Panzerversuchsstation 96 - Henschel‘s Tank Testing Ground: Home of the E-100 (Paderborn, ’35 - 45)

[@CraigTanner-i6m]

Awesome video as always! I served with the Canadian army in Germany, 1980 1984, and trained yearly at Sennelager, great memories!

[@mauriciomorais7818]

I love your videos, WH! I'm a big fan of WW2 armour and this channel is excellent! I had never seen that photo 2:58 of all those panzer crewmen bunched together, amazing!

[@gagasmancave8859]

There were reportedly 2 panthers and 1 tiger very wrecked on the western side of the sennelager ranges I the late 80's

[@SlartibartfastTheFourth]

😮😮

[@stephenking27]

Excellent video. Very informative. Can you do a video focused on the overlapping road wheel suspensions unique to WW2 German AFVs. I’m fascinated by the engineering involved and their performance.

[@geoffreyscheuerman2378]

Great video. The German JagdTiger loaded onto the Amaercan Dragon Wagon is the fiirst time I've ever seen such a display! It had to be severly overloaded as it was never designed to haul such a beast.

[@rubenhoraciogentili4578]

Great video ! Vielen Dank !

[@x_der_mude_joe_x1090]

Finally someone who comments on their videos themselves instead of using a stupid AI, I think that's great. And the accent makes it a bit more personal 👌. It makes watching videos even more fun. Keep it up and thanks for uploading buddy. 👍

[@stephenoneill245]

The Americans thought Sennelager was the Fort Knox of Germany. When in 1945 US 3 Armd Div was told to race there to close the encirclement of the Ruhr pocket, trapping 376,000 of Model's forces, the 507th SS heavy armoured battalion picking up their new Königstiger at Sennelager, plus a grab bag of what little was left of the Wehrmacht after the failed Ardennes offensive ("Battle of the Bulge") and some Volksturm dad's army types rolled out to meet them and gave them a bloody nose. An entire Task Force column was shot up badly. Major General Maurice Rose ("Big Six") was also killed during the action. The area was nontheless taken in a few days. When the yanks moved on, it was taken over by British occupation forces and the training area was extended greatly. They still operate it for NATO forces.

[@SatelliteYL]

Great video. Lots of interesting information and film clips

[@LeveretteJamesClifford1955]

I went on Google Maps and looked at it. Because it is an active military base you can only zoom in so far. I see several post war tanks but cannot determine what type they are, and see three wading pools, as well as much room to take a tank driving. There are also some barracks and mounds to stop bullets when soldiers are doing target practice. The place is so big that when I zoom down as far as I can go I have to spend a lot of time moving the map around. Happily, the roads through the wooded areas are shown as translucent lines on the Google map. I am enjoying taking a break from the video in order to see the places you are showing. Now it's time to restart the video! Before I start again I want to show an expamle of why one can find misleading film clips in many, many channels about the war. I have seen the images of the Americans driving the Panther (s) through the trees in many KZbin videos about Normandy over the years and now I know where this is physically, so the next time I see this in another video and there is a topic other than Paderborn I will know. I know this is but one example and there are many more, such as a number showing film from 1942 in Russia with Russian and German tanks even though it is about the Battle of the Bulge and the German tanks are old Panzer 4s and Panzer 3s, and then suddenly an M4 Sherman and a Tiger B shows up, the only thing that is in common is the snow conditions. Thanks for posting this, I have learned something today that clears up some wrong things I have been led to believe.

[@laurinjoelschafhausen]

It is possible to walk around in some places of the smaller of the two training grounds. Back in the 90s even off roading was kinda accepted on Sundays. But times has changed. I live roughly 20 km away from it.

[@displacedyankee7819]

That M3 looks like one of the "German" tanks you would see in a crappy WW2 movie from the 60s.

[@philstaples8122]

I was based in Barker Barracks with 3RTR in Paderborn from 1984 to some time in 1986, great little town with lovely people and quite handy for the Sennelager training area, probably the worst Larger in the world ;)

[@89volvowithlazers]

Clear from the vid essay germans were toast in 1944. 3 guys building a prototype seriously the insanity is off the charts. At least the guy lasted the war. Wow crazy times. Very nice essay very well done and sourced❤❤

[@davidlagos9877]

genial..muchas gracias

[@kennethhoppe2259]

Education is important

[@Eric-kn4yn]

Lee grant inferior to panther tiger in climbing sherman had same running gear as lee grant would be inferior too.

[@TheYeti308]

They didn't build that equipment for the fun of it .

[@markdavis2475]

Any chance you can upload a version without the music? Great film but I can't hear your commentary.

[@alexmerkulov553]

янки были сильно возмущены как тигр держит удары!

[@bobjohnston9154]

Why do you show an American M3 Medium tank produced in 1941 at the beginning. Edit, lads, edit! Credibility is criticallll.

[@MrStick-oc7yo]

It appears to be a captured tank (from North Africa?) being put through its paces

[@davidshanahan5134]

The Germans are testing a captured tank, which is a very credible activity and does not need to be edited. Note the crosses painted on the tank.

[@lotharweisz4020]

Die tausendste Wiederholung mit einem schaurigem Kommentar. Da hilft nur abschalten.

[@bagpipe6417]

Die tausendste Wiederholung eines schaurigen Posts. Da hilft nur ignorieren.