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@plasmadrone3123 19 сағат бұрын
Looking forward for more content. I hope you'd cover more of these: ▪︎ Uniform variants of Panzer and StuG crew members. ▪︎ Uniforms of the Luftwaffe. ▪︎ Uniforms of the Kriegsmarine. ▪︎ Uniforms of the other non-military branches.
@nicholasshaler7442 19 сағат бұрын
I look forward to more excellent work, as always. I hope your videos get millions of views and that my comments get lost in thick weeds of ignorance of tens of millions seeing your videos for the first time.
@nicholasshaler7442 19 сағат бұрын
Oh, and most important, merry Christmas!
@levski19 19 сағат бұрын
One of the better history channels. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you sir!
@LycanthropiesSpell 20 сағат бұрын
Immer gerade aus!!! Und gute rutsch ins Neue!
@HandGrenadeDivision 19 сағат бұрын
Immer weiter, Kamerad
@darkimpqstqr 20 сағат бұрын
Very interested in your plan to cover the German Mountain troops. I wish you all the best in your research.
@McBurnside6380 20 сағат бұрын
A couple of your videos have really helped me accurately build and paint models for display and wargaming. I always recommend your channel as a resource. Thanks for your hard work, and have a wonderful holiday season!
@mitchrils 20 сағат бұрын
My favourite ww2 history KZbin channel. Thank you for the great content
@T.S.Birkby 21 сағат бұрын
Having read that the 21st Panzer Division’s Band played during the attack on Alan Halfa, how common was this? And how did the role of the divisional band change over the war for the Germans? Thanks for the content, Merry Christmas
@HandGrenadeDivision 19 сағат бұрын
A fascinating question I am unfortunately ill-equipped to answer. I've done a bit of research from the Canadian side - regimental bands were concentrated into divisional bands and used for morale purposes, particularly in the UK but even ashore in France and Italy. The Highland regiments were different, retaining their pipe and drum bands at the battalion level, though the musicians were usually tasked as stretcher bearers or other similar duties and officially forbidden from playing in action. Despite the prohibition, it occasionally happened anyway, though not as formed bands.
@brentandvuk 21 сағат бұрын
Love your channel. Merry Christmas
@offizierhashxm 21 сағат бұрын
You are the definition of the term "BASED". Merry Christmas from Egypt.
@randomname1251 21 сағат бұрын
I’ve been a subscriber since there were only 2 videos on this channel. I had a feeling there’d be a lot more good content, and I wasn’t disappointed
@roymartin500 21 сағат бұрын
Thank you! You have a wonderful holiday & New Year as well.
@jason-hy8ci 21 сағат бұрын
Thank you.👍 loved the critique of the "Stars of History". Some of them are pretty self-righteous they don't have a clue of how many people are sickened by that nonsense. Have a nice Holiday.
@projectnewi Күн бұрын
Najwyższy stopień w 3 Rzeszy miał Hermann Goëring
@HandGrenadeDivision Күн бұрын
The video only shows military ranks of the Army. Reichsmarschall was not specific to the Army, but of the greater Armed Forces.
@AOT_HxH95 2 күн бұрын
I’d like to see a ranks of the Luftwaffe guide. That and branch colors of the Heer, SS, and Luftwaffe.
@killdozer7530 3 күн бұрын
KZbin's stated reasons for removing content rarely, if ever, have anything to do with why KZbin removes said content.
@DisinformationAgent 4 күн бұрын
So a child who lived through the Holodomor saw his chance to break free from the regime that was systematically killing his people and didn't have the gift of divining the future. So he signed up to help the Germans which had its foreign fighters under a specific branch of the SS. Anyone with any history knowledge past hollywood BS understands there is nothing wrong here. Anyone who thinks this is bad is a zigglet or a pawn to their propaganda. Consider MAID.
@pzsoldat2516 5 күн бұрын
Outstanding video, a wealth of information.
@idontlikecommunists9677 6 күн бұрын
I genuinely did not expect to see people defending Meyer and the Waffen SS, teying to exonorate them of war crimes and such, though this is youtube so i shouldnt have gotten my hopes up
@HandGrenadeDivision 5 күн бұрын
I genuinely did not expect anyone to comment on the video despite so clearly not having watched a second of it, but this is youtube so I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up.
@idontlikecommunists9677 5 күн бұрын
@HandGrenadeDivision I wasn't talking about your video, your video is absolutely great and super well researched, but there are a few people in the comments defending Meyer and shit, I'm sorry if it came across as me shit talking your video, I was referring to nazi larpers and war crime deniers in the comments
@HandGrenadeDivision 5 күн бұрын
*whew*. We're good, then! Seemed a bit out of left field!
@idontlikecommunists9677 5 күн бұрын
@@HandGrenadeDivision yeah sorry bro, I think I was quite tired when I wrote it so I must've left some stuff out of worded it poorly. I was referring to 2-3 people I saw in the comments saying that Meyer wasn't a war criminal, the SS were clean, and the courts that convicted Meyer were “american kangaroo courts” or something to that effect, basically all the HIAG talking points
@CharlesCornwallis-u9z 7 күн бұрын
These veterans are not in Canada to spread their ideology, they are there to escape being persecuted and killed as happened in the post-war period.
@HandGrenadeDivision 5 күн бұрын
That's a very good point that too often gets lost in these discussions.
@smokingman64 7 күн бұрын
Thank you for this video. I appreciated the correct pronunciation of the german rank insignia. Love the historical content.❤❤❤
@MEATOGRE 7 күн бұрын
KZbin wants to hide your uploads from me, even with notifications turned on. KZbin, I WILL watch my favorite channel, you can't stop me from my HGD fix. Thanks for the repost
@feynthefallen 8 күн бұрын
To really understand the SS and SA rank system, one has to take the national socialist _Führerideologie_ or "Leader ideology" into consideration. Today, people speak of "the Führer" and generally refer to Adolf Hitler, but in fact Hitler's full title was "Oberster Führer des Deutschen Volkes" - highest leader of the German nation, with emphasis on "highest". The Nazi ideology postulated that every man, woman and child should, no matter their situation in life, always have a "Führer" directly above them. Their ideal was a hierarchical pyramid of Führer on top of Führer on top of Führer, until eventually one would arrive at the one highest Führer. E.g. in matters of home and living, you had a "Blockwart" responsible for the order in a block of flats, or the foreman in a factory, responsible for a group of workers, or for the children, the Jungschaarführer and Hitlerjugendführer. The idea was to never let people be unsupervised ideologically or loyalty-wise. The SA/SS rank system, which was developed based on party ideology and only later applied to military and paramilitary units, is a perfect reflection of that principle.
@TellySavalas-or5hf 9 күн бұрын
Panzerman Hessler.
@paulwee1924dus 9 күн бұрын
Can you also discuss the Muslim SS uniforms? Why did they have 3 types of fezzes? And what did their command structure look like? The Kama and the Handschar division.
@jaxxx40 10 күн бұрын
My Grandfather was Calgary Tanks,landed in Italy continued in through the war,re-enlisted after the war. Retired in '68. I collect Calgary Tank items. I have the Sun cap badge and modern one,as well as other items from my other Grandparents time in the millitary. More program,literature of the 14 CAR would be great. The book Liri Valley is pretty good.
@mattclements1348 13 күн бұрын
ty for this, ima novice collector, this helps
@markhuibers9584 13 күн бұрын
Great video! Well made 😎 Just a small detail: The Netherlands was partly liberated in 1944. That are the provinces of Limburg, Noord-Brabant en Zeeland. Everything below the big rivers. The rest, biggest part, was liberated on 5th of may 1945.
@QuingIllF0ck 13 күн бұрын
Stupid video that tries to make the Germans out to be the worse soldiers. You never mention the fact that before the 12th were stopped at Buron (due to being outnumbered and outgunned) the Canadians were supposed to take Carpiquet airfield and were soundly defeated and pushed back all the way to Buron by only elements of the 26th regiment. Nice try. The Germans were the better warriors. Better cope some more.
@HandGrenadeDivision 10 күн бұрын
It looks like you only looked at the title and knee jerked a response to it. The video is about the second battle at Buron. You're talking about events of the first battle, a full month earlier. Actually, it sounds more like you are talking about Mesnil-Patry, the last offensive ops of 3rd Canadian Division before the stalemate set in between June 11 and July 4, or thereabouts. Care to try again?
@QuingIllF0ck 10 күн бұрын
@@HandGrenadeDivision Wrong. You clearly stated in your video the Canadian's primary objective on D day was to stop the German advance to the sea. And then you show the second battle of Buron as evidence of that (a whole month later, as you say). The reality is they were supposed to take Carpiquet airfield on D day and failed and were pushed back to Buron and subsequently had several failed attacks against the much more underequipped and outnumbered 12th. That's not even getting into the slander you direct by saying they murdered prisoners.
@HandGrenadeDivision 10 күн бұрын
Marc Milner's book STOPPING THE PANZERS is explicit, primary documentation proves the 3rd Canadian Division was tasked with defeating the armoured counter-attack. And it's not like the German doctrine was any secret - they did exactly that at Gela, Salerno, and Anzio. So if Simonds was suggesting ways to defeat it at the tactical level months before D-Day, it makes sense that his bosses were thinking about it at the operational level. Having said that, Milner noted 9th Brigade was tasked with establishing a brigade fortress at Carpiquet, but in the weeks leading up to D-Day it became clear that shifting German dispositions were making the D-Day tasks more and more optimistic. If you're referencing books older than Milner's, you're simply not up to date. John English is pretty explicit too about how the Canadian Army's official historians often got things (understandably) wrong with their earliest histories of the Normandy campaign and Canadian formations therein. Then again, if you're relying on Franz Kurowski or J.J. Fedorowicz, we can probably stop the conversation now. So I guess the pertinent question is - who *are* you reading?
@HandGrenadeDivision 10 күн бұрын
From Milner - I BRITISH CORPS OPERATIONAL INSTRUCTION NO 1 dated 4 March 1944 states 3rd Cdn Div "to establish itself with two bdes up on the general line PUTOT EN BESSIN 9072 - CARRPIQUET 9769 as soon as possible on D-Day." It went on to say that the objective covered "the probable areas for enemy counter attacks." The key terrain was not the airfield but, as Milner describes, "(t)his position, astride the Caen-Bayeux road and rail links, stands at the head of the two broad plains that run on either side of the Mue River to the sea." The airfield offered no real advantage, but the open area was the most likely place for German tanks to counterattack (as, indeed, in the actual event, they did.)
@HandGrenadeDivision 10 күн бұрын
The final operational order in May was slightly modified - the British were hedging on their ability to take Caen on D-Day, which was seeming less likely, and the Canadian mission was to advance to the Caen-Bayeux road, establish brigade fortress positions, and guard against "probable alternative areas of enemy counter attack."
@DavidTucker-e2j 14 күн бұрын
A few years back one of my granduncles on my mein mutti's side started to talk about his time in the Waffen SS as well as his time in the FFL in Indo China during the 1950's. He had never spoken about this while I was growing up....But his experiences during WW 2......Something else.
@docjay9640 14 күн бұрын
Look for the haircuts, Opposition of american movies😂
@brucemacmillan9581 14 күн бұрын
I'm not seeing any 'Leutnante' designation of rank. I'm writing a trashy horror novella set in WW2 (1941) and one of my characters is a certain 'Leutnante von Schellenberg'. He is supposed to be commander of a platoon-sized group of Einsatzgruppen SS transitting through the Carpathian mountains in late October 1941. Did the SS not use that rank designation? If not, what would've been the equivalent? Also, would a Schütze rank soldier be addressed as 'Gefreiter'? Or was that just for the regular Wermacht? I'd appreciate whatever info you can provide. Thanks.
@Lev259 8 күн бұрын
Wehrmacht Leutnant = Waffen-SS Untersturmführer
@sigmann66 15 күн бұрын
Even as a boy I was obsessed with German uniforms and their entire military machine. So beautiful I thought. Now I see others agree.
@markdexter6338 15 күн бұрын
I swear can't they just use numbers to designate more easier readable ranks? Such as 1-1 > 1.2 or 2.1 > 2.2 etc?
@esajuhanirintamaki965 15 күн бұрын
German Cross = "Fried egg"...!
@esajuhanirintamaki965 15 күн бұрын
May 1942 Eastern Front Medal was dubbed as "Frozen meat award".
@esajuhanirintamaki965 15 күн бұрын
Knight's Cross with Swords were called in Luftwaffe slang as "cabbage with knife and fork."
@FrostyCatPanzerV 16 күн бұрын
My classmates: What are you watching? Me:
@billm83army 16 күн бұрын
"Pips" not stars. It would have been better to compare SS enlisted rank to US enlisted for better understand, Private, Sgt would be Team Leader, SSG would be Squad Leader etc. However ever good presentation
@HandGrenadeDivision 16 күн бұрын
"Stars" is the correct term, "pip" is colloquial. And direct comparisons between ranks of the different nations are often false - this is discussed on the channel in the German Army ranks video. A corporal in the US Army had much less training and fewer responsibilities than a corporal in the British Army, so the word "corporal" itself does not convey any real meaning. Both were considered NCOs in the traditional sense of the word, while Gefreiter/Sturmman/Oberfgefreiter/Rottenführer were not.
@jdsofar 16 күн бұрын
So they made the original video deleted because it showed photos of soldiers in heroic photos and not surrendering? wow thats insane
@HandGrenadeDivision 16 күн бұрын
No, that's just what I pointed out to them in the appeal. The actual reason makes even less sense. I noted that SS rank was "unique." That's it. In other words, the rank badges of the SS looked different than the Army's. It's a statement of fact. KZbin - or their robot moderators - took that to mean I was promoting white supremacy.
@wolfthegreat87 16 күн бұрын
Is there any chance on us getting a video about WWII German signal whistles and their usage? The article on the website is wonderful and I feel like getting that sort of cool info to a wider audience could be nice. Maybe you could even include the sound of it? I can't find a recording of the distinct sound of the whistle anywhere, either original or reproduction.
@HandGrenadeDivision 16 күн бұрын
This is an interest of mine, a reference somewhere compares the whistle to that of "a robin being castrated" which isn't a very useful description, though it is certainly colourful. I have some notes somewhere on the actual signals, and I think they may have been used in some training films. Apparently the BGS (West German border guards) had a similar whistle and cord; I have one in my collection somewhere but not an original. No promises, but I'll add it to the list of things I'd like to cover. Thanks for the suggestion.
@stuew6 16 күн бұрын
Germany navy Rank next.
@Lenn869 16 күн бұрын
been sifting through the AI slop that this has seeped into this corner of YT for months. Finally a glistening gemerald channel...
@Lenn869 16 күн бұрын
AI: An Indian
@Femboy_housewife 17 күн бұрын
I had two great Grandfathers who were part of the Waffen SS one was a Nazi and a member of the SS since 31, and swiched to the Waffen SS in 41 as a Sturmbannführer of the Division Wiking... The other one joined with the age of 18 in 43 (he was forced and didn't join voulenteerly) and fought '44 in Jugoslavia in the division Prinz Eugen, 2nd Grenadier regiment... He wasn't a nazi but was in the Younger counterpart of the Hitler youth, the "Deutsches Jung-Volk ", short DJV and his father was a member of the NSDAP and his brother a Wehrmacht Officer that lost a leg and his other brother a year earlier in Leningrad... Their sister was a part of the BDM even after the age of 18... A SS guy (who wasn't a Nazi) in a family full of Nazis... In that case actual nazis and not "oh a party mber and a officer? NAZIS!" No they were strong believers in the regime and the father commited suicide after Hitlers death... The 2 of the 3 brothers met up with the Waffen SS general major and SS Brigadeführer Gustav Krugenberg after the war... Weird coincedence, but he acctually comanded the 7th SS Division Prinz eugen in 45! But my great Grandfather was in a soviet POW camp in siberia from october 44 - june 45... But he had to have done Something or else the Geneal major wouldn't have known him and written " an gedenken an alte zeiten, Kameradschaftlich-" in a book about the War that he gifted my great Grandfather... Or he knew my great granduncle during the war, as he was promoted to a Officer in 37 (and in 41 to a oberst) and thus they might have known each other... On the pictue where he celebrated his promotion in a pub, there was a Allgemeine SS "soldier" and a SA soldier amongst my great grand uncle and some of his comrades from other pictures... (I wonder if a picture like that is rare?)
@HandGrenadeDivision 16 күн бұрын
The photograph itself is probably not rare, but provenance of such photos is dwindling, due to a number of factors. Decreasing interest in the period, for a variety of reasons, combined with shrinking family sizes. A lot of family photo albums are no longer passed down and increasingly you see them sold on ebay - sometimes stripped apart with individual photos sold without context to collectors. Or simply junked. A colleague once saved a set of kodachrome colour slides from a widow's trash can; they had crystal clear colour photos of UN soldiers in Korea in 1951, and were a few seconds away from disappearing forever.
@GlitchySet5 17 күн бұрын
Milsim Community will be wildin with this
@BrochachoEnchilada 17 күн бұрын
Any chance you'll do a video at some point on the Battle of Garfagnana (Operation Winter Storm 1944)? I think it's an interesting moment in the Italian campaign, especially because of the heavy participation of ENR troops
@HandGrenadeDivision 17 күн бұрын
I think I'd rather watch yours, to be honest, you sound like it is something you are both knowledgeable and passionate about.
@brittakriep2938 17 күн бұрын
Kapitan as SS rank? Impossible! Not only that it must be Kapitän. Kapitän is a naval term ( in civilian context also pilot of an airliner/ freight plane), and as far as i know, SS had no naval arm. As a rank of SS ground forces, i don' t believe. In late 17th century french language and culture dominated Europe. So also in ,military german' many terms switched from german to french. So a Fähnlein became a Battalion, a Feldwebel a Sergeant, an Oberst a Colonel and a Hauptmann a Capitaine. Napoleonic era caused a Comeback of some german military terms. So this SS ranks using Rotte, Schar, Sturm, Gruppe had been created, to sound extra german.
@konigludwig6539 Күн бұрын
He literally said that Those title are from comics and mostly fictional. And should not be taken serious
@YorkshireNachteinbruch 17 күн бұрын
Otto dirlewangner is the worst thing I can think about of ww2, that monster had the same symbol for his division of war criminals, why use it?
@HandGrenadeDivision 17 күн бұрын
To reclaim it rather than hide from it. The history of the 65th Infantry Division is unstained by anything Dirlewanger and his drooling morons did. To paraphrase Freud - sometimes a hand grenade is just a hand grenade. And it must be working - you've gotten his first name wrong.
@idontlikecommunists9677 6 күн бұрын
@@HandGrenadeDivision the 65th Infanterie-Division still committed quite a metric fuckload of war crimes though
@PF2015 17 күн бұрын
8:06 "Steiner, how do I reload!?" 😅
@user-fq8tt2tm6q 13 күн бұрын
Glad I'm not the only one to get it as soon as I heard the music 😂