German Homemade Tanks of World War II Part I : Converted Utility Vehicles

Homemade and Improvised German Tanks of World War II :
Hausgemachte und improvisierte deutsche Panzer des Zweiten Weltkriegs :
-Ost Pak-40 - forum.warthunder.com/index.php...
Caterpillar-Schneider Tank - www.weaponsofwwii.com/forum/vi...
mail.alternathistory.org.ua/br...
Leichter Raupenschlepper Famo ( The Schule / Shule Tank ) - shushpanzer-forum.axishistory.com/viewtopi...
7,5-cm FK 97(p) auf Selbstfahrlafette Bren-Carrier(e) -
Selbstfahrlafette für 3.7 cm Pak 36 auf Renault - www.armedconflicts.com/5-cm-P...
3,7 cm PaK 35-36 auf gepanzerter Artillerie-Schlepper 630(r Improvised Tank Destroyer from 1941 - 1942 ( Rebuilt Komsomolez ) Main Armament - 1x 37mm PaK 35/36 Armor - 7 to 10mm Speed - 50 km-h or 31 MPH - beutepanzer.ru/Beutepanzer/su/...
4,7-cm Böhler auf Selbstfahrlafette Bren-Carrier(e) - beutepanzer.ru/Beutepanzer/uk/...
5 cm Pak für Küstenbefestigung auf Selbstfahrlafette Schneider CD(f) -
Pz 35(f) with T-26C turret - beutepanzer.ru/Beutepanzer/su/...
Bedford MW Improvised Armored Car - forum.axishistory.com/viewtopi...
Croat-Morris Improvised Armored Car from 1943 - armyman.info/stati/35255-brone...
3,7 PaK35 / 36 auf Leichter Geländegängige Lastkraftwagen 1t Improvised Armored Car from 1941 - aviarmor.net/tww2/armored_cars...
"Rommel Funnies" Improvised Tanks / Vehicles :
7,62 cm F.K.(r) auf gep.Selbstfahrlafette (Sd.Kfz. 6/3) -
Homemade Half-Tracks and Half-Track Tank Destroyers :
8.8 cm Flak 18 (Sfl.) auf schwere Zugkraftwagen 12t (Sd.Kfz 8) Bufla -
8.8 cm Flak 18 (Sfl.) auf Zugkraftwagen 18t (Sd.Kfz. 9) -
Sd.Kfz. 250/8 leichter Schützenpanzerwagen (7.5 cm) -
Schützenpanzerwagen (7.5 cm KwK37) Stummel -
7.5 cm PaK40 L/46 auf mittlerem Schützenpanzerwagen -
7.5 cm Pak 40 auf m SPW S307/303(f) -
#Germany #Tanks #WWII

[@jacobpeters9452]

Your videos are some of my favorite of all the countless World War 2 AFV videos that I've seen. It consumes a massive part of my free time( and work time also! lol) but please keep researching and posting these! It doesn't go unnoticed and unappreciated in my opinion. It's amazing to see the unofficial designations and the true skills of the men who either purpose built them or just made do with what they had.

[@michaelbevan3285]

some of these were very good conversions by Major Becker's unit. A lot of the rest were ad-hoc by individual units or armies with little real capacity to make proper tanks.

[@teslashark]

Becker is the godfather of heavy technicals, like Makhno is for light technicals. We can make a movie about Becker helping some amateur tank builders rob a bank...

[@BW-og1vu]

The title is misleading, many of the portayed vehicles are all but homemade!

[@barfuss2007]

my words.

[@steffenrosmus9177]

Ans they were no converted utility vehicles at all but adapted captured French vehicles or specially designed for military use in Germany.

[@BW-og1vu]

@@steffenrosmus9177 Not correct Steffen. for example the 3.7 cm Pak on the Krupp-Protze. The sheet metal has been attached in the field as well as the cannon was mounted. Normally the Pak was drawn by it not mounted on it. This is for me an example of a converted utility vehicle. BTW here you see a Video of the original kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4nUiWOufc-Zd9E there exists also other variants with Flak.

[@steffenrosmus9177]

@@BW-og1vu the Krupp Protze was an military utility vehicle not an civil one as the title suggested.

[@BW-og1vu]

@@steffenrosmus9177 read the title again, it says nothing about private vehicles. All it says is Utility!!! And the L 2 H 43 as well 143 where clearly utility vehicles. What i forgot: The only variant was the Sonderkampffahrzeug 247 (10 pieces built) that evolved on the Protze-Base. But even that variant was not used in battle, it was used for parade purposes.

[@af601glock7]

Nice research. You were able to identify some vehicles I have wondered about for years.

[@letoubib21]

Some pretty rare photographs. Thank you!

[@Harrowder22]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHaXkqB6fN6Fi6c

[@VonRammsteyn]

Amazing work mate!

[@coreyswint2785]

Love the video. Can not wait to see part 2.

[@jmantime1237]

It will be longer since German made conversions of all of their standard tanks and Ifvs

[@nonamesplease6288]

Great video with lots of great material. Thank you!

[@eugenekearney6971]

well, -the shule (?) was what the bobsemple should have been obviously built on a dozer.

[@clouddog2393]

excellent photos many l've not seen before . lots of conversion subjects for us modellers thankyou for an interesting watch .

[@JuanFernandez-yi1qu]

Very very good video. Excelent pinture files. Good investigación thank you for Your Job.

[@andersbeackman3852]

Thanks for the great job you put in,, 5 tums up

[@frankk833]

Nice work, very interesting 👍

[@deeznutz5825]

It bears mention that some of these weren’t really homemade but were actual factory refits to use obsolete vehicles in desperately needed positions, for example the half tracks with nebelwerfers and 75mm‘s.

[@letoubib21]

The Maultier was obsolete?

[@eugenekearney6971]

@@letoubib21 well, French halftrack was kinda, no French army

[@tonyromano6220]

Seriously off the wall sheet! This is where Dragon Models gets ideas!

[@ThePyramidone]

Not so much as homemade - more like conversions from captured vehicles repurposed as Adhoc anti-tank, antiaircraft, and self-propelled artillery

[@jerrycampbell9376]

That RSO/PaK40 Improvised Tank Destroyer....thing. How the heck did they keep it from flopping over during side-off firing? And canted UP on one side, too boot!?!!

[@sturmpanzer0473]

I wish part II to come out quickly !!! You will present the command and observation homemade tanks ? the homemade recovery and supply tanks and the rest of homemade tank destroyers in this part II? (I also work on these "homemade" tanks, and there are also a lot of these types)

[@jarikinnunen1718]

US troops feared "Tiger" in everywhere. It no surprise when "88" was put also on half tracks.

[@ericgrace9995]

Do you know how many times the Americans engaged in combat with Tigers in France '44 ? 2x.... Twice. And one of those was when an American reconnaissance troop surprised a number of damaged Tigers being loaded on rail flat cars that were about to be sent to Germany for repair. They captured/ destroyed the Tigers with armoured cars.

[@jarikinnunen1718]

@@ericgrace9995 Us troops were known as the "Tiger Maneuver" where they got lost elsewhere than where they assumed one to be.

[@sturmpanzer0473]

What is the music at 6:30 ?

[@rodsavage9387]

Great video. What is the name of music that starts at 06:07 please

[@bskrishnamurthy7258]

No wnder Germans have earned the title "heaven is where Germans are engineers".

[@CH-pv2rz]

Nice video on many unknown vehicles... But aren't all tanks and armored vehicles made by Germany "Home Made" since their made them all in factories and workshops in Germany?

[@bloodybones6468]

Concerning the 15cmsFH13/1(SF) auf Geshützwagen I think one took part in the Iraq war look up Iraq war ww2 tanks and it should be there

[@ericgrace9995]

There's a difference in being used in combat and being used as a gate guard The Syrians did use WW2 German equipment against the Israelis and in the recent Ukrainian/ Russian /Balkan conflicts, there are stories of " Russian Gate Guards" being reactivated.

[@adamkowalski9559]

Generally, a lot of presented vehicles were regular types , but made in short series. Lot of utility vehicles and armoured vehices have used the same carriage and engine. For example SdKfz 250 and SdKfz 251 had regular german halftruck carriage and had only different body. Movie is very good itself, but i think it would be better if You change the title for "German rare armoured vehicles and homemade tanks of World WarII" Then You can put almost everything to Your materials and nobody could say no word :)

[@rafagorka1113]

31:20 A śmiali się z polskich tankietek TK-3 i TKS.

[@PT-vw7nb]

What about 5cm KwK 38 L/42 auf Matilda (e) i think it’s a interesting one!

[@o2waffle]

24:10 music what is name of it please?

[@tristanpatten6558]

slowed down ss marschiert or Burgundian lullaby

[@johnrettig1880]

Lead tank ( thumbnail ) , looks like an early prototype for an M -113 APC * for the Vietnam War . * A P C . Armored Personal Carriere

[@alsob1062]

Its an RSO or Raupenschlepper Ost with some kind of additional armor and most likely an Pak 40..

[@johnrettig1880]

@@alsob1062 Yea I know all about that I'm saying its the overall look of it .

[@tonyromano6220]

6:29 PZ4 and halfback hybrid

[@gunner678]

SPs and tank destroyers are not tanks!

[@hubertleuschner6383]

Made by Hauptmann Becker!

[@BHuang92]

15:06 Wrong photo. That's an converted Renault UE 57 made by the Free French.

[@jmantime1237]

Thanks I’ll remove it

[@coreyswint2785]

The Renault UE 57 is armed with 57mm British 6-pounder anti-tank gun and The was only one prototype made and after a disappointing trail they stripped the tank of it weapons and returned it to a artillery tractor. The Renault UE 57 never saw action. The one in the picture is the right tank.

[@letoubib21]

@@coreyswint2785 Why did the Frenchmen use the tiny UE and not the larger Lorraine?

[@coreyswint2785]

@@letoubib21 The Lorraine cost a lot of money and resources to produce and because the the Invasion of France the French could not produce many Lorraine. So they use the UE because they produced so many before War World 2 and they were cheap and required less resources to make. In long terms the French had to make do with what they had during the Battle of France.

[@eugenekearney6971]

@@letoubib21 They did, the Lorrraine was a later model and still being introduced. France 1940 only about 500 in service, 300+ got converted.

[@user-oq7sk3qf3n]

the past of marvin heemeyer in germany

[@rudithedog7534]

Surely any tank made in Germany and used by the Germans was a homemade tank.

[@julioalbertoherrera1339]

They also STOLE tanks from the Czech republic when they invaded in 1939...

[@rudithedog7534]

Yes maybe so but any tank they made themselves were homemade

[@myperspective5091]

👍🙂👍

[@brittakriep2938]

Halftrack/ Halbkettenfahrzeug in german.

[@thortodfeind2743]

Meddl 🤗..... tadzächlich! Gut erkannt!😉...🐺 Grüße

[@brittakriep2938]

@@thortodfeind2743 : Ich bin nicht Britta selbst, sondern ihr Freund, benutze nur den gleichen Anschluss. Die Videos zeigen viele wenig bekannte Dinge, aber bei den deutschen Übersetzungen sind leider viele Fehler. In einer Zeitschrift las ich einmal einen Bericht, in dem der Autor schrieb: Die Gebrauchsanweisung war in einer mir unbekannten Sprache, die irgendwie mit Deutsch verwandt zu sein scheint.

[@tonyromano6220]

Damn Germans certainly went 3672 directions at once. Should have built PZ4s and Panzerfausts exclusively

[@tomhoni9642]

basicly every tank chassis during WW2 got a version without a turret and just some bigger casemate antitank/artillery gun put on.... same with trucks. why bother with towing a 88 with all the redeploying and packaging when you can make it mobile for mobile warfare. anything you put an 88 (or any other BFG) on is a fking nightmare. homemade is the wrong word for that ^^

[@CH-pv2rz]

Because they towed the majority with horses... Germany not only had an acute shortage of motorized transport, but an even bigger shortage of petroleum products to support them...

[@alsanchez5038]

Stupid and bad work. Calling the sdkfz 251 with the short 7,5 cm gun improvised doesn’t make any sense. Is the 105 mm Stryker improvised? It is far more effective to use the same platform for different tasks! Sharing parts improves logistics. Logistic wins!