. Villers Bocage is always on the spotlight, and nobody remembers Staudeggers single tiger dueling 50 T-34's, and come out victorious with 22 of the T-34 going up in flames...
This thing is.. It's huge, it's very heavily armored, it has a GREAT gun! If you ran accross a Tiger, well, geee, you - you were - that - that would ruin your day!
Michael Wittmann was not respected by his adversaries. Noone even knew who he was until after he was killed, it wasn't until after his death Americans started bickering as to whom claimed his life.
im a fanatic of German WW2 weaponry & history, and NEVER was this documented that it happened at all
15,000 troops surrend to 3 men in a jeep? the nazi's had nothing to lose, they wouldnt give up that easy!
and besides that... by the time the russians & allies got to Berlin... 150,000 Nazi troops had already left Germany and are believed to "disappear into countries far away" such as the belief that Hitler left to South America
@nle4lyfe : The old guy may have exagerated the numbers, but the fact is the Germans had a great deal to lose if the Russians caught them.
The notion of 150,000 Germans fleeing into foreign countries at the end of the war- how did they do it? Out through the entirely Allied controlled ports and shipping lanes? Using the burnt-out, shot-down remains of their transport aircraft? Getting the Swiss Navy to move them? Seriously, that's a bigger laugh than the notion of surrendering to 3 guys.
@althesmith I remember watching a show on the history channel mentioning a Nazi plane that could travel extremely far on one tank of gas. They said it could make it from Europe to South America which is where they believe most of them went.
@taberr5 : One planeload of guys does not equal 150,000 dudes. IIRC, the largest German transport could not handle 150 of them. And that bird was a sitting duck for every Allied plane in the area.
By the end of the war, the transport element of the Luftwaffe was a shambles. Fuel reserves were basically non-existent.
@althesmith Not to mention that there were German colonies popping up in South America after world war 2. Then there was a number of German soldiers that just appeared in the French Foreign Legion. To this day the French Foreign Legion claims that they have had 210,000 people enlist from Germany all together being the highest country contributing to their organization. Next in line was Italy, with 60,000. Doesn't that seem odd to you at all?
@taberr5 : I might believe 200,000 over the entire history of the Legion. After WW2? Not so much. The Legion at it's peak I believe only had about 30,000 men- not nearly enough to absorb the numbers you claim.
@althesmith Hence why I said they had 210,00 people enlist from Germany all together. I wasn't trying to be misleading and I apologize if it came out wrong. I'm just saying it's easier to hide 150,000 people than you think. Considering the soviets lost something around 26 million people in that war. 150,000 people would have been easy to hide, I wouldn't of been surprised if they said 300,000 escaped.
There was. It was smaller than the Panther which was smaller than the Tiger tank. Essentially, the Panzer was designed to defeat the Russian main battle tanks.
T34s usually simply went full speed straight at the german tanks and rammed the germans, and the russian tank commander would simply go back for a new tank.
The T34 had the advantage in having sloped armour and high speeds which gave it an advantage in a open feild battle in which they could manouver easily.
Depends on the situation, as always. The real important thing is that generally speaking, just about all German weapon systems after 1943 were able to kill just about anything they hit and not all enemy weapon systems could guarantee a kill when they hit.
at what range??? because if its about 1500m i think Jagdpanther because the Jagdpanther had a Kwk 43 88mm L/71 the same of the King Tiger, while the Tiger had the Kwk 36 88mm L/56. L/71 is the caliber and the length of the barrel of the cannon. longer barrel results in a higher muzzle velocity. and jagdpanther had sloped armor.
the tiger is not an offensive tank its bloody slow, not like the T-34, the Russian armor saved the world. T-34 well armored, 84 gun and travels faster than a truck. They over bited panther and tiger and then just drove over the japanese
Lukeclout,the Tiger have a better armor that is 120mm while the T34 have 52mm and the T34 could penetrate the tiger armor at the side...but it needs to be very uncomfortable close...
depend on witch t-34 we are talkin a bout if the normal t34 like i say from the side but if it is T34 type 3 85mm gun can penetrate the front....if he shot twice or more
yes t34/76 could not but when /76 was being used they were mostly going up against pziii and pziv which were inferior. Few tigers around.
When the panther was coming out the t-34/85 was out too and was definitely a match. And yes it could penetrate from the front. Look up the facts, otherwise you're just being an ignorant nazi fanboy.
Even Guderian, the mastermind of the blitkrieg, called the t-34 the "best tank in the world". Sorry but your nazi fantasies just aren't reality.
@IcyScythe indeed and im not nazi boy..cause if i love any axis that mean i love Jap that kill a hell lots of malaysian...anyway nazi have a lots of war crime like the Israel
that wasn't directed at you nazrul, my bad if I offended you.
But I'm sure you've noticed that there are many neo-nazis on youtube commenting these types of videos with things like "14/88" and HH and other bullshit.
So the key is to not assume neo-nazism when you see any positive comment about weapon quality and look for things like racist comments and comments which directly admire Nazi ideology. Admiring German technology doesn't have to mean admiring Nazi ideology.
T-34 was the best balanced tank but in pure combat terms, the Panther generally had the better of the T34 because not only did the Panther have the more accurate gun, better optics, and training behind it, but its armour was mostly reliable. A lot of t34/85 tanks were killed because the non-penetrating rounds of German guns broke the bad welds and brittle plates while Soviet rounds which failed to penetrate only made loud bang sounds. Quality control counts for a lot in tanks
lucky guy got the best gift "Luger"
auvar100 1 month ago
The tiger was the spearhead of psy warfare. Trust me. If you fight a tank which non of your weapons can even penetrated you literally piss your pants. And the King Tiger was only a fail because the germans run out of proper quality steel.
QooperG28 1 month ago
@QooperG28 and time for sure..
auvar100 1 month ago
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01:59 No, the T34 had better Russians than the SS.
AK107DX 2 months ago
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AK107DX 2 months ago
WOW! Tiger 131! 0:50
SSUstufRudel 3 months ago 2
The tiger was to expensive and time consuming to make...it did more harm then good for germany
BalkanTimberMan 3 months ago
If you ran across a Tiger... the Tiger would run across you... :D
Hyshinara 3 months ago 5
One reason there wasn't a general surrender of Germany even though the war was lost, was to give troops more time to find western forces to surrender to.
The Wehrmacht and particularly the SS were horrible, but the Red Army wasn't much better.
Yora21 3 months ago
@Yora21 The Wehrmacht were not intrinsicly terrible people! it was the average german citizen forced to serve thier country, whether they supported the regime or not
Ralroost 3 months ago
@Yora21 the fucking recd army and commie stalin murdered 30 + million ppl and you never hear of that.people try to keep that quiet!.in WWII We should have been allies with germany and kicked russias ass!
11thSSNordlandPzG 3 months ago
Lmao that Captain dude, has 100+ persuasion points D:
flaktank 4 months ago
amazing story. 3 men able to make over a thousand soldiers to surrender.
ngu0061 4 months ago
@ngu0061 it wasnt the men that made them surrender
xOrion89x 3 months ago
You can't be fucking serious. The kid SOLD the weapons?!
I would have had him executed the german way.
Seldanas 5 months ago
i'd disown that kid... lol
ThePissyNoob 7 months ago
lucky coat?
unurautare2 8 months ago 2
The German's nicknamed The Sherman The Ronson after the cigarette lighter, and also The Tommy Cooker, because it would light up and explode with one shot from a Panzer Tank. Tommy Cooker referred to the British whom also used the Sherman in large numbers. American soldiers nicknamed the Sherman The Purple Heart Boxes (ie, Coffins) because they knew that they were not going to live long fighting in those inferior tanks..
haiherosner 8 months ago
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The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
TheWhoaDude 8 months ago
I am not sure that Wittman was so great, I mean he was hit numerous times but the Tiger saved him. In an even battle I am not sure he would have survived so long. I know for fact that his tiger was hit twice very early on that Bocage battle, only the Tigers thick armour allowed him to fight without any real fear of being taken out. The Allied tankers needed far far more skill to take out a Tiger with a Sherman, even a Firefly with the British 17 pdr gun, as it had much weaker armour,
Xiolablu3 8 months ago
@Xiolablu3 i agree but in the early parts of operation barbarossa he proved himself in his small panzer. he was a very good tank commander but yes he was saved alot by his tiger.
waffenss893 8 months ago
@Xiolablu3 yeah but because of the huge size, slow moveability and speed of the tiger it was easier to hit it. so a lighter, smaller and faster tank had a weaker armour but it was more difficult to hit it...
tobi25586 8 months ago
@tobi25586 But even then it couldnt penetrate the Tigers armour. Wittman could basically roam with immunity unless he came up against a British Sherman Firefly (1 in 4 Shermans we fireflies), and even then the Tiger had a big advantage in armour. I am just saying that you dont need much skill when your tank can withstand hits from your opponents, yet your tank destroys them in one hit. To me Wittmans story demonstrates how superior the Tiger was vs the Allies tanks, not how good Wittman was.
Xiolablu3 8 months ago
@Xiolablu3 yeah I know and my point was that its a matter of fact that you get hit more often in a slow, huge tank, but this doesnt mean you are a bad tank commander its just easier to hit it (and I dont mean penetrate the armour) and as waffenss893 said he proved himself in smaller tanks. he became the commander of a tiger in early 1943 but till this time he already got the iron cross 1. and 2. class by fighting the russians (including t-34 tanks) so he was a good tank commander
tobi25586 8 months ago
Is it me, or is this guy severely wrong. His story seems like utter BS.
totenkopf2221 8 months ago
main tank of the US ARMY NOT THE ALLIES god im american and i cant stand the fact that russia is just ignored
Chris0Hood 8 months ago
stupid documentary for stupid americans
KreuzbergPlayaz 9 months ago 2
very incomplete documentary. american usual bullshit
ZeitPT 9 months ago 4
nuke at 3:22
PloKoonep3 9 months ago
@PloKoonep3 - Are you nuts or just stupid? It may have made a small "Mushroom Cloud" plume upon explosion but that was soooo not a nuke. The SS were insane but not so insane as to carry nuclear weapons BY HAND... and thank goodness there was no such thing as a Nuke back then.
MinionOfDeth2112 8 months ago
@MinionOfDeth2112 joke man joke
PloKoonep3 7 months ago
@PloKoonep3 - Oh... sorry, LOL.
MinionOfDeth2112 7 months ago
3 men in a jeep took over......you should settle down on that boomshine pops.
alexoprel 10 months ago
Interesting, but the STG 44 was actually prioritized for volksgrenadiers (2 weeks training, but later trained in the field by veterans). Oh, and besides: They were not "evil"!
hjorturerlend 11 months ago
lol. I don't think they would have hundreds of panzers, half-tracks and trucks. if they did they probably didn't even have the petrol to run them. lol sounds like bs to me. and of course he lost it. :P sounds fishy to me.
jzwief 11 months ago
Look at them evil white folks !
PupuTheClown 1 year ago
@PupuTheClown Horrid grammar.
GamagothRULES 11 months ago
3 men make a whole division surrender wow and i thought only chuck norris could do that
rapcorerocks 1 year ago
@rapcorerocks nah, chuck norris couldve made the ENTIRE german army surrender by only showing them his boot
SuperMachinegunner 10 months ago
I would have leveled that 88mm on the tiger and blasted him to kingdom come.
TimOvrlrd 1 year ago 2
the kid didn't lose it. trust me. he didn't lose it.
jondeare 1 year ago 55
@jondeare that kid sold it for cash i bet. what a little hustler
someguy2255 10 months ago
@jondeare probably traded it for something or sold it for cheap money, i once bought an SS pin from some stupid kid for 20 bucks, the damn ding was worth a good 2 grand easyly
SuperMachinegunner 7 months ago
@jondeare He sold it for a 8 ball :)
hamdiselvi 5 months ago
@jondeare He sold it for a 8 ball :)
hamdiselvi 5 months ago
@jondeare he smoked it
mattituck310 2 months ago
'if you ran across a tiger... well... gee... that would just ruin your day" ahahahahahaha
team73014 1 year ago
Wow impressive i think its a little exagerated but who knows?
patrioticSpetsnaz 1 year ago
What surpises me...this stuff ...went on in about 5-7 years.
It's not like today where you wait 10 years and still no answer to the IED is found.
Durendal33 1 year ago
@Durendal33 And it's not just that no one has found an answer to the guy planting an IED it's a guy wearing it and blowing himself up.The guy planting exposives in his baby sisters dol.
Durendal33 1 year ago
so innacurate
apmountain 1 year ago
Why is it always Wittmann, and not Bölter, Carius, Knispel or Schroif or countless others. I understand that in this documentary they concentrate on the Waffen-SS ace, but this repeats on other documentaries as well.
aaKonda 1 year ago
that was epic that two men was so lucky that they made a whole army to surrender to them by getting into enemy line by accident.
Ju0305 1 year ago
The only way burris's first storry is true is if he had some reinforcements which is highly unlikely, but the second story is believeable
Umimugo 1 year ago
no way 15000 troups surrendered... maybe 150 or 1500, but no way 15000
CoffeeBeatsTea 1 year ago
I Feel That There Is Some Properganda In This Part...
Jatgiuac 1 year ago 2
A spetsnaz would demolish one of these waffles with a toe nail clipping.
JTsmokingbaby 1 year ago
@JTsmokingbaby
Yeah and I personally with a machine gun could have easily defeated the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. This is why we dont compare units from different eras.
And secondly, the Spetznaz are special forces, and the SS were elite forces, and there is quite a difference between these two.
aaKonda 1 year ago 30
excellent documentary
DecoratedSPLATTER 1 year ago
Tiger= Battles winner..
But not a war winner due to its limited numbers...
VaanLeonis 1 year ago
This sounds like one of those stories where the more times he told it, the German army who surrendered to him got bigger and bigger hahaha. In actual fact, there were 500 Americans and 3 Germans, but years later there were fewer Americans, and more and more Germans...
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yes i agree s020015 the waffen ss raped t34's but they cannot handle more and were overwhelmed...........go live in an alternate world where the nazi's won world ww2....on this world it's not happening
langkaers09 1 year ago
yes i agree s020015 the waffen ss raped t34's but they cannot handle more and were overwhelmed...........go live in an alternate world where the nazi's won world ww2....on this world it's not happening
langkaers09 1 year ago
Really? "The Waffen S.S was the 20th century's most formidable and EVIL elite forces"
WTF... since when did a soldier's political standpoint get in the way of his ability to kill people?
I know this series on weaponology is trying to excel in entertainment value but is it all that necessary to mention how evil the Nazis are every 10 seconds? It's as annoying as watching an obnoxious guy in the closet try to prove how he's not gay.
DualSMGsFTW 1 year ago
@DualSMGsFTW Youre right, but not only the mentioning of 'evil' bothers me, but also describing the Waffen SS as elite forces. The Wehrmacht's true elite forces were called 'Brandenburg' and were operating behind enemy lines.
alteye1 1 year ago
@DualSMGsFTW the NASDAP were not evil, they were the future and the light!
wrathofvengance67 4 months ago
Weaponology should make a special episode fully on star wars' stormtroopers!
tortelli 1 year ago
@tortelli Weaponology is to explain the development of weapons. Can you provide development of Star Wars Stormtroopers?
s020015 1 year ago
If i could pick anyway to die id wanna be vaporized by an 88mm tank cannon lol
iTzzEuphoriaaaaaa 1 year ago
The t34 rapes the Tiger
iTzzEuphoriaaaaaa 1 year ago
@iTzzEuphoriaaaaaa HELL YEAH!!!!!!
SVDDragonova 1 year ago
@iTzzEuphoriaaaaaa The T-34s were raped by German infantries.
s020015 1 year ago
@s020015 wrong
iTzzEuphoriaaaaaa 1 year ago
@iTzzEuphoriaaaaaa Don't say you are wrong. I know you are wrong. Thank you for agreeing my point:
Waffen SS raped T-34s.
s020015 1 year ago
@s020015You know because you were in ww2 ? right .. shut the fuck up ......
iTzzEuphoriaaaaaa 1 year ago
@iTzzEuphoriaaaaaa Of course I am not in WW2. But you are not there too. Therefore, shut your mouth up and read more historical non-fiction books. After a full analysis, you can try to jump off from a building seems to be 50 floors tall.
s020015 1 year ago
@s020015 hahah youre fucking hopeless !
iTzzEuphoriaaaaaa 1 year ago
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@iTzzEuphoriaaaaaa Ha! Ha! Ha! You are also fucking hopeless, and scatterbrain! You ignore the truth and you are no longer a normal man. Therefore, you are abnormal.
s020015 1 year ago
@s020015 "Waffen SS raped T-34s."
Sure one tiger tank would obligate a T34 -- but in reality it was more like 10x T34 tanks firing at a tiger tank.
badpanda84 4 days ago
I get so annoyed when people pronounce Waffen as "waffen" and not "vaffen".
buckoboi92 1 year ago
I get so annoyed when people pronouce Waffen as "waffen" and not "vaffen".
buckoboi92 1 year ago
3 dudes in a jeep Vs An army of Rambo's. Not really a thing that will happen everyday or any day at all.
virus922 1 year ago
The Tiger Tank Fricken owns,
tempuserification 1 year ago
it's not a super tank is an advanced heavy tank
BCoy2Pacman 1 year ago
How the hell do you lose a pistol? let alone one that had soo much sentimental value...
Bandanabandito1 1 year ago
Why they always go crazy about Wittman (which is deserved surely), and always forget Carius, Bölter, Knispel and other Tiger Aces who really deserve their honor. Knispel took out 168 tanks, Carius 150+, Bölter 139 and Wittman 138. Villers Bocage is always on the spotlight, and nobody remembers Staudeggers single tiger dueling 50 T-34's, and come out victorious with 22 of the T-34 going up in flames...
aaKonda 1 year ago
@aaKonda teach me more
wrathofvengance67 4 months ago
FLYING TIGER :D
kalemongoolmuts 1 year ago
im just 18 but i wouldve beat the CRAP out of the kid that lost it...
AZKOJYUN 1 year ago
01:50
WTF is this egg head talkin' about.
The WaffenSS soldiers were as proud of their corps as every US Marine is.
d0dge25 1 year ago
lol waffen ss was 25 years more advance then anyone
DrockGaffney89 1 year ago
one of my kid lost it lmao!!!
djsvchost 1 year ago
This thing is.. It's huge, it's very heavily armored, it has a GREAT gun! If you ran accross a Tiger, well, geee, you - you were - that - that would ruin your day!
DonnyRedNr1 1 year ago
look at the badass smoking at 9:21
gekko434 1 year ago
Oh my god 3 men secured the surrender of an entire Pazer Corps?
Shit they must have come out of there screming their nut off and laughing away.You would NEVER FORGET THAT!
fixdeluxe1 1 year ago
if his kids lost his luger pistol - why were his kids playing with it?
PraisetheMetal59 1 year ago
If you ran across a tiger-well gee that would ruin your day
TheAirforce141 1 year ago
Michael Wittmann was not respected by his adversaries. Noone even knew who he was until after he was killed, it wasn't until after his death Americans started bickering as to whom claimed his life.
HayateKanto 1 year ago
the music at 301 is epic
TheShadoman123 1 year ago
i respect the S.S they fought well just cuz i do not like there leader dose not mean i can not respect the enemy
darkrain64 1 year ago
@darkrain64 like they said in the vid - "you didn't admire them, but you certainly had to respect them"
PraisetheMetal59 1 year ago
soviets had a much cheaper weapon that could destroy the Tiger, that weapon was a dog strapped with explosives.
MPLNtodopormexico 1 year ago
@MPLNtodopormexico that "weapon" was a failure :)
The dogs often ran under soviet tanks by mistake, since that's what they were trained with.
EonFigure 1 year ago
@EonFigure Thank you. See I love History so would you care to point in the derection where you read that, Fact?
MPLNtodopormexico 1 year ago
who wouldint be scared , its a fucking tank , tiger or an abrams its still a tank
MrJrMcLovin 1 year ago
i cant belive they thought it can fly
HTT458 1 year ago
finnman kicked ass!
MrHw77k 1 year ago
you spelled Wittmann completely wrong lmfao
UFCMania98 1 year ago
about kid loosing that luger...it is a lie ....
saannddii1984 2 years ago
u are right!
never was that incident documented in WW2 history
im a fanatic of German WW2 weaponry & history, and NEVER was this documented that it happened at all
15,000 troops surrend to 3 men in a jeep? the nazi's had nothing to lose, they wouldnt give up that easy!
and besides that... by the time the russians & allies got to Berlin... 150,000 Nazi troops had already left Germany and are believed to "disappear into countries far away" such as the belief that Hitler left to South America
nle4lyfe 2 years ago 41
@nle4lyfe they didn't surrender the guys tricked them and ran away before the Germans said.. . wait a minute
we all know they got there revange one way or another
RazorCell7 1 year ago
@nle4lyfe They had nothing to lose? They had nothing to win either...
visiteur00000 1 year ago
@nle4lyfe : The old guy may have exagerated the numbers, but the fact is the Germans had a great deal to lose if the Russians caught them.
The notion of 150,000 Germans fleeing into foreign countries at the end of the war- how did they do it? Out through the entirely Allied controlled ports and shipping lanes? Using the burnt-out, shot-down remains of their transport aircraft? Getting the Swiss Navy to move them? Seriously, that's a bigger laugh than the notion of surrendering to 3 guys.
althesmith 1 year ago
@althesmith I remember watching a show on the history channel mentioning a Nazi plane that could travel extremely far on one tank of gas. They said it could make it from Europe to South America which is where they believe most of them went.
taberr5 1 year ago
@taberr5 : One planeload of guys does not equal 150,000 dudes. IIRC, the largest German transport could not handle 150 of them. And that bird was a sitting duck for every Allied plane in the area.
By the end of the war, the transport element of the Luftwaffe was a shambles. Fuel reserves were basically non-existent.
althesmith 1 year ago
@althesmith Not to mention that there were German colonies popping up in South America after world war 2. Then there was a number of German soldiers that just appeared in the French Foreign Legion. To this day the French Foreign Legion claims that they have had 210,000 people enlist from Germany all together being the highest country contributing to their organization. Next in line was Italy, with 60,000. Doesn't that seem odd to you at all?
taberr5 1 year ago
@taberr5 : I might believe 200,000 over the entire history of the Legion. After WW2? Not so much. The Legion at it's peak I believe only had about 30,000 men- not nearly enough to absorb the numbers you claim.
althesmith 1 year ago
@althesmith Hence why I said they had 210,00 people enlist from Germany all together. I wasn't trying to be misleading and I apologize if it came out wrong. I'm just saying it's easier to hide 150,000 people than you think. Considering the soviets lost something around 26 million people in that war. 150,000 people would have been easy to hide, I wouldn't of been surprised if they said 300,000 escaped.
taberr5 1 year ago
@nle4lyfe
Yeah, and which German Panzer Corps would have had "Hundreds of tanks" in April 1945. This guy should lay off the scotch.
aaKonda 1 year ago
@nle4lyfe and wouldn't have the german commander radio'd the German high command confirming the surrender?
Noobssuckass300 10 months ago
@nle4lyfe
If the russians got a hold of them they face a slow and painful death.
fredjustsucks 10 months ago
@nle4lyfe no, that's why they where flocking toward the Western Allies to Surrender.........
Dogmeat1950 10 months ago
@Dogmeat1950 yea u know y cus if they surrendred to the sub humans they all would have been shot on the sbot.
waffenss893 9 months ago
@nle4lyfe so because it wasn't documented it didn't happen? That makes no sense
scottishphoenix1 8 months ago
Tiger was too expensive.
whitesox889 2 years ago
@whitesox889
The Tiger Class tanks was also gas guzzlers compared to the other Panzers
snakes3425 1 year ago
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I had a Alien aircraft also! but one if my kids lost it!
Putrefaction666 2 years ago 9
shot your son
86Freeway 2 years ago
olejohnson Tiger 1 ist PzKpfw V also 5
Anuskrapfen 2 years ago
Can ANYONE find Moffat's Story online? I have been looking and cant find anything about this story.. I would love to forward it to people..
fandh 2 years ago
I want to kill that vet's kid A FUCKING LUGER FROM A GENERAL IDIOT KID
Digifr33k 2 years ago
Tell me about it.
AussiePersian 2 years ago
howitzer!!!
tdabamm12 2 years ago
@EmbryonicOrgy ohoh sorry panzer 4 isnt a tiger but u sure that is an panzer4
olejohnson 2 years ago
There was. It was smaller than the Panther which was smaller than the Tiger tank. Essentially, the Panzer was designed to defeat the Russian main battle tanks.
ertius1 2 years ago
@EmbryonicOrgy panzer 4 is an tiger, there was many kinds of tigers like königstiger that was the panzer6 , alles klar herr komissar
olejohnson 2 years ago
@olejohnson
No, the panzer IV was simply the panzer IV
panzer VI (6) is the tiger
Panzer V is the Panther
nero91 2 years ago
i want a tiger tank lol
tdabamm12 2 years ago 2
it is ! :D
joshuahimself 2 years ago
07:18 does that tiger have aprons? dont know if thats the word in english, but i mean a cover for the wheels at the side.
1993heavenshallburn 2 years ago
Thats not a Tiger. Thats a Panzer IV.
EmbryonicOrgy 2 years ago
damn, you re right. got to check my eyes...
1993heavenshallburn 2 years ago
that was Panzer IV and the tiger or Panzer V didn't have it
Medalofhonor229 2 years ago
yeah,i know. but thx xD
1993heavenshallburn 2 years ago
1 of his kids lost? or pawned it? hehehe
jpmacion 2 years ago
88 GUNS ALSO USED BY THE CHINESE!
HKPEOPLES1997 2 years ago
T34s usually simply went full speed straight at the german tanks and rammed the germans, and the russian tank commander would simply go back for a new tank.
The T34 had the advantage in having sloped armour and high speeds which gave it an advantage in a open feild battle in which they could manouver easily.
WarJunkieAndExpert 2 years ago 3
exactly. and hey, they didnt even had to go back, because of its form the t34 was very very robust.
1993heavenshallburn 2 years ago
I read that the Panther was the best tank of World War Two.
Morrigan070671 2 years ago
suppose so, but the tiger was awesome though
Yavasinate 2 years ago
germany
Wieland1985 2 years ago
k, Tiger vs Jagdpanther
Who will win?
HiredForLife24 2 years ago
Depends on the situation, as always. The real important thing is that generally speaking, just about all German weapon systems after 1943 were able to kill just about anything they hit and not all enemy weapon systems could guarantee a kill when they hit.
Stritchers 2 years ago
at what range??? because if its about 1500m i think Jagdpanther because the Jagdpanther had a Kwk 43 88mm L/71 the same of the King Tiger, while the Tiger had the Kwk 36 88mm L/56. L/71 is the caliber and the length of the barrel of the cannon. longer barrel results in a higher muzzle velocity. and jagdpanther had sloped armor.
AOEPWNS11 2 years ago
length of the barrel? I dont think so, the l/56 and L/71 stands for the length of the round, meaning more powder and more kinetic energy.
RedPower012 2 years ago
@RedPower012
wrong. it is the length of the barrel measured in caliber diametre. l56 means the length of the barrel is 56 times the caliber
chalemalach 1 year ago
Guderian wanted a German version of t-34, panther was the result.
IcyScythe 2 years ago
Kinda disappointed this isn't really about the waffen SS but about german weapons.
IcyScythe 2 years ago
is the Veteran still alive?cause i have a lots of question
Nazrul117 2 years ago
the tiger is not an offensive tank its bloody slow, not like the T-34, the Russian armor saved the world. T-34 well armored, 84 gun and travels faster than a truck. They over bited panther and tiger and then just drove over the japanese
Lukeclout 2 years ago
@Lukeclout
the Tiger had an 88mm as it's main gun, that's more than the T-34's 85mm, it packed a bigger punch than the panther's 75mm tho.
It wasn't as fast as you say.
kenijaru 2 years ago
Lukeclout,the Tiger have a better armor that is 120mm while the T34 have 52mm and the T34 could penetrate the tiger armor at the side...but it needs to be very uncomfortable close...
Nazrul117 2 years ago
wrong t-34 could penetrate from front.
IcyScythe 2 years ago
depend on witch t-34 we are talkin a bout if the normal t34 like i say from the side but if it is T34 type 3 85mm gun can penetrate the front....if he shot twice or more
Nazrul117 2 years ago
yes t34/76 could not but when /76 was being used they were mostly going up against pziii and pziv which were inferior. Few tigers around.
When the panther was coming out the t-34/85 was out too and was definitely a match. And yes it could penetrate from the front. Look up the facts, otherwise you're just being an ignorant nazi fanboy.
Even Guderian, the mastermind of the blitkrieg, called the t-34 the "best tank in the world". Sorry but your nazi fantasies just aren't reality.
IcyScythe 2 years ago
@IcyScythe indeed and im not nazi boy..cause if i love any axis that mean i love Jap that kill a hell lots of malaysian...anyway nazi have a lots of war crime like the Israel
Nazrul117 2 years ago
that wasn't directed at you nazrul, my bad if I offended you.
But I'm sure you've noticed that there are many neo-nazis on youtube commenting these types of videos with things like "14/88" and HH and other bullshit.
IcyScythe 2 years ago
I dont mind that much anyway.....
Nazrul117 2 years ago
So the key is to not assume neo-nazism when you see any positive comment about weapon quality and look for things like racist comments and comments which directly admire Nazi ideology. Admiring German technology doesn't have to mean admiring Nazi ideology.
Stritchers 2 years ago
T-34 was the best balanced tank but in pure combat terms, the Panther generally had the better of the T34 because not only did the Panther have the more accurate gun, better optics, and training behind it, but its armour was mostly reliable. A lot of t34/85 tanks were killed because the non-penetrating rounds of German guns broke the bad welds and brittle plates while Soviet rounds which failed to penetrate only made loud bang sounds. Quality control counts for a lot in tanks
Stritchers 2 years ago
btw..the panther can own a T34 miles away
Nazrul117 2 years ago
pretty fast too
Nazrul117 2 years ago