Rare German Tank Factory - Panzer Fabrik - Footage.

[@GHOST5663]

Incredible footage, I have never seen such a good quality WW2 production film. Just the infrastructure, factories, engineering machinery and human skill. It just goes to show what we can do for a perceived common cause and American money.

[@warwarneverchanges4937]

I just realized they used crew or maintenance soldiers to mount the tracks at the factory and also gained training to mount tracks in the field a quite common failure even for modern tracked vehicles. Genius and very effective.

[@GeneralZkar]

Really interesting video, nice to se a panzer 3 being made, it's one of my favourites 😊

[@PanzerInsight]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@GeneralZkar]

@PanzerInsight and we all know about the stug life 😁👌

[@PanzerInsight]

@@GeneralZkar

[@donl1846]

Wow to think these are really craftsmen; welders, toolmakers, machinist etc...pretty amazing and skilled men regardless what they are making etc. !

[@lewcrowley3710]

Nibelungenwerk was a tank assembly complex that mostly made Panzer IV. The Videos mostly showing Panzer III/StuG and other assembly areas. They did work on the Ferdinand TD and even the JagdTiger, but it was the Panzer IV that should be in the videos.

[@PanzerInsight]

Thank you for the information.

[@juliet7bravo]

It's a compilation from various factories to include the Hotchkiss plant in France I think. A lot of it's the Alkett plant. The German officer supervising in some of the scenes (1st half), I think might be Alfred Becker.

[@timothywood4402]

AMAZING ! The FCM 7.5cm/10.5cm footage is new to me. Great job.

[@mwanderson667]

wow is right. If the internets are correct, fewer than 2 dozen were rebuilt into German AVFs.

[@BoxxArt]

Thanks for the upload, a lot I had not seen before. Did you notice the pz3 hitting the parked stug at about 14:10? 😅

[@ВладимирПриданов-в4в]

Крайне интересные кадры. Сразу обращаешь внимание на высочайшую культуру производства. В 2003 году на одном из крупнейших заводов Санкт- Петербурга (Россия) наблюдал момент проверки покупателями из Китая германского вертикально- расточного станка с диаметром стола около 12 метров. Станок был произведен приблизительно в 1933- 34 году и находился в рабочем состоянии. В СССР попал в результате выплат Германией по репарациям по итогам Мировой войны 1939- 45 годов. В годы войны в СССР существовала практика привлечения танковых экипажей к сборке на танкостроительных заводах машин, на которых им предстояло воевать. И, кстати, зачастую у станков стояли подростки в возрасте 14 лет. Автору канала,- огромная благодарность за уникальные кадры.

[@georgepeacock2837]

Back when people knew how to build things. Great video!

[@sdkfz6790]

Thank you

[@PanzerInsight]

You're welcome.

[@chriskylo323]

Awesome footage thx much! Can’t wait for my shirt to arrive great merch shop btw!

[@PanzerInsight]

Thank you and I hope you will enjoy your shirt.

[@richardloyal9038]

precious and absolutely magnificent video

[@TomStarcevich-fb3qo]

Awesome video 📹 👏

[@tommodica-xk5pt]

curious when and where the film was discovered

[@Akna6901]

these are multiple films put together... most of them are probably for propaganda

[@juliet7bravo]

Sort of drives home how time, tool, and tooling intensive German engineering was.

[@gruppenfuhrer45]

Wow how cool. Makes me think after they left the factory how long did they last…..

[@mwanderson667]

Is the audio for what is happening (tools clanking, etc.) original? If so, I would be nice to not have the music score overlaying it, would rather be able to hear only authentic audio.

[@lecirus2140]

ça fait rêver! des chars tout neufs!

[@Sr.Joakin]

...... Gracias por colgar el video , interesante .......... esas maquinas que aterrorizaron a Europa , tán dóciles viéndolas al construirlas , ...

[@braxxian]

German industry was never set up to meet the demand of a long protracted war. As long as they were winning quick easy victories everything was ok. That didn’t happen in Russia, that’s where it all started to unravel.

[@clivemortimore8203]

Comparing what was shown in this video and what I have seen about the assembly of M3 and M4s in the USA I can see the Germans appear as useless as us Brits in mass production of tanks.

[@juliet7bravo]

Germans never really had mass production lines like the USA did for large equipment like planes and tanks. To a degree, they couldn't get past a one-off "craftsmanship" mindset. Then add in how insanely complicated some of their hardware was, like tank transmissions and final drives, with extremely fine tolerances required. No kidding works of art, but not real practical in the real world...

[@jacvanloon4209]

🤙&😎

[@henkvermeer8652]

Ik hoop dat Elon Musk YT snel opkoopt.

[@PanzerInsight]

Ik hoop wel dat hij leert zwaaien voor die tijd komt.

[@henkvermeer8652]

@@PanzerInsight Kom op! het was een prima zwaai! Hij legde zijn hart er in! men ziet weer iets dat er niet is.

[@Akna6901]

german humour

[@tsbjelland]

Why does everyone feel it is necessary to add crappy stock sounds to silent film?

[@PanzerInsight]

You can thank the Germans for adding them, because most of this is orginal German newsreel sound.