Germany’s Most Elite Soldiers of World War II | Brandenburgers

[@historyatwar]

Play WorldOfWarships NOW! - wo.ws/3QmDjVT Remember During registration use the code BRAVO to get for free: 500 doubloons, 1.5 million credits, 7 Days of Premium Account time, and a ship! Applicable to new users only.

[@jonathansimmons5353]

*"If the British soldiers on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 could look forward to the end of the century and see what England has become...* *-they would not have bothered to advance another 40 yards up the beach"* - David irving

[@strangerintown3676]

I might add, if the Union army could see the USA of today, they would have told Lincoln, no way, I'm going home.

[@anthonymiozza526]

Many of them watched it happen

[@mitch1862]

​Its down to them to stop it its down to us they did th😢their bit​@@anthonymiozza526

[@rainbowseeker5930]

So true...and after all the bloody efforts to end up with Hitler's regime and free Europe, they had to witness Eastern Europe falling slave to the Bolshevist USSR for 45 years....and the former enemies Germany and Japan grew up to become the strongest industrial states in the world, after the USA, while the UK , France, and others lingered in semi-poverty for at least a decade after the war... The price they paid for winning WW2.

[@strangerintown3676]

I have never heard of The Brandenburgers Special Forces, which is surprising as much studying I've done on the Eastern Front. Thanks for bring this unit to my attention. Hollywood would never make a movie about these guys.

[@ArviPontsa]

That is becouse U don`t know shit about ww2.

[@FaithnGod1558]

“The Brandenburgers, always up for a change of scenery...” lmfao love it!!!

[@THINKincessantly]

German special forces began in 9AD with the “Arminius Division” strengthened through 1000 AD! And are now spread throughout the corners of the globe ! DEUTSCHLAND 🇩🇪

[@markvolker1145]

That was a tribe... lol hell back then the modern day germany all spoke different dialects of german!

[@jaypee389]

😂😅 9 ad. Then they sacked Rome 4 lifetimes laeder

[@wallacebrucker1584]

In the 70s I was stationed in Germany I became friends with a former Brandenburger . Two ,of many things that stood out and which made him unique He had a wall that had at least 40 rifles All WW2 military a plaque w his awards and decorations,and his ss accoutrements. He had a safe with handguns. Several things he mentioned over the years I knew him he proved to be truthful. The first. He was at Anzio (he had by this time transitioned into the ss.He was on patrol with his men.An American Lt. Popped out from behind a tree and shot him with his 45 . .the bullet hit his magazine pouch and didn't kill him( he was carrying a stg 44! With the large magazine pouches). He said they took the Americans prisoners and later released them . He kept the 45:as a trophy and produced it. it was a Government 45. In a subsequent conversation he told me that facing imminent capture he said he had hidden his stg in the roof of an Italian farmhouse.He had just returned from his vacation in Italy when he told this story .He then produced his stg and said here it is. The final incident, among quite a few, He had managed to slip away from his captors and he and others continued to head North. They had scrounged weapons . During one night they were surrounded by US troops. He stated that they were not disarmed and they and the Americans hunted partisans.in Italy. I realize that this sounds like fiction. My son (COL MD rtd ) was treating a retiree at Ft Gordon GA and this came up in conversation (my son as a teenager was present during this story by my friend) The retiree said Yes, I was there ,I recall it well. You draw your own conclusions. My friend stated I was and am a Nazi. During his youth Germany was in a turmoil . The economy was a shambles, reparations were destroying the economy Reds and Nazis were battling in the streets. he told me he felt the Nazis would be better for Germany so he joined them. He served in Russia and told of Russian attacks. He said you could hear them yelling in the forest. Then they would come out of the wood line, arms linked, the front rank had rifles,the rest were supposed to pick the rifles of the first rank. He said we fired our artillery point blank but it was so cold the cannon would not return from recoil,we fired our weapons machine guns also suffered from the cold, And still they came .We used grenades till we had none, then spades, knives ,dirt clods. it appears as if I am writing a book. I apologize. I am 85 now andi obviously don't have much time left. I absolutely believe this man. Very senior police Officials differed to him. He had emergency equipment on his Mercedes (lights,radio,emergency martin horn) he had a large briefcase that never left his side. He had a red pass, he had more guns than God. As a young man he parachuted into Dvar to capture Tito. he was wounded 11 times. He is gone as they almost all are. He was a soldier and fought for what he believed in. I feel honored to have known him

[@yuppy1967]

I remember my grandfather speaking of them, and if you had to handle your business it was as always “wie die Brandenburger”.

[@lemonyllamavonshortalpaca2772]

That was a really cool and interesting video, I didn't even know what the brandenburgers were before this so thank you. I don't think you guys have done a video on the Panzer lehr division so that would be nice to see. Also I know a while back a lot of the old videos were deleted from this channel, Is there any chance that they could be re-uploaded or uploaded somewhere else so that I could view them. Anyway keep up the solid work.

[@kronov74]

there is very little information on Brandenburg on the Internet, thanks for the video

[@PoppyMyth]

Brilliant video

[@paulbayem1294]

Great report, with a noble style. A showcase of great academic credentials. Blessings from Cameroun. Pasteur Paul Roger Bayem. ❤ Your reports

[@millertime-lf8th]

This was a great video! I’ve got to find out more about them!

[@Robert-fl9co]

Very good reporting. Zealous tone of voice , and respectful to the soldiers .

[@dansmith4077]

Excellent video

[@zurle9941]

Very good, video! Please produce more content about the Brandenburgers and Special Operations in Second World War. What sources have you used for your research? Can you recommend any literature on the Brandenburgers? Keep on your amazing work!

[@rainbowseeker5930]

To talk about Special Ops in WW2 Germany is to talk about Otto Skorzeny !

[@JakeSully-y3j]

Great video, intense!

[@svenneff]

I've noticed through my studies that many, if not most Germans, were honorable which caused their demise by a much less honorable enemy.

[@cretansuperbos2121]

Get off the drugs. The Wermacht readily participated in war crimes in enormous numbers.

[@tiagomonteiro130]

German Soldiers allowed Polish and French Soldiers to parade with arms, the Germans even saluted them and paid respect to the French tomb of the unknown Soldier, meanwhile the allies destroyed German Monuments and graves and the only thing they showed the German Soldier was disrespect and punches.

[@tiagomonteiro130]

Which is why ww2 Germans are known by people as the last knights of Europe.

[@JB-rt4mx]

Das ist Richtig !! 🇩🇪

[@ArviPontsa]

@@tiagomonteiro130

[@michaelstudd533]

Best history

[@narrowpath9491]

All these lives lost for a Europe that is given away for free now

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

Obvious future subjects are the LRDG and von Lettov-Vorbeck's East African Korps.

[@user-mg3xr9tz7m]

You must be a Brexiteer from Brexit land

[@misterbaker9728]

Or Europe couldn’t deal with the Jews and now we are still dealing with it: thanks

[@daveanderson3805]

​@@user-mg3xr9tz7mI reckon that he is simply sick of illegal migrants from Bonga-bonga land coming here to destroy Europe. And I fully agree with that sentiment. Let's close our borders and save our culture and civilisation.

[@Jordan-ey5vd]

​@@user-mg3xr9tz7myou must be a Jew or a race traitor.

[@tonnywildweasel8138]

Excellent work, this 'Helden Epos' 👍 I love those unorthodox groups. May I suggest Popski's Army, a band from the other side? Greetings from the Netherlands, T.

[@jasonmussett2129]

Great video, thanks👍

[@Sargewashere]

There was a ebook I was listening to, which was about Brandenburger. It was really really good and talked about his time in Yugoslavia to Greece. On point he talked about search for bridges for hours, looking like a madman between the Wehrmacht doing their thing.

[@Gopniksquat]

You remember the name of the book? Sounds like one I’d be interested in

[@Sargewashere]

@m_w20 I'll find it for you, I used to be able to pull it up on KZbin. But most of the German Memoirs on here can no longer be found for the past year. Like most have been taken down. I'll seek it out for you

[@Sargewashere]

I want to say it's Blood and Soil, but so far the copy I found sounds abit different but seems to match. Another good book is the Last Panther,

[@Gopniksquat]

@@Sargewashere I appreciate that man, no rush at all. German memoirs are some of the most interesting stories from the war in my opinion. Maybe because they’re not often showcased in the mainstream

[@Gopniksquat]

@@Sargewashere thank you my friend. Reading the description online it sounds interesting and I’ll check both those out

[@gratefulguy4130]

The head of the Abwehr was always an enemy asset. When you think about it, it's unbelievable that Germany did what they did with the massive intel leaks they had. Not only were the head of the tradional intel agency and many other top ranking figures enemy assets, but the Allies got their hands on a few Enigma machines (this is called "cracking" Enigma in recent times, but we're still trying to crack old Enigma codes from the war today..). It should have been impossible to operate or win battles under those conditions yet they still had a real chance of winning the war for awhile there.

[@tjanderson5892]

It’s a lot like football in the sense that you can know the other teams entire playbook and still get crushed bc knowing what’s coming can only account for so much. I’d say the Allie’s tricking the Germans relentlessly played just as big a role as some of the gains received from learning some of the advanced German movements

[@cretansuperbos2121]

The Polish had partially cracked the code even before the German invasion.

[@TheYeti308]

100 % .

[@eddierivas4651]

@@gratefulguy4130 what a damn liar you are

[@rudyautrique4298]

Nice education edit. Keep up the good work bro 👏 👌 👍 😎 💪

[@yyyyyyyyxxxxxxxx]

RIP heiliges Deutschland ❤

[@Jeremyramone]

Vielen dank.

[@HUTZELMUTZEL]

Basically, the Brandenburgers had no special equipment - only the parachute fighter battalion had jump helmets, so they could not be identified, but everyone had either enemy uniform and army uniform underneath - half camouflage - and a pistol and hand grenades

[@HUTZELMUTZEL]

not from Regiment with sub-units - to Special-Companies in Bataillonstructur only Parachute-Bataillon Brandenburger is in full bataillonsize

[@HUTZELMUTZEL]

bull shit - Parachute Bataillon 500 is not Brandenburger, it is Waffen-SS Parachute Bataillon 500 later reorgeaniced re numbert 600 with two Luftwaffe-Fallschirmjäger-Kompanie - what a quack

[@aarongrim375]

Yes Europa looks to be a mess … We here in The U.S. are in poor shape also …

[@JimDetz]

What a division!

[@sandymackay4017]

Excellent Vid. All new on me.

[@hansgruber650]

Most awesome war machine to ever have marched.

[@charakaamayantha_ca9784]

Really good video thank you very much ♥️

[@thestanleys3657]

They sound like a jack of all trades master of all

[@pablopeter3564]

GREAT, GREAT, GREAT.....

[@sirjohndough8575]

Kavallerieregimenter Nord, Mitte and Syd. Very little info about these ad hoc units.

[@mrmeowmeow710]

Outstanding video👍👍from a history nut

[@jumper8392]

Killer content.

[@sandemike]

Did they attack a R.A.F. radar station on The Isle of Wight near Ventnor?

[@tobiasgriffin]

Can you do videos on the lion of Africa

[@RagnarLothbrok2222]

Based division!

[@davidanderson3684]

Loosely based on that movie the Eagle has landed starting Micheal Cain?

[@oliverthomas4782]

Check, Fremde Herre Ost Units

[@tomchittum8726]

The Brandenburgers routinely wore the uniforms of the enemy so they could sneak up on them. This is by tradition a breach of the rules of war and those who did so and were captured were routinely shot as war criminals.

[@blitzy3244]

JIDF disliking this video lol

[@matthewhughes892]

Marine Raiders!!

[@baileyharbuck]

True camouflage operations 😂

[@th.burggraf7814]

Lehr-Regiment zbV 800 "Brandenburg"

[@PeterJelena]

Do one about the double whopper burgers!

[@anthonyhorstman]

i just hope therre as good as the germans that were the ww1 metal men

[@the_yeegineer]

I don’t think they could stand up to Karl fairburne if he was real.

[@hufeisentrizeps]

Very fascinating, great treatise about one of the most secretive organisations of the Wehrmacht! How many hours of thorough source study were necessary for this work...?🏋‍♂️ Excellent, wunderbar!🫡

[@historyatwar]

Thank you! We usually spend a few days getting information etc. We appreciate the support 🤝

[@dustinchartier7044]

🤙💪

[@ivan5595]

Burger special forces

[@Ealdorman_of_Mercia]

Good documentary but too much butchering of German words.. make some pronunciation effort man.

[@tom3280]

Ist doch gut ausgesprochen fürn Ami 😂

[@Eric-kn4yn]

Enemy armies east

[@Eric-kn4yn]

Hitler was worried about independent non believers in nazi ideology getting primacy in germany as july 20 and other plots to kill him special forces looked on with suspision

[@ArviPontsa]

Finnish Sissi and Kaukopartio missions ww2

[@davesinclair1836]

Great video