The Alley by Otto Funk | The Report of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend in Normandy

[@stuglenn1112]

That's a good picture showing the Italian camo the 12th SS used.

[@Der_Mann_223]

As always nice videos Thanks for sharing ❤

[@waracademy128]

Ty

[@nzmonsterman]

Great video about an even greater division. I have been there, a very moving place when you understand the history. Thank you as always.

[@AndyRoss-z3t]

Actually .....read some history, While often celebrated in media, the 12th SS Panzer was actually quite ineffective throughout their campaigns both in Normandy throughout the early summer of 1944 and then again in December 1944 during the Ardennes Offensive. During this campaign the 12th achieved not one of their mission / invasion objectives, suffering severe losses thanks to poor planning and suicidal mobile infantry assaults against entrenched US positions in the northern quarter of the Ardennes. They were poorly prepared but full of vigor and morale. That much is clear.

[@nzmonsterman]

@AndyRoss-z3t would love to know what history you're reading? Comando comics ?

[@markanderson3870]

@@nzmonsterman Why comics? Are you referring to No Ambush, No Defeat, The Advance of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade, 7 June, 1944, by Marc MIlner? Or are you just making a stupid dumb-assey comment? What have you been reading? Please respond, I'm really curious, monsterman from nz.

[@nzmonsterman]

@@markanderson3870 just on 12ss? Hitlerjugend the history of the 12ss by Hubert Meyer, or general a couple of that area, armour battles of the Wss 43 to 45 Will Fey, Panzers in Normandy, Eric Leffevre, History of the Sherwood Yeomanry, Tank War, Mark Urban 5th Royal Tank Regiment, I'll stop there as I don't need to list my library just to please you, and thats just a couple that would disagree with the 12ss being ineffective.

[@markanderson3870]

@@nzmonsterman So you can read books. And you have a big ego. But that doesn't mean you fully understand the books, or have compared them to other books with different points of view. Understanding history is more than just reading and being a fanboy. And just because you read books doesn't mean you're right about the 12th SS being effective. Clearly against the Canadian 3rd Division they were not, they took too many casualties and failed in their mission. So maybe your reading is about an alternate universe where the 12 SS succeeded. How effective are you if you sustain massive causalities, even if you achieve your objective? Many historians would say, not very.

[@UberRammer]

The Canadian officer in the photo of the German officer surrendering is Vivian Currie and he is buried in my hometown Owen Sound

[@brandongardner9829]

Great video, thank you.

[@peterlinz2733]

Der Blick des einen Soldaten(Otto Funk) sagt alles.

[@Briselance]

Aye. Exhausted in mind and quite possibly in body too. The Thousand-Yard Stare, they call it.

[@peterlinz2733]

@Briselance Kino Scheiße.

[@kevincraven4038]

In the days following the invasion both 21st SS Panzer Division and 12th SS Panzer Division were shelled from HMS Rodney in the English Channel. Using 16 inch guns and high explosive shells that weighed over a ton, and travelled over 25 miles, there are reports of the SS tanks being thrown high into the air on impact.

[@brandonkew9122]

Great video. His name is pronounced phonetically like Oh-Toe Foonk

[@michaelhaines3451]

Thank you for this!

[@waracademy128]

Ty

[@oceanhome2023]

It shows that soldiers “WAR FACE !”

[@rymoe6299]

My Grandfather John Jones. 7th RWF was a number two on a mortar team. Landed on sword and went to cairn. Eventually leaving it and headed for Arnham, denbosch and eventually shot near Hamburg.

[@Briselance]

Shot and killed, I presume? :-(

[@rymoe6299]

@ no Lived until 2014

[@willygunnerlewis5468]

Great video but mis-identification of Schuh and Hamel. You say Hamel standing further down the alley - this is actually Schuh - Hamel cant be seen in this picture. The rest are correctly identified.

[@petegkSalonika]

The defenders of Caen, fought greatly against the Allies until the order was given to the airforce, hundreds of bombers leveled the city to the ground causing heavy causalities to the Hitler-Jugend division and forcing it to retreat and never used again as compact army force ....

[@christx3326]

Different version of history channel has 100's of interviews with German soldiers, foreign volunteers (mostly Waffen SS), & civilians, too. There are a lot of excellent interviews, conducted by a US serviceman stationed in Germany during the 1980s

[@f.dmcintyre4666]

Hey 👋👋👋 where do I find this??? Thanks

[@RickJZ1973]

Very interesting video. Image of Otto Funk is so iconic. Great knowing the historical background info. On a unrelated side note, would be cool to know the name of the soldier in the iconic photo taken after the ambush st Poteau during the Ardennes offensive.

[@IanHardcastle-l2z]

Great video. The W in Waffen in pronounced like V.

[@40beretta1]

My Grandfather was a TC in the 777th Tank Battalion. They faced off against the Jugen SS division. We have several $$ belt buckles from the captured teenagers. He told my dad, "They were the most fanatical, well-trained, and driven of any unit they faced-completely insane."

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage episode about furiously, boldly fighting by Hitlers yougen SS divisions in Normandy at 1944 .. thank you an amazing ( War Academy) channel. For sharing this magnificent video

[@waracademy128]

Ty

[@MikeyMike-fb5hx]

Disgusting what they made those young boys do. A lot were younger than 17. They would hang em if they wouldn't fight. Just a nasty time in German History!

[@Hereward47]

@@MikeyMike-fb5hxshut up you wet fart.

[@antoniasorianoperez2746]

Good history Channel

[@markaxworthy2508]

It took 18 months to get the 12th W-SS Division from inception to the front. Most Army divisions destroyed at Stalingrad the same month the 12th was ordered formed were reconstituted and returning to battle in just over six months. Even some W-SS divisions lower down the order of battle saw action earlier. One has to wonder whether its protracted formation was worth the diversion of so much prime manpower for so long? Albert Speer likened its virtual destruction in only two months in Normandy to the "kindermord" of German university students in 1914. Both saw the destruction of valuable sources of junior leaders in the future.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

You just just don't throw crack units together in 6 to 12 weeks. Germany at that time still had manpower reserves that that they could be siphoned off from industry and trained to a resonably high level. Plus with each passing year another group of 18 year olds came of age. There was a great reluctance to us women in industry due in large part to NS Germanys's political philosophy regarding using women in certain jobs. Germany was basically stuck in a long term manpower crisis. Slave labor, paid foreign labor and some allied volunteer made up up for the deficiancies in the drafted manpower. Of course German women were more than ready to take the place of their men in industry if that was what it took for the war effort. As time went on more and more of them were used in these jobs as the upside greatly outweighed the downsides of using women in the workforce.

[@scientiaaclabore3362]

The 12. SS-Panzer-Division was not destroyed in Normandy. In fact, on 22 August 1944, after the escape from the Falaise Pocket, the division still had about 12,000 soldiers at disposal. This is one of the long-standing myths, which is repeated to this day. It comes from the incredibly poor research done by several authors in the West, who interpreted the division's low infantry _Kampfstärke_ (frontline combat strength), reported at the end of August 1944 (300 troops), as if it was the total strength of the entire division. Total casualties during the Normandy Campaign (6 June-22 August 1944) amounted to 8,000 dead, wounded and missing, with its _Iststärke_ (actual strength) on 1 June 1944 being 20,540 soldiers. So while most of the division's infantry became casualties, its other combat units were still in fighting shape, even if depleted, while its rear services were largely intact.

[@markaxworthy2508]

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 You say, "You just don't throw crack units together in 6 to 12 weeks." Very true. However, the 12th W-SS shows they can be destroyed in that time.

[@sthrich635]

​@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 One thing about German women having little involvement in war industries is it wasn't just some political ideas of NS Germany or some might say their undermining of war effort, but it was a practical policy regarding the deeper context of Germany war situation. Homefront was not just about the factory workers or laborers, but it also included many critical rear services, including nurses for wounded, clerk for administrative works, radio operators for communication, and increasingly in latter war years, air raid civil relief in many cities. These areas were largely and increasingly served by German women since men went to fight and forced labors weren't reliable enough for these tasks. And of course German women were still needed to run the bare minimum of civilian aspect in Germany, like raising children, distributing foods and stuff etc. Despite more or less shunned away from arms factories until at the very end, German women had (and required by the Party no less) to contribute much to Germany war effort, just not in gun or tanks or plane factories many casual people only focus on. And unlike American industries, German industries were much heavy on manual labor than machinery. And given German factories were frequent targets of air raid, the Germans realized it was better to kept more expendable manpower there and to minimize morale damages.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

@@sthrich635 A lot of what you wrote goes without saying. That German women were underutilized from 1939 - 1942 goes along with the german economy in general, Total war only really began after Stalingrad. By using German women instead of slave or various types foreign labor in general, whether paid or not, there was little to no worry over sabotage using German or German Allied women. If your suggesting that somehow American Manufacturing techniques for heavy industry were more advanced and less dangerous to women workers I don't think German women were used in any kind heavy industry but for a variety of different reasons. That's where most of the forced or even paid male foreign labor force, plus POW's (and there was a lot of that type of labor) both western and eastern POW types was utilized. If and when it was available. German women simply weren't needed in that area of production. That's why Germany didn't use their women there. It wasn't something that was looked down upon socially or was anymore more dangerous than working in dispersed factory locations. The Western Allied Air forces had no compunction about killing women in bombing raids no matter where they happened to be located. Germany was NEVER concerncerned about morale from Allied Bombings and civian casualties. It just made the Germans hate the Allies even more. The same thing applied to "the Blitz" of 1940. British morale never went down because of the bombing of civilians area in London or any other British City.

[@MrMenefrego1]

Even the great Julius Ceasar noted the fierceness of Germanic tribes in combat. For thousands of years, the world has experienced the cunning efficiency of the German soldier. My father fought the Germans in WWII and said that if the number of Allied troops was not overwhelming and did not outnumber the Germans by far, German forces would always come out victorious.

[@uweyaa]

Top Bericht 👍👍👍, weiter so !

[@Buckblacket]

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away...

[@DavidEden-nc2oe]

For those who don't speak German, "Hitlerjugend" means "Hitler Youth". Though it is pronounced various ways in this video, the correct pronunciation is "yoo-gint".

[@paul8058]

I've got the greatest respect for our Anglo Saxon brothers. We should of never of fought them. In hindsight we could of given up a bit of our empire for them to save the lives of these fine European men.

[@micksmith106]

Well said, pal. I'm also an Englishman of Anglo-Saxon blood . They were of our own ancestors blood...we should have never gone to war over that European conflict...end of..

[@TonyWhite-n9p]

" given up a bit of our empire" What are you on about? Britain declared war on Germany after that country invaded Poland. Hitlers lebensraum ambitions looked east and had nothing to do with the British empire.

[@paul8058]

@TonyWhite-n9p I'm fully aware of that. Germany needed more land for its people after the restrictions we put on them after the first world war. We should of given Germany back their colonies they had in Africa. Their was plenty to go around for everyone. We would still have India if we hadnt gone to war. No one benefited.

[@TonyWhite-n9p]

​@@paul8058 The German colonies were miniscule in comparison to the other Euro imperialists. While the treaty of Versailles was ridiculously restrictive, the loss of Germanys tiny African holding was not high on her list of grievances. Germany is a big country and had (and has) plenty of living space. Hilters warped, race based world view was what started his war of conquest in the east. "Still have India" Really? History is not about "if", its about what happened. Nobody can say with any certainty what you have. The British empire was in financial decline after WWI. This is evident by Irish independence in the 1920's. That sent a clear message to the rest of the colonies: if the country nearest to London can become independent, so can we. To say that "we would still" rule over 1.4 billion people in 2024 if Britian didnt go to war in 1939 is rather ridiculous.

[@paul8058]

@@TonyWhite-n9p My point is as Europeans we should always have the whip hand over those countries. We could of chucked in a few extra African countries as part of the deal and just conquered some more. We shouldn't of been fighting our brother man, we should of focused more on the other man. With regards to ireland that was a disgrace. I'm actually related to Tom Barry

[@frankanderson5012]

Not sure what to make of this. Pronounced Caen three different ways - all wrongly. The Germans destroyed a Churchill tank by aiming at its fuel tank? Seems one of the most heavily armed tanks of the war would not have its fuel tank unarmoured to be shot at. If it was external then that catching light also wouldn’t destroy the tank for various reasons.

[@aps125]

I have a hoopla app account, has been listening to WW2 books narrated by both British and American readers. They all pronounced Caen as “con”

[@dave6635]

Churchill crocodile flame thrower tank pulled a trailer of fuel. But I believe it was a panzerfaust that was used to disable the tank. I've read about this battle before. I think it's from Kurt Meyers memoirs.

[@samy7013]

Fun fact: The Israeli regime army’s so-called “Nahal Brigade” is ideologically and organizationally modeled after the 12th SS HJ.Pz.Div.

[@scotthill8787]

“Ideologically?”

[@davie8906]

If that was now, they'd be allied with Israel. No islamifcation agenda by the islamifcation of Europe by Arab infantry

[@Jagdkomodo]

I doubt everything he says except "ideologically" ​@@scotthill8787

[@michaelhaines3451]

Can you expand on that? Looks like the Israeli brigade consists of 4 battalions of infantry and an engineer battalion. 12SS had 6 infantry battalion (one armored) , an engineer, recon, anti tank, anti aircraft battalions. Not to mention an entire artillery and panzer regiment. Seems to be very different.

[@samy7013]

@@scotthill8787 : Yes, _ideologically_ . Militant Revisionist Zi0ni5m-the state ideology of the Israeli regime-is quite _literally_ (not figuratively) the Jewish formulation of Nazism.

[@marcellalyons429]

Experts agree that the German military was without a doubt the best all around without question. They just couldn’t replace their losses, especially when their factories got bombed. Had they been able to replace losses, they could have won the war no problem.

[@Smaragdschloss]

We could have won, if the German's biggest problem would not had been treason and sabotage within the own rows. Even the Reich's 2nd man, Martin Bormann (secret agent name "Werther") was a traitor and agent of Stalin, who told him about every step about the German's plans and equipments. Hitler stopped the British from destroying the Germans in Dunkirk, because then the war would have been over for Britain and the Americans would never have been able to land there, which would also have been true for the Afrika Korps and Normandy. The traitors were in the most important positions, they reported to the enemy when ships sent supplies for the Afrika Korps, so that these ships were bombed immediately. Due to sabotage by stupid Germans, fewer and fewer planned supplies arrived at the front, or the wrong things were deliberately delivered, e.g. winter clothing to Africa and condoms to the Soviet Union. There were traitors in the 'Abwehr' who advised the Spanish General Franco not to let any German troops through to Gibraltar and not to participate on the German side. And Hitler, probably a traitor himself, did not succeed in conquering and occupying Gibraltar. The Suez Canal was not destroyed or closed either. The Mediterranean would have been closed to the Allies, the Afrika Korps would not have had to surrender, there would have been no two- and three-front war if Rommel and his chief of staff Hans Speidel had reacted to the reports of attacks in Normandy. Instead, everything was done to transfer German troops, weapons and ammunition away from Normandy. There were also unfortunate criminals who prevented successful weapon designs and played into Stalin's hands by preventing the Russian peoples oppressed by the Soviets from fighting on the German side. Bormann's friend, the Bolshevik Gauleiter of East Prussia, Erich Koch, called these peoples subhumans and drove them to the cruel partisans, which were prohibited under international law. Bormann increasingly shielded Hitler from his generals and issued false Führer orders, and Hitler protected him because he did not want to believe that the Bolshevik Bormann was the highest traitor in the Wehrmacht High Command. The Germans lost the war again unnecessarily through betrayal from their own ranks and through good faith. Even today, high traitors and traitors rule our country. Germany is not a state either, but a company licensed in the USA/Delaware. We are being lied to and cheated because the entire post-war order was built on the propaganda lies of the victors. Why are so many files still kept secret from the world public to this day? Because then this post-war order, the US hegemony, would collapse because of the creditor and debtor contracts, including the NWO. You only have to look at who the people were who financed both sides. We were all played off against each other by this international banking mafia through lies and deceit, and almost all countries went bankrupt through the debt economy, which meant that they were secretly converted into companies, because companies are easier to expropriate, and so are their staff (see identity card and identification with the legal person under Roman law). Those who strive for world domination because of the alleged biblical prophecy that they would then own all material things on earth need control over all central banks, and those who refuse to lease control of their own currency to this international banking mafia for 99 years are discredited, stigmatized, sanctioned and fought against as "rogue states". See the German Empire, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Iran, North Korea, and Putin also refused to extend the old Lend & Lease contract, which is why the company 'USA' (who always appear with the war flag and the golden border of British maritime and commercial law, which does NOT serve American interests!!!) then staged a coup in Ukraine in violation of international law, set up bioweapons laboratories against the Russians and generally set up a military threat scenario as blackmail on the Russian border. Why have the Germans been denied a peace treaty from 1918 to today? Because the USA would then be bankrupt for good, as they would no longer be able to return our stolen gold reserves, and because the liabilities as creditors to all debtors from the world wars would then be dissolved, which could also avoid the danger of a third world war, as the abolition of the SHAEF laws would mean that no country would be forced to militarily support the USA, which by the way is once again facing bankruptcy because of fiat money, in one of its campaigns of world conquest.

[@stuglenn1112]

Well there is that old saying logistics wins wars. Actually when you look at the industrial capacity of both the US and USSR verses the Germans it makes me Wonder what the hell the Germans were thinking.

[@MajSolo]

a bit tense atmosphere in this video, had to run for tobacco and watch every bigger channel cover the same thing over and over again they all cover the same. This channel can also do as the bigger but not big channels. But the channel can at the same time do as Mark Felton and tell less known stories and give life to those stories. These stories exist in war diaries, unit war diaries, and in books published after WWII. Ah! I got ONE like as in 1 like as usual. That means there is >someone< there that closely think the same and must both have his own view but see my view and that we two are walking through the landscape of KZbin at least in viewing distance of each other.

[@aps125]

One question bothered me for long time. As Heer (the German Army) was in charge of equipping the entire ground troops, why it gave priority to a few select Waffen SS formations, which were army’s rival? Was the such decision came from the top

[@frankvandergoes298]

Waffen SS Divisions never got priority for supplies or equipment. This is a popular myth. Whermacht units like Panzer Lehr, Grossdeutchland and even perhaps Herman Goering were always better equipped than SS Divisions.

[@aps125]

@@frankvandergoes298 Classic SS panzer div plus 12th SS were always fully authorized in manpower and TOE before major battles, same thing can be said to Panzer Lehr and GD but not for the remaining Heer panzertruppe. On average, ordinary SS and army panzer or panzer grenadier divisions were pretty even, that I concur. But considering elite armored formations, you have only two Heer units vs 5 in Waffen SS (6 if you threw in Wikings). The disparity was pretty obvious

[@sthrich635]

​@@aps125 One thing with Waffen SS as a whole combat branch, it was a rather polarized organization compared to the Heer - Roughly one third of Waffen SS were either Panzer or PzGren divisions, seen as higher tier units in German forces due to its motorized nature, and accordingly given priority of supplies compared to regular non-motorized infantry units. But the remaining two-thirds of Waffen SS troops were low quality, undermanned, mostly foreign, and some only division-in-name. These units were even lower tier than regular Heer infantry divisions, and arguably around or below Heer static divisions - and accordingly they were only provided bottom of barrel priority good for rear lines terror tactics and rarely considered for frontline service. Under these circumstances, intention or not, at the frontline where most eyes were, the Waffen SS created an impression that it was better equipped or trained than the Heer counterpart, since those SS divisions fit for frontlines were very good ones, while the bad ones were so bad it was usually a last resort thought, and so, on frontlines most Waffen SS were rightfully well-trained Panzer units, easily stood out among regular Heer infantry troops which was literally everywhere on German frontlines. Despite such, one could argue the disparity between Heer and Waffen SS were slightly exaggerated often, such "obvious disparity" was more-or-less engineered by Waffen SS and how it distribute its resources, where it concentrated a higher amount available to it to a few selected divisions, at the expense of its other higher numbered divisions. Heer, being much larger organization, used a more "equal" distribution of its forces. And about "elite armored formations", it would be more accurate to say only the 1st and arguably the 2nd SS Panzer divisions were treated as "elite", other SS panzer divisions (3rd,5th,9th,10th,12th) could be said to be experienced, or at least well-led, comparable to other experienced Heer Panzer divisions like 1st or 2nd or so on. Even then the Heer "elite" armored formations could be seen as even more "elite" than those in Waffen SS, if considering the equipment allocation. The Panzer Lehr division was fully mechanized, having more halftracks than even the 1st SS. While the GD PzGren had its organic Tiger units for some times, and it was eventually expanded into a larger Panzerkorps as well.

[@aps125]

3rd SS Totenkopf definitely belonged to the elite class of LSSAH and Das Reichs. It had organic Tiger tank company, just like the 1st 2nd SS, and GD at Kursk. 9th and 10th were more typical German panzer divisions of their time, in term of manpower and panzer/Jagpanzer composition. 12th SS HJ was significant larger than 9th as well as 10th

[@sthrich635]

@aps125 One thing with Waffen SS as a whole combat branch, it was a rather polarized organization compared to the Heer - Roughly one third of Waffen SS were either Panzer or PzGren divisions, seen as higher tier units in German forces due to its motorized nature, and accordingly given priority of supplies compared to regular non-motorized infantry units. But the remaining two-thirds of Waffen SS troops were low quality, undermanned, mostly foreign, and some only division-in-name. These units were even lower tier than regular Heer infantry divisions, and arguably around or below Heer static divisions - and accordingly they were only provided bottom of barrel priority good for rear lines and rarely considered for frontline service. Under these circumstances, intention or not, at the frontline where most eyes were, the Waffen SS created an impression that it was better equipped or trained than the Heer counterpart, since those SS divisions fit for frontlines were very good ones, while the bad ones were so bad it was usually a last resort thought, and so, on frontlines most Waffen SS were rightfully well-trained Panzer units, easily stood out among regular Heer infantry troops which was literally everywhere on German frontlines. Despite such, one could argue the disparity between Heer and Waffen SS were slightly exaggerated often, such "obvious disparity" was more-or-less engineered by Waffen SS and how it distribute its resources, where it concentrated a higher amount available to it to a few selected divisions, at the expense of its other higher numbered divisions. Heer, being much larger organization, used a more "equal" distribution of its forces. And about "elite armored formations", it would be more accurate to say only first 3 SS Panzer divisions were treated as "elite", other SS panzer divisions 5th,9th,10th,12th) could be said to be experienced, or at least well-led, comparable to other experienced Heer Panzer divisions like 1st or 2nd or so on. Even then the Heer "elite" armored formations could be seen as even more "elite" than those in Waffen SS, if considering the equipment allocation. The Panzer Lehr division was fully mechanized, having more halftracks than even the 1st SS. While the GD PzGren had its organic Tiger units for some times, and it was eventually expanded into a larger Panzerkorps as well.

[@lukderk]

What about Koslovski?

[@maverick4177]

You have completely missed out the details of the days of these battles, the Germans attacked a split Canadian unit and destroyed tanks and then took about 30 Canadian infantry, whom among other atrocities they shot all of them one by over the day at the abbey The next day the Canadians repelled a German counter attack, the photos in Rots are of the disarray and beaten back Nazis who are just realising what they were up against The Canadians didn’t take kindly to their friends being executed

[@thepresident1971]

What a funky guy

[@robertwarner5963]

When the Hitler Jugend Division met the Canadian Army in Authie, they killed leading elements of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders infantry and Sherbrooke Fusiliers tankers (M3 Stuart). A few days later, Col. Kurt Meyer ordered prisoners of war to be executed at the Abbee' d'Ardennes.

[@dreamdancer8212]

The officer in the sidecar, introduced as Captain Rudolf von Ribbentrop, is wearing the rank insignia of an SS-Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant)-so either the rank is wrong or the man.

[@Eddielien65]

2nd corporal? Obergefrieter? They are enlisted ranks. Time served usually denotes gefreiter/obergefrieter I thought. First NCO rank is fahnenjunker or Unterscharfuhrer.

[@dreamdancer8212]

Fahnenjunker is an officer candidate with the actual NCO rank of Unteroffizier. The normal NCO Rank you mean is Unteroffizier, comparable to an American sergeant.

[@theocold9256]

Hitler Jewgand division. That’s rich. 4:02. Not sure they would have appreciated the mispronunciation.

[@GuitarMan22]

Thinking it's an automated narration.

[@gapshot5065]

Diese jungen Männer waren doppelt so groß wie heute

[@rastenborg]

Fur " Gustav Adolf Albert Borchmann/ Borgmann. Welcome To Leith.

[@86OEd]

👍👍👍

[@SaiadaShetu]

your video quality is so good, but your video doesn't gain much views & subscribers because you have lot of the SEO problems I mentioned . If you can fix these problems your channel will grow very fast & definitely your videos will get more views.

[@mohammadsesthrahman380]

Ideology aside, the Germans were better led. They had better generals & were fearless on the battlefield during the 2nd World War.

[@florencemodina6293]

I can agree with what you said except for the word fearless.even the mentally deranged have fear..

[@sthrich635]

It was still no use when most "better" German officers were leading foot soldiers and horses while most American and Soviet ones were leading tanks and mechanized infantry.

[@aps125]

Soviet had no mechanized army. Most of their prime movers were destroyed during initial stage of the war. Even with lend lease help, the overwhelming majority of Allied trucks, jeeps went to non infantry units (mainly artillery and logistics). Red army soldiers riding on tank and SU assault gun became common practice. Only the west allies especially US forces were adequately motorozed.

[@keesvanharen9791]

The best Germans SS divisions where destroyed on the eastern front. The rebuilded SS divisions where terrible weakend, not the same divisions that pushed the Russians back in Kharkov.

[@aps125]

@@keesvanharen979112th SS HJ was on par with best SS crack divisions of SS Panzer Korps fought in 3rd battle of Kharkov. Fully manned in strength and mostly fully equipped, led by possibly best officers and NCOs available to German at the time. The only down side was young recruits lacking of combat experience. In the June summer of 1944, Germany’s most ready and powerful armored divisions were posted in France. As a matter of fact, Panzer Gruppe West was Germany strategic reserve. In contrast, units on the East Front were worn down and beat up, none of them maintained full strength or readiness after constant battle.

[@ianneill1400]

Caen is pronounced more like "Con"

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

"Can" sounds better.

[@aps125]

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 most audio books I listened to so far with “con” pronunciation

[@markaxworthy2508]

The Canadian "quote" at 04:30 is unlikely to be accurate because the word "teenager" was barely entering usage at the time. There was almost no recorded use of it before 1944. It really entered the lexicon in the 1950s.

[@mattansell8275]

Correct. Teenager wasn't even a thing until the rock n roll era of the 1950s.

[@Thorny5718]

Great Video….but how the hell can you be recruited between the ages of 17 - 18?! Did I miss some numbers at school 😂

[@ducomaritiem7160]

Tough soldiers on the wrong side of history... Half my family was german, lots of them died for a wrong cause.

[@rogercude1459]

Max Wunsche was a very interesting guy and was on hitlers personal staff! And according to some German media the one who was responsible for the killing of Canadian POWs in Normandy, he refused to answer any questions about the incident, leaving kurt mayer as the chief suspect.

[@warbull888]

THEY GOT REKT

[@rzr2ffe325]

Kane? Seriously?

[@vecioalpin8998]

When you listen or read about this SS division you think they were made of hard men. But in reality they were just kids.

[@Ealdorman_of_Mercia]

hi, videos are simply too short. Make them at least 30 minutes please.

[@waracademy128]

Yeah, prox

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

You seem to be using NATO symbols associated with cavalry divisions in place of "static" divisions with little or no intrinsic transport. The 352 Inf Div was a regular Infantry Division recently transfered to Normandy from the Russian Front. We are also getting numerous pronunciation errors for the same some town, "Caen" is prounced "Can" as in "tin can". I'm not sure if this is an AI thing or some other type of problem, just letting you know is all. The same pronouciation issue is also taking place with the Hitler"Jungend" Division, As you mentioned earlier in this piece. This was a very highly trained and very well equipped Waffen SS Pz Division made up of young, fanatical Hitler Youth volunteers and led by highly decorated combat veterans of the Russian Front that was very well equipped and very well led.

[@aps125]

Panzer Lehr was even more lavishly equipped, but its fighting record was less impressive. Men matter, situation/circumstance also played important role.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

@@aps125 Panzer Lehr was an Elite Army Panzer Division. It considered "Elite" mainly because mainly because of the quality of it's officer cadre and replacements that filled out it 's ranks. These men were used to train high quality recruits and replacements returning to front line duty after having been WIA "wounded in action" somewhere else on numerous fronts that Germany was engaged in fighting on. At that time either on the Italian or Russian Fronts. Equipment was allocated to the Army and the Army re-allocated were it saw fit. This Division was the Western Army's pride and joy and it fought very well in Normandy and later on in the 5th Panzer Army in the Ardenne Offensive after having been rebuilt.

[@erikracz4162]

How many pronunciation’s of Caan, can you put in the same video? It’s the same location they have the film festival, we’ve all heard it before , lol

[@royo1010]

Different places in different regions of France. Cannes is where the film festival is, and is located in the south of the country, whereas this is Caen, located in the north-west.

[@124Outdoor]

It’s actually pronounced ’Con’.

[@سقراط-ي7ز]

هتلر خسر الحرب عندما قام بغزو الاتحاد السوفيتي

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

There was no choice in doing that.

[@سقراط-ي7ز]

لو هاجم الشرق الأوسط بكل الموارد والقوه العسكريه التي حشدها ضد الاتحاد السوفيتي اعتقد انه سيسيطر على الشرق الأوسط بكل بساطه ولحصل على موارد أكثر بكثير من الاتحاد السوفيتي​@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217

[@Jagdkomodo]

He lost because capitalism won

[@LawrenceofIsrael]

No

[@TonyWhite-n9p]

Work on pronunciations

[@Mrtweet81]

I have studied the war for almost 35 years, I have never seen this photo before so it can’t be that famous…

[@stuglenn1112]

You need to get out more, it's been around for probably at least a decade.

[@Aron-79]

🇷🇺🪖⚓️🫡🫡🫡

[@liljoenyc01]

Germany was definitely more advanced military wise

[@gregwicker856]

If they hadn't tried to fight 2 fronts they would have won out

[@liljoenyc01]

@gregwicker856 maybe but then me and you would probably not be even born

[@charlestaylor8566]

So that’s why they used so much horses and carts 😊

[@deanodog3667]

​@@charlestaylor8566they basically invented modern warfare

[@GuitarMan22]

Automated narration - some terms are correct some are awful

[@johnrayner436]

The usual.glamourisation of the SS by americans...

[@gruppenfuhrer45]

Great documentary. “Finally he died”….lol ok

[@mikkelson71]

I wish AI could pronounce words correctly. Great content, but awful AI voice over.

[@Fuxerz]

I think the Marines on Iwo Jima might be a little more famous. You think 🤔

[@natus7959]

From your American perspective maybe. There is another picture from the Ardennes, you find it in the loading screen of HOI3

[@Fuxerz]

@natus7959 not American, my friend

[@aps125]

Not even comparable. HJ div and the rest of German forces at Normandy was fighting a hopeless battle against overwhelming superior enemy forces. On Iwo Jima. It was the US marines who held all cards in term of manpower and material.

[@tavish4699]

mayby in america but america is not the center of the world but you guys will never understand that because you are AMERICANS

[@jorgpollmann497]

Bullshit

[@garrybaldy327]

If you can't pronounce Waffen SS correctly, you don't get my respect and I go elsewhere. It's "Vaffen" not "Woffen".

[@julesleon482]

Americans can't pronounce any word correctly.

[@rickrayn]

They were murderous bastards.

[@aps125]

@@rickrayn HJ committed numerous atrocities on captured allied soldiers. The bitter battle between HJ and 3rd Canadian Inf was well known and documented

[@emausderratsuchende5447]

😮😮I find it unbelievable that they call the young soldiers by their real names. Who gave you permission to do that? Did you ask their relatives?

[@julesleon482]

What would you rather? Larry,curly,mo,huw,puw, barney.what would you call Hitler? Would you seek out a relative for permission. Let's go way back.gengis Khan or ceaser. MUPPET

[@emausderratsuchende5447]

@julesleon482 Here in old Europe there is something called respect... what is normal in your country does not have to be allowed here. Your arrogance is obvious. Who gave you the right to intrude so intimately into the soldiers' families?

[@gordonmckenzie926]

What a bunch of killers.