The Brutal Duel: Das Reich’s Tigers at Kursk | 1943
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- Join us as we journey back to 1943 and explore the relentless struggle of Das Reich, a division that became legendary for its tenacity and ferocity on the battlefield. This video takes you right into the heart of the action, shedding light on the brave soldiers, the brilliant commanders, and the remarkable tactics that defined their epic showdown at Kursk.
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A battle of epic proportion
There are people out there who's mission is to denigrate this battle...to minimise it because it reflected well on the Soviets...as did operation Bagration.....these people deny Kursk was the greatest armoured battle in history...
Sounds like the repair crews were very heroic also.
Yes often times forgotten like the medical 🚑 field personal.
Truly the hardest working men that kept the PanzerWaffe >>rollin>> along, doing so under near constant movement & changing locations as to field-grade/near front lines PanzerWerkStattCo's. Without them the entire ordeal wouldve ground to a shuddering halt. The sheer amount of clever improvisation they'd constantly achieved on a daily basis is quite impressive indeed...
-If interested, theres a great 2-3 hard-back book volume entitled: "Repairing The Panzers" & Hard Cover "Der StraboKran" (16-18 ton lifting capacity portable Fries gantry cranes the PanzerWerkStatts regularly used)...
-All those books w/great photos/schematics/1/35th model scale plans, dealing with the repair of the heavies & medium tanks under German combat arms. (Each book around $55-80-ish)
-Take it easy...
I just love the tiger tank
Awesome narration to an epic battle!I remember my 4th grade teacher in Germany speaking often about this, he was shot out of his tank during the Kursk battle.
You should get his stories for history as he is a Warrior and should be proud he served his country.
@@allenvandyke732 I was very young back then, but I remember him well even now. Unfortunately I wish I had paid more attention to him, he has long passed on. He was one 1️⃣ of the few teachers that made a difference
The DAS REICH IN A CLASS ALL THEMSELVES!
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Glad to have you here John🤝
The Eastern front was true hell on earth for both sides
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Special thanks to veteran soldiers/civilians sharing personal information/combat experiences. Enabling historians to replicate those diaries/memoirs. Replicating those stories for viewers to better appreciate the hard ships of those brave soldiers. Fighting/perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible. Yet still advanced forward regardless of the consequences. True grit style determination to succeed. A loud shout out to the often forgotten medical 🚑 personal. Medics/stretcher bearers risking life and limb tending to wounded soldiers. Enabling doctors/nurses/orderlies. Working tirelessly to save those brave soldiers!!!
It’s good to hear stories of the axis side of the war and not the same old stories of allied brilliance
Well done!!!
The book “The Last Citadel” is pretty intense so it must’ve been much worse than we could imagine. I’m just a retired US Army Infantryman but I can tell that the maintenance section that supported these tanks made miracles look easy, those tanks were not easy to work on in any way so I have no idea how they pulled it off.
Mit Bergepanzer (Panther, Tiger etc) oder SdKfz 9 (2x)!!
Thanks for all this quality content! Germans were a level ahead of their time really, sad all the sacrifice and courage wasted only because of incompetent zealots of high command
There's nothing sad about Germany's defeat.
@@b2tall239Pppffff..right. Europe is doing great these days!! You have your right to be wrong.
A level ahead, but incompetent?
Unfortunately the bad guys won WW2 - you just need to look at what is currently happening in Europe to realise this@@b2tall239
Yea really Europe is in shambles now.
Very interesting and engaging description of thus battle.
Wow what a great video!! Thanks
Very good Video !!! Thanks..
Hard to win a battle, let alone a war, with tanks that can stay operational for only a matter of days.
A great division and amazing men.
The Russians however just wore them down bit by bit.
Great video.
Thank you 😊
The Ukrainians still worship Das Reich.
Nikita Khrushchev, who led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, agreed with Stalin's assessment. In his memoirs, Khrushchev described how Stalin stressed the value of Lend-Lease aid: “He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war.”May 2, 2023
You do amazing work...cant thank you enough
Excellent documentary
To assess the German campaign in Russia properly, one must take into account the enormous financial and material support of Russia by the US and GB. The listing of tanks, trucks, jeeps, planes, fuel and ammunition is mindboggling. Democracies such as the USA and GB supported Stalin and the communists! Only with this support could the Soviet Union survive. The WEST sacrificed Eastern Europe.
Nikita Khrushchev, who led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, agreed with Stalin's assessment. In his memoirs, Khrushchev described how Stalin stressed the value of Lend-Lease aid: “He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war.”May 2, 2023
Just got to say this... Germany had some unbelievably strong people back then!
The Germans are especially strong in genocide and robbery.
Like Russia, Britain,US, Japan and every other nation that ruled lol.. @@ruthlesstruth8639
@@hairydogstail There is no need to compare Russia with racists and colonialists. We did not commit genocide. USA, England, Germany, etc. But not Russia.
So the over 100 million murdered under the banner of communism is a virtue?? Between 1935 and 1938, at least nine Soviet national- ties-Poles, Germans, Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Koreans, Chinese, Kurds, Iranians-were all subjected to ethnic cleansing. Hilarious, murdering tyrants are murdering tyrants no matter what banner they murder under..Try again slick.. i@@ruthlesstruth8639
@@ruthlesstruth8639 That is simply not true.
Very enjoyable Channel and presentations.
Kursk was one hell of a battle
Yes proving the tenacity of tankers on both sides!!!
@@asullivan4047 both side??????(:(: If usa and britain hadn't supplied the reds with millons of tons of food and raw material from 1941 to 1943,the whole red army would have starved to death and the whole soviet industry would have collapsed until 1943
Nikita Khrushchev, who led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, agreed with Stalin's assessment. In his memoirs, Khrushchev described how Stalin stressed the value of Lend-Lease aid: “He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war.”May 2, 2023@@michaelram3411
@@michaelram3411lend lease was only 5 % of Soviet GDP lol Soviets had hundreds of factories producing weapons and tanks daily your just sad that British and Americans never captured Berlin 😂😂
@@JDDC-tq7qm Then why did zhukov,st@lin and kruchev stated that they would have lost the war without the allied help?????????????
The German armor performed wonderfully, but it could not win this battle.The Germans had 710,000 men-the Russians almost 1.5 million. The rule us you need 3X the defending force. Had the Germans been able to encircle the Russian army, it would have availed them nothing-they were too weak to close the pocket. Kursk was a draw, but from then all the Germans could manage was a fighting retreat.
Plus the fuel issues and mechanical problems because of the tank complexity. And most of the engineers where ether dead or somewhere else fighting. I truly believe that Germany would have won the war if America didn’t get involved. I mean because if ANY nation gets enough other countries fighting against them then they are gonna lose. But things like The US inventing mass production. Getting Britain doing the same producing tons of Tanks,aircraft, weapons and ammo. Not to mention the massive and continuous air raids executed by the allies. Hitting German infrastructure like fuel depots and manufacturing sites. It was a rap when all that happened. So it didn’t matter how good some of the German soldiers were. They were just way out numbered on all aspects you know.
Thanks for explaining
brilliant!!
You could argue that at Kursk the Germans disengaged. Others say Drobno was a bigger battle then Kursk. Good footage though.👍
The only thing with Dubno, is that there were no heavy tanks like the Tiger and Panther there.
@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- Very true. I' d like to do some more research into Drobno.
There are many in the west who would rewrite WW2's history...Brody and Arras are also offered as the biggest tank battle...73 Easting in Iraq...
Furiously and stubbornness of the German tanks involved Tigger tanks was not questionable
Yes there were SS film kompany men who rode these tanks into battle armed only with a Leica camera riding on the rear deck hunched behind the stowage anticipating the rotation of the turret in the heat of combat. Their only task, recording footage of the battles.
If that is not bravery I do not know what is.
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Great vid!
The Tiger was an impressive tank though
Salut and Respect to the Wehrmacht s epic and heroic battles !
The use of the Tigers as a spearhead may in retrospect have been an error. The Tiger was better used as a standoff weapon. When the battle became close they lost some of their advantage.
Tiger was designed for a close combat and to break through a strong defence line. They were supposed to be a spearhead, it was not a mistake....
@@Ben_SaharNo The 88 is not a close range weapon the Tiger is a long range Tank do some more study
@@Ben_Sahar The way the Russians beat German heavy tanks was by getting in close the only place they could do damage. The *88 is from a flak gun/ Do you know what a flak gun is ? It's an anti aircraft gun does that sound like a close range weapon to you? Think before you comment.
@@zulubeatz1 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 its not about cannon you genius🤣🤣🤣🤣 its about the armor...Tiger had 100mm front armor not to be a range tank but to break strong defence line and handle the anti tank fire. It was heavy tank designed to support infantry in an assault on strong defence line, like around Kursk. Next time you say to somebody: do more study, be sure you did your own home work. Its a good habit which helps to avoid making a fool out of yourself in a public discussion....
Wow 😮
From my research it appears that the Germans actually defeated the Russians but had taken such terrific beating they were unsure and left the field. Sort of a stalemate but on the field of battle it is the little things that often prove so very decisive in winning or losing victory or defeat.
To be there....
The Tiger was an excellent tank. It lack 2 important things, 1) sloped armor and 2) more importantly, numbers, they had no where near the quantity of Tigers to The Sherman or the T-34! I get the uneasy feeling that being put in charge of Das Reich division was tantamount to a death 💀 sentence, one I’m sure future commanders were aware of! Thanks for the offer but no thanks! Unfortunately the military assigned duty it wasn’t an offer you could refuse.
Question ? What was the most numerous German tank on the Eastern front.
Panzer 4????
Panzer 3 with the turret, and without the turret as a Stug 3.
This is the same Das Reich, minus the Kursk losses, with the 1st Waffen S. S. Pzr Korps, that was unleashed on the Allied beachhead at Normandy, mauling the Allied armoured formations, despite constant air, and Naval bombardment!
Imagine being a regular Soviet GI facing tiger tanks in front and a political officer with a pistol at your rear
The same imaging the opposite!
Soviet GI were like Spartans back then
Delaying the attack, to get some Panthers involved, did them no favours. Apart from that, the Russki defences were miles in depth and formidable, plus the anti personnel traps were horrific, like miles of trap wires connected to power supplies, and flamethrowers etc.
Or in less agrandising words. The Germans lost. Never to recover, and thus began the retreat to Berlin and loss of the war.
Das Reich got off the chain on em! A lot of those guys on the German side where raised pretty much most of their lives to be warriors. and to rain down destruction upon the enemy and that it was their main purpose as German men. So it’s no wonder why they had a lot of brave & accomplished soldiers. Though basically all nations militaries drill a kind of warrior ethos into their soldiers. But you’d be hard pressed to find a nation with soldiers as fanatical as the Third Reich. But even they couldn’t defeat so many powerful enemies and mass production ect.
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There are some minor mistakes in this video but the film is good.
What mistakes?
I didn’t spot any Mistakes
I love how people are quick to criticize but don't leave the reason
I usually think its a troll
An AT round through the head? That had to hurt
He never knew what hit him.
those German tankers knew at that time that if the Russians flank their tanks with an antitank gun or with a Russian tank they will get killed along with their Tiger tank because an AP round could penetrate the turret, both upper and lower sides as well as the rear
The German SS divisions had no equal
RIP heiliges Deutschland ❤
All those lives lost for nothing
Kursk was a lost German victory, by 1943 the overwhelming material superiority of the allies (rest of the world) was starting to crush the German war effort through shear weight of numbers!
The German’s never made it to Kursk, this operator was a Failure!!!
Shit or bust......
Bust.
Huge forces on the both sides . And sometimes i"m thinking at Normandy ,în 1944. If all those german forces who was at Kursk should be at Normandy in 1944 . The landing remained a sweet dreams . But is history now.
Germany should never have invaded Russia and should've focused on the British
@@JDDC-tq7qm good point
Despite all the hype, the fact is the Kursk offensive went nowhere for Germany.
How come the Germans still lost the war if their equipments and soldiers are better?
The enemy had superior manpower and resources.
Because they were not better?
Because they were out numbered and could not replenish their losses like the Russians did with American manufacturing machinery, fuel, planes, ammunition,food, oil, trucks, clothing, etc..Hitler lacked oil which was the reason they invaded Russia in the first place..
@@Ben_Sahar Yes they were, much better..
@@hairydogstail of course, that's why they lost war
Why do you talk about the Tiger being Das Reich's "weapon of choice"? What does that even mean?
Do you know how many Tigers the Das Reich had, in the Kursk battle? They had twenty-two. For the entire division. Other types of Panzer outnumbered the Tigers.
Theiss' Head was decapitated from that round that struck his tiger turret. Fun Fact...or not.
Who the hell says 88 M M gun. LOL Is this an AI channel?
Send in the Shermans😂
Good joke.
No the Pershings.
The Tiger was NOT a 'game-changer'. The Germans lost.
Nikita Khrushchev, who led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, agreed with Stalin's assessment. In his memoirs, Khrushchev described how Stalin stressed the value of Lend-Lease aid: “He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war.”May 2, 2023
Goooods. Get yur Helmets on comrade.
This video is A.I. voiced.. you can always tell because it says mm instead of millimeter.
There were ONLY 1347 Tiger 1's ever made vs. 3854 Russian IS-2 Heavy Tanks, which were not only more RELIABLE but had a 122mm main gun... here is a Combat Report from 1944- "The IS-2 tank first saw action in Ukraine in early 1944 and claimed to have destroyed more than forty Tigers and Elefants for the loss of only eight tanks. While the German heavy tanks could knock out the IS-2, they had no real answer to its 122 mm gun, which easily outgunned them." The Nazis were DOOMED to lose especially after Kursk, and D-Day when they couldn't push back the USA...
The 122mm must have had enormous kinetic energy....
@@daviddoran3673 The Tank gun variant, the D-25 was even able to penetrate the upper frontal plate of the Tiger II at a range of 500-600 meters... just overwhelming for the time!
Source?
@@spencergrimshaw The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II- Production numbers and combat history.
Good story but terrible video. You keep looping the same video