1945: The Last Surviving Ancient Battleships of the Kriegsmarine

[@ImportantNavalHistory]

Thanks for watching! I know I know, I messed up some German pronunciations, who would've guessed!?! It's not on purpose, I just mess up with other languages and sometimes my own, I'm only human. Which, some might say is an added bonus considering the amount of AI channels now.

[@CliveN-yr1gv]

I jsut searched for some American place names: La Jolla, Acequia, Hahira, Bucyrus ... I have no clue how to say these, so please don't concern yourself too much. FYI you were pretty close most of the time!😄

[@ImportantNavalHistory]

Lol out of the places you named I can only confidently do Bucyrus off the top of my head, an excellent place to get some bratwursts and other sausages.

[@max-imal8588]

You pronounced Schleswig-Holstein relatively well, but please never say Schlesien like that again xD

[@kidmohair8151]

don't picnic...I mean, panic. (HH'sGTTG reference) now you know. it's what you do going forward that counts.

[@brittakriep2938]

Les mots en langue allemand sont parlez bon. The words are not spoken perfect, but totally understandable. So schwierig ist Deutsch nicht, wenn man eine verwandte Sprache spricht.

[@BHuang92]

It's ironic that the Schleswig-Holstein, the first to start WW2, was one of the last ships Germany had at the end of WW2.

[@jamesricker3997]

She was so old the allies didn't consider her worth sinking

[@automatic6216]

It's like that American dude from Virginia named Wilmer McLean. McLean lived near this place called Manassas Junction in Virginia where a small stream called Bull Run meandered about. That's where the Union and Confederate armies fought their first major engagement of the American Civil War. Wilmer, understandably terrified by this, packed up and left Manassas to settle in a more quiet part of the state, a place called Appomatox Court House - which is where General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the end of the American Civil War. The War started in his backyard and ended in his living room.

[@brianmutcher9585]

It would have been great to preserve it as a museum ship

[@brianmutcher9585]

@@automatic6216that was interesting story dude

[@CliveN-yr1gv]

Thank you for researching and delivering this; another great doco. I love how older weapon systems/ships are re-lifed to make meaningful contributions to their fleets. We see it now, with older rifles being brought out of storage in Ukraine. I briefly served in a Centurion tank (they were introduced in 1945) that had seen service in Korea, Suez, and Germany, completing its last operational tour in Iraq. It had been part of a the Royal Tank Regiment as a 'gun' tank, then an artillery regiment (as an Observation Post Royal Artillery (OPRA Tank), and latterly as an Assault Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE). I believe it is now in the tank museum in Munsterlager. Maybe not that particular tank, but this type managed to provide useful (if troublesome and increasingly slow) service for almost half a century. Whether as training ships, target ships, or even battery ships, these three ships had long and interesting careers (regardless of which side they were on). Well done.

[@ImportantNavalHistory]

Thank you for your kind words as always! It’s always interesting to see older technologies used long after their heyday. I can recall my grandfather discussing his Army training and the World War 2 equipment he was issued in the early 1960s. The rifles and vehicles weren’t exactly top notch for some Midwest national guard! Also, what a tour for that Centurion!

[@russeljohn3471]

Interesting and informative video. Thanks for all your hard work. 👍

[@AnchoredPast]

Great video & Very well researched!!!! Howerver this is kinda gonna go off topic from the video. Its more of a request in a sense. I would like to put in a ship that can be added to the weird & wacky german list. I know I made a playful jab about the Scharnhorst-class Armored Cruisers being added, but this one is diffrent. I would like to suggest the SMS Blücher. She for all intensive purposes is a very weird design, and was the last Armored Cruiser to be commissioned in Germany. She was obsolete for her time even from the drawing board. Her turret configuration was that of a Nassau-class Battleship while only being 8in guns. But yet her armor held while facing Battlecruisers at the Battle of Dogger Bank, at least long enough to let the rest of squadron retreat. She was for everything its worth a very weird, and wacky ship.

[@Legitpenguins99]

*intents and purposes. Not intensive purposes. I get it, I thought that for years because that's how it sounded to me

[@stevenwestswanson9263]

Great Video!

[@nxs3374]

Thankyou. This is first video where I hear my Granfathers ship mentioned “ Hannover” That brought a smile to me. Thanks

[@jackcade68]

Great episode! I enjoyed it.

[@stefanurich8562]

You forgot to mentio SMS Goeben, a battlecruiser which was in service until 1973 in the turkish navy

[@ImportantNavalHistory]

Did you watch until the end?

[@piergaay]

Respect for the serious attempt to pronounce the German names! And for the interesting piece of history!

[@raymondromanos1479]

Schlesien is pronounced Schlay-zee-en. Otherwise great video. Keep up the good work.

[@matthewnewton8812]

The German pronunciation rules for ie/ei are quite simple. Once you know them, you can pronounce any German word where it appears. If the grouping is “ie” it’s pronounced “eee”. If the grouping is “ei” it’s pronounced “aye”. And also the “s” followed by a vowel is typically propounded like the English “z”. So Schlesien would therefore be “shlay-zeen”.

[@RayyMusik]

No, Schlesien is an exception; the e doesn’t just prolong the i but is pronounced separately.

[@tylermcneill]

Great video

[@hazchemel]

Really interesting story, thank you.

[@Angrybarberman]

Ive always had an eye for the 1905 Deutschland class battleships, i wish someone would come out with a dual model kit of these ships as originally produced, and in their post 1924-45 refits.....sort of like the Emden/ Dresden dual Revell kit of 2 in one box.

[@lawrencelewis2592]

I have a 1/250 scale model of the S.W. that I built over 50 years ago. It's a paper kit and is now looking a bit tattered. Paper or card models are a lot more fun to build than plastic in my opinion. I could almost have my own battle of Jutland with the ones that I have.

[@TrangleC]

My grandfather served on the Schleswig Holstein when it fired the first shots of the war, shelling Polish troops surrounding the city of Danzig. He later transferred to a Motor Torpedo Boat and he successfully had applied to become part of the Bismarck's crew, but luckily for him (and subsequently me), he got wounded shortly before transferring and another unlucky bastard took his place and went down with the ship. My grandfather's Motor Torpedo Boat crew refused to surrender when the war officially ended. They sneaked into a already allied occupied Luftwaffe base to steal ammo for their MGs and kept raiding allied ships for about 2 weeks after the surrender, without killing anybody. That was why they were "only" sentenced to 20 years of hard labor for "piracy" when they were eventually caught, but they were released early after 2 years because they had volunteered to clear sea mines. He had a pretty adventurous life. After being released he became a engineer working for a company that installed and maintained coffee and cocoa bean roasting ovens and traveled all over Africa, South-America and Asia in the 50s and 60s. Apparently he almost got jailed again for smuggling medicine into Haiti or something like that. His oldest son, my uncle, followed in his footsteps by becoming a merchant sailor and ending up living as a fugitive in Mexico, working odd jobs after beating up a police man while on shore leave.

[@bigsarge2085]

Interesting!

[@dandrakenholt5455]

Really interesting, good work. I will follow you!!!!

[@Viking88Power]

Quite interesting!

[@michaelnaisbitt7926]

The Schleswig Holstein was supposed to be on a peace mission in Poland when it opened fire on the Poilish fortifications and started WEW 2

[@Jedi.Toby.M]

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[@michaelramsey3986]

What about Prinz Eugen?

[@VersusARCH]

Heavy cruiser. Not a battleship.

[@michaelramsey3986]

@@VersusARCH I understand, but you did mention the Graf Zeppelin.

[@ImportantNavalHistory]

It's a couple of things. 1. I did cover Prinz Eugen in another video. 2. She was a heavy cruiser, and was constructed in the late 1930s, and this video was specifically about the Kaiser's remaining battleships left in German service at the end of the Second World War. Here's a link to the Prinz Eugen video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGKymYCuf7Nqh9k Hope I cleared some things up.

[@michaelramsey3986]

@@ImportantNavalHistory thank you, I loved you vid.

[@daveanderson3805]

Great video. And your pronunciation of german words is okay. And I appreciate your not using AI generated voice over

[@ericvantassell6809]

remants is 2 syllables. ruminants is 3

[@ImportantNavalHistory]

Thanks, appreciate it. Have a great week :)

[@mikecoglione1308]

I would give someone else's left arm to be able to have visited some of the WW-2 capture prize ships like these, the Prinz Eugen, Gneisenau or even some of the Japanese ships like Nagato, Takao or even the Italian ships. Feel grateful that I volunteered on a museum ship and had access to all kinds of spaces not open to the public or did some of these expensive tours for free because of my connections and visits.

[@richardwolf8024]

Goeben was offered by the Turks to West Germany for use as a museum ship. The West Germans declined, and Goeben was scrapped. I think the West Germans should have accepted, but no doubt they had their reasons.

[@johnlavery3433]

Two reasons, one, it could be interpreted as glorifying their imperial past, would have been a big no go, the other is money. Museum ships burn through a lot of money, and if they should it wasn’t viable in the long run then it was better to get the scrapping over and done with

[@richardwolf8024]

@@johnlavery3433 both of those are possibilities.

[@RolfHarms-dm1bm]

Schleswig Holstein war kein Schlachtschiff,sondern ein Linienschiff.

[@kidmohair8151]

nothing like a former enemy's pre-dreadnaught being gobbled up by a soon to be nuclear powered and armed navy made up of mostly submarines... there is some sort of irony therein. (the previous comment was made to satisfy the tube'y'all's algo-deities who, fortunately, don't read them before they digest)

[@thomaskositzki9424]

"In early 1945 the war situation developed not necessarily to Germany's advantage." Yeah, no shit. 😂 Germany had lost the war on a strategic level for two years, had suffered the worst single military defeat on land in history (Operation Bagration, July 1944), had loss rates which defied any sound military reasoning and the general situation could be described as "apocalyptic" without exaggerating at all.

[@ImportantNavalHistory]

Love starting this series with that phrase lol. It’s a play on emperor Hirohito’s surrender speech, I figured the absurdity of the statement catches the attention of people.

[@thomaskositzki9424]

@@ImportantNavalHistory Wow, yes! I actually heard the speech with captions not long ago (WW2 in realtime, Indy Neidell)! It was so outrageous in distorting the actual facts, it makes the glorious moustache men of Europe (red & brown) look like champions of truth. 😳😂In all seriousness I got a little upset about it, it was such a horrendous lie from start to finish. Under these circumstances I applaud you, sir, on your level of knowledge and nerdiness! As I can't applaud physically, I smashed every like button I could find. 🙃🥰😃

[@minimax9452]

A few weeks later Lord Keynes was sent to USA to negotiate about the bancrupcy of the British. They had to pay back their debt to usa until 2011 and lost their Empire. Since the GB is the poodle of USA 😂

[@tombristowe846]

Only two syllables in "remnants".

[@ImportantNavalHistory]

Thanks, appreciate it. Have a great week :)

[@tombristowe846]

@@ImportantNavalHistory I feel guilty now and a bit unkind. I'd probably had a bit too much to drink!

[@ImportantNavalHistory]

Oh, don't feel bad. That comment wasn't even bad, it's just a fact I messed up. Trust me, I don't really take any of it to heart. If I did I would've had to quite a long time ago!

[@danschneider9921]

One small item "Schlesien" is pronounced more like "Schlee-sin" than 'Schley-see-on" My grandmother was from that province and that' how I remember hearing her pronounce it. Absolutely not trying to bust your b@lls over it. Just figured I would share.

[@raymondromanos1479]

No, it's pronounced "schlay-zee-en".

[@danschneider9921]

@@raymondromanos1479 Noted. Perhaps my grandmother had some local dialect, accent or who knows. Plus I am trying to phonetically type out pronunciation of a German word in English. Maybe we are actually on the same page. So cut me some slack.

[@brittakriep2938]

Schlesien is realy spoken Schlesien in german language!

[@ImportantNavalHistory]

Oh yeah you’re fine, I pinned comment addresses it. I just goofed up.

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[@Stoertebekerxyz]

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