Bruce Gets His Hands On A Rare Fallschirmjäger Uniform | Combat Dealers

[@arno_groenewald]

They was not heavily armed. They was only dropped with a pistol and a combat knife. Their equipment was dropped shortly after they were

[@headlessguy8733]

Smash they were not dropped after Crete

[@thisguyaintfunny1881]

@@headlessguy8733 They were actually dropped after Crete, not often but for example around Leningrad during Operation Barbarossa, and in Sicily in 1943. Much of the combat footage from "the battle of Crete", was actually filmed in Sicily, but due to similar terrain it's often mixed with Crete.

[@thunberbolttwo3953]

@Smash Wrong after Krete the paratropers were only employed as ground troops.

[@trevorfinnern463]

thunberbolt two nah bro, he is right, german paratroopers were dropped after Crete. Potential History has a vid on it

[@marks_sparks1]

@@trevorfinnern463 the last big German parachute drop was by soldiers of the Brandenburg Division on the Greek island of Leros Sept 1943 after the Italians declared the armistice. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leros The last mass Fallschirmjager airborne attack was the glider assault on Vercors plateau July 1944

[@exJacktar]

My dad, had a deep, professional respect for the German Paras. This was earned from his combat experience against them with the Canadian Army in Italy, France, Holland and Germany. He said they were magnificent soldiers and always put up one hell of a fight. He called them the cream of the German Forces, during the war.

[@Gruuuuuuub]

Fuck up

[@rs6109]

They were war criminals ,asshat

[@exJacktar]

@@rs6109 Whatever. You're a flat faced civvie, no doubt, who's never been a soldier, never been to war, and has no opinion that has merit in my eyes.

[@fedex4real92]

Sharksfan710 hey even the Americans committed war crimes.

[@Drewtheelder]

@@rs6109 Some of these criminals even played football!

[@ZeAngrySnowmongol]

"Evil we are going to kill these people songs" Mate. What? Have Bruce ever listened to what most of German marching songs are about? Schöner Westerwald? Erika? Funkerlied? C'moon... Yes. Evil songs about women, dancing, love of home and Funkerlied is probs one of most "joyfull" sounding march lmao

[@craigkoehler4363]

No, like most Brits Bruce is a brainwashed Socialist with Nationalist tendencies, similar to the actual Nazis.

[@boxershorts989]

yeah the songs are almost exclusively about women, alcohol and the common soldier. Exceptions beeing things like "Deutschland Erwache" and the occasional leader glorification song

[@kalebt7042]

Pizza Zombie He’s nothing like an actual national socialist he a fucking boomer neocon at most

[@Mr_Makina]

@Hugh Mongus it's kinda funny with a name like yours, you would choose to attack Simeon for Their username considering your username is a shit attempt at a big dick joke that died in 2015-16.

[@theprussian4616]

You can't forget lore my friend.

[@bulletbrothers784]

Sounds like someone never studied the ww2 German economy before making this episode

[@Pfsif]

People just make shit up, now one is going to stand up for the Nate-Zees.

[@suspiciousminds1750]

I could be wrong but the pictures of the German paratroopers at around 25 seconds appears to be boxer Max Schmelling.

[@stevenwilson6450]

You are correct.

[@suspiciousminds1750]

Thanks, I'm not imagining things, then.

[@palmanbracht9125]

It was for propaganda use

[@suspiciousminds1750]

Yes, Schmeling was not a nazi, and not a favorite of the regime (especially after he lost to Louis). When he was drafted they put him in one of the most dangerous branches they could think of.

[@jimomaha7809]

@@suspiciousminds1750 He actually volunteered. There is no point to force a unwilling person to join an elite unit. As a boxer he refused to fir his Jewish manager, even when Adolf asked for it. He jumped at Crete, but was injured on landing.

[@astrazenica7783]

Christ, Dutchy saw him coming

[@derin111]

Dutch accent is my favourite. Even if I was being robbed, I would be laughing! 😂

[@denisvermeirre1024]

0:25 "An army of heavily armed blokes..." What? In 1940 they jumped *very lightly* armed, carrying little more than pistols, a few SMGs, and the occasional grenade. Canisters of slightly heavier weapons - essentially LMGs, rifles, satchel charges - were dropped at the same time. The FJs faced a two-fold challenge. First, they had to be able to collect their weapons from the canisters before the defenders fought them off. Then, lightly armed as they were, they had to be able to hold on until regular army units could reach them. Bruce's statement has a nice ring and makes for dramatic TV, but is utterly wrong!

[@RAVEN_SPRING_]

Solid deals solid value love it keep the historic matériel safe!

[@frankpolly]

I wish they would show the footage of him visiting the museum I work at in Arnhem, but my boss refused to sell anything to Bruce so they probably don't have any reason to show it.

[@tomqelectronica]

Uncle Albert went shopping

[@Fran-fv6pf]

Was thinking the exact same 😂😂 RIP Buster Merryfield

[@peter486]

this dude is larger than life, so inspiring.

[@rolfagten857]

The German paratroops tied themselves in the trees during the battle for Overloon. Where that happened is now a zoo.

[@proudpatriotforlife]

Hugo BoSS ist eben eine Klasse Marke ! Heute wie gestern!

[@Dustyhillfarms]

Nice, I wonder how big his collection is now.

[@paulwee1924dus]

Best TV series ever. German uniforms are the best.

[@g13flat]

@Quest TV Your description is wrong. Bruce travelled to Holland as per @ 0:45 not Germany.

[@Alexis-ur9bc]

Nice replicas

[@giopasq6776]

Nice 👍🏻 love fallshrimjägers

[@bowieknife71]

0:22 to 0.25 our worldchampion in boxing the great Max Schmeling.

[@randyli918]

These uniforms are amazing! Could anyone share me the exact location if that shop where Bruce got these German Fallsjäger uniform? Danke!

[@randyli918]

Anyone knows where this shop’s address in the Netherlands??

[@TimDutch]

@@randyli918 google is your best friend :)

[@PostUp_Time]

are you willing to pay those prices?

[@oneshotme]

Enjoyed the video and gave a Thumbs Up

[@kevinhenriksson8939]

7:20 biggest load of horseshit I've ever heard. Most german war-time songs are about their women, children and beautiful country.

[@stopmotionboy1085]

Exactly!

[@PatchPantsGio]

Why was the Buzzfeed Unsolved True Crime theme briefly playing?

[@marcoantonioretamoza]

Todos los días lo veo aquí en Tijuana a las 8pm en el canal 8.5 🤫

[@pbrobotspbrobots1710]

does Bruce go to the trade shows, im sure he must of been to Malvern military show a few times, its a great day if you ever go to it. used to be run twice a year by graham and amanda from jeeparts who i know have sold but im not sure if he's still orgonising the shows.

[@corcaighrebel]

Would love a pair of pants for hiking purposes.

[@LoydAvenheart]

same you can get pretty durable army fatigues at military surplus places they look like normal pants and have big pockets and are way more durable

[@samuelschut3297]

Fallsmirjagers landed a lot off in Holland

[@crispedurchin6186]

Wow I have some falshminjager stuff, I didn’t know it was that rare

[@austinmichael406]

That is wonderful

[@MrSkid1970]

I'm off withfreddy to get some gear,and leave the twins to fix the hetzer!😁

[@sinistercharger]

If that helmet is genuine its worth I would say 8-10k.It has absolutely no wear or age to it like the Jump suit so I'm not convinced.He paid over the odds on the compass

[@MikeB128]

Yeah this is a typical moron boomer with absolutely zero actual knowledge of this stuff.

[@gma729]

AWESOME !!!!!

[@perrytheplumberplatypus8976]

I want that Field Police neck guard

[@tommyatkins2527]

I seen one in breacon great nick 300 pound

[@whitewolf6866]

Dutch!

[@gabrielbarber9762]

Guys says 150, doesnt argue on price, then says he paid 100 and made 50 profit, big honking bullshit this show is

[@alonzocalvillo6702]

One thing the Americans adopted from the Fallshirmjager uniform was their wearing their combat boots with their dress uniform.

[@charliegreer4507]

Ive got a ww2 Us paratrooper wrist compass too but I bought for £29

[@jaspersnijders7809]

Mooi spul heeft ie daar liggen

[@nilsb.5319]

wich episode and wich season is this?

[@tommytaylor4458]

More more more please!!!!!

[@ronchabale]

Insane

[@tavish4699]

that room is worth 100 thousend euros easily

[@996jul]

Does the seller have a website?

[@cabagool]

Imcs militaria

[@peterlewis3540]

A freeby I should hope so, after Bruce spent £30k on a rare as hens teeth German Para uniform

[@damnman677]

Cheaper than supreme

[@artkarounos816]

Cool!

[@alexandermccarthy]

Bruce, I wish you'd answer my question about the MG42.

[@jackbeason8058]

I don't think he runs the channel lmao.

[@MikeB128]

Also he'd be about the last person to give you a correct, non British boomer answer that is about 10 miles away from the actual facts. This guy's a moron.

[@OscarGonzalez-et8kr]

YOU DONT ASK......YOU BUY, YOU JUST BUY...😾

[@assasinsplaylp5241]

German paratroopers were the best soldiers ans they had the most beautyful uniforms

[@charlesbailey598]

Speaking of tanks, when are you gonna build an elephant ti? Know if I'm drunk, that's the biggest And the heaviest tank Germany had.

[@NicholasNicolaides]

Did he just say he can lick the compass because he's a chaffer thats firing blanks.....lol

[@eddies7686]

Well now we know he's "firing blanks" so lady's, nothing to worry about lol

[@horstboellinger6880]

the first para-trooper are soviet.

[@PitbullTerror88]

during wartime he should have said

[@coolminecraft1457]

How much for the helmet that’s the only piece I want

[@deepchillzone]

My grandpa died while serving in WW2, he fell out of the watchtower at auswitch.

[@rlane63]

Is Bruce related to shouty MasterChef co-presenter and former grocer, Gregg Wallace? They share very similar looks and opinionated behaviour.

[@Aaradorn]

Those prices though

[@MikeB128]

Pretty steep for decent reproductions...

[@andresquinonezramirez9373]

The prices are wrong with this program

[@thomasnygaard7826]

Correcsion sola airport in Norway was the first time nazi-germany utalized paratroopers

[@christianworkman8108]

i wanna know how ths man aquired his career

[@wardis8303]

More money than sense

[@domjohnson9188]

I’m sorry but the music bit pissed me off

[@user-mp5xk46zq1j-io5-]

I watch these videos with a smile. Indeed, all the values indicated are far from the market prices. What's funny is that either Bruce is the one who is being cheated or his client is. And then some of videos is fake. To know one of the people who made a transaction in a video: nothing was concluded ! No money ever in the pocket of the seller ! This Bruce is a well known cheapskate... And he is absolutely not an expert. Any 12 year old kid with a passion for tanks knows as much as he does. And he knows nothing about uniforms. Only in suspenders.

[@monsieurlunik5270]

Lots of things that aren't original in all of this, the scarf, the blue breadbag etc

[@tavish4699]

Well saying that the marching Songs of the Germans were about Evil things is completely wrong ! Most of the time they were about Flowers girls or comradery and rhe Value of the fatherland

[@winstonwright8374]

It's too bad the germans high command thought steerable shoots where a bad idea.

[@templarknight5557]

The need for a middle class prick to put on a fake cockney accent spoils it.

[@MarineAqua45]

He isn’t middle-class, as he was born & bred in East London. He was also an ex-Para too, which is why he is a Combat dealer & which is why he has friends in the continent, who supply him with his military, goods.

[@florisb5507]

Nederland

[@Neonbiker]

I bet that holland guy didn’t pay much for it when he got that stuff but now he can sell it for a ton of money I wish I was that lucky ...

[@paulwalker427]

€150 is not £100 lol

[@64maxpower]

I'd give one price. If you can't afford it then sorry

[@robertmunoz7543]

POOPATROOPERS?😂 Jman

[@robpillin4152]

Good interesting show I just can't stand his voice put me right off Terry Tibbs Italian fireplace talk to me !

[@SpielkindFR]

Whats with the stupid grimaces and the shouting?

[@BeezerWashingbeard]

What kind of English accent is this?

[@MarineAqua45]

A cockney accent, from East-London, where he was from.

[@Theakker3B]

"original" my ass

[@scottfuller5194]

I have jumped with them and earned their para wings....(plus Brit wings, US Army wings, USMC wings and Israeli wings) there was no life like it !

[@pastorflaps6819]

Over priced

[@pastorflaps6819]

@jhon doe don't need to I happen to have e very full collection and have been a working dealer for over 30 years this is very not real-life

[@Spitsz01]

Actually Bruce, the Russians were the pioneers and tought the Germans.

[@hermanhedning4220]

Correct, the soviets and italians were the first ones to create paratrooper units.

[@smurf_mammma2401]

When you over react everything

[@diamond66ist]

Not convinced the uniforms are real they are too new looking !

[@MikeB128]

Doesn't mean they're not real, he just failed to do any research to figure out details that would have answered that for him.

[@PostUp_Time]

NOT ISSUED, SO THAT MEANS NEW. -NOT WORN, NOT GIVEN TO ANY SOLDIER TO WEAR.

[@JudahMaccabee_]

People can forge these. How can they be completely certain that they're originalSS?

[@generalripper7528]

That's what I was wondering too.

[@Huwberts_Emporium]

You use a special UV light and can tell by the way the fabric appears WW2 uniforms are made from all natural materials, reproductions are made from synthetic materials and will illuminate brightly under the light.

[@PostUp_Time]

@@Huwberts_Emporium IF YOU ARE GOING TO REPRODUCE SOMETHING, THE IDEA IS TO USE THE SAME MATERIALS SO IT CAN BE SOLD AS REAL, TELLING PEOPLE IT IS ORIGINAL. A LIGHT SHINING BRIGHTER ON FABRIC IS PURE NONSENSE. PEOPLE IDENTIFY ORIGINAL BY FACTORY NAMES, MARKINGS, STAMPS, ETC. FOUNDRY MARKINGS, ETC. LOOK FOR AN ORIGINAL PIECE AND SEE WHAT THE SELLER TELLS YOU HE HAS IDENTIFIED AAS ORIGINAL, OR RESEARCH BOOKS. FABRICS, STITCHINGS, ETC.

[@Huwberts_Emporium]

@@PostUp_Time CAPITAL LETTERS

[@joseantonioplaza8596]

Original zips? (3:18) Usually there were no zippers in german battledresses. It was a american invention and they were mainly used in the allies military clothes, so this might be a pretty rare example

[@xisotopex]

yes there were. Fallschirmjager Jump Smock had zippered pockets. also many soldiers modified camo pullover smocks with zippers

[@joseantonioplaza8596]

@@xisotopex that last statement might be true, but recently I have been trying a real fallschimjager dress from 1943 (thanks, Jürgen) and I can assure you there were no zippers at all. I also never heard about them, but I shall review again the german OKL orders about clothes.

[@joseantonioplaza8596]

Furtherly, the german pilot leather jackets you can see with zippers (the "hartmann jackets"), were civilian clothes purchased particilarly. However, I think the italian regia aeronautica might have had one pilot jacket model zippered . I need to review some old material before.

[@joseantonioplaza8596]

I think I owe you an apology. After reviewing a bunch of german documents and a lot of old films and photographs, I haven't found anything about zippers, except....for some images of models of paratroop smocks, an exception in the Wehrmacht. They usually used buttons and other types of fasteners, but in this case they added zippers for the quick release of the stock. So I change my first comment and sorry for the inconvenience

[@PostUp_Time]

IF ZIPPERS WERE USED, WHY WOULD ZIPPERS BE BRIGHT SILVER TO REFLECT LIGHT. NATURAL LIGHT OR ILLUMINATION FROM GROUND SEARCH LIGHTS AS THEY WERE DROPPING

[@bengis_bob8661]

Fawwsheem yaygor germen innit

[@adler9213]

7:15 haha 2 world wars and no Empire!! Who has no balls?

[@pauliewalnuts9202]

Who got divided into two seperate nations?

[@yelocalwierdo2440]

Since when was erika about master races and Britain...

[@mikkel066h]

He most likely never opened the book. So he only got a one sided narrative.

[@yelocalwierdo2440]

@@mikkel066h not a single song was about this... It was all folk songs and romantic songs

[@mikkel066h]

@@yelocalwierdo2440 I know that is what I meant with a one sided narrative........

[@makeitsonumberone1358]

hands up who thinks this show is real? 🤦‍♂️

[@francoislefrancais2032]

j'aime pas du tout cette emission

[@paulwee1924dus]

Why not?

[@francoislefrancais2032]

@@paulwee1924dus rien de vrai montée de toute piéce....

[@iiiiiiiiiiiiiii4019]

The dude's voice is so annoying 😑😑😑

[@pieterwillembotha6719]

shoddy narration

[@calebbionda4667]

I feel like he doesnt really know what hes talking about.

[@oddballsok]

I don't get it why these ORIGINAL uniforms and undergarment and helmets are CRISP CLEAN ?

[@thijmenzwier4069]

ODDBALL SOK they werent issued

[@herrMuesli]

my grandfather was a para trooper and fought in the battle of monte cassino - he passed away 6 years ago.

[@AA-or4dt]

Did he keep his uniform? You might be a rich man haha

[@Ko.Wi.]

Many German Songs were songs people even sang before Hitler

[@suspiciousminds1750]

Yes, "Lilli Marlene" and "Erica" had nothing to do with killing.

[@Ko.Wi.]

@@suspiciousminds1750 and schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss

[@joachimmeisel5729]

@@suspiciousminds1750 Lili Marlene will be komposed and texted in WW1. "Auf der Heide blüht ein Blümelein/Erika" will be komposed and texted in the 1930's and cames out in 1938.

[@kalebt7042]

Joachim Meisel still has nothing to do with killing

[@Ko.Wi.]

@@kalebt7042 da sind viele Songs die nichts damit zu tun haben

[@oustandingsitter6106]

They had the coolest uniforms.. im baked

[@PitbullTerror88]

you can thank Hugo Boss for that :p

[@PU8698]

@@PitbullTerror88 yes, for producing them, but not for designing

[@PU8698]

@@direct2397 2 SS members designed the uniforms and Hugo Boss only produced them and they are great looking uniforms

[@Badbhoys]

@@sander7165 literally ye think ppl would stop saying it lmao

[@JC-DH]

Idk why this dude is considered an expert in army gear and war history. Out of 50 German marching and military songs maybe one or two were actually songs to sympathize with the nazis. Nearly all of the rest has roots in Prussia and was considered folk music then. Edit: most of the songs are still used in today's German military the Bundeswehr.

[@swiftcee266]

He is an expert! Tool

[@WestfaelischerJung]

The thing with the pants is true! my granddad used to wear his old WW2 pants and coat as hunting clothes up until the early 2000s (obviously wirthout all the symbols) when they were so worn down that he threw them away!

[@Yellow123Ninja]

westfälischer Jung were the pants comfy to wear at least?

[@kyleh3615]

I did ww2 reenacting for a bit- the early war infantry trousers(the stone grey ones) were really comfortable And between wearing suspender(braces properly) the adjustable cinch points and a civilian belt They are decently comfortable, and true wool clothes ate extremly nice to wear as long as you're not allergic

[@kaianttila1619]

0:21 That was Max Schmeling training to be a paratrooper.

[@worldwarwill1278]

I remember hearing that his jump on Crete was meant to be used as propaganda, but by his own words, he didn’t do a lot.

[@JW-zx5dr]

Wow that’s interesting!

[@Nik-nd1mv]

​@@worldwarwill1278 Max, like many other german paras suffered from dysentery desease.

[@JDMilitaria]

To have a Fallschirmjäger set, in that condition, original. No price is to high honestly.. Stunning set and collection there