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

Excuse me Sir , where is the place to surrender ?

"That's it". Wow.

Location are wrong, it's not Trandum. First movie show Panzers arrived and disembarked at Loenga Bru Station (fret railroad) at Oslo. the second movie show Panzers column at some hundred meters away at Kongsveien road (just near the Ekeberg park entrance). The location of the third movie are not sure at 100%, but maybe inside the Ekeberg park.

Das Ende meine Kameraden.

Does anyone know what the "T" sign on their arms stand for? Tanks? Troops? Terminated? Temporary? I would love to figure out this tiny tit bit of history, even though it's of no importance today, LOL

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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.

These men and vehicles may have seen combat against the Russians and the Finns. People often forget that the Germans held the front in Finnish Lapland to free Finnish troops for operations in southern Finland. The Germans were supposed to advance to Murmansk in 1941 but due to bad intelligence like mistaking telephone lines on soviet maps for roads and the harsh polar climate they failed to even get close allowing Russians to receive lend lease aid through the port. When us Finns made peace with the soviets we were required to drive the Germans back to Norway resulting in the Lapland war. Germans used a lot of captured and obsolete equipment in Finland because it was a secondary front where the soviets didn't use their top stuff either. You can see from the decorations of the tankers that many of them didn't just sit in Norway for the duration of the war. When the retreat from Finland was complete some of the original occupation troops were ferried to Germany while the troops that were battered in Finland were left to recuperate in their place.

The man in berret in Benny Hill?

Wow 212 is Benny hill

1:59 Germans surrendering to Benny Hill

That's a lot of panzers

Are those guys using their underwear as a white flag?

wow this is a lot of tanks

I believe one of the planners of D Day had very foolishly got on a reconnaissance plane that flew over to the French coast to check on a few outstanding details just before it was due to take place. The plane was shot down by German AA and the occupants were either captured or got hidden away by the Résistance. Churchill was understandably furious when he heard about it. Luckily the Germans didn't discover exactly who he was and didn't interrogate him, but they could so very easily have done so. They were still working on the assumption that the Invasion was planned for the Pas de Calais, following Hitler's orders and the ingenious disinformation spread by the Allies.

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

What did the T arm band mean? Presumably it had something to do with the officers having surrendered.

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

Even when they surrender, the Germans are impeccable, true soldiers.

2.12..... benny hill?

Top Tank Men thanks🎉😊

History is always written by the governments of the winning nations. The truth is always the first victim in any conflict. Things were slightly different to what they told and still try to tell us and our children....

My uncle jack is first bloke you see.

after all those years of fighting and even if your on the winning or losing side, you know you have survived it all.

You can see a marked diference in how these German troops are being regarded/treated, compared to how they were being regarded/treated in continental Europe at that time. Granted the British did treat unarmed German soldiers (Notice I do not say POW's) the best compared to how the Americans & French treated them.

Now, Norway surrender to...the Afrika

E andata così hanno dato anima e corpo per ridursi in quel modo.

Terboven

Those uniforms seem so New, clean, as if they had never fought in them ?????. Or have any of you able to explain????. Cheers..

A time warp unit with obsolete equipment left to rot away in a backwater, could be 1940 not 1945.

"Funnies" proved not so amusing (death trap)

What does the white arched stripe on the front of helmets signify? Also, the apostrophe at 2:29

Germans won the fashion war, brits look ike a bunch of bin bags.

What became of these tanks, I hope they were not scrapped.

Baggy pants of the panzer crew, allowed for comfort when seated in the tank. from a retired Aussie Armoured Corps soldier.

This is elements of 25.Pz Div, a rag-tag unit camping north of Oslo for most of the war. In late ‘44, most of the Div was transferred to France only to be completely wiped out by the western allied forces. The elements shown here are troops rekonvalescing, refitting etc. 25. never were fully up to strength and always with inferior equipment regarding its armor. In many ways it resembled the 22.Pz. on the eastern front, always a sub-par unit

It's nice to see respect to one another despite them being enemies. I know the war is over and they have to surrender those tanks but I felt it was made by the most respect atleast.

I wanna know why tf these tanks were in Norway and not defending Germany

A nice cushy posting. Those tanks are in immaculate condition. Good to see the crews in their very smart black jackets. Norway I can think of a lot worse places to have been posted. Especially for a tank unit. They look like they have never been driven out the camp gates.

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Fascinating to see the interaction between soldiers at the end of hostilities. Former enemies, but still co-operating and showing respect for each other.

A very interesting video. I wonder what became of these tanks? Scrapped or Museums?

2:10 Benny Hill?

I wonder what the combined body-count of all these tanks is.

1:26 FIAT logo in that building?

Benny Hill !

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.

Es gab auf allen Seiten Kriegsverbrechen. Nur ist es so dass die Kriegsgewinner die Geschichte schreiben. Einfach mal die Rheinwiesenlager anschauen. Amerikanische britische Behandlung von Kriegsgefangenen. Ist bis heute fast nicht bekannt. Graben ist in dem Gebiet streng verboten. Warum wohl? Die Toten hsben nicht mal ein ordentliches Grab. Eine Schande.