Original Wiking Division Sd.Kfz.251 Driving in the Snow
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Our Original Wiking Division Sd.Kfz.251 driving in the snow for the first time since being abandoned in 1945 outside Vienna.
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When retreating my grandfathers unit was embedded with the Wiking division for a while before being send to Czechoslovakia and then towards Berlin for the final battles to defend it.. Somewhere along the way they got captured by the Russians who were already ahead of them. He survived though passed away a year ago. Eventually he was with the 23. SS Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Nederland serving in Regiment "de Ruyter" before the division seized to exist. Was at the eastern front for 2 years in total i believe.. I can imagine him riding in one of these... very well done..
Excellent restoration
Many thanks!
Wunderbar restauriert und ein Stück Geschichte am Leben erhalten
Thank you very much.
That’s what I do with VHS 📼
Awesome!! As a scale modeler I was fascinated to watch how the snow built up on the road wheels and tracks. What a gem.
Glad you enjoyed it
Ivery Kool. Thank you for saving these Machines!!!
They are really driving on 10 million tons of baking soda. 🙃
I remember back in the year 2000 I went to the old battle of the bulge reenactment in Pennsylvania. We were moving up as the Americans when 2 halftracks like here came at us and stopped and 2 squads of Germans hit our one. It was quite the experience in the snow! As a 16 yo at the time I thought it was amazing then to go talk to the wwii vets that came out to see the event.
Well done guys that's my kind of all terrain vehicle
Thank you!
Looks amazing!
Thank you!
That was quite the treat seeing that work of art traversing that beautiful, snowy landscape. Thank goodness there are still people dedicated to keeping these historical vehicles running.
If I were to have a favorite SS division, it would be the SS Wiking division.
Wow! This I wanna drive on our streets in Germany!
Would it even be allowed in Germany with all those "historical" markings on it?
@@bachelorchownowwithflavor3712 nope it would be not. Germans became US vassal nation
@@user-ft3tq9nv3i You are a fool and Putin's troll
Very cool to see an original in such good working condition.
Beautiful!
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you for allowing us to view the 251 Neu Art playing in the snow.
Always thought those were one of the coolest looking vehicles in WW2. Thanks for preserving history
Doesn't matter what time of year, the first drive after the hard work to check it out. Thanks for sharing this with us. I'm a German/Austrian/Scottish American, LOL.
Heil Fuhrer!🤚
Wunderbar 🇬🇧🇩🇪😎💕. It's like an oversized scale model. The camouflage scheme is done very too !.
I had a model kit of this thing when I was 11,long time ago.Is wonderful to see a real one.
A lovely Sd.Kfz. 251 a very cool AFV 😎 👍👍👍
That is truly amazing stuff ,seeing the vehicle going across that field ,Fantastic .
Very nice Video. It looks marvellous 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Wonderful 👏👏👍
Many thanks
Tricky 1st gear! Its like seeing a snapshot from history replayed in full color!
The Best. Excellent.
Absolutely love the Sd. Kfz 251 APC. What a lovely specimen this one is. Thanks for sharing.
Na vojně v Humenném jsem byl v roce 1985 velitelem tohoto vozidla.
Another awesome video from you guys, thanks and keep them coming soon. 👍
Our pleasure! Thank you!
Great-looking vehicle.....l love it...
Beautifully restored 😊
Thank you! Cheers!
What an amazing vehicle. Well done, looks, and sounds fantastic 👏
These troop carriers are just so visually appealing. Thanks for preserving history.
Tolle Restauration. Division Wiking 👍 Bis letztes Jahr kannte ich ein Mitglied der Division, der im Raum Budapest zum Einsatz kam. Er ist vergangenes Jahr gestorben.
What a sound! Beautiful angular design.
Thank you for sharing this. I loved watching it!!
superb restoration THANK YOU for keeping history alive !!
Hermosa máquina... Como modelista, un video muy útil.
мій син теж моделіст!
I know what I want for Christmas next year!
Thank you for preserving this piece of history.
Amazing what a little 100 hp iL-6 Maybach motor can handle. The Gas mileage is nothing to write home about but this thing is perfect for going from one wild boar drive to the next in the winter. Other than that you can always tear up someone else´s football pitch if you´re in a nasty college fraternity!
awesome !!
Thanks!!
That halftrack looks great. So cool and glad people are preserving these classic war machines.
Amazing and beautiful restoration!
Yeah wish I could just find one of these. You guys did a good job restoring it.
5th S.S VIKING Div.?,Love the your vids Thank-you
Excelente restauración! Un buen pedazo de historia!
Cracking restoration. Some of these pictures should be used for a calendar. 😅. Thank you for sharing this video with us.
Wiking Division was stationed around Leningrad. A lot of their artifacts have been excavated.
Irrtum, die Wiking war stets im Süden, bis auf ein paar Aushilfen im Mittelabschnitt. Aufgelöst hat sie sich in Österreich.
The Wiking Division was one of the best tank divisions of the Eastern Front
Ein Traum 😍
The boys are back in town.
The camouflage is really surprisingly effective. Nice job.
Congratulations, it looks fantastic!!!
Looking good. Nice painting as well. Always wonder how only the front wheels can steer this vehicle.
There are hand-operated differential brakes that act on the tracks as well the steering wheel turning the front wheels.
Looking at the understeer (until more than a few degrees of steering is used) I'm not sure, in these particular low traction conditions, that the front wheels _are_ actually effective for some of the changing of direction.
Around 1:58 the vehicle does a right turn as it goes through the gate, pulls a very instantaneous skid steer, typical of a tracked vehicle.
Some sort of linked system for skid steering for traversing heavy mud or snow? Skid/differential brake/clutch type steer actuated by wheel above a certain steering input perhaps? or separate levers or pedals? Maybe some one could help me out here?
@@13thdukeofwybourne69 There is an automatic system, based off of how many degrees the wheels have turned from center, that changes the track speeds between the two sides to get the vehicle to turn faster. If I remember correctly there are two positions, at like 15 degrees and 25 degrees or something similar, which when exceeded results in the tracks changing relative speed to each other, and there are two levels of rotation speed offset. Read that somewhere but I have never actually driven one.
Muito legal! 🌟👍
It is so interesting that folks have some of the most fascination with the former Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine vehicles. The war is now nearly 80 years in the past and yet these pieces of equipment still have a lore about them.
...after it was restored, the SdKfz 251, seeing the snow, had a tendency to go off alone in search of Moscow hahaha. The SdKfz 251 is a work of art of the military world
Sieht sehr schön aus, gute Arbeit 😎
That’s badass.
What a Beauty! Thanks for the Video!
After a long years still looking fresh
Outstanding. Thank you for keeping history alive.
Excellent video, so cool to see and hear!!!
German WW2 halftracks are just so COOL looking!!!
Very innovative for it's time, the sloped design caries to this day on APCs
Indeed!
Beautiful piece of retired history gents! Bravo 👏 and like a few others on here I'm a scale modeler and this video shows us some great insights into winter operations. From the snow on the tracks and wheels to the way the snow slews up on the turns. Excellent video
Excellent !!
Nice restored piece of WW2 history.
Amazing relic!
Amazing piece of kit
Awesome guys Merry Christmas to all
Incredible.👍
I hope this half-track gets into a movie.
Wow,beautiful in the snow..like in the old times of fire and steel..!
Perfect for the Tesco shopping run. Awesome to see!
So cool!!
Wonderful restoration.
Great and beautiful machine.
Many thanks!
Amazing..
Super!
Cool 👍
I always thought that German divisions that had been based on the Eastern front for the whole duration of the war were handed over to the Soviets but this did not happen with SS division Viking.
No , most of them where captured bye the Americans in the Region of St. Johann im Pongau , Austria. A lot of their Vehicles ended up in a local Scrapyard and where later (around 1964) discoverd bye Cpt. Harry Connors
A Dutch division really.
That's awesome....its amazing how much the star wars franchise took queues from vehicles like this and even the helmets lol....I bet this vehicle is thanking you right now for its special play day👍
😍
Beautiful 👌👍
Beautiful
Great job on that.
Love it
Now that is awesome! Wow!
That is Beautiful
That is so cool!
Nice.
Increíble. Es precioso.Una maravilla
Leon would be proud
I need that Vehicle here, winters are tough.
Magnifique super
sehr eindrucksvoll! fehlt nur noch ein Deko-MG..
thats sick
Piece of History.
Awsome I have always wanted one of them
Seeing that it has a tow hook, I suspect that for a time at least, it probably towed a PAK 40.
Yes, anything similar or smaller size of a PAK 40. We have shared a video towing our PAK 40. Anything bigger, is just to heavy for this vehicle.
nice
Awesome! It’s like letting a horse go out and play in the snow