I agree completely. History should not be forgotten. No matter the artifact whether paper or weapons should be preserved. The derringer used agains Lincoln and many such weapons are preserved from our American past. Thank you for your channel. 👍🇺🇸
@@keithwittman4741 modern history if you ask me... although I disagree with destroying the statues they should be removed from public view and put in museums for people who WANT to see that kind of stuff.
Sir, I am a US Army veteran that served in combat and lost friends there. You are doing a great job telling the true stories of our past!! You are doing a great job so please drive on with the stories and finds.
Hey, Vet. THAT'S HIMMLER'S PISTOL PRESENTED TO A COWARDLY SNIPER, WHO MURDERED 100 EITHER AMERICANS, BRITISH, ALLIED RUSSIANS OR OTHER PEOPLE FIGHTING AGAINST A COWARD PEOPLE THAT HAD TO MASSACRE MILLIONS ON THE CHEAP. YOU ARE STOLEN HONOR. PERIOD.
History is always political. Most of it is written by the winners, who distort the motivation of the anguished. However, in the case of Nazis, they were as despicable as history remembers them. In fact, it is distressing that som eof the stench of Nazism is wafting away. That's not to say that Nazis didn't have great guns and even better uniforms... Facts are facts.
This channel is fantastic! I am a gun-owner, (not a collector), and an avid historian. I appreciate your comments that some will take "offense" to the troublesome realities of war and death. I am continually fascinated that there are so many people who take history as a personal attack on them. Good or bad...history is just that....HISTORY. The challenge is for us to learn from it, as to not repeat the horrors, and to identify the dangerous path that leads to destruction. Thank you!
I'll say a few things for the people that have a problem with Nazi artifacts. I'm Jewish (non practicing), and my grandmother was a holocaust survivor and was in Ravensbruck and Helmsbrecht, and survived the death march to Volary. She was tough as nails, and until her death 2 years ago she still had shrapnel in her body from Nazi grenades that were being thrown at slaves and enemies when the camp was being liberated. She told me a few important things, one of them being that we can never shy away from the past no matter how horrible it was. If we do that we are bound to repeat certain aspects of it. She spoke of some unbelievable living and working conditions, and the smell of rotting corpses that would be left in the barracks for days. She also kept a variety of Nazi objects ranging from flags, coins, war medals, tea pots with insignias, and a handful of pistols that my grandfather brought home from the war. So to all the people complaining about the history, please take a step back and realize that history is one of, if not, the most important lessons we can learn from life. That is also one of the most beautiful pistols I've ever seen. Ian McCollum also has a video on one of these pistols on his channel Forgotten Weapons as well if anyone is interested.
from someone who likes guns in general: in my opinion, turn it as you may, there really is nothing beautiful about a gun that references a monster and was given to Nazis to kill innocent life, - nevertheless, everyone has to decide on their own conscience
@Priv Pers if you're telling me I'm uneducated or lack personal experience, then you're completely wrong. History is history to me. Ugly history is still history. You don't have to like it, but your response was quite shallow.
Ya,they are the one that cover there eyes (like a child) at anything that scares them. Mostly "Karen's" ... then at any age stomp there feet.saying "IT'S NOT FAIR!!!!"🤣🤣
No, Tom, listen to the haters, as you did. They are right to hate what the Nazis stood for. Collecting their weapons, as you do, or collecting their books, as I do, does not honor Nazis. It serves as a reminder of the powerful threat to human decency ideologies of hate represent. Burying the past perpetuates ignorance of faded memory. Relics of the Nazis remind is of the threat racist mass hysteria represents. We must never forget it. P.S. I've studied this period of history for 50 years, including doing original research, and today I learned things from you, that I've never before heard or read. Thank you...jt
I have been fortunate to have owned a few Nazi pistols and other items. When I was a boy we ran a country store, we sold groceries, hardware, gas, guns, etc! I knew all the Veterans in our small town and they sold my step father all kinds of swords, knives, guns, and other Nazi items they brought home from the war.
How do you know they were Nazi pistols? True, there were many Nazis. they were convicted at the Nuremberg trials and there were millions of Wehrmacht soldiers. perhaps it was from a soldier or officer. You don't know history well?! 🤔
Sepp Allerberger wrote a book about his sniper life on the eastern front: The memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross ( German title: Im Auge des Jägers / In the eye of the hunter ) War was so brutal on the eastern front...... Stay healthy, greetings from Germany
History and firearms together on one channel? Whaaa? Love it so well done thank you! Now we need to find out where, "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining" came from lol.
The Germans mostly used 4x and 6x (Zielvier and Zielsechs) magnification scopes. The older PE scope and PEM (adds a focus ring) Russian scopes (Zeiss knockoffs!!) were 4x. The PU scope (derived from the SVT-38/40 scope) was a 3.5 power. So these relatively low magnifications should elevate the feats of the WW2 snipers even more!!!!!
Great video! Important firearms have always been collected through out history. Speaking of Chris Kyle about 2 weeks ago a friend let me shoot his Chris Kyle 45, what a treat! I very much enjoy this channel and anything WW2 keep it going.
Jonathan L Wife's tablet, when I first started to go to gun shows you could see quite a few P38's lying on tables. Now the only place you can find them are the web. Guess I'm just getting old.
I am a new fan here. I really like how you give the backgrounds and history of the pistols. You bring history alive with your knowledge and wisdom. I am fascinated with the immediate back history on the manufacture information. These are beautiful old firearms. Thank you for sharing your collection with us.
I’m a fan not a hater. I really enjoy your vids and look forward to the new material so thanks very much for the education. I’ve had people tell me for many years that I would be considered an expert on firearms as I have been an avid collector for a very young age but I will tell you you have probably forgotten more gun lore than I know!!! Nice work on your shows. They are very well done and professional. But any way you probably already know this but Semo Hya the finish ( I think? ) too sniper of all time only used iron sights in his sniper work. Killing around 400.
Bruno Sutkus book about his time as a german sniper and his life after the war is a very good read. As usual another great and interesting video. Thanks
One of my favorite pistols. Back in the late 80's I bought my first one as a carry gun of all things. I paid 80.00 for it lol. It was a eagle c police. I notice the finish is so much nicer than the standard issue in that serial number range. So they went a little further in the finishing of the presentation.
This is so interesting. I would love to see the equivalent guns from different sides in a war presented side by side. And hear about the strength and pitfalls of each.
So do people that take issue with collecting something like this also think we should dispose of 2,000 year old Greek or Roman swords and spears because they were probably used to inflict terrible harm on someone?
People who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat the same mistake. Artifacts are merely a mirror of what was going on and the people involved.
Totally different the swords that they used were used too battle each other bot a German as pistol that killed a naked jew in a trench u fucken asshole
What an informative video, which is why I like your videos tremendously. Yes, the assembly story is sad and must not be praised, but the product is historic and therefore valuable. Keep on informing us, especially the younger collectors who may be ignorant of the history behind these firearms. Keep 'em coming please!
Zaitsev rifle is using a 4x scope, the movie depicted and most used is later model 3.5x Btw ,in the 30s during their friendship and alliance pact,,Carl Zeiss set up a optical factory in Soviet Union,that was the one making those scopes and many other optics. The Allenberger scope is Zeiss Ziel Sechs, 6x scope. One of the best and brightest ones of the whole war. 6x42 is popular sniper scope and hunting scope for decades since,and the versatile use is hard to beat,also the optic and dawn,dusk quality also.
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Very interesting, an amazing piece of history, and yes its a terrible thing as to why this pistol was presented but as you say, it happened its part of history and thats just the way it is , very interesting! Thanks for sharing with us!
Once again, I'm not interested in collecting Nazi memorabilia, but I am fascinated by the history. This culture of awarding pistols to national heroes and party members is intriguing. It is not like they actually needed those small caliber pistols for war or for self defense. I'm trying to grasp the psychology behind it.
Blowing smoke supposedly came from a common medical practice used in the 1700’s where doctors would literally used a device to blow smoke up … there, as a way to revive someone. Although I would love it if that video was the true source of the phrase.
I have just recently found your channel and I am truely enjoying your content and thank you for sharing your knowladge. It would be really cool if you could do a video on the hitler drillings you have listed on your site.
WWII was a vicious war of conflicting ideologies. It was particularly brutal on the Eastern Front. Anyone who has been in a war understands that snipers are effective at holding up a vastly superior force. Well presented explanation of the facts. Be safe but enjoy yourself.
The 'Criterion', DVD has a Bonus Extra: An interview with Zeitzefff (?) who recalls how they killed the German top sniper. It wasn't quite how the movie portrayed it. It cost him 2 of his men to do it. The 'Dancing Children', fountain has now been completely renewed.
I'm a latino and sorry if i am stepping on any of fellow white peoples toes by chiming in. But its a fascination to see these items and all the allegorical and hidden meanings they put in what they kept as normal items. It tells the tale of men who came to think of themselves as rulers and masters of the world. I think what a young officer or troop would have thought to himself as he took home a piece of the Nazis. Many men saw their buddies die and bringing home a trophy of victory is honorable.
When i visited family in Germany years ago my great uncle showed me some pretty interesting things. He had a mini revolver if i remember correctly it was gold plated on hammer, trigger, and cylinder. Light engraving and ivory or pearl handle with gold nazi insignia. I have never seen another like it and cant believe i didn't get pictures. Said he found it in the creek by the house after the war. Had few rifles too including a sten mk2. and yes i got to fire off a half mag bk in the hills. Probably high light of my life at the time (14 or 15yrs old.)
Leg. Col. While I'm sure the Germans took note of the infantry weapons being issued to US forces, this was not the impetus for the development of semi-auto rifles and assault weaponry in the German Army. That impetus came from the war with the Soviet Union along the Eastern Front. It was in the East that the Germans lost the greatest proportion of their soldiers (about 80%) and where the introduction of rapid fire weapons was deemed most critical.
I seem to recall that back in Victorian times, "blowing smoke up someone's bottom" was a supposed cure for drowning. I may very well be wrong but find my memory for stupid stuff is usually pretty good.
Thanks for the video. This was very informative. I feel the same way as you do. Yes these guns may have been used against the allies but they are very important pieces of history. Thanks again for sharing
I recommend the books by german, eastern front snipers: Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's Cross Sniper ace : from the eastern front to Siberia : the autobiography of a Wehrmacht sniper Eastern front sniper: the life of Matthäus Hetzenauer
As a sidenote the so called slave labour wasn`t, in a lot of cases different to the draft. Even the US used them (even some with german ancestors they kidnapped from latin america). The SS wvwn paid pension insurance periods for concentration camp inmates and paid them for work. There were even recreational stuff. If i`m informed right in Auschwitz for example there were a swimming pool, grand piano, movie theater, post office, camp money, brothel, basic goods store, church/synagogue, putting on plays, creating an orchestra, football (soccer) teams, etc. I find it very interesting that the US stole awards together with all the other things they stole in defiance of international law. The history on germany since 1900 has to be cleared up.
The gun is awesome. And the video is quite interesting, as always. About the holster: materials as the vinil (probably it is not well written) tends to crack, specially with this width. I did not know that even holsters were made in such material😮.
As for collecting these items, they were not made for us, it is a matter of "to the winner, goes the spoils". No one demeans the guys that took these from their adversaries.
Great video ! You are not doing anything wrong but preserving history and actual facts. There will always be hard headed morons that won’t understand jack !
Even though the g43 was called hitlers garand it was actually based on the svt40 which the germans made use of extensively on the Eastern front from captured weapons.
"Blowing Smoke" comes from old medical practices involving literally injecting smoke rectally of tobacco, opium etc. Just like with other medications (google baby or french aspirin) its easily absorbed quickly into the system vs ingestion. The practice fell out of favor as quackery and thus the turn of phrase was born...
I agree completely. History should not be forgotten. No matter the artifact whether paper or weapons should be preserved. The derringer used agains Lincoln and many such weapons are preserved from our American past. Thank you for your channel. 👍🇺🇸
Great video. Very informative. History should be preserved.
This is fitting to in the present, we are watching activists take down historic statues.
@@keithwittman4741 modern history if you ask me... although I disagree with destroying the statues they should be removed from public view and put in museums for people who WANT to see that kind of stuff.
@@keithwittman4741 Your shitty Confederate statues should be melted down and turned into Lincoln pennies.
@@ostrich67 they are history. I am not confederate. Just a dam Yankee from NY.
Sir, I am a US Army veteran that served in combat and lost friends there. You are doing a great job telling the true stories of our past!! You are doing a great job so please drive on with the stories and finds.
Hey, Vet. THAT'S HIMMLER'S PISTOL PRESENTED TO A COWARDLY SNIPER, WHO MURDERED 100 EITHER AMERICANS, BRITISH, ALLIED RUSSIANS OR OTHER PEOPLE FIGHTING AGAINST A COWARD PEOPLE THAT HAD TO MASSACRE MILLIONS ON THE CHEAP. YOU ARE STOLEN HONOR. PERIOD.
History is history, never get political. I totally agree with you on your point. That's why I like this channel!
History is politics!
The victors write the story.
@@victortamini847 no they dont.
Don’t tell that to America
History is always political. Most of it is written by the winners, who distort the motivation of the anguished. However, in the case of Nazis, they were as despicable as history remembers them. In fact, it is distressing that som eof the stench of Nazism is wafting away. That's not to say that Nazis didn't have great guns and even better uniforms... Facts are facts.
This channel is fantastic! I am a gun-owner, (not a collector), and an avid historian. I appreciate your comments that some will take "offense" to the troublesome realities of war and death. I am continually fascinated that there are so many people who take history as a personal attack on them. Good or bad...history is just that....HISTORY. The challenge is for us to learn from it, as to not repeat the horrors, and to identify the dangerous path that leads to destruction. Thank you!
I'll say a few things for the people that have a problem with Nazi artifacts. I'm Jewish (non practicing), and my grandmother was a holocaust survivor and was in Ravensbruck and Helmsbrecht, and survived the death march to Volary. She was tough as nails, and until her death 2 years ago she still had shrapnel in her body from Nazi grenades that were being thrown at slaves and enemies when the camp was being liberated. She told me a few important things, one of them being that we can never shy away from the past no matter how horrible it was. If we do that we are bound to repeat certain aspects of it. She spoke of some unbelievable living and working conditions, and the smell of rotting corpses that would be left in the barracks for days. She also kept a variety of Nazi objects ranging from flags, coins, war medals, tea pots with insignias, and a handful of pistols that my grandfather brought home from the war. So to all the people complaining about the history, please take a step back and realize that history is one of, if not, the most important lessons we can learn from life. That is also one of the most beautiful pistols I've ever seen. Ian McCollum also has a video on one of these pistols on his channel Forgotten Weapons as well if anyone is interested.
Thanks for sharing your views as well as the story of your grandmother. Their stories must be told
ROFL!
from someone who likes guns in general: in my opinion, turn it as you may, there really is nothing beautiful about a gun that references a monster and was given to Nazis to kill innocent life, - nevertheless, everyone has to decide on their own conscience
@Priv Pers are you talking to me?
@Priv Pers if you're telling me I'm uneducated or lack personal experience, then you're completely wrong. History is history to me. Ugly history is still history. You don't have to like it, but your response was quite shallow.
Great video! Don’t listen to the haters who don’t like what you collect.
Throw your money away on fake repros...bad ones.
Howie Felterbush I didn’t know not condoning genocide was a virtue
@@mattberg6816 i mean it technically is, just a pretty low bar for a virtue, just like murder lol
Ya,they are the one that cover there eyes (like a child) at anything that scares them. Mostly "Karen's" ... then at any age stomp there feet.saying "IT'S NOT FAIR!!!!"🤣🤣
No, Tom, listen to the haters, as you did. They are right to hate what the Nazis stood for. Collecting their weapons, as you do, or collecting their books, as I do, does not honor Nazis. It serves as a reminder of the powerful threat to human decency ideologies of hate represent. Burying the past perpetuates ignorance of faded memory. Relics of the Nazis remind is of the threat racist mass hysteria represents. We must never forget it.
P.S. I've studied this period of history for 50 years, including doing original research, and today I learned things from you, that I've never before heard or read. Thank you...jt
its History....and its awesome to see all the guns, dig the vids thank you
I have been fortunate to have owned a few Nazi pistols and other items. When I was a boy we ran a country store, we sold groceries, hardware, gas, guns, etc! I knew all the Veterans in our small town and they sold my step father all kinds of swords, knives, guns, and other Nazi items they brought home from the war.
How do you know they were Nazi pistols? True, there were many Nazis. they were convicted at the Nuremberg trials and there were millions of Wehrmacht soldiers. perhaps it was from a soldier or officer. You don't know history well?! 🤔
Sepp Allerberger wrote a book about his sniper life on the eastern front: The memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross ( German title: Im Auge des Jägers / In the eye of the hunter ) War was so brutal on the eastern front...... Stay healthy, greetings from Germany
100% agree about learning the history. I was actually watching a story about Himmler on AHCH today. Nice gun.
Great Sunday night viewing here, thanks Tom. Shared it with a shooting chum of mine that will appreciate as well.
An absolutely wonderful video! History is so interesting, specially considering guns.
these are the kind of experts we need on pawn stars
Noooooooo that show is fake
the value is in the history that these pieces preserve.
Another winning video and your commentary was spot on. Thanks again. Mike from NJ
"to the sharpshooter" is the correct translation of the engraving. As in "a gift to".
when are you going to do a tour of your collection? that would be awesome!
I would love to see that as well
HEY BOSS ! THIS was such a great video, I learned alot , as always ,thanks !!
History and firearms together on one channel? Whaaa? Love it so well done thank you! Now we need to find out where, "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining" came from lol.
Very interesting video an thanks for the history lesson about Heinrich Himmler Engraved Sauer 38th pistol to a Sniper, Sir !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Greetings from across the pond. Thank you for a GREAT You Tube channel!
The Germans mostly used 4x and 6x (Zielvier and Zielsechs) magnification scopes. The older PE scope and PEM (adds a focus ring) Russian scopes (Zeiss knockoffs!!) were 4x. The PU scope (derived from the SVT-38/40 scope) was a 3.5 power. So these relatively low magnifications should elevate the feats of the WW2 snipers even more!!!!!
Very good video. Thank you for putting it together.
History cannot be changed, war is terrible for all. Great video!
I enjoyed the history and pistol. Great presentation. Thank you sir.
I feel that a great many of soldiers brought them back as "trophies" to remind themselves of the accomplishment that they achieved.
Love the format of these vids, great stuff
Great video! Important firearms have always been collected through out history. Speaking of Chris Kyle about 2 weeks ago a friend let me shoot his Chris Kyle 45, what a treat! I very much enjoy this channel and anything WW2 keep it going.
Excellent video! Thanks Tom!
Only recently found you're channel I'm very impressed with the content and quality .From sunny England.
My great grandfather was a major in the Wehrmacht. His son, my grandfather, joined Vlasov’s Army. I love WW2 history.
I love this channel as it’s so educational. On my bucket list is a P38 from Legacy. One will be mine!
Jonathan L Wife's tablet, when I first started to go to gun shows you could see quite a few P38's lying on tables. Now the only place you can find them are the web. Guess I'm just getting old.
Christine Schmidt Yes, I see the same at the few gun shows I attend. I trust Legacy to be my source way more than most gun shows. Thanks.
Another fascinating and educational video! Thank you for sharing.
I am a new fan here.
I really like how you give the backgrounds and history of the pistols. You bring history alive with your knowledge and wisdom. I am fascinated with the immediate back history on the manufacture information.
These are beautiful old firearms. Thank you for sharing your collection with us.
I like all the extra content in this video! Keep it up!
History is history really enjoy your videos please keep them coming.
Best video yet Tom, stay safe!!
I’m a fan not a hater. I really enjoy your vids and look forward to the new material so thanks very much for the education. I’ve had people tell me for many years that I would be considered an expert on firearms as I have been an avid collector for a very young age but I will tell you you have probably forgotten more gun lore than I know!!! Nice work on your shows. They are very well done and professional. But any way you probably already know this but Semo Hya the finish ( I think? ) too sniper of all time only used iron sights in his sniper work. Killing around 400.
Also thanks for showing the G34 sniper Rifle too. Very Cool !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bruno Sutkus book about his time as a german sniper and his life after the war is a very good read.
As usual another great and interesting video. Thanks
One of my favorite pistols. Back in the late 80's I bought my first one as a carry gun of all things. I paid 80.00 for it lol. It was a eagle c police. I notice the finish is so much nicer than the standard issue in that serial number range.
So they went a little further in the finishing of the presentation.
This is so interesting. I would love to see the equivalent guns from different sides in a war presented side by side. And hear about the strength and pitfalls of each.
So do people that take issue with collecting something like this also think we should dispose of 2,000 year old Greek or Roman swords and spears because they were probably used to inflict terrible harm on someone?
Most people suffer for the selective amnesia.
If you're woke you tear down statues and want anything from history that was violent to be destroyed. Welcome to the new U.S. of A.
People who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat the same mistake. Artifacts are merely a mirror of what was going on and the people involved.
1 2 that’s what she said
Totally different the swords that they used were used too battle each other bot a German as pistol that killed a naked jew in a trench u fucken asshole
Well f the haters I enjoyed this vid.Thx man !
This was a fabulous video!
What an informative video, which is why I like your videos tremendously. Yes, the assembly story is sad and must not be praised, but the product is historic and therefore valuable. Keep on informing us, especially the younger collectors who may be ignorant of the history behind these firearms. Keep 'em coming please!
Beware of people who try to delete history.
One thing you cannot change is History if people are offended do not watch these historical videos.
Really good presentation!
Interesting piece....thanks for sharing!!!!
Fantastic video and greatly a special pistol.
I think I have watched this 3 previous times, and I probably will aggain.
Zaitsev rifle is using a 4x scope, the movie depicted and most used is later model 3.5x
Btw ,in the 30s during their friendship and alliance pact,,Carl Zeiss set up a optical factory in Soviet Union,that was the one making those scopes and many other optics.
The Allenberger scope is Zeiss Ziel Sechs, 6x scope. One of the best and brightest ones of the whole war.
6x42 is popular sniper scope and hunting scope for decades since,and the versatile use is hard to beat,also the optic and dawn,dusk quality also.
Great Video ! Thank You!
Great piece, and great history lesson. I love your videos. History will repeat if we don’t learn from it. Keep up the good job.
Great video, Thank you!
We all must remember and understand ww2 history , great video.
Indeed, we should all learn from history so that it does not repeat itself: thank you Tom.
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Another entertaining video by a likeable guy, keep 'em coming sir
Great video sir!! I thought that climbing German decoy was amazing!!! Keep up the great content please!!
You handle the difficult stuff very well and in a sensitive way.
Thank you. Appreciate the encouragement
Very interesting, an amazing piece of history, and yes its a terrible thing as to why this pistol was presented but as you say, it happened its part of history and thats just the way it is , very interesting! Thanks for sharing with us!
If you don't learn from history it tends to repeat itself. Just as I was typing, you said exactly the same thing!
Once again, I'm not interested in collecting Nazi memorabilia, but I am fascinated by the history. This culture of awarding pistols to national heroes and party members is intriguing. It is not like they actually needed those small caliber pistols for war or for self defense. I'm trying to grasp the psychology behind it.
Blowing smoke supposedly came from a common medical practice used in the 1700’s where doctors would literally used a device to blow smoke up … there, as a way to revive someone. Although I would love it if that video was the true source of the phrase.
It is always a treat to have Dennis Murphy form NBC Dateline present historical handguns.
Fantastic history, love learning and discovering everything WWII🍸
I have just recently found your channel and I am truely enjoying your content and thank you for sharing your knowladge. It would be really cool if you could do a video on the hitler drillings you have listed on your site.
Thank you
Legacy collectibles always have the best quality guns rifles and memorabilia from ww2
WWII was a vicious war of conflicting ideologies. It was particularly brutal on the Eastern Front. Anyone who has been in a war understands that snipers are effective at holding up a vastly superior force. Well presented explanation of the facts. Be safe but enjoy yourself.
The holster is probably made from a cellulose based polymer. The case is made from old drawers for print type.
I appreciate your sensitivity. We must hang on to all history.
The 'Criterion', DVD has a Bonus Extra: An interview with Zeitzefff (?) who recalls how they killed the German top sniper.
It wasn't quite how the movie portrayed it. It cost him 2 of his men to do it.
The 'Dancing Children', fountain has now been completely renewed.
I'm a latino and sorry if i am stepping on any of fellow white peoples toes by chiming in. But its a fascination to see these items and all the allegorical and hidden meanings they put in what they kept as normal items. It tells the tale of men who came to think of themselves as rulers and masters of the world. I think what a young officer or troop would have thought to himself as he took home a piece of the Nazis. Many men saw their buddies die and bringing home a trophy of victory is honorable.
It doesn't matter what race you are brother.
Incredible weapon, may have been awarded to Wiking sniper
Wow, what a beautiful piece
Beautiful pistol. I would Love to have it, but I can not afford it.
When i visited family in Germany years ago my great uncle showed me some pretty interesting things. He had a mini revolver if i remember correctly it was gold plated on hammer, trigger, and cylinder. Light engraving and ivory or pearl handle with gold nazi insignia. I have never seen another like it and cant believe i didn't get pictures. Said he found it in the creek by the house after the war. Had few rifles too including a sten mk2. and yes i got to fire off a half mag bk in the hills. Probably high light of my life at the time (14 or 15yrs old.)
Items like this, help us to remember, that, we must never relive this part of history.
Leg. Col. While I'm sure the Germans took note of the infantry weapons being issued to US forces, this was not the impetus for the development of semi-auto rifles and assault weaponry in the German Army. That impetus came from the war with the Soviet Union along the Eastern Front. It was in the East that the Germans lost the greatest proportion of their soldiers (about 80%) and where the introduction of rapid fire weapons was deemed most critical.
That's right, Russia was a meat grinder !!
I seem to recall that back in Victorian times, "blowing smoke up someone's bottom" was a supposed cure for drowning. I may very well be wrong but find my memory for stupid stuff is usually pretty good.
Good presentation. For the sharpshooter.
My uncle had a "Party leader" PPK. Think it was from 1936. Hoped that he would leave it to me in his will, but it disappeared.....
You can’t deny history just learn from it and keep this gun in the collection
Would love this pistol,pure conversation piece.
Thanks for the video. This was very informative. I feel the same way as you do. Yes these guns may have been used against the allies but they are very important pieces of history. Thanks again for sharing
Excellent video.
Great video and now i know how much a G 43 goes for Thankyou.
Loved the video
Fantastic video!!
Very interesting. Thanks!
I recommend the books by german, eastern front snipers:
Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's Cross
Sniper ace : from the eastern front to Siberia : the autobiography of a Wehrmacht sniper
Eastern front sniper: the life of Matthäus Hetzenauer
As a sidenote the so called slave labour wasn`t, in a lot of cases different to the draft. Even the US used them (even some with german ancestors they kidnapped from latin america). The SS wvwn paid pension insurance periods for concentration camp inmates and paid them for work.
There were even recreational stuff. If i`m informed right in Auschwitz for example there were a swimming pool, grand piano, movie theater, post office, camp money, brothel, basic goods store, church/synagogue, putting on plays, creating an orchestra, football (soccer) teams, etc.
I find it very interesting that the US stole awards together with all the other things they stole in defiance of international law.
The history on germany since 1900 has to be cleared up.
The gun is awesome. And the video is quite interesting, as always. About the holster: materials as the vinil (probably it is not well written) tends to crack, specially with this width. I did not know that even holsters were made in such material😮.
Relics from the good guys, nice.
As for collecting these items, they were not made for us, it is a matter of "to the winner, goes the spoils". No one demeans the guys that took these from their adversaries.
Video on how to securely display our collection?
Great video ! You are not doing anything wrong but preserving history and actual facts. There will always be hard headed morons that won’t understand jack !
Even though the g43 was called hitlers garand it was actually based on the svt40 which the germans made use of extensively on the Eastern front from captured weapons.
So true. German were favorably impressed by soviet svt40, far more better than their g41! Glad you corrected that historical "mistake"
Great video but your wrong about the smoke blowing , funny though . love watching these .
"Blowing Smoke" comes from old medical practices involving literally injecting smoke rectally of tobacco, opium etc.
Just like with other medications (google baby or french aspirin) its easily absorbed quickly into the system vs ingestion.
The practice fell out of favor as quackery and thus the turn of phrase was born...
Those meds you gave me were no good. For all they did, I might as well if shoved them up my.......
BOOF
So he's blowing smoke up our ass? LOL.