I was a little boy then in St. Valentin and the tanks rolled throu the village every day and the houses were shakend and their inhabitants in fere that they break down. On sunday walks we met many of the foreign laborers doing the same. Our kitchen aid married a young soldier who was trained as a tank driver. He never came back. In May 1945 after wars end we were occupied by the Americans but they left after some days for the Russians who came two days later. This gap enabled the village boys to enter the works through a hole in the fence to search for interesting things which were tools and especially targeting opticts. Father long time could use the tools we brought home but the opticts were to clumpsy to use. The Russians stripped the excellent machinery but we later heard that many of it was ruined already while dismounting and the rest corroded on some railway yard.
I live not far from the Nibelungenwerke near St.Valentin. They made good tanks and now they produce good tractors there. Greetings from Linz Austria 🇦🇹 Europe! 😎👍😺💪🇦🇹🏔🍀🍺🍷🐺
Austria was not „annexed“ and not „occupied“, the „Anschluss“ of Austria, which wanted already to reunite with Germany after the end of WW1, was a peaceful reunification of a divided people! The plebiscite had an overwhelming majority in favor of the reunification and even mainstream historians don’t deny normally that this was the true opinion of the Austrian population!
The plebiscite was held 4 weeks after German troops entered Austria and was not a secret ballot. I'm sure lots of Austrians thought it was a great idea but 99% of voters in favour of anything is hard to believe.
Absolutely correct! It really irks me that Austria has consistently managed to get away with portraying itself as the “first victim of Nazism” and thus managed to obtain for itself more lenient treatment. If this non-sensical logic were really true then Germany itself would have a better claim to being “the first victim of Nazism.” Let’s also remember that Germans voted Hitler into power in 1933 i.e well BEFORE the Nazis enacted the 1935 racial laws. The Austrians, on the other hand, overwhelmingly welcomed the Nazis in 1938, when they already had had THREE (3) FULL YEARS to understand and KNOW what that meant! It is amazing how Austria, as a nation, has managed to effectively dodge its culpability….at least within popular culture in the West.
Man kann doch kein Volk mit Sippenhaft bestrafen, nur weil irgendeine Clique die Macht hat. Viele Millionen Menschen mussten ihren Kopf hinhalten, wo die meisten eigentlich nur überleben wollten.
That's really incredible indeed. It boggles my mind how it was even possible that they were still able to build these formidable machines, while the total might of the entire U.S and Royals airforce was unleashed upon the German industry. Despite these heavy bombings, the productionlevel reached it's heights in the fall and winter of 1944-'45. The tanks, munitions and other arnaments just kept rolling off the productionline. It's unimaginable today, how they were able to do this. I also even have seen pictures where the productions just continued, while the factory pretty much collapsed and did not have a roof anymore while the rubble was cleared amongst the machines.
@@redtobertshateshandles No, not on these tanks. These were spefically produced by German workers, due the fact that that was technically advanced tank for it's time. These tanks were produced by skilled workers, due to it's incredibly complicated engineering. Do you think that assembling a tank is like putting your shoe's on? No average Joe is able to know how the engine and transmission needs to be build and placed, not to mention the wiring, and it's complicated optics. And there are another 10.000 things that you need to have regarding mechical skills and knowledge and about to roll this tank off the productionline in perfect working order. Also the danger that non German workers could sabotage the tanks. Do your research about tank production in Germany. Because you just copy about what you have heard from others, without having done some research yourself. That's obvious.
Germany excelled at innovation. It's no surprise their tank program fielded the most powerful and heavily armored tanks of that war, but although they excelled at innovation, they fell short on production. I believe the kill ratio of German tanks over Allied tanks was 5 to 1, but the sheer numbers of Allied tanks outpaced the Panzers by at least 25 to 1. The U.S. and Canada built almost 50,000 Shermans, and Russia built about 85,000 T-34s. Both reliable and able tanks, and although inferior to the late model Panzers, they showed up in massive numbers. The Panzer IV was a match for the Sherman, but did not match up as well with the T-34. The German Panther was a match for anything the Allies had (Shermans, T-34s, Churchills, etc.), and the Tigers (I & II) outclassed anything on the battlefield. But they just could not make enough of them.
Мне, как русскому человеку, в семье которого многие погибли и пропали без вести во время той войны, очень жаль, что Красная Армия старалась сохранить архитектуру Вены и других городов и посёлков Австрии. Надо было дотла разрушать всё перед собой, тогда очень многие жизни советских солдат и офицеров сохранились бы, а их семьи увидели своих мужей, отцов, детей. Тем более, не было никакой разницы между гитлеровцами Германии и Австрии. И в крупнейшем лагере смерти на территории Австрии Маутхаузене зверствовали не жители Германии, а местные австрийцы.
I read that the Ferdinand/Elephant production and subsequent overhaul after Kursk cost the Germans 16 battalions of Panzer IV tanks. The production of Panzer IV had to be shut down when the Elephant was built and overhauled after Kursk. That is the equivalent to 8 Panzer Divisions in tanks in exchange for 90 Ferdinand/Elephant tank destroyers.
Awesome production facility. I would have like to have seen it in operation. Such determination to keep going at any cost because Failure would mean the end of the nation. Excellent naration.
Don’t know why the Germans had to go to such extreme lengths to design such overkilled beasts, when tanks armed with the 75mm kwk40 possessed more than enough penetration power to knock out most allied tanks. If they had just stuck to making stugs and Panzer IV’s, while focusing on refining a design like the Panther, they might have been somewhat better off. Anything above 45 tons in the 1940’s is logistically impractical
My friend's grandfather was born in the concentration camp in St. Valetin (Lager Windberg) in 1943. I didn't see there was a jagtiger factory there. Thanks for the interesting fact.
So Germany's best tank production facility only made as many vehicles in the entire war as the Soviets produced every 2 months. Small wonder they lost.
Good video - ultimately, during this time thousands of Sherman's and T34's rolled off the assembly line, and more importantly, the allies had air supremacy with ground attack rocket firing aircraft like Typhoon. A pointless drop in the ocean being built here.
Impressive numbers. So many ressources just for killing others. Not better now ! The human remains very primitive despite his incredible science. Greetings to peaceful neutral Austria.
Thanks, interesting film of tank production, sorry for slave workers, but amazing how tank production was kept up, even increased as the war's end neared. I read that Germany's war production was still at 60% even when the country surrendered!
how many made it the front. what was the kill rate. How were they to repair. CRAP. right from the wee tanks to the panthers and this bunch. GERMAN - Hand built - in a war. Expensive and non standardized. But hey you know, german.
Ploughshares of misery that are humanitys' afliction on a regular time frame when societies are brainwashed respectively on a path to mutual annihilation. Interesting comment toward the end about the ovnership by a Canadian company Magna which got the things rolling on cheep Indian labour imported into Canada. The most important fact that need to be added is fear induced upon societies from above. Such was a set-up of German Gestapo. Considered that total membership was 16 thousand the impositcion of fear was first done on their own citizens. Dachau concentration camp exclusive for german political prisoners just like the puch of ' long knifes' was strictly an internal affair. Fashist ideology was from above, an extention of buchery done by prussian feudal overlords first hired to represent church army and later specificaĺy army for hire. Where they not employed to fight American revolutionaries prior to unification of the States?.
I was a little boy then in St. Valentin and the tanks rolled throu the village every day and the houses were shakend and their inhabitants in fere that they break down. On sunday walks we met many of the foreign laborers doing the same. Our kitchen aid married a young soldier who was trained as a tank driver. He never came back. In May 1945 after wars end we were occupied by the Americans but they left after some days for the Russians who came two days later. This gap enabled the village boys to enter the works through a hole in the fence to search for interesting things which were tools and especially targeting opticts. Father long time could use the tools we brought home but the opticts were to clumpsy to use. The Russians stripped the excellent machinery but we later heard that many of it was ruined already while dismounting and the rest corroded on some railway yard.
I live not far from the Nibelungenwerke near St.Valentin. They made good tanks and now they produce good tractors there. Greetings from Linz Austria 🇦🇹 Europe! 😎👍😺💪🇦🇹🏔🍀🍺🍷🐺
didnt they call the first heavy tanks tractors ;p i know what their building there
The production program is a credit to managers. Beginning in the summer of 1944 all transportation was very challenging.
Austria was not „annexed“ and not „occupied“, the „Anschluss“ of Austria, which wanted already to reunite with Germany after the end of WW1, was a peaceful reunification of a divided people! The plebiscite had an overwhelming majority in favor of the reunification and even mainstream historians don’t deny normally that this was the true opinion of the Austrian population!
The plebiscite was held 4 weeks after German troops entered Austria and was not a secret ballot. I'm sure lots of Austrians thought it was a great idea but 99% of voters in favour of anything is hard to believe.
Absolutely correct! It really irks me that Austria has consistently managed to get away with portraying itself as the “first victim of Nazism” and thus managed to obtain for itself more lenient treatment.
If this non-sensical logic were really true then Germany itself would have a better claim to being “the first victim of Nazism.”
Let’s also remember that Germans voted Hitler into power in 1933 i.e well BEFORE the Nazis enacted the 1935 racial laws. The Austrians, on the other hand, overwhelmingly welcomed the Nazis in 1938, when they already had had THREE (3) FULL YEARS to understand and KNOW what that meant!
It is amazing how Austria, as a nation, has managed to effectively dodge its culpability….at least within popular culture in the West.
Man kann doch kein Volk mit Sippenhaft bestrafen, nur weil irgendeine Clique die Macht hat. Viele Millionen Menschen mussten ihren Kopf hinhalten, wo die meisten eigentlich nur überleben wollten.
Where are your facts ? Are you 🇦🇹 yourself? or do you(both) just hate 🇦🇹&🇩🇪 in general?
@@derin111 The ones that "got away".. are the inventors of fascism (🇮🇹) check your facts please ,mr self-righteous know it all..
Mein Schwiegervater war dort zu Ausbildung am Ferdinand und von dort gleich ab nach " Zitadelle"
Nice video, I suggest turning the background music way down or eliminate it all together.
Das Henschel-Werk ist vor allem für die Produktion des Tiger I bekannt.
Is there any film of the Tiger 1's turret being produced? Specifically of the large steel being bent into shape of the turret.
Nice video, amazing how production continued apace despite the heavy bombing raids.
Jagdtigers and Elephants, what terrifying beasts!!
Great video! Gotta love that line of jagdtigers. Impressive that they kept production up despite all the bombings and shortages.
That's really incredible indeed.
It boggles my mind how it was even possible that they were still able to build these formidable machines, while the total might of the entire U.S and Royals airforce was unleashed upon the German industry.
Despite these heavy bombings, the productionlevel reached it's heights in the fall and winter of 1944-'45.
The tanks, munitions and other arnaments just kept rolling off the productionline.
It's unimaginable today, how they were able to do this.
I also even have seen pictures where the productions just continued, while the factory pretty much collapsed and did not have a roof anymore while the rubble was cleared amongst the machines.
Slave labour???
@@redtobertshateshandles No, not on these tanks.
These were spefically produced by German workers, due the fact that that was technically advanced tank for it's time.
These tanks were produced by skilled workers, due to it's incredibly complicated engineering.
Do you think that assembling a tank is like putting your shoe's on?
No average Joe is able to know how the engine and transmission needs to be build and placed, not to mention the wiring, and it's complicated optics.
And there are another 10.000 things that you need to have regarding mechical skills and knowledge and about to roll this tank off the productionline in perfect working order.
Also the danger that non German workers could sabotage the tanks.
Do your research about tank production in Germany.
Because you just copy about what you have heard from others, without having done some research yourself.
That's obvious.
Great video ! I sure enjoy seeing the inside of the factories. Crazy how big the tooling was 👍
Superb operations management.
Germany excelled at innovation. It's no surprise their tank program fielded the most powerful and heavily armored tanks of that war, but although they excelled at innovation, they fell short on production.
I believe the kill ratio of German tanks over Allied tanks was 5 to 1, but the sheer numbers of Allied tanks outpaced the Panzers by at least 25 to 1. The U.S. and Canada built almost 50,000 Shermans, and Russia built about 85,000 T-34s. Both reliable and able tanks, and although inferior to the late model Panzers, they showed up in massive numbers.
The Panzer IV was a match for the Sherman, but did not match up as well with the T-34. The German Panther was a match for anything the Allies had (Shermans, T-34s, Churchills, etc.), and the Tigers (I & II) outclassed anything on the battlefield. But they just could not make enough of them.
Мне, как русскому человеку, в семье которого многие погибли и пропали без вести во время той войны, очень жаль, что Красная Армия старалась сохранить архитектуру Вены и других городов и посёлков Австрии. Надо было дотла разрушать всё перед собой, тогда очень многие жизни советских солдат и офицеров сохранились бы, а их семьи увидели своих мужей, отцов, детей. Тем более, не было никакой разницы между гитлеровцами Германии и Австрии. И в крупнейшем лагере смерти на территории Австрии Маутхаузене зверствовали не жители Германии, а местные австрийцы.
Also the home factory of Panzer 4 J model.
Excellent topic! Very few, if any other channels, cover these types of topics. Thank-you.
Very well produced and presented video! Many thanks!
Please get rid of the music. It is very distracting. However, the information was good.
I read that the Ferdinand/Elephant production and subsequent overhaul after Kursk cost the Germans 16 battalions of Panzer IV tanks. The production of Panzer IV had to be shut down when the Elephant was built and overhauled after Kursk. That is the equivalent to 8 Panzer Divisions in tanks in exchange for 90 Ferdinand/Elephant tank destroyers.
that is definitely not true. yes, it took away production capacities from panzer IVs, but not all of it.
not true AND the Ferdinand/Elephant Tanks shoot down more than 200 USSR Tanks in Operation Kursk. Most feared Tank also for the russians
Ferdinand's had a 17-1 kill ratio though
The pz IV was somewhat outdated from the mid of the war. The top and side armor was just too easily penetrated by any kind of artillery and heavy MGs.
Very interesting to see now Germany's war production was achieved,
That line of Jagd tigers is very impressive.👍
Awesome production facility. I would have like to have seen it in operation. Such determination to keep going at any cost because Failure would mean the end of the nation. Excellent naration.
IF Germany could reconstruct Hitlers mansion, those factories, etc., they would be a tourist attraction.......
Don’t know why the Germans had to go to such extreme lengths to design such overkilled beasts, when tanks armed with the 75mm kwk40 possessed more than enough penetration power to knock out most allied tanks. If they had just stuck to making stugs and Panzer IV’s, while focusing on refining a design like the Panther, they might have been somewhat better off. Anything above 45 tons in the 1940’s is logistically impractical
Obviously frightened of what the Russians were building. The Stalin tank etc. They had already been surprised by the T34.
My friend's grandfather was born in the concentration camp in St. Valetin (Lager Windberg) in 1943. I didn't see there was a jagtiger factory there. Thanks for the interesting fact.
The building of the ferdinand and the jagdtiger was a waste of time of production capacity and materials so late in the war.
Wundabar, Cheers from the US, Florida, Paul
the music is higher than your voice. Terribelt... But good pictures and story.
Thank you for the very instructive video
Very good. I am from a town near St. Valentin. Great work.
Tanks for the memories.
Excellent video
So Germany's best tank production facility only made as many vehicles in the entire war as the Soviets produced every 2 months. Small wonder they lost.
They sure can’t produce volumes of tanks like that anymore…
Great video
Thanks for the content and the hilarious voice. 😂👍🏻
Fascinating..
Was it Herman Gøring aka MEYER that owned the nibelungenwerke
Is it a Hungarian narrating the video?
Persze hogy magyar, kilóméterről hallani a hánglist.😅
Good video - ultimately, during this time thousands of Sherman's and T34's rolled off the assembly line, and more importantly, the allies had air supremacy with ground attack rocket firing aircraft like Typhoon. A pointless drop in the ocean being built here.
Maybe a drop in the ocean ,but still took 6years and the loss of 60000 allied tanks lost.Usa production was never interrupted by any means.
Was that a Krupp factory?
Sounds like it was Diemler-Benz
Reichswerke Hermann Göring
Neither nor it was managed by Steyr works
@@karlkirchweger4190 Steyr works was owned by reichswerke hermann göring
Good video, man!
Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱.
Impressive numbers. So many ressources just for killing others. Not better now ! The human remains very primitive despite his incredible science. Greetings to peaceful neutral Austria.
Thanks, interesting film of tank production, sorry for slave workers, but amazing how tank production was kept up, even increased as the war's end neared. I read that Germany's war production was still at 60% even when the country surrendered!
Jagdtigers and Ferdinands wtf were they thinking maybe win the war first lol
Elszö Rendö Video.
Osterreich. Eastern Kingdom.
❤😂🎉😢😮😮😅
how many made it the front. what was the kill rate. How were they to repair. CRAP. right from the wee tanks to the panthers and this bunch. GERMAN - Hand built - in a war. Expensive and non standardized. But hey you know, german.
Te tuti hogy magyar vagy😅
Ploughshares of misery that are humanitys' afliction on a regular time frame when societies are brainwashed respectively on a path to mutual annihilation. Interesting comment toward the end about the ovnership by a Canadian company Magna which got the things rolling on cheep Indian labour imported into Canada. The most important fact that need to be added is fear induced upon societies from above. Such was a set-up of German Gestapo. Considered that total membership was 16 thousand the impositcion of fear was first done on their own citizens. Dachau concentration camp exclusive for german political prisoners just like the puch of ' long knifes' was strictly an internal affair. Fashist ideology was from above, an extention of buchery done by prussian feudal overlords first hired to represent church army and later specificaĺy army for hire. Where they not employed to fight American revolutionaries prior to unification of the States?.
The more fascinating WW2 Germany is, the worse German language seems.