Why Were German Soldiers Chained To Their Guns? (Video Analysis)

[@mcsmash4905]

the ai generated imagery always kills my braincells

[@taylorcasale680]

Its deeper than the imagery and voice. The script is also AI generated. Making the accounts and even uploading the videos are entirely automated. No humans are involved in the process.

[@Peaches-i2i]

@@taylorcasale680 I remember when the Elsa and Spiderman videos were trending way before AI. No way those were made by human beings either.

[@abbcc5996]

those shorts often have no human input in them at all. they are bots made to farm as much content as possible. i have no idea why they don't exist in instagram reels but can exist and thrive in youtube shorts. i stumbled upon an actual effing terrifying ai made shorts video about the Arthropleura, the 2 meters long prehistoric millipede. the ai voice said here is how the insect looked and showed a terrifying ai generated video of a giant insect moving. it honestly ruined my night lol

[@mcsmash4905]

@@abbcc5996 according to some yt actively forces this content as suggestions , i actively avoid it other than the few times i want to humor someone and bask in how obnoxious all of it is

[@alexmaccity]

If its robot voices especially the chick one used on tiktok. I dislike it, and I'll even report it. I just hate that youtube doesnt have a block button either

[@blitzenforcer7123]

Lets pray that this annoying AI craze goes straight to hell.

[@diretissima7624]

At the right side of the screen, in the recommendations you will find the same channel. If you click the three dots you can then click "do not recommend this channel". This way YT does not think you are interested in this type of content.

[@taylorcasale680]

AI Rot gets millions of views while actual well researched and entertaining videos like this get only a few thousand. This feels like a parable. Something about 'a lie making it around the world while the truth is putting its pants on.' I cant remember the line exactly.

[@KorianHUN]

I wonder how many of those views are just mindless scrollers who don't even care what they watch or straight up bots.

[@bretthess6376]

"... while the truth is putting it's boots on."

[@smoldoggy1005]

Brown people from third world countries are enraptured by the robotic voice that can’t pronounce words or use grammar properly, and the wacky pictures and text helps snatch their short attention spans. They think if they also use the “knowledge” from these videos they’ll somehow become millionaires in America

[@IAmMrGreat]

Most of these no-effort AI generated clips probably also use click farms (lots of devices with one or no people operating them to quickly up the view, subscriber and like counts) to manipulate the algorithm to believe it's a popular video and thereby recommend it to even more people. By this point I'd prefer if all online algorithms just ignored those things and based recommendations entirely on similarity to previous read/bought/watched content for the individual user.

[@Mere-Lachaiselongue]

T¨¨se t¨¨es of v¨¨eos get "sent to the shadow realm" meanwhile AI does not. It's deliberate. edit; to see if comment got auto censored

[@offizierhashxm]

AI: An Insult.

[@GhostMaker00]

When I see AI art I just skip.

[@jasonhas7456]

Or voice

[@pirobot668beta]

British and Canadian Officers in WWII had lanyards for their pistols....'chained to their guns' indeed.

[@thinkpandora935]

Ai images have been the worst thing invented, it's good there's still people fighting against misinformation.

[@usuarionaoincluido7733]

seriously,these types of videos that you do is both really entretaining aswell factual.i like these types of videos,alongside your long hour long videos. Keep your nice work man love from brazil

[@erloriel]

My great-uncle was a machine gunner on the Eastern Front and was issued an apparently mediocre French captured weapon (may have been an FM24/29). During a particularly heavy fight, he had to be "convinced" to stay at his post by an officer with a drawn pistol. This event convinced him to acquire a stomach ailment and with the help of a benevolent doctor, he became an invalid for the remainder of the war and ended it in (ironically) French captivity. Had the commanders (and every war reporter, every memoir, every inventory, and every historian) not forgotten the chains (Maschinengewehr-Kette, mittel, n.A.) for him, he might not have been alive to tell the tale. Well, he did die, but at the age 97, a few years ago. No Soviets or chains were involved. But I do suspect the French.

[@RasEli03]

Thank you so much for telling a part of your families past! Do you know what his name was

[@liammiller1472]

I always scroll right past any History KZbin short that uses the ai voice, especially if they can’t even use real images

[@SirGeorgeofWorcestershire]

Based. Incredibly stupid to use AI generated imagery when there are tons of images and footage of the events and practices they are talking about, and using AI voice instead of using the voice God gave them. That really shows that they don't have any interest in history, they just easily produce these videos in order to possibly get millions of views and economic reward.

[@abbcc5996]

@@SirGeorgeofWorcestershire you dont even understand the problem sadly. its not that they dont care about the history, they dont have the capabilities to do that because the shorts are literally made by bots specifically made to farm youtube shorts (history is their main topic because its popular). literally no human input goes into those videos even the prompts for the ai are written by the bots in some Lovecraftian automation cycle

[@SirGeorgeofWorcestershire]

Glad to see so many people in this comment section expressing their discontent towards AI generated content on the Internet and beyond.

[@atomicgunpla]

The Flesherton war memorial is across the street from my late grand parents old house, I used to blast between the machine gun and the cenotaph on a GT snow racer from higher up the hill. I crashed into the machine gun on the right one time, it didn’t budge.

[@KevinSmith-yh6tl]

If an AI image was generated of FDR and Stalin making out after the Tehran Conference, people would believe, WAIT, SORRY, THAT REALLY HAPPENED.

[@kirkstinson7316]

No, not FDR. Churchill maybe but not FDR

[@KevinSmith-yh6tl]

@@kirkstinson7316 Roosevelt was a Socialist, everyone knows this but won't admit it.

[@KevinSmith-yh6tl]

@@kirkstinson7316 Either yt removed my comment to you, or you reported it. Roosevelt and Stalin were two birds of a feather.

[@KevinSmith-yh6tl]

@@kirkstinson7316 YES! Explain why then. Just don't be a Roosaphile.

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

How could a machine gunner that is required to know how to disassemble his machine gun possibly be chained to it?

[@capcamouflage]

Interestingly stories of enemy soldiers being chained to their guns continue to appear in later wars, including at least as late as Vietnam, with multiple stories of the Viet Cong being chained to a machine gun.

[@loke801]

There was also some stories of PAVN tankers being chained inside of their tanks as well during the Easter Offensive. Edit: This isnt me saying they’re true, but rather just another example of that myth.

[@Huweeey]

But of course, they're stories and anecdotes mostly to dehumanize enemies. Best not to take them to seriously until actual evidences are brought up. I live and VietNam and I don't think anybody within my military, even the most delicately indoctrinated to die in a fight thinks it is a good idea to chain soldiers with a stationary machine gun or vehicles, any brain dead grunt will see it being absolutely insane thing to do. Edit: Typo

[@Davie-jx4rh]

It does make good propaganda to paint your enemy as evil, however as an actual tactic, I’d imagine it’d be rather ineffective

[@SmittyMRE]

If those videos are empty cal's, your videos are surely not. Wholesome nutrition for the brain per the usual, good sir.

[@budprepper3811]

We're living in an artificial world

[@cornhorn280]

I report every one of these videos.

[@A.Mad.Lad89]

AI is ghee

[@tedwarden1608]

My grandfather was in France he told me about a chained machine gunner. Every man that went passed him put his bayonet into him. He said there wasn’t much left.

[@domino2560]

It would probably be a good idea to make a shorts version of the video

[@shep8851]

The problem with the AI trend is that it'll be taken as true by later generations

[@HandGrenadeDivision]

The trend to believe anything you see just because it is online already exists. AI may ironically encourage people to be more critical of what they are seeing, but it will fall to the historians to sort it out. Those who like "myth buster" type content will be happy. The good news is that truly bad AI like this is easy to spot. Won't always be the case, as I think you are correctly suggesting.

[@schatzkammerein]

i hate the lazy AI videos out there, always dislike and mute them

[@graemer3657]

The Russian / Finnish 2002 film “Kukushka” shows a sniper being chained to a rock so that he is forced to not abandon his rearguard position.

[@paulwee1924dus]

Mons is a big town. Tanks in town event was held there.

[@adamc2378]

AI imagery and script=automatic block

[@boogalowo7022]

Not sure where you are in the country, But If you haven't already, I highly recommend making the pilgrimage to Ottawa, Oshawa, Trenton, and borden for aviation/ tank museums in Ontario. Plus if you have the 'tism theres the science and technology museum as well for steam locomotives 👍

[@HandGrenadeDivision]

I had a private tour of the tank storage in Borden a few years back and was impressed. I was also at the Canadian War Museum when it had its grand opening in 2005, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of VE-Day. Was a great weekend, and the restoration of the PzKpfw V was particularly amazing - I had seen it at Borden earlier, slathered in gloss grey paint. Seeing what the CWM was able to do to revive it and restore it to its wartime appearance was encouraging.

[@highjumpstudios2384]

Me when my calories are empty when it comes to history.

[@TP-ie3hj]

So we can keep it straight the AI stories are not just for views but the ability to test the lies. If they can convince millions of believing in such absurdities what else could they make people believe? This is not just a simple click bait attempt. It targets a subject that has known experts and enthusiasts who would surely refute such ignorant claims. However will that stop the lies or will they succeed in their efforts to change history.

[@TheIfifi]

Okay take it easy there man. Which is more likely? A grand conspiracy to subvert the masses and rewrite history to... Dunno, establish a world order or something... OR AI are cheap. This is an easy way to pump out content and earn a buck? The latter sounds more plausible to me.

[@wolfsmaul-ger8318]

the amazing thing about AI is that one day it will implode through all the backfed AI data

[@schatzkammerein]

nice intro by the way, Erika on bass?

[@larstolminus9416]

Please dislike and go press “do not recommend” for any history videos using AI. Its all fake engagement bait

[@tnoomsk5897]

So this has a true background but from the 1st World War and was also a misunderstanding at the same time. If I have understood this correctly now.

[@RhoDesia-gr1wb]

lol, 1914 misinformation popping back in 2024.

[@markaxworthy2508]

The Italian journalist and author Curzio Malaparte also claimed that Soviet machine gunners were chained to their guns in 1941.

[@HandGrenadeDivision]

hmmm, and it was Italian journalists who spread the lie that Polish cavalry was attacking tanks in 1939.....

[@SamuraiAkechi]

The context matters. Was it in a literary work or was it in a report of events that's supposed to be exact and trustworthy? In Leo Tolstoy's "The Cossacks" novel there's a mention of Chechen combatants strapping their knees to that of their fellows so they wouldn't succumb to panic and flee from the hopeless fight against the Russian chasing party. However, even though inspired by Tolstoy's actual military experience, it's mostly a work of fiction.

[@markaxworthy2508]

@@SamuraiAkechi Malaparte was sent as journalist with the first Italian corps deployed to the Eastern Front in 1941. He wrote two books on his experiences, "Kaputt" and "The Volga Rises in Europe". The former is novelesque but the latter is based on his newspaper reports. I think Malaparte was a South Tyrolean who changed his German name for professional reasons.

[@TellySavalas-or5hf]

WW2 on youtube is a circus.

[@matthorrocks6517]

We are going to have to only watch KZbin from 2023 and earlier. Everything else will be ai

[@matthewgibbs6886]

the black templers approve of chaining weapons

[@agoogleaccount2861]

For the same reason anti retreat squads exist.

[@tiagomonteiro130]

Lmao those were Soviet NKVD officers 😂 no German ever gave such an order not Guy Sajer nore any other German Soldier after spoke of something like that.

[@kirotheavenger60]

​@@tiagomonteiro130a lot of Germans were executed for dissertation at the end of the war Often the bodies would be displayed publically as a warning, too

[@tiagomonteiro130]

@@kirotheavenger60 Dissertation is a crime in every army Soldiers were executed for having PTSD thinking they were cowards, you just try to force this on the Germans now acting like the US or France didn't do the same, France killed the most Soldiers for having PTSD than any army in the world, Dissertation by the way still a crime today and you're comrades will probably beat you to death for leaving them, they are traitors and got hung and shot by firing squads, they left their population to die becouse they cared about themselves more nothing heroic about that.

[@tiagomonteiro130]

@@kirotheavenger60 You mean like every army did? Go look up how many Disserters the allies killed.

[@kirotheavenger60]

@@tiagomonteiro130 man you sure went from "the German army never did that" to "everyone did that, it was super common!" real bloody quick lol You're wrong anyway The German army executed upwards of 15,000 men, plus about another 30,000 for other crimes The British and Commonwealth armies shot 306 The US army just one. So yeah, everyone was just as bad as the Germans, super common, totally normal

[@ksztyrix]

My source is "I said so"

[@Lenn869]

AI: An Indian

[@billturner6564]

Do anything that describes KZbin to a t reality light history light truth light

[@TonyBMW]

Never heard of this nonsense

[@ADULFGETULER]

rewriting of history