Evolution of German Uniforms | Animated History

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[@goji3908]

3:04 simulated spelt wrong

[@jacobv6505]

honestly with all of the roadmap changes to war thunder im happy for new players to come in, still one heck of a (exploitative) grind but much better now for sure

[@davidspencer8373]

Like video

[@dertupp7610]

I don't want to be picky, but the Berlin wall fell on November 9th. Greetings from germany.❤🇩🇪

[@OceanWilks]

i heard that canada did a lot of war crimes is that chru

[@Mopster.]

The uniform of Germany has always been aesthetically pleasing

[@franceboy7476]

Idc germany = nazi and i hate nazi

[@CDZRDragon]

I always love how the german uniforms looked

[@iknowurip8151]

mfw the germans uniforms looking odly grey while in poland

[@seanmatto2258]

I don’t blame the Chileans for taking inspiration, and along with the Finns and Hungarians

[@unorthodoxpickle7014]

Can't blame them. It's drippy as hell. @@seanmatto2258

[@daegnaxqelil2733]

they always had a sense of aesthetics

[@bottle3124]

Wants Celtic detox Zeno Zeno using voice sumo

[@awesomehpt8938]

The German military may lose a war but they would always win in a fashion show.

[@jw1731]

Heute Deutschland, Morgen Balenciaga!

[@HerrZenki]

Theyre good at being fashionably evil historically.

[@Railhog2102]

Their uniforms were so prevalent in pop culture that it even inspired the look of Darth Vader in the Star Wars films, His helmet was said to be inspired by the Stalhelm which was heavy featured in anti Axis propaganda

[@theunknown8075]

Man, German uniform has the best drip. 🗿🍷🔥

[@scrappy9133]

I love how the german military still uses the traditional German uniforms while performing military Traditions. Search up the “Großer Zapfenstreich” and you will see what I’m talking about.

[@lucianoosorio5942]

“This enraged the allies, who punished Germany severely.” Oversimplified

[@nursestoyland]

ah, a fellow oversimplified fan i see

[@Jameswebbtelescope7484]

@@nursestoylandyeah there is gonna be a tax for that.

[@pabcu2507]

@@Jameswebbtelescope7484watch, someone with a tiger pfp will hate this comment

[@lsgmatt9817]

Dow NoOOoOoOOooo

[@Paris-xv9sj]

Based Allies.

[@P4Tri0t420]

Fun Fact: The Bundesgrenzschutz also used the Stahlhelm in maneuvers

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

The Bundesgrenschutz is basically the most Wehrmacht of all the West German security services. They used the same Stahlhelm as the Wehrmacht, the same cut of uniform as the Wehrmacht, the same boots as the Wehrmacht (just with an additional "democratic boot buckle" to make it not-Wehrmacht), used the same guns as the Wehrmacht, and are allowed to sport the same awards as the Wehrmacht (cleansed of any past symbolism obviously)...

[@roo99710]

And the stg44

[@P4Tri0t420]

@@roo99710 U r absolutly correct

[@rajahmaduthien5614]

Fun fact ddr army is call volksarmme

[@Hiniature_7638]

The German uniforms is by far the one thing I always get fascinated with, no matter what time period it’s in, they’re just far too iconic for it to be forgotten.

[@ricarte1986]

The simplicity and litzen bars look great

[@RenéSaussy]

It would be cool to see early modern German uniforms too. From before 1871.

[@ghostie7028]

Kinda difficult cause tons of nations had different uniforms

[@RenéSaussy]

@@ghostie7028 it wouldn’t be too hard to do the major ones. Like Bayern, Sachsen, Prussia etc

[@genx7006]

Heck yeah! You need to do these at minimum: Bavaria, Saxony, Baden, Württemberg, and Prussia.

[@michael-prime9567]

It would be cool but unlikely seeing Germany before its unification existed out off 32 states with each there own uniform and depending on the regiment and where from the uniform might change where talking easily around a 100 different uniforms So as I said unlikely its sadly unlikely but understandable

[@genx7006]

@michael-prime9567 Not as difficult as you would think. Most of the state uniforms you mentioned are relatively generic and similar to one another. The only ones that really stand out are the ones I mentioned earlier.

[@chasedavis9336]

The story of how the G3 came into being is one of my favorites. Basically Germany wanted to employ FN to provide them with FAL rifles, but the Belgians (to some degree understandably considering the history) said no, so Germany basically said "Fine, we'll make our own FALs!" and developed the G3.

[@teoborges3949]

Germany initialy had some licensed built Heckler & Koch Gewher 1 (FALs), however H&k bought CETMEs rifle reinforced to withstand NATOs 7.62x51mm pressure, it was then put to compete in Bunderswehr to replace their G1s, with CETMEs rifle winning the competition nd deseguinated a G3

[@17cmmittlererminenwerfer81]

You imply that the G3 and FAL are the same. This is false. They couldn't be more different, and have nothing to do with each other, beyond using the same caliber cartridges. Completely different. No connection at all.

[@kutter_ttl6786]

There's a bit of misinformation in this thread that needs to be cleared up. The newly formed Bundeswehr initially adopted the G1 as their standard rifle, and the Belgians were willing to sell it to the Germans (they ultimately sold 100K of them). However, once the topic of licence production came up that's when the Belgians refused, and the Germans instead took to adapting the CETME rifle into the G3.

[@busch_ii7450]

@@17cmmittlererminenwerfer81i mean they do serve the same role. I guess thats what counts

[@daegnaxqelil2733]

it seems to me that the G3 was a copy of the Spanish rifle CETME, and it has finally eclipsed that gun

[@Gibberish773]

Finally, the lineage of modern uniform videos are complete! Farewell good series of 2 years, you will be missed. Or not...

[@bensrandomshows1482]

There are other nations they could do, India comes to mind, China too

[@TheArmchairHistorian]

We're all done with uniform videos for now! No more scheduled so far in 2024.

[@thetomatoking9714]

​@@TheArmchairHistorian Love the content, maybe in 2024 we will get a Spanish uniform history video? Often overlooked for a former military power haha

[@Maliers]

​@@thetomatoking9714yeah or a chinese Evolution video

[@willfakaroni5808]

@@thetomatoking9714I feel like China or Italy would come before that

[@rogeralex2151]

I was hoping to talk about the black Prussian uniforms that were kept during the German Empire that were worn by the Marshal August von Mackensen

[@j22563]

"Hey Siri, what's the definition of drip?" Siri: "Evolution of German Uniforms | Animated History"

[@PpPp-k2m9l]

True😂

[@jamesvictorbarrera6836]

Dude, VERY COOL!

[@ILIJA2002]

Danke für diesen tollen beitrag, auch ich habe hier was gelernt. Vielen dank das ihr mit Leib und Seele dabei seid!!!

[@samuellaird5184]

The Stahlhelm is the best and the most badass helmet ever made!

[@Swagmaster07]

1:30 his rifle randomly becomes bigger after passing the building

[@plcthelegacy4131]

With Evolution Uniforms making a return, i was curious if you guys could do a Ottoman/Turkish Uniform evolution?

[@ball8591]

I’ve been hoping you’d do this, German uniforms are one of the most iconic in the world if not THE most and I love it. It’s a shame some of them have to be attached or remembered for some horrible stuff

[@nicholasgallo3599]

Awesome Griffin please do one of your next videos on an updated version of the evolution of US Army Uniforms and maybe make a separate video on the Evolution of USMC Uniforms

[@robinng9326]

Love this “remastered” version of the German army uniform evolution. Would love to see this for your evolution of British army uniform!! I felt that it missed out on some uniforms such as the Irish or Scottish regiment during the different periods, ww1 African & Middle East theatre, ww2 far east uniform in Singapore & Burma, The King’s African Rifles and some cavalry uniform like the life guards or even the King’s German Legion in the napoleonic wars

[@gabrieleternullo8307]

Bro you can do the evolution of italian uniforms from the unification to modern times?

[@anonymanonym8641]

das interessiert keinen

[@SpilledMug]

that would be very interesting

[@TheFlohRiDa]

As a former Soldier who served in the Bundeswehr, the timeline presented here from the olive to flecktarn to the modern variations seems inaccurate and wierdly explained. Main points I can direction adress: - No mention of the Lockkoppel, a equipment system that came before any proper wests and is still given out to recruits today xD basically a harness that you can attach mag pouches, pouches etc to. - the Flakwest which was depicted to be 2001 till present is also not accurate, the basic Flakvests are one of the few equipment items actually fully phased out very quickly xD - No mention of the actual full West system and "Infanterist der Zukunft" loadout, which came in multiple variations and included stuff like fully modular Vests incoporating SK4 protection - "in 2005 it became noticeably muted". I mean, thats what happens with old uniforms, yeah. New ones were still brightly coloured. I had both sets of old and new pants + field blouses and the old stuff which went through many reuse cycles was muted, new stuff was more vibrant. - Only mentioning G36A2, which is a very old model and afaik most of the afgahnistan kits had the G36K modular system (I personally saw / had training with A3/4). And most these Infos can be found my lookin at basic wikipedia pages even. This video gave me a feeling that the Bundeswehr part of the video was just poorly put together for looks and not really properly research or theres a point im entirely missing.

[@Kray21728SP]

A remastered version from three years ago? Not what we asked for but, I’m okay with it. And it’s longer, so this is more helpful.

[@The_Evil_German_Cat]

As a German, I can only say that we had the most beautiful uniforms 🥲 Nice video from you 😊 Warm greetings from Germany

[@reinercreekman]

good🇩🇪 american women love German men 🇩🇪❤️🇺🇸 there will be a lot of white children

[@Ryder_666]

​@@reinercreekman💀💀💀💀

[@EverettTrygstad]

Wish I knew more history channels like this who actually cite sources

[@TacticoolMe]

This is a great remake of the old video

[@Kumimono]

I think, the FG-42 isn't usually considered an assault rifle. (Select fire, intermediary cartridge, and a detachable box magazine.) FG-42 still uses the full sized 8mm Mauser cartridge. But I'm no expert.

[@busch_ii7450]

Maybe battle rifle? its really hard to put it somewhere because supposedly it was also supposed to be used as a squad automatic weapon with its bipod and open bolt (on full auto) design.

[@vankraken5490]

FG-42 is basically an automatic rifle that does the job of a standard infantryman rifle (Kar98k) and a light machine gun (MG42) at the same time. Ultimately its a specialist weapon for paratroopers as its multi role weapon that sacrificed durability and cost to make a weapon that could be carried by paratoopers on combat jumps.

[@Tobi-ln9xr]

Haha the Weimar Republic soldier standing in front of the 200.000.000 Reichsmark bread stand is a nice detail and reference to the hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic in 1925/1926.

[@cac_deadlyrang]

6:05 Wilhelm scream? 12:19 *Battle rifle. FG 42 used full caliber rifle cartridges.

[@ghost7344]

Yep, you spotted it! You get a plus from me! (The sounddesigner)

[@bensrandomshows1482]

Love your vids and the citation of sources in the description, but I really think you should indicate in the video where you are drawing from each one

[@glorboflorbo9294]

The germana said it's drip or drown and they be dripping

[@mrlycan9065]

i would love to see a *Evolution Of Canadian Uniforms* video. we are in the background of history military wise still to much. Love the Videos as always!!!

[@Bad_wolf_41]

The "Tropentarn" you're displaying is actually the brand new "Multitarn", which is currently being issued to german military Special Forces, and its currently to my knowledge not planned, to introduce it to the regular armed forces - but i may be wrong on that. The Tropentarn looks different than the multitarn youre displaying here. Best Regards!

[@captainiglu5586]

You're right 👍

[@doctorkrieger4404]

And the New rifle the german army gets is not the 416a7 but the 416a8. Only the KSK/KSM get the 416a7(G95). But actually its planned to get multitarn into the force sooner or later. Its in testing at the moment but Nottings save yet

[@rico-228]

20:00 for those wondering camouflage is named Multitarn

[@cthomaspeasant3059]

Nice to see this video is getting a remaster

[@paleoph6168]

1:46-6:33 As with the _WW1 From Russia's Perspective_ video, Germans shown using *Ottoman* Mauser 1893 rifles, despite mentioning and showing a Gewehr 98 at 5:38.

[@Qiu-s1q]

Exactly!

[@generalaigullletes5830]

Nice, a remake of a good old video! Videos on earlier uniforms for many countries would be interesting, albiet likely unpopular. Love the video anyways.

[@gooseegg617]

Things I want to see Civil war Confederate perspective War of 1812 Canadian and British perspective WW1 Austria-Hungary, ottoman, and German perspective Cold war Russian/Soviet perspective

[@2dhistory197]

germany must always put dudes who failed art school as their commanders so they can get stronger

[@suhammoodi2106]

At 15:21, I can faintly hear General Weidling's capitulation speech from Downfall. Really cool, guys.

[@ghost7344]

And I thought no one will spot it! Thx for spotting it. There is also another announcer in the Defense of Berlin part, I would like to see if you can find the source.

[@lukehartman3534]

The Bundeswehr hasn't gotten the G95 yet. They are in the final stages of evaluation. Also, the G95 that is going to be adopted is the A8 model of the 416.

[@busch_ii7450]

I was getting kinda sad at the end there. The most average grunt has nothing of the shown gear. I still run around with the old helmet and the old ass chestrig from the 90s

[@justsaying6341]

@@busch_ii7450Wo sind Sie denn stationiert? In Seedorf ist fast jeder Soldat bereits umgerüstet, meines Wissens nach sogar schon der Großteil der DSK. Die Umrüstung der restlichen Truppenteile sollte demnach auch in vollen Zügen sein.

[@busch_ii7450]

@@justsaying6341 Lüneburg. Da werde ich neidisch

[@N002CountryBalls]

i love the Prussian uniforms

[@Goebber15]

WW2 uniforms combined with modern uniforms would look beautiful

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

The U.S. Army's 1980s and 1990s era Kevlar Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops Helmet was sometimes called the "Fritz helmet" for its resemblance to the German Stahlhelm. The U.S. Army and Marines have continued to use a design akin to the PASGT heltmet with MICH TC-2000 Combat Helmet and Lightweight Helmet, respectively. The Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers still used M1935 helmets which were captured from the Chinese Nationalist Army during the Chinese Civil War until the 1970s.

[@build4timetfisakilometer]

the german uniforms update is here!

[@French_officer_of_1e_Regiment]

When swedish uniforms evolution?

[@immortalobelisk6302]

This series is for UK, USA, Germany, France; you know, countries that actually fight not ones that have NATO cover their asses

[@French_officer_of_1e_Regiment]

​@@immortalobelisk6302 sweden at it's Prime fought in many wars, from the 30 years war to the napoleonic wars, thus their uniforms changed and changed and changed We arrive in the 1900s and 2000s

[@hatsune_Mako]

Disrespectful ​@@immortalobelisk6302

[@musolinging]

I notice the quality degraded quite a bit but it’s still very cool

[@P4Tri0t420]

Really nice Video (: Vielen Dank dafür ^^

[@CelabroSpace]

I fucking love this channel...

[@G5RkEN]

Fun Fact: After the second world war the Bundesgrenzschutz had kept a lot of the former Wehrmacht Equipment and Traditions, They re-used: the Stahlhelms, Guns, Camouflage Smocks and also used similar Uniforms and Boots which were based off the original Wehrmacht Uniforms. The fact that they used Machine Guns and Camouflage Smocks is already to crazy. Sometimes the Bundesgrenzschutz was also referred to Germany's 2nd Military. The weirdest thing about this is, that the Bundesgrenzschutz nowadays is the Bundespolizei (Federal Police).

[@Montyfat]

Do Italian uniforms!!!

[@ricardomaganagarcia4172]

The graphics look amazing

[@bottle3124]

Try your mom

[@AndrewJTCooper-ks1ng]

You forgot the camouflage smocks and uniforms of the wehrmacht during ww2.

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

Can you do evolution of Italian Uniforms next? They have amazing designs.

[@alexschmidt443]

Mobast (The Carrier System) and KBS SK (Combat Gear and Uniform) is still very limited available in the Bundeswehr. We barely have enough to equip our infantry forces. As for the so called HK416, it's supposed to replace the G36 by the end of this year, but somehow i haven't seen a single one of those yet...

[@Fritz_müller1916]

the rifle in the ww1/1907 segment is wrong it should be a mauser gewehr 1898 NOT the turkish mauser 1903

[@GustaV119]

Finland Uniform evolution😅

[@nursestoyland]

finally, a new evolution video! :D

[@jrdevildog25]

That german drip is no joke

[@rage_factor]

i just wanna say thank you for taking the time to make this video have a good day

[@llabavi367]

Griffins german pronounciation is really getting better

[@veteranassassin4591]

You guys should do the Evolution of the German Navy

[@Mwahaha105]

Please do one for the Canadian military

[@appleofthegroundgaming3347]

For real I love Canada

[@jerryu8166]

OH CANADA❤

[@musolinging]

Most of the uniforms were British infantry during ww2 but maybe

[@trisgilmour]

That would be great 👍

[@Tobi-ln9xr]

Nah Canada has no history…

[@supermike3529]

Updated version goes brrrr

[@ARC_Convoy]

It should be mentioned that after reunification, the NVA wore their uniforms for sometime but modified with bundeswehr insignia, there are a few videos of NVA soldiers marching and drilling right after reunification. I will post in replies if I find them.

[@dansmith4077]

Excellent video thank you

[@phnx_tom5400]

The modern German military, especially the KSK looks so good🔥😎

[@anonkig]

A whole section you could've added; Friedensheer. Inbetween the end of war and 1919, the Friedensheer kept peace in Germany, they had blue lines on their uniforms. There's a wiki page on them I'm sure of it.

[@tabletopmika4349]

The olive green uniforms and the M1 helnets were still widely used until the mid 90s. The only Flecktarn equipment I had in 1994 were the Kampfrucksack (battle backback) and helmet cover, which was designed for the M92 helmet and therefore didn't really fit the old M1 steel helmets. As far as I remember units like the German-French Brigade. My sergeant who transfered from that brigade to my artillerie unit even had to return his Flecktarn uniform and get the old olive green uniform. During my basic training due to equipment shortage my unit (and probably many more) got AK bayonets that we, of course, couldn't fit to our G3 assault rifles, which were from the early 1960s. So, it is possible that my father who was in the same unit as I during his basic training was trained on the same rifle as I. 😂

[@tillposer]

17:50 The opening of the borders happened on Nov. 9th 1989 in reaction of a statement by Günter Schabowski during a press conference between 18:53 and 19:01, where he mistakenly declared that GDR citizens could travel to West Germany, and West Berlin, omitting the provisio that that would constitute a permanent emigration. The news was spread through West German media, specifically the main news segment Heute of the public broadcaster ZDF at 19:17. The news spread like wildfire throughout East Berlin and the rest of the GDR within reach of western media. East German citizens started to gather in huge crowds at the six checkpoints, until the checkpoint Bornholmer Straße was opened on 22:45 to relieve the mounting pressure. Thus the Wall came down on Nov. 9th.

[@rayrobelo7262]

Glory and victory is temporary, Drip last an eternity

[@_chaos_insurgency9546]

ur vids are great keep up the work

[@LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial]

just gonna point out that the metal skullcap was used only by like 1 company because the guy in charge wanted his men to have some sort of head protection and the stalhelm hadnt released yet

[@oldironfarm]

Italy next?

[@handsomecatenjoyer]

Les goo more German videos. Edit: Wait didn’t we see this before?

[@Sof_alm]

Thanks for the video bro

[@yakbeast09]

Fest steht und treu die Wacht. Die Wacht am Rhein

[@Hectopath2006]

How did we go from this beautiful animation barely scraping 150k in 3 days to random KZbin kids videos of poorly edited pngs of Peter Griffin getting 10m in ten hours

[@Dajackstaronyt]

Next topic: history of italian uniforms

[@IloveUSA-o8p]

Хотелось бы

[@ricardomaganagarcia4172]

Will we finally get an Italian uniform video

[@goji3908]

3:04 simulated typo

[@jakubrodziewicz8044]

Should I interpretate this film as a remastered

[@jacobbailey4810]

You should do the evolution of the Spanish uniforms

[@SpookyFraulein]

Thank you for yalls awesome content, I love the uniforms you cover!

[@aidanpysher2764]

I collect a lot of modern and cold-war era camo patterns and field jackets, and by far the best looking contemporary stuff is German. The Flecktarn pattern is just pure fire, and East German Strichtarn is pure drip. West German gear is definitely monotone, but it just looks absolutely sleek, especially their Forstergrun Polizei jackets.

[@ODST_Parker]

Always great to see another uniform history! I love this stuff, especially since Germany has some of my favorites. Speaking of War Thunder, is there a chance of seeing videos like this for other branches? Pilots, tankers, sailors, etc?

[@hessenbrite2295]

Great vid, but I have a small gripe: the colour of the Wehrmacht M 1935 field tunic was a greenish-grey. This colour was introduced in July 1929 and given the traditional but inaccurate title Feldgrau (field grey). Trousers were mid-grey. The Wehrmacht adopted full mid-grey uniforms with the M 1940 field uniform in 1940/41. And another aspect you didn't cover was the early field uniform of the Bundeswehr in the 1950s, which used extensive camouflage.

[@dst_dacs8212]

A few points to the uniform, various units still use the 1990 helmet and only the ksk has the g95 while the infantry will get their hands on them in 2024-2026, also we have different uniforms for different Branches, we have the lochkoppel from the 2nd World war for non infantry units, then we have mobast for infantry and idz for panzergrenadiere and ksk

[@shovelguy5390]

33-45 was straight heat💯

[@wockscillino]

IN EVERY VIDEO I FUOND AN AD OF WAR THUNDER

[@jonisukanen9431]

Finland next?

[@Mek-358]

YES! PLEASE!

[@LimonBolchevique]

I had just watched the previous version of this video when I received the notification 😮

[@cool248dj]

It would’ve been nice if you also showed their Air Force and their special police force modern day uniforms in the end because of their headgear and armor including using chainmail at some points

[@JuanTonSoupXP]

Could you please cover the civil war in El Salvador that happened back in the late 1970’s-1980’s? My grandparents/parents were both refugees that fled, we lost family members just like many others. I’m only 20, I was never there and learning about that time in our history is important to me. I just never ask my family out of respect for their trauma, I don’t wanna make anyone relive those memories. (Asking again >:D)

[@kawaiikultureinc2573]

We need to see Italian uniforms

[@Longdragon]

I swear, this guy makes very interesting videos

[@HunterRoland-po7if]

Your channel is my favorite channel on KZbin. Can you please cover the history of Italian, Chinese, Korean, Indian military uniforms and vehicles please. Thank you and please keep up the amazing content,.

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

[@RandomGuy9]

I think replacing the G36 is a mistake. The rifle is perfect.

[@bismarckable]

The G36 doesn't fire straight

[@oliversherman2414]

This may be a controversial comment, but German uniforms have always looked great

[@michaelsamuel9841]

Reich swagg lol

[@t0xictac015]

Are we gonna get an updated Russian uniform video? Its quite short compared to this one, and its ad takes up like 20% of the whole vid