Great Find. Thank you for the experience. Imagine the panic of the SS officer who buried these medals that were used to shower the troupes in the final days before Hitler used children and old men to hold the lines near Berlin. The hole was not too deep since maybe the ground was frozen at the time in the winter of '44 or January of '45. Zhukov and Konev's armies would not take prisioners, especially decorated solders. Not after Stalingrad.
My dad grew up in a small town of Dolgen (A small town near Hannover) he said after the war the solders dumped all their guns, ammo etc..in the town pond. The kids (including him) would try and dive and retrieve the objects. Good find you got there that day! ;-)
Hey congratulations on the very cool find. I had to laugh as I was reminded of Count Dracula from Sesame Street "1 Iron Cross ah ah ahhh.." .... then eventually "13 Iron Crosses ah ah ahh. .."
Wonderful video! I wish you found Ritter Kreuze, but a nice find nonetheless. I remember when I was stationed in Germany my supervisor found several 88 shells in his backyard and turned them over for disposal.
Dan, thank you for the very entertaining video. I'm over in Canada, but would love to go metal detecting with you some day. Really cool finding history tucked away like that. Can you imagine the stories that are attached to those, if only they could talk. I wonder if any of the Cross's original owners are living. Again, thank you for sharing your hunt with us.
+corn1971 War graves are not sacrosanct. I'd be more disturbed as to WHY there were German soldiers on Russian soil than disturbed by their graves being ransacked as they were in your story.
Harrison D Point taken, but the idea that invading forces' soldiers graves from any land to any land are to be treated as hallowed ground is preposterous.
+Harrison D If they are not marked or found by a repatriation organization they are fair game. Properly marked and recognized graves should be left alone, but if you are like this man detecting in the woods and finding relics from soldiers who are long dead, they certainly aren't going to object. If one finds a dog tag it is a different story.
The iron crosses were part of history and was a wonderful find. I do think this was a fire and they were burning things they didn't want to be caught with? Makes you wonder who they were. But my favorite thing you found was the container for the hair clips that was beautiful
I was wondering that too. There are so many things that were not found. So many things that were stolen. So I really like his videos. I wonder if he has shown these to anyone that might know why so many were in this place?
I want them one! I so badly want to go metal detecting in Germany. Here in the states we can't find such great finds. As always, great video, keep it up!
You need a shovel, towels and sieves. Like archaeology tools. And a pokey spike thing to probe the ground. You know, I'm just suggesting. Nice finds. Thanks for sharing. Looks like very much fun. When I was a teen, I was out in the desert in Arizona and stumbled onto a huge mass of native American potsherds. It was very cool for me as a young teen to make such a find. Occasionally, while stumbling around in the desert, we would find arrowheads. Wish I had them now.
Back in the '70s they put some glow in the dark toys in sugar smacks cereal. One time, a box my sister and I got had about 8 prizes in it. We won the cereal lottery. My mama just kept pulling prizes out of that box. This reminds me of that.
I think a group of German soldiers made a pact to burn their Iron Crosses versus having them stripped as mere war trophies. At this late stage of the war the Nazi cronies were handing out Iron Crosses like candy to anyone foolish enough to wear a uniform for the excellent chance of dying. If I knew I was about to be captured I'd do the same to draw as little attention to myself as possible.
+James Robert with the layer of ash and the bullet and melted glass makes me think a body was destroyed and the remains we're left there? What you think ?
looks like you found a "camp" fire, probably started to eat lunch or even directly started to burn items. but it looks like they were tossed there on a fire.
as a 35 yr collector of all military items,,I find some of the comments really funny..1st of all,they are 2nd class ek (iron crosses).these were given out 4 a military deed done well..this means a runner carrying a message all the way to something more exemplary.a 2nd class was given out 1st.they had ribbons and could be worn in social situations,,with both metal and ribbon,,or the ribbon was sewn thru the 2nd buttonhole of a uniform.when a deed of more merit was accomplished,a pin back 1st class i.c.was issued2 the soldier,pinned thru small threads on his tunic.when someone says they are ss killers metals,,your ignorance shines thru..many soldiers wore these who weren't murderers!!great find,,my theory is that these German soldiers hid them cause ww2 was a souvenir war,,the low rankers who wore them did not want them going back 2 russia,,and hid them 4 that reason.a Russian bullet was found,,so that's my theory..if they had been captured by americans,they probably would have traded them 4 cigarettes or chocolate..cool find,,thanks 4 sharing...
Good reply! my collecion started in 1955! and many comments are made by very ignorant contributors, so it is pleasing to see a sensible one for a change.
Congratulations Dan, what a wonderfully rewarding find. You put all the hard work into finding these remarkable objects, so you deserve them. Well done.
If there is charcoal in the same little area someone maybe burned clothes or worse?! I'm happy you didn't find remains. Who would this have been? AWOL German Soldiers? Could it be a grave?
Yeah, likely a bunch of Germans buried them to avoid getting more grief. Some allies, especially Russians, picked out the guys with iron crosses for "special" privileges like an extra round of beat downs or even an execution
If you would be right lime would dissolve buttons and other metal objects too but it doesn´t. And by the way at that location the wehrmacht simply didn´t had the time to cover bodies with lime cause it was a few days before the end of war and neither did they have any lime there nor would they have cared anymore.
Dan! Im gonna dream those crosses tonight... You are on fire! Keep up the awesome work, you are on the top of the list of my favourite youtube diggers :) Greetings and happy hunting from FH
A lot of these comments don't make sense. Obviously it's not a grave. This wasn't an area where soldiers burned their uniforms either, or else the buttons and other metal parts of the uniforms would've been detected, and they would've been more scattered. It looks like a box or bag of medals (because they were within inches of each other) was thrown into an old burn pit. The burn pit was likely for tree branches or paper/cardboard since no nails or standard metal garbage debris was detected. Likely the Iron Crosses were never awarded- maybe they were intended to be but things collapsed too fast at the end of the war. I don't think anyone at that time foresaw they would be of any value in the future, given the war was lost and the Reich fell. The medals were considered garbage.
Halelujah thank you for your comment very very much. From now on I´ll just copy and paste your comment when again somebody comments bullshit. Thanks again, Daniel
Having detected for 35 years,and studying this you tube'''ive learned that when russian forces arrested a german platoon,they would===[sometimes]= make them strip and divide all different gear in different places ,bury,before shooting,that would evade the geneva act''' if the guy on this vid was to go back and do more extensive digging,he'd find the truth behind what happin there/thats history and it happened alot/the helmets are probably close by as well/as the skeletons/
Wow, ich gratuliere, ich kann die Überraschung über den Fund geradezu mitfühlen. Hoffentlich wird er in Zukunft noch öfter eine glückliche Hand haben. Grüsse aus Berlin
Thanks for doing the time to share these videos with us. These finds you have are truly fascinating. I can't imagine the stories these items could tell.
Great find! That's amazing! The whole is probably a size of a pool 😂 wish I lived in a place with many history, England doesn't really have that, not in the town I live 😂, love it!
Amazing find. I'm wondering if burying them there was in honor of fallen comrades during war? Who knows the story of their history or how they arrived. I'm not a Nazi sympethist and detest what was done during that era but never the less, this is still a very exciting find. I am of German descent and think this is a wonderful find just to stare at it and contemplate possible scenarios of where they came from. Congrats on the huge find!
You look very cold! What a gorgeous treasure trove! I once had a teacher tell me it takes a hundred years to make an inch of topsoil. I was looking at the charcoal and I admit I was a little worried at the bullet casings, was hoping you didn't find anything else. When I went to the Lincoln museum in Hodgenville, Kentucky, they had two large showcases full of slugs and casings from the civil war. After studying them, then reading up on them, I now know from the distortion of them that they went through soldiers before lying there and getting found.
Never have I so bad wanted to jump thru my computer screen and start digging up Iron Crosses with you, This was a very exciting video, Thank you for sharing it with us.
Klugscheisser Dan Believe it or not I am German decent. Mom Immigrated from Germany in the 40's, Both my Fathers parents Immigrated in the very early 1900's and My Father was born here in New York. So My Heritage is strong , I've been there twice. Last time back in the 70's. I'm considering another trip before I get to old. I just turned 55. It would be a nice idea to do, Keep the videos coming .I'll stay in touch, Thank you for your kind reply. Good luck.
I imagine the crosses were thrown on the fire along with the broken glasses by someone not seeing any value in them.Perhaps during or after the endgame,by german or alliance soldiers. Or maybe by "looters" enjoying some schnapps at the fire. I think the fire would bury them,maybe helped by someone putting out the fire. Great video!
It looks like they threw them into a fire and then covered them up. What an amazing find! Maybe deserters? I hope you plotted where you found this stash, there might be more stuff out there.
+Postwar Ocean Nope crosses don´t show any burn marks. Do me a favor and read the comments the most probable theory is already posted there. Anyway thanks for your interest. All the best, Daniel
Very nice find indeed ! I am envious ! Defiantly a HUGE fire pit. Have dug civil war relics here in the states the same way.Those are so much fun ! I can hear your excitement in your voice and I don't blame you ! I love the history of an artifact if it could only talk ....Myself I would have taken some of the ash and charcoal too to display with the artifacts. If you don't electrolysis the iron parts I would use a coating of EXTEND on the iron parts.Another thing you might want to do is take you a big screen around 3'x3' and sift your dirt out of that hole. a lot of times things are very deep and small from those fire pits.Open that hole up to you don't see any more ash. Anyway GREAT JOB ! GREAT FIND !
+Exploring Alabama Thats very kind of you and I appreciate your concerns regarding my health very much but I only don´t wear any gloves when I handle the camera. I already destroyed one with dirt. Thank you for your interest. Best wishes, Daniel
+Paul Mcguire Given all facts it´s at least in my opinion most probably they were never worn they were still to be awarded. It´s highly unlikly(but not impossible) that 13 guys who had "only" their 2nd class iron crosses(not any other medal) decided to bury their medals at one place. It´s more likely that the guy/officer/etc who had to give them out threw them away cause he had to flee or the war was already over.
Geez what a fantastic find!! I hope you bought a lottery ticket too, that day! Not to suggest that your skill was total luck, but certainly fortune smiled upon you! Well done, and thanks for sharing.
Greetings from Australia; my Half German ancestry came out here from Dresden in 1847. I so love the metal detecting done over there .. as I enjoy all military history. Charcoal and Crosses... maybe at the cessation of the war .. they were thrown in the fire .... ???
Greetings from Canada Dan. Thank-you so much for sharing your hunts. You are so lucky to live where you do. I'd love to do what your doing. Keep those videos coming! Very interesting! "Keep warm eh"
What a find, there's nothing in central Illinois to dig and no one will let you dig anyway. I would guess that since you found Russian ammo that they burned the medals. Great channel, I'll sign up now.
+David Wacker Thank you but I don´t think they burned them. I think they were not handed out yet and were discarded by the person who should award them. Why I don´t know. There don´t show any burn marks. Thanks for your interest.
Great find..... If they we're all KCs you would be sat on a small fortune. But still. To find a number of Iron cross second class in a bundle like that is amazing. Originally given for a single act of courage and while carrying all the pomp in the early years of the war - they quickly became more a gesture of encouragement to german soldiers than anything else in the later years.
+VimyScout Right, right and right! The ic 2nd class was given out about 3 million times between 39 and 45 in the end as you already said more to boost the morale with the very young soldiers.
Very very compliment 14 iron crosses in one foxhole! incredible! I found one and only in the gustav line in italy and i will never forget that day... Congratulations again!
Spectacular find. Credit to you for saving these from certain loss. The idea they were discarded and possibly burnt by soldiers to avoid being singled out on capture seems likely, or else a reserve of crosses that were never awarded. A great story.
Thanks! I consider them not yet awarded though the soil looks like being burnt it isn´t. The charcoal is likely from a campfire or a fire in the forrest from a later time. If the Germans would have burnt the crosses the should have burn marks but they have not. Best wishes. daniel
Yo that was so cool I'm jealous of you. Where was this shot? What kind of activity took place in this area during WWII? I think your theory about them going to soldiers but never making it completely there makes the most sense. Kind of said in a way. The history or story of these relics is what most fascinates me but it is really up to the imagination. Well good job, can tell you were having good time that day P.S. I didn't know they where constructed in 3 pieces, always thought is one whole piece. Was that dumb of me to not know that? Wow this was so cool thank you lucky guy
This is an awesome find Dan I wonder if it could have been a mass grave site or even a camp of some kind being you found buried coals. Great detecting brother.
Отличные находки! Завидую. Бывает за весь сезон ни одной пуговицы не найдешь, а тут аж 13 крестов в одном месте! Потрясающе! Хотя... Я знаю где лежит примерно 5 кг таких же. ))) На дне Волги. Мой дед, участник Сталинградской битвы, рассказывал что после освобождения Сталинграда один солдат из его роты принес мешок крестов и они выбросили их в Волгу. ))
Really interesting! Some of those items must be worth a pretty good amount when they are original like that. I will suscribe as this is the first video of yours I have seen. Looking forward to more!
I will remove all comments with racist, sexist or fascist content!!! Please don´t misuse my channel for any sick propaganda!!!
Great Find. Thank you for the experience. Imagine the panic of the SS officer who buried these medals that were used to shower the troupes in the final days before Hitler used children and old men to hold the lines near Berlin. The hole was not too deep since maybe the ground was frozen at the time in the winter of '44 or January of '45. Zhukov and Konev's armies would not take prisioners, especially decorated solders. Not after Stalingrad.
+Klugscheisser Dan Any chance you want to sell one of those and ship it to Canada?
+Ca Dewey Troops. Troupe signifies a gathering at a circus
+Jeremy Swanson that's where he is mentally, up on the high wire...
+NOTAPOLITECANADIAN Sorry not really I don´t sell anything I find.
My dad grew up in a small town of Dolgen (A small town near Hannover) he said after the war the solders dumped all their guns, ammo etc..in the town pond. The kids (including him) would try and dive and retrieve the objects. Good find you got there that day! ;-)
Is it legal to dive here my friend?
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Hey congratulations on the very cool find.
I had to laugh as I was reminded of Count Dracula from Sesame Street
"1 Iron Cross ah ah ahhh.." .... then eventually "13 Iron Crosses ah ah ahh. .."
Wonderful video! I wish you found Ritter Kreuze, but a nice find nonetheless. I remember when I was stationed in Germany my supervisor found several 88 shells in his backyard and turned them over for disposal.
+tb7771 I wish too i found Ritterkreuze they would be prizeless;).
Dan, thank you for the very entertaining video. I'm over in Canada, but would love to go metal detecting with you some day. Really cool finding history tucked away like that. Can you imagine the stories that are attached to those, if only they could talk. I wonder if any of the Cross's original owners are living. Again, thank you for sharing your hunt with us.
As an American I always get jealous watching these videos, but i just remember that if this guy didnt find them they would just rust away. Good job.
+corn1971 War graves are not sacrosanct. I'd be more disturbed as to WHY there were German soldiers on Russian soil than disturbed by their graves being ransacked as they were in your story.
+Sean Harris Russian soil such as Poland or Finland?
Harrison D Point taken, but the idea that invading forces' soldiers graves from any land to any land are to be treated as hallowed ground is preposterous.
+Sean Harris I've got to disagree. Under your logic we shouldn't treat American Graves in the Pacific with respect either.
+Harrison D If they are not marked or found by a repatriation organization they are fair game. Properly marked and recognized graves should be left alone, but if you are like this man detecting in the woods and finding relics from soldiers who are long dead, they certainly aren't going to object. If one finds a dog tag it is a different story.
The iron crosses were part of history and was a wonderful find. I do think this was a fire and they were burning things they didn't want to be caught with? Makes you wonder who they were. But my favorite thing you found was the container for the hair clips that was beautiful
looks like ur right about the dump & burn. i wonder how many sites are out there like this. or the supposed missing nazi art hordes...
I was wondering that too. There are so many things that were not found. So many things that were stolen. So I really like his videos. I wonder if he has shown these to anyone that might know why so many were in this place?
+Cynthia Palmer Haha I wanted to say that.
I want them one! I so badly want to go metal detecting in Germany. Here in the states we can't find such great finds. As always, great video, keep it up!
+xRoSkii Thank you!
+xRoSkii You still have plenty of civil war sites.It would be worth doing some research to find out where some little-known battlefield's may be.
+Rogue33 Not in Minnesota though. We have few worthy spots only.
Cause America has no history. Only civil war stuff
+Wizard Snipez Yes.
a Fascinating video of your finds earlier this year. I couldn't stop watching. I notised that you soon forgot how cold it was lol.
+felinis01 Thanks and you´re right =)
You need a shovel, towels and sieves. Like archaeology tools. And a pokey spike thing to probe the ground. You know, I'm just suggesting. Nice finds. Thanks for sharing. Looks like very much fun. When I was a teen, I was out in the desert in Arizona and stumbled onto a huge mass of native American potsherds. It was very cool for me as a young teen to make such a find. Occasionally, while stumbling around in the desert, we would find arrowheads. Wish I had them now.
Seems like those Germans didn't wanna be caught with those Iron Crosses...
Hello mr.Dan. Just to say I really love your videos. Everybody who has a passion for History should be respected. I am a collector myself.
+christophe wacker Thanks Christophe it´s much appreciated!
Back in the '70s they put some glow in the dark toys in sugar smacks cereal. One time, a box my sister and I got had about 8 prizes in it. We won the cereal lottery. My mama just kept pulling prizes out of that box. This reminds me of that.
That´s a very nice story! Thank you for that.
Very fascinating stuff. I loved watching that. I'd love to see the results after you've cleaned and re-assembled those IC's!
+statenhal Thanks. the cleaned and reassembled crosses are at the end of the video
Congratulations on such an awesome find!!! I'm sure it's amazing holding something that old and historical!! To bad they can't talk!!
All the crosses, a pair of eyeglasses and a layer of charcoal. I'm beginning to think that German troops burned their uniforms and medals
I think a group of German soldiers made a pact to burn their Iron Crosses versus having them stripped as mere war trophies. At this late stage of the war the Nazi cronies were handing out Iron Crosses like candy to anyone foolish enough to wear a uniform for the excellent chance of dying. If I knew I was about to be captured I'd do the same to draw as little attention to myself as possible.
+James Robert Or they were captured and executed by the Russians. And the Russians threw the crosses into the fire.
***** Could be, I was just thinking along dark lines.
+James Robert It occured to me that it could be a makeshift battle memorial or the remains of body removal. either way it would be tragic to disturb.
+James Robert with the layer of ash and the bullet and melted glass makes me think a body was destroyed and the remains we're left there? What you think ?
super video.
+STIVSU TV Thanks
Klugscheisser Dan kommt meine Video-Kanal besuchen.))
+STIVSU TV Hab ich gemacht!
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looks like you found a "camp" fire, probably started to eat lunch or even directly started to burn items. but it looks like they were tossed there on a fire.
It's not just the number of crosses you found that are amazing.....it's the possible reasons for the horde being there that is so cool!!
Rich find with an interesting mystery driving the excitement. So many variables in the tale.
Congratulations. Definitely a first class detecting rush.
+LET'S GO INC. Thanks and you´re very right on the variables but I think this is one point that makes this hobby so attractive.
"What the Fffffffffffffuck" I love the way u say fuck 😂😂
Dj Khalid would love this guy another 1!!!!!!
Damion Snodgrass
as a 35 yr collector of all military items,,I find some of the comments really funny..1st of all,they are 2nd class ek (iron crosses).these were given out 4 a military deed done well..this means a runner carrying a message all the way to something more exemplary.a 2nd class was given out 1st.they had ribbons and could be worn in social situations,,with both metal and ribbon,,or the ribbon was sewn thru the 2nd buttonhole of a uniform.when a deed of more merit was accomplished,a pin back 1st class i.c.was issued2 the soldier,pinned thru small threads on his tunic.when someone says they are ss killers metals,,your ignorance shines thru..many soldiers wore these who weren't murderers!!great find,,my theory is that these German soldiers hid them cause ww2 was a souvenir war,,the low rankers who wore them did not want them going back 2 russia,,and hid them 4 that reason.a Russian bullet was found,,so that's my theory..if they had been captured by americans,they probably would have traded them 4 cigarettes or chocolate..cool find,,thanks 4 sharing...
Good reply! my collecion started in 1955! and many comments are made by very ignorant contributors, so it is pleasing to see a sensible one for a change.
Thank you for taking the time to do this hunt. Very interesting finds. But keep your hands, knees and fingers warm.
This was really cool to watch, thanks!! You sounded like a kid on Christmas morning, which made it even more fun to watch. :)
With the finding of the Tokrev round close by I would guess a Russian troup lost his war plunder.
Looks like they tried to burn them all with all that charcoal there too
you're probably digging through some soldier dookie... lol
Lol
One of the most amazing finds videos ive ever seen, congrats. Dazz from Goldfinders Australia
Congratulations Dan, what a wonderfully rewarding find. You put all the hard work into finding these remarkable objects, so you deserve them. Well done.
If there is charcoal in the same little area someone maybe burned clothes or worse?! I'm happy you didn't find remains. Who would this have been? AWOL German Soldiers? Could it be a grave?
No no grave. In my opinion they dumped their medals because the war was over and they´ve lost!
Yeah, likely a bunch of Germans buried them to avoid getting more grief. Some allies, especially Russians, picked out the guys with iron crosses for "special" privileges like an extra round of beat downs or even an execution
NO it was not!!! Please stop posting this bullshit. There was nothing more then you see in the video. No bodies!
If you would be right lime would dissolve buttons and other metal objects too but it doesn´t. And by the way at that location the wehrmacht simply didn´t had the time to cover bodies with lime cause it was a few days before the end of war and neither did they have any lime there nor would they have cared anymore.
Brukenavn9735 's explanation seems the likely answer. Nice one, thanks.
I am not ashamed to admit my family were in the german army, ended up in argentina. Would you be willing to sell those?
do you know if the germans who went there all maintained a tight knit community? the whole argentina situation interests me
Dan! Im gonna dream those crosses tonight... You are on fire! Keep up the awesome work, you are on the top of the list of my favourite youtube diggers :)
Greetings and happy hunting from FH
+FindingHistory I love your videos!
Thank you :)
Thank you for sharing this excavation that we can watch in warm homes! Most interesting.
+John Hooton My pleasure John =)
Simply amazing finds. Thanks for having us along.
+Freedomring 1775 Thanks you and it´s my pleasure.
you like the count on sesame street-1 ha ha ha, 2 ha ha ha..........
A lot of these comments don't make sense. Obviously it's not a grave. This wasn't an area where soldiers burned their uniforms either, or else the buttons and other metal parts of the uniforms would've been detected, and they would've been more scattered. It looks like a box or bag of medals (because they were within inches of each other) was thrown into an old burn pit. The burn pit was likely for tree branches or paper/cardboard since no nails or standard metal garbage debris was detected. Likely the Iron Crosses were never awarded- maybe they were intended to be but things collapsed too fast at the end of the war. I don't think anyone at that time foresaw they would be of any value in the future, given the war was lost and the Reich fell. The medals were considered garbage.
Halelujah thank you for your comment very very much. From now on I´ll just copy and paste your comment when again somebody comments bullshit.
Thanks again, Daniel
Having detected for 35 years,and studying this you tube'''ive learned that when russian forces arrested a german platoon,they would===[sometimes]= make them strip and divide all different gear in different places ,bury,before shooting,that would evade the geneva act''' if the guy on this vid was to go back and do more extensive digging,he'd find the truth behind what happin there/thats history and it happened alot/the helmets are probably close by as well/as the skeletons/
Wow, ich gratuliere, ich kann die Überraschung über den Fund geradezu mitfühlen. Hoffentlich wird er in Zukunft noch öfter eine glückliche Hand haben. Grüsse aus Berlin
+Torsten H Dankeschön! Ich hoffe auch;)
I like your first find in this video. It looks like a classy spliff holder.
pit dug, burnt crosses, covered hole.
Komm, ich zeig dir wo die Eisernen Kreuze wachsen. ^^
+ITherealMarcomanI Steiner das Eiserne Kreuz Teil zwei wenn ich nicht Irre Herr Hauptmann Stanzky
+Klugscheisser Dan =)
+Klugscheisser Dan Teil 1, musste ich gleich dran denken. ^^
i really want to do some metal detecting and be able to find some nazi "artifacts"....
Thanks for doing the time to share these videos with us. These finds you have are truly fascinating. I can't imagine the stories these items could tell.
+WKUHilltopper Thank you for your nice comment it´s much appreciated.
Best wishes, Daniel
Great find! That's amazing! The whole is probably a size of a pool 😂 wish I lived in a place with many history, England doesn't really have that, not in the town I live 😂, love it!
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Another one.. Another one..
+Winsane Look at thaaat...
And I am like keep looking on the screen all the time...
hahahaha another one!
If you ever want to sell one just give me a sign :-D
yeah, if the price is right, I'll buy one.
me too! very well interested,just message me
I am in too
Amazing find. I'm wondering if burying them there was in honor of fallen comrades during war? Who knows the story of their history or how they arrived. I'm not a Nazi sympethist and detest what was done during that era but never the less, this is still a very exciting find. I am of German descent and think this is a wonderful find just to stare at it and contemplate possible scenarios of where they came from. Congrats on the huge find!
You look very cold! What a gorgeous treasure trove! I once had a teacher tell me it takes a hundred years to make an inch of topsoil. I was looking at the charcoal and I admit I was a little worried at the bullet casings, was hoping you didn't find anything else. When I went to the Lincoln museum in Hodgenville, Kentucky, they had two large showcases full of slugs and casings from the civil war. After studying them, then reading up on them, I now know from the distortion of them that they went through soldiers before lying there and getting found.
Never have I so bad wanted to jump thru my computer screen and start digging up Iron Crosses with you, This was a very exciting video, Thank you for sharing it with us.
+Ed Grabow (Big Red) Thanks Ed your officially invited to come along next time you´re in Berlin.
Best wishes, Daniel
Klugscheisser Dan Believe it or not I am German decent. Mom Immigrated from Germany in the 40's, Both my Fathers parents Immigrated in the very early 1900's and My Father was born here in New York. So My Heritage is strong , I've been there twice. Last time back in the 70's. I'm considering another trip before I get to old. I just turned 55. It would be a nice idea to do, Keep the videos coming .I'll stay in touch, Thank you for your kind reply. Good luck.
Love the text overlay getting more intense every time you correct yourself :P brilliant find though and thanks for sharing it with the world.
What a amazing hoard find and first find of the day! Nicely done.
Greetings, Martin
Metal detecting heaven! Extraordinary find and your joy comes across in the video, thank you for sharing this.
I imagine the crosses were thrown on the fire along with the broken glasses by someone not seeing any value in them.Perhaps during or after the endgame,by german or alliance soldiers.
Or maybe by "looters" enjoying some schnapps at the fire.
I think the fire would bury them,maybe helped by someone putting out the fire.
Great video!
you made some outstanding finds!! Wunderbar!...i especially like the needle case-they don't make them like that anymore! & the iron cross was great!
"Wow, simply wow!" Perfect description of your find. Congratulations -- it must have been a thrill.
+Ricky Pastille It really was =)
Great find!!!!...loved watching you uncover history :)
Wow!!! What a fantastic find!!! I'm very jealous. Living in the states I'll never run across something like that. Congrats my friend!!
It looks like they threw them into a fire and then covered them up. What an amazing find! Maybe deserters? I hope you plotted where you found this stash, there might be more stuff out there.
+Postwar Ocean Nope crosses don´t show any burn marks. Do me a favor and read the comments the most probable theory is already posted there. Anyway thanks for your interest. All the best, Daniel
i love how you correct yourself in the captions everytime, very funny!! great finds though :)
Very nice find indeed ! I am envious ! Defiantly a HUGE fire pit. Have dug civil war relics here in the states the same way.Those are so much fun ! I can hear your excitement in your voice and I don't blame you ! I love the history of an artifact if it could only talk ....Myself I would have taken some of the ash and charcoal too to display with the artifacts. If you don't electrolysis the iron parts I would use a coating of EXTEND on the iron parts.Another thing you might want to do is take you a big screen around 3'x3' and sift your dirt out of that hole. a lot of times things are very deep and small from those fire pits.Open that hole up to you don't see any more ash. Anyway GREAT JOB ! GREAT FIND !
Nice video! Congrats on the wonderful find! I also like the music from Starship Troopers at end.
+Fizz Bin Thats really cool you´r the first to notice the outro music at all.
Best wishes, Daniel
Give me your address I'm mailing you some gloves....my hands were freezing just watching you dig! Absolutely awesome dig!! Thanks for sharing!
+Exploring Alabama Thats very kind of you and I appreciate your concerns regarding my health very much but I only don´t wear any gloves when I handle the camera. I already destroyed one with dirt. Thank you for your interest.
Best wishes, Daniel
good job on recovering the history from the past. it would be interesting to know more about these items you find.
+Paul Mcguire Given all facts it´s at least in my opinion most probably they were never worn they were still to be awarded. It´s highly unlikly(but not impossible) that 13 guys who had "only" their 2nd class iron crosses(not any other medal) decided to bury their medals at one place. It´s more likely that the guy/officer/etc who had to give them out threw them away cause he had to flee or the war was already over.
Wow that makes all the times not finding anything all worth keeping with it huh? Wild find. It looks like it was a burn pile with the light grey dirt.
Can't help but wonder who, when, and why but this is so cool
You do a great job! Really enjoy your videos.please keep up the good work!
And there is more! I love your commentr in the video, it´s very entertaining. congrats on the findings!
this find is truly breathtaking also i love ur standard response of shoulda found other stuff as well ;)
Geez what a fantastic find!! I hope you bought a lottery ticket too, that day! Not to suggest that your skill was total luck, but certainly fortune smiled upon you! Well done, and thanks for sharing.
Greetings from Australia; my Half German ancestry came out here from Dresden in 1847. I so love the metal detecting done over there .. as I enjoy all military history.
Charcoal and Crosses... maybe at the cessation of the war .. they were thrown in the fire .... ???
Greetings from Canada Dan. Thank-you so much for sharing your hunts. You are so lucky to live where you do. I'd love to do what your doing. Keep those videos coming! Very interesting! "Keep warm eh"
+RFKFANTS67 Thank you it´s much appreciated.
Bedst wishes form Berlin/Germany, Daniel
Great Video, Dan. I really enjoy your knowledge and respect for the hobby and the environment!
Very cool, would love to accompany you on these trips.
keep the videos coming. it must be exciting every time you go out.great looking at history.
+J Davidson (Mr. Tinker) I´ll try my very best =)
Thank you very much for your time and effort . Really appreciate taking us along .
hello, this is awesome to be able to find these and restore them to show, I am stationed here in Germany and would love to try and find some stuff.
Dan, Thank you for sharing your find of 13 Knights Cross's. Have you been able to any research on that area? That was a great find.!!! 👍👍👍👍
What a find, there's nothing in central Illinois to dig and no one will let you dig anyway. I would guess that since you found Russian ammo that they burned the medals. Great channel, I'll sign up now.
+David Wacker Thank you but I don´t think they burned them. I think they were not handed out yet and were discarded by the person who should award them. Why I don´t know. There don´t show any burn marks.
Thanks for your interest.
Great find..... If they we're all KCs you would be sat on a small fortune. But still. To find a number of Iron cross second class in a bundle like that is amazing. Originally given for a single act of courage and while carrying all the pomp in the early years of the war - they quickly became more a gesture of encouragement to german soldiers than anything else in the later years.
+VimyScout Right, right and right! The ic 2nd class was given out about 3 million times between 39 and 45 in the end as you already said more to boost the morale with the very young soldiers.
Very very compliment 14 iron crosses in one foxhole! incredible!
I found one and only in the gustav line in italy and i will never forget that day...
Congratulations again!
WOW! I suspect it will be a long time before you find another batch of relics as neat as that. Great find!
+L E Burnham Thanks and I´m afraid you´re right
Wow! A great find.. and quite the mystery as to what happened at that location...
Spectacular find. Credit to you for saving these from certain loss. The idea they were discarded and possibly burnt by soldiers to avoid being singled out on capture seems likely, or else a reserve of crosses that were never awarded. A great story.
Thanks! I consider them not yet awarded though the soil looks like being burnt it isn´t. The charcoal is likely from a campfire or a fire in the forrest from a later time. If the Germans would have burnt the crosses the should have burn marks but they have not.
Best wishes. daniel
Nice find !! Leaves you wondering why so many iron crosses in one spot.
Yo that was so cool I'm jealous of you. Where was this shot? What kind of activity took place in this area during WWII? I think your theory about them going to soldiers but never making it completely there makes the most sense. Kind of said in a way. The history or story of these relics is what most fascinates me but it is really up to the imagination. Well good job, can tell you were having good time that day P.S. I didn't know they where constructed in 3 pieces, always thought is one whole piece. Was that dumb of me to not know that? Wow this was so cool thank you lucky guy
This is an awesome find Dan I wonder if it could have been a mass grave site or even a camp of some kind being you found buried coals. Great detecting brother.
very great find wish I could go to Germany and search for war and other artifacts. keep up the good work I love seeing all the history you find
13!! Hello from Canada!! Congratulations friend!! I wish I was over there for all the good hunts!! LOL You like Johnny Cash!!
Отличные находки! Завидую. Бывает за весь сезон ни одной пуговицы не найдешь, а тут аж 13 крестов в одном месте! Потрясающе! Хотя... Я знаю где лежит примерно 5 кг таких же. ))) На дне Волги. Мой дед, участник Сталинградской битвы, рассказывал что после освобождения Сталинграда один солдат из его роты принес мешок крестов и они выбросили их в Волгу. ))
Ich finde das Gut das man die alten Sachen von Früher sammeln tut, würde ich auch gern tun,und ich glaube das macht sogar ziemlich spaß
Really interesting! Some of those items must be worth a pretty good amount when they are original like that. I will suscribe as this is the first video of yours I have seen. Looking forward to more!
Unbelievable. Love watching your little adventures in the forest
+Dieter Kopf =)
VERY COOL FINDS! GREAT VIDEO!
Fantastic find, man! Keep up the good work. There is nothing better then saving history, one piece at a time.
Wow what an amazing find! I can only Imagen the story behind them being there.
I'd be really nice to see to actually finding the items :)
Great video and finds. I don't think I could handle detecting in the cold weather.
Those were some really great finds !!!
Thanks for sharing...
+Kitty Murphy Thank you ;)