Germans on DDay

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  • @1089maul
    @1089maul 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Woody and all. So glad I found this while looking into previous presentations. This is a classic example of why WW2TV is so great. It covers all nations including the ‘enemy.’ Recalling interesting to cover what is not normally covered. Thanks gents. Bob

  • @williammorris584
    @williammorris584 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The MG34 and MG42 were the reason that German small unit defensive infantry doctrine and tactics were based on the riflemen supporting the squad’s machine gun, and the heavy lafette-mounted MGs of the heavy company and the regimental MG’s.
    The contention that the MG42 was elevated to mythic status decades after the fact is erroneous. There were wartime US training films that attempted to specifically allay fear of the MG34/42 and demonstrate tactics for dealing with German MG positions. The fact that such training aids were produced referring to specific enemy weapons suggests that some morale effect existed from early US experience vs these MGs.

  • @scottgrimwood8868
    @scottgrimwood8868 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    An excellent show. A part of the D-Day battle that is overlooked. A must watch for anyone interested in World War 2.

  • @timbrown1481
    @timbrown1481 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Woody, I love when you bring guest on who are able to discuss the Axis (human aspect) points of view. Especially guests like Alexander Braun.

  • @terrywoodham8419
    @terrywoodham8419 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This was so interesting I have learnt so much about the german side of d day and I want to learn more thank you to woody and the guys for putting this together.

  • @jeffklepzig920
    @jeffklepzig920 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Really enjoyed this discussion Paul. Lots of interesting topics from knowledgeable historians. Great work.

  • @axelvanlooy5401
    @axelvanlooy5401 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    you're on fire these days Paul, thank you very much for these interesting broadcasts!

  • @henryj.8528
    @henryj.8528 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In the memoir "Soldat" by Siegfried Knappe, he writes about joining an army artillery unit in the late 1930s and being surprised that it was horse-drawn. He worked with horses throughout the war.

  • @buonafortuna8928
    @buonafortuna8928 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Really enjoyed that Paul. Taking one of your recent comments "Some of my earlier videos were really ... ", as I work through your back catalogue, I haven't found and duds. Incidentally caught you chatting to History Underground about a month ago - really good, so much so that I was never closer to sending that email to join a tour.

  • @elijenkins6129
    @elijenkins6129 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Really been enjoying the content, keep up the great work.

    • @WW2TV
      @WW2TV  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks, will do!

  • @davidk7324
    @davidk7324 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great program, Paul. Alexander, Niels, and Sean were fantastic. I've gained a new perspective and appreciate all your work and passion for improving and broadening the world's understanding of the Day of Days.

    • @WW2TV
      @WW2TV  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad you enjoyed it

  • @timsampson7336
    @timsampson7336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Interesting talk and learning something with every talk. Thanks so much to everyone involved.

  • @Chiller01
    @Chiller01 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    An interesting episode. There is pretty deep knowledge in the English speaking world regarding the composition and performance of the German forces in Normandy during the June invasion. Thanks for bringing these researchers together.

  • @georgewnewman3201
    @georgewnewman3201 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Woody, I heard somewhere that the last mounted unit in the USA was a Texas National Guard regiment (can't remember unit number) that turned in its horses and drew trucks in 1943. I heard from somewhere else that the German divisions were getting more horses as the war went on as they were not getting the replacement trucks, etc. The biggest advantage a horse has is it can go more places than autos. I heard in some documentary that the average diet in Germany in 1944-1945 may have been as low as 830 calories/day.

  • @cheesenoodles8316
    @cheesenoodles8316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great show, excellent subject and knowledgeable guest. The war as seen by the Germans both uniformed and civilians is very important. My best friend and second family emigrated from Germany just after the war.

  • @michaelspivey1758
    @michaelspivey1758 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Learned a lot of new information. Thanks Paul and guests. Paul do you have a tour page?

  • @sacco425
    @sacco425 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great work Paul and company

  • @hermansherman378
    @hermansherman378 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks!

  • @Nyllsor
    @Nyllsor ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very intresting and little talked about subject!
    Thankyou for all the vids on your Chanel got a few qued, and content with D-Day 24H event! /New subscriber

    • @WW2TV
      @WW2TV  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Welcome aboard, I've not had many new subs yet following the special with Indy and Spatacus, but hopefully they will come

  • @madcat3525
    @madcat3525 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great show on the Germans on D-day. looking forward to more videos.

  • @gameram6382
    @gameram6382 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant gentlemen thank you so much for all your info

  • @parkestanley2436
    @parkestanley2436 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great presentation. Yet again!!!

  • @eric-wb7gj
    @eric-wb7gj 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ty 🙏🙏

  • @OldWolflad
    @OldWolflad ปีที่แล้ว +1

    352nd Division, despite some reports, only contained 'some' German veterans, and it was largely a 'thrown-together-mob' with mainly 17-18-year-old conscripts with just three weeks training. Furthermore, Normandy was its first posting, and just one of its battalions was at Omaha on 6th June, according to other German sources at Normandy

    • @WW2TV
      @WW2TV  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Exactly, yet in so many books and documentaries they are referred to as Elite

    • @OldWolflad
      @OldWolflad ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@WW2TV In the book 'How the Wermecht Lost France - D Day through German Eyes' - p76-77....... "The standard narrative of that fateful day has it that 352 division that faced the American troops at Omaha was a veteran German unit recently shipped in from the Russian front, well-equipped, well-led, and with its ranks full of experienced troops. Research in recent years as shown this to be only partially accurate at best, and downright misleading at worst. Firstly, 352 Division was not a veteran division with experienced troops, rather it had only recently been formed, and Normandy was its very first posting. Neither was it awash with the latest heavy weaponry. It was indeed bigger than its static neighbour 716 division, being around 12,000 strong rather than 7-8000, and it had more artillery with 48 guns available, but.....and it was a big but.......only a fraction of its division was on Omaha on the morning of 6th June. In fact, just one of its six battalions, a few light guns and another battalion attached from its eastern neighbour, the below-par 716. Nevertheless, it would come within an ace of forcing an American withdrawal under fire that could have dramatically altered the Normandy campaign".

    • @WW2TV
      @WW2TV  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@OldWolflad The book you refer to is really pretty poor. As you say misleading and very much old school

    • @OldWolflad
      @OldWolflad ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@WW2TV such is the danger of amateur researchers like myself quoting from books (:-

  • @nickjackson6905
    @nickjackson6905 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just found this channel.. Loving this video normandy/d-day my main interest

    • @WW2TV
      @WW2TV  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Welcome aboard Nick. I suggest you use the playlists to find more DDay content

  • @mostlygreen1
    @mostlygreen1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Isn't part of the issue with the German side on D day that their casualties were very high, so there would naturally be fewer memoirs, even allowing for other factors. The ones I've seen only survived by freakish luck.

    • @WW2TV
      @WW2TV  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, that's true

  • @duwop544
    @duwop544 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a US reader, this "mythic" MG42 exists on the margins. Obs. your experience with leading Veterans on tours has influenced your perspective.
    What I DO read, over and over again, is every large round being called "an 88". Bet you have as well!

  • @SouthEastFJCruiser
    @SouthEastFJCruiser 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    4000 horses for the 352nd....I had no idea of the order of magnitude...to which they relied on that form of transportation.

  • @MrOuija-rr8kq
    @MrOuija-rr8kq 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow. Doing a Zoom call on location and in the middle of the road. That’s dedication.

  • @jamesstewart553
    @jamesstewart553 ปีที่แล้ว

    A sound and intelligent discussion. D-Day is a multifactorial dialogue and unfortunately, popular opinions are sometimes quickly taken up as being well-known facts so a discussion like this is sometimes very necessary." An hour on Germans", why should anyone find this to be a surprise? D-Day was one day, Normandy was a hard bloody attritional affair, and not every German soldier was a member of "an elite unit" led by a Knights Cross holder. The German soldier like so many was not there out of choice and had no choice.

  • @louisburke8927
    @louisburke8927 ปีที่แล้ว

    There's another video on the value of horses on this channel.

  • @louisburke8927
    @louisburke8927 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hate doing alternative history BUT I have to ask, could V weapons have been used tactically?

    • @WW2TV
      @WW2TV  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not really I don't think

  • @ToddSauve
    @ToddSauve 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Paul, I wonder if you could also do a show on orders given the Allied assault troops on D Day not to take any prisoners because there was no place to put them. I've never seen a copy of these orders or who issued them but I have seen interviews with Canadian veterans, specifically the Regina Rifles and Winnipeg Rifles, where they plainly stated that they did not take prisoners on D Day, or certainly not during the first 12 or 14 hours. The reason they gave was, as I said, it was orders from on high and prisoners on the beach would just clog up the resupply of the front line troops. I've also seen interviews with French civilians who there where they just plainly state, as well, that the Canadians did not take prisoners in the town on the coast where they were. These interviews were at the very end of the Canadian docu-drama "Storming Juno" that was for a time available freely on their internet website. Have you any more information on this, especially as to who issued the order and how it was implemented on the other four beaches? Kurt Meyer of the 12 SS claimed that his men found these orders on a dead Canadian captain on June 6 and that was his excuse for executing POWs in the days following. The 12 SS seemed not to need any rationale at all for murdering prisoners. Some Canadian prisoners said they seemed like they were on drugs, which would not surprise me as everyone was hyped on Benzedrine or some such upper and some Hitler Youth were completely out of control. Especially at Authie where they actually dragged wounded POWs out onto the roads and deliberately ran them over with tanks and trucks, and then murdered French civilians who came out to protest their behaviour.
    I hope this is not too much of a sensitive or controversial issue for your channel.

    • @benwilson6145
      @benwilson6145 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The truth can be simply found. Please do some research and find out how many POW were taken.

    • @ToddSauve
      @ToddSauve 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@benwilson6145 I've never seen that info anywhere.

    • @benwilson6145
      @benwilson6145 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ToddSauve
      Rommel and the Atlantic Wall
      December 1943 - July 1944
      Oral History - World War II - Invasion of Normandy (1944)
      Interrogation of Vizeadmiral Friedrich Ruge and Generalleutnant Dihm concerning Generalfeldmarschall Rommel and the preparation of German defenses prior to the Normandy Invasion

    • @ToddSauve
      @ToddSauve 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@benwilson6145 Does that have the number of POWs killed on Juno? Go ahead and tell us what the numbers were.

    • @benwilson6145
      @benwilson6145 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ToddSauve Find out for yourself, I suspect your some sad internet troll spreading rubbish.

  • @dondajulah4168
    @dondajulah4168 ปีที่แล้ว

    @51:30 can someone please explain to me the point of having a machine gun position to stave off an amphibious invasion where, presumably you will be outnumbered by orders of magnitude and only providing said machine gunner a “limited” supply of ammunition? Why even bother defending the beach at that point?

    • @WW2TV
      @WW2TV  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because there simply wasn't enough ammunition to adequately supply every single WN along the 3000+ miles of coast they were defending AND supply the Eastern Front and Italy etc

    • @dondajulah4168
      @dondajulah4168 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@WW2TV Understood, but as I watched more into the video, it appears that (at least some) of the MG'ers were supplied with enough ammo to hold an effective fire rate for close to 8 hours. And with the highest ROF weapon at that!
      This being the case, I would disagree with the earlier point you made that implied that the German fixed position machine gunners would not have a firepower advantage over attacking troops landing on the beaches. You are not taking into consideration that machine gun positions set up in positions to create pre-determined enemy attacker "kill zones" would make the defenders fire orders of magnitude more effective.
      My guess would be that casualties caused by allied machine gun fire in the first 8 hours of the invasion were probably 1/100th those of those inflicted by the Germans. I find it hard to visualize a machine gun being of any use at all landing on a beach against an entrenched enemy, but I will defer to your expertise on the subject of the Normandy landings.

    • @dondajulah4168
      @dondajulah4168 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@WW2TV would be interested to know if there were machine gunners that were forced to stop fighting on d-day specifically because they ran out of ammunition.

    • @WW2TV
      @WW2TV  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dondajulah4168 yes, both Gockel and Severloh at WN62

  • @robertbaker9294
    @robertbaker9294 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very good I think it makes sense that the German's didn't need to have MG42's in static positions. Also aren't there issues about Severloh's book?

  • @ottovonbismarck2443
    @ottovonbismarck2443 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mabe two years late and a Dollar short, but where can I get Niels' book ?

    • @WW2TV
      @WW2TV  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its still not out, there's a been a publishing delay

  • @gameram6382
    @gameram6382 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If you don't remember the mistakes of the past. You make the same mistakes again. I don't understand why schools don't teach it

  • @jaimepatena7372
    @jaimepatena7372 ปีที่แล้ว

    War is the only game in which both sides lose.

  • @legowarrior2461
    @legowarrior2461 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    D day

  • @legowarrior2461
    @legowarrior2461 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    First