Legendary Units: 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler

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[@Abandon_All_Hope]

Simon you Quote Erwin Bartmann as a source… but there is ZERO chance you read that book. He isn’t a Nazi, he never even joined the Nazi party 🤦🏻‍♂️ Yes he was a nationalist. So is every SF type unit in any army on the planet. Only the most dedicated patriot style warriors need apply. At no point does he mention spending time on “party & political education” strictly physical. Camaraderie was near the top of training lockers weren’t allowed to closed or locked bc stealing from comrades was UNTHINKABLE. They loved Sepp Deedrick however Sepp had ZERO MILITARY XP. However they did have many talented field commanders. I highly recommend your listen to Erwin Bartmanns audiobook the tale & narration are top notch!

[@billfrost5257]

Simon, thanks for this truly excellent presentation. My uncle was captured by the Leibstandarte at Vevi Greece in 1941 after his Brigade held the pass as long as they could. Finally the panzers broke through and his escape was thwarted as he was holding one end of the stretcher trying to get a seriously wounded man away. He had a lifelong, grudging admiration for the standard of their soldiering, their training and the fact that they were superbly equipped with uniforms and weapons, just as you say.

[@itarry4]

Just the fact they were total fanatics means they were dangerous and gives them an edge, if controlled and channeled right, that means they can be used in situations where most people wouldn't ever want to go.

[@timothyhouse1622]

Yeah, that doesn't make them "elite" though and more often than not when they were bested by other units they took out their frustration on civilians or POWs.

[@monkeydank7842]

Maybe the Division „Great Germany“ (Großdeutschland) of the regular Wehrmacht. Very professionell lead and well equipped.

[@chrisstucker1813]

Panzer Lehr Division. It was intended to be the elite of the elite as the men were all handpicked. They first saw action during the Normandy landings but were relentlessly bombed due to the allies having complete air superiority. Having said that, they still performed very well but didn’t quite live up to potential due to the aforementioned reasons.

[@MrKawaltd750]

LAH also had first pick on recruits even after the conscription came in effect. They also had first pick on inter-service transfers. Coupled with their priority in equipment and supply; no doubt they were expected to perform better. PS: very good short on complex subject.

[@ljphoenix4341]

Another super interesting video, I hope this 'legendary unit' series continues

[@vitorpereira9515]

Please make an episode talking about the Brazilian Expeditionary Force. We went head to head against the best axis units in Italy to break the Gothic line.

[@bartusaron5909]

Wrong flag in your profile pic🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@asabatonlessarmour4372]

Far, far from home to a war Fought on foreign soil and far Far from known tell their tale Their forgotten story....

[@williampeterson333]

I don't know the story but would love to hear about it if true

[@HellsCowBoy666]

@@williampeterson333look up “smoking snakes by sabaton”

[@MrUltimategamer44]

@@bartusaron5909it’s called showing solidarity genius

[@captDH8]

Can you visit the US Rough Riders from the Spanish-American War? I'm descended from one of them

[@Kevc00]

I would also point to the 502nd Battalion of the Waffen SS, the commandos led by Otto Skorzeny who freed Mussolini from imprisonment in a mountain top ski resort and orchestrated the overthrow of the Hungarian government in 1944.

[@roryrousseau111]

It's always interesting to hear more about how it was like inside Germany in the years before the war actually kicked off. I feel like we don't get a lot of that

[@pyromania1018]

A lot of swindling, gross corruption, and posturing on the world stage.

[@l33tnobody1337]

I guess that's why so many people abroad believe living in germany before the war must've been heaven on earth when it really wasn't. Most of the improvements the Nazis supposedly made were propaganda fabrications and sadly many of those propaganda stories have prevailed. Germany under the NSDAP was a Kleptocracy set up towards one goal: War.

[@roryrousseau111]

@@pyromania1018 well sure that was the reality but I'm thinking more the perspective of a random citizen living in the moment.

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

Sick and tired of democracy

[@roryrousseau111]

@@KonradvonHotzendorf To each their own but atm i'm good with our non-democracy examples staying in the history books and yourube vids

[@nicolastossenberger6066]

I hope you continue to do book recommendations on the subjects of each video.

[@Boosey2194]

Would love to see one on MACV-SOG recon teams

[@EnoshII]

take a drink every time he says Lieb instead of Leib 😆

[@cuntontheweb2657]

As someone who's fluent in German it annoyed me so much XD

[@zenster1097]

How are you supposed to pronounce it?

[@rykkje]

He says leebstandarte. It's an ey sound. Leybstandarte.

[@cuntontheweb2657]

@@rykkje Yeah it's the sound as in the word lie, ironically

[@Your_President_Kanye_East]

@@rykkje I'm pretty sure it's pronounced Layb-shtandarte. The "ei" diphtong in German is generally pronounced like "i" in "bite" or "like". "St" at the beginning of a word is pronounced as "sht" and this rule applies to "Leibstandarte", because it's a word combining 2 words: "Leib" and "Standarte".

[@jussitoivanen2667]

Seems like you missed propably one of the most visible military actions of the division: its part on operation Zitadelle aka battle of Kursk including being right in the center of the action at battle of Prohorovka.

[@NATO-SOCOM]

Warographics is my favorite channel for sure

[@vay6901]

He is biased but ok

[@baneofbanes]

@@vay6901biased in what way?

[@vay6901]

@@baneofbanes wow isn't it obvious? He is pretty "pro-west" in lot of his videos. If he is doing videos about wars its expected to be unbiased but he cant help himself but blub his ideas into most of his videos

[@baneofbanes]

@@vay6901 exaclty how is he pro-war?

[@vay6901]

@@baneofbanes LMAO you exposed yourself.I said pro west but seems like the first thing that came to your mind about the west is war 😄 see what im talking about

[@pocketstring3634]

Can you do a show about Panzergrenadier Division "Großdeutschland", please and thank you?

[@joscha9805]

Basically Hitlers Adeptus Custodes

[@NP3GA]

Just a whole lot more useless

[@iagosevatar4865]

A W40K reference in a Warographic Video Comment ? Nice cross over

[@kriskay5020]

I see what you did there

[@zenster1097]

@@NP3GA Useless? HA HAHAHAHA.

[@pigeon4481]

You could call them Empress Children, Blood Angels pre-primarch

[@derekk8523]

Really should do a video on the battle between my stomach and my wife’s meatloaf. The horror and sick twisted torture I was put through. It’s darkest before dawn. I spent many hours of suffering in my bathroom cell. I somehow made it through. With help of warographics I gathered the courage and strength to prevail. But I must not forget I might have won the battle but the war is still out there

[@zenster1097]

Said in Simon's rasp and serious tone, of course.

[@derekk8523]

@@zenster1097 lol. I can hear it in my head

[@TomJamesBarker]

Could you do one about the Rhodesian SAS please?

[@JB-rl7hh]

Like the book follow up at the end.

[@theweppe27official]

Idea for a video: history of the Finnish Long Range Patrols during WW2 and their legacy afterwards, such as Finns who moved to USA whose experiences let to be important assets for the USA special forces training programs

[@Shore215]

Glad to see ya washed that mug lol. Another informative video. Good job keeping it from being dry.

[@Kaltagstar96]

God, it seems like these guys could give the Dirlewanger Brigade a run for their money in terms of being vile psychopaths (what do you expect given that they're literally named after a genocidal mad-man?), I'm honestly surprised that the Dirlewanger Brigade haven't gotten their own video? Honestly, I think that a video about all the foreign volunteer groups that willingly worked with the Nazis (like the Wiking Division comprised of people from Scandinavian countries) could be an interesting topic to do a video on.

[@CHEGTO]

There is a channel that actually has don’t That it’s called boomer history pretty great channel

[@jesusgonzalez-acton8045]

Yeah yeah, Austrian painter bad. Yawn

[@Kaltagstar96]

@@jesusgonzalez-acton8045 I mean, when you do even half the shit that Hitler did, I think 'bad' is an understatement.

[@ElPolloDiabloCH]

​@@jesusgonzalez-acton8045dude...wtf. are you actually saying that ruddy little ignoramus wasn't bad?

[@pyromania1018]

They did. It's in his "Today I Found Out" series. It's called "A Bunch of Wangers".

[@Dionysus784]

the ss divisions names sound so badass "leibstandarte", "das reich", "totenkopf", "germania"

[@Dene181]

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[@tenarmurk]

Its usually shortened as LSSAH and not LAH

[@thunderK5]

I would ask for a profile of the US 4th Armored Division next.

[@bogrunberger]

Would love a follow up on Oskar Dirlewanger SS. Probably the worst and most disgusting SS brigade there was.

[@truckingmogul3254]

I found Enlisted about 2 months ago, it’s a great game

[@Dene181]

One can grind a lot, but it for sure is a very cool fps game. Can confirm. Feels like a better version of BFV / 5.

[@Your_President_Kanye_East]

"Fabrikaktion" is not "Fabrication". It means "Operation Factory", should be pronounced "FABrik akTSYON".

[@zanderterblanche]

Joachim is pronounced "Yo-hagum" not like Joaquin Phoenix. Great video though!

[@RickPop85]

The Wehrmacht Gross Deutschland gave them a run for that title

[@DreadfulMeep]

Wereth happened during the battle of the bulge. The way its presented in this video it sounds like it was shortly after Joachim Peiper's action against the allied convoy. Its about half a year apart.

[@Vandelberger]

SS units rarely performed better than regular army units. For instance, Whittman and his Tiger was purportedly the best German tanker in WW2, when no… a Mk4 tanker and his crew had far more kills and success but the crew allegedly didn’t like the Nazi party.

[@aurorathekitty7854]

Alot of early SA and SS where former WW1 soldiers so I wouldn't say they lacked any military training.

[@Martin_Koepl]

I hate that annoying background music. Hard to hear Simon through it.

[@cpttankerjoe]

You know, it would have been nice to know what battles they were a part of. What happened during and the casualties of the said battles. Instead of a quick gloss over what front they were deployed to just saying.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:05 - Chapter 1 - Formation & ideological underpinnings 2:40 - Mid roll ads 3:55 - Back to the video 5:55 - Chapter 2 - Service history 11:35 - Chapter 3 - Atrocities

[@Abandon_All_Hope]

You’re a tool bag….

[@cpttankerjoe]

Calling The “service history” segment an actual segment is a bit of a stretch to be honest

[@covertops19Z]

Last I read, the 2nd SS Panzer Division, DAS REICH had a better combat record.. Gentleman, your thoughts, please.

[@Supergoon1989]

12:37 Damn, never would have guessed that the author of 'The Little Mermaid' would ever command a mass murder. :(

[@NapoleonicWargaming]

...take a seat...

[@camus1679]

I love and hate that Enlisted is sponsoring everyone these days😂 I enjoy the game but fuck I hate getting ads for it when I already play😂 Simon I love your channels and strongly recommend them to friends and famiky

[@hardcore476]

I think this is the unit depicted in Tanya the evil. Thay check alot of the boxes

[@timeanagy8495]

Peiper Wittmann kurt Meyer, Max Wunsche....legends

[@TheDiablotak]

We need an episode like this about the US 442nd RCT the most highly decorated unit of its size in US military history and made up of volunteers from The Japanese Internment Camps

[@tjcaruthers5593]

The period of 1940-1945 just leaves me in awe of how violent, depraved, and how far from civilized and humane our species were. It wasnt just the nazis or the Russians it was the allies too. The Japanese were in my opinion the worse. To be alive during this time must of been horrifying and unstable. How the surviving troops could come home and pursue lifes ambitions without devolving into a mental deficient mess of PTSD, depression, and drug addiction is beyond comprehension. Calling them the greatest generation is understandable, but at what cost, or better yet, how much of thier own souls did it cost to achieve that greatness?

[@zacharynorton9796]

I’d love to see a video about 2-7 “The Walking Dead”

[@mho...]

hah at Liebstandarte (love standarte) 😆 Leibstandarte ( body/personal standarte) quite the difference between ie & ei in german!

[@Hillbilly973]

Is that all this video left you with? A spelling mistake? You sad, sad individual.

[@PsychicalTraumaPL]

That's actually a good idea for a series of units... I'm especially interested in the one named Viking. As we all know, the WW2 brought the worst the man can offer, learning more about this is actually a good way to show the history. Man will say that it offends them, but ignore them. Showing the wrongs of man is a proper way to teach the History! A whole series about the main units of both sides, of which most of them made documented atrocities against the Mankind, would be great. P. S. Simon, I said that quite a few times already, You have to work on Your prenouciation, You're butchering the names in most incredible way 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@StefanMedici]

You watch, he makes money. He's said a million times he doesn't give a damn about pronunciation. Plus you then comment to complain about the pronunciation which adds to his analytics. Win win win for Simon, all he's got to do is keep mispronouncing stuff and pissing off all the pedants to keep winning. 😂

[@SaintJavelin2022]

If you really want to know the best German unit of WWII it’d have to be 4th Panzer Division. If you only count officially awarded Knight’s Crosses, the 4th got even more than Das Reich. It also had more recipients in every single category of the 4 high awards for bravery that Germany gave to ground units than Das Reich. If any German unit from WWII deserves to be called the most elite, it is the 4th.

[@Thomas-j2f]

1.Fallschirmjäger Division

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

On 4 July (Independence Day) 1945, the United States Flag was raised over Berlin for the first time at the Leibstandarte barracks.

[@GrumpX]

I wonder if the IDF has a Netanyahu division seeing as to the number of war crimes it has committed?

[@ablackghostmyguy3741]

Do the u.s. 1st 2nd and 4rd armored divisions

[@ME-ke7qc]

no

[@quaz3]

In several videos you butcher those parts of German pronounciation which is easy to do for English speakers. "ei" in German maps quite well to "ie" in English. So if you say Leibstandarte, just pronouce the first three letters like "lie" in English and you're pretty spot on.

[@Hillbilly973]

How come culture snobs like you, are so precious about English speaking people mispronouncing non english words and phrasing, but are totally fine with non english speakers totally butchering english? Think about it. I'm sure you'll come up with justified exception to your rule of international grammar. Seriously, people with their various ignorant agendas just like to make things up as they go along. 😂🤣

[@RationalCatholic]

I love all of Simons channels, but has anyone else noticed that the last month has had a lot of Shnatzy and bad mustache man content?

[@gamer4837]

Thank you for doing a video on my grandfather's division. You do incredible work

[@sleelofwpg688]

Interesting. And more than a little disgusting. Wouldn't mind the same kinda infodive into The Devil's Brigade. A joint Canadian US outfit of some reknown. Or even more interesting to me, since they were based in Kapyong Barracks here in Winnipeg (older brother was a reservist with them til he became a pilot), The Little Black Devils. As the Germans called them. Formally, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.

[@28ebdh3udnav]

Who won the first tour of France? Erwin Rommel

[@tailgunner1223]

Otto,Skz deep dive Please

[@jamesbodnarchuk3322]

History remembers the Winners .

[@bumblebee9337]

Which German unit was the worst? The one comprised of prison inmates?

[@monkeydank7842]

Dirlewanger?

[@hctim96]

The worst? The ones you don't hear about b/c they were wiped out due them being so bad...

[@bumblebee9337]

@@monkeydank7842 That's the one.

[@survivegeddon2953]

As far as I know SS was mostly on the way of the Wehrmacht

[@joewagner934]

It looks like you started using AI at 2:05

[@austinurias]

Enlisted sounds like a great game! Thank you for thr recommendation, gonna go download it now amd give it a try.

[@oskarprotzer3000]

Leib is not Lieb

[@jonathandeschenes2973]

1.8 Meters is tall??? I’m 1.9 Meters and I still feel short 😭😂 well here in America at least. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@davidbutler9808]

Excellent combat soldiers, but the atrocities tarnish their legacy. A far cry from the legendary exploits and chivalry of German fighter pilots of WW1. Different times, different leaders.

[@usonumabeach300]

Marine raiders

[@adamd5849]

Wait,a unit carrying the name of Hitler committed atrocities!? What's next? Fire being hot?

[@createdeccentricities6620]

Hitler's willing executioners.

[@mikechristopherson6035]

No doubt several Russian units are hard at work securing equal infamy. Such a waste for the whims of a small man.

[@bumblebee9337]

Enlisted / Conscripted - lets not be picky.

[@callumgriss5422]

plz don't be wherb slop plz don't be wherb slop

[@Mrgunsngear]

🇺🇸

[@BrynMitchell-zt1tu]

BTC OLE OLE division

[@murrayscott9546]

Makes me want to vomit.just to think that this kinna stuff happens, to this day

[@Lakitu886]

my grandfather joined the LSAH as a 17 year old in 1942. Unfortunately dont know much more about his time in the war and he died 10 years before I was born

[@DavidHayBand-fy6ie]

You could start off by pronouncing the name correctly.

[@wcm8909]

Haven’t watched the video yet but something tells me these guys might be jerks…

[@tomfox9083]

Only cowards and fools censor history!

[@l33tnobody1337]

so youtube then. Because that's what they keep on doing. Ask the people behind the World War 2 Channel, they can sing you a song about it.

[@awkc63]

Meh... All is fair in war... 🤷‍♂️

[@erikvan9582]

What was Imperial Japans equivalent unit?

[@O4FUXACHE]

Probably the Kempei Tai . .

[@erikvan9582]

@@O4FUXACHE Weren't they like a military police?I don't know whether what they did can be considered as engaging in military conflict or military special operations,they were more like a lead occupying force in the conquered imperial territories

[@The_Republic_of_Ireland]

​@@O4FUXACHEthought they were the Japanese equivalent to the gestapo

[@O4FUXACHE]

@@The_Republic_of_Ireland I think you're right

[@boris1387]

Huge misconception is that the SS got the best equipment, it certainly didn't. And most of the defenders of Berlin at the end of the war were French and Indian.

[@davebarrowcliffe1289]

Every army in history has had their elite formations. Nothing particularly remarkable here.

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

Liebstandard 😅 leibstandard its 🥚

[@CommanderPaulB]

Interesting

[@Michael-v7z4h]

Mmm. Gurkha...

[@tommarck4296]

Glorifying evil !!

[@Raaven0991]

!!!

[@kkloikok]

O/

[@KarlKapo]

o/

[@Smellsweird]

Say what you want but their drip Israel though

[@l33tnobody1337]

they looked like shit. No honestly any modern gear looks better, hell even like gear from Delta Force or GSG9 from the 80s and 90s looked better than the cringe ass SS-Uniforms.

[@edwardgaspar5428]

​@@l33tnobody1337 lol ur big mad

[@jesusgonzalez-acton8045]

@@l33tnobody1337nah they looked great. And hating/not being able to appreciate beauty denotes a small, warped, resentful soul

[@zenster1097]

@@l33tnobody1337 You're the first to ditch hugo boss.

[@johnssmith4005]

Its LSSAH

[@billybangerstv4829]

absolutely morally bankrupt to refer to nazis as legendary units

[@JohnRodriguez-si9si]

This is one of the many raison d'etre why I Myself, John Rodriguez, DO NOT love dictatorships, whether Nazi, Socialist, Communist or IslamoFascist. These One Party Governments must have both a Regular Army, Navy, and Air Force, as well as to possess a ParaMilitary Force ( Ground, Maritime, Aviation Combat Elements) that mirror the Conventional Forces Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen, with the Mission of defending the Regime, NOT Their Own Nation States.

[@EGSBiographies-om1wb]

158th

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Military bravery, furious manner of warriors front enemy combating is far from unprovoked, condemned brutalities against civilians,...Nazism regime utilized huge SS Military efforts for prosecution, annihilation of civilians wherever invaded by Nazism. While those SS military efforts were necessary for backing Wehrmacht...in battles

[@hanglee5586]

Das Reich Division.

[@andyhughes5766]

Always awful

[@jaytaylor629]

I will never understand the world's obsession and fascination with Adolf Hitler and/or Nazi Germany. One of the least interesting topics in terms of history.

[@willjapheth23789]

Obviously you don't share the same interests as alot of people.

[@jaytaylor629]

@@willjapheth23789 Well yeah, I still don't understand why people are fascinated by the Nazis, what's interesting about them?

[@willjapheth23789]

@@jaytaylor629 contemporary, massive war, massive atrocities, wave of new technologies, clear victories, and clearly evil in several ways. Other wars can be so much more morally grey and hard to explain.

[@jaytaylor629]

@@willjapheth23789 But every other war in history is so much more intriguing. I'd rather learn about the Great Northern War or the Muslim conquests.

[@cocobot90]

​@willjapheth23789 Like any other war, WW2 is very black and white right after it ends and is firmly embedded in the ideological foundation of the new order that follows its conclusion. With a clearly good side that behaved nothing short of chivalrously, with nothing less than the highest moral convictions, which curiously align exactly with the world view of anyone who is born after the war. The other side is seen and portayed as almost inhuman and devilish. In a conflict between diametrically opposed ideologies, the losing one and everything and everyone attached with it, are obviously the embodiment of everything which is wrong and evil. That status quo holds up for 50-150 years, until the "new" order cracks and crumbles, and is then replaced by something else. Eventually future historians are much less invested concerning their personal world view and history looks back at both the "good" and "bad" guys in a much more dispassionate and objective manner. Looking back the focus is then placed on the big picture and on factors that contemporary witnesses didn't even know of. And just like if you could ask anyone about France and the conduct of french soldiers ca. 1812, future people will be surprised by today's attitudes and laugh about our ignorance.