The Knight With the Iron hand

[@magnusdunning6113]

I have a framed picture of this man, with his quote to “Kiss his Arse” and a thank you note from my German Fallschirmjager brothers a decade ago. It’s one of my proudest possessions.

[@NedFlanders612]

Based

[@chrisball3778]

There are some similar prosthetic hands from 16th century Germany in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK. Apparently they're rare items, but more than 40 are known to exist of the types shown. They think they might have been made in collaboration between armourers and clockmakers, two of the most highly skilled craftsmen of their place and era.

[@Finnishpeasant]

Very internesting designs. Utility seems quite meager compared to "hook" design.

[@chrisball3778]

@@Finnishpeasant The fake hand idea seems to have gone out of fashion after the 16th century. I suspect hooks turned out to be more practical.

[@SonofSethoitae]

​@@chrisball3778If not practical, then certainly cheaper and easier to make.

[@jimparks6616]

In the late 1960's I was stationed in Heidelberg. It was a pleasant, quiet drive along the Neckar river to Hornberg castle. I went there often. It was my quiet getaway. In 1999 my family hosted an exchange student from Germany and we visited her at her home in 2004. She and her family are still close, adopted members of our family. During our visit i made a point to revisit this special place. It turns out that there is a winery there and a store where you may purchase their selection of wines. We were there on a Sunday. The winery is not open on Sunday's, but it was open. A very pleasant young man explained that he and a group of his friends were on a bicycle adventure that day, and, on their return, he opened just for them. So, I apologized for our intrusion and turned to leave. He stopped me and said he would be happy to let up purchase something, but he could not offer their normal wine tasting. We selected server bottles of wine, most at his suggestion, to give to our former exchange student's father. He was a collector of wines. After returning to the states, and by looking on the web, I learned that that young man was actually the Baron, or the descendant of the Baron of the Hornberg Castle. Lovely pleasant memories of experiences that span several decades. For a now 77 year old veteran, that very gracious young man, added one more pleasant memory of Hornberg Castle. If you ever have a chance, visit a place that I love. I believe there is a restaurant there, as well. Oh, and the view from that very tall tower is amazing.

[@meedwards5]

❤

[@wrendellajoens3984]

What a beautiful collection of memories! I sincerely appreciate your recommendation & thank you for sharing. Be well!

[@motorv8N]

Fantastic story - thanks for sharing it

[@drlobomalo]

All autobiographies should be read cautiously.

[@chadwickjdillon]

I am Alpharius. This is a lie.

[@tommost1]

Especially the unauthorized ones.

[@alidaweber1023]

Our memories are never as clear, accurate, or complete as we would like to think.

[@custos3249]

Agreed. Beware of papercuts.

[@robertjensen1438]

I got a new pair of gloves today, but they're both 'lefts' which, on the one hand, is great, but on the other, it's just not right.

[@fml4542]

Narf!

[@Absaalookemensch]

I flew Critical Care Air Transport in the military. With advances in first aid, prompt transport to field surgical stabilization and tertiary (ICU level) care during transport, the US military has a nearly 100% survival rate if the injured person does not immediately succumb to their wounds.

[@chrisvickers7928]

Compare that to no anesthetic and removing the limb with a bone saw, very high mortality rate.

[@maryleoboldt6100]

Thank You for your service!! Not many people can perform that duty and I for one appreciate that you did!

[@aaftiyoDkcdicurak]

75% of the time it works 100% of the time.

[@spvillano]

One critical advance in first aid being the reintroduction of the tourniquet. Initially, service members were trained that the use of a tourniquet doomed the limb it was utilized on, thus its use should be avoided in favor of pressure dressings. One new lieutenant, a physician just out of residency, mentioned how orthopedic surgeons use tourniquets for the better part of a day during surgeries and obviously don't lose the limb, so WTH were we training people in? Needless to say, that swiftly changed policies and procedures. Then, we moved into the 20th century and put coolers with blood on the MEDEVAC flights. Another odd hint needed to be made, blood replaces blood better than salt water replaces blood, what with all of that necessary red stuff inside of the blood, clotting factors, proteins, etc. Next thing you knew, we got nearly into the 21st century! For a chuckle, for some specific injuries, we still use leeches for the only effective treatment and maggot debridement of really stubborn wounds has been reintroduced. Sometimes, old is the new new. And sometimes, new treatments are ignored, like when we flew a specialist team from Germany to train treatment staff in treating injuries from RPG's striking the FM-200 fire extinguishing system on the mine resistant vehicles, causing hydrogen fluoride inhalation injuries and death. The treatment was highly successful, with a powdered inhalation agent administered on scene before evacuation to limit injury. Said entire protocol was rejected by the medical command in Afghanistan. With predictable results in deceased service members. I'm sure that Colonel got promoted...

[@GexMax]

2:35 I could swear you said "300 Landschnecken" (Landsnails) - now I know you meant to say Landsknechte (or at least i'm assuming) but in my mind an assault force of 300 Landsnails, possibly wearing Spartan Armor and Phalanx Shields deeply amuses me :D

[@qoaa]

"This Is Escargot!!!"

[@thekinginyellow1744]

When the winged Landschnecken arrived, Coming down the mountainside!

[@rikospostmodernlife]

Think of all those medieval drawings of knights fighting snails

[@JagerLange]

Or mounting a tiny cannon on the shell like a howdah.

[@ThePerfectRed]

Narrating this video must have been maximum penalty for an English speaker.

[@VespasianJudea]

You encounter the Swabian League in the video game Pentiment. The peasants decided to hold the abbey hostage so the lord of that land called upon the league. It’s an amazing and historical game and I highly suggest it. Someone pointed out a mistake in their Latin and they went through the trouble of updating it. It’s truly a historical masterpiece of a game in the Holy Roman Empire. It’s also a murder mystery. I loved it, if you’re here I think you will too.

[@Hypatia52]

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll look it up!

[@VespasianJudea]

@@Hypatia52 Free for gamepass recipients.

[@nekojita5150]

I appreciate your use of art to tell stories like this. The quality, detail and choice of images work with and support your words perfectly.

[@eduardoribeiro383]

I've been living in Stuttgart for 6 years now. Honberg castle is very interesting and worth the visit. Have in mind that it was a Fort(Burg)/Castle with a use. Not a fancy folly like Neuschwanstein. It's a great region to visit.

[@jimsvideos7201]

You might be interested to learn that he obtained this appendage at... ...a second-hand store.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

🚪👈 🤣

[@robertjensen1438]

Let the dad jokes flow through you.

[@nikburton9264]

Omg that stunk soooooo bad! You should be proud!

[@EstherDavis-eg2iv]

😂😂😂

[@macmedic892]

Happy (belated) Father’s Day!

[@joegordon5117]

The Knight With the Iron Hand sounds rather wonderfully like a character from one of Mike MIgnola's Hellboy comics!

[@robisfantasticutube]

"GRIIIIIIFITHHHHH!!!"

[@FryingTiger]

It would be GRIIFIIIIIIITH. But close.

[@riftster313]

I don't this The History Guy is ready for Berserker 😆😆 I bet he'd feel violated

[@Chops2792]

I came here to say this. There is a lot of similarities besides the name Gutz and having a hand cut off and replaced. Both dueled a lot, worked a pseudo mercenaries and also asked to lead uprisings.

[@Zeropointill]

Immediately thought of this too, there's no way this isn't the inspiration for the character.

[@nekomancer4641]

@@riftster313 would be hilarious to see him do a manga review lol

[@raedbbugshan]

Guts the main character in Berserk anime is inspired by him

[@MegatronYES]

I remember reading somewhere that Muira insisted he had never even heard of the real person before designing the story. Lol I actually HOPE he’s lying because fuck

[@chrisball3778]

The creator says he's mainly inspired by Rutger Hauer's character in the movie Flesh and Blood, who is a brutal German mercenary of about the same time period. The similarities in name are a heck of a coincidence, but maybe it's just a fluke of the translation from Japanese.

[@Abdega]

@@MegatronYES sometimes you think of something and it turns out something similar lines up with it

[@michaelsteve5922]

Nicely done. Goetz is one of my favorite characters in German history and literature.

[@grayharker6271]

Johannesburg castle in Achaffenburg has his hand. I saw it there in the early 70s.

[@harryschaefer8563]

My wife was a pre-school teacher who, each year, was given a new batch of three-year-olds to teach. I often reminded her to call upon her "iron fist" to maintain order.

[@lancerevell5979]

Tough opponents indeed, these entitled three-year-olds! 😊

[@roberthevern6169]

Your avatar is so familiar....I have a duplicate on my wall, albeit slightly exaggerated...followed by the inevitable face plant!

[@davidlane5349]

You can stay at his Castle in addition to the museum.

[@studio1519]

Thank you! As someone born without my right hand, this was a great story to hear.

[@fieryvale]

One of the most interesting people I've met was a woman born with no hands at all. She lived a long, full life and was happy as a lark. She married a man who lost his arm in the wars, funny enough.

[@jamest2401]

I know that modern amputees have considerable pain even from the technologically advanced prosthetic devices and scientifically formulated materials from which they’re made today. I can only imagine the horrifying level of discomfort which could be produced by a 16ᴛʜ century chunk of leather-strapped iron, stuck on the end of your arm.

[@167curly]

Living until the age of eighty-two in the sixteenth century alone was an amazing feat for that feisty knight!

[@unclenogbad1509]

First heard about this guy in German class back in secondary school. Just a brief aside from the teacher, but it was one of few times the whole class suddenly perked up and paid attention.

[@LS-uv9gg]

I also had a most excellent visual of the guy walking into a support beam, and then angrily changing it to a duel or perhaps a census questionnaire pinned to a notice board, with the passage: "...proved to be rowdy, getting into a fight with a pole, at the court" Pole pole poll hahaha

[@goodun2974]

There was a police Inspector with an iron hand on "Young Frankenstein"!

[@samparkerSAM]

Great 👍 Point

[@HootOwl513]

Not to mention Dr Strangelove.

[@MelodicMethod]

What an interesting character who also serves as a great keystone into a very interesting part of Western European history. Great vid!

[@TOO_TALL305]

Ah yes, Götz von Berlichingen the knight whose name was adopted by the 17th SS panzer grenadier division AKA the LMAA division

[@davea6314]

Give that man a hand! 👏

[@glennsmythe8566]

That was wonderful history telling

[@brandon7482]

The 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division was named the Götz von Berlichingen division, their symbol was his iron hand.

[@StevenDietrich-k2w]

Gotz, rub some dirt on it and get back out there!

[@lancerevell5979]

"Just walk it off!" 😂

[@user-kl5zd2oe3e]

Be careful! There's a switch near the base of the arm. If... A counselor named Conrad?? Like, the God Hand? ...great Scott... Well, if you flip this switch and the wrist will drop, exposing a canon barrel. Its usually loaded.

[@kman314wastaken]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.

[@samparkerSAM]

My family is connected through history to these fantastic events 👏. In modern times, my mother remarried a Mr Gertzler.. a hand ✋️ in love ❤️

[@HO-bndk]

Gotz von Berlichngen's iron hand is what the WW2 German anti-tank weapon called the "Panzerfaust" is named after. The user-manual issued with it even had a cartoon on the cover of his hand smashing a Soviet tank.

[@TheInfidel_SlavaUA]

when i was a boy me and my aunt were guests of the berlichingens on castle jagsthausen, and i went on a kayak ride with the current goetz ( 18th generation descrndandt)and his brother...on the jagst creek...both were quite fat, and promptly capsized in the first tiny white water passage...the water wasnt more than waist deep and they slowly flooded with the brother crying out "Goetz, were sinking!" in such serious manner as if they were going down with the titanic herself...needless to say that i almost flooded my own boat laughing (and not with creek water,if ya catch my draft)v🤣🤣🤣

[@paullough4946]

Reminds me of me Mum...always ruled with an Iron Hand that one did!

[@jrr2480]

It wouldn't surprise me if Sam Raimi got the idea 💡 of Ash Williams getting a metal hand 🦾 in the Army of Darkness movie from this historical figure.

[@ronnierow5641]

In Braunfels Germany, is a small castle that has an iron, clockwork hand on display. Is that possibly Gotz's hand?

[@radstar2185]

82 years old after all that and in the 1600s wtf that man was hard as nails

[@peytonspencer11]

Thank you for the story! ❤

[@Hey_Its_That_Guy]

Tis but a scratch!

[@diegoferreiro9478]

Fun fact. According to the book about Hitler's informal conversations after lunch, Hitler suggested to name the never-to-be-completed H-39 battleships after Ulrich von Huttin and Götz von Berchinligen. These ships were laid down, but the outbreak of the war in 1939 got the works to be suspended and by 1941 the few that was built was scrapped. Both ships never got an official name,

[@Cbabilon675]

I know this may sound odd, but this is almost like based on the character from the anime. Series berserk called guts. I have to wonder if they are most what in the same??😢😢😢

[@thelastjohnwayne]

""his Autobiography should be read Cautiously""??

[@HM2SGT]

*_Doctor Strangelove, I presume?_*

[@thorshammer8033]

The Pimp Hand ✋️ 🤣

[@craigaust3306]

The TV comedy Get Smart had a villain named Ironhand.

[@spinnetti]

Interesting as always. I've seen the gauntlet. Its "Lands-kin-ect" - knight of the land; "servants of the land"

[@high_maintenance]

I love your office and knowledge ❤

[@georgeperkins4171]

Perhaps inspector Kemp, in young Frankenstein, was inspired by this.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Great video...👍

[@BasicDrumming]

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

[@1TakoyakiStore]

Nice to know Ash lived a long life.

[@Peter7966]

Sounds like a nice guy.

[@m1t2a1]

'Tis but a scratch. I've had worse. Just a flesh wound.

[@SkullyX99]

For a moment I was like, Berserk?

[@LoboPal]

And the inspiration for the main character of Berserk

[@Talashaoriginal]

There is a Stageplay from "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" about him.

[@Pitchlock8251]

Groovy

[@HistoryNut-1701]

I think there was a segment about him on one of the episodes of Shatner’s “The Unexplained” series on the History Channel.

[@walkercustoms]

Great story

[@schlirf]

The Herr who developed his day's version of "Kiss my..." in the immortal saying of "L.M.A." 😎

[@zoolkhan]

LMAA - wenn schon , denn schon

[@schlirf]

@@zoolkhan kurtz gesagt....

[@zoolkhan]

@@schlirf "kurz" not kurtz. das wird ja immer schlimmer

[@schlirf]

@@zoolkhan Je von Ami Kaugummi deutsch gehort? 🤣

[@zoolkhan]

@@schlirf wenn ich ehrlich bin nein, ich bin ein finne in finland. Wir kennen nur "ralley-englisch" :-)

[@DerOrso]

Later in his life, he was often asked whether he had actually said "leck mich am Arsch" or "leck mich im Arsch", the difference being "on" the ahem, or "in" the ... you know, which he felt was under his stature to answer. Finally tired of constantly being accosted by the questioning, he declared loudly for all to hear, "the point is, I said 'leck MICH!' (kiss MY), and he said no more of it again. At least that's how the legend goes here in Baden-Württemberg.

[@shantanusapru]

Fascinating!!!

[@brittakriep2938]

Jagsthausen is no town/ Stadt. It is in Germany called a Gemeinde.

[@dasshape00]

It's like that dude from that dragon TV show on HBO

[@ariochiv]

"Yeah, I led the rebel army, but... uh... they made me do it."

[@irishgirldutchpour]

I wonder if Gerorge R.R Martin learned of this when he wrote his book series.

[@russchadwell]

Did he have a death star?

[@GJCServices]

hes in Young Frankenstein ... Inspector Kemp

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

I think there's an anime about this guy.

[@daveschmarder-1950]

I wonder if his nickname was "lefty"?

[@bigsiege1848]

Honey, How often do you think about the Holy Roman Empire?

[@CLipka2373]

Your attempts at pronouncing those historic and/or local German words are adorable ;)

[@Dragonamg2]

What is the name of the painting at 5:35? I would like to be able to sight it as a reference.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

George RR just took a bunch of history to make GoT...but of course Jamie's had to be gold cuz...Lannisters 😂

[@JeffreyGlover65]

His sister approved...😊

[@ajimjensen6199]

“That’s Jamie foo*kn Lannister.”😂

[@fintan9218]

Real life Berserk reference

[@rumpelpumpel7687]

damn those germans have some hard to pronounce names 0:56 xD

[@SeppoVataja]

Is this where the term guts comes from?

[@cpklapper]

An inspiration for Baron von Munchausen?

[@bigsarge2085]

An SS Division taking your name is not the kind of legacy I'd want. . .

[@olliefoxx7165]

You cant determine who uses your legacy bc you're dead.

[@comradeinternet467]

(Susumu Hirasawa intensifies)

[@jasonz7788]

Awesome

[@WildBillCox13]

Liked and shared.

[@janlindtner305]

Interesting👍👍👍

[@JamesGower-ch5zj]

Fatima.... your hand with pearl was beautiful.

[@ALT3REDB3AST]

Sword of Berserk

[@bryntheskin]

Did anyone get a look at the kid in the first illustration….? I’m confused….and feel a little sick… :D

[@dasshape00]

I like this channel

[@johnfox4529]

The Knight was a German, and badass. Is anyone surprised?

[@Angrybarberman]

If im right, i think Mozart wrote a piece , " lick my...." inspired by him.

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

Back in the Saddle Again Naturally and

[@goodun2974]

But did he have a velvet glove? 🤔😉

[@SquatchStomper]

The original Ironman

[@whiskeymonk4085]

Neuswabenland!

[@francislarv3012]

The Snail Shell Thread Spool Revolt

[@carguybikeguy]

Imagine what people’s lives could have been like had religion and faith did not dictate law.

[@HotelPapa100]

"Land-shut" Nope. sh in German is never the same sound as in English. Think of it as 'Land's hat' ('sh' is 'sch' in German.)

[@MRptwrench]

That thumbnail. Count Rugen the 6 fingered man. You all know who I mean.

[@jameshhenderson]

“…rich peasants”?