The surrender of a heavy Panzerjaeger unit to US troops at Iserlohn, 16 April 1945

[@bubalusarnee6325]

Hauptmann Albert Ernst, CO of this unit. The surrender saved many lives on both sides and the City of Iserlohn from total destruction

[@alexandre210613]

La Sagesse ❤

[@UnusSedLeo-w5l]

2:22 The little boy casualy checking out Panzerfausts made me smile. If he still lives, he will be 83 yo now.

[@alexandre210613]

Tous les gars (enfin les vrais) se reconnaissent dans ce petit garçon. 😉😆

[@topcat4759]

Having watched and owned many video's and documentaries of German armour over the last 30 odd years have never seen any footage of Jagdtigers before. Great video.

[@RemyCT63]

There is another good video on KZbin showing a Jagdtiger driving around in an open field. Search "Jagdtiger from 1945 in action" and you'll find it.

[@thetoymanator7723]

This is a great source of information for armour scale modellers. The main thing that sticks out is that although they were adversaries, they were allowed a dignified surrender.

[@violentscorl697]

They were allowed this surrender because the Jagdtiger was such a destructive weapon that the US army didn’t bother trying to take them down. Why not accept a surrender and save lives on both sides?

[@barrycabbageM34]

​@@violentscorl697 This doesn't really hold up when you can find plenty of examples of Panzer III's and IV's also getting the same treatment. Yes, in part it's because they don't want to fight them but it's not due to them being Jagdtigers... its just because it's much easier to let the crews surrender without any further fighting at all.

[@bkreed27]

This footage has been posted several times over the past 10 years...but this appears to be the longest version. Thx. As a collector, knowing the value of just one of those panzer jackets (wrapper) today brings tears to my eyes when I see a whole company of them.

[@laurinjoelschafhausen]

And the Jagdtiger and the Bergepanther. 🤯

[@TheGlp007]

Yes,i had not seen this version before.

[@jonathanwebb8307]

Wow, I have read about this surrender but never knew it was captured on film. Fascinating to see

[@davidwood2205]

Professionals, every one of them. But, a sense of relief can be witnessed in this amazing video.

[@supercalifragilisticexpial789]

Very interesting footage. Thanks! How I would have wished there was sound. (I know that in those days the smaller handheld cameras did not have mics)

[@majorkursk780]

The Bergepanther seen driving at the 51 sec mark is actually pretty rare. These German soldiers must have felt a sense of relief knowing they actually survived the war by surrendering to the Western Allies.

[@Ofelas1]

Came from the Blucher Kaserne next door

[@christianschellbruck9788]

What about the "Rheinwiesenlager"?

[@majorkursk780]

@@christianschellbruck9788What was the time stamp where you saw it.

[@christianschellbruck9788]

@@majorkursk780 "These German soldiers must have felt a sense of relief knowing they actually survived the war by surrendering to the Western Allies." Not all who surrenderd to western Armys were treated good. In the "Rheinwiesenlager" they were prisoned to starf to death.

[@christianschellbruck9788]

@@majorkursk780 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYnIdqana7GLpaM

[@IanPayne-z5l]

As a kid I lived in Hemer, next door to Iserlohn. Went there many times to the British NAAFI. Dad was with the Princess Patricia’s.

[@andyhobbs2812]

My wife comes from Werl, where l met her in 1974.

[@holgere.]

Nice demonstration of dignity.

[@memonk11]

Amazing how much dignity those despicable murderous Nazis had.

[@wfcoaker1398]

The first time those murderous bastards showed any dignity. The "clean Wehrmacht" is a myth invented after the War so the German public could deny responsibility in Nazi atrocities.

[@keithalaird]

What is interesting is that it appears they only have two Jagdtigers. But they do have a lot of support vehicles.

[@davidmccann9811]

There are four lined up here 2:36:

[@MOTA_KRAMPUS]

@@davidmccann9811 3

[@Rogue-7.62]

There were not very many of those in the first place.

[@zazazagabor]

They were imposing and proud, until the end

[@Wally-H]

Dr Mark Felton made a video about this unit in the last days of the war - those Jagdtigers wreaked havoc on American armour right up to the end. It will have been a great relief for the Americans to see them finally come in for the surrender. It's worth noting the dodgy waving at 1.43 - I've seen this on other surrender films too. It's basically a Nazi salute, but they wave the hand to try and make it look like it isn't - not very subtle!

[@notsureyou]

"It has been a long war, it has been a hard war"

[@68monstro]

Band of brothers?

[@notsureyou]

@@68monstro Yes :-)

[@josephstevens9888]

It is typical that the Germans surrendered in a very orderly fashion. They even stacked the gear they're handing over in neat piles.

[@alexandre210613]

Mon père les a gardé dans un camp de prisonniers de l’Axe en Algérie. Il y régnait une discipline comme dans l’active contrairement aux Italiens. C’est ce qu’il l’avait le plus impressionné. Il me disait que les Allemands étaient des ‘tough guys' 😉

[@gord-tj6qs]

knights cross winning officer addressing his men for the final time.

[@tobiasspitzer5047]

He is Albert Ernst

[@gord-tj6qs]

@@tobiasspitzer5047 thanks for telling me! i'll google him immediately

[@jackreacher5667]

Those panzer look like what you would expect a Tank to look like., The interesting thing is also the design of the newer buildings in the clip, and how it might of influenced housing and building design in the forthcoming rebuilding of Europe after the war.

[@ВладимирАкимов-с8л]

что ни говори,а немецкие инженеры создали отличную технику. Всего лишь за 4 года от маленьких танков до таких огромных " Ягдтигров" с пушкой 125мм. Их энергию да в мирное русло!

[@ROCK35377]

My grandfather served as an M4 driver with the US 2nd Armored Division, and he told me a story about the Germans using natural foliage-type camouflage on their tanks as seen here. And the US tankers discovered that from a covered position they could drop an HE round on the German tanks doing this and it would often set the foliage on fire and flames would get sucked into the German tank's engine air intakes and disable it and chase out the crew. Then combat engineers or TD units would be called to finish it off later.

[@alexandre210613]

Très intéressant témoignage. 👍

[@patrickt6642]

It amazes me they had that many left without air superiority.

[@l337pwnage]

They weren't civilians, so they were pretty safe from allied air power.

[@holtwaring4620]

Unbroken , amazing footage.

[@critterjon4061]

0:36 interesting to see the use of a captured US m3 scout car by the Germans

[@ak9989]

All that gear is worth so much now. My uncle was in France / Germany ww2 but didn't bring back anything. Now I've been collecting since 1980. And it's quite huge now.

[@jeffreyevans6892]

I feel very lucky. My dad brought back a P38 AC41 on the receiver. Looke like new.

[@davidmccann9811]

I still have the fob watch my grandfather had when he was in the trenches during the Great War. I rarely wind it, but the last time I did it still kept time perfectly.

[@Razor_6]

Nobody there was think about fight - amazing! Day before, each of army was towards into enemies. The end of the war took most people astonished!

[@billyponsonby]

0:53 Bergepanther. I’ve never seen one on film before.

[@gord-tj6qs]

i like the bergepanther repair tank..

[@craigplatel813]

And the captured US m-3a1 scout car

[@gord-tj6qs]

@@craigplatel813 yeah!

[@joegatt2306]

01:46 That 72-ton monster does not look as unwieldly as people on KZbin would have us think.

[@JohnStone1714]

I am currently building a 1:16 Scale Jagdtiger and wish to dedicate that model to Hauptmann Ernst. To the person, or persons who own this short fil, may I use some of it when I show off the final build please. Many thanks.

[@a564-c3q]

Nobody here owns this historic footage. Just use it.

[@johncartwright8154]

Fearsome looking beast, the Jagdtiger, but prone to many breakdowns and was underpowered. Bet those G.I.s were relieved that they didn't have to face them in further battles! The final scene of the officer addressing his men reminds me of similar scene in 'Band of Brothers'.

[@thkempe]

Watching 1:46 it doesn‘t look that underpowered and immobile at all.

[@fed9096]

after what the germans did to the Russians, these units knew their best option was surrendering to US forces

[@l337pwnage]

lol, sure, we all know how the Russians behaved toward *everyone*

[@Krisfransi]

There's also a huge Sturmpanzer at 2:35. Could be a Sturmtiger but the front armor plate is vertical while it was inclined on the Sturmtiger... Anyone could identify this tank ? Anyway the gun seems to be of enormous caliber !!!

[@cfs7338]

I wonder what the troops were feeling that day.

[@VintageWanderer]

What happened to the guys after they surrendered here ? POW? Or did they just go home ?

[@bernhardwolters1265]

To the Rheinwiesen :(

[@Dirleberger]

@@bernhardwolters1265 von den Yankees schändlichst behandelt worden! Rheinwiesenlager das größte Verbrechen das es je gegeben hat! Und kein Yankee ist dafür verurteilt worden!

[@wfcoaker1398]

They got a brief taste of the misery they had inflicted on the rest of Europe for years.

[@ICHWARSNICHT58]

​@@wfcoaker1398Bullshit

[@yosoylaluzylaverdad]

0:08 What tank is ? Thanks.

[@katmanna350f]

That is in-fact one of the Jagdtigers. Just really well camouflaged.

[@attila7092]

How useful they would have been at the Seelow Height's on that day

[@watchman2263]

Interesting how powerful some of these surrendering units were, particularly when deployed in defensive positions, and indeed many lives on both sides being saved.

[@peterlloyd3534]

Iserlohn a beautiful city, although I lived on Zeppelin Strasse in Hemer

[@redtobertshateshandles]

The hole in the building at 3:03.

[@peteraldridge5210]

As a collector of ww2 memorabilia I'm crying

[@hansvonmannschaft9062]

Was going to comment on the Bergepanther, but got beaten to it 😀 This surrender hauled a nice array of very rare vehicles indeed! And the hardest to find, was the crew of the Jagdtiger with 2 white circles on the cannon. Word has it they're still looking for them. Oh and by the way, did anyone notice how clumsy, unmaneuverable, always-breaking-down those 70-ton behemoths were? Jeez for moments I thought the screen was going to get filled up with sprockets and transmission parts! 😂

[@valkry007]

Hey boys, who want's a German Luger to take home !

[@electrolytics]

Rolling into surrender in a captured American Scout Car. White M3 Scout Car with Baltic Cross painted on front. 40 second Mark.

[@alphalunamare]

Very powerful and evocative. One has to wonder as to how many Men had to die for those Iron Beast's to surrender ...

[@ThisOLmaan]

how many Jagdtiger heavy tanks they have during entire war ?

[@tonymanero5544]

Only 75 to 80 were built. One KZbin video said 150 were ordered.

[@frankdost7573]

What a luck for thems. They serveived!

[@CincinnatiPR]

homeboy at 1:49 parkin like a @toyota

[@KManXPressTheU]

I have A Diorama in Mind, Based on This.

[@mnblkjh6757]

no fake sound 👍🙂

[@Hornet_Legion]

funny for a tank that was supposedly junk there were still quite a few surrendering moving under their own power undamaged. basically the armored vehicles standing. basically more survivable than the tiger II if you go by the empirecal evidence.

[@AlexanderLehmann-c6z]

Es war die kampfkräftigste Einheit in diesem Kessel. Alle Generäle hatten sich entweder verdrückt oder waren bereits in Gefangenschaft. So lag es an dem Mut und der Entschlossenheit eines einfachen Hauptmanns die Kapitulation eines Kessels mit mehreren tausend Soldaten auszuhandeln.

[@mikedx2706]

I'm surprised to see that the Germans had any fuel for all those surrendering vehicles.

[@MrJodyh54]

To think that few ever though of preserving those tanks for the future to see and most likely cut-up for scrap. Same as the thousands of US B-29 planes recycled and lost forever.

[@andrewkitchenuk]

Why did they surrender?

[@elite_panzer2958]

Most likely low fuel and lack of air support + morale to fight any longer they also did not want to surrender to the soviets and wanted to surrender to the west.

[@history_lives6749]

It's a shame those amazing weapons couldn't have one more go at the Russian hordes...

[@kitchenersown]

Would've been destroyed

[@JimOtoole-zw5se]

Where did the Germans get the fuel?

[@viz12345]

from putin

[@memonk11]

M2 scout car?!

[@stephanbernhardt5722]

Die Maschinen Alles gerade abgestellt. Formation gehalten. Die Waffen getrennt gelegt nach Grösse. Das ist ein Volk😊.. Und dann aufgegeben...und ...interniert.. Chapeau

[@Namtov]

The Scout car is a "Ha ha, we got some of yours" mocking item. - If this had been on the Eastern Front, half the men would have been shot, all Women raped, and everybody beaten.

[@Jezza_One]

The Russians were treating the Germans the same way the Germans treated them.

[@wb6162]

They were afraid of our Shermans!

[@r.a.mancillas812]

No sound

[@normandyinvasion5099]

The 35mm Bell & Howell cameras used by US Signal Corps cameramen during WW2 did not feature any sound recording equipment. All the film produced with such cameras was mute.

[@MarcinBieniek-t9z]

Das Ende meine Kameraden.

[@williamhoole2065]

heavily armed and armoured

[@ohmkruger3373]

Der Waffenstillstand ging in dieser Form in Ordnung.Die Kampfgruppe Ernst hat richtig gehandelt.

“We’re moving a mile down the road!” “Yeah,we’re gonna need the fuel truck!”

[@bobwoods1302]

You can always tell late war footage because all the German stuff is covered in bushes attesting to the air superiority of the allies.

[@frank1672]

Even in defeat they are very organised.

[@PressedSteel1919]

would love to have all the junk being put on ground......Will some of it anyways........

[@windseer55]

i wonder if any of the soldiers from both sides after surrendering weapons be conversing like normal human beings without anger or hate and explain / show their tanks, weapons or what not while keeping it very very civil. "Ja, This is a jagdtiger, *explains specs*" Meanwhile the GI be like : Wow, so how does this work, can i see the engine.

[@marcinbieniek4796]

ENDE.

[@psychiatry-is-eugenics]

Should have fought Stalin in the east . Now it’s Putin and the cost is MADly higher

[@joeconnolly89]

no, its the Americans

[@a564-c3q]

​@@joeconnolly89 The problem lies in the east.

[@paulmauer9405]

Da haben die Ami s geglotzt

[@albertnalut426]

Ces soldats mourront de faim dans les "Rheinwiesenlagern", camps de la morts d'Eisenhower. "Il y a 12 millions d'allemands de trop" avait il déclaré.

[@bw6524]

Bullshit fairytale.

[@joeray3301]

Glad those bastards didn't win.

[@ucedobanause33]

Yankees Go Home, Bastarde🤡

[@Dirleberger]

Nein diese verkommenen Yankees haben uns besiegt nachdem wir uns gegen diese bolschewistischen Truppen verausgabt hatten! Wären die Yankees zwei Jahre eher gelandet hätten von denen keiner überlebt! Ami Go Home!

[@rogercude1459]

Kinda be ironic if Putin ends up pressing the Red button though!

[@ahmadsantoso9712]

Are those guys using their underwear as a white flag?

[@davidcarruthers5850]

This is what china and russia are striving to do America......

[@tonymanero5544]

Trump is paid to help Russia and his Family by Saudis to undermine the U.S.