Propaganda Footage from German Paratrooper Exercise- 16 June 1943 [Full HD]

During WWII, Germany was the first country to use paratroopers on a larger scale, they were employed during the invasion of Denmark and the Low Countries in 1940, for example during the famous assault on Fort Ében-Émael in Belgium on May 10th, where around 500 German paratroopers used gliders to land inside the fortress and capture it.
But their most famous operation was the invasion of Crete, where over 14,000 German paratroopers landed on the island and managed to conquer it in May/ June 1941.
However, the Germans suffered heavy losses during these landings, both in men and planes, which prompted Hitler to believe the age of large-scale paratrooper landings is over, and no further use of airborne landings was planned.
Unlike the Germans, the Allies were impressed with the German landings on Crete, and began to form their own tactics for large-scale airborne operations, which were successfully employed on Sicily, in Normandy and during the famous Operation Market Garden.
Germany, on the other hand, only used paratroopers after 1941 as regular ground troops, mostly on focal points on the front that were under high pressure. The German paratroopers, still considered elite formations, were famous even amongst the Allies, and paratroopers often offered heavy resistance, both in Italy and on the Western Front in 1944/45.
Actual paradrop training was continued until early 1944. This video is a short clip from German paratroopers conducting training in June 1943, shown in propaganda newsreels. It shows them boarding planes, dropping and advancing on their mock target.
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Subtitles made by me.

[@GermanWWIIArchive]

Check out my Patreon if you want to support me: patreon.com/GermanWWIIArchive Remarks: 00:34 Here, paratroopers can be seen wearing their specific paratrooper helmet, and also the so-called “bonesack” (Knochensack), a nickname for the parachute jump smock that was worn to protect the paratrooper. It formed the basis for both the British and American jump smock. 00:36 This song is the Paratrooper-Song (Fallschirmjägerlied), also known by its first line “The sun shines red” (Rot scheint die Sonne). It was composed and written by Friedrich Schäfer (1919-1992), who himself was a paratroop commander and was awarded the Knights Cross in October 1944 for a paratroop operation during the Battle of Vercors in July 1944. With slightly different lyrics, it is still used by paratroopers of the modern German Army. 00:44 This plane is a Junkers Ju-52. It was introduced in March 1932 as a civilian passenger and transport plane, where it proved to be comfortable and reliable. During WWII, the Ju-52 was used by the German Air Force as their main transport plane, both for men and supplies, and was also used by paratroopers. However, its slow top speed of only 290kmh and its weak structure meant that many were shot down by enemy planes and AA-guns, it was generally outdated. During WWII, around 3,300 Ju-52 were built and delivered to the German Air Force until mid-1944. 00:47 The soldier on the left is a Obergefreiter (Airman first class), the officer on the right is a Hauptmann (Captain). They can be identified by their collar tabs. 02:25 Because the standard German rifle, the K98k, was too long and heavy, German paratroopers dropped without their weapons, only carrying a pistol. Rifles, MPs and MGs were dropped in weapon boxes. This proved to be a fatal flaw during for example the landing on Crete, where paratroopers often landed far away from their weapon boxes; sometimes these boxes even landed in enemy territory. That meant that paratroopers often couldn’t retrieve their weapons, causing high losses among them. 02:46 The tank on the right here is a Soviet T-40 amphibious scout tank. Developed in 1940, it was a light tank only equipped with a 12,7mm DShk MG, and protected with up to 13mm of armor, but it could cross rivers, it had a small ship propeller on the back (which is missing here). 962 were made between 1940 and 1941, but almost all were lost during the initial stages of Operation Barbarossa, and the tank was only used in training units after 1941. Many were captured by the Germans, but usually used only for training purposes, as shown here. 03:05 This soldier is using a “small wire cutter”, a standardized wire cutter used by German troops to cut enemy barbed wires.

[@twold4this]

Top posting... explanation and translation as usual.

[@suspiciousminds1750]

When watching these films I always like to place them in context of the war. By June of '43, the Germans had suffered some massive setbacks & defeats but still occupied huge amounts of territory and it wasn't quite clear yet to either side what the outcome would be. The tone and words of the narrator isn't defensive yet, which would change in the upcoming months.

[@egay86292]

then came Kursk.

[@theplayerofus319]

@@egay86292 its always funny to me to see the casultie rates and lost tanks/ airplanes and consider it a german loss even doe they killed 3:1 enemies WHILE they were the ones attacking.

[@vascotank2143]

@@theplayerofus319it’s simply because they then had to go defensive

[@Coconutscott]

The propaganda was laid on thick right up to when they could hear soviet artillery in Berlin. I think the German people realized they were being fed a load of shit right after Stalingrad.

[@reallyhappenings5597]

It was very clear that the tide had turned. This was 6 months after Stalingrad. On Feb 15th '43, Goebbels famously called for "total war" -- subtext, we're about to get invaded. The high officials were still in delusions, but the Ostfront was losing ground constantly. Defeats happening in Italy & N. Africa too.

[@coldfrostice]

My father was serving in Luftwaffe 1st. Fallschirmjäger Division (7 Flieger Division in Crete) the whole war. He was 18 years old when he on mai the 20th 1941 jumped over Crete in the first wave 0800 city of Heraklion i think. They had heavy losses, nearly 40% of one division (12500) was killed in a week i belive. The 5th Gebirgsjäger Division came and fought with them and they was forever brothers in arms.

[@memati7199]

40%??!!!! By who?

[@Herr_der_Herrlichkeit]

Greeks or Brits? ​@@memati7199

[@krazyeast9471]

My great Koro was in the maori battalion he fought in the battle of crete and made it home after ww2

[@hatersgonnalovethis]

My grand uncle died in that operation. He was a Hauptmann. My father and I became a paratrooper aswell.

[@thewhorenextdoor8268]

The Cretans are fierce fighters through the centuries​@@memati7199

[@MrLachlan09]

Regardless of who they fought for these were highly trained and excellent shock troops. Their bravery and ability to fight is beyond question.

[@a.g.4843]

True, but as always, soldiers die for nothing…or for the rich at best

[@eatniffer1944]

Always amazes me their shoots were just on their backs and not a full harness like the American and British designs. David Webster from easy company 101st airborne talks about in his memoirs that the night before their d-day jump they were shown Falschirmjager footage like this and when they saw how the jumped they all started laughing. After the film was over their commanding officer admonished them and attested to the Falschirmjager’s fighting prowess. Later that month in Carentan they definitely weren’t laughing anymore when they faced the Green Devils

[@BrandonSmith-ql9of]

Is the chute on the back the reason for the unnatural looking stance as they land? I've never jumped out of a plane but I could well believe the bit at the start about suffering losses with the way they were coming down, surely more than a few broken legs/ankles etc.

[@eatniffer1944]

@@BrandonSmith-ql9of yes. It was an extremely poor design

[@DenKHK]

@@BrandonSmith-ql9of Yes and yes. FJ chutes had the centre of gravity on the back, which both required a forward-leaning egress from the plane and caused a forward-leaning landing posture. Plus, no harness on shoulders means no way to steer, which means if you're headed for bad terrain you're screwed - like at 2:01. These traits resulted in many injuries. On top of that the design limited the weight a trooper could carry on him, so FJs were dropped with no weapons - or at most, pistols. The firearms were dropped in separate canisters which they then had to find and recover. While under heavy fire. Very strange design decision since LW pilots all use the more "regular" type harness and chute.

[@JeffEbe-te2xs]

Their chutes didn’t allow carry their weapons so had to use containers which landed away from them

[@josmoify]

german paras strategies to jump as low as 60m -150m compared to the US/brits 150m-300m ...that brought an extra urgency for the design of the chutes to open quite harsh which involved in higher chance of injuries .

[@northernskys]

Very interesting footage. They obviously changed some of the tactics since Crete. That was a hard lesson for the Fallschirmjaeger. There, because they always jumped low, the troops were only armed with pistols, grenades and knives. Their other weapons being in separately dropped containers. Which is one of the reasons they suffered such heavy casualties. But, in this video some of those jumping have their Kar98k's with them. Perhaps they were veterans of Crete who remembered....

[@georgemarian3563]

It was more due to the brits decyphering enigma and intercepting the exact locations where the paras would land. It was a rigged battle from the start.

[@DenKHK]

The FJ chute design (and the resultant forward posture) limited how much a trooper could carry on him - hence the separate containers for weapons. The guys jumping with their rifles were probably, as you say, veterans who figured "screw the loss of balance, Imma bring my boomstick with me"

[@johnhenry524]

Another problem is that they could not control their fall. Unlike Allied troops, they had no controls. They just floated down wherever.

[@timonsolus]

@@johnhenry524: Yeah, German parachutes were crap compared to British and American ones.

[@svenneff]

I had wondered about the guy carrying his weapon too! I bet he was a vet like yall said. I'd do the same thing. You want me to jump without a long arm? Ya ok....

[@RackwitzG]

I like how the narrater merely says "Pech gehabt!" (Bad luck!) as one of them lands in the mud.

[@JMENHART100]

Not sure if that was mud....? lol

[@amirferdhany3177]

@@JMENHART100 well, water? 😂

[@florinivan6907]

What do you want him to do?Go into a long speech about how traumatic landing in mud is?Perhaps 10 minutes of sad music about this tragedy.

[@kiiturii]

​​​​@@florinivan6907Bro the joke is that thanks to the bad design of the chute they had very little control where they landed, so the narrator just saying bad luck is pretty funny. stop being weird

[@gwanlee]

Great upload as always The German fallschirmjaeger were quite simply the best in WW2 Their training, equipment, tactics and combat ability were a generation ahead of everyone else in 1939.

[@chrissheppard5068]

Yes, in 1939.

[@AndreLuis-gw5ox]

yeah, then they became glorified infantrymen

[@geoland09]

Never surpassed by similar force, always fighting outnumbered, they were able to resist sieges by superior forces for months. Crete, Montecassino, Carentan, Russia, Africa...Without a doubt, the fallschirmjagger were the best soldiers of the IIWW, even though in 1944 they were no longer those veterans of their time of glory..

[@lemageelias7625]

Equipment ? No it was the british who got the best equipment

[@pfarentz]

The Americans had the best equipment. We were the only military in WWII to issue reserve parachutes. Every other nation was like well good luck that’s why we’re paying you extra.

[@Private-br6mc]

why these old films is more high resolution than my phone

[@theplayerofus319]

1. a modern smartphone can do way better 2. its a comparison of a consumer grade mass produced smartphone that can shoot pivtures as a feature against the best film equitment back in the day

[@bruhism173]

​@@theplayerofus3193. Lots of recoloring done to the old film

[@jelly.212]

Because you are dirt poor lol

[@raymondpease1925]

Are more high, not is more high is the proper English.

[@kurzanyer]

Abril inició bien con estas recomendaciones, mientras más corría el video, más épico se volvía el cortometraje. Gracias

[@sergeyleopard8872]

Deutsche Fallschirmjäger sprangen normalerweise mit nur einer Pistole und einem Kampfmesser herum. Die Waffen wurden in separaten Containern gelandet. Dies war der Hauptnachteil und die Ursache für Kampfverluste . Nach einer Landungsoperation auf Kreta begannen viele von ihnen mit einer angeschlossenen Maschinenpistole zu springen, was die Verluste sofort verringerte.

[@Rudis_Garage]

Hatte mich schon gewundert das sie ohne Haupt Waffe abspringen. Da ist man ja verloren wenn die Kiste nicht gleich gefunden wird. Mp40 wäre gut wegen der Länge. Kar98k ist zu lang beim abspringen.

[@garychambers6848]

At my elbow is a Flieger-Kappmesser / Luftwaffe Gravity Knife (LGK) that Dad brought back in 1945..... It has a drop down blade release button and a large "metal toothpick " on the other end (For untangling paracords on landing)...Tne toothpick just hang loose as those that saw action usually broke...( He was in Patton's 3rd army 687th fab)

[@abraxaseyes7]

The Bundeswehr kept the design of the OTF gravity knife until at least the 80's. I have a 70s vintage.

[@user-ls7ui9el8w]

Vielen Dank.

[@markeglitis6847]

Enjoying the content, thank you

[@tomw6271]

The way the fallschirmjaeger jumps from the plane with their arms out and ready to fly is so different from our airborne who cross their arms when they exit

[@forrestsmith9235]

For all you paratroopers out there, realize the ‘chutes the Germans jumped were “canopy first” openings meaning the canopy was fully open and the poor Fallschirmjager traveled to the ends of the shroud lines and then got one HELL of a shock.

[@raggedclawstarcraft6562]

"for all you paratroopers out there" - is it your mocking of the commenters in the comment section? 😁

[@forrestsmith9235]

Not at all. Modern paratroopers dont realize they have a “canopy last” system which means the shroud lines wre at full extension before the canopy opens and they get “opening shock” which is truly a shock but NOTHING compared to the “canopy first” system where the trooper travels to the full extension of the shroud lines and them is suddenl brought to a SHOCKING HALT

[@Jeremyramone]

Vielen dank, these are productions are excellent in various ways, especially Deutsche lernen.

[@a.g.4843]

With those videos you learn to speak military style 3rd reich german….

[@nedludd7622]

@@a.g.4843 If you are learning a language, it is useful to listen to and read anything and everything. That goes from the standard stuff to ads, comics, training films, politically oriented newspapers, etc.

[@alancharles202]

An interesting footnote is that the famed German boxing champ - Max Schmeling served as a German fallschirmjager after he returned to Germany following his loss of the heavyweight boxing match to Joe Lewis. He jumped into and fought in Crete. These elite warriors were proud German patriots who detested Nazism but wanted to serve with honor. This was also the personal credo of Max. A great man who incidentally had a Jewish boxing trainer ( which irritated Hitler as well as his loss to a black man ) while in the U.S. and helped Joe Lewis after the war financially when Joe was left destitute from wine, women, and song. As a former Israeli paratrooper I salute Mr. Schmeling and honor his memory .

[@mrmakhno3030]

I think its quite nice to heair German narrator's voices in wartime (Nazi Germany, East Germany and West Germany). They sounds pretty epic.

[@Grandizer8989]

1:13 what are those jugg things in his hand?

[@kleinweichkleinweich]

"mit den modernsten Angriffswaffen ausgerüstet ..." im Bild ein K98

[@GermanWWIIArchive]

Bezog sich wohl eher auf den hochmodernen Handkarren 😂

[@octyt217]

everyone is bitching about the Crete high casualties, maybe, but OP Mercury was the only successful pure airborne major battle of the entire war. I don't know what would have happened to 101st or 82nd airborne in Normandy if they had to fight without reinforcements for 10 days, maybe what happened to 1st airborne at Arnhem ?

[@GermanWWIIArchive]

Operation Merkur wasnt a pure airborne battle. The Germans had around 15,000 paratroopers and around 14,000 mountain troops (plus 700 mobile infantry from the 5th Tank Division) for the battle; but that also include reserve forces. In the actual battle, around 5 to 6,000 paratroopers took part; the majority of the German forces were mountain troops, which were landed later. Also, an entire Italian division, the 50th Infantry Division with 3,000 men, took part in the fight. So its not accurate to say that Operation Merkur was a "pure airborne battle".

[@octyt217]

@@GermanWWIIArchive the mountain division was brought up in battle by air and the other forces involved never played a major part, so yea its a pure AB operation

[@GermanWWIIArchive]

@@octyt217 What? Some of the troops were brought in via plane, yes, but they werent airdropped, they were just landed on an airport...thats not an airborne operation lol. Besides, troops were also brought in via ship.

[@BosaBogans]

Thank you once again for another amazing, informative well put together video and amazing footage. I Love your channel and all the hard work and research you put into every single video. This is way better than the boring history classes I took in school. I love the old German music in the background. 👍

[@saschaesken5524]

Max Schmeling war auch Fallschirmjäger ?

[@jaym8027]

He was - he jumped into Crete.

[@coldfrostice]

Ja. Und es war Auch drei bruder Blücher. They was all killed on Crete one of them was riding on a horse and attacked the Englishmen. Its's a well known story and when the General stab heard about it they told the fourth brother of the Blüchers, that served in the Krieg's Marine that he could go home to his mother and stay there. He was later killed in an hunting accident at the farm in Germany i think.

[@stephendezouzsa]

I don't like that harness they where using on their parachutes , it offered little control to where you where going to land

[@egay86292]

couldn't miss a puddle, can't miss a tree. what were they thinking?

[@dureteheiral1793]

That was one fundamental fault.. It usually ended up in uncontrollable landing, face first.. Or as depicted in this footage a body slam.. Trooper either would hurt their hands or knees or face or entire front of his body.. I wonder why the paras chose that single point chute and kept using it until the end of the war.. While there are better alternatives since early on..

[@user-jw1dc9uo6v]

Да. На Крите они поняли, что придумали и использовали полную ерунду.

[@bruhism173]

​@@dureteheiral1793this is a mark Felton level question

[@Ittou-Ogami]

Спасибо за русские субтитры 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

[@thomasbrown4291]

The Germans apparently had no steerability hanging as they did from their backs. The Allies didn't have much steerability either, though they could at least pull down a riser to attempt to clear obstacles. That trooper who landed in the mud puddle would have drowned if the water was deeper.

[@sumguyman8656]

Those exits were wild...jumping with Ammo boxes and rifles in hand!? I wonder how many were ended on the DZ by falling equipment.

[@geraldwilson681]

There was an SS Fallschirmjager formed during the war which surprised me. I read that Hitler held both SS and Fallschirmjager with such regards as to keep them for in reserve for later important and strategic battles.

[@meerkat1954]

Ironically that unit was not up to the quality level of many other Fallschirmjager or SS units. Sometimes too many ingredients spoil the soup.

[@matebognar5184]

2:23 One of the reasons why they lost so many paratroopers in Crete. They jumped without their weapons

[@lukesong-ok6bt]

You can see some of the soldiers boarding the plane with rifles.wonder they jump without their weapons?

[@GermanWWIIArchive]

@@lukesong-ok6bt I think they put their weapons in the weapon crates after boarding (Although I'm not 100% sure).

[@lukesong-ok6bt]

@@GermanWWIIArchive 0:59 you can see these soilders hold with rifles waiting for jump,I guess german maybe want to make some change because of heavy casualties in Crete

[@American97percent]

Странно что десантник находится под обстрелом 3:17, артиллерии, а не в тылу рядом с обстреливающим орудием.

[@dobs862]

The German para's were unable to adjust their landing due to the design of their parachutes which just let them dangle there until they landed which was not the case with the British and US designs which allowed some degree of control which was a distinct advantage in avoiding obstacles or points of danger .

[@forrestlindsey3947]

Astonishing primitivity for that time in the war: a single-point harness for their parachutes and the parachutists are spinning uncontrollably as they fall. They arrive virtually unarmed and have to hope that their weapons containers are somewhere near (and not covered by Allied fire) to be able to have an even basic infantry capability. They are still armed with KAR 98K bolt action rifles and that flamethrower is downright basic by US standards! And their transport? the ancient Junker Ju-52/3M! So much for the Nazi "advanced technologies"!

[@coldfrostice]

German Luftwaffe landed fallschirmjäger troops her in Norway to under the invasion in april 1940. They took airfield Fornebu in the capital of Oslo and airfield Sola in Stavanger. And i think they tried to hunt down the King Haakon and his family so Luftwaffe dropped fallschirmjäger over Namsos and later i think they went to Narvik.

[@P_nzer]

This is so cool thanks for sharing. I noticed the difference in American jumping techniques like the way planes were exited. I wonder if Americans had tried that and deemed it too risky? Idk😅

[@javiertisera355]

That was becuase the exit “door” was short, so they had to dive from the plane

[@user-osliki66]

[@collinseretis]

The Cretan’s on the ground were shooting the paratroopers in the air before they landed

[@daveweiss5647]

I always liked how the Germans organized their Paratroopers. Made them a part of the Airforce, like the Marines are for the Navy... it just made sense to me, instead of their main mode of transport being from an entirely different service. They could train and be on the same base as their air crews, the officers went to school together, etc. I guess in WWII when the AirCorp was a part of the Army for the US it wouldn't have been that big of a deal... interesting to think what would have been different if the Airborne units had gone over to the Airforce when they separated... I also believe the Luftwaffe had a lot more ground forces as well, troops for defending airbases (which I think the US airforce has to sone extent) as well as artillery- all the strategic AA guns, which I think the airforce also has to some extent... it definitely would have changed some things... like for instance how special forces is looked at, since most of the Army SF guys come up through the Airborne.

[@coldfrostice]

The Fallschirmjäger also used Gliding Planes in Holland and Crete maybe Sicilia to i'm not sure.

[@ThereAreNoBarriersToCross]

Is that ryan gosling on thumbnail 😭

[@comrade_kenobi]

You sir, are correct. Matter of fact, he's the one who sung "I'm just Giese"

[@AnimatedHistory90]

Cretans have a different opinion

[@daniellabra4186]

Just like the modern german army... Oops, sorry, I forgot, the modern german army doesn't have not even a Tante Ju...

[@egay86292]

Wahrheit.

[@zamanium7517]

Качество съёмки внатуре немецкое !!!!

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Do you want to live forever ?? Yep. I certainly don't want to die jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft. 😂

[@MrJal67]

"Hey, hold my beer..." 101st ABN & 82d ABN...

[@ingvarrr2774]

Klaus Kinski was one of them

[@saschaesken5524]

wirklich?

[@justman77.21]

The Wehrmacht-type parachutists were really serious guys who jumped off the plane without weapons, as we see in the propaganda video, since the weapons were thrown separately in boxes. After landing, the paratrooper had to immediately find and take weapons with him in order to continue the battle.

[@JeffEbe-te2xs]

Suffered high looses in Belgium also

[@JZsBFF]

What airborne losses do you refer to?

[@intelprointelpro4452]

Un peu de technique : ce modèle de parachute allemand ne stabilisait par le parachutiste qui tournait sur lui-même. Ça complique l'atterrissage en fonction du vent. Actuellement les élévateurs sont au-dessus des épaules.

[@ernstlotz]

Wozu?

[@shortwalk8551]

Was based at Tofrek Kasserne Hildesheim with 5 Hy RA early 80’s, it was a LW Fallschirmjäger base in ‘40’s and had a memorial to them there, always had top respect for these soldiers but often wondered about the aircraft exit, very strange, also didn’t know they jumped without personal weapon.

[@esothetics]

Ryan Gosling also parachutes. 0:47

[@phyllisfager6689]

Who

[@ahsan_satriani]

I always think that Fallschirmjaeger is the opposite Airborne

[@bruhism173]

How tf was anyone supposed to walk away from these Landings without breaking an entire leg

[@chellenta1175]

Плохо кажется приземляются, но это лучше десантникам оценивать. Нужно кажется группироваться перед приземлением, а они почти на прямых ногах.

[@tonigrinton_9821]

Si sa di quale reggimento appartengono!?

[@DisappointingRooster]

A 3:05 dice solo che si preparano ad essere impiegati in vari reggimenti

[@angloaust1575]

Even the airborne drop in the bulge battle was a disaster For them!

[@laurentdevaux5617]

Propaganda is the right word. The film dates back to 1943, but after their bloody failure in Crete in 1941 where they suffered terrible losses, the German paratroopers were never again used as such, at least in important operations. They only became a sort of so-called elite infantry

[@MultiSpinks1]

2:03 I bet he yelled "scheisse" at this point

[@deserteagle-nx1hl]

2:11 Landing speed way too high. No wonder many German paratroopers broke their legs while invading Crete.

[@drob437]

I would rather jump with my own rifle secured to me. Grabbing a random rifle from that container is not a good idea.

[@MegaCk666]

Here the real "helljumpers"

[@wimweender1306]

immer vorwärts !

[@danieleriksson6146]

What is Mark Felton doing in the thumbnail? Had no idea he started out in the wehrmacht before moving to the UK…

[@zillsburyy1]

they paid a high price for mercury (crete)

[@JZsBFF]

00:50 Is that Uncle Adolf himself driving the bus?

[@stefanadamcik8221]

I don't know why the title of the video is "propaganda". The german fallshirmjager were capable of performing every task depicted in the film. And then some.

[@GermanWWIIArchive]

Whether or not something depicted is true or not changes little about the fact that it's still propaganda.

[@oldguy8177able]

i think the germans paratroopers will remember crete

[@dankwartdenkhardt5714]

Es sind des größten Ruhmes Träger, die unerschrocknen Fallschirmjäger. Sie landen in des Feindes Rücken und sichern den Besitz der Brücken. Fortsetzung folgt....😉

[@cyberman5469]

Они здохли на русской земле

[@shikhartiwari1713]

Sir is propoganda necessary during the state of war in a country

[@bobg6638]

They needed all the propaganda they could make by June 1943. It was all kaput by then.

[@wadanemacho]

帅呆了！

[@JohnMcDonald-ef5gz]

What is the name of this nasally voiced.,rapid talking narrator?

[@Peter-id5fb]

Da hats gestaubt

[@geo3336]

they all met ther masters in Greece Crete

[@sotiriospapafragkou4422]

They got their asses handed over to them in the battle of Crete.

[@pavels7432]

СССР всех их успокоил

[@desydukuk291]

Why are their lips so thin?

[@noela6370]

Le parachute est vraiment nul pas moyen de se diriger avec les suspentes !

[@russboatright2360]

Crete invasion successful due to British incompetence.

[@TheYeti308]

German Paratroopers were the most effective Airborne arm in WW 2 .

[@NotLazySelectivelyMotivated]

You really need to study more. They were never used again after Crete. They basically became infantry.

[@angloaust1575]

Crete victory for germans was caused by a tactical error by allies abandoning Hill 107 at maleme

[@user-uw6ve4pg1o]

Немцы умные, молодцы! Прикрутили колёса и покатили - наши бы русские тащили без колёс (их бы просто не было в проекте) надрываясь... Так было и когда я служил 2001-2003, бардак в армии!

[@jeffreybutcher4451]

Yo is that Mark Felton in the thumbnail 😂

[@poppaleggansquat3640]

Really poor design on their chutes, I wonder how many were injured before seeing combat?

[@Ardass486]

Their boots are much better quality than what we had in the 1970s for such operations.. DMS boots n puttees 🫤