German WWII Troop Propaganda film

[steelhelex]

Russian"s T 34 took Berlin despite this boastful video.

[ginko27]

You can destroy a standing army through many ways, BUT you can't completly destroy something you can't find. Everyone forgets about the Nazi Werewolves that used guerrilla tactics during the end of the war. They, in many ways were more effective than the standing army was. They used the cheap panzrfaust to hit tanks then vanish. Only when the Germans lost support of the people did the give-up. Only if the people refuse to support gurrillas can you win without killing everyone in the country

[SpainBlood001]

@ginko27 you know reading your comment made me sign in.. i completely agree with your statement.. im a soldier in the army and i agree with this.. as long as the people call fora Jihad.. well never take that rock piece of shit of a country.. if you ask me its not worth the blood, the tears, the pain.. but we do as we are told its simple.. as cheezy as it may sound..

[Notinthehair]

Me Shizen un des juden!

[DaBombRUS]

Русские рулят !

[mrprodigy83]

I was born in the wrong age...

[zombolla]

Der ist sauerkraut im meine leiderhosen!

[mrprodigy83]

@zombolla

lol thats from Top Secret! ;-)

[bindergogo]

@mykillmyers17 xDD dude you made me lol! ^^

first, the russians lost about 20 millions of soldiers... more than 5 times more than the germans through the whole war! -they lost around less than 4 millions-... even in stalingrad, ussr lost more soldiers than germany!

next point: the russians had been dependent on material from the usa, like all the other allies... yeah tell me of molotov-facturies with 1000 planes per day and so on... in fact, the usa saved you!

[mykillmyers17]

@bindergogo Hey, cock-smoker == it dosent matter how many deaths the REDS Army had. They had more than enough infantry. The Axis could have never defeated the Soviet Union. They would face an number ?00,000,000 of soilders. Willing to die for mother russia. They have euro-russia to face first, then the Urals mountains,And theres no way they could have won in Siberia. That is were all the top Russian soilders came from.

[brideofgin]

@bindergogo yeah, but one of our most final war tactics was to close in on them from all angles. We had our allies square-in Germany, and try to compress them. But there was an open side, so Russia willingly covered that final side, and had a major amount of German soldiers fight run them over because that was their escape. Russia took a lot of damage and sacrificed their lives so that we could ultimately defeat Germany. I know it's kind of hard to understand, because of the way I explained it

[bindergogo]

@brideofgin of course the russians tried to stop the germans by bringing masses of conscripts to the front. but the worst thing for the germans was the psychological effect. imagine this: you are somewhere in nowhere, its about 20°C, your home is thousands of kilometres away and all you see are wounded and starving comrades & dead enemies; katyushas -in the last years- did the rest. thats the reason why many many german soldiers went crazy, deserted or comitted suicide on the eastern front...

[yeye11117]

:O WERE DO I SING UP! lol jk chill dont start flaming me -.-"

[PcRussia]

My poor Kaiser, my poor poor, Kaiser. Watching our great Beloved Prussia falling down, and dying, just when this awful war initiated. My poor beloved Germany, my poor beloved Konigsberg, all gone. Our birth rate is vaporized, everything, gone.. stupid Africans & Turks.

[Galtabengt]

This is not a propaganda film. Its an educational film used to train troops on how to fight tanks, It is called "männer gegen panzer".

[mykillmyers17]

the y got fucked up by the soviets PERIOD so get over it. They got man handle in the eastern front, because blitzkrieg can only get an army so far. But definetly not as far a moscow.

[AlifRafikKhan3]

The man with four Tank Destruction Badge is Oakleaves recipient Oberstleutnant Wilhelm Niggemeyer...

[DerkaDerkaDerka100]

at least read a book about Germans in WW2 before you make a REALLY stupid comment like this..

typical American idiots,

[255Knights]

You for get, it took THE WORLD to take down Germany!

We Americans have a very hard time fighting third world nations! Hell, you are going to tell me WE MAY LOSE AFGHANISTAN!!! These people live in ROCKS! We may lose to a bunch of tribals!!! WTF! Germany a nation 70% the size of Texas, took on the WORLD! Sorry, but my hat tip down for Germany on this one.

PS. Go Fu## your self!

[joferg70]

There is a strong chance that the Afgan war may go on and on and never be won. We are fighting passionate driven people, who are happy to fight gorilla tactics, hit and run and ambush, your superior tec back up and arms etc while all impressive etc, will find near impossible to ver come them, plus the presance alone will and is creating more and more opposision, recentment and new generations willing to go there from around the globe, so no its far from over. USSR took them on but had to leave.

[255Knights]

No no no, ...will find near impossible to over come them? It is because they way we fight them. Dude the Greeks conquered them, the other Empires pooled out because there was nothing there...

Also, hit and run and ambush tactics in the past never truly won wars... (it help but was not the reason) Most Empire end up destroying the people using hit and run and ambush tactics...

[255Knights]

The reason why it works so well is because we cannot be as aggressive as the Romans or Germans were. We have WAAAAAY to much rules of war today then ever in history. The people with gorilla tactics take sooooo much advantage of this....

The Romans, the Greeks, the Germans came in with power and did not give a crap, bang they took over.

The USSR had to leave because there Empire was already at there end, it was falling apart, those Afgan are not that good as people say they are...

[mykillmyers17]

@255Knights hey fagget its was germany and the axis powers dumbass.Also it wasnt the whole world. The soviet hammer crippeled the Wehrmacht by 1942 during stalingrad. The rest of the world just did the final dick up the ass to the nazis.

[ghostlegend434]

@mykillmyers17 the world needs more people like you. If there were more people like you, this world would be a better place.

[TheEcu27]

@255Knights the american had way more deaths in ww2 than we have in Afghanistan.

[ghostlegend434]

@TheEcu27 Now a Mr TheEcu27, i am glad to see that you have an acute grasp of the obvious. Sincerely

[TheEcu27]

@ghostlegend434 wow i don't remeber putting that at all.

[lynx69able]

@255Knights were not fighting the nation of afghanistan, were fighting rebels who dont fight a conventional war but wait and only engage when the odds of winning are good and yes germany put up one hell of a fight but the only reason they got there was hitler's diplomatic ingenuity but who also brought the nation down by his poor decisions once the tide of the war turned. Dont forget the US was also fighting the japanese on the pacific. Looks like someone watched a little too much propaganda

[TeachingsofEvil]

@255Knights 70% the size of texas? did you ever pass your geography tests?

[gorillazGT91]

@255Knights WTF who the hell are you to say anything about war, what do you know. thanks for shiting on me i am a goddamn mechanized infantry solder an ill be the first one to inform you that war has changed. you cant fight them face to face like you could Nazis. they where no uniform and use cowardly tactics. kudos to the Nazi army ya they where powerful and invented great tactics but there gone so ya its done.

[gorillazGT91]

@255Knights and who are you to say anything about war, what do you know. im a goddamn mechanized infantryman thanks for shiting on me btw. you cant fight terrorist like you fight Nazi, terrorist where no uniform and use cowardly tactics. kudos the Nazis had a great army and invented good tactics but there done so get over it

[atlanticl]

@255Knights

you will because

1.) Your rating among the general population there pretty much sucks. Instead of the military blowing up entire towns and buildings and calling it "collateral damage", they could just make it more targeted and focused only to whom it is concerned; at the same time improving the well being of the poverty stricken population particularly by doing away with Islamic taboos there and giving refuge to those who want to be free of religious tyranny.

[atlanticl]

2.) Even if you happen to do what you wanna do, you still have the problem of total DEFICIT you are producing and slowly but surely the frailing economy. Hitler did not have to pay any debts to any bankers, as he was actually fighting against the very Bank Of England which later double crossed him.

US is different. Every dollar printed has an interest or deficit to it. Wars and empires cost MONEY, particularly to sustain territory. The national debt, which is so overlooked will work it's

[atlanticl]

@255Knights

to strain the imperial coalition forces even further.

[atlanticl]

@255Knights

not only Germany that was being fought, but it's Axis allies such as Spain, Italy, Romania, and Japan.

[schneeweiss11ify]

@atlanticl Spain was not axis member. Where did you get this? Italy was a fucking joke. They invaded the balkan and lost. They invaded greece and lost. They attacked britain and lost. germany had to send troops, to save italy from collapsing or they would be invaded by greeks. All what Italy did in WW 2 was help the Allies. Japan is on the other side of the world. Their only contribution to the real action was, that they brough USA into war (great help) and romania had no real army.

[92blackeagle]

@255Knights you mean the hard fight in hiroshima and nagasaki.

and now dont tell me that was necessary!

Japan was already done. Your country did that only to show the world your strenght. Especially the russians

[JCHDAden]

@255Knights The Germans had an actual army to fight. How do you fight an idea, a religion. The Germans moved through cities and fought against an actual enemy and not caring about civilian casualties. If German troops were attacked in an occupied town by one hot-headed civi the whole town would go up in smoke. If we were willing to just destroy the whole frieking middle East and disregard the civilians and oil there is there US forces would be in and out in a month. but we cant disregard that.

[aseglkj]

@255Knights LOL the world? 80% of german losses in WWII were caused by the russians.

america didn't do shit btw. by the time the US started fighting the germans, the russians had already been fighting them for 3 years and put them on the retreat.

for some reason americans like to paint the germans as some kind of super human fighting force. guess that makes them feel real good about themselves for having won against them. fact is, they would have lost, sooner or later. they had no allies.

[tollio1234]

@aseglkj LOL Germany invaded Russia in June 1941, while the U.S declared war in December 1941. I'm not sure thats quite 3 years......

[aseglkj]

@tollio1234 are you really that dumb that you don't know the difference between declaring a war and actually fighting? france and britain declared war on germany in 1939, when did the fighting start? gaddafi declared war on switzerland, but were there any battles?

[martynrobin121]

@255Knights Germany didnt take on the World they had many Allies- Italy,Japan,Romania,Bulgaria,F­inland,etc,etc nations from all over the world even Iraq! They were part of the Axis Alliance. Next your going to say its only the U.S in Afghan?? When even the Germans send alot of the troops that are out there after America,Britain.

[drfred26]

@255Knights Why are trying to make Germany look like the Good guys and Americans the bad? This is what's wrong with society, you fucking forget how awful the Germans were. It did not take the whole world to take down Germany either. Germany had allies as well you know; italy, spain, etc. God why does your comment have so many thumbs up. Shows the stupidity of this World.

[NeutralExistence]

@drfred26

Because I am sure you know what really happened during WW2 right?

Your idea of what happened is not complete fucking hearsay......

(sarcasm)

Its commonly known that the victor writes history, so don't be so naive.

[Mungbot2006]

@255Knights Amen!

[Nixdamasterhhe]

Thats no propaganda thats a lernfilm hot to kill Tanks. Idiot

[peepeevagi]

For propaganda, it's really good.

If i had a faustpatrone (however it's spelt) i'd certainly feel invincible to the Russian tanks!

[egermanicus]

not even soviet propaganda can be that dry... its not propaganda, its for educational purposes! but anyhow, the consensus was, that fighting a tank with 88mm gun from 2 km away was far more healthy idea!

[xellos544]

haha, i like your volcabulary "healthy idea!" lol true

[stormer454]

Dude where can I get this Video I love it

[Woworrunescape]

i have rea alot on ww 2 and it was a hell hole of bombing and holes everywhere and there were probably more troops

[LordFaffo]

It's a German's film from WWII made for show to the soldiers how destroy russian tanks. It's named "Mannen gegen Panzer" or something similar, "Mens versus Tanks".

[galacticempire19bby]

@LordFaffo As a German student, I'd say it was "Männern gegen Panzern"-Men against tanks. You were very close.

[LordFaffo]

@galacticempire19bby Thank you man. I'd like to learn german!

[gunnerkylling]

@LordFaffo "Männer gegen Panzer"

[darby11b]

yes, hitler helped defeat the terrible commies, and i thank him for that. but he was as dumb and naive as them. his own blind faith evilness cost the lives of millions of germans. and the most ridiculous part is that he went against everything that germany had stood for 1500 yrs before his birth. he was an ATHEIST! haha these aryans are so misguided. if they really knew what germany stood for they would stand for christianity. not a foolish "national socialism" that was created by a man

[DirtyWhiteGoy]

Hitler survived 50 combat episodes during WWI and 22 assassination attempts in order to save Germany from the ruthless jew bolsheviks. Thank God that Hitler battled the bastards tooth and nail or we'd all be commie slaves today. USA's top 3 officers in WWII (Roosevelt, Marshall, Eisenhower) never experienced even 1 combat episode between them in their lives.

[sicstyl]

Hitler ran and hid while the youth and the elderly fought.

[DirtyWhiteGoy]

Not hardly, dimwit. Hitler was the main arhitect of "The Battle of the Bulge" where the German soldiers kicked American ass. Hitler's inner circle told him to leave Berlin but he stayed until the bitter end when he could no longer defeat an overwhelming force.

[TheLederhosenGuy]

DirtyWhiteGoy, just because he was an "arhitect" of it, he still ran away and forced his soldiers too attack. He made every poor soldier fight to tthe bitter end while he refused to stop the suffering. He had no hope in winning, but he still forced his soldiers to fight and die.

[dylan0572]

marshall was a colonel on the western front in ww1.

[Luegmichl]

You got the part wrong where we DIDN'T all become commie slaves. You just wait a few more decades.

Daily Express Jan 3rd 2009:

"The project is the second phase of a Brussels tax-funded plan to invite more than 50 million African workers into Britain and other members of the 27-nation EU bloc."

The war of destruction against the European race continues.

[TheBengalLancer]

Jews are all cowards who each die a thousand deaths while the brave German soldiers had but one death to give their Fatherland.

[xellos544]

Holy shit buddy, don't talk like that evan if it's a joke.

[someoneinusa]

Likewise, why do you Germans need to settle in Poland, in Polish Pomerania or Silesia, if Germany is such a great country???

What you guys running out of food or something? ;)

[someoneinusa]

Germany/Prussia were only able to occupy Poland from 1795 because they did it together with Russia and Austia. Alone Germany is weak, only if they gang up with another scum countries like Russia they can handle Poland, at least for some time, as you know from history. Besides learn the history Poland-Lituanian commonwealth has been the biggest kindom in Europe in 1400-1650.

[someoneinusa]

To invade one country is one thing, but keep it is much more difficult. Since Hitler came to power in Germany he suspended all democracy and made Germany a total war machine. But it was not enough to defeat Poles.

Mistake that Germans made is that they underestimated Poles desire to fight back. While Czechs give up without fight, Poles never submit to foreighn rule. Regardless how much you arm yourself.. You can try to build your German empire in Lichtenstain but not in Poland.

[monty2288]

now come on. poland is just a small fish that has been german all the times before anyway.

but you are right, invading a country is one thing, keeping them another. with two huge frontlines germans had just a little chance to keep them against nations like udssr and usa.

[KingofStringz]

LOL you litlle polish cock sucker wtf you think the polish could have done if the russians wouldnt have liberated them? nothing! why you ure not at home when poland is such great country ?

[someoneinusa]

Germans were out of their minds thinking that they can finish off entire nation such as Poland...

It would be different case if they only took Gdansk/Danzig but by trying to occupy entire Poland they gave Poles no choice but fight Germans with even bigger motivation.

[spawncpt]

But you know that they succeeded in invading Poland?

[whuduhheck]

These are some very brave men hunting tanks as dismounted infantry(panzerjagers). This is why tanks are only supposed to operate with infantry support. According to the US Army visibility is reduced 50% when the crew is buttoned up-BS visibility is reduced much more the evidence is in this video.

[minchmad]

Hittler should have gave complete military command to field marshall rommel they would have had a better chance.

[enverpasha55]

Thank God he didnt...Rommel was a great tactician/general, but he really did not like the Nazis...but his love for his country compelled him to fight.

[troyalldis]

I wish he had. The Germans definitly would have won. They almost did even with an idiot in charge.

[pwneador]

lets fuking go to hermany xD

[panasonic3D0]

although napoleon made the same mistake deeeerrrr!? and buy fighting in the winter... let me refrase that: if hitler wasn't an idiot and let his generals make the decsions it would have been better for germany of corse

[lpsidler]

They went in early thinking it would be over before the winter set in, they didn't just forget about Napoleon's mishap. Hitler just made the mistake of splitting the troops to take Stalingrad instead of the original plan to take Moscow first prolonging the war, and separating the army into two separate, and weaker units where they would have been unstoppable together.

[678right]

Hitler wanted Stalingrad just because it had the name 'Stalin' in it.

[Oden1988fch]

We lost cause hitler was too stupid!

attacking russia- simply crazy! nobody can beat such a big country! Deuzschland- SIEG!

[panasonic3D0]

true. It would have been interesting to see what would of happended bettween america and germany if hitler was lets say more like napoleon. Power and skill verses an massive massive industrial country. Germany at the very least could have defended against america and had a stalemate, at the very least as I said. Never could the whole world have beaten america at home. Its the truth though. They were russia on steroids...

[nixrate]

hitler was not completley stupid he did rally a entire country. but yes if he had not interferred in military campaigns so much germany would have won even the usa struggled to beat a moral and military weakened germany.

[colbertLOTR91]

Amazing how the Germans can take an idea and improve it so fast,for example the panzerfaust, funny to think that, that was an ancestor of the US bazooka, and german Panzershrek

[sshlyk]

Russians FTW!

[bucovin68]

Deutsche Soldaten und die Officieren!

Nach Ost! Nach Ost!

[madderbass]

They did, but it was kept under covers and was tested but never used.

[another5critic]

go germany...

[duleknife]

They did, Hitler didn't like it so only a handfull were made. Again, the German military was let down by its leaders.

[Trekkerjon]

The film must be very reassuring to those who hadn't heard from their sons on the eastern front.

[johndcorr]

Interesting to see the Panzerfaust actually used in combat!  Fascinating!

[Recklessxzx]

thats not a panzerfaust it's a puppuchen, though without the wheels, a latewar development of the panzershreck.

[duleknife]

It was cheap and could penatrate any allied tanks armour with a direct hit. The T-34 and other russian tanks had sloped armour and it would cause the panzerfaust to deflect from time to time. A hit to the side or rear was a for sure kill

[CDNBrit12]

Hey does anybody know how to track down dead relatives who fought for Germany? Like websites? I want to know what happened to my grandad, but no one speaks of him so.. yeah =/

[mattdenn]

Write to this address: Deutsche Dienstelle (WAST) Die Auskunftstelle für Wehrmachtsnachweise Eichborndamm 179 13403 Berlin Germany (Deutschland)

[Roman55Legions]

"Wait, Europe became weak? Like they were strong before?"

Yea DaScatman Europe had the world! Read your history... The US. was not even a world power yet! Europe messed it all up for them self's when they started fighting each other...

Now Europe is still recovering from this, and formed the EU so it won't happen again. And the EU is a big world power... They might become the World power or a Superpower if they unite... (Like the game Battlefield 2142)

[Roman55Legions]

I think that Germany in WW1 and WWII had the most modernized army in the world.

I agree Hordasson! The Germans even invented many, many tactics in both World Wars; we still use these German tactics today...

[jeffsteadman]

panzerfaust............ja..

[emrahmet]

yaşasın s.s.c.b

[niuchemist]

That "ofenrohr" (stovepipe) took out a tank head-on ... I didn't know a handheld weapon could take out a T-34 from the front armor.

[354sd]

jesus what a shitty job,id sooner have worked in the kitchen or stores than try and creep up on a thing like that.

[baba678]

lols yeah no shit, working in the kitchen was the GOOD job in the army! heck no one wanted to be the pawn that rushes the tanks and shit...

[dunkirchen1940]

That Lieutenant surely is a hero! 4 tanks destroyed single-handed is no easy task!

[koroke]

The german gerneal i like to meet in person if he's alive today. General Erwin Rommel!

[mauserman007]

He commited suicide in late '44 or early '45 for his part in the failed bombing attempt to assasinate Hitler. He was buried with full military honors because he chose suicide.

[songkuan]

where to find 'Mann Gegen Panzer'?

[jorgemedeiros]

US waited Europe becomes weak and then attacked! If it had attacked before 1942, surely they would fail.

[DaScatman]

Wait, Europe became weak? Like they were strong before?

[jorgemedeiros]

Germany had been in war since 1936 when it sent troops to Spain. 9 yrs in war isn´t enought? Before 1941 US army were small and had less soldiers than the polish one.

[Skull4Scavenger]

We could have been......Scatmannnn!!

[vincewhirlwind]

The officers 'tank destruction badges' are not for tank v tank success but for single combat as an individual against a tank!! A very very brave man indeed as he has performed this feat on at least four seperate occasions!!

[DarkDeserter]

Thanks for the upload!

[tomistmein]

that was an ok propaganda film for the german artillery

[Hordasson]

The Germans were soldiers as no one else in history. Think about it; Germany were in war with over 50 countries (!), exstremely outnumbered and out-industrialized, having incompetente leaders in Berlin - but STILL they held the stand for almost six years!

[DaScatman]

Remember the Spartans?

[CircusFreak12]

they were in war with 50 countries but who actually fought germany? only a handful. germany was also NOT out-industrialized. they had the BEST military weapons in the war including the V2, tiger tank, stuka divebomber, and messerschmidt

[Hissanrach]

wow, very ture and accurate! germany also had the best airforce at the time. Germans rule!

[CircusFreak12]

best airforce and at some time best naval fleet (bismarck). the only tank better than the tiger II was the russian T-34. they also had assault rifles, anti-tank weaponry (panzerfaust), and even toxic gas. germany was no pushover back then....

[duleknife]

The first three years, the did. The German air force was unstopable. But again their leaders let them down. If Hitler would have left Britain alown, the German air force would have been able to hold of the allies another year, maybe two. They lost to many good pilots in the battle of britain to ramain superior.

[duleknife]

Yes they did. The only reason they lost was bacause their leaders were to optimistic and hot-headed. Most of the modern military weapontry of the 21st century woulden't exist. The swept wing fighter, the ICBM, and Air-to-Air missles. We even used German WWII tactics against Saddam Hussain twice.

[Hissanrach]

I couldn't agree with you more. Also, the German U-boats were pretty powerful, they almost owned the seas. But I would have to say that it was mostly Hitler's fault the Germans lost. Also, near the end of the war, the Germans released a new kind of submarine that we have used to make the Nuclear Submarines we use today. the Germans are geniuses.

[CircusFreak12]

yep germany was nearly undefeatable until the united states stepped up their industrialization.

[cheezmaster321]

thats because germany controlled some countries, but allies took them

[KronicPain]

what can i say? We're just bad like that.

[braven117]

Panzerfaust = Iron Fist

[1230986666]

You were, but when someone tries to "dominate the world", theres forcedly alliances. So you have to be more powerfull than ten countries insteas of one.

You still did a great kickass job on WW2, but you should have stopped focusing on ramjets, 1000t tanks and other crazy things and make more efficient small arms so call of duty players on the german side stand a chance against other teams that russians.

[Peta016]

ya the german army kicks ass, we were 10x more powerfull then alot of nations, like USA.

[KronicPain]

the American army is the most powerful army in the world.

[3mate1]

Ahem, Horse drawn. That describes about 60% of the Wehrmacht in 1939-40. No doubt that the German landser wes well trained, dedicated and prfessional. but Germany lacked the resources to fully mechanize, and relyed on the same shock units to advance, they couldnt replace their losses.

[Seth0101]

mobile weapons from 70 years ago. what were your people producing then?