Without This Truck the Germans Would Not Have Made it This Far During the War
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- In this video we present the Opel Blitz.
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It was a Chevy, right down to it's "Stovebolt Six" engine. Toyota Landcruisers used that same "Stovebolt Six" up into the 1970's. Standard Oil was ESSO in the USA, and in Italy, In Germany Standard Oil was DAPOL or Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft. The Dapol sign was an American Indian Chief wearing a feathered headdress. No way to lose if you bet on both sides.
The first wave of Toyota imports into the U.S. with the ‘Toyoglide’ automatic transmissions were also bolt for bolt clones of GM’s Hydramatic 350 model that was most common in GM cars. Only difference was Toyota used metric bolts. Ford probably felt disrespected that they didn’t copy Ford’s C-4 auto tranny.
Until recently, Opel was an American subsidiary of General Motors. It was paradox with US Opel trucks in the war against the USA.🤠
„pecunia non olet…money doesn’t stink… Geld sinkt nicht“… There‘s nothing more to say…
@@michaeltrilck5680 Doch...Ich habe einen Bekannten, der war Oberst in der Wehrmacht und zuständig für Telefon Ausrüstung der Wehrmacht. Der hat mir erzählt, das die US Firma ITT noch kurz vor Ausbruch des 2 Weltkrieges die Wehrmacht mit Feldtelefonen ausgerüstet hat.
There were over 100 U.S. companies that operated in the Third Reich during WWII. Most of them still in business today and household names.
Ford Germany and Ford Britain made the same truck for their respective armies. After WW2 the US government compensated American companies for their Germany located factories destroyed by the US military.
„Blitz“means lightning in German. The saying „schnell wie der Blitz“ corresponds to „swift as a lightning“. The „Blitzkrieg“ concept consisted of rapidly advancing tank units, infantry following under their cover and all that protected by fighters and bombers in the air. That has nothing to do with the name of that Opel. The engine was used in the big Opel Kapitän saloon car and buses, even again after the war. A great number of Opel-Blitz lightweight trucks were built for fire-engines. After the war many of them were handed over to volunteer firebrigades in small towns and villages. They became much loved vintage cars so that many of them survived. The last models of the Opel Blitz were built in the 1960s. About military transport: The first winter in Russia killed about half of German military motorized transport. Universal joints broke, engines and radiators froze and snapped. What else: Those experiences went into the design of transport for the West-German army from the mid-1950s on. It took years to understand that most of the routine duties of a modern army is carried out on good roads in normal weather conditions. So the army bought ordinary trucks plus the ones with off-road abilities to save money.
My grandfather was a truck driver in the wehrmacht . I'm not sure what truck he drove but he did get close to moscow in one in 1941..
Thankfully those dark days are all history now. My wife's dutch grandfather was member of the resistance and survived a german camp. Her german grandfather also fought at stalingrad. He survived. I wish there will be never be war again in europe. The vehicles they used in rhe war where pretty tough. Interesting. Greetings from Holland.
@@adhub3971 As if there were no war in Europe right now!
Thank you for your grandfather's service
I gotta have a BLITZ ... just the coolest name for a truck other than Deuce and a Half , two really great trucks.
The list of American corporations that worked with Germany throughout the war is extensive. GM trucks and truck parts; all the rubber manufacturers supplied Germany with raw rubber via route in Spain into France and after 1944 through cargo U-Boats. IBM made, installed and their techs helped the Germans with their cataloging of people destined for and in the concentration camps using IBM punch card machines; Ford made trucks and truck parts; Standard Oil supplied lubricants and oil via Spain; and the list goes on. War is good for business and business is great. Remember, you are fighting for America, Mom, and Apple pie. The motto of big business and the banks is 'You die fighting so we get richer'.
N those... american...who involved .. no one going to the jail.... 😂 rich become richer....n the poor fight for the rich 😂
The German Army was not fully mechanised. They used far more horses than lorries.
I still think that horses are the hidden heroes of WWII. So many used them. And yet barely any WWII game has them implemented.
One of the smartest moves by the Americans in production of war materiel was to make ALL their recon and support vehicles AWD. I'm sure most of us have seen the footage of German 2wd Opel and Mercedes trucks struggling through the mud of the Soviet union's rasputitsa season.
I do not think a 4 wheeler would have much difference. Even tanks got stuck in the rasputitsa. If they stuck how far would you got with a loaded 4 wheeler?
@@lucius1976 I disagree. Tanks are much heavier and denser than even fully-loaded trucks. I have driven 2wd and 4wd light trucks, and having the additional traction from the front wheels makes a world of difference in soft ground.
@@bwilliams463
Their is literally world war 2 footage where tanks pulled trucks through the mud. The mud was so thick no wheeled vehicle could drive. 4 wheeled or otherwise. How you explain that?
The „Blitz“ is also visible in Opel‘s brand sign. BTW Opel was Germany‘s biggest Truck Producer for light trucks (3 Tons) pre war. Second largest was - Ford. During the war their V-3000 and B-3000 were widely used too.
GM made money from both sides; funny, so did other companies too numerous to mention.
Good Video/Info.
I love the ople blitz they are one of my favourite truck during the ww2 and i whould love to buy one one day.
Barbarossa started with over 625000 horses , that is not fully mechanized
A very good American company
Opel is a good Truck .
Ford & GM supplied both sides. In England Ford Dagenham and GM Bedford factories both produced vehicles for the British including the Empire forces. In Germany the Ford Taunus and GM Opel plants built vehicles for Hitler’s Third Reich. Biggest irony is Adam Opel, the founder and namesake of the company working for the Nazis, was Jewish. Same irony in German occupied France. The Nazis took over the Citroen plants to use for the German war effort. The founder and namesake Andre Citroen was also Jewish.
You miss lead , Opel died in 1935 and Citroen in 1895 and France didn’t fall until 1940 , so there is no irony, neither of them worked for the nazis. They were seized.
@@chipschannel9494 Please work on improving your single digit I.Q., if that’s possible.
The Germans used the Opel, the British used the Bedford and General Motors and the US government laughed all the way to the bank.
Over 20 billion USD in free "Lend Lease" to Britain and 11 billion to USSR. yea the USA, the only nation to spend more than Germany, got rich from the war.
Germany also had numerous Bedfords captured after Dunkirk kept running through the war with the help of Opel
It wasn't the government. It was the U.S. capitalists.
I've been led to believe the Germans transport depended a lot on horse drawn transport
It did.
@@nickdanger3802 No total is given in the video, but a quick Google search says that almost 140,000 Opel Blitz units were built between 1937 and late 1944. Not a whole lot, considering that Canada alone (with 1/7th the population of Germany) produced over 800,000 Canadian Military Pattern trucks....
@@kentr2424 it's useless to build vehicles that cannot be fueled
Yeah, why didn't Germany use EVs?
When a German soldier was captured by the Americans he asked them, where are your horses?
Opel was owned by General Motors
Mercedes Benz L3000 was also a good truck.
Not enough trucks. Used horses a lot.
A GM truck!
2:30 "...produced by German company" why are you lying?
Just go to Wikipedia Opel Blitz entry and try to read with understanding😂 "Following General Motors' takeover of Opel in 1929, the production tools for the Marquette engine were exported to Germany as this Buick sub-brand was made defunct.[2]"
Interesting topic but commentary for idiots
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Absolutely detest this AI black voice.
A good truck from Ford / Opel. The Germans liked it because they could use parts from American trucks. :)
Which parts ?
It is GM actually. GM owned Opel 1929 onwards, Ford had a German branch as well that built trucks and half-tracks for Wehrmacht, but they built cars and trucks under Ford name.
My uncle brought back a Jap sniper rifle from ww2, it was .31 caliber. They could use captured US .30 bullets in their guns if need be, but it didn't work the same way for GIs. One way the Japs outsmarted us, till Hiroshima!
American technology. Old Chevrolet!
No Sir, all German technology, as usuall...
Gm and ford built 70 percent of the third Reich trucks and built 90 percent of the half tracks nice try to rewrite history but thats what they get paid for got to make a living
@@Brandon-li3sg yip and that capitalism model is still championed Prescott Bush is the poster child for this cult with the Dulles brothers if this cult didn't have control of intelligence and media the world would have humanity not demoncrazy
Not really. You believe too much misinformation.
@JohnSmith-un9jm professor Antony Sutton as a reference or just search trading with the enemy. I cross reference my research many times last time was the Jewish chronological I've watched rabbis lectures on gm ford's nazi collaboration look it up Prescott Bush even went to prison during ww2 charged with trading with the enemy act no misinformation bud there's a reason its not taught in curriculum for they are the ones that run the madness the truth that's right in front of your eyes
@@JohnSmith-un9jmford , Sloan and Kettering were all part of a plot to overthrow the government of FDR , a GREAT American Maj. Gen. ,two time MoH winner , Smedley-Butler , a “REAL” republican , a Quaker and a man who helped U.S. expansionism was asked to lead the rebellion, He declined and offered to smashed the traitors . FDR felt with men like the General , the government was safe. Ford got awards from Hitler . Your American History is weak and thus selective , at best
Avery thing good comes from the usa
..... und das seit Jahrhunderten!! 😊
@@hansgrannemann5142 speak english
Neither has ever anything good come from across the States nor was the German Adam Opel AG anything U.S. ...
It's just that the U.S. siphoned off profits of one of the biggest German car-manufacturers of that time, by buying themselves in and nonchalantly reaping the benefits for doing nothing.
If you haven't understood that paradigm already, this is the very status quo of the american philosophy of success since hundreds of years …
They always pretend to support someone else in achieve something of importance (who actually does the hard work alone and basically on his own, without you doing a thing) and eventually make a lot of profit of it while pretend that you actually earned it … It's basically institutionalised leeching and state-backed parasitism by printing money for doing so.