Panzerfaust in WW2 Movies

A brief overview on this unique weapon featured in several prominent movies.
Movies featured:
The Bridge - 1959
The Bridge at Remagen - 1969
The Pianist - 2002
Downfall - 2004
Fury - 2014
1944 - 2015
Tali-Ihantala - 1944
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[@psychoairsoft7146]

its a little disturbing when you think about it, Panzerfausts were a simple, easy to train and to use rocket launcher, and it inevitably found it's way into the hands of child soldiers at the end of WWII. but the exact same thing happens later in history with the Soviet RPG-7, a directly-improved system that traces it's design lineage back to the Panzerfaust. it was and still is so easy to train and use, that militias and child soldiers in modern third-world conflicts can often be seen carrying and using RPG-7's. just something that makes me think about how history often repeats itself, different times, different wars, upgraded weapons, same sad situations...

[@XxX_KeithMason69_XxX]

The classic quote, "History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes."

[@roskcity]

Difference is a RPG can be reloaded.

[@mbr5742]

@@roskcity The RPG-2 and later RPG-7 trace the lineage back to a german prototype/development called "Panzerfaust 250" not the weapon that made it into service. The USSR captured plans and used those to start development of the RPG series. And the west germans did the same and came up with the "Panzerfaust 44mm" aka Leichte Panzerfaust or Lanze (Lance) during the cold war. That also looks like an RPG-7

[@lukaswilhelm9290]

Sad it is but conflicts rarely could be avoided, war just add bloods in it.

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

... Panzerfausts were simple (...) rocket launchers* that found their* way ... / RPG-7, a system that traces its* design (it's = it is) ...

[@GannicusMisteriosdeHonduras]

Panzerfaust in Fury should have gotten the whole crew, tanks are like pressure cookers when closed

[@Aaleg]

Ah well, it’s Hollywood

[@patricklamshear6662]

Death and glory yanks in action.

[@epluribusunum5318]

@@patricklamshear6662 I'll never understand why Hollywood thinks people want to see unrealistic movies these days. Sure, they make a large amount of money at release, but few people hate seeing inaccurate American action flicks like Fury more then Americans. The old days of 'Murica Fuck yeah! films being the most engaging are long gone. American Sniper, Lone Survivor, We were Soldiers and Sicario are praised endlessly for giving people an action film with a message that's grounded in reality. Every nation wants to see their soldiers and people displayed as being more heroic, brave, and effective then other nations, but I (and many other Americans) feel like the hollow and reality defying feats of most modern film characters are just insulting. I am very glad to see the trend of shitty action over plot films being the bread winners disappearing here in the States.

[@CatsAreAmazing8187]

@@epluribusunum5318 I’ll never understand why people can’t get most realistic films are 1) boring as shit 2) won’t attract a lot of people and 3) won’t last long, last one depends on the scenario tho

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

@@epluribusunum5318 You may have answered your own question there: "they make a large amount of money at release". Unfortunately the operative word in show business is business. Makers of movies that don't make money tend to be movie makers who don't get backing. Another element is that the people making the movies, and all involved, are artists rather than history professors and so come at it from that angle. Also, there are limitations with accuracy, budgetary, health and safety, what works on the screen etc. then just sourcing the right equipment (I'm sure you've seen move than one movie with Germans in American tanks and halftracks). Fury was the first movie where an actual Tiger tank was available and even then they also used a mockup. Some of the best quality 'movies' of late have actually been TV series. Band Of Brothers, The Pacific, Generation Kill (top of my list). Largely due to budget and the people involved having a good track record.

[@lmyrski8385]

Most Panzerfausts, depending upon model, actually had effective ranges in excess of 30 yards. Only the early models had effective ranges of 30 meters (Panzerfaust 30 & Panzerfaust 30 klein or Faustpatrone). Panzerfaust 60, the most common version, introduced in 1944, was named as such because it could be used effectively out to 60 meters. It was the most common version. The Germans later introduced models effective out to 100 and 150 yards (Panzerfaust 100 & Panzerfaust 150). The Panzerschreck was modelled after the American M1 Bazookas captured in North Africa. The Germans enlarged the design from 2.36-Inch (60 mm) the Americans used to 3.5 (8.8 cm) already designed for the 8.8 cm Raketenwerfer 43 (A less portable weapon). If your tank got hit by one of those you were in trouble. They could pierce 210-230 mm (8.26 inches to 9 inches) of armor. The larger size warhead made it easier to defeat Soviet T34's from further away. American 2.36 inch Bazookas, by then M9's, often failed to do the job against Soviet built armor in Korea (they also weren't very effective against German tanks in the latter half of WWII). The Americans then went with virtually the same caliber the Germans used in WWII in their M20 bazooka, 3.5 in (89 mm). That dealt much more effectively with T34's.

[@williamzk9083]

I suspect the Panzerfaust would have been dramatically more effective had the 100m version been in service during the allied invasion instead of the 30m range version. I really would add a lot more ambush options. -The Panzerschrek wasn't a direct copy of the US Bazooka. The Germany army had a 28mm squeeze bore gun the 2.8 cm sPzB 41 that was deployed at Platoon level. (12 men to a squad, 3 squads to a platoon). When this became too weak in power they developed an 88mm rocket launcher called the 8.8 cm Raketenwerfer 43. This was a breached weapon with a small carriage weighting about 140kg. When examples of the American Bazooka captured from Russia were sent to the German armies test range at Kumsdorf the Panzerfaust & -Raketenwerfer 43 were being evaluated and naturally compared to the Bazooka. The Germans immediately realized the value the Bazooka and modified the Raketenwerfer 43 by modifying the round with electrical ignition and firing it from an open tube. They used a magneto to stop the problems of batteries freezing. -The Panzerschrek needed a gas mask or shield as the round hadn't quite finished its burn as it exited but late war versions had a faster burn rocket that didn't need a shield. -Panzerschrek had a much higher muzzle velocity than the Bazzooka but whereas the German weapon had crude iron sights the American weapon had an optical sight of greater precision and this is the origin of the greater range capability. -Raketenwerfer 43 was produced in small numbers. It had much greater range and accuracy due to its precision of construction. -Panzerchrek seems to have had low build quality which mitigated its potential greater range. Panzerschreks were issued at Platoon level because they had more weight and range. Panzerfaust were much lighter and went to squads directly.

[@hschan5976]

I remember reading John Toland's In Mortal Combat: Korea 1951-1953, where it was mentioned that when North Korea invaded, the South Korean soldiers and their American instructors defending the border towns tried the original bazooka on the T34-85s, and their shots bounced off the front armor of the T-34s "like pingpong balls". It wasn't until much later when the bigger bazookas arrived on the front lines that they started taking out North Korean tanks.

[@jonathanpanlaqui1855]

This one, a scene, featured in the film Downfall in 2004, when a young boy, a member of the Youth Corps, used his weapon by knocking out a T-34 tank in Berlin in 1945.

[@oooTACooo]

Really nice synopsis of a revolutionary weapon, and you get bonus points for showing the clip from "Jo Jo Rabbit".

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

I gotta work that movie into a review it's a good laugh

[@rustyshackleford1011]

Why would you consider it a revolutionary weapon, I would say the STG since it was the framework for modern assault rifles but the Faust just seems like a cheap solution to the Germans anti tank problem

[@mbr5742]

@@rustyshackleford1011 It was the first light, easy to use and effective HEAT weapon in service. The Panzerschreck and Bazooka are older but require more training.

[@rustyshackleford1011]

@@mbr5742 never thought it about it that way thank you for the explanation

[@BadBomb555]

3:50 Unfortunate for that guy in the scene, he was actually a Swedes volunteer who did not understand the Finnish instructions just prior to that tank attack.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Good additional info thank you!

[@rickoshay5525]

What is the name of this movie?

[@roskcity]

Did he kill himself with the Panzerfaust?

[@banegas0411]

@@roskcity yes

[@gollumfuck]

Late correction but this is a change from the real story. The man did speak Finnish but he only arrived at the end of the instructions and asked to hear it again, the instructor gave the short version: Pull pin, aim and press button. There are several small changes like this in the movie that doesn’t make sense to me and I could go on about them all day.

[@traxel14]

Hi there. I have always been interested in WWII since I was a child. I remember reading, many years ago, that a HJ-Boy was defending the outskirts of Berlin at the end of the war. He was in a foxhole with a Panzerfaust, and a Russian tank apparently saw him and drove over his foxhole. It started to turn over him, as to crush him to death, then as he realized that he would be killed, he fired the Panzerfaust directly into the bottom of the tank. Of course, the explosion of the tank killed both the enemy and himself.

[@deltaecho2718]

Bravery and fanatical group thinking walk hand in hand down the road of waste for common people's. The power families and their banker's count their profit margins. Have a great day 😌

[@offdeadeye88]

The projectile couldn’t have accelerated much in the half foot between the boy and the tank…..makes ya wonder

[@genaivanov402]

@@offdeadeye88 это не реально, это же не противотанковая граната , подорвать фауст под днищем танка, не получилось бы

[@robertfogelberg7538]

Curiosity No panzerfaust in italian war movie

[@Siddingsby]

@@offdeadeye88 The velocity of the projective doesn't matter with a shaped charge. The penetration is achieved when the warhead explodes.

[@wabapoiss5905]

Cool that you used the estonian film 1944 for the background and picture for the video.

[@visual7504]

Also used by Soviet assault engineers (the ones issued steel body armor as standart) to shoot into vent shafts of citadels igniting previously poured in gasoline during assaults into German "stronghold cities". That was the only way to flush out the defenders without leveling the citadel (requiring lots of 203mm and up arty) or room clearing w heavy casualties. The gasoline as ignited by the Faustpatrone would create a thermobaric explosion burning out all the oxygen inside and lungs of anyone not wearing a gas mask.

[@wolftamer5463]

If I recall, the Americans did something similar when retaking fort drum in the Philippines. The fires burned for days.

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

... standard*. And a gas mask filters harmful gas out of the air, but does not enrich it with oxygen. So, if there is no oxygene left, you suffocate even with a gas mask on.

[@antartis73]

Another great video! Just wanted to add the panzerfaust was manufactured in three different ranges in its final form 30, 60 and 100m and a final model introduced in 1945 could fire up to 10 ‘grenades’- hollow charges before becoming useless. Also thank you for reviewing ‘Fury’ in an objective manner.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thanks for adding some extra information for everyone 🙏

[@rickoshay5525]

A reloadable panzerfaust? I guess Sniper Elite 3 wasn't so inaccurate after all, when it came to panzerfausts.

[@lukeisadog]

@@rickoshay5525 the variant he is mentioning was never produced, and never even left the drawing board

[@jonathanpanlaqui1855]

But now after the war, it was succeeded by the highly-advanced Panzerfaust III RPG by the German Army which serves not only as an anti-tank weapon, but also as an anti-bunker weapon, in a disposable launcher with a rangefinder.

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

A really good explanation of ‘spalling’ in the context of this weapon.

[@cecillen.1732]

In my opinion panzerfaust was one of the strongest anti tank launcher in ww2

[@neilwilson5785]

The JoJo Rabbit movie should have had a tailpipe accident with a PanzerFaust as well. Maybe giving mister Hitterler a quick roast.

[@rolfagten857]

Also seen at the end of "Hitler's SS: portrait in evil" (1985) HY boy Hans Hofmann uses it at the end of this miniseries, another interesting review!

[@nicholaswimborne]

Another good one Johnny! Crews getting so close to the tank was a Faustian bargain.

[@frankmetcalfe9391]

The main reason for the logs on the Soviet tanks was aid the dislodging the tanks when stuck in marshy and uneven terrain and are used since the 30s to modern day

[@albinkohls888]

Exactly.

[@Region040]

Называется - бревно для самовытаскивания

[@frankmetcalfe9391]

@@Region040??

[@Region040]

@@frankmetcalfe9391 русское название бревна. Не переводится на другой язык

[@lukaswilhelm9290]

Yeah good luck dislodging a 50 ton MBT with logs.

[@LesangdesdieuX]

Interestingly the red army used a lot of captured panzerfausts especially in germany and berlin at german defensive positions as they were so widespead that they had wide supplies of them.

[@TraderRobin]

Good job! But I was hoping you were gonna mention the British PIAT weapon, and maybe do a comparison between it, the Panzerfaust, the Panzerschreck, and the two versions of the US Bazooka. Perhaps, in a followup video? ;-)

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Might do in the near future. 😊

[@yesyesyesyes1600]

Sounds great 🤩

[@Region040]

Немецкая была лучше в время второй мировой войны. Только в время войны в Корее американцы сравнялись по пробитию т 34

[@rickoshay5525]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq I'd love a discussion of ALL the hand-held anti tank weapons. The game Heroes & Generals has about 90-95% of them.

[@williamzk9083]

PIAT had a very low launch signature: there was little sound or smoke and the enemy would have trouble finding the launcher allowing the troops to escape. Range was reasonable and the ammunition was light. It had its advantages.

[@oldtruthteller2512]

In the autobiography of General James Gavin (commanded the 82nd Airborne) he wrote of an incident where his troopers captured a German truck loaded with crates of Panzerfaust. He had them distributed amongst the companies he was traveling with. Gen Gavin frequently led from the front and often got into the thick of it.

[@jonathanpanlaqui1855]

The original Panzerfauste rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) were used by the Wehrmacht during WWII and they were effective by knocking out tanks in a single shot, mostly from tube launchers, these Panzerfauste RPGs like this one used by a boy who became a member of a youth corps that knocked out a Soviet tank using this same weapon in the film Downfall in 2004, during the Siege of Berlin in 1945, for in which during the course of the war, German soldiers used these weapons to knock out American, British and Soviet tanks in Western and Eastern fronts because of cone-shaped warheads hitting on tank armor, even the Volkssturm and Youth Corps could use these weapons for home defenses. But now after the war, the modern Panzerfaust III as an anti-tank, anti-bunker RPG, was used for the German Army mounted on a disposable tube launcher with a rangefinder and now used in few countries including Germany.

[@BlaBla-su2yh]

An rpg-7 being fired was probably the loudest noise I have ever heard, I can only imagine the magnitude of sound during ww2 battles. I imagine the Panzerfaust must be at least as loud as an rpg-7 if not louder, no video on here and certainly no videogame could ever come close to accurately portraying just how fucking loud weapons of war really are. "Louder than world war 2" is a saying in Germany, I feel like this aspect is often overlooked

[@ericv7720]

I recall specifically the SMAW when I was in the Marines, which was the single loudest thing I've ever heard. How such a tiny weapon could produce such a fearsome back blast defies belief!

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

The civilian hit in the face by the backblast of a Panzerfaust in "Die Brücke" (The Bridge) and brutally dying of it, is a genuine kick in the nuts. Later in the same movie an American soldier is hit in the stomach with a machine gun burst, subsequently spilling his guts (literally!) and scraming in pain before dying. Watched this film the first time when I was 10 years old and had to cry myself to sleep for three days after. These shocking scenes were shot in 1959, in a time when usual war and western movies had people being shot just fall over in unscathed, freshly cleaned and ironed uniform or white shirts, and are trademarks for any honest 'anti'-war movie.

[@deltaecho2718]

Highly recommended you and your chanel to anyone. The straight forward calm/clear voice over and correct pictorials portrayed here are as the marines' would say!!!F#xKING OUTSTANDING!!! .... Thanks 👍

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thanks so much brother. I really appreciate hearing this as I try to ramp up the quality of new videos 🙏

[@duglife2230]

I know some people think being in a tank would have been safer, but after reading about how easy it was to die in one of those things, especially the more lightly armored ones, I would have much rather been an average rifleman. Tank warfare really is about who can get the first shot off a lot of times. And it better not miss or be a bad shot. I cannot recommend the book "Spearhead" by Adam Makos enough. It provides a pretty good look at armored warfare on the Western Front in the final days of World War Two.

[@banegas0411]

m in something like the sherman they had very good survival rates they were especially good when compared to there german counterparts which had higher burn rates and lower survival rates when penetrated

[@duglife2230]

@@banegas0411 They also started putting the ammunition in wet ammo racks toward the end of the war.

[@macobuzi]

Being an average infantryman, you are exposed to the element and every type of weapon the enemy possesses, especially artillery, which is responsible for 70% of the battlefield casualties.

[@mugsnvicki]

You certainly know your stuff, I am impressed.

[@mowocsgo998]

These videos are very enjoyable! One movie recommendation i have for you. Talvisota (1989). Very enjoyable film about Winter war. It has HD remaster.

[@rishz7857]

I enjoyed Talvisota.

[@clevlandblock]

Glad you got clips from "The Bridge".

[@zackahmmann4251]

Great video! Gave me a good reason to go dust off my panzerfaust tube. Its just a rusty pipe but it is a panzerfaust.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Okay just make sure you are not using it in a small room or fallout shelter!

[@leon-uc3wc]

A seriously underrated weapon tbh

[@JoeGallo43]

🤣🤣 this just made me think...the night that Göring walked in wearing that scary a** leather jacket, with Hitler, and Hitler then walked in, shot a pistol, and said "The revolution begins tonight!"......was my dude Göring REALLY packing a panzerfaust inside a building??? 🤣🤣

[@swaggest_of_eggs7676]

2:30 he really used warthunder like that

[@ihave1god]

Great info. Thanks again.

[@infantrycaptain9224]

Ouch! "Backblast area clear!" Great content.

[@peterbehnis3605]

Danke für dieses tolle Video!

[@lemonskunk1238]

I’ve got a panzerfaust for my re-enactment gear and I love it 😍

[@parallax88]

The weapon is so iconic it appears in sci-fi anime. An up scaled version of the Panzerfaust called a Sturm Faust is used by Zeon's military in Mobile Suit Gundam which makes sense as the series is basically WW 2 in space.

[@nihadgadirov4817]

2:25 *war thunder mentioned* [ arise great country mp3]

[@JaHail-oy6vq]

0:13 what movie is this?

[@jussim.konttinen4981]

Also, feet need to be moved aside while lying on stomach. I remember a Finnish veteran reporting that one officer blew his trousers off. Luckily just a scratch.

[@aminmammadov8597]

Я тоже воевал в этом войне попал плену у немцев и 16 лет прожил в Германии через Турецкий посольство вернулся в Москву и умения есть много ордена и медали . Я много немецкий солдаты и офицеры убил.

[@joycekoch5746]

As a kid growing up we always kept a panzerfaust next to the toilet in case it got jammed up with too much toilet paper and started to flood - it always cleared the obstruction though we had to get the turds off the ceiling and turn the fan on to clear the smoke out of the room.

[@brrrrrki-xk8pz]

1:08 what movie is this

[@eamonnclabby7067]

A fearsome weapon, thanks for sharing this....E

[@jasonmussett2129]

One Panzerfaust would have been enough to knock Fury out.

[@ryszakowy]

considering that 1. that sherman eariler caught fire so quick not even the commander managed to get out - actual reports vary on this 2. all the shit hanging and dangling inside of fury is just arsonist wetdream - that amount of stuff might characterise the crew more but it's highly against any regulations. verdict - fury might be a good tank movie but it sucks as any other movie since established laws don't apply to the titular tank and it's crew.

[@mbr5742]

That's why smart tanks have infantry support. The infantry shoots the lil Nazis, the tanks shoot the big nazis and in the end we have lots of living allied soldiers and lots of good Nazis.

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

The only invulnerable armour is plot armour. It's just a shitty movie, can't help it.

[@Michael-os1om]

Not, if there is Brad Pit ( known as F...ck-Daddy ) inside ! F....., f....,f....( most used word ! )

[@majestic._]

Will you give a commentary on Fury? I'm interested on hearing what you think about some of the more questionable scenes in the movie

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Planning on it in the near future!

[@majestic._]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq awesome! can't wait

[@gulliverthegullible6667]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq are you serious about Fury being an ok movie? It was horrible and inaccurate beyond reason. Pure American propaganda. This old movie you showed clips of, "Die Brücke" is MUCH better.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

@@gulliverthegullible6667 Well I can certainly agree with you that Die Brucke is a superior film.

[@rickoshay5525]

@@gulliverthegullible6667 Did you see the remake of that same movie? The Bridge?

[@PissedOffLion]

I'm telling you, no Panzerfaust compilation is complete without the iconic Pianist scene!

[@annedejong1040]

Panzerfaust makes relatively small holes in tanks, with some heat wave and scrapnel flying through the exterior, likely smashing, wounding, not respectively, people and equipment

[@user-gm5bv2ez2r]

Great Report! The Bridge 1959 was the first movie to shows Panzerfausts.... then a 50 year void. The Panzerfaust could kill any tank in WW2. One Finnish soldier killed 9x Soviet tanks in a couple days until a secondary blast killed him.

[@thekhoifish0146]

0:23 Johnny’s War Streams?

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

I do love battlefield I'm just extra terrible at it these days

[@MarcusBurkenhare]

One of my cousins had a deactivated Panzerfaust.

[@michaelmoran4891]

OK, I think there were several Panzerfausts models.The 30, with 30 meter range was the first model. I think the 60, with 60 meters range was the most produced. The 100 and 150 were late war models. I think most of success of Panzerfaust verses Panzarscreck had to do with the portability of Panzerfaust. In trench lines, forests, or cities, a user could move spots quickly to get best shot, while the Panzerscreck user had to more or less be in a set position and hope the tank went down that path. For both Panzerfaust and bazooka, I think by far they were used against not tank targets (machine gun nest) verses tanks. This I think is even more pronounced with the bazooka.

[@Nyllsor]

This was really intresting!

[@Nyllsor]

Well made with thoes clips visualizing what said about the weapon. I like.

[@rashadd2615]

Came looking for answers on the ending scene. How could it kill the entire crew earlier in the movie but only one person at the end. Thanks for the info

[@fiery_ginger7530]

1:05 what film is the clip from?

[@antartis73]

JoJo rabbit (2019). It’s a comedy/drama about the life of a young German boy during the last months of the war

[@disneysrecessextra1634]

What's the movie at 1:46 where the man is accidentally killed by the soldier.

[@RileyZilla1001]

It strikes me how often Gundam uses WWII guns. The DomTropen was known for using versions of both weapons.

[@SSGB]

Molded explosive shells blast high-velocity metal particles, not flames, into the tank. In many cases, Sherman tanks catch fire because the shell charges on the tanks ignite.

[@edwardwhite4015]

I hated "Fury" for this very reason and I call the movie "Brad Pitt defeats the Col. Klink Division." After the Sherman tank crew kill about 100 Germans the SS finally decide to use a single panzerfaust against the tank.

[@shadow_group1]

The panzerfuast in the beginning of the video it's actually the Faustpatrone 30

[@iLoveMacaroni.]

"Hanz get ze panzerfaust" "Hanz did you get ze panzerfaust?" "Nein, i brought ze panzer division"

[@Gewehr_36]

Fury panzerfaust when fired at main character tank : plot armor too thick!!! Fury panzerfaust when fired at non main charactor tank : immediately explode and burst into flame killing everyone inside

[@danbuchman7497]

Excellent summary and explanation. Is there a difference between faust & shrek?

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thank you! Panzerfaust = tank fist. Panzerschreck = tank fear. If you were wanting the translation. Overall the weapons are fairly different in use and effectiveness.

[@HO-bndk]

Panzerfaust doesn't mean "tank fist", it means "mailed fist" (i.e. a medieval knight's armoured glove used to punch and smash). The Panzerfaust user manuals even showed a cartoon of a mailed fist smashing a T-34. In a Panzergrenadier vehicle recognition manual from 1944, tanks are actually called "Panzerfaust des Heeres" - "The army's mailed fist")

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

@@HO-bndk I gave a very basic translation but you are correct about the etymology of the word Panzer with it's relation to armor worn not tanks. Of course in relation to WW2 the word panzer is associated with tanks as is the weapon. It would make sense that there is some fluidity and double meaning to the word in reference to an armored fist in that drawing.

[@l.h.9747]

The Panzerfaust was a one time use weapon against tanks (but also infantry if the fragmentation belt was put on the warhead) and it was extremely cheap and didnt need much training. The Panzerschreck on the other hand was more or less an improved bazooka that could be reloaded but it also required good training to be effectifly used. If you are realy interested i could dig up some videos that explain both in detail if you want

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

Faust was an imaginary character. Shrek was real.

[@Rusty_Gold85]

In Downfall which you featured the Hitler actor Bruno Granz ( who recently died ) his study of late war footage of AH he thinks Adolf had late stage Parkinsons disease .

[@gravitatemortuus1080]

I have a buddy who is a 20th century conflict history major and that is his view as well. He says it explains the videos and the medications being given to Hitler.

[@Hygoog]

What movie is the scene at 1:08?

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

JoJo Rabbit

[@Hygoog]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq thanks

[@BadBomb555]

Oh yes. The rocket launcher we see in Quake.

[@fiery_ginger7530]

I like when ppl use clips from estonian movies

[@Kontorotsui]

Smart Finn firing the Panzerfaust from his chest.

[@ElTio.45-70]

Swedish speaking guy did not understand the instructions given in Finnish.

[@Reactordrone]

It'd be a struggle just to reach the trigger holding it like that.

[@OttoKohlDF]

I used fully functional (except warhead of course) panzerfaust during ww2 reenactments. Gunpowder and 6mm short blanks as a fuse. Very simple construction. Here how it worked : kzbin.info/www/bejne/anvLc5qEeK-Id6s

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Cool video!

[@sumosami]

problem was in @03:50 that they get training to how to use it but in that movie guy was swedish or finland sweden but any how he didn't speak finnish and training was in finnish language so he didn't understand it :P

[@enginerikli5895]

I didn't get what happened the first time I saw the scene. I thought the guy was killed by the tank's machine gun, and the other guy meant the tank's front by "chest" : )

[@Paladin1873]

In the old 1960s TV series Combat! there is one episode where the squad encounters Panzerfaust armed German troops. The scene and the entire battle are well staged.

[@andreashakk8030]

I'm suprised that someone knows the movie 1944!

[@mikeywilkinsjr3769]

The granddaddy of the RPG

[@dogwedl1167]

[@i_like_trains1923]

In the jojo rabbit scene with the panzerschrek the boy in the back is the same as the kid in the new home alone movie, kinda ironic

[@geordiedog1749]

I hope that last clip wasn’t a dig at the fantastic PIAT? :)

[@robertfogelberg7538]

For coleteral damage if the panzer Faust look det untold

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

... collateral* damage

[@Renwoxing13]

4:03 "Sometimes..." - *OR* - ★☆★ *!¡! EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY OBTAINED ONE ?¿?* ★☆★

[@artart6979]

Movie downfall was the best German war movie I've ever seen. I believe highly accurate accounts and it's in German.

[@uraigroves7898]

Best war movie period not just German. American war movies are absurd hero fantasy propaganda films...

[@Quantomknight77]

2:19 nice use of war thunder ;)

[@darko9081]

2:26 nice use of explaining a weapon using war thunder

[@lukaswilhelm9290]

A scene from Saving private Ryan near the end battle if you hear clearly there are an SS soldiers talking about Panzerfaust if they see any tanks but during the actual combat they never use it instead they used Panzerschreck against infantry.

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

... there are *SS-soldiers talking ...

[@jarikinnunen1718]

Here are not nation called Finland, without German gived weapons and support. Tanks wasn`t biggest worry, because swamps and lakes, which did prevent massive tank attacks. The panzerfaust was extremely good in forests.

[@kokuta1941]

2:21 crew knocked out

[@ryanmaria2882]

Could u do RPGs next

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Absolutely on my to do list

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq you’ll need to include ‘The Beast’ “RPG-tank-KABOOM!”

[@interpl6089]

WW2 RPG-7 With no Reserve Rockets.

[@quockhanhleinh2957]

00:00 the film name pls

[@jussim.konttinen4981]

Framom främsta linjen 2004?

[@baguettedestroyer1800]

I think it’s tali ihantala. Not sure though

[@edwardjj4224]

Just another great Germans weapons Very effective against opponents armor vehicles Specially agents Bolsheviks tank's They have lost way to many Most of them in battles between Oder river and Berlin Thanks for posting this video Utube God bless You all

[@vanoliale]

Not as many apparently cause the red army still managed to fuck up all the Nazis thank God

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

... great German* weapon,* very* effective against opponents' * armoured* vehicles, especially* against* "bolshevik" (Soviet!) tanks* (plural, no apostrophe).* They have lost way too* many, most* of them in battles. Don't know what's worse, your spelling or your understanding of history.

[@jacqueslandry2319]

Pzr Faust for the win!

[@glenstewart5020]

Fury is the biggest crap of a tank movie. The end scene when fury had its track blown off. Just one section of German troops (8 men) would have dealt with it in five minutes. No troop support for the tank. The Germans would have surrounded in minutes. Rifle men would have had the tank crew stuck inside the tank . One or two Germans would have approached and that would be it. A Crap and unrealistic tank movie

[@jonathanallard2128]

Not to mention the Germans would've used smoke grenades to blind the tank as soon as possible. That scene had me laughing hard in the theater.

[@Schmulduar]

Wish i could just laugh at those type of propaganda movie. As a german it gets so frustrating to see your ancestors portrait as incompetent drones to be mowed down again and again. they even glorify warcrimes against german soldiers in this pile of shit

[@johnh.tuomala4379]

That's partly because Brad Pitt is a big leftie.

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

@@Schmulduar well if you’d won you could have made films about the Allies being ‘incompetent drones’ :)

[@rishz7857]

@@Schmulduar Yeah, ever watch eastern front movies where German soldiers seemingly don't have the common sense to take cover but rather mowed down by some commie bastard with a revolver & broken wooden spoon! Makes me sick.

[@hardrockfreak1337]

Maybe the one is Fury didn't detonate. Well within the realm of possibility. I mean the Punisher would have been blown to smithereens if it had.

[@algizWl]

1944 отличный фильм

[@Dr.W.Krueger]

luckily future tanks will leave out the weakest part; the crew

[@Meo_1987]

Chiếc nón sắt của người đức, nhìn họ như những kị sĩ . tôi thích tiếng Đức. Nó rất cuốn hút người nghe

[@panzerfaust1063]

It’s me !!!

[@ryleeculla5570]

POV the panzers shreks use be like let’s just say explosive

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

The Panzerschrecks* used* to* be like ...

[@Nikitas1978]

fury is nicely done but woefully unrealistic

[@themonopolyguy4365]

“Tank Fist”

[@chacdogful]

Interesting…specific… topic. And first I suppose 🙄 lol What propelled it? Was it made like a modern rpg??

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Very simple blackpowder propellant charge in the tube. Recoilless as the propellant exited behind the tube. Just don't stand behind anyone using these.

[@chacdogful]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq but it seems like it has power behind it while flying. If that’s a controlled black powder rocket that’s interesting because usually a fuse in black powder is 💥

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

RPG is the launcher. The PG-2 projected grenade was based on the Panzerfaust but the launcher (RPG-2) is not disposable. Neither the Panzerfaust or the PG-7 have a sustain motor. All propellant is burnt on launch. The later PG-7 propelled grenade has a sustain motor and is fired from the more famous RPG-7 launcher.

[@chacdogful]

@@bob_the_bomb4508 I understand the rpg 7 I guess it’s a very specific load of black powder to keep it from going 💥 on launch in the tube

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

@@chacdogful to be very picky it’s not ‘black powder’, but a different type of low explosive propellant. The low velocity of detonation of the launch cartridge, combined with the recoilless design, means there isn’t a great deal of shock imparted to either the PG-2 or PG-7 warheads on launch. Also they have piezoelectric-initiated detonators which requires a contact against the nose of the warhead to initiate them, plus a couple of other safety mechanisms built in. Also the HE charge itself is very stable.

[@Tony.L9793]

i wonder these anti tank weapons are still effective against some great modern tanks

[@noobster4779]

I doubt it. The RPG is in its basic function very similar to it and modern armor is seriously good at defending against those. Although this highly varies fromt ank to tank. The best place to be a crew member of would propably a MErkava tank do to its main funciton beeing crew protection (arent that many Israelis to use for the army so humans are ins hort supply, better keep them safe) while I would be to sure about the russian tanks, especially the remaining cold war ones, because russian doctrine during the cold war was basically to expect total loss of the initial tank force within 2 weeks of WW3...so they designed them about easy replaceability with comparably more expendable crews.

[@mbr5742]

Define modern and tank. Leopard 1 - yes. Leopard 2 - maybe from the rear

[@dingdongyo6018]

Panzerfaust…

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

oh big time

[@LiteralmenteUmaMulher]

It fausts Panzers...

[@Quannutus]

fury is so damn innacurate