The ALPINI, mountain troops, the Bravest soldiers.
The ALPINI although deployed in plain and devoid of anti-tank weapons managed to stop the Red Army during the battle of Stalingrad. The Italians were encircled by the Russians when the lines held by 24 German Corps collapsed. Unlike German the ALPINI fought a month step by step without food or supplies to -40 degrees walk more than 1000 kilometers. The last Russian line was destroyed in the battle of Nikolayevka.
@mrzackamaniac the movie's name is stalingrad....to me its a great german film and you can watch the full thing here on youtube eith english just type stalingrad full movie english and it should appear. i hope i helped
holywood reenactment Nothing like to what it happened T 34s didn't blow up like this if that was the case the battle of stalingrad would have turned out very different the Germans are good soldiers But the Russians proved beyond ANY doubt they are the Best
Tanks ran too slow and did not fire at all...totally unrealistic. In real situation tanks with infantry support would surround and destroy this positions easily
@kibabiba That's assuming they had good training and co-ordination. Soviet forces were not reknown for either of those qualities. Probably got a bit better as the war swung in their favour, but still not amazing. Tanks might not have fired much either due to low ammo or lack of HE rounds, or more likely, the T-34's simply couldn't see much, they had very few and tiny viewports.
@TammoKorsai >>T-34's simply couldn't see much, they had very few and tiny viewports
It has enough viewports to see positions in FRONT of it. BTW I have a T-34's monument (real t-34-85) near my house and climbed the turret many times, tank is full of viewports from all sides. It was maneuverable and effective. Even pro-american propagandist channel Discovery says that T-34 is the best tank of WW2.
>> training and co-ordination
Germans lost the same number of soldiers as USSR at Stalingrad
"Germans lost the same number of soldiers as USSR at Stalingrad"
This is most likely incorrect, though conclusive numbers are hard to establish and so it can't really be said.
Axis casualties were approximately 840,000 while Soviet casualties were near 1,130,000. Of the Axis, about 350,000 to 400,000 of the dead were German, the others being Italian, Hungarian, Romanian, and some Croatians. The Soviets lost about 480,000 to 500,000.
How many died as POWs and not in battle is not clear.
no way I bring my tanks in on crunchies, send in the infantry, use coaxial and main gun to soften them up, (remember tanks carry much more mg rounds than the men on the ground. Then go in an mop up
@Thatevilmidget As the son of a father who's uncle was an SS honor guard my dad told me that the germans always had their manners. I.E wiping their feet when in doors and they never stole, even when invading another country and rummaged through a store they pulled out their wallets and payed for whatever it was
@Nominandum1 True... Platoon really was a spectacular movie from both a cinematic and moral standpoint. It really stands out as one of Charlie Sheen's best movies (which, in all fairness, isn't saying much... but it's still an excellent movie).
@vladimir2147 Are you surprised that an american movie would star americans? Would you have the russians make films about the japanese, or a german film about the italians?
@Nominandum1 Wouldn't have been historically accurate either, since all factions really did rape and pillage at various different times and locations. That said, it's still refreshing to see them give the Wehrmacht a fair portrayal.
@Thatevilmidget as a russian i can tell you, the germans were brutals but allways fair! raping never happened in the wehrmacht, it was forbidden by death sentenced, in a general average, the german soldiers werent brutal murderes, it was only the specials units behind the front line who were barbarics
@vladimir2147 As the grandson of a German officer, I can say I agree to a point. There were several folks that defied the rules (there always are), but it wasn't a common offense (quite a number of units brought their madchen with them in hopes of avoiding such incidents), and usually the death sentence was waved if the person was an otherwise good soldier (they still got one hell of a beating and a few months of hard labor afterwards to drive the point home)
@milvipes Yeah... well they had that whole "the emperor is tantamount to God, Japan is God's country, we are superior to everyone, lets kill us some Chinese folk" complex going on. As for their treatment of prisoners, they didn't really know what to do with prisoners... especially in the numbers they captured them early on... so they defaulted to the traditional "prisoners aren't people" mentality, and treated them as such.
Which movie was this? It looks excellent... and it seems to be a really level headed and honest movie, rather than the usual ones that basically say "Oh look, Germans... they rape and kill everything. Look, one of 'em is kicking an orphan's puppy right now!". It's refreshing to see a movie distance itself from that garbage (yes, I know the German army committed atrocities, but so did every other army, and atrocities were relatively rare when compared to the number of actual soldiers involved)
Excellent movie, with intense battle scenes. The fact that infantry had to take on tanks with little more than improvised and handheld shaped charges speaks to their incredible bravery and resourcefulness. The Wehrmacht of WW2 was, on a man-for-man basis, superior to its contemporaries not because of their Aryan race, or other such stupidity - it was because their tactics were flexible, and because their unit cohesion was superior, with soldiers in units who had known each other a long time.
Sure they are!! they killed innocent people. They were SOOOO brave. I mean they killed people who could not fight back. No one but german soldier were brave enough to do that.
@ecy1712 Damm, which army didn't do it during da WWII?! Faggot, u don't know history if you're sure that only Wehrmacht killed innocent people. Pls read about murders of Russian, American armies before you write sth, redneck.
I meant their attitude and fight till the empty magazine, but u r too stupid to understand it.
stalin matou 100 milhões de seres humanos , hitler 50 milhões incluindo os judeus , quem matou mais ???? porque ninguem fala de stalin ,mas só fala de hitler ??????Eles são semelhantes !!!!
@JsLegomaster - Robert Henry Cain VC is not German and certainly didn't run away. In fact he took on four Tiger tanks single handed before finally turning a 2.5" mortar into a sort of short range hip fired super cannon and completely "demoralizing the enemy".
hmph , those tanks didnt have alot cannon shells and machine gun shells ? they so silent ... like they came there and looking for someone destroy them
@JSLegoMaster To be fair, the Romanians had next to no equipment to deal with a tank advance since they were always passed over for equipment in favour of German units.
Their equipment was bad, but the german soliders learned that one solider can destroy a tank, something other soliderd couldnt even imagine and so the fear factor was huge and the just run away.
@JSLegoMaster I think a combination of bad equipment, poor leadership and even worse morale had more to do with it than "just running away". Most of what you're stating is completely conjectural anyway.
@Spac42 the romanians were treated dreadfully by there own officers there equipment was completely third rate given the chance they would have proved competent soldiers
@dasmatango123 stalin matou 100 milhões de seres humanos , hitler 50 milhões incluindo os judeus , quem matou mais ???? porque ninguem fala de stalin ,mas só fala de hitler ??????Eles são semelhantes !!!!
Aside from certain incidents the Wehrmacht behaved itself like any other army would, most atrocities were conducted by various other agencies and if you do the research you'll find those agencies were under the command of the Criminal SS.
@kill3456 That is a popular myth, very convenient for Germans. The truth is different. SS was a murderous organisation indeed, but Wehrmaht (german army) is responsible for million of death. I did my research very well. do yours. Start with google : WEHRMACHT WAR CRIMES
@KrwawyLeon You might have not read my post thoroughly so let me highlight what I said,
'The Weghtmacht behaved itself like any other army'
This doesn't mean they were saints. The Red Army were notorious for their countless atrocities and even the more disciplined and behaved armies of the UK, France, and United States had incidents involving war crimes, I think you should work on impartiality.
@dasmatango123 They were true soldiers, but they were fighting for the wrong leader. Down with Hitler !!! DEATH TO FASCISM - FREEDOM TO ALL PEOPLE !!!
@dasmatango123 yes it was not the soldaten's fault they were being lead by a nut..and Most soldaten of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS were NOT "nazis".they just fought for their country and their family...not hitler....and most of the SS was not even german..some ppl still belive they were all "aryans" and blonde hair blue eyes and die-hard nazis when they were NOT....they were soldiers in the wehrmacht and SS of all Nationalitys and races fighting for their countrys.
@11thSSNordlandPzG It's a normal thing, that people want to push the blame on someone else. Most Germans weren't nazis? But they've chosen Hitler for their leader in legal elections. His ideas were know before that happened. Non-Germans were about 60% of SS, but only in the end of war. Earlier - Germans were majority (and always when it comes to commanders). Gallant Wehrmacht - it's a myth. Wehrmacht was commiting war crimes, and was used in mass exterminations, same as SS.
@Florek112 so what your saying is a nazi cause hitelrs is leader? well then i guess that makes everyone in the US a Democrat cause obama is in officer right??..lol..NOPE!.and war crimes? they had some and so did the SS but that dont make them all "murderers"..you know all the allies commited war crimes too right?..how about the mass murder of german civilans during bombing raids and them not hitting one military target?and the murder of german POW's? and the mass rapes and murder of german women
@Florek112 but i guess non of that matters cause the germans were nothing but evil nazis killing every jew insight right??.. to ppl like you..who have a compleatly wrong idea of them....its not the militarys fault they were being lead by a fruitcake...and nazis?? the REAL nazis are the Gestapo,SD,Political leaders..not the soldiers. and if you want to call them all "nazis" then i guess the entire US Military is democrats right??
@11thSSNordlandPzG You don't understand me - I know that allies were commiting war crimes. But first - we have to distinguish between war crimes and German planned mass extermination. We can't justify Germans, because allied did something too. BTW It was Germans who started to bomb civilians from the first minutes of war, and "not hitting one military targer". Second - I don't want to say that Germans WERE nazis in the straight meaning. But they APPROVED this kind of policy.
@11thSSNordlandPzG Third - Soviet Union was the same murderous regime as Third Reich. So again - we can't justify Germans, because of Russian actions. Stalin, Hitler - the same kind of guy. USSR commited more war crimes, murders etc. in my country than Germans - but it isn't the subject of discussion.
to all the folks who doubt that tanks would be defeated so easily by a few german soldiers, search for info about fritz christen, battle of lushno, "the pak of dubrovka". In defense vs 15 t34 tanks, he shot down 6 of them on day one. the day after that, all of the gun crew gets killed and fritz wounded, the tanks attack again. the guns optics are destroyed so fritz aims through the barrel and shoots down another 7 and prevents a breakthrough. he is first common SS-soldier to get a knights cross.
This movie is bullshit, but probably will do for some teenagers. The most funny part is how they destroyed so many tanks just using only one gun, and t34 even didn't fire to shoot them.
Lol this is why I hate movies, 30 guys taking on 4 or 5 tanks and manage to survive- yeeeeaaaa like thats ever going to happen. In real life those tanks would rip them a new asshole.
@swunt10 Yea i know, but the fact that they had no anti tank equipment other than a couple mines and somehow manage to take out all of them just makes it look stupid thats all. There was also a scene where a guy blew the tank up with a molotov, which is just plain retarded....
@FaggotHatingGuy they had one tank and anti tank mines. the russians got in their trapp. so where is the problem? and molotovs can take out old tanks. ther was oil all over the place in those old machines and they mostly didn't have bulletprove glas or glas of some sort. it must be easy to burne the guys in the tank with a molotov i guess.
@swunt10 no, panzergrenadiere are motorised and armored infantry, they accompany tanks and are not specialized in fighting tanks, well not more than other german infantry.
@swunt10 bullshit, that doesnt make sense. First off, wikipedia is smarter than you.
Second, how can they be panzergrenadiers, when they are combat engineers, didnt you watch the movie?
anzergrenadiers are not modern BW, this call of troops was done by guderian, the mentor of blitzkrieg tactics, he needed support troops for the tanks that accompany the tanks and hold the ground that the panzers pushed into, allowing them deeper penetrations and encirclments. What modern BW have with that?
@JSLegoMaster No of course not, i never said it was impossible, i merely said panzergrenadiers are not *specialized* in fighting tanks.
In fact, in Stalingrad, not only the 6th army got trapped, but also parts of 4th panzerarmy. That would mean there would be panzergrenadiers trapped in the kessel as well of course.
Very ture, however the Panzer Army was not encircled in stalingrad, but outside west of it. So infact there were 2 pouches where germans were incircled, Stalingrad (The battle we all know so much about" and the panzer forces who tried to resque them
@barnbersonol wow thats funny if your goin for the sarcasm, if not they needed to have better footwear and dident care about any possible disesase wich wasn a problem for the feet
@MrBent22 Looking at your spelling you're a bloody Yank! (thanks for Dday btw) No sense of irony.... the y were glad just to be alive, wearing someone else's boots being bad for 4 you is a modern invention of our namby pamby society
The Germans lost because they underestimated the Russians to begin with. By late 1941 German intelligence was surprised that there were any formations left to fight, they estimated the Russian army far smaller than it actually was. Also the Russian military had been purged by Stalin, who eradicated practically all of the top generals and many mid level officers. By the end of the war the Russian army was probably a match for any fighting force in the world, including the Germans at their peak.
Stalingrad was, in my opinion, the ultimate showdown of WW2. National Socialists facing off against Communists. Both countries tough. Both countries great in their own right. And the battle showed just how brave, dedicated, and capable both sides were.
world war 2 marked the ending of our old world and our old values, since 1945, im glad to say europe was never the same. it became modern. war is unnatural.
"English good really, me on YT see you. Let's fight for pacifism [lol] and a niggerized world of cheap plastic crap and hedonist materialism... What chumps those fellows were. Peace, love, and museums as the tombstones of a tourist trap Italy. Americanization forever!!!!"
While I agree with some of what grazzzi67 said, the world today, a consequence of the Allied victory, is pure hell. Just comfortable enough for most slaves, that is...
I always thought the director of this film was a crypto-nazi. Amazing how the German boys vanquish those Russkis with their T-34s almost bare handed. You watch this clip and think my my how did the Germans lose to those inferior Russians. The Military Channel talked to tanks experts and they declared those tanks so easily destroyed as the most important tank in history.
If the associating infantry is gone, tanks are very vulnerable against enemy infantry, due to the weapons actually shown very well in this film like magnetic mines. As is also shown such attacks on tanks could be pretty suicidal, so I have no idea what makes you think of "crypto-nazis" here
@RokkStrongo In the film, the German soldiers are always shown to be superior to Russians. While their numbers dwindle, they are always shown as better. Also, in the end, the director never confronts the racist and genocidial goals of the army and the soldiers. I have no doubt the Germans were brave, but in the end they are glorified. If the Germans won, one of the greatest acts of genocide would have occurred by the very same fellows shown in that clip.
@MrWebster because the victory of soviet Russia didn't result in the deaths of hundreds of millions under communism? then spark most of the wars since the end of ww2? and is still causing deaths in country's which remain communist?
@MrWebster How did the Germans lose to those 'inferior' Russians? Easy: numbers. Soviets actually swarmed. German troops were better trained, used better tactics and better material (overall). Comparing the numbers of casualities actually explains it all... This movie is actually very accurate about that. Most movies go about allies vs germans with 100 germans dying to 1 allie. But I hear nobody complain about that? Intellectual dishonest?
@XScorpionX321 Intellectually dishonest? Let's see about your Nazi apoligia. You basically repeat a Nazi white supremist argument--the inferior people of the world out number the superior white Aryan people. Nazi apologists simply cannot in any way give credit to the Russians, such as you did. Swarn? No such thing happened at Stalingrad. The Soviets broken into small groups to fight buiiding by building. Instead of reading neo-Nazi history, read a few real accounts.
He didn't apologize anything, he just told you how it was. And you didn't see the movie at all, the platoon they portrait makes mistakes all the time, in the beginning someone accidently fires his MP and they get spotted and receive heavy fire and casualties.
It is not glorifying or apologizing if you state the facts. Nobody said the russian army was bad, however they did have much more military casualties even tho they had much more vehicles, infantry and better air support.
Just look up acknowledged historians, especially concerning tank combat. Even tho russian early war tanks were a good match and a lot of times better than the german (KV, T34) counterpart they still couldn't stop the germans. This is explained by the fact that most of the german troops were already combat proven through the campaigns against poland and france. They also had better communication between the tank crews and with the other troops.
Also please take a look at Kursk (Citadel), 170.000 dead Soviets and 56.000 dead Axis and this was an attack of the Axis.
If you want to call historians from all nations Nazis or Nazi supporters just because they show the facts then that is your problem. I am sad that this war happened but I am glad that the Axis lost.
What you need to remember is that the Axis were no super soldiers and neither was the Red Army incompetent. It is not black and white, but stop calling all Nazis.
@MrWebster It's just a fact, wether neo-nazi's go shout it around or not.. it has nothing to do with superior-inferior. The germans just had better equipment, training and the tactics they used were better... they came to a halt in stalingrad where the house-to-house fights began..And eventually lost because it was very hard to get suplies there.. and also...the allies in the west.. But before stalingrad, soviets lost too much men due to WO1 tacs. Russian or German, let them be remembered
@XScorpionX321 better tactics you say? it is Chuikov and the his tactics which are studied not the defeated german generals. allies in the west? d-day happened after stalingard...in fact, stalin kept complaining that the west was not doing enough to take the fight to the nazis. it was the soviet union that defeated the nazis and no excuse making can wipe out that fact.
@bethpage89 And they were near impossible to destroy with frontal shots as the Russians innovated slopped/angled armor to deflect frontal hits. This film in the end is meant to show that even in defeat Germans were superior.
A 50mm Pak 38 as in the film would indeed have trouble penetrating the T-34's frontal armour, although it's chances wouldn't have been that bad at such a close range (100m). Angled armour is not a magical protection, its just harder to penetrate for slower early war AT rounds. A 7,5cm Pak 40 could penetrate the T-34's hull (45mm at 60°) at up to 2000m
@threefingeredfury Nonsense. The Russians would have continued to retreat. The Nazi tactic worked well in the smaller spaces of Western Europe, not in Russian. Same happened with Napolean. He took Moscow and destroyed his army. People are always crediting the Nazis as supermen and never giving the Russians any credit. Just like in this clip. The T-34 was nearly invincible on straight on shots, but the director has to show the nazi soldiers in some sense superior to the Russians.
no offense but I'm kinda glad the germans won this battle because the russians were so brutal to them at this part of the war. Sorry if it offended you if it did, i will delete it sorry if i did.
terrible film! the mg34 that was in the film worked fine when it was proven that on the eastern front the mg34 failed with the cold and mud that russia threw at it and also the only fixed gun that could destroy the t34 was the 8.8 CM FLAK 18/36 ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN. That was the oly gun that in a fixed position could take on the t34.
@spongyjakester well the mg34 was not as reliable as the mg42 but was still reliable
and the t34 had very little front armour giving it its speed. its good armour came from the sloped armor it had. a 37mm amour-piercing round could put it out of action it it shot between the hull and the turrent
poor t-34s, somebody stole all of their ammo.
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The ALPINI, mountain troops, the Bravest soldiers.
The ALPINI although deployed in plain and devoid of anti-tank weapons managed to stop the Red Army during the battle of Stalingrad. The Italians were encircled by the Russians when the lines held by 24 German Corps collapsed. Unlike German the ALPINI fought a month step by step without food or supplies to -40 degrees walk more than 1000 kilometers. The last Russian line was destroyed in the battle of Nikolayevka.
OMBspa 1 week ago
what movie is this
mrzackamaniac 3 weeks ago
@mrzackamaniac the movie's name is stalingrad....to me its a great german film and you can watch the full thing here on youtube eith english just type stalingrad full movie english and it should appear. i hope i helped
TERMINATORNIKO 2 weeks ago
@mrzackamaniac /watch?v=ilB2ukvXXfc&feature=related just follow this link actually
TERMINATORNIKO 2 weeks ago
@mrzackamaniac "Stalingrad".
CaptainLordDestructo 1 week ago
Lol. Surely, one cannon can destroy a whole company of tanks. If no tank makes a single shot at all during the whole battle, like in this movie.
Angellywings 1 month ago
A few minutes later
We'll take the cannon with us.
but where are the horses?
we're the horses.
MAXZONE47 1 month ago
holywood reenactment Nothing like to what it happened T 34s didn't blow up like this if that was the case the battle of stalingrad would have turned out very different the Germans are good soldiers But the Russians proved beyond ANY doubt they are the Best
polygamous1 1 month ago
Пидорасы пидорасами мудаки мудаками вот немец скатина СУКККААААА!
Sasha57122 1 month ago
i tedeski sono sempre i migliori...
freddie26123 1 month ago
ich seh aus wie meine oma...
guellegandalf 1 month ago
Tanks ran too slow and did not fire at all...totally unrealistic. In real situation tanks with infantry support would surround and destroy this positions easily
kibabiba 1 month ago
@kibabiba That's assuming they had good training and co-ordination. Soviet forces were not reknown for either of those qualities. Probably got a bit better as the war swung in their favour, but still not amazing. Tanks might not have fired much either due to low ammo or lack of HE rounds, or more likely, the T-34's simply couldn't see much, they had very few and tiny viewports.
TammoKorsai 1 month ago
@TammoKorsai >>T-34's simply couldn't see much, they had very few and tiny viewports
It has enough viewports to see positions in FRONT of it. BTW I have a T-34's monument (real t-34-85) near my house and climbed the turret many times, tank is full of viewports from all sides. It was maneuverable and effective. Even pro-american propagandist channel Discovery says that T-34 is the best tank of WW2.
>> training and co-ordination
Germans lost the same number of soldiers as USSR at Stalingrad
kibabiba 1 month ago
@kibabiba
"Germans lost the same number of soldiers as USSR at Stalingrad"
This is most likely incorrect, though conclusive numbers are hard to establish and so it can't really be said.
Axis casualties were approximately 840,000 while Soviet casualties were near 1,130,000. Of the Axis, about 350,000 to 400,000 of the dead were German, the others being Italian, Hungarian, Romanian, and some Croatians. The Soviets lost about 480,000 to 500,000.
How many died as POWs and not in battle is not clear.
mastersausagemaker 1 month ago
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polygamous1 1 month ago
no way I bring my tanks in on crunchies, send in the infantry, use coaxial and main gun to soften them up, (remember tanks carry much more mg rounds than the men on the ground. Then go in an mop up
usmctanks1 1 month ago
@usmctanks1 This Is hollywood man in Hollywood even pigs can fly
polygamous1 1 month ago
wie heist der film ? :o
ReviewsBoom 1 month ago
@ReviewsBoom stalingrad
aguyfromsweden 1 month ago
фашист не пройдёт
MyDemon73 1 month ago
Sorry to post such a technical question. But where those T-34 really that slow in combat?
stxx1234 2 months ago
@stxx1234
Yes, very much so. Also, remember that they didn't have radios in the tanks and the vision on them was crap. Slow to react to things.
harlequin2262 2 months ago
@stxx1234 They were faster than that, but they need to keep formation and go slow enough for the infantry to keep up.
Jc40k1 1 month ago
@Thatevilmidget As the son of a father who's uncle was an SS honor guard my dad told me that the germans always had their manners. I.E wiping their feet when in doors and they never stole, even when invading another country and rummaged through a store they pulled out their wallets and payed for whatever it was
privategramcracker01 2 months ago
@privategramcracker01 Did he treat non-Aryans (Jews, Russians, Romanis) with the same respect?
my80splaylist 2 months ago
@Nominandum1 True... Platoon really was a spectacular movie from both a cinematic and moral standpoint. It really stands out as one of Charlie Sheen's best movies (which, in all fairness, isn't saying much... but it's still an excellent movie).
Thatevilmidget 2 months ago
@Thatevilmidget exellent movie but still very hollywood one any way, americans are allways the heroes!
vladimir2147 2 months ago
@vladimir2147 Are you surprised that an american movie would star americans? Would you have the russians make films about the japanese, or a german film about the italians?
Jc40k1 1 month ago
@Nominandum1 Wouldn't have been historically accurate either, since all factions really did rape and pillage at various different times and locations. That said, it's still refreshing to see them give the Wehrmacht a fair portrayal.
Thatevilmidget 2 months ago
@Thatevilmidget as a russian i can tell you, the germans were brutals but allways fair! raping never happened in the wehrmacht, it was forbidden by death sentenced, in a general average, the german soldiers werent brutal murderes, it was only the specials units behind the front line who were barbarics
vladimir2147 2 months ago
@vladimir2147 As the grandson of a German officer, I can say I agree to a point. There were several folks that defied the rules (there always are), but it wasn't a common offense (quite a number of units brought their madchen with them in hopes of avoiding such incidents), and usually the death sentence was waved if the person was an otherwise good soldier (they still got one hell of a beating and a few months of hard labor afterwards to drive the point home)
Thatevilmidget 2 months ago
@Thatevilmidget The Imperial Japanese Army, OTOH...
milvipes 2 months ago
@milvipes Yeah... well they had that whole "the emperor is tantamount to God, Japan is God's country, we are superior to everyone, lets kill us some Chinese folk" complex going on. As for their treatment of prisoners, they didn't really know what to do with prisoners... especially in the numbers they captured them early on... so they defaulted to the traditional "prisoners aren't people" mentality, and treated them as such.
Thatevilmidget 2 months ago
Which movie was this? It looks excellent... and it seems to be a really level headed and honest movie, rather than the usual ones that basically say "Oh look, Germans... they rape and kill everything. Look, one of 'em is kicking an orphan's puppy right now!". It's refreshing to see a movie distance itself from that garbage (yes, I know the German army committed atrocities, but so did every other army, and atrocities were relatively rare when compared to the number of actual soldiers involved)
Thatevilmidget 2 months ago
Excellent movie, with intense battle scenes. The fact that infantry had to take on tanks with little more than improvised and handheld shaped charges speaks to their incredible bravery and resourcefulness. The Wehrmacht of WW2 was, on a man-for-man basis, superior to its contemporaries not because of their Aryan race, or other such stupidity - it was because their tactics were flexible, and because their unit cohesion was superior, with soldiers in units who had known each other a long time.
BasinBictory 2 months ago
lol 1:50
"Where's the artillery?!"
Other soldier: "You are the artillery!!!"
Sum1MustGetHurt 2 months ago 10
lol 1:00 he said he looks like his grandma!
haloluver123 3 months ago
German soldiers - the greatest troops in the history. Their braveness was incredible.
Rest in peace comrades!
TheTompoland 3 months ago
@TheTompoland
Sure they are!! they killed innocent people. They were SOOOO brave. I mean they killed people who could not fight back. No one but german soldier were brave enough to do that.
You are an idiot
ecy1712 2 months ago
@ecy1712 Damm, which army didn't do it during da WWII?! Faggot, u don't know history if you're sure that only Wehrmacht killed innocent people. Pls read about murders of Russian, American armies before you write sth, redneck.
I meant their attitude and fight till the empty magazine, but u r too stupid to understand it.
TheTompoland 2 months ago
a huge difference with the boots, german boots had steel soles
ahindat2 3 months ago
GeGe totally looks like Mila Jovovich here. (GeGe Müller is the guy with the winter hat at 0:01)
SSUstufRudel 3 months ago
A New pair of boots, that's all a soldier could ask for.
NottheFacePlease 3 months ago
The scene is based on Sven Hassel's book "Stalingrad".
alexmuresan 3 months ago
You know you're fucked if they have more tanks than you have soldiers.
landship92 3 months ago
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@BombBakers
Fuck you, you piece of shit.
rotflmfaololzomg 3 months ago
One of the best ww2 war scenes! Especially after timeline 6:00-> Burning T-34s', wind blowing, how the camera operates and music! It's astonishing!!
dualis777 3 months ago
poor guys only had a Pak gun. Panzerjagers were true warriors. I award you Tank Destruction Badge!
The soviets used there tanks to crush men in foxholes/bunkers all the time. If you read eastern front memoirs, you find that alot
12thpanzerHJ 3 months ago
I'm not German but from what I learned Nazi troops were really loyal and brave...
pranker121 4 months ago
woo soviet pwnage
CCCP307 4 months ago
@CCCP307 burn in hell communist scum!
BombBakers 3 months ago
@BombBakers :P im no communist i just like watching nazis get owned
CCCP307 3 months ago
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stalin matou 100 milhões de seres humanos , hitler 50 milhões incluindo os judeus , quem matou mais ???? porque ninguem fala de stalin ,mas só fala de hitler ??????Eles são semelhantes !!!!
cavalothpya 4 months ago
@JsLegomaster - Robert Henry Cain VC is not German and certainly didn't run away. In fact he took on four Tiger tanks single handed before finally turning a 2.5" mortar into a sort of short range hip fired super cannon and completely "demoralizing the enemy".
zombie1774 4 months ago
Whats the name of this movie?
kamenator 4 months ago
Did the russians forget they had HE rounds in the tank?
Jc40k1 4 months ago in playlist Battle scene
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
ben191209 4 months ago
Those are T-34/85 tanks not T-34/76s. The 85 did'nt enter service untill late 1943.
JimbobHarrigan1984 4 months ago 22
stop drop and roll
phrikaphrak40k 4 months ago
hmph , those tanks didnt have alot cannon shells and machine gun shells ? they so silent ... like they came there and looking for someone destroy them
KostyuninaOlga 7 months ago
This is what i call braveness, Infantry vs. 8 T34 tanks.
Most soliders in ww2 would run away just when they see them comming, like the romanians did in Stalingrad.
JSLegoMaster 7 months ago
@JSLegoMaster To be fair, the Romanians had next to no equipment to deal with a tank advance since they were always passed over for equipment in favour of German units.
Spac42 5 months ago
Their equipment was bad, but the german soliders learned that one solider can destroy a tank, something other soliderd couldnt even imagine and so the fear factor was huge and the just run away.
JSLegoMaster 5 months ago
@JSLegoMaster I think a combination of bad equipment, poor leadership and even worse morale had more to do with it than "just running away". Most of what you're stating is completely conjectural anyway.
Spac42 5 months ago
@Spac42 the romanians were treated dreadfully by there own officers there equipment was completely third rate given the chance they would have proved competent soldiers
tenirpaslager 5 months ago
@JSLegoMaster "This is what i call braveness, Infantry vs. 8 T34 tanks."
Is it still bravery when you're an invading force that should be there in the first place?
cadmus98 4 months ago
Im talking about the soliders in this battle, not the german attack on russia 1941 which was absolutley pointless and dump.
whats your point?
JSLegoMaster 4 months ago
@cadmus98 - Well obviously yes, it is is still bravery.
And actually Germany only invaded Russia because they knew that Stalin would have invaded Germany, so they struck first.
TomHartill 3 months ago
@dasmatango123 very true, I have tons of respect for German soldiers but none for hitler
axroj24 7 months ago
german army : true soldiers
hitler: piece of shit
dasmatango123 7 months ago 86
@dasmatango123 stalin matou 100 milhões de seres humanos , hitler 50 milhões incluindo os judeus , quem matou mais ???? porque ninguem fala de stalin ,mas só fala de hitler ??????Eles são semelhantes !!!!
cavalothpya 4 months ago
@dasmatango123 also german army = murderers of milions of innocent civilians. And this will never be forgotten.
KrwawyLeon 3 months ago
@KrwawyLeon
Where'd you learn that crap from?
Aside from certain incidents the Wehrmacht behaved itself like any other army would, most atrocities were conducted by various other agencies and if you do the research you'll find those agencies were under the command of the Criminal SS.
kill3456 3 months ago
@kill3456 That is a popular myth, very convenient for Germans. The truth is different. SS was a murderous organisation indeed, but Wehrmaht (german army) is responsible for million of death. I did my research very well. do yours. Start with google : WEHRMACHT WAR CRIMES
KrwawyLeon 3 months ago
@KrwawyLeon You might have not read my post thoroughly so let me highlight what I said,
'The Weghtmacht behaved itself like any other army'
This doesn't mean they were saints. The Red Army were notorious for their countless atrocities and even the more disciplined and behaved armies of the UK, France, and United States had incidents involving war crimes, I think you should work on impartiality.
kill3456 3 months ago
@dasmatango123 They were true soldiers, but they were fighting for the wrong leader. Down with Hitler !!! DEATH TO FASCISM - FREEDOM TO ALL PEOPLE !!!
ComradeAleksa 1 month ago
@dasmatango123 only the werchmen
NewSoviet507 1 month ago
@dasmatango123 yes it was not the soldaten's fault they were being lead by a nut..and Most soldaten of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS were NOT "nazis".they just fought for their country and their family...not hitler....and most of the SS was not even german..some ppl still belive they were all "aryans" and blonde hair blue eyes and die-hard nazis when they were NOT....they were soldiers in the wehrmacht and SS of all Nationalitys and races fighting for their countrys.
11thSSNordlandPzG 1 month ago
@11thSSNordlandPzG It's a normal thing, that people want to push the blame on someone else. Most Germans weren't nazis? But they've chosen Hitler for their leader in legal elections. His ideas were know before that happened. Non-Germans were about 60% of SS, but only in the end of war. Earlier - Germans were majority (and always when it comes to commanders). Gallant Wehrmacht - it's a myth. Wehrmacht was commiting war crimes, and was used in mass exterminations, same as SS.
Florek112 3 weeks ago
@Florek112 so what your saying is a nazi cause hitelrs is leader? well then i guess that makes everyone in the US a Democrat cause obama is in officer right??..lol..NOPE!.and war crimes? they had some and so did the SS but that dont make them all "murderers"..you know all the allies commited war crimes too right?..how about the mass murder of german civilans during bombing raids and them not hitting one military target?and the murder of german POW's? and the mass rapes and murder of german women
11thSSNordlandPzG 3 weeks ago
@Florek112 but i guess non of that matters cause the germans were nothing but evil nazis killing every jew insight right??.. to ppl like you..who have a compleatly wrong idea of them....its not the militarys fault they were being lead by a fruitcake...and nazis?? the REAL nazis are the Gestapo,SD,Political leaders..not the soldiers. and if you want to call them all "nazis" then i guess the entire US Military is democrats right??
11thSSNordlandPzG 3 weeks ago
@11thSSNordlandPzG You don't understand me - I know that allies were commiting war crimes. But first - we have to distinguish between war crimes and German planned mass extermination. We can't justify Germans, because allied did something too. BTW It was Germans who started to bomb civilians from the first minutes of war, and "not hitting one military targer". Second - I don't want to say that Germans WERE nazis in the straight meaning. But they APPROVED this kind of policy.
Florek112 3 weeks ago
@11thSSNordlandPzG Third - Soviet Union was the same murderous regime as Third Reich. So again - we can't justify Germans, because of Russian actions. Stalin, Hitler - the same kind of guy. USSR commited more war crimes, murders etc. in my country than Germans - but it isn't the subject of discussion.
Florek112 3 weeks ago
@Florek112 and sorry i had a few spelling errors in my postings.
11thSSNordlandPzG 3 weeks ago
It is very interesting. A my ancestor fought and die near Stalingrade countryside.
WHL2012AD 7 months ago
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@hellnet88 dude just shut the hell up and watch the video damn......
choppa344 7 months ago
I seriously think Spielberg got a lot of inspiration from this movie when he maid Saving Private Ryan.
v10moped 7 months ago
to all the folks who doubt that tanks would be defeated so easily by a few german soldiers, search for info about fritz christen, battle of lushno, "the pak of dubrovka". In defense vs 15 t34 tanks, he shot down 6 of them on day one. the day after that, all of the gun crew gets killed and fritz wounded, the tanks attack again. the guns optics are destroyed so fritz aims through the barrel and shoots down another 7 and prevents a breakthrough. he is first common SS-soldier to get a knights cross.
tomtom34b 7 months ago
3:16 owwww damn i bet that hurt like hell
choppa344 7 months ago
Thumbs up if get here searching for Felegein!
nezoth 8 months ago
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MegaGeorgeGuy 8 months ago
This movie is bullshit, but probably will do for some teenagers. The most funny part is how they destroyed so many tanks just using only one gun, and t34 even didn't fire to shoot them.
zeppelin80 8 months ago
@zeppelin80 Retarded. Tanks started firing after they located their targets.
Triarity 8 months ago
3:31 Do you know what left and right means?
moviemaker1004 8 months ago
0:55 he is looking at his helmet and says "i look like my grandma"^^
swunt10 8 months ago
I love how the guy goes and steels the dead mans boots to be warm. The bastard should have tried the furnace they burned all those jews in.
TheWillOfTheNeedles 8 months ago
Lol this is why I hate movies, 30 guys taking on 4 or 5 tanks and manage to survive- yeeeeaaaa like thats ever going to happen. In real life those tanks would rip them a new asshole.
FaggotHatingGuy 8 months ago
@FaggotHatingGuy Love your name. lol
OzzyFan87 8 months ago
@FaggotHatingGuy you know the german/russian death ratio of 1:10 right?
swunt10 8 months ago
@swunt10 Yea i know, but the fact that they had no anti tank equipment other than a couple mines and somehow manage to take out all of them just makes it look stupid thats all. There was also a scene where a guy blew the tank up with a molotov, which is just plain retarded....
FaggotHatingGuy 8 months ago
@FaggotHatingGuy they had one tank and anti tank mines. the russians got in their trapp. so where is the problem? and molotovs can take out old tanks. ther was oil all over the place in those old machines and they mostly didn't have bulletprove glas or glas of some sort. it must be easy to burne the guys in the tank with a molotov i guess.
swunt10 8 months ago
The AWESOME T-34 the best BATTLE TANK ever
babah77088 8 months ago
Good lord, ya had to have nerves of steel to attach one of those magnetic mines to that iron beast.
southernprideyankee 8 months ago
3:15 is the worst way to go lol .
basicwebmember 8 months ago
4:01 Drop 'n' roll silly!
Henners1991 8 months ago
enjoyed the start-up conversation quiet a bit
'Whos got the sticky bombs" 'Rollo, I look like my granny" classic :D
Chreeq 8 months ago
Russia is Greatest no doubt !!!
ycoombs 8 months ago
@ycoombs russia was just good and effective in war because of the amount of soldiers they had
Stafke1993 8 months ago
its amazing how a couple of soldiers can defeat a lot of tanks
xtheakmalx 8 months ago
@xtheakmalx they are called Panzergrenadiere or Panzerjäger in german. it's there job to deastroy tanks. so yea it's the normal work for them.
swunt10 8 months ago
@swunt10 no, panzergrenadiere are motorised and armored infantry, they accompany tanks and are not specialized in fighting tanks, well not more than other german infantry.
tomtom34b 8 months ago
@tomtom34b möööp wrong. don't copy wikipedia. that doesn't make you smart. remember this is 2.WW not modern BW and ther are there to destroy tanks.
swunt10 8 months ago
@swunt10 bullshit, that doesnt make sense. First off, wikipedia is smarter than you.
Second, how can they be panzergrenadiers, when they are combat engineers, didnt you watch the movie?
anzergrenadiers are not modern BW, this call of troops was done by guderian, the mentor of blitzkrieg tactics, he needed support troops for the tanks that accompany the tanks and hold the ground that the panzers pushed into, allowing them deeper penetrations and encirclments. What modern BW have with that?
tomtom34b 8 months ago
They are Sturmpioniere, thats very right i saw the movie to. However it is not impossible that Panzergrenadiers fight witout their Tanks.
JSLegoMaster 7 months ago
@JSLegoMaster No of course not, i never said it was impossible, i merely said panzergrenadiers are not *specialized* in fighting tanks.
In fact, in Stalingrad, not only the 6th army got trapped, but also parts of 4th panzerarmy. That would mean there would be panzergrenadiers trapped in the kessel as well of course.
tomtom34b 7 months ago
Very ture, however the Panzer Army was not encircled in stalingrad, but outside west of it. So infact there were 2 pouches where germans were incircled, Stalingrad (The battle we all know so much about" and the panzer forces who tried to resque them
JSLegoMaster 7 months ago
It's unhygienic to wear someone else's footwear, didn't the soldiers have any idea of health and safety??
barnbersonol 9 months ago
@barnbersonol wow thats funny if your goin for the sarcasm, if not they needed to have better footwear and dident care about any possible disesase wich wasn a problem for the feet
MrBent22 9 months ago
@MrBent22 Looking at your spelling you're a bloody Yank! (thanks for Dday btw) No sense of irony.... the y were glad just to be alive, wearing someone else's boots being bad for 4 you is a modern invention of our namby pamby society
barnbersonol 9 months ago
@barnbersonol Lol, your welcome, and I defiantly agree with you about the armies back then being more coddled.
MrBent22 8 months ago
what movie is this?
uzickimajmunac 9 months ago
@uzickimajmunac
Its a german one and called "Stalingrad"
Legat246 9 months ago
The Germans lost because they underestimated the Russians to begin with. By late 1941 German intelligence was surprised that there were any formations left to fight, they estimated the Russian army far smaller than it actually was. Also the Russian military had been purged by Stalin, who eradicated practically all of the top generals and many mid level officers. By the end of the war the Russian army was probably a match for any fighting force in the world, including the Germans at their peak.
Jelendra13 9 months ago
@Jelendra13 Excellent comment.
MrWebster 9 months ago
Stalingrad was, in my opinion, the ultimate showdown of WW2. National Socialists facing off against Communists. Both countries tough. Both countries great in their own right. And the battle showed just how brave, dedicated, and capable both sides were.
a55kiker 9 months ago
да, русские из танков выпрыгивают в рваных фуфайках, морды грязные :) кто говорил, что фашизм побежден?
ilpatio1945 9 months ago
world war 2 marked the ending of our old world and our old values, since 1945, im glad to say europe was never the same. it became modern. war is unnatural.
maxb8097 9 months ago
"English good really, me on YT see you. Let's fight for pacifism [lol] and a niggerized world of cheap plastic crap and hedonist materialism... What chumps those fellows were. Peace, love, and museums as the tombstones of a tourist trap Italy. Americanization forever!!!!"
While I agree with some of what grazzzi67 said, the world today, a consequence of the Allied victory, is pure hell. Just comfortable enough for most slaves, that is...
NKVism1 9 months ago
очень смешной эпизод
khripp1 9 months ago
yeah your right. Hitler made a big mistake invading russia he should have known he could not fight on two fronts.
threefingeredfury 9 months ago
I always thought the director of this film was a crypto-nazi. Amazing how the German boys vanquish those Russkis with their T-34s almost bare handed. You watch this clip and think my my how did the Germans lose to those inferior Russians. The Military Channel talked to tanks experts and they declared those tanks so easily destroyed as the most important tank in history.
MrWebster 9 months ago
@MrWebster
If the associating infantry is gone, tanks are very vulnerable against enemy infantry, due to the weapons actually shown very well in this film like magnetic mines. As is also shown such attacks on tanks could be pretty suicidal, so I have no idea what makes you think of "crypto-nazis" here
RokkStrongo 9 months ago
@RokkStrongo In the film, the German soldiers are always shown to be superior to Russians. While their numbers dwindle, they are always shown as better. Also, in the end, the director never confronts the racist and genocidial goals of the army and the soldiers. I have no doubt the Germans were brave, but in the end they are glorified. If the Germans won, one of the greatest acts of genocide would have occurred by the very same fellows shown in that clip.
MrWebster 9 months ago
@MrWebster because the victory of soviet Russia didn't result in the deaths of hundreds of millions under communism? then spark most of the wars since the end of ww2? and is still causing deaths in country's which remain communist?
rudidoodie1 2 months ago
@MrWebster 55,000 were built
packr72 9 months ago
@MrWebster How did the Germans lose to those 'inferior' Russians? Easy: numbers. Soviets actually swarmed. German troops were better trained, used better tactics and better material (overall). Comparing the numbers of casualities actually explains it all... This movie is actually very accurate about that. Most movies go about allies vs germans with 100 germans dying to 1 allie. But I hear nobody complain about that? Intellectual dishonest?
XScorpionX321 9 months ago
@XScorpionX321 Intellectually dishonest? Let's see about your Nazi apoligia. You basically repeat a Nazi white supremist argument--the inferior people of the world out number the superior white Aryan people. Nazi apologists simply cannot in any way give credit to the Russians, such as you did. Swarn? No such thing happened at Stalingrad. The Soviets broken into small groups to fight buiiding by building. Instead of reading neo-Nazi history, read a few real accounts.
MrWebster 9 months ago
@MrWebster
He didn't apologize anything, he just told you how it was. And you didn't see the movie at all, the platoon they portrait makes mistakes all the time, in the beginning someone accidently fires his MP and they get spotted and receive heavy fire and casualties.
It is not glorifying or apologizing if you state the facts. Nobody said the russian army was bad, however they did have much more military casualties even tho they had much more vehicles, infantry and better air support.
Shermingtan 9 months ago
@MrWebster
Just look up acknowledged historians, especially concerning tank combat. Even tho russian early war tanks were a good match and a lot of times better than the german (KV, T34) counterpart they still couldn't stop the germans. This is explained by the fact that most of the german troops were already combat proven through the campaigns against poland and france. They also had better communication between the tank crews and with the other troops.
Shermingtan 9 months ago
@MrWebster
Also please take a look at Kursk (Citadel), 170.000 dead Soviets and 56.000 dead Axis and this was an attack of the Axis.
If you want to call historians from all nations Nazis or Nazi supporters just because they show the facts then that is your problem. I am sad that this war happened but I am glad that the Axis lost.
What you need to remember is that the Axis were no super soldiers and neither was the Red Army incompetent. It is not black and white, but stop calling all Nazis.
Shermingtan 9 months ago
@MrWebster It's just a fact, wether neo-nazi's go shout it around or not.. it has nothing to do with superior-inferior. The germans just had better equipment, training and the tactics they used were better... they came to a halt in stalingrad where the house-to-house fights began..And eventually lost because it was very hard to get suplies there.. and also...the allies in the west.. But before stalingrad, soviets lost too much men due to WO1 tacs. Russian or German, let them be remembered
XScorpionX321 9 months ago
@XScorpionX321 better tactics you say? it is Chuikov and the his tactics which are studied not the defeated german generals. allies in the west? d-day happened after stalingard...in fact, stalin kept complaining that the west was not doing enough to take the fight to the nazis. it was the soviet union that defeated the nazis and no excuse making can wipe out that fact.
MrWebster 9 months ago
my great grand father was the captain for the t 34 tanks for world war 2!
mmasakova 9 months ago
@mmasakova did he survived?
uzickimajmunac 9 months ago
T-34s move MUCH faster than that.
bethpage89 9 months ago
@bethpage89 And they were near impossible to destroy with frontal shots as the Russians innovated slopped/angled armor to deflect frontal hits. This film in the end is meant to show that even in defeat Germans were superior.
MrWebster 9 months ago
@MrWebster
A 50mm Pak 38 as in the film would indeed have trouble penetrating the T-34's frontal armour, although it's chances wouldn't have been that bad at such a close range (100m). Angled armour is not a magical protection, its just harder to penetrate for slower early war AT rounds. A 7,5cm Pak 40 could penetrate the T-34's hull (45mm at 60°) at up to 2000m
RokkStrongo 9 months ago
@RokkStrongo tungsten core rounds helped though, dont know if they were avaliable at stalingrad
packr72 9 months ago
1:16 MUST DIG DEEPER!!!
CM99501 9 months ago
if hitler would have assaulted moscow instead of halting ww2 probably would have turned out diffrently. thank god hitler made that mistake
threefingeredfury 9 months ago
@threefingeredfury Nonsense. The Russians would have continued to retreat. The Nazi tactic worked well in the smaller spaces of Western Europe, not in Russian. Same happened with Napolean. He took Moscow and destroyed his army. People are always crediting the Nazis as supermen and never giving the Russians any credit. Just like in this clip. The T-34 was nearly invincible on straight on shots, but the director has to show the nazi soldiers in some sense superior to the Russians.
MrWebster 9 months ago
They stopped the tanks, but at what cost ....
EmperorofTerra 9 months ago
Son of a bitch these guys must have been freezing there nips off everday in weather like this...
VulcanofWar 10 months ago
no offense but I'm kinda glad the germans won this battle because the russians were so brutal to them at this part of the war. Sorry if it offended you if it did, i will delete it sorry if i did.
KingOfLegos123 10 months ago
Germans - "No dont turn around we do nothing we come in peace"
Russian - " Uhhh.... Guten Tag Man" Awkward silence then gunshots!
KingOfLegos123 10 months ago
Hey can someone tell how were those charges around 4:20 are called ?
egobot13 10 months ago
@egobot13 its a powerfull anti tank sticky mine
SkadTheReaper 10 months ago
@egobot13 it is called a Panzerknacker or a Hafthohlladung. it is stuck on the tank magnetically
kuipers23 10 months ago
@kuipers23 cheers
egobot13 9 months ago
terrible film! the mg34 that was in the film worked fine when it was proven that on the eastern front the mg34 failed with the cold and mud that russia threw at it and also the only fixed gun that could destroy the t34 was the 8.8 CM FLAK 18/36 ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN. That was the oly gun that in a fixed position could take on the t34.
spongyjakester 10 months ago
@spongyjakester well the mg34 was not as reliable as the mg42 but was still reliable
and the t34 had very little front armour giving it its speed. its good armour came from the sloped armor it had. a 37mm amour-piercing round could put it out of action it it shot between the hull and the turrent
kuipers23 10 months ago
killing germans is cool
kerimil 10 months ago
so drammatic...breathtaking...
danutpopescu1 10 months ago
4:02 ok i know your on fire but there's snow
AwsomeSauceFilms 10 months ago
2:50 bullshit the T-34 was built to withstand direct hits to the front
Arbiter11723 10 months ago
@Arbiter11723 Yes just like every other tank. Doesn't mean it can withstand a hit especially from a pak40 AT Gun.
TheGriefmaker 10 months ago