Opening a SEALED WW2 BOX, what a Time Capsule!

[@getoffenit7827]

Some of the clusters of equipment/ammunition/ pieces of uniform etc are actually caches and dumps left by surrendering troops. If German soldiers were going to surrender,In general they would be instructed to discard any ammunition,grenades etc and bury it before surrendering themselves. My uncle was u.s. army and several times was approached by a German NCO or an Officer with a white flag and the Germans if they could speak english would tell my uncle they intend to surrender. His instructions were in the event of this type surrender to instruct the Germans to strip any uneeded gear/ammo/etc and bury it...give the number of germans surrendering,how many wounded needing immediate attention.

[@RwingDsquad]

I'd love to see your entire collection sometime. I bet it's enormous and incredibly interesting.

[@seanchamberlain428]

I agree, a video in this would be great

[@paulcahoon9971]

Get a room

[@seanchamberlain428]

@@paulcahoon9971 🙄

[@RwingDsquad]

@@paulcahoon9971 if the room is full of his collection, I’ll get that room so I can look at the contents within it.

[@michaelkappel56]

Probably sold to crazy collectors or something. 😜 They must pay huge sums of money.?!

[@gonagain]

That little magnifying lens was used by stamp collectors. One of those German soldiers might have been a philatelist!

[@timothyking8650]

That stamp is an incredible find.

[@seppvonschleck3941]

„Einschreiben“ is a letter with a high priority in gemany.

[@belchnasty]

Something so innocuous as a date stamp can add so much to the contect of your work

[@leonardio.miyt9]

I love watching this kind of videos.

[@BlastedBilly]

I can imagine a soldier using that stamp one last time on some documents and then gets interrupted by the camp alarm as everyone scrambles to fight the Russians.

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

That is how I imagine it too! Incredible.

[@zs1dfr]

I would be interested to know the makers of the binoculars? Probably Carl Zeiss, I guess. Well found!

[@mdog111]

Some great finds but the rubber date stamp is a real piece of historical treasure. Can I suggest that you make a written/printed note of where you found it along with the regimental information that you researched and keep this with the stamp wherever you store it. That way, its relevance as a historical artefact will be recorded for the future.

[@thierryloop4039]

Merci beaucoup pour le partage de vos découvertes et merci pour la traduction en français 👍😉

[@jonathantue3029]

I got excited when you opened the binoculars. When you pulled them out they looked just like the ones that my dad gave me when I was a kid many many years s ago. They were my grandfathers, passed down to my dad and then to me. They are stored away right now and I haven’t held them in a long time. Brought back good memories. I’ll have to look them out again. Maybe I’ll pass them down to my granddaughter. Thanks for reminding me of them and the many places I took them. It was awesome. Thxs. 🤠

[@ehayes5217]

...& the background music, the excitement in ur narration & that of the other gents, adds so much to the excitement; & also, the real life pics inserted of a soldier with the find(s) u just made, makes ur finds even MORE interesting! Great job & thanx again!😃🇺🇸

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

Appreciate your support, thanks for watching!

[@iurii_gagarin]

awesome! thank u)) and see u)

[@unf0ld]

That stamp was proper history, amazing finds as usual

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

Yeah, that one gave me goose bumps!

[@jakedode]

I had goosebumps too.😊

Wow!,you guys found some interesting items!

[@AParallelReality]

Those binoculars are amazing. What a great find

[@ehayes5217]

Yes, for all of u (& for all of us viewers), it certainly WAS a great day!🇺🇸

[@carlsowell8099]

You have such an AWESOME area to detect in. It would be an amazing adventure to detect with you. Take Care.

[@josephusina7296]

Great video and very exciting to watch you uncover history from WWII! Thanks for sharing!!

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

Thanks for watching!

[@karlcolt]

Well done lads! 👍👍👍👍

[@ehayes5217]

& btw, thanks to all of u, for all the work u do to make history come alive, again!🇺🇸

[@dr.strangelove7739]

Great content. So interesting. Looking at the binoculars made me wonder about the soldier who wrapped the strap around the binocs and put them in the case. Did he survive? You are bringing history back to life. Thank you.

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

I wonder that too! Thanks for watching!

[@BalkanBattlefieldsWW1-Metaldet]

Great video and finds guys! Beat regards from Serbia!

[@davidgaul6743]

it really is amazing what is still out there in these battle zones....

[@andrewarellano6743]

Good find! 🎉

[@regobertoaguilar6293]

Thumps up guys.😮😮😮😮😮.

[@davebarrowcliffe1289]

The fastening pins on the back of those pips and numbers have never been used. They are obviously replacements if you think about it!

[@richardparton1655]

Well done guys, such amazing finds you and your team should be proud And thank you.👍

[@bjoernadler2105]

An ‚Einschreiben‘ is a registered letter. The recipient has to sign upon receiving the letter. Maybe you discovered something like a front post office or a command post. This would explain the blank dog tag. New recruits were then assigned to their unit.

[@murry001]

Really cool when you find these relics, can only imagine the stories these items could tell.

[@gerl9869]

The stamp pad with 'Einschreiben' on it, means that a mail item must be sent by registered mail. (dutch: Aangetekend) It seems indeed the digging is done on a administrative point in the field, or at least a point where administrative items were dumped.

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

Great piece of info! Thanks for sharing!

[@brucedewitt1711]

I find this just amazing, I went to Germany in 1967 as a dependent, we were told not to walk off of the beaten path because of unexploded munitions. What I wouldn't give to be able to go back and do what you're doing.

[@kensherwood4866]

Wow, so enjoy your videos and seeing you and the crew uncovering and explaining your WW2 finds. Those binoculars were a real find, and had survived remarkably, considering the time they'd been in the ground. Cheers lads looking forward to the next video

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

Thanks for the support!

[@tergar1]

Awesome finds! Are you able to see the bullets after they are retrieved by the agency that collect them? Hope so. Thanks for the video. 👍

[@tedkreibich8584]

What absolutely fantastic finds Chris.... I'm sure it will be a site you will metal detect again. as I'm sure there is still more finds to be had.... Thanks for a great video Chris and team

[@duaneho555]

I am really enjoying your videos. Thanks for sharing them.

[@docvideomusic]

Great boys ! What a wonderful finding !! Paolo B - from Italy

[@michaelprine7353]

Awesome video, always. I love watching yall dig up history

[@SaloGwyn]

Great finds, congratulation! 🔥🔥🔥👌 Regarding the stamp "Einschreiben" you conclude from this that the place was a sort of registration point. With "Einschreiben" you can send a normal letter and these kind of rubber stamps were (and maybe still are) widely used within German authorities. To send a letter via "Einschreiben" means it will be delivered faster and the delivery to the recipient will be traceable by the sender. Best regards from Germany, and keep up the good work with your videos. 😊🖖 PS: The time stamp find is incredible!!

[@rupakgbikas4477]

A binoculars at beginning. Both Soviet issue army binoculars and Nazi issue officers binoculars were good quality during ww2.

[@donnerundblitz7068]

Amazing relics congrats🎉

[@DewaldMatthysen]

Thanks you for your program and your subject knowledge. Keep it up.

[@MainahTony]

always enjoy ur videos! thank you!

[@JayS1889]

Fantastic finds and a fantastic video thanks for sharing one of the best channels on KZbin

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

I really appreciate that, thanks!

[@pogmothoin1342]

Looks like a folding jewellers loop, used them for halftone development in printing years ago also known as linen loops

[@iakazul]

That razor is a real collector item amongst shaving enthusiasts

[@markusfurst8103]

„Einschreiben“ means registered letter in english.

[@johnemerson5383]

The razor will be made by a company called Fasan. They are quite collectable if it is a useable condition.

[@_Mare_Nostrum]

So many years ,finally see the day light

[@HistorySavior1941]

Awesome finds Chris!

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

Thanks for watching!

[@Rickkert2000]

There we go! 😍

[@DJ369-Miami]

„Einschreiben“ stamp means registered letter. it had to be signed for by the receiver.

[@warfinds]

Great finds guys! 🔥

[@ehayes5217]

It gave me goosebumps too!!!🇺🇸

[@alistairkelton645]

The magnifing glass looks like its from a compass.

[@Avi_demigirl]

awesome videos you do! if you ever come to finland i highly recommend searching in northwest lapland since the lapland war went on there, and also in the east, especially southeast, we don't have all that large community of metal detectorists but most would most likely love to see you do some detecting here. now i know that you most likely won't ever come here nor will you most likely even see this comment, but as long as you keep doing you that is fine.

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

Read your comment. I'm always open to new and further away adventures, but to come to Finland I'd need a proper battlefield guide 😄

[@Avi_demigirl]

@@mdww2battlegrounds (:

[@thomasbrown5081]

Hi chris that was some outstanding fines you all found great video stay safe my friend until the next video is👍👍👍🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@excitationofstereocilia2103]

I really like how you throw up an image of what the item would look like on the soldiers!!!! Would love to have some of that ammo ❤

[@markhooper5824]

Ace discoveries again you guys.👍

[@oldtop4682]

Great finds!

[@parkride86]

I love your Videos it would be a Dream to Go Metal detecting With your Team im fron germany and i Go Metal detecting too your Videos Helping me to recognize relics and to know what they are Im living near the Hürtgenwald

[@Cutter-jx3xj]

It might be their last day fighting, it might have been their last day alive. Imagine dying on the last day of the war, or if you were in a hard to reach battle, dying after the war was over

[@LegoCrater1]

When he found the STG44 mag, I thought he would find the whole gun.

[@ehayes5217]

Wow, sooooo interesting & thanx!😃🇺🇸

[@darron51]

Quite possibly the top of a lid the ring maybe, at least you on the history 😊

[@ElliottsTog]

Have you ever found a complete Iron Cross?

[@AParallelReality]

It’s cool you are always digging stuff from the past but it would also be cool if you dug up stuff from the future

[@briansweeney2291]

Wow cool finds 😎👍

[@Abshi_Ben]

4:00 Einschreiben = Registered/registered post/registered mail

[@NunchakuPete]

The "Einschreiben"-stamp is meant for a special typ of letter where you receive a confirmation that the adress got the letter... makes "german" sense... .. . 😉

[@hplarli510]

Einschreiben betekent voor een brief: aangetekend! Dus eerder een veldpost Posten

[@NicAimo]

I'm from Italy and those date stamps are still very common. Seen all over trough my childhood, still used today sometimes (e.g.: used during the elections to stamp the date on registers and ballot papers). Amazing to think that might be the last date it was used before ditching it!

[@madplanet3351]

Excellent to see your videos back

[@eshelly4205]

After watching hundreds of these types of videos I have come to the obvious conclusion that gas mask and gas mask canisters are the most found objects

[@treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340]

enjoyed the video well done on the finds

[@adeporter6611]

Awesome 🤩

[@retAFcop98]

Fantastic finds!!

[@Toon-Tony]

Wow what a dig thanks for sharing

[@scottyb68]

You can keep the old bullets just don't clean them and try to use them in a rifle.

[@beebug97]

I love that they all went "oooooh" like the green aliens in Toy Story

[@sabertoothanimations2912]

Have you guys ever tried to pull tips form the amination? i mean if you can't keep it all might as well have the best part lol Idk if thats possible it was just a random thought, its also like 3 AM here so forgive me if the logic isn't on point lol

[@krisneal7725]

Those rounds you have at the end , would they have been 7.62 x 54 ??

[@AParallelReality]

Great start to my Friday!

[@mchurch3905]

Do mines or explosives still pose a danger?

[@sdc8547]

What did you expect to find in a binoculars case? The crown jewels? 😂

[@gerben7822]

I know someone who found a gasmask canister. When he opened it it was filled up with stolen ww2 gold. They sold it in Antwerpen for 10k.

[@bengtwahlstedt1021]

Well done 😊 !

[@susanemmerson]

Hi, I am new to your site and thank you for letting me join. This is all very interesting all the finds you find and show where they were worn on the soldiers during WW2.

[@usercreated]

Great video, I have a question why is the ground like sand in some places ?

[@CarlEvans-t6h]

That blank ID tag was actually issued to men in Penal units. They were strippe of everything so were issued blank tags till they eared their way back to their former status.

[@michaelhunt2369]

excellent video

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

Thank you sir!

[@HeroNudel]

so great your videos, i love it realy, so much history. can you explain one thing to me. i dont understand why these thinks are so deep on the underground. How did it get there, lost in the trenches and After the war everything was simply filled in with earth?

[@robertpimpo4698]

Great to see you back hope your all well

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

Definitely am! Thanks for watching!

[@carlrudd1858]

Lots of fun! yay!

[@Darklove-r5z]

Ww2 iz really amazing in am alson interested in your videos ❤ love from Pakistan

[@komkommerskomk1775]

The quality of the german products in WW2 is amazing high!!

[@ShiMiaoDao]

"Einschreiben" is registered letter. 🙏

[@IvesMarcelin]

Généralement les soldats dans la période de 1945 durant la débâcle ont quittés les lieux avec soit le minimum soit ils ont tout abandonnés sur place pour éviter toute représailles des forces alliés anglo-américaines et aussi des groupes de résistants dans chaque pays ..les soldats allemands partaient quelques fois avec leurs armes mais sans les munitions car ils donnaient leurs armes aux forces américaines et anglaises car ils avaient perdu la guerre d'une manière stratégique aussi il arrivait régulièrement qu'ils abandonnaient toutes leurs équipements d'armements sur place dans les trous et leurs cachettes dans les Blockhaus car ils savaient que porter son arme était un risque de se faire tirer dessus alors qu'ils reprenaient la route vers l'Allemagne

[@awd_paz]

I know I’m 2 months late but great video and I looked up some of those numbers and it’s great to know that there was even a 17th tank diction there and a 27th tank division as well but to much to list of Germans and other countries being there on the eastern front

[@ElOmarco]

My jaw hit the floor when you opened that case...