Fallschirmjäger German Paratroopers at Cassino

[@taylorahern3755]

Super Troopers, and perhaps the most proficient, professional and tenacious soldiers on the planet at that exact time in 1944 (May), those fearsome, utterly die hard German Fallschirmjagers, outstanding fighting men all, and some of modern history's finest, most highly skilled warriors, such was their amazing resilience, toughness, discipline, determination, combat prowess and overall military ability, clearly evidenced by the spectacular performance of that famed paratrooper unit at the ferocious battle of Monte Casino, featured above (possibly the most fierce, brutal, intense, closely contested and bitterly fought battle that ever took place all throughout the Western Theatre of Operations in Europe during WW2, outside of the Eastern Front, where the fighting was far more savage, primeval, desperate and nasty, fought with this horrific ferocity in almost every battle, on every scrap of contested land). Possibly the best fighting men in the World back then, the Fallschirmjager. BADASS!!

[@olibearbrowns6748]

100% agree! They are my favourite German unit and one of the best battle groups in WWII.

[@dennissnow7446]

bis heute die Nr.1 besten Armeen der Welt die es je gegeben hat, die Wehrmacht. until today the No.1 best armies in the world that ever existed, the Wehrmacht.

[@nein236]

@@dennissnow7446 Und dann gucken wir uns mal heutzutage an. Wartet noch ein bisschen, schon bald sind wir Germanistan.

[@ferdrew1809]

☝️💪🔥🦾🙏

[@mrpaddy3318]

@@dennissnow7446 auch die Waffen SS nicht die Wärter sondern die kämpfenden Einheiten

[@hd37yu8042]

“The tenacity of these German paratroopers is quite remarkable. They were subjected to the whole of the Mediterranean Air Force under the greatest concentration of firepower that has ever been put down. I doubt that there are any other troops in the world who could have stood up to it and then gone on fighting with the ferocity they have.” Field Marshal Harold Alexander duffs his hat to the Fallschirmjäger’s of Monte Cassino

[@upadhyayrathiraj1518]

Despite all that Allied aerial and artillery bombings, armour and infantry assaults, these paratroopers look pretty cheerful as if a hide-n-seek game being played. Hats off to them.

[@danielgreen3715]

The German Paratroopers at Casino were incredibly Tough Resourceful and Determined Opponents and probably the Cream of Hitlers War Machine .Even at the Bitter end they Kept their Pride and Unit Discipline ..True Soldiers And Pioneers in the art of Parachute Infantry Assault

[@sidneidornellesdasilva5840]

They were the pioneers of military parachuting!

[@detroitandclevelandfan5503]

Actually, that would have been the Soviets.

[@andrewkitchenuk]

My father fought at Anzio, Salerno and Monte Cassino and told me that they would bring German prisoners out of the ruins with blood pouring from their ears due to the blast effect of the allied shellfire and bombing. He had total respect for the Germans as fighting soldiers.

[@jackwills7092]

Quite right I don't know how we won To this day

[@mausilugner6637]

Und aus den Trümmern erhob sich der deutsche Fallschirmjäger.

[@ArtVandelay00]

RIP to all the German soldiers

[@davecopp9356]

RIP and thank you for your service. You gave it all with honor and loyalty till the bitter end. Respect.

[@BattlestarDamocles]

This is how you fight against overwhelming odds. It also helps it the Allied forces you're fighting are led by dummies. Germans had the best quality troops of the war, hands down.

[@artinrahideh1229]

Not really. Fallschirmjägers were elite troops( paratroopers) and masters of warfare overall. But that didn't go for everybody. As the war went on, German troops were losing their quality dramaticly.

[@BattlestarDamocles]

@@artinrahideh1229 Their fighting quality in general was better than that of the Allied and Soviet armies. Except towards the end of the war I agree. But for the first half, the Wehrmacht and especially the Waffen SS had no equal.

[@petrameyer1121]

German side has always claimed that there were no german forces on the monastry hill due to its protected status. Still it was bombarded by the allies. Afterwards of course german forces moved into the ruins of the town and monastry.

[@upadhyayrathiraj1518]

Petra Meyer And that was a big mistake for the Allied and they did pay for it handsomely.

[@cyrosubod2317]

They understimated the germans these german troops are actually elite

[@andrewkitchenuk]

One of the biggest mistakes of the Italian offensive, not only in adverse propoganda terms but more importantly it made Monte Cassino and the monastery into a perfect defensive position.

[@RavusNox-z5i]

It seems to me that the Allies made every mistake in the book in Italy.

[@conradburchfiel2721]

Brave guy laying down on top of the STUG firing that machine gun. Fuck yeah

[@markdean1984]

What I find interesting is that the Germans didn’t touch the monastery, which was totally leveled off by us, protectors of culture and civilization.

[@JoseSilva-ip5xi]

😊Excellent Coment you are right.

[@anitagild4808]

Maybe people need to reassess their thoughts on who were the "good guys". Just because your political leaders are bad doesn't mean that the soldiers aren't honorable in many cases.

[@Sociologist66]

So impressive !!!

[@paulserban2243]

La vremea respectivă,soldații germani,erau cei mai buni din lume!...Respect tuturor soldaților cazuri,indiferent pentru ce idealuri au luptat!ODIHNEASCĂ-SE ÎN PACE!...🙏🙏🙏

[@junkerjoerg111]

Germanys Diamonds

[@ferdrew1809]

Great DISCIPLINED Force ! Those Paratroopers, SS divisions, Panzer-Grenadiers ! 💪🔥🦾🇩🇪

[@spottydog4477]

fg-42 at 0.35, and 9.09

[@jamesquirk4999]

Hail to brave German paratroopers who defended Monte Cassino

[@gentlemanfarmer5738]

Hail to brave German paratroopers who defended Europe

[@andreaoldani5382]

Onore ai para tedeschi...memento advere sempre

[@giuseppeisoli313]

Siete stati grandi!

[@manfredgellert9064]

My father was one of the German paratroopers. He never talked about his experiences, without being asked. Wounded several times, he spent the last months of the war in British captivity. His comment: "They smoked us out like rats with their flamethrowers!" But he made me learn English. He hoped, that if we could at least communicate in a second language, there would be no more wars.

[@KassandraFuria13]

Mein Vater hat auch dort gekämpft. Er geriet 1945 in russische Gefangenschaft, wurde aber schon im Nov. 1945 entlassen ( hat sie mit gefälschtem Entlassungsschein ausgetrickst) .Hat auch nie viel vom Krieg gesprochen. Ein warmherziger, lebensfroher Mensch, der keine Waffe mehr angerührt hat. Dank eines Interviews , das er einem Kulturwissenschaftler an mehreren Tagen 2016 gegeben hat und das mir als CD nach seinem Tod 2019 geschenkt wurde, hab ich viel Erstaunliches, Schreckliches, Menschliches über diese Zeit erfahren dürfen. Er hat das Bild vom " bösen Russen" immer als Greuelpropaganda betrachtet.

[@manfredgellert9064]

Danke ! Ich habe meinen Vater auch in sehr guter Erinnerung !

[@samjackson884]

cool helmets.

[@jackwills7092]

I have one reproduction

[@TheYeti308]

I hear you knocking, but you can't come in.

[@tuncozbora2244]

Old , very old times ,now it's drones times , an other planet ...!

[@VanlifewithAlan]

I think these figures are total Allied losses including wounded, prisoners and missing whereas the German figure only includes death.

[@alexamerling79]

The elite of the Wehrmacht

[@JB-rt4mx]

Luftwaffe

[@hubertlorenz4258]

Destroying the monte cassino monastery by the allied forces was a war crime.

[@anitagild4808]

But we know that the losing side get punished and defamed, not the winners.

[@garyhardison9265]

Any information on the unit of Assault Guns unit that supported the Fj's at Monte Cassino? I've seen pics of the Sugs, but no information on the actual unit. Thanks.

[@Macinatorecazzaro]

Fallschirm panzer divison herman goring

[@garetz2011]

09:08 - OK, he was using the FG 42, no problem.

[@sturmgesutz]

Simply awesome fighters, and so skilled, tough, and Honourable. Fearless. simply the best.

[@xem1969]

super info....

[@MyCarmenus]

What about allied losses ?

[@leedobson]

These men were made of Krupp stahl

[@faisalmir9300]

The god’s army. Deutschland Deutschland ❤️💪👌

[@RavusNox-z5i]

There are 2 points to be made. 1. The Germans led by field Marshal Kesselring led an amazing defence of the Italian front, making the Allies pay for every step forward. It could really be called a quasi pyrrhic victory in the end by the Allies. 2. Sadly, this campaign and entire front was a waste of lives. RIP to all soldiers whether Allied or German. But if you look at D-DAY in Normandy, it's clear this entire Italian front could have been avoided. Another of Churchill's dumbass ideas "Italy is the soft underbelly of Europe". It turned out to kill more Allied soldiers than France which was the true underbelly.

[@hereandthere4763]

Yeah but imagine if those guys had been defending the D-Day landing beaches. The Italian campaign kept high quality German units out of France.

[@JorgeLuiz-qd6ry]

Uma tropa formidavel que era respeitada e admirada por seus adversarios por sua coragem, determinacao , resistencia e cavalherismo.

[@glujen]

the allies were very foolish, they must have surpassed Monte Casino and continued on, it was not necessary to fight

[@roderernst9990]

Very near stuck there for a Year!!

[@starace96]

where is this from what movie/ documentary please looks awsome

[@robertchubb1518]

It is from the German weekly newsreels/show...WOCHSHAU...I think that’s some sort of (poor) German from myself

[@MrButtinski]

@fallschirmjager0000 Well it just proves the old adage that you should never argue with an idiot.You would win every time just on experience.

[@AmalekIsComing]

Yeah

[@rabbistooie]

Ernie Pyle ounce estemated that it was costing the allies $25,000 in high explosives, for every German casualty at Cassino..... Like Patton, he died in mysterious circumstances in 1945 ;)

[@ericmailander3361]

Ernie Pyle was shot by a Japanese sniper on an island near Okinawa.

[@tribblebooth1224]

800 likes. That's a hell of a lot of neo Nazis.

[@tiagomonteiro130]

There we have the average Twitter user don't you have to complain about misgebdering or something

[@jackwills7092]

German paratroopers where not in the army they where in the luftwaffer

[@ericmailander3361]

They were disbanded and served as infantry.

[@claudiobarbosa926]

Brazilian conquered Cassino Montain

[@ericmailander3361]

It was the Polish units.

[@fluffy1931]

@fallschirmjager0000 lol, bs. dude, the total allied casualties were 55,000. Your inflated 105,000 causalty number is pure fantasy you attribute to later illness & injury which now is approx.double the original 55,000 casualty number. There is no google Monte Cassino allied casualty number of 105,000 except in your dreams. The Battle of Monte Cassino was a series of 4 battles not 1 and the total axis casualtys was approx. 22,000 and allied casualtys 55,000 total

[@fluffy1931]

@fallschirmjager0000 wrong German 20,000 allied 55,000 causalties = you can't count. source for your imaginary 105,000? pls gtfoh

[@pcka12]

Perhaps someone needs to read the accounts of the British & Polish soldiers who fought up the hills of Cassino & drove the paratroopers out!

[@hereandthere4763]

They weren't driven out. They stayed until ordered to leave.

[@pcka12]

@@hereandthere4763 that observation might well be splitting hairs, those assaulting Stalingrad no doubt stayed 'frozen in position' until ordered to surrender!

[@hereandthere4763]

@@pcka12 Totally different situation, in Stalingrad they were surrounded without supplies of food and ammo. Not the case at Casino and the guys there had repelled every assault on their positions. They were not driven out. Do you really think the troops who finally occupied cassino would not have suffered heavy losses had the defenders not been ordered to withdraw? Why do you think they were better than all the other troops who had tried and failed? The fact is you are wrong when you say they fought up the hill. There was no one there to fight against.

[@pcka12]

@@hereandthere4763 the German troops in (post bombing) Monte Cassino were in a highly defensible position with their opponents assaulting up steep hills. The attackers were very courageous. No doubt the limiting factor for continuing to defend the ruins of Monte Cassino became the supply issue at which point any prudent (rather than fanatical & suicidal commander would order a withdrawal). Sadly for German troops many of their actions in WW2 were controlled by a fanatical high command. This is what happened in the Western Desert when withdrawal was denied until it was impossible.

[@hereandthere4763]

@@pcka12 Oh yeah, of course it was only the terrain which enabled the Germans to successfully defend Cassino. The fact is, like it or not, the troops defending Cassino were, by and large, better than those attacking it. Even allied commanders admitted that.

[@suoeridre]

it´s very good that they lost the war

[@robertchubb1518]

Some would say by 2022 standards (and even some years before ‘22..that your comment is subjective...

[@luisg.5700]

@@robertchubb1518 exactly

[@jamesdiaz793]

@@robertchubb1518 No they wouldn't you fascist.

[@dennissnow7446]

was crowned the best army in the world, the Wehrmacht, in 1989

[@ripvanwinkle1819]

The king of spin, the british, even acknowledge this feat out of their unhygienic mouth

[@ripvanwinkle1819]

Yeah? Well the British had the SAS who attacked soft targets like fuel depots! Lol 😂 did nothing, but super coordinated like a ballet!