Legend says: When in 1943 German paratroopers were trying to catch Josip Broz Tito in Bosnia, they got so intimidated by armed Balkan grandmas with mustaches, that they used their paratroops to fly back into the planes.
Desidero esprimere il mio cordoglio per i tanti intrepidi Fallschirmjaeger morti nell'estate del 1941 a Creta, nell'ambito dell'Operazione Merkur. Centinaia di giovani vite spezzate nel volgere di poche ore. I lori spiriti - ne sono certo - ora dimorano in un mondo migliore. Il loro sacrificio non è stato dimenticato!
not to insult but the one with the guys marching in fog cant be Fallschirmjager because the 5th or so has a panserfaust they couldent parachute into combat with heavy weapons
@campion8686 well actually they can considering the panzerfaust was a throw away AT weapon it had a range of like 45 feet it was pretty much a pre-curser to nowadays LAW missile or the AT4 missile fire once throw away so they werent really made heavy its a light AT weapon system now if they had been parachuting with a panzershrek that would b different cause it was made to be reloaded nd fired so they werre made heavier nd more durable
@MHJforPrussia and also @fluffy1931 hi guys i´ve taken a look @ yer discussion and i have to say fluffy1931 is right, but for the wrong reason. it´s not about grs.tn. of shipping lost, you have to vector in costs and ressorses in mainly men (material costs to a lesser extent). an ordinairy sailor cost shit to train, u-boot trainning on the otherhand was costly and long. u-boten were more expansive and german ressorses were dwindling by the day. it´s a miracle they lasted as long as they did.
@TigerMilitia Regarding Monty's fiasco Market Garden, didn't the British paratroopers come face to face with The Hermann Goering Panzer Division. I believe I read a quote by George Patton when asked what was the best division of any nation in WW 2 he said it was "The Herman Goering Panzer Division." And, due to the casualties of Operation Mercury, didn't Hitler forbid any future airborn invasions?
Excelente video y hermoso himno de los mas valientes combatientes, estas tropas no tenian igual en el mundo en los años de 1939 a1944, hay que recordar la invacion a Creta y la defensa de monte casino donde combatieron contra los primeros batallones americanos de soldados de color y de japoneses-americanos, honor a ellos.
My Great-grandfather was a Fallschirmjager. in 1943, he defected. and in 1945 while on his way to germany for his wife and son was shot by a Nazi extremist because he found out that he defected. he died December 9th 1961. He was never a member of the nazi party, "Der Ruhm für diejenigen, die dienen und für ihr Land sterben, ist ewig. Der Ruhm für facists' und die Verfolger dessen, was unsere große Nation ist, soll nur remebered als Tyrannen, und bedrückend den freien deutschen Leuten sein."
@SwitchbIade17 ....i hate to break your little idealist bubble, but hitler and the nazis had over 90% approval among the german public during the 30s and most of the war....i know this because my mother was a "guest" worker and she personally experienced the general feeling of the public....if your grandfather wasn't a nazi, he was at least a sympthathizer....the non sympathizers didn't last long and were certainly not trained as paratroopers....you're spewing revisionist horseshit
@jethro035181 sure 90 percent may have approved the Nazi ideals, but this was accepted amongst the public to be the evacuation of the Jews, Communists and others out of Germany, not their extermination. Also their rating was so high because the Nazis promised and delivered to bring all historically German lands back to Germany and to make it a power again instead of being embaressed from the loss in World War One
@Dauserofdasite ...you're correct on this one....the general public had no knowledge of the fate of jews, gypsies or mental defectives..the general public was only aware that there was paid work, the economy was improving and there was general pride in being a german or austrian..there was order in the streets and plenty to eat...all violent dissent disappeared...my slavic mother was treated quite well , considering the times, because she kept her mouth shut and did her job (unpaid dairy worker)
@jethro035181 I understand that maybe your mother was treated like shit by the Nazis, but dont forget not all Germans were Nazis, this is a foolish statement and to say such makes you no better then that pig Hitler or even Stalin, what youre stating is like saying all Russians were uneducated, babaric, Communist tools that Stalin used as a Pawn, or even to a more foolish extent all Americans were Zionist-loving, capitalist fools... so stop generalizing, its what the Nazis did and it is foolish.
@jethro035181 I had my great grand-father fight in the Wehrmacht, now you might say this is why i take the defensive but the truth is its not, its because i know not all people knew about the exterminations taking place mostly until late 44. My great grand-father was arrested by the Gestapo over comments made against the Nazis, but he was lucky this was in 1941 otherwise he probably would have been shot, but this is likely why he was sent to the Eastern Front where he was killed.
Now whereas im saying not all Germans were Nazis. You are not quite correct, whereas in the Waffen SS you had to be a proven Nazi supporter through and through this was simply not the case for the Fallschirmjäger, although they did like the Waffen SS have to prove that for the most part they were pure German, unlike the Waffen SS they werent meant as the Aryan Elite arm of the military, although they did swear allegiance to Hitler as all the soldiers had to, not all were Nazis. Research it...
@jethro035181 Fuck you, my grandpa was not a Nazi, he refused the beliefs, and check youre history. the 90% was mostly german cicilians not the military, most of his officers except for Himmler did not share his belief, they did however believe in Strict army discipline, which the Nazi party was based on. stop trying to make all the soldiers look evil, thats WWII European propoganda
@SwitchbIade17 ...where is german cicilia ? are you talking about silesia, which is in poland....prior to ww2 hitler had over 90% approval in all german states...population 69 million... 9 million belonged to the nazi party and 2.5 million to the hitler jugend...during the war, if you said anything "defeatist" you disappeared...all the anti-aircraft batteries were manned by civilian women (very vigorously)..munitions plants also...in a 1953 survey of germans only 47% would say hitler cont'd (1)
@SwitchbIade17 ..cont'd (2) was bad...even after ww2 most germans (53%) approved of hitler....admiral doenitz, (last nazi head of state) even in prison, had a 50% approval rating in 1953...the german officer's assassination attempt had zero public support..the german army did not permit political affiliations but in fact most did support their leader...the more rabid ones joined the waffen ss...if grandpa wasn't a nazi, then he was very quiet about it, which amounted to tacit support
@SwitchbIade17 i hate people who stereo type the heroes of germany m grandad fought in the spanish civil war in the international brigades and served in an all communist batalion he won 3 iron croses 1 in stalingard 1 in bastogne and 1 in market garden these men in the wermcht were heroes unlike the ss and nazi scum
@greggyinfantry ...just as a matter of interest, what unit in the german army was all communist ? ....i am an amateur historian tracing the history of the communist party in north america ....
@jethro035181 many commies were in the german army in communist companies or platoons were common especialy on the eastern front they were ofter ill equiped and used as cannon fodder
@greggyinfantry my dar was also in the dirty war ,he saw and did dirty work ,,said nothing and excepted nothing ,he said,,, SS did the jobs that the army did not want to do,, They got the job done,, Someone had to do the dirty work,,, ya know Respect to them,,, disagree,, they were heroes to many,,,,
@jethro035181 Fuck you, my great grandpa was not a Nazi, he refused the beliefs, and check youre history. the 90% was mostly german cicilians not the military, most of his officers except for Himmler did not share his belief, they did however believe in Strict army discipline, which the Nazi party was based on. stop trying to make all the soldiers look evil, thats WWII European propoganda
@boffinboy100 agreed. the whole wermacht didn't want to do hitlers bidding but they didn't really have a choice. i admire Rommel, Guderian and Paulus. people never really understand ww2 germans. they just listen to what they hear from their lousy history classes
Too true. I too admire Rommel. Though there were ardent Nazi soldiers, the vast majority were just boys doing their duty for Fuhrer und vaterland. The british did the same for king and country so why can't we say that the Wehrmacht was a good military, possibly the best in WW2. And so much modern technology would not have been invented if German research and technology had been looted.
Hi fellow Canadian. The WWII German Fallschirmjaeger were a branch of the Luftwaffe, using Luftwaffe uniforms, and rank insignia. And I share your views on the Wehrmacht, but was labeled a racist/Nazi in school because of it.
@leonardbullhock The crimes of that unit got around. I'm not saying they were a bad fighting unit. I'm well versed in the history of the war. Still, murdering slavs and civilians for such... indiscriminate reasons is why I still consider it to be a criminal body, everyone had a part in supporting its operations, even if they didn't actually pull the trigger. Yes, I'm aware some were forced into it... their punishment is the burden on their conscience.
@leonardbullhock Oh, and it would seem you're not a neo-nazi, so please don't take me as some sort of crusader. I'm open to discussion with rational people :)
The Fallschirmjager took 44% percent casualties at Crete and that largely stopped the German paratroopter program. The Allies formed the Airborne we know today as response.
Those failures could not protect their homeland, at the end their daughters, mothers, wives, etc ended up being raped by drunk russian soldiers, that's the price you pay for being the inferior race.
And they might have considered enemy paratroopers as equals, but no other. At Maleme they shot unarmed RAF personnel trying to surrender and used others as human shields when they advanced further.
The Fallschirmjager have a great deal of respect in my mind, they fought hard and treated their prisoners well, Oberstleutnant Walter Koch famously spared captured British Commandos in Tunisia, despite orders to execute them.
As said earlier, the Fallschirmjager still live on today. :)
well lost and victory is just comes from the God( almighty)...
weldone Germans. we did never blame u as human killers but respect u just for ur bravery... the Jewish killing propaganda is just a drama and nothing more. how could Nazis killed 6 million jews while there were not more then 3 to 4 millions in germany?
@vahshehzadeh Because the Nazis rounded up Jews from countries they occupied and shipped them to the concentration camps, along with whoever else they didn't like. And either way, it's tough to get accurate numbers on this kind of thing.
I believe the Fallschirmjager was a true elite force. The Waffen-SS was just a political collection of NSDAP members who were prevented from joining the regular Heer because they were in the NSDAP. The Fallschirmjager actually did real elite stuff, trained harder, were more honorable, did commando stuff. They fought for Germany, not National Scoialism. They did not like what politicians were doing back home, but they still fought for their home. They were noble like all true soldiers.
Someone who thinks logically and sensibly! The German Wehrmacht was very good, the Fallschirmjagers and Panzergrenadiers were an Elite. But although they are a political army, the Waffen-SS were also an Elite, "You can't admire them, but you've certainly got to respect them." But yeah, the Fallschirmjagers were the best conventional wehrmacht soldiers, the best in WW2 with the possible exception of the Royal Marine Commandos.
@HerrJohann72 Yes! As a practical matter, many German soldiers and junior officers were not Nazis. And what if they opposed Nazism? What could they have done about it? Not too much. We should not judge them because we have never had to live under such a regieme. When all is said and done, most of the Wehrmacht were draftees, especially after 1939. After all, the young Germans of today had nothing to do with the events that took place sixty, seventy, and eighty years ago.
@boazrg ..,nice try dude. The nazi party came to power in Germany thru a democratic electorial process. They didn't just happen overnight in a nazi shitstorm from outer space. War crimes & geneva convention or common sense does not distingish draftees in any army except your fantasy.
@boazrg Who cares they were like the "Moderate Muslims" of today, we always hear moral relativists scream about how the Jew hating homicidal element is small and yet the supposed majority is neither seen nor heard.
Great post, but you have for some reason what looks like a Soviet Pe2 at 1:23. Could be wrong, but you say you use only Fallschirmjager footage and that might not even be German.
@GRAPOLLO146 the periphery, including Greece. I'm not making excuses for Germany. I'm not making excuses for anyone. I'm saying that I don't really understand why so many Germans are resentful of the fact that as one of the main past beneficiaries of trade with Greece it's their responsibility to repay some of the profit they've gained from countries such as Greece in times such as these. Either that or abolish the single currency (which looks unlikely because of the destabilising short-term
@GRAPOLLO146 Em, you seems to have misunderstood what I have said. When I said "Germany is just repaying" I was referring to the loan from the Eurozone core, of which Germany is of course dominant which many Germans seem to resent having to contribute to. However, as I pointed out, the only reason Greece, among others on the Eurozone periphery, needs a loan from the core is because the single currency favours the economy of the core & Germany's export economy in particular, to the detriment of
@GRAPOLLO146 It favours big companies over small companies & big economies over small economies. Germany is just repaying some of the damage it has helped wreak to Greece's economy (by means of a loan of course). As for hating Germans, I don't hate any nationality. I do hate some individuals, although I try not to, but never because of their nationality.
@GRAPOLLO146 You do have a point about the flow of money between Greece & Germany. One of the main reasons Greece & other several other countries in the Eurozone are doing so badly is because in comparison to countries like Germany they have had weak economies at least since the war, but because they share the same currency, they can't change their exchange rates. They are completely exposed to the fall of France & Germany's economies. This is one of the reasons why the Euro isn't a good idea.
These MEN were the BEST soldiers in Germany! They had more honor, courage and charactor than any of those COWARDS in the SS! Monte Cassino and KRETA Proved that as well as Baron Von Der Heyte's Men In Normandy! They were TIGERS And to meet them for me was a hell of an honor! General Oberst Student is held in regard along with General Gavin, I'd be happy to fight with them anytime!
@Paladin1441 Cowards? That's a gross misstatement about an entire branch of service, many of whom fought to the very last man. Hell, even the French SS units fought to the death in Berlin. I don't see how you can call them cowards.
@Paladin1441 Mate,, my Da was a POW of the Germans when the Ruskies asked a company of SS troops to surrender,, know their answer,, NO ,,,they died to the last man no surrender no quarter,, God bless both SS and the Fallschirmjager,,,
The Fallschirmjager were NOT Nazis. They regarded all paratroopers as equals. if they hadn't been at the front of the German advance back into the British Airborne positions at Arnhem, the British wounded would have been shot on sight.
@GordonofSeattle I've actually had the chance to talk to an Ex-Fallschirmjager who survived Crete and Casino. He kept himself to himself for obvious reasons but due to the fact that my re-enactment club were doing a show, he thought he'd introduce himself.
@2349DF My dad's good friend who was Fallschimjager and a welcome visitor in our home with his family was not a Nazi. Niether was Othmar of the Austrian ski troops. They were just young men doing a job. BTW Dad and Herman were both at Crete. My Dad was with British army RA - later REME. A number of bad eggs in the Waffen SS Leadership have given the entire grooup a bad reputation. Note I said Waffen to differ from the SS concentration camp guard units. Pax
@2349DF The main razon that the British wasn't shot in Arnhem was that Generalfeldmarshall Model and SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Bittrich (commanders of Army Group B and II SS Panzer Corps respectively) highly respect the british like Hitler and other generals, so, don't come to say me that kind of anti-NS propaganda, and I almost forget, most fallschirmjager were committed NS like the common luftwaffe personal (only surpassed by the SS), Where you get that shit that they weren't NS!!!
@2349DF You are absouletly right. They were fearless men who believe in writing the wrongs done to the German people after WW1. For along time nobody was able to speakor write about their brave and heroic exploits for fear of being Nazis. Thank you for your posting.
@2349DF You are absouletly right. They were fearless men who believe in writing the wrongs done to the German people after WW1. For along time nobody was able to speakor write about their brave and heroic exploits for fear of being labled a Nazis. Thank you for your posting.
@fluffy1931 The Germans fielded the greatest military the world had ever seen under the National Socialists in the 1930's 1940's you dumb shit. They basically conquered all of Europe and Africa and were in the process of building atom bombs, strategic bombers and massive battleships to take down America as well. They lost the war by one stroke of luck - The Russians were able to hold Stalingrad.
@Mautiks ..,"Public opinion to the contrary, so great was the dependence of the Nazi Blitzkrieg upon the horse.
Of the 322 German Army and SS divisions extant in November 1943, only 52 were armored or motorized. Of the Nov1944 total of 264 combat divisions, only 42 were armored or motorized. The great bulk of the German combat strength-the old-type infantry divisions-marched into battle on foot, with their weapons and supply trains propelled almost entirely by four-legged horsepower.
@Mautiks ..,greatest military not, The luftwaffe was never a strategic airforce and barely a tactical airforce & got 'cockblocked' as early 1940 by the RAF alone during the Battle of Britain. The Kriegsmarine was tiny in comparison to the UK's Royal Navy with no aircraft carriers germanys surface fleet excelled at getting sunk or playing hide & seek in a norwegian fjord. The U-boat threat by 1944' Battle of Atlantc was lost for Germany.
No. germany never even built a working nuclear reactor.
@fluffy1931 The Germans were building up their V-2 tactical rockets to finish Britain. Why would you need strategic bombers if you have tactical ballistic missiles? Germany didn't build a working reactor because for Germany the war was already lost and it's top scientists had defected to the United States and Canada (and some to the USSR). The US's entire atomic program, jet engine and tactical ballistic missile technology all found roots in Germany's science community.
@Mautiks ..,tactical ballistic missiles and allied air supremacy over your launch sites, dude. Operation Epsilon codename of a program in which Allied forces near the end of WW II detained German scientists who worked on Nazi Germany's nuclear program. Interned at Farm Hall, a bugged house in Godmanchester, England , from July 3, 1945 to Jan 3, 1946. The US Manhatten Project tested the first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945 & delivered the first of two atomic bombs on Aug 6, & 9 th 1945.
@fluffy1931 notice how you said "allied air supremecy" and "Allied forces near the end of WWII detained..." That brings me to my original point. Germany fought against a coalition of nations and almost succeeded, hence they fielded the greatest military of the modern age. If the Germans had fought the US directly, Britain directly, Russia directly, then game over. That's my entire point. It took most western nations of the world to defeat them.
@Mautiks ..,Germany was part of Axis powers a military alliance that Germany and Italy & Japan started in 1936'. Later it would include Bulgaria, Hungary Romania. Axis co-belligerents Finland, Iraq & Thailand. German puppet regimes Slovakia, Serbia, Italy, Albania, Hungary & Vardar Macedonia. Joint German-Italian puppet states Croatia, Greece & Pindus and Macedonia. Axis collaborator states France (Vichy regime).
Molotov-Ribbentropp-Pact a military alliance btwn Nazi Germany & Soviet Union 1939.
@fluffy1931 Note the 3 superpowers in that alliance, Italy, Japan and Germany.
Italy sent small numbers of troops to the Eastern front, whereas the rest went to the Balkans and North Africa.
At no time were huge forces assembled by the Italians fielded against the allies alone, the only time that ever happened is when, obviously, Germany was there to help.
And as for Japan, never have they assisted Germany in battle so that makes your point invalid.
Bottom line, their equipment was better years ahead of yours (me262, mg42, v2, tiger, panther, flak 88, flak Wirbelwind, shrapnel mines, stg43, etc...), their training was better, and their soldiers devotion to their country was for sure much stronger. Also the Germans had landslide success with the uboats, the allies didn't get their shit together until they had completely blockaded Germany. Had Germany had no steel or fuel shortages you guys would have been fucked.
@MrOhaiMark actually by the beginning of ww2 germany had an army composed almsot entirely by panzer 1 and 2's whcih were consdiered to be light tanks or as guderian referred tot hem: training tanks.
the brits were building the heavy mathlidas which pretty much could take any modern tank shot.
curiously the training tanks overwhelmed britain's expensive and robust mathildas. rommel mananged to capture twice as many tons in british tanks as the amounts of tanks he commanded there in france(1940)
@Mautiks ..,The standard German infantry division (1939 pattern) required anything from 4077 to 6033 horses to move.Of the 322 German Army and SS divisions extant in Nov 1943, only 52 were armored or motorized. Of the Nov 1944 total of 264 combat divisions, only 42 were armored or motorized. The great bulk of the German combat strength-the old-type infantry divisions-marched into battle on foot, with their weapons and supply trains propelled almost entirely by four-legged horsepower.
@fluffy1931 that contrasts with britain which had a higher density of mechanized divisions and early on the war much heavier tanks. that makes you wonder how did they achieve so much success with so many odds? you got to take into account how there was a 5 month lapse since the war was declared were brtiain and france had enugh time to amass troops on the borders
@MHJforPrussia more like the lapse of time 'Phoney War' - 'der Sitzkrieg' Sept - May 1940' illustrates the lack of mobility and preparation on the part of German Wehrmacht recovering from operations in Poland & striking against the west. The 'success' in the West 1940' also included the German Navy suffering losses that it would never recover from in Norway. The Battle of Britain which the Luftwaffe lost.
And in the east after fall of Poland the soviet union would now be much closer to germany.
@fluffy1931 witha 5 month gap to prepare themselves were germany was out of iron and rationing fuels one would expect the french and brits to have put a better fight on french soil. as i recall dunkirk was announced as a big military success by the brits, funny way to rename them being spared mercy. i wouldnt argue the losses of the navy were that bad. politically yes they lsot really expensive ships. but battleships were outdated at the time, the uboots achieved greater successes even economic
@MHJforPrussia The German navy in 1940' Norway campaign did not lose battleships? The German casualties at sea were particularly heavy, with the sinking of one of the Kriegsmarine's two heavy cruisers, two of its six light cruisers, 10 of its 20 destroyers and six U-boats.
@fluffy1931 who said anything about them not losing anything. i said losing battleships wasnt such a determining factor. they were outdated. uboats were the future of the war for germany. and msot of the ships they sunk during the war were through uboat warfare. building the bismarck, sharnhorst and gniessau were a waste of money. battleships are big targets easily hit by bombers.
britain experienced this the hard way, they lsot countless ships throughout the war.
@MHJforPrussia Britain had a huge navy and could afford to lose ships. Germanys navy was inferior and couldn't afford to lose any. The german army & luftwaffe & navy could not prevent the withdrawl of troops from Dunkirk theres nothing to defend.
@fluffy1931 thats the british tradition, when fighting 1st world countries they afford to lsoe a lot, theyre to sued to fighting tribes.
britain's navy spent most of the war in the ports and ehavily protected by the airforce to avoid their sinking, how does that make them superior? i cant recall any successful naval bombardment by britain(and thats what battleships are designed for)
Britain is the only nation in the world which considers a retreat as a victory.
@MHJforPrussia actually it was a german surface fleet spent most of WW2 bottled up hiding in fjords. You might have forgotten The Battle of the Atlantic etc. Successful naval bombardment how about D-day?
The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history,
In the Mediterranean Royal Navy aircraft severely damaged two Italian battleships in the Battle of Taranto and sank a third, putting half of the regia Marina's major ships out of action for several months.
@fluffy1931 4battleships and more than 70 destroyers were destroyed. thats a big contrast to germany's losses. see what i mean by ships being outdated? germany built only a few, enought o sink britain's aircraft carrier and earn time for the raw materials to arrive from sweden.
oh about d-day thats a success for the usa not for britain. after the usa's massive carpet bombing its pretty useless for a british ship to come along and claim to have bombed anything.
@MHJforPrussia Britain had a worldwide empire and a navy to service it. Germany did not & it's navy was tiny. Ships being outdated is absurd what exactly was roughly 3,000 mile supply line from over the Atlantic into europe consist of ? The D-Day invasion was a amphibious operation how outdated was that?
lol the WW2 Royal navy had over 15 Battleships & battlecruisers, 7 Aircraft carriers, 66 Cruisers, 184 Destroyers, 60 Submarines, 45 escort and patrol vessels not including ships under const.
@fluffy1931 yes and what good was that worldwide fleet? if germany who built a navy from scratch and being an economically ruined nation was able to destroy half the british fleet.
i merely mentioned the sunk ship, the ships which were damaged and did not fight again in the war are a higher number
*learn to read before you reply. i said the idea of fighting wars with battleships was outdated, i never even mentioned the amphibious attacks, thats you being schizofrenic and fighting yourself
@MHJforPrussia ..,naval warfare and is not centered on single ships except in your fantasy. Englands worldwide fleet & US worldwide fleet during WW2 enabled a military & economic blockade of both Germany & Japan. Thats what good a worldwide naval fleet was.
learn math, dude
Total Strength & losses for Royal Navy during WW2 .
Capital Ships 20 - lost 5, Carriers 65 - lost 10, Cruisers 101 - lost 34, Destroyers 461 - lost 153, Subs 263 - lost 76.
@fluffy1931 who said anything about single ships? Germany sunk more than a single ship. and in your statistics those are jsut the sunk ships, a ship can survive a battle and not see battle again if it is too damaged. that was achieved with blitz when bombing Britain's ships
i'm sure i know much more maths than you do. that's the worst thing you can tell an engineer
and learn to type"whatever you sain?"
you like maths huh? compare the kill death ratio for both navies. good blockade huh?
The figures are not my statistics they are from 'Janes ships of WW2' totally debunks 'your' fantasy #'s.
Pls do not even compare the Royal Navy or USN with Germanys Kriegsmarine kill death ratio or otherwise. Germany lost the Battle of the Atlantic and it's surface fleet when not being sunk spent the majority of the war hiding in fjords.
germany achieved a better blockade. sinking 15 million tonnes of british supplies sounds successful. how many tonnes were sunk when transporting from sweden to germany?
noone questioned them. ive read them and they support my statements. you mentioned them yourself. now compare the sunk british ships to the sunk german ships.
not a nice ratio is it?
well its worth the cost. calculate how much each u boat cost and how much loses britain had. seems pretty Pyrrhic for usa's little boy
@MHJforPrussia Germany did not achieve a better blockade unless you count 15 tons of supplies worth crippling the German surface fleet at the outset of the war your objective. Pls source where you think that germanys blockade effected the outcome of war versus the Allied blockade in either Atlantic or Mediteranean sea? Please compare losing the Battle of the Atlantic and 766 sunk uboats and losing the war? don't be a butthurt nazifagtard.
@2349DF It's not that black and white. Of course there were nazis, but they weren't as many as in other units. Furthermore, nazi or no nazi isn't all there is to it; a nazi weren't someone bent on killing every Jew and whoever came in his way, he could just as well be someone who simply embraced the Folksgemeinschaft and nothing more. Jew hatred and a general brutality did not solely define nazism. Remember it's called national socialism, socialism being an equal part.
@2349DF they fought for the nazi regime ever german in there military ranks did but they weren't themselves as you said the british would of been shot dead if the hadnt been there. if they had there will they wouldnt be fighting
@NaziFan123 A Canadian Nazi, eh? I didn't see that one coming. From the land of multicuralism comes a National Socialist. Are you an immigrant or have your ancestors been in Canada for a few generations? I couldn't knoestly say that I'm even remotely Nazi, but I'm curious as to why you are.
bah, I'm really tired of hearing that SS was a bunch of criminals. They were people to, and I doubt the majority of them were nazis. Yes they were members of the nazi party, but that was only because they had to if they wanted to join Germanys elite army. for example, Schindler was a member of the nazi party, but only because he had to if he wanted to keep his leader position. anyway, I'm no nazi and will not say the SS didn't commit crimes, just pointing out that not all of them were nazis.
@enest94 and also most people also blame the wermarcht or however you spell it for everything when it was really the SS that did committed most of the holocaust, the wermarcht was just fighting for their country while the SS was doing the dirty work
The Nazi Party is the worst moment in Human History. It is a leadership that caused the deaths of eleven million people between the Jews, Gypsies, and others that weren't even soldiers. The SS all have a special place in hell, I have no doubt. But average soldiers are far different from the SS. Fact is if you didn't join the military, there was a good chance you would starve, you and your family. I don't begrudge the soldiers of Germany one bit. It is a mistake all of Germany owns up to.
What can we say Hail Germania,,,, one nation ,,took one the world,, whom else had the testicles to do that,,,, none,,,, did good ,,eh,,
paulinus43ad 1 week ago
does it get any greater,than the third reich,Lzzah
meghansage 2 weeks ago
63 Serbian( ex yugoslavian) paratroop brigade ,salute all paratroopers!! Combat and Honor !!
bandogbojan 1 month ago
Legend says: When in 1943 German paratroopers were trying to catch Josip Broz Tito in Bosnia, they got so intimidated by armed Balkan grandmas with mustaches, that they used their paratroops to fly back into the planes.
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@ProstateMachiatto XD
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@ProstateMachiatto Sounds like hogwash. But funny :)
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The British Parachute Regiment provide most of the troops for the SAS. Google 'Parachute 2 Club' for 2 PARA photo archive.
Whatever81417 1 month ago
MADE ONLY IN NAZI-GERMANY :DD
huzaifah971 2 months ago
Excellent I have some footage but mostly training
carlchucky 2 months ago
great song
miganovisky 3 months ago
Desidero esprimere il mio cordoglio per i tanti intrepidi Fallschirmjaeger morti nell'estate del 1941 a Creta, nell'ambito dell'Operazione Merkur. Centinaia di giovani vite spezzate nel volgere di poche ore. I lori spiriti - ne sono certo - ora dimorano in un mondo migliore. Il loro sacrificio non è stato dimenticato!
Dualismoassoluto 3 months ago in playlist Marches
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Dualismoassoluto 3 months ago in playlist Marches
clearly alot of work went into this video :) thankyou for putting it up.
Brotherhoodbikechief 4 months ago
0:20 why do they have m35/m40 helmets? why don't they have regular m38 paratrooper helmets?
TheDreamgun 4 months ago
Whats going on with the submarine debate in a paratrooper song?
Go to an Unterseeboote video!
HerrJohann72 4 months ago
Ahh the good old JU 52
Duncan038 5 months ago
if hitler died before the battle of britin the war would have been over and the allies would have lost
:( that means we would be free like we are to day
companysniper 5 months ago
Also footage from the Netherlands, some takes are from "Sprung in den Feind"
Was filmed in the Netherlands ;)
molenaar401 5 months ago
not to insult but the one with the guys marching in fog cant be Fallschirmjager because the 5th or so has a panserfaust they couldent parachute into combat with heavy weapons
campion8686 5 months ago
@campion8686 well actually they can considering the panzerfaust was a throw away AT weapon it had a range of like 45 feet it was pretty much a pre-curser to nowadays LAW missile or the AT4 missile fire once throw away so they werent really made heavy its a light AT weapon system now if they had been parachuting with a panzershrek that would b different cause it was made to be reloaded nd fired so they werre made heavier nd more durable
killerkenify 5 months ago
An die Maschinen, an die Maschinen,
Kamerad, da gibt es kein zurück.
Fern im Osten stehen dunkle Wolken
Komm' mit und zage nicht, komm' mit.
PARVEENAAM 5 months ago 19
@MHJforPrussia and also @fluffy1931 hi guys i´ve taken a look @ yer discussion and i have to say fluffy1931 is right, but for the wrong reason. it´s not about grs.tn. of shipping lost, you have to vector in costs and ressorses in mainly men (material costs to a lesser extent). an ordinairy sailor cost shit to train, u-boot trainning on the otherhand was costly and long. u-boten were more expansive and german ressorses were dwindling by the day. it´s a miracle they lasted as long as they did.
psychoaiko666 5 months ago
Its kinda funny how this is a fallschirmjager marsch, yet we're talking about the "royal navy" and kreigsmarine :P
of course i'm with MHJforPrussia on that topic
TheReich3rd 6 months ago
Mein Führer !!!
soyuncabron1000 6 months ago
say what you like,you lost.
liverpool18airbourne 6 months ago
Remember the Crete island,was called" The Cemetery of the fallschirmsjagers"-
syrerockdk 6 months ago
@syrerockdk
They still achieved their objectives unlike Operation Market Garden.. Operation Mercury was a success.
TigerMilitia 6 months ago in playlist German WW2 Music
@TigerMilitia Regarding Monty's fiasco Market Garden, didn't the British paratroopers come face to face with The Hermann Goering Panzer Division. I believe I read a quote by George Patton when asked what was the best division of any nation in WW 2 he said it was "The Herman Goering Panzer Division." And, due to the casualties of Operation Mercury, didn't Hitler forbid any future airborn invasions?
9241937 6 months ago
Can anyone translate this so I know what they're saying?
MEATLMILITA 6 months ago
What is the helmet called that the Fallshirmjager wear?
FacistPikl 6 months ago in playlist SPOON
@FacistPikl its called an M-38. i reenact as a falschirmjaeger
nick21sammy 6 months ago
@nick21sammy Thanks
FacistPikl 6 months ago in playlist SPOON
Excelente video y hermoso himno de los mas valientes combatientes, estas tropas no tenian igual en el mundo en los años de 1939 a1944, hay que recordar la invacion a Creta y la defensa de monte casino donde combatieron contra los primeros batallones americanos de soldados de color y de japoneses-americanos, honor a ellos.
tangobravoo6 6 months ago
My Great-grandfather was a Fallschirmjager. in 1943, he defected. and in 1945 while on his way to germany for his wife and son was shot by a Nazi extremist because he found out that he defected. he died December 9th 1961. He was never a member of the nazi party, "Der Ruhm für diejenigen, die dienen und für ihr Land sterben, ist ewig. Der Ruhm für facists' und die Verfolger dessen, was unsere große Nation ist, soll nur remebered als Tyrannen, und bedrückend den freien deutschen Leuten sein."
SwitchbIade17 6 months ago
@SwitchbIade17 ....i hate to break your little idealist bubble, but hitler and the nazis had over 90% approval among the german public during the 30s and most of the war....i know this because my mother was a "guest" worker and she personally experienced the general feeling of the public....if your grandfather wasn't a nazi, he was at least a sympthathizer....the non sympathizers didn't last long and were certainly not trained as paratroopers....you're spewing revisionist horseshit
jethro035181 6 months ago 2
@jethro035181 sure 90 percent may have approved the Nazi ideals, but this was accepted amongst the public to be the evacuation of the Jews, Communists and others out of Germany, not their extermination. Also their rating was so high because the Nazis promised and delivered to bring all historically German lands back to Germany and to make it a power again instead of being embaressed from the loss in World War One
Dauserofdasite 6 months ago
@Dauserofdasite ...you're correct on this one....the general public had no knowledge of the fate of jews, gypsies or mental defectives..the general public was only aware that there was paid work, the economy was improving and there was general pride in being a german or austrian..there was order in the streets and plenty to eat...all violent dissent disappeared...my slavic mother was treated quite well , considering the times, because she kept her mouth shut and did her job (unpaid dairy worker)
jethro035181 6 months ago
@jethro035181 I understand that maybe your mother was treated like shit by the Nazis, but dont forget not all Germans were Nazis, this is a foolish statement and to say such makes you no better then that pig Hitler or even Stalin, what youre stating is like saying all Russians were uneducated, babaric, Communist tools that Stalin used as a Pawn, or even to a more foolish extent all Americans were Zionist-loving, capitalist fools... so stop generalizing, its what the Nazis did and it is foolish.
Dauserofdasite 6 months ago
@jethro035181 I had my great grand-father fight in the Wehrmacht, now you might say this is why i take the defensive but the truth is its not, its because i know not all people knew about the exterminations taking place mostly until late 44. My great grand-father was arrested by the Gestapo over comments made against the Nazis, but he was lucky this was in 1941 otherwise he probably would have been shot, but this is likely why he was sent to the Eastern Front where he was killed.
Dauserofdasite 6 months ago
Now whereas im saying not all Germans were Nazis. You are not quite correct, whereas in the Waffen SS you had to be a proven Nazi supporter through and through this was simply not the case for the Fallschirmjäger, although they did like the Waffen SS have to prove that for the most part they were pure German, unlike the Waffen SS they werent meant as the Aryan Elite arm of the military, although they did swear allegiance to Hitler as all the soldiers had to, not all were Nazis. Research it...
Dauserofdasite 6 months ago
@jethro035181 Fuck you, my grandpa was not a Nazi, he refused the beliefs, and check youre history. the 90% was mostly german cicilians not the military, most of his officers except for Himmler did not share his belief, they did however believe in Strict army discipline, which the Nazi party was based on. stop trying to make all the soldiers look evil, thats WWII European propoganda
SwitchbIade17 4 months ago 3
@SwitchbIade17 ...where is german cicilia ? are you talking about silesia, which is in poland....prior to ww2 hitler had over 90% approval in all german states...population 69 million... 9 million belonged to the nazi party and 2.5 million to the hitler jugend...during the war, if you said anything "defeatist" you disappeared...all the anti-aircraft batteries were manned by civilian women (very vigorously)..munitions plants also...in a 1953 survey of germans only 47% would say hitler cont'd (1)
jethro035181 4 months ago
@jethro035181 i meant ciVilians - typo! good catch
SwitchbIade17 4 months ago
@SwitchbIade17 ..cont'd (2) was bad...even after ww2 most germans (53%) approved of hitler....admiral doenitz, (last nazi head of state) even in prison, had a 50% approval rating in 1953...the german officer's assassination attempt had zero public support..the german army did not permit political affiliations but in fact most did support their leader...the more rabid ones joined the waffen ss...if grandpa wasn't a nazi, then he was very quiet about it, which amounted to tacit support
jethro035181 4 months ago 2
@jethro035181 yes, but the others were viewed as nazi b/c of their use of army discipline - as previoulsy stated
SwitchbIade17 4 months ago
@SwitchbIade17 i hate people who stereo type the heroes of germany m grandad fought in the spanish civil war in the international brigades and served in an all communist batalion he won 3 iron croses 1 in stalingard 1 in bastogne and 1 in market garden these men in the wermcht were heroes unlike the ss and nazi scum
greggyinfantry 4 months ago
@greggyinfantry ...just as a matter of interest, what unit in the german army was all communist ? ....i am an amateur historian tracing the history of the communist party in north america ....
jethro035181 4 months ago
@jethro035181 many commies were in the german army in communist companies or platoons were common especialy on the eastern front they were ofter ill equiped and used as cannon fodder
greggyinfantry 4 months ago
@greggyinfantry I like how you hate stereotyping, announce it, then just continue it.
All men were serving their respective countries.
Those in the US Army at the moment never wanted to go secure oil fields in iraq, but they did.
B29Bomber 4 months ago
@B29Bomber what you on about mate
greggyinfantry 4 months ago
@greggyinfantry my dar was also in the dirty war ,he saw and did dirty work ,,said nothing and excepted nothing ,he said,,, SS did the jobs that the army did not want to do,, They got the job done,, Someone had to do the dirty work,,, ya know Respect to them,,, disagree,, they were heroes to many,,,,
paulinus43ad 3 months ago
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@jethro035181 Fuck you, my great grandpa was not a Nazi, he refused the beliefs, and check youre history. the 90% was mostly german cicilians not the military, most of his officers except for Himmler did not share his belief, they did however believe in Strict army discipline, which the Nazi party was based on. stop trying to make all the soldiers look evil, thats WWII European propoganda
SwitchbIade17 4 months ago
Awesome elite troops, great clip!
timsonios78 6 months ago
@boffinboy100 agreed. the whole wermacht didn't want to do hitlers bidding but they didn't really have a choice. i admire Rommel, Guderian and Paulus. people never really understand ww2 germans. they just listen to what they hear from their lousy history classes
Stevezom 6 months ago
@Stevezom
Too true. I too admire Rommel. Though there were ardent Nazi soldiers, the vast majority were just boys doing their duty for Fuhrer und vaterland. The british did the same for king and country so why can't we say that the Wehrmacht was a good military, possibly the best in WW2. And so much modern technology would not have been invented if German research and technology had been looted.
boffinboy100 6 months ago
@boffinboy100 it was either become nazi or become killed for most if not all.
lolackay 6 months ago
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SwitchbIade17 4 months ago
I have nothing against the Wehrmacht. By and large they did the duty asked of any soldier, perhaps for the wrong end, but for the right reasons.
The SS however was complicit, and even active, in the slaughter of many innocent people. They deserve condemnation.
TheLastCanadian 7 months ago
Are the fallschirmjaeger wehrmacht or luftwaffe?
Regardless, I mean the standard armed force of WW2 Germany, not the Schutzstaffel.
TheLastCanadian 7 months ago
@TheLastCanadian
Hi fellow Canadian. The WWII German Fallschirmjaeger were a branch of the Luftwaffe, using Luftwaffe uniforms, and rank insignia. And I share your views on the Wehrmacht, but was labeled a racist/Nazi in school because of it.
boffinboy100 6 months ago
@TheLastCanadian The Waffen SS were one of the best fighting units ever. They didn`t all shovel people into ovens.
leonardbullhock 7 months ago
@leonardbullhock The crimes of that unit got around. I'm not saying they were a bad fighting unit. I'm well versed in the history of the war. Still, murdering slavs and civilians for such... indiscriminate reasons is why I still consider it to be a criminal body, everyone had a part in supporting its operations, even if they didn't actually pull the trigger. Yes, I'm aware some were forced into it... their punishment is the burden on their conscience.
TheLastCanadian 7 months ago
@leonardbullhock Oh, and it would seem you're not a neo-nazi, so please don't take me as some sort of crusader. I'm open to discussion with rational people :)
TheLastCanadian 7 months ago
There's a great new novel out about the Green Devils assault on Fort Eben Emael, but Harvey Black
BPanther111 7 months ago
The elites of the elites in the Nazi arsenal.. Too bad that they had little men..
william6705 7 months ago
The Fallschirmjager took 44% percent casualties at Crete and that largely stopped the German paratroopter program. The Allies formed the Airborne we know today as response.
115ZombieFighter 7 months ago
@115ZombieFighter I doubt it was through any incompetence on their part. Crete was just a bad idea, period.
TheLastCanadian 7 months ago
@TheLastCanadian Probably. They were competent soldiers.
115ZombieFighter 7 months ago
The elite Hitler's chosen Fallschirmjäger got raped in Crete and they were never formed again BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Aryans = evil inferior subhuman beasts
AnarchoCommunist1 7 months ago
Those failures could not protect their homeland, at the end their daughters, mothers, wives, etc ended up being raped by drunk russian soldiers, that's the price you pay for being the inferior race.
lenfantterribleX 7 months ago
@poo65
no dear we must not forget the stalins killings..
never ever...
and those 45000 innocent german man,woman and children during 1945 by U.S,A
vahshehzadeh 7 months ago
And they might have considered enemy paratroopers as equals, but no other. At Maleme they shot unarmed RAF personnel trying to surrender and used others as human shields when they advanced further.
Faxe90Swe 7 months ago
The Fallschirmjager have a great deal of respect in my mind, they fought hard and treated their prisoners well, Oberstleutnant Walter Koch famously spared captured British Commandos in Tunisia, despite orders to execute them.
As said earlier, the Fallschirmjager still live on today. :)
TammoKorsai 7 months ago
wow...just gets your feet taping...doesn't make me bad or a war lover does it?...
minsk1996 7 months ago
well lost and victory is just comes from the God( almighty)...
weldone Germans. we did never blame u as human killers but respect u just for ur bravery... the Jewish killing propaganda is just a drama and nothing more. how could Nazis killed 6 million jews while there were not more then 3 to 4 millions in germany?
best regards from a
Pakistani
vahshehzadeh 7 months ago
@vahshehzadeh Because the Nazis rounded up Jews from countries they occupied and shipped them to the concentration camps, along with whoever else they didn't like. And either way, it's tough to get accurate numbers on this kind of thing.
TammoKorsai 7 months ago
@vahshehzadeh lets forget about stalins killign of 100 million innocents
poo65 7 months ago
German army has Fallschirmjagers even today!
Vampirewolfking 7 months ago
@Vampirewolfking
Well duh.
They weren't a branch of the Nazi party, and are a conventional force. So there was no reason to ban them.
boffinboy100 7 months ago
thats right
the germans where not so bad
i dont think that al of these man wanted to fight for them.....
so al little respect for de dead of WWII
and germans are also people
markendennis 8 months ago
24 Brits disliked this video
SSDasReichSS 8 months ago
I have the pleasure of knowing a German Para here in Osaka, Japan. Modest, decent. I like him.
transonicbuoy1 8 months ago
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Airbornerock 8 months ago
I believe the Fallschirmjager was a true elite force. The Waffen-SS was just a political collection of NSDAP members who were prevented from joining the regular Heer because they were in the NSDAP. The Fallschirmjager actually did real elite stuff, trained harder, were more honorable, did commando stuff. They fought for Germany, not National Scoialism. They did not like what politicians were doing back home, but they still fought for their home. They were noble like all true soldiers.
HerrJohann72 8 months ago
@HerrJohann72
Someone who thinks logically and sensibly! The German Wehrmacht was very good, the Fallschirmjagers and Panzergrenadiers were an Elite. But although they are a political army, the Waffen-SS were also an Elite, "You can't admire them, but you've certainly got to respect them." But yeah, the Fallschirmjagers were the best conventional wehrmacht soldiers, the best in WW2 with the possible exception of the Royal Marine Commandos.
boffinboy100 8 months ago
@HerrJohann72 Yes! As a practical matter, many German soldiers and junior officers were not Nazis. And what if they opposed Nazism? What could they have done about it? Not too much. We should not judge them because we have never had to live under such a regieme. When all is said and done, most of the Wehrmacht were draftees, especially after 1939. After all, the young Germans of today had nothing to do with the events that took place sixty, seventy, and eighty years ago.
boazrg 8 months ago
@boazrg ..,nice try dude. The nazi party came to power in Germany thru a democratic electorial process. They didn't just happen overnight in a nazi shitstorm from outer space. War crimes & geneva convention or common sense does not distingish draftees in any army except your fantasy.
fluffy1931 8 months ago
@boazrg Who cares they were like the "Moderate Muslims" of today, we always hear moral relativists scream about how the Jew hating homicidal element is small and yet the supposed majority is neither seen nor heard.
suspicious35 8 months ago
Great post, but you have for some reason what looks like a Soviet Pe2 at 1:23. Could be wrong, but you say you use only Fallschirmjager footage and that might not even be German.
"No finer soldiers ever fought for a worse cause"
boffinboy100 9 months ago
@GRAPOLLO146 effects of such a massive change on what is already a very uncertain & fairly grim situation.
robsargent4 9 months ago
@GRAPOLLO146 the periphery, including Greece. I'm not making excuses for Germany. I'm not making excuses for anyone. I'm saying that I don't really understand why so many Germans are resentful of the fact that as one of the main past beneficiaries of trade with Greece it's their responsibility to repay some of the profit they've gained from countries such as Greece in times such as these. Either that or abolish the single currency (which looks unlikely because of the destabilising short-term
robsargent4 9 months ago
@GRAPOLLO146 Em, you seems to have misunderstood what I have said. When I said "Germany is just repaying" I was referring to the loan from the Eurozone core, of which Germany is of course dominant which many Germans seem to resent having to contribute to. However, as I pointed out, the only reason Greece, among others on the Eurozone periphery, needs a loan from the core is because the single currency favours the economy of the core & Germany's export economy in particular, to the detriment of
robsargent4 9 months ago
0:18 he hits shem in the helmet to see if its loose so it doesnt come off ftom the prop blast
nimbalo300 9 months ago
Wouldn't it be nice to have something in your life that is worth dying for?
Kindsbach99 9 months ago
JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA:)
4snakex 9 months ago
@GRAPOLLO146 It favours big companies over small companies & big economies over small economies. Germany is just repaying some of the damage it has helped wreak to Greece's economy (by means of a loan of course). As for hating Germans, I don't hate any nationality. I do hate some individuals, although I try not to, but never because of their nationality.
robsargent4 9 months ago
@GRAPOLLO146 You do have a point about the flow of money between Greece & Germany. One of the main reasons Greece & other several other countries in the Eurozone are doing so badly is because in comparison to countries like Germany they have had weak economies at least since the war, but because they share the same currency, they can't change their exchange rates. They are completely exposed to the fall of France & Germany's economies. This is one of the reasons why the Euro isn't a good idea.
robsargent4 9 months ago
erano i migliori para del mondo!!!!!!!!!
tonybadman013 9 months ago
how can i get english subtitles for this song..my german aint that good
toro199999 9 months ago
These MEN were the BEST soldiers in Germany! They had more honor, courage and charactor than any of those COWARDS in the SS! Monte Cassino and KRETA Proved that as well as Baron Von Der Heyte's Men In Normandy! They were TIGERS And to meet them for me was a hell of an honor! General Oberst Student is held in regard along with General Gavin, I'd be happy to fight with them anytime!
Paladin1441 9 months ago
@Paladin1441 Cowards? That's a gross misstatement about an entire branch of service, many of whom fought to the very last man. Hell, even the French SS units fought to the death in Berlin. I don't see how you can call them cowards.
godlypotatoe 9 months ago in playlist German Marches
@Paladin1441 godlypotatoe is right the there were no cowards the al fought to the death those guy's deserve credit
0whothehellareyou0 9 months ago
@Paladin1441 Mate,, my Da was a POW of the Germans when the Ruskies asked a company of SS troops to surrender,, know their answer,, NO ,,,they died to the last man no surrender no quarter,, God bless both SS and the Fallschirmjager,,,
paulinus43ad 8 months ago
The Fallschirmjager were NOT Nazis. They regarded all paratroopers as equals. if they hadn't been at the front of the German advance back into the British Airborne positions at Arnhem, the British wounded would have been shot on sight.
2349DF 10 months ago 39
@2349DF
Wow, an intelligent comment,..finally
GordonofSeattle 10 months ago 18
@GordonofSeattle I've actually had the chance to talk to an Ex-Fallschirmjager who survived Crete and Casino. He kept himself to himself for obvious reasons but due to the fact that my re-enactment club were doing a show, he thought he'd introduce himself.
2349DF 10 months ago
where did you find the song
arenab14 7 months ago
@GordonofSeattle
where did you find the song
arenab14 7 months ago
@GordonofSeattle Ikr?
ROFLmaster455 6 months ago
@2349DF My dad's good friend who was Fallschimjager and a welcome visitor in our home with his family was not a Nazi. Niether was Othmar of the Austrian ski troops. They were just young men doing a job. BTW Dad and Herman were both at Crete. My Dad was with British army RA - later REME. A number of bad eggs in the Waffen SS Leadership have given the entire grooup a bad reputation. Note I said Waffen to differ from the SS concentration camp guard units. Pax
1948PontiusPilot 9 months ago
@2349DF you richt but they kill many people but they just where traint for germany they dont have another choice
Ms101airborne 9 months ago
@2349DF The main razon that the British wasn't shot in Arnhem was that Generalfeldmarshall Model and SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Bittrich (commanders of Army Group B and II SS Panzer Corps respectively) highly respect the british like Hitler and other generals, so, don't come to say me that kind of anti-NS propaganda, and I almost forget, most fallschirmjager were committed NS like the common luftwaffe personal (only surpassed by the SS), Where you get that shit that they weren't NS!!!
SchutzStaffelSoldat 8 months ago
@2349DF You are absouletly right. They were fearless men who believe in writing the wrongs done to the German people after WW1. For along time nobody was able to speakor write about their brave and heroic exploits for fear of being Nazis. Thank you for your posting.
CHJ49 8 months ago
@2349DF You are absouletly right. They were fearless men who believe in writing the wrongs done to the German people after WW1. For along time nobody was able to speakor write about their brave and heroic exploits for fear of being labled a Nazis. Thank you for your posting.
CHJ49 8 months ago
@CHJ49 .., you have Germanys lost world wars mixed up dude.
fluffy1931 8 months ago
@fluffy1931 The Germans fielded the greatest military the world had ever seen under the National Socialists in the 1930's 1940's you dumb shit. They basically conquered all of Europe and Africa and were in the process of building atom bombs, strategic bombers and massive battleships to take down America as well. They lost the war by one stroke of luck - The Russians were able to hold Stalingrad.
Mautiks 8 months ago
@Mautiks ..,"Public opinion to the contrary, so great was the dependence of the Nazi Blitzkrieg upon the horse.
Of the 322 German Army and SS divisions extant in November 1943, only 52 were armored or motorized. Of the Nov1944 total of 264 combat divisions, only 42 were armored or motorized. The great bulk of the German combat strength-the old-type infantry divisions-marched into battle on foot, with their weapons and supply trains propelled almost entirely by four-legged horsepower.
fluffy1931 8 months ago
@Mautiks ..,greatest military not, The luftwaffe was never a strategic airforce and barely a tactical airforce & got 'cockblocked' as early 1940 by the RAF alone during the Battle of Britain. The Kriegsmarine was tiny in comparison to the UK's Royal Navy with no aircraft carriers germanys surface fleet excelled at getting sunk or playing hide & seek in a norwegian fjord. The U-boat threat by 1944' Battle of Atlantc was lost for Germany.
No. germany never even built a working nuclear reactor.
fluffy1931 8 months ago
@fluffy1931 The Germans were building up their V-2 tactical rockets to finish Britain. Why would you need strategic bombers if you have tactical ballistic missiles? Germany didn't build a working reactor because for Germany the war was already lost and it's top scientists had defected to the United States and Canada (and some to the USSR). The US's entire atomic program, jet engine and tactical ballistic missile technology all found roots in Germany's science community.
Mautiks 8 months ago
@Mautiks ..,tactical ballistic missiles and allied air supremacy over your launch sites, dude. Operation Epsilon codename of a program in which Allied forces near the end of WW II detained German scientists who worked on Nazi Germany's nuclear program. Interned at Farm Hall, a bugged house in Godmanchester, England , from July 3, 1945 to Jan 3, 1946. The US Manhatten Project tested the first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945 & delivered the first of two atomic bombs on Aug 6, & 9 th 1945.
gtfoh
fluffy1931 8 months ago
@fluffy1931 notice how you said "allied air supremecy" and "Allied forces near the end of WWII detained..." That brings me to my original point. Germany fought against a coalition of nations and almost succeeded, hence they fielded the greatest military of the modern age. If the Germans had fought the US directly, Britain directly, Russia directly, then game over. That's my entire point. It took most western nations of the world to defeat them.
Mautiks 8 months ago
@Mautiks ..,Germany was part of Axis powers a military alliance that Germany and Italy & Japan started in 1936'. Later it would include Bulgaria, Hungary Romania. Axis co-belligerents Finland, Iraq & Thailand. German puppet regimes Slovakia, Serbia, Italy, Albania, Hungary & Vardar Macedonia. Joint German-Italian puppet states Croatia, Greece & Pindus and Macedonia. Axis collaborator states France (Vichy regime).
Molotov-Ribbentropp-Pact a military alliance btwn Nazi Germany & Soviet Union 1939.
fluffy1931 8 months ago
@fluffy1931 Note the 3 superpowers in that alliance, Italy, Japan and Germany.
Italy sent small numbers of troops to the Eastern front, whereas the rest went to the Balkans and North Africa.
At no time were huge forces assembled by the Italians fielded against the allies alone, the only time that ever happened is when, obviously, Germany was there to help.
And as for Japan, never have they assisted Germany in battle so that makes your point invalid.
Ultimatepanzer 8 months ago
@fluffy1931 BTW I remember you from another video, you stopped replying after I 'cockblocked' you.
Ultimatepanzer 8 months ago
@Ultimatepanzer ..,that was Finland.
fluffy1931 8 months ago
@fluffy1931 Whoa step back
Ultimatepanzer 8 months ago
@fluffy1931
Bottom line, their equipment was better years ahead of yours (me262, mg42, v2, tiger, panther, flak 88, flak Wirbelwind, shrapnel mines, stg43, etc...), their training was better, and their soldiers devotion to their country was for sure much stronger. Also the Germans had landslide success with the uboats, the allies didn't get their shit together until they had completely blockaded Germany. Had Germany had no steel or fuel shortages you guys would have been fucked.
MrOhaiMark 6 months ago
@MrOhaiMark actually by the beginning of ww2 germany had an army composed almsot entirely by panzer 1 and 2's whcih were consdiered to be light tanks or as guderian referred tot hem: training tanks.
the brits were building the heavy mathlidas which pretty much could take any modern tank shot.
curiously the training tanks overwhelmed britain's expensive and robust mathildas. rommel mananged to capture twice as many tons in british tanks as the amounts of tanks he commanded there in france(1940)
MHJforPrussia 6 months ago
@Mautiks ..,The standard German infantry division (1939 pattern) required anything from 4077 to 6033 horses to move.Of the 322 German Army and SS divisions extant in Nov 1943, only 52 were armored or motorized. Of the Nov 1944 total of 264 combat divisions, only 42 were armored or motorized. The great bulk of the German combat strength-the old-type infantry divisions-marched into battle on foot, with their weapons and supply trains propelled almost entirely by four-legged horsepower.
fluffy1931 6 months ago 11
@fluffy1931 that contrasts with britain which had a higher density of mechanized divisions and early on the war much heavier tanks. that makes you wonder how did they achieve so much success with so many odds? you got to take into account how there was a 5 month lapse since the war was declared were brtiain and france had enugh time to amass troops on the borders
MHJforPrussia 6 months ago
@MHJforPrussia more like the lapse of time 'Phoney War' - 'der Sitzkrieg' Sept - May 1940' illustrates the lack of mobility and preparation on the part of German Wehrmacht recovering from operations in Poland & striking against the west. The 'success' in the West 1940' also included the German Navy suffering losses that it would never recover from in Norway. The Battle of Britain which the Luftwaffe lost.
And in the east after fall of Poland the soviet union would now be much closer to germany.
fluffy1931 6 months ago
@fluffy1931 witha 5 month gap to prepare themselves were germany was out of iron and rationing fuels one would expect the french and brits to have put a better fight on french soil. as i recall dunkirk was announced as a big military success by the brits, funny way to rename them being spared mercy. i wouldnt argue the losses of the navy were that bad. politically yes they lsot really expensive ships. but battleships were outdated at the time, the uboots achieved greater successes even economic
MHJforPrussia 6 months ago
@MHJforPrussia The German navy in 1940' Norway campaign did not lose battleships? The German casualties at sea were particularly heavy, with the sinking of one of the Kriegsmarine's two heavy cruisers, two of its six light cruisers, 10 of its 20 destroyers and six U-boats.
fluffy1931 6 months ago
@fluffy1931 who said anything about them not losing anything. i said losing battleships wasnt such a determining factor. they were outdated. uboats were the future of the war for germany. and msot of the ships they sunk during the war were through uboat warfare. building the bismarck, sharnhorst and gniessau were a waste of money. battleships are big targets easily hit by bombers.
britain experienced this the hard way, they lsot countless ships throughout the war.
funnynoone ever defends dunkirk
MHJforPrussia 6 months ago
@MHJforPrussia Britain had a huge navy and could afford to lose ships. Germanys navy was inferior and couldn't afford to lose any. The german army & luftwaffe & navy could not prevent the withdrawl of troops from Dunkirk theres nothing to defend.
fluffy1931 6 months ago
@fluffy1931 thats the british tradition, when fighting 1st world countries they afford to lsoe a lot, theyre to sued to fighting tribes.
britain's navy spent most of the war in the ports and ehavily protected by the airforce to avoid their sinking, how does that make them superior? i cant recall any successful naval bombardment by britain(and thats what battleships are designed for)
Britain is the only nation in the world which considers a retreat as a victory.
MHJforPrussia 6 months ago
@MHJforPrussia actually it was a german surface fleet spent most of WW2 bottled up hiding in fjords. You might have forgotten The Battle of the Atlantic etc. Successful naval bombardment how about D-day?
The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history,
In the Mediterranean Royal Navy aircraft severely damaged two Italian battleships in the Battle of Taranto and sank a third, putting half of the regia Marina's major ships out of action for several months.
fluffy1931 6 months ago
@fluffy1931 4battleships and more than 70 destroyers were destroyed. thats a big contrast to germany's losses. see what i mean by ships being outdated? germany built only a few, enought o sink britain's aircraft carrier and earn time for the raw materials to arrive from sweden.
oh about d-day thats a success for the usa not for britain. after the usa's massive carpet bombing its pretty useless for a british ship to come along and claim to have bombed anything.
MHJforPrussia 6 months ago
@MHJforPrussia Britain had a worldwide empire and a navy to service it. Germany did not & it's navy was tiny. Ships being outdated is absurd what exactly was roughly 3,000 mile supply line from over the Atlantic into europe consist of ? The D-Day invasion was a amphibious operation how outdated was that?
lol the WW2 Royal navy had over 15 Battleships & battlecruisers, 7 Aircraft carriers, 66 Cruisers, 184 Destroyers, 60 Submarines, 45 escort and patrol vessels not including ships under const.
fluffy1931 6 months ago
@fluffy1931 yes and what good was that worldwide fleet? if germany who built a navy from scratch and being an economically ruined nation was able to destroy half the british fleet.
i merely mentioned the sunk ship, the ships which were damaged and did not fight again in the war are a higher number
*learn to read before you reply. i said the idea of fighting wars with battleships was outdated, i never even mentioned the amphibious attacks, thats you being schizofrenic and fighting yourself
MHJforPrussia 6 months ago
@MHJforPrussia ..,naval warfare and is not centered on single ships except in your fantasy. Englands worldwide fleet & US worldwide fleet during WW2 enabled a military & economic blockade of both Germany & Japan. Thats what good a worldwide naval fleet was.
learn math, dude
Total Strength & losses for Royal Navy during WW2 .
Capital Ships 20 - lost 5, Carriers 65 - lost 10, Cruisers 101 - lost 34, Destroyers 461 - lost 153, Subs 263 - lost 76.
whatever you sain is wrong.
fluffy1931 6 months ago
@fluffy1931 who said anything about single ships? Germany sunk more than a single ship. and in your statistics those are jsut the sunk ships, a ship can survive a battle and not see battle again if it is too damaged. that was achieved with blitz when bombing Britain's ships
i'm sure i know much more maths than you do. that's the worst thing you can tell an engineer
and learn to type"whatever you sain?"
you like maths huh? compare the kill death ratio for both navies. good blockade huh?
MHJforPrussia 6 months ago
@MHJforPrussia ..,it was a good & effective blockade.
You mentioned battleships.
The figures are not my statistics they are from 'Janes ships of WW2' totally debunks 'your' fantasy #'s.
Pls do not even compare the Royal Navy or USN with Germanys Kriegsmarine kill death ratio or otherwise. Germany lost the Battle of the Atlantic and it's surface fleet when not being sunk spent the majority of the war hiding in fjords.
Total German U-boat losses during WW2 766 alone.
How do you like that math
fluffy1931 6 months ago
@fluffy1931
germany achieved a better blockade. sinking 15 million tonnes of british supplies sounds successful. how many tonnes were sunk when transporting from sweden to germany?
noone questioned them. ive read them and they support my statements. you mentioned them yourself. now compare the sunk british ships to the sunk german ships.
not a nice ratio is it?
well its worth the cost. calculate how much each u boat cost and how much loses britain had. seems pretty Pyrrhic for usa's little boy
MHJforPrussia 6 months ago
@MHJforPrussia Germany did not achieve a better blockade unless you count 15 tons of supplies worth crippling the German surface fleet at the outset of the war your objective. Pls source where you think that germanys blockade effected the outcome of war versus the Allied blockade in either Atlantic or Mediteranean sea? Please compare losing the Battle of the Atlantic and 766 sunk uboats and losing the war? don't be a butthurt nazifagtard.
fluffy1931 6 months ago
@fluffy1931 Don't forget famous Ghost Division -.-'
Shadefin 4 months ago
@2349DF ah not nazis. German airborne only live and happy.. XD ...this not history...the GERMAN AIRBORNE defend the NSDAP and German III.Reich!
szolnok95 7 months ago
@2349DF It's not that black and white. Of course there were nazis, but they weren't as many as in other units. Furthermore, nazi or no nazi isn't all there is to it; a nazi weren't someone bent on killing every Jew and whoever came in his way, he could just as well be someone who simply embraced the Folksgemeinschaft and nothing more. Jew hatred and a general brutality did not solely define nazism. Remember it's called national socialism, socialism being an equal part.
Faxe90Swe 7 months ago
@2349DF they fought for the nazi regime ever german in there military ranks did but they weren't themselves as you said the british would of been shot dead if the hadnt been there. if they had there will they wouldnt be fighting
tracker2241 6 months ago
err fail meant their
tracker2241 6 months ago
The Nazi wear heros not war crimanalls and I am veary proud TO BE ONE.
NaziFan123 10 months ago
@NaziFan123 A Canadian Nazi, eh? I didn't see that one coming. From the land of multicuralism comes a National Socialist. Are you an immigrant or have your ancestors been in Canada for a few generations? I couldn't knoestly say that I'm even remotely Nazi, but I'm curious as to why you are.
robsargent4 10 months ago
@dvbarmby ,,,to bloody right,,spot on
paulinus43ad 10 months ago
"insults welcome"
Well, good sir, your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!! :3
Also nice upload.
redreaper2020 10 months ago 21
@redreaper2020
NICE! One of my favorite movies!
GordonofSeattle 10 months ago 9
@redreaper2020 gotta love monty python
TheXcaliber223 6 months ago
junker 52 12 paratroppers pr. plane + equipment.
nolifemerc 10 months ago
my nose is itchy and i have to wave to segale ahahahhahahah
MrMobbydick12 10 months ago
Happy birthday Adolf
randox16000 10 months ago 2
bah, I'm really tired of hearing that SS was a bunch of criminals. They were people to, and I doubt the majority of them were nazis. Yes they were members of the nazi party, but that was only because they had to if they wanted to join Germanys elite army. for example, Schindler was a member of the nazi party, but only because he had to if he wanted to keep his leader position. anyway, I'm no nazi and will not say the SS didn't commit crimes, just pointing out that not all of them were nazis.
enest94 11 months ago
@enest94 and also most people also blame the wermarcht or however you spell it for everything when it was really the SS that did committed most of the holocaust, the wermarcht was just fighting for their country while the SS was doing the dirty work
spartan1080 10 months ago
Oh dear, I guess you have never heard of the Bolsheviks and the NKVD, they lasted 70 years and were at least as bad.
phonixasz 11 months ago
The Nazi Party is the worst moment in Human History. It is a leadership that caused the deaths of eleven million people between the Jews, Gypsies, and others that weren't even soldiers. The SS all have a special place in hell, I have no doubt. But average soldiers are far different from the SS. Fact is if you didn't join the military, there was a good chance you would starve, you and your family. I don't begrudge the soldiers of Germany one bit. It is a mistake all of Germany owns up to.
sniperwolf7 11 months ago