Great video and great explanations on most parts but... A few minor corrections and problems I noticed with this video. (Can't tell if my comment is glitching) For early war and in battle of France, the Panzer III was NOT the main battle tank, it was one of two, both the Panzer III and Panzer IV were the main battle tanks. During this time there was still more focus on having one tank to have the role of infantry support and the other for largely anti-tank combat. This was becasue the 3.7cm was seen as sufficent for anti-tank puproses but ill-suitable for infantry support, the same goes with the short 7.5cm howitzer on the Panzer IV. At this time a 7.5cm gun with a long barrel or larger caliber size with long barrel for Anti-Tank purposes was practically rare, at this time most anti-tank guns were from 3.7cm - 6cm with practically all countries. This both the Panzer III and Panzer IV were reliant on each other to achieve maximum efficiency, after all combined arms warfare. The Panzer IV was an organic part of the Panzer division, by all means it's was permanently attatched with the division, unlike the StuGs which were inoganic units constantly reassigned to different divisions to support them, the StuGs role is to support anyone and everyone where ever and when ever, it went with infantry divisions, Panzer divisions, etc, the Panzer IV was always part of the Panzer division though in smaller numbers in early war, it was always aimed to work in unison with the Panzer III. Until operation Barbarossa, there was not much of a thought on combining the two roles of anti-tank and infantey support just yet, the introduction of the Panzer IV with the L/43 gun is when the two roles at this point were merged. You also sort of nitpick on the interleaved tracks to much without explaining much of its benefits. I don't really care that you explain the problems, I do care when you degrade something and don't at least say it's positives as it brings bad assumptions, and just seems more like nitpicking. Under all circumstances to the west, under almost all terrain the interleaved tracks are one of the best wheels to choose for running performance. In addition interleaved wheels provided a very smooth ride over very rough terrain. Along with that you didn't explain onto detail why Henschel chose that design to be more effective with weight, the interleaved wheels provided more contact to the tracks which basically provided more ground contact, this effectively have it a low ground pressure allowing it to cross mud and snow very well (if the wheels didn't lock from it freezing) Of course it's not used in modern designs because it's complex but it's factors of what makes it good shouldn't be left out as we need to understand why that design was chosen over all else. Next the video could have been a prime opportunity to explain the Tiger I transmission and it's reliability. Regarding 1942 and early 1943, the transmission did have some issues but it was hammered out. In addition the early Tiger I had a drive shaft designed with breaking points. This design was to reduce shock absorbed by the transmission when the Tiger made a hard impact on a tree, rock, etc. If the Tiger drove hard onto some rock or tree, the shaft was designed to break at the shaft to prevent the gearbox from being damaged, in addition the transmission was EXTREMELY hard to access, the entire superstructure basically had to be removed to access it. Basically removing to turret and top half of the tank. The drive shaft with breaking point was a solution the prevent that. The drive shaft was way quicker, easier, cheaper, and faster to repair and replace, in addition it reduced maintenance on the transmission if the crew drives properly, though this was a rather fragile system and it seemed to break often. So later on it was removed, this of course boosted the vehicles reliability, from there on the transmission was largely reliable. People of course always compare the Tiger I with the Tiger II and Panther thus the Tiger I transmission is degraded to hell. The Panther faced a major design problem with the gears and the Tiger II was overweight but the Tiger I design was good, it's weight was enough to be handled, the transmission had nothing bad to really stir up problems besides improper usage by the driver. This is why the Tiger I availability for combat seemling increased by like mid-late 1943 onwards Tiger crews are rather a bothersome tick in the reliability and should not really be included in it's reliability. By 1943, Germany was having a bit of a shortage on skilled crews, training for Tiger crew began to get rushed in general, diving deeper into the war it would only get worse. If skilled crews got their hands on Tigers it was reliable, period. If ill-trained crew got their hand in Tiger, that'll vary, it doesn't change the fact, that after 1942, it's reliability jumped to the point it can be considered reliable. After Kursk it practically steemed out almost all it's engine fire issues. You could have also went to state more stuff into it's reliability, complexity, and so on Transmission: For the most part reliable, but extremely difficult to access and a bit complex, trying to access a transmission for anything not a minor repair is impossible in the field and needs to be sent to a workshop. The Engine was most unreliable comparing it to everything on the vehicle. Fuel line issues, engine fire, carburetor problems especially due to fuel lines. I need to check again but I think that the fuel lines issue was dealt with early on but the engine fire problem remained until some where after Kursk. I also need to check this again but I'm also believe that put of all the mechanical problems, engines fires are the most dominant one in kursk, the transmission were fine with only a few handfull having transmission problems. (I'll check on the losses of each s. Pz. Abt. at Kursk later.) Though one of its greatest ups is that it's very accessible. It very quick and easy to replace, you can see this from photos of cranes lifting the entire engine block out, it was a bit complex to repair yes but it wasn't much of a nightmare to replace. I haven't seen much on suspension reliability issues with Tiger I so I'm going assume there is some but it's not prominent like Tiger IIs I'll maybe add more to this later Also as a last note, the engine could reach a maximum of 3000rpm, the Tigerfibel states that this would basically damage and degrade the engines lifespan, 2600rpm for the engine was recommended, in somewhere in the middle or early in it's productions, a capping this of some sort was added to prevent the driver from revving to 2600rpm unless emergency or something, this effectively reduce the chance of a human error of fucking up the engine. I want hoping you'd address those issues and improvements seeing how long this video is.
I am pinning your comment for excellent historical diligence. I try not to go into too much technical stuff (unless like the tracks it leads to a good joke). I try to err on the edutainment side of things. But. When I leave shit out or make mistakes. I always make sure to pin a “shit I got wrong post”. But you’ve saved me the time so I appreciate you :)
@CrossaintDeSurtr I just like to give the answer in full depth, cuz who knows when some dude is gonna go "you're wrong" and it's becomes a 100+ reply mess because neither of them gave in depth detail
@CrossaintDeSurtr We aren't keyboard warriors, we are simply historical worms. Who have a massive pride for our research into topics of the past no one will ever look at and end up believing crap they think they know but don't.
Erika: Maho, promise me that you won't cry Maho: ... (Insert Maho usual expression) Erika: The transmission broke again. Maho: I know....*One tear drop*
@@jamesharding3459 tasteless Sabaton? You'll have to elaborate on that. Because to me there is nothing tasteless about telling people about history through music. If anything, it is ingenious.
@@ranekeisenkralle8265 Excuse me, I don’t think I was clear. Sabaton itself is not tasteless, but it can be used tastelessly. For instance, the infuriating Last Stand x Crusades memes, music videos, et al.
“Never too early for gratuitous Sabaton” this is why I love your history docs. Your info is precise, your delivery flawless, humor, and relevancy to today’s history weeaboos is impeccable. You got my attention with Prinz Eugen, made me cry with Bismarck, satisfied my lust for revenge with yandere fox girl Akagi, and now covering tanks with enterprise coming down the pipe; all I can say is bravo, keep up the great work! +1 sub
When Tiger I was introduced to the world she needed a liver transplant, and a heart replacement. After that she excelled at almost every task given to her. Tragically she ate like a horse, and StuG Chan was always stuck fetching her more food.
a lot of people don't know this and this includes me until recently. But there are a bunch of OVA's for GUP where Yukari actually talks about all the tanks that appear in the show lol i thought it was awesome.
@@erichvondonitz5325 there's girl versions of both those. Haifuri = teenage girls on WW2 warships, pretty fun & Strike Witches/Brave Witches = teenage girls with kneesock-airplane-engines that fight aliens, also pretty fun.
Mate, your Azur lane and now this is by far some of the best documentaries on TH-cam. Looking forward to the Enterprise video and any more after this (hopefully a video on best girl HMS Formidable👍🏻) keep up the good work on these.
Just binged watched Bismark, Akagai(SP?), Prinz Eugen and this one. You sir are a most captivating story teller and these deserve many many many more views than they currently have. I hope you are immensely proud of these. Had I been taught history like this at school I might have a history degree now. Thank you for keeping me amused for 7+ hours, I eagerly await the next installment!
Besides all the horrors and atrocities of war and WW2 in particular, I must truly admit that I loved the last line of the video and that in sense the tiger and its history represents the story of germanys perspective of the war. Going in hard and motivated to only see the need to adapt and by that ultimately lose the initiative and go down, but not with one hell of a fight. Great video.
You make learning history the most entertaining. I can't stop watching. But when "it's raining men," came on I lost it. Please make as much history and battle history videos as you want I will watch every single one. You have a fan in me for as long as this channel stays up. Be safe and long life. Thank you for what you do.
Absolutely Brilliant. My late Father fought with the Allies in Burma and the Far East in WW2. I was born in the German Rhineland at a British Army Hospital in the late 1950s while he served there during the Cold War. All I can say is that as now part of NATO thank God we now still have the Germans on our side.
when you click on some random, seemingly trashy anime essay (no offense, I clicked after all lol), only to be met by one of the best summaries on early war doctrine and theory I've come across on the internet that is outside of proper history literature. And let's be honest, there is way more deathly boring history literature compared to well written and paced works and I must say that this video surely falls into that latter camp. Well at least the starting 25mins or so, I've yet to go further today lol. kudos either way, you've gained one more sub
Absolutely love this documentary, better researched and more entertaining than the stuff you see on TV. I sincerely hope you do more tank documentaries in the future
Another superb documentary. A mixture of wit, facts and exciting narrative. I may have a few nit picks here and there but tis a minuscule complain to the overwhelming complexity of your creation. The build up of the story, the introduction of how the tiger came to be was essential to the overall story. The documentary gives a good balance of hard hitting fighting and some humor. The plight and desperate struggle of the russians against an enemy who is both fanatic and unrelenting. I adore how you add in criticism of how the operations happen, wherein the mistakes can be pin pointed and to give a sort of fish bowl view on why the Wehrmacht didnt stand a chance in winning. "heroism and galantry wins individual fights but they can never win the war" im paraphrasing but this struck me well. Job well done, you did the Tiger 1 justice. Looking forward to your future successes. But I do have one itch about it, you added sabaton and other fitting music but no panzerlied? That was a miss in my part
Btw Animarchy don't forget that a person going by the name of Georg Bruchmuller aka Durchbruchmüller, was one of the people that came up with the idea of combined operations in which intense bombardments, lasting only a few hours, would stun the defenders just before attacking infantry could reach them.
It is 1:52:23?! Damn! This is the single documentary that was engaging enough to make that time frame move almost instantly. And the best part? I also learned some things from this video! Keep it up! The quality is high and great! *Moving on to Bismarck now*
There is usually one thing not usually mentioned about Tiger units. They had short barreled 75mm Pz III M and N versions for anti infantry support. The 21st PD in Normandy was rebuilding at the time and had an ad hoc of obsolete vehicles along with improvised tank destroyers devised by Major Becker from French chassis. It should have been considered at half strength at best to what it should have been.
Re the PzIII supports, the Germans did try that initially but abandoned it pretty quickly. I can't remember the reason why off the top of my head, but I think it might've been the logistical difficulties of maintaining two kinds of tank in the heavy battalions.
18:12 i swear, i was listening to this while playing war thunder, when the ghost division played, german tanks came out of no where, they will never stop blitzing
Caput was a pretty crazy anime about antrapamorthic girl assult rifles, mostly revolving around a human teacher in a girl/assult rifle academy for Nato small arms. It strangely never had any Japanese SDF arms. I think gate was pretty cool, it was well rounded and kind of drove home the ideals and tactics as ww1 started out without thinking about the new developments in machine guns, artillery, aircraft. Its pretty much dungions and dragons getting wiped out by a modern millitary.
Its a tool, you have to figure out how to use it. The breakout concept seemed to work, using the heavy tanks to punch a hole in the enemy lines and then using medium tanks to exploit the opening. This concept seems to depend on you being on the offensive though. None of this seems to fit with the modern battlefield.
@@jeffk464 In the modern day and age, the battlefield shifts so often and so quickly, your entire army needs to have borderline light tank speeds just to keep pace
27:24 Ghost Division Song by Sabaton Lyrics Fast as the wind, the invasion has begun Shaking the ground with the force of thousand guns First in the line of fire First into hostile land Tanks leading the way Leading the way Charging the lines with the force of a furious storm Fast as the lighting phantoms swarm Two hundred miles at nightfall Taken within a day Thus earning their name Earning the fame They are the panzer elite, born to compete, never retreat (ghost division) Living or dead, always ahead, fed by your dread Always ahead, as the blitzkrieg rages on Breaking morale with the the sound of blazing guns First in the line of fire First into hostile land Tanks leading the way Leading the way Leaving a trail of destruction to a foreign land (waging war with conviction) Massive assault made to serve the Nazi plan (Wehrmacht's pride, ghost division) Communication's broken Phantom's are far away Thus earning their name Earning the fame They are the panzer elite, born to compete, never retreat (ghost division) Living or dead, always ahead, fed by your dread Pushing the frontline forth with a tremendous force (far ahead, breaks resistance) Breaching the way for panzer corps (shows no fear, self-subsistent) First in the line of fire First into hostile land Tanks leading the way Claiming the fame They are the panzer elite, born to compete, never retreat (ghost division) Living or dead, always ahead, fed by your dread Panzer elite, born to compete, never retreat (ghost division) Living or dead, always ahead, fed by your dread
Meanwhile my boy Panzer IV., a pre war design, doing its duty from the 1.9.1939 to the 2.5.1945 and remaining an effectivew combat vehicle to the last day. Definitly one if not the best tank designs of WW2. Also the last german victory of WW2 was the "Battle of Bautzen" at the eastern front in 1945 against a mainly polish force (a bit ironic). The germans successfully launched a counterattack reconquering the city of Bautzen and the sorrounding area, holding it to the end of the war. The general view is that it was a local german vicotry, although Poland also claims it as one because their overall frontline wasnt breached, just pushed back. Still despite different claims to who "won" (on the polish side mainly for pride reasons do to this beeing the biggest battle the polish army was part of since 1939 and a defeat, no matter how small, would be emberassing in April 45) this remains the last instance were german forces successfully assaulted and pushed back an enemy force while reconquering a sizeable territory. Not every victory has to be part of the big famous offensives. Edit: Tigers were not build in the Ruhr Area, they were build by Henschel, which was a hessian arms producer based in Kassel. The compounants came from all over germany, but final assembly was in Kassel. The final Tiger Tanks of the factory saw service in the defence of Kassel itself and were basically rushed by the engineers into service by sticking every pare part still lying around together to get some out last second. The final Tiger II. that was constructed by germany was one of these on the 4. April 1945
Relating to each level accomplishing their individual TASKS: 'No Captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.'-Nelson. To do with self-contained Divisions, Napolean did that with his Corps.
Your description of the tank German offensives we're spot on. I love the cussing ! The "F@#K off huge " problem of broken down tanks was hilarious. Please! More of the "Problems with WAR" type of documentary! Who is the speaker of this documentary? This guy's a hoot !!! Live on Britain!
this channel is by far one of the weirder finds i've ever made: - weirdly in detail amount of coverage on wars, past or current (with clearly defined biases that are mentioned often and shaded with sources, rumor, facts. better journalistic integrity then most media companies. amazing work mate.) - far more memes, jokes and "is that a Wave song about the F16?! why?! i mean it slaps but WHY?" then i EVER expected. wth xD - i.... i don't even know how to describe this video for the purpose here.. Shame most people will take one look at the hour long videos and move on.. I need everyone on youtube to see the final minutes of your video on Wagner. pure comedy gold to cap off the perfect deepdive
Incredible story telling. well researched accurate history and perspectives, well timed humor and a sprinkling of cute anime. Truly unique presentations.
Tiger 212: at least Maho didn’t want to repair my rear Tiger 131: well my relationship with getting damaged has one difference and Ich don’t think YOU want to cross that line **shows hole under the barrel of the gun** Tiger 212: **wimpers** ok
I am very impressed by Animarchys historic videos, as compared to others they are immensly detailed and also wide ranging. I am not so much impressed by the anime inserts, but life can be disappointing..... :-)
I know the anime isn't for everyone, however they have the benefit that people who are interested in the anime, will be drawn to learn about history. And I would like to think that storytelling and good quality allows for people who don't like anime to look past it and see the quality. That said I will have a crack at doing a non anime related history documentary at some point. Most likely the Battle of Britain.
Michael Cove on Price of Empire said how well the German Soldiers fought masked how badly they made War. Thanks for another great doc. Love ww2 history since grade school, yea they taught this in school I’m that old, love your presentation.
18:50 - sorry, but you're misrepresenting what the org chart is showing. While it's true that there's only one line for armor (that being a brigade), that brigade has two regiments, each with two battalions, each with 5-6 companies. The closest in size is the infantry brigade. Although the armor didn't make up the bulk of the divison, it was still the largest component, at least according to your diagram.
That is true. However I wouldn’t say I’m misrepresenting it. When you factor in the same org charts from the USSR and UK, they have nothing but tanks for the most part.
@@AnimarchyHistory agreed. We do the same now, though. Our Armor and Mechanized Infantry Divisions (or rather their BDEs) were all combined in the late 20th Century and now they're combined at the BN level.
From what I've heard, five Shermans pummeling a Tiger would usually lead to the Tiger getting wrecked. Also, apparently the Half Tracks Whittman engaged in that convoy, one of them was a medical Halftrack... which was very clearly marked.
You probably heard the whole "it takes x-amount of Shermans to kill a Tiger". It comes from the saying that the shermans had to almost sacrifice 4 shermans in order for the the fifth to get close enough to pen the armor from the front. Even though im a mega Tiger fan, this would have been a straight up insane tactic in real life.
Great documentary from a very unexpected Channel. Most of no no German Big Tanks looks cool, but they were all not ready for combat operation. They should have stick to Spamming Pz III, Pz IV, Stug, and Open Top Tank destroyer like Nashorn to counter T-34 swarm. But of course just like "TIK" said, the Madman Retlih (reverse read it) wanted to make his wonder weapon ready to action.
The Tiger 1 has two cool One-time records attached to it that I think show how Awesome it really was. One Most hits on a single tank in a single battle where the tank retreats under its own power. Over one hundred hits from numerous enemy tanks and anti-tank guns and aircraft. Next longest period of time the tank was by all accounts Invulnerable, the crews having No Predation, the first month of its mass release on to the Russian front when the tank simply was unkillable. (This last may now be broke by the M1 Abrams and its Long-time record of No Tanks Lost In battle). Any one like reading I highly recommend the book "Tigers In The Mud" A first-hand account of a Tiger ace commander.
1:16:30 see..... this.. this is the wierd shit that makes your channel so memorable.... that and you do ...straddle.. that nice line between high technical detail but also being able to make it very digestable that and the memes... good god.
1:42:24 Haha I remember in CoH tales of valor getting to play as a Tiger and destroying everything, missions 1 and 3 was awesome fun annihilating the brits at Villers Bocage with an ace crew and tiger (and running away in mission 2 when the Tiger was disabled which too was fun)
I dipped into this for 2 minutes and found errors. Can't spare the time to check it all. - Henschel didn't want their Tiger hull to carry Porsche's turret as stated here. They were forced into it. - The Henschel Tiger was not "ten tons heavier" than Porsche's candidate. They were of almost the same weight.
I know the panzerkampfwagaon tiger had alot of problems but it's still my second favorite german tank by which my number 1 favorite tank is the panzer 4
Yes, as you say, the battle for Poland was a "Smack Down". However, a largely ignored outcome of that campaign was the German wounded / KIA. Poland gave Germany a right bloody nose. The poles did well all things considered AND the fact that they were invaded on two different fronts. Fact is, they did in reality, far better then the French and the British BEF one year later.
Designers: Technology rules, we should put everything into this monster! Soldiers and mechanics: Fck, dude! Who the hell is gonna keep that running?! Soviets: Lol, amateurs, if there is less stuff that breaks, more stuff keeps working!
except soviet stuff is crap and even if it is low tech it still breaks way more often. rule number one if you want good tanks dont build them with slave labor
Do remember Germany and the US also used versions of the infantry-cruiser tank two peat. The US had tanks viz infantry tanks, but they also had combat cars that belonged to the cavalry, those combat cars were light tanks, with tracks. Germany also had the two peat. The combination of their cruiser tank the Pz3 and their infantry tank the Pz4 was the tank force they were building towards when the war started.. about 2 years early. German and american infantry tanks were much more mobile than their british counterparts, but they were infantry tanks non-the less. Also, france used the same combination of cruisers, the S35 and the infantry Char2B.
Great documentary video, I like how you slowly build up the momentum on the situations and battles you presented, although your statement on germany lacking coal was incorrect. Germany had alot of coal and during that time they were the 2nd largest coal producer in the world. Coal was also used for their synthetic oil production at the end of the war albeit it minimally impacted the result. What germany lacked wasnt only rare metals but aluminium, there are documentations of german troops salvaging aluminum from crashed enemy bombers at the end of the war, and even scrapping every aluminum they could from tanks and planes ghey couldnt repair. They also lacked oil and by a large margin. Before operation barbarossa started, the chief of the logistics office compiled a report to hitler saying they only have enough oil and resources to mount a 3-4 month full scale assault until they would have to procure more oil sources. I also find it good that you mentioned war of movement/maneuver. Blitzkrieg wasnt the term the Wehrmacht used to describe thier doctrine. The term only arised years later after the war when historians at the time referred to the fall as france as akin to a lightning war. German tanks weren't superior in specifications to the allied counterparts, they were either matched or when it comes to the heavies, they were outgunned. What they do have is radios, most of the tanks had them equipped. The allied tanks had what you call a command tank, its usually the platoon commander giving orders to other tanks and them just having a receiver to carry out those orders. On the other hand, the german tanks all had radios and what they did was they would communicate while in combat with the enemy tanks to maneuver one or two tanks behind the enemy tank while one was drawing its fire. It was like a wolf pack systematically hunting down its prey. What they also realized that if you knock out the enemy command tank then the allied tanks will just drive around like chickens with their heads cut off. Thus they dealt with them swiftly and effectively.
After researching further, I realized I made a mistake. There was indeed a coal shortage in germany around 1943 onwards due to mismanagement and logistics issues. At the time, germany was indeed producing increasing volumes of coal each year but the transport operation to move it from mines to factories and other locations were either terrible or non existent. They had the coal but they couldnt use it. I apologize and im ratifying my comment.
The tiger 1 is a breakthroungh tank as far as I can remember. Heavy tanks create the hole and the mediums are the ones that rush off into the sunset. Heavy tanks thus value armour and gun over speed. Thus the tiger 1 is a good tank at its time.
Your right the tiger is a breakthrough tank, generally heavy tanks are made for that thing on mind expect for others like the is-2 which did it role of killing the German armour
The Wolfenstein Nazis goosestepping to the UwU rap is the perfect representation of Nazi furries. I just don't know if they'd approve or not, here's hoping not
I know this video is already quite old but still: About the planning of Zitadelle: The Wehrmacht did have plans in 1943 to act on the principle of strikes from the rear [backhandblows], but Hitler did not want this and instead wanted to act offensively on a small scale. See Kursk 1943 Roman Toeppel page 20 The plan for Unternehmen Zitadelle (i.e., the basic idea) came from Generaloberst Schmidt. See Kursk 1943 Roman Töppel page 23 Manstein still tried to convince the General Staff in March 1943 to eliminate the Kursk front arc already now. See Kursk 1943 Roman Toeppel page 24 The driving forces for Unternehmen Zitadelle were Heeresgruppen Mitte and Nord not Hitler, who was initially more inclined to Unternehmen "Panther". See Kursk 1943 Roman Toeppel page 28-29 The first postponement of the original attack date of 1 May (3rd May, later 5th) was made because Army Group Center did not yet see itself ready to attack. See Kursk 1943 Roman Töppel page 32-34 The postponement to 12 June 43 was done because of the consideration to increase the chances for success by having better forces available and to have enough time to build up sufficient forces in Italy. See Kursk 1943 Roman Töppel page 35 Defacto, except for a handful of generals, almost everyone was against the postponement of Citadel until June, but an attack in May could hardly have taken place anyway because of the weather. See Kursk 1943 Roman Toeppel page 36-37 Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) So it is quite more complicated. As always the russian had trendemous luck with the weather. Furthermore the germans made some blunders. In the southern pincer they had too few infantry division in the norht to much. Model which you named was not aggresive enough in the north. he even send a infantry division in the first wave of attack instead of a panzer one..... Kursk, from what i interpret out of Töppels book failed, because the norther Pincer failed. The SOuth would have probably been able to reach Kursk altough it would be questionable waht would have remained of tehir combat power. The Soviet artillery attack on the German initial positions was hardly successful. Interference fire was fired but the losses were only minor. Almost all divisions of the first attack wave could nevertheless attack as planned, only one division in the south was delayed, but this by fighting on the ground. See Kursk 1943 Roman Töppel page 109-110 yeah and the soviet air and Artillery "coutnersuprise" attack.... didnt went good... as to be expected by the soviets and with coutnerattack you mean the one of the 5th Guards tank army in the south? where the SS litrally slaughter them and the whole thing had few effect except deleting russian reserves? where the russian lost around 100 tanks and killed 3-4 Panzer IV? the more succesful coutnerattacks came when the iniative shifted and the russian began to push the germans back
One detail - Pz.38(t) is basically a light tank. It's original Czechoslovak designation is LT vz.38 which stands for Lehký Tank - Light tank. If it was designed as medium, its designation will be ST as for Střední Tank - Medium tank...
Great video and great explanations on most parts but... A few minor corrections and problems I noticed with this video.
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For early war and in battle of France, the Panzer III was NOT the main battle tank, it was one of two, both the Panzer III and Panzer IV were the main battle tanks.
During this time there was still more focus on having one tank to have the role of infantry support and the other for largely anti-tank combat. This was becasue the 3.7cm was seen as sufficent for anti-tank puproses but ill-suitable for infantry support, the same goes with the short 7.5cm howitzer on the Panzer IV. At this time a 7.5cm gun with a long barrel or larger caliber size with long barrel for Anti-Tank purposes was practically rare, at this time most anti-tank guns were from 3.7cm - 6cm with practically all countries. This both the Panzer III and Panzer IV were reliant on each other to achieve maximum efficiency, after all combined arms warfare.
The Panzer IV was an organic part of the Panzer division, by all means it's was permanently attatched with the division, unlike the StuGs which were inoganic units constantly reassigned to different divisions to support them, the StuGs role is to support anyone and everyone where ever and when ever, it went with infantry divisions, Panzer divisions, etc, the Panzer IV was always part of the Panzer division though in smaller numbers in early war, it was always aimed to work in unison with the Panzer III.
Until operation Barbarossa, there was not much of a thought on combining the two roles of anti-tank and infantey support just yet, the introduction of the Panzer IV with the L/43 gun is when the two roles at this point were merged.
You also sort of nitpick on the interleaved tracks to much without explaining much of its benefits.
I don't really care that you explain the problems, I do care when you degrade something and don't at least say it's positives as it brings bad assumptions, and just seems more like nitpicking.
Under all circumstances to the west, under almost all terrain the interleaved tracks are one of the best wheels to choose for running performance.
In addition interleaved wheels provided a very smooth ride over very rough terrain.
Along with that you didn't explain onto detail why Henschel chose that design to be more effective with weight, the interleaved wheels provided more contact to the tracks which basically provided more ground contact, this effectively have it a low ground pressure allowing it to cross mud and snow very well (if the wheels didn't lock from it freezing)
Of course it's not used in modern designs because it's complex but it's factors of what makes it good shouldn't be left out as we need to understand why that design was chosen over all else.
Next the video could have been a prime opportunity to explain the Tiger I transmission and it's reliability.
Regarding 1942 and early 1943, the transmission did have some issues but it was hammered out. In addition the early Tiger I had a drive shaft designed with breaking points. This design was to reduce shock absorbed by the transmission when the Tiger made a hard impact on a tree, rock, etc.
If the Tiger drove hard onto some rock or tree, the shaft was designed to break at the shaft to prevent the gearbox from being damaged, in addition the transmission was EXTREMELY hard to access, the entire superstructure basically had to be removed to access it. Basically removing to turret and top half of the tank. The drive shaft with breaking point was a solution the prevent that. The drive shaft was way quicker, easier, cheaper, and faster to repair and replace, in addition it reduced maintenance on the transmission if the crew drives properly, though this was a rather fragile system and it seemed to break often. So later on it was removed, this of course boosted the vehicles reliability, from there on the transmission was largely reliable.
People of course always compare the Tiger I with the Tiger II and Panther thus the Tiger I transmission is degraded to hell.
The Panther faced a major design problem with the gears and the Tiger II was overweight but the Tiger I design was good, it's weight was enough to be handled, the transmission had nothing bad to really stir up problems besides improper usage by the driver.
This is why the Tiger I availability for combat seemling increased by like mid-late 1943 onwards
Tiger crews are rather a bothersome tick in the reliability and should not really be included in it's reliability.
By 1943, Germany was having a bit of a shortage on skilled crews, training for Tiger crew began to get rushed in general, diving deeper into the war it would only get worse. If skilled crews got their hands on Tigers it was reliable, period.
If ill-trained crew got their hand in Tiger, that'll vary, it doesn't change the fact, that after 1942, it's reliability jumped to the point it can be considered reliable. After Kursk it practically steemed out almost all it's engine fire issues.
You could have also went to state more stuff into it's reliability, complexity, and so on
Transmission: For the most part reliable, but extremely difficult to access and a bit complex, trying to access a transmission for anything not a minor repair is impossible in the field and needs to be sent to a workshop.
The Engine was most unreliable comparing it to everything on the vehicle. Fuel line issues, engine fire, carburetor problems especially due to fuel lines. I need to check again but I think that the fuel lines issue was dealt with early on but the engine fire problem remained until some where after Kursk. I also need to check this again but I'm also believe that put of all the mechanical problems, engines fires are the most dominant one in kursk, the transmission were fine with only a few handfull having transmission problems.
(I'll check on the losses of each s. Pz. Abt. at Kursk later.)
Though one of its greatest ups is that it's very accessible. It very quick and easy to replace, you can see this from photos of cranes lifting the entire engine block out, it was a bit complex to repair yes but it wasn't much of a nightmare to replace.
I haven't seen much on suspension reliability issues with Tiger I so I'm going assume there is some but it's not prominent like Tiger IIs
I'll maybe add more to this later
Also as a last note, the engine could reach a maximum of 3000rpm, the Tigerfibel states that this would basically damage and degrade the engines lifespan, 2600rpm for the engine was recommended, in somewhere in the middle or early in it's productions, a capping this of some sort was added to prevent the driver from revving to 2600rpm unless emergency or something, this effectively reduce the chance of a human error of fucking up the engine.
I want hoping you'd address those issues and improvements seeing how long this video is.
I am pinning your comment for excellent historical diligence. I try not to go into too much technical stuff (unless like the tracks it leads to a good joke). I try to err on the edutainment side of things. But. When I leave shit out or make mistakes. I always make sure to pin a “shit I got wrong post”. But you’ve saved me the time so I appreciate you :)
impressive historical guy
There's also a couple other anime of the WWII/Military genre you might consider: Upotte (guns/infantry) and Strike Witches (Air Force/Pilots).
@CrossaintDeSurtr
I just like to give the answer in full depth, cuz who knows when some dude is gonna go "you're wrong" and it's becomes a 100+ reply mess because neither of them gave in depth detail
@CrossaintDeSurtr We aren't keyboard warriors, we are simply historical worms. Who have a massive pride for our research into topics of the past no one will ever look at and end up believing crap they think they know but don't.
Erika: Maho, promise me that you won't cry
Maho: ... (Insert Maho usual expression)
Erika: The transmission broke again.
Maho: I know....*One tear drop*
Erika: ...our tanks got taken out by the Anzio team (Italians)...
@@erichvondonitz5325 *loads luger*
@@erichvondonitz5325 Maho: Hm.. Bring out the Panzer 38T and load tactical Sabaton engines (Ghost Division from a far distance intensified)
@@nixonfox3376
Hanz: well I see the situation were both in... THE TRANSMISSION OF MEIN TIGER IS BROKEN... AGAIN! SCHIEßE!!!
I love how the structure of this video is basically how many sabaton songs can I string together
I know my audience
There is no such thing as "too much Sabaton".
@@ranekeisenkralle8265 There is such a thing as tasteless Sabaton, however
@@jamesharding3459 tasteless Sabaton? You'll have to elaborate on that. Because to me there is nothing tasteless about telling people about history through music. If anything, it is ingenious.
@@ranekeisenkralle8265 Excuse me, I don’t think I was clear. Sabaton itself is not tasteless, but it can be used tastelessly. For instance, the infuriating Last Stand x Crusades memes, music videos, et al.
I was expeted the Enterprise documentry but this also worth the watched
Likewise
Motion on the table declaring worth the watched is passed with three votes. Moving on to Enterprise business now.
“Oh hey Miho I see you managed to stay sober until the afternoon congratulations”
“Shut up b*tch. You don’t know me. I don’t have a problem”
@@AnimarchyHistory
“First.... help with the transmission dummkopf before Arthur Harris comes!!”
-Hanz
“Never too early for gratuitous Sabaton” this is why I love your history docs. Your info is precise, your delivery flawless, humor, and relevancy to today’s history weeaboos is impeccable.
You got my attention with Prinz Eugen, made me cry with Bismarck, satisfied my lust for revenge with yandere fox girl Akagi, and now covering tanks with enterprise coming down the pipe; all I can say is bravo, keep up the great work!
+1 sub
That's how I got here....well add Sabaton & there song 'Great War with Prinz Eugen lurking in the recommend.
I agree. Man's gonna get my follow after I rewatch Eugen, finish Akagi, then view Enterprise.
Sabaton seems like a soft core fanboy garage band.
When Tiger I was introduced to the world she needed a liver transplant, and a heart replacement. After that she excelled at almost every task given to her. Tragically she ate like a horse, and StuG Chan was always stuck fetching her more food.
This is true on so many levels
Azur Lane but with Tanks and Airplanes plz :3
@@justjoking5841 are there any airplane based cartoons?
@@appa609 if we're talking about 'Anime' then there's Strike Witches.
@@appa609 the magnificent kotibuki was ok
a lot of people don't know this and this includes me until recently. But there are a bunch of OVA's for GUP where Yukari actually talks about all the tanks that appear in the show lol i thought it was awesome.
Thats Yukari for ya
@@Cbrmkn98xs
No kidding
YUKARI TALKS TANKS...
oh you mean the original ones
Sabaton, girls und Panzer, and 40k TTS memes
Somehow inserted into this
I enjoy that immensely
Ok
Sensha-do: The greatest sport never created. P.S. Us guys wanna play, too.
I really wish their would be an anime within the same universe as Girls unds Panzer, but we get to see what the boys are up too.
@@thekrimsonchin6023 Possibly the Luftwaffe or the Kriegsmarine
Boys Und Luftwaffe
Boys Und Kriegsmarine
@@erichvondonitz5325 Boys und wunderwaffe
Whilst the girls are playing with tanks, the boys are playing with WMDs
@@erichvondonitz5325 there's girl versions of both those. Haifuri = teenage girls on WW2 warships, pretty fun
&
Strike Witches/Brave Witches = teenage girls with kneesock-airplane-engines that fight aliens, also pretty fun.
A nearly two hour video about the German Tiger and the story of panzers? I'm in! A fine example of a quality video and in-depth analysis on the topic.
39:13 My gods, the madmen actually did it! They drifted a tank!
With enough vodka anything is possible comrade!
I’d bet my money a BT could do a handbrake U-turn if it tried.
Frankly I knew most of this going in, but your presentation, wit, thoroughness, and history were so good, I stayed until the end. Nice video.
Mate, your Azur lane and now this is by far some of the best documentaries on TH-cam. Looking forward to the Enterprise video and any more after this (hopefully a video on best girl HMS Formidable👍🏻) keep up the good work on these.
*cough cough*
"ALARM! ALARM!"
"In Deckung!" (Get in Cover)
*Panzerlied intensifies*
*Erika intensifies*
*Sad Logistic Units noises*
*Sad mechanic noises*
Just binged watched Bismark, Akagai(SP?), Prinz Eugen and this one. You sir are a most captivating story teller and these deserve many many many more views than they currently have. I hope you are immensely proud of these. Had I been taught history like this at school I might have a history degree now. Thank you for keeping me amused for 7+ hours, I eagerly await the next installment!
Akagi
All I did was nod, grin and laugh at this. Driving wasn’t so bad because of listening to this. Well done! Loved it! Can’t wait to see what’s next ⚓️🛩
“God she’s great”
Let’s be real we all want a Yukari in our lives
That quick summary has me laughing harder than it reasonably should.
Okay, between this and your association with Lazerpig, consider me subscribed.
Besides all the horrors and atrocities of war and WW2 in particular, I must truly admit that I loved the last line of the video and that in sense the tiger and its history represents the story of germanys perspective of the war. Going in hard and motivated to only see the need to adapt and by that ultimately lose the initiative and go down, but not with one hell of a fight.
Great video.
I love the fact that girls und panza put in the stereotypical engine sound for each nation until you get to the Fin in Der Flim
You make learning history the most entertaining. I can't stop watching. But when "it's raining men," came on I lost it. Please make as much history and battle history videos as you want I will watch every single one. You have a fan in me for as long as this channel stays up. Be safe and long life. Thank you for what you do.
Absolutely Brilliant. My late Father fought with the Allies in Burma and the Far East in WW2. I was born in the German Rhineland at a British Army Hospital in the late 1950s while he served there during the Cold War. All I can say is that as now part of NATO thank God we now still have the Germans on our side.
when you click on some random, seemingly trashy anime essay (no offense, I clicked after all lol), only to be met by one of the best summaries on early war doctrine and theory I've come across on the internet that is outside of proper history literature. And let's be honest, there is way more deathly boring history literature compared to well written and paced works and I must say that this video surely falls into that latter camp. Well at least the starting 25mins or so, I've yet to go further today lol.
kudos either way, you've gained one more sub
You should watch his other documentaries, they are just as good
Absolutely love this documentary, better researched and more entertaining than the stuff you see on TV. I sincerely hope you do more tank documentaries in the future
Another superb documentary. A mixture of wit, facts and exciting narrative. I may have a few nit picks here and there but tis a minuscule complain to the overwhelming complexity of your creation. The build up of the story, the introduction of how the tiger came to be was essential to the overall story. The documentary gives a good balance of hard hitting fighting and some humor. The plight and desperate struggle of the russians against an enemy who is both fanatic and unrelenting. I adore how you add in criticism of how the operations happen, wherein the mistakes can be pin pointed and to give a sort of fish bowl view on why the Wehrmacht didnt stand a chance in winning. "heroism and galantry wins individual fights but they can never win the war" im paraphrasing but this struck me well. Job well done, you did the Tiger 1 justice. Looking forward to your future successes. But I do have one itch about it, you added sabaton and other fitting music but no panzerlied? That was a miss in my part
Oh that’s in it.
@@AnimarchyHistory I didnt notice it hmmmm, well only one way to find out, imma watch it again 🤣
Btw Animarchy don't forget that a person going by the name of Georg Bruchmuller aka Durchbruchmüller, was one of the people that came up with the idea of combined operations in which intense bombardments, lasting only a few hours, would stun the defenders just before attacking infantry could reach them.
It is 1:52:23?!
Damn! This is the single documentary that was engaging enough to make that time frame move almost instantly. And the best part? I also learned some things from this video!
Keep it up! The quality is high and great!
*Moving on to Bismarck now*
There is usually one thing not usually mentioned about Tiger units. They had short barreled 75mm Pz III M and N versions for anti infantry support.
The 21st PD in Normandy was rebuilding at the time and had an ad hoc of obsolete vehicles along with improvised tank destroyers devised by Major Becker from French chassis. It should have been considered at half strength at best to what it should have been.
Re the PzIII supports, the Germans did try that initially but abandoned it pretty quickly. I can't remember the reason why off the top of my head, but I think it might've been the logistical difficulties of maintaining two kinds of tank in the heavy battalions.
@@Splattle101 During the 1944 Warsaw Uprising they had Goliaths flanking Tigers to keep the Polish Home Army from swamping the vehicles
It's amazing to see how much you've improved since I last saw a video of yours. Keep it up, man.
18:12 i swear, i was listening to this while playing war thunder, when the ghost division played, german tanks came out of no where, they will never stop blitzing
@Xan913 THEY ARE THE PANZER ELITE, BORN TO COMPETE
Lmao
Caput was a pretty crazy anime about antrapamorthic girl assult rifles, mostly revolving around a human teacher in a girl/assult rifle academy for Nato small arms.
It strangely never had any Japanese SDF arms.
I think gate was pretty cool, it was well rounded and kind of drove home the ideals and tactics as ww1 started out without thinking about the new developments in machine guns, artillery, aircraft.
Its pretty much dungions and dragons getting wiped out by a modern millitary.
With all the problems the tiger has it makes me wonder how does Maho stay sane at all.
But in all seriousness great video man!
Just found this channel because of lazerpig. Love the history presentation here.
Heavy tanks are a GREAT idea. If you’re on the defense, have endless resources, and all the technical issues are fixed
Its a tool, you have to figure out how to use it. The breakout concept seemed to work, using the heavy tanks to punch a hole in the enemy lines and then using medium tanks to exploit the opening. This concept seems to depend on you being on the offensive though. None of this seems to fit with the modern battlefield.
@@jeffk464 In the modern day and age, the battlefield shifts so often and so quickly, your entire army needs to have borderline light tank speeds just to keep pace
27:24
Ghost Division
Song by Sabaton
Lyrics
Fast as the wind, the invasion has begun
Shaking the ground with the force of thousand guns
First in the line of fire
First into hostile land
Tanks leading the way
Leading the way
Charging the lines with the force of a furious storm
Fast as the lighting phantoms swarm
Two hundred miles at nightfall
Taken within a day
Thus earning their name
Earning the fame
They are the panzer elite, born to compete, never retreat (ghost division)
Living or dead, always ahead, fed by your dread
Always ahead, as the blitzkrieg rages on
Breaking morale with the the sound of blazing guns
First in the line of fire
First into hostile land
Tanks leading the way
Leading the way
Leaving a trail of destruction to a foreign land (waging war with conviction)
Massive assault made to serve the Nazi plan (Wehrmacht's pride, ghost division)
Communication's broken
Phantom's are far away
Thus earning their name
Earning the fame
They are the panzer elite, born to compete, never retreat (ghost division)
Living or dead, always ahead, fed by your dread
Pushing the frontline forth with a tremendous force (far ahead, breaks resistance)
Breaching the way for panzer corps (shows no fear, self-subsistent)
First in the line of fire
First into hostile land
Tanks leading the way
Claiming the fame
They are the panzer elite, born to compete, never retreat (ghost division)
Living or dead, always ahead, fed by your dread
Panzer elite, born to compete, never retreat (ghost division)
Living or dead, always ahead, fed by your dread
You can never go wrong with Sabaton, volume up, and raging in its AWESOMENESS.
Enjoyed the video, the commentary was both accurate and entertaining 🇦🇺
Meanwhile my boy Panzer IV., a pre war design, doing its duty from the 1.9.1939 to the 2.5.1945 and remaining an effectivew combat vehicle to the last day. Definitly one if not the best tank designs of WW2.
Also the last german victory of WW2 was the "Battle of Bautzen" at the eastern front in 1945 against a mainly polish force (a bit ironic). The germans successfully launched a counterattack reconquering the city of Bautzen and the sorrounding area, holding it to the end of the war.
The general view is that it was a local german vicotry, although Poland also claims it as one because their overall frontline wasnt breached, just pushed back.
Still despite different claims to who "won" (on the polish side mainly for pride reasons do to this beeing the biggest battle the polish army was part of since 1939 and a defeat, no matter how small, would be emberassing in April 45) this remains the last instance were german forces successfully assaulted and pushed back an enemy force while reconquering a sizeable territory.
Not every victory has to be part of the big famous offensives.
Edit: Tigers were not build in the Ruhr Area, they were build by Henschel, which was a hessian arms producer based in Kassel. The compounants came from all over germany, but final assembly was in Kassel. The final Tiger Tanks of the factory saw service in the defence of Kassel itself and were basically rushed by the engineers into service by sticking every pare part still lying around together to get some out last second. The final Tiger II. that was constructed by germany was one of these on the 4. April 1945
Germans should only produce pzIV s and nothing else
Can't wait for the Enterprise video. But I hope you can do a documentary about the other tanks used in Girls Und Panzer.
Damn, man. Awesome video. Especially the jokes. Both informative and entertaining.
Honestly who needs the history channel anymore, when there are ledgendary documentaries like this on TH-cam
Good god what a blast of a video man.the opening got me laughing
girls und panzer is literally the reason I learned all of my ww2 history.
Nice to see you back uploading👍
Relating to each level accomplishing their individual TASKS: 'No Captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.'-Nelson. To do with self-contained Divisions, Napolean did that with his Corps.
Your description of the tank German offensives we're spot on.
I love the cussing !
The "F@#K off huge " problem of broken down tanks was hilarious.
Please! More of the
"Problems with WAR" type of documentary!
Who is the speaker of this documentary?
This guy's a hoot !!!
Live on Britain!
Better documentary than History Channels
Which depresses me
The Tiger I's armor may be flat BUT MAHO ISN'T
So..... the Tiger I has Justice on it's side?
this channel is by far one of the weirder finds i've ever made:
- weirdly in detail amount of coverage on wars, past or current (with clearly defined biases that are mentioned often and shaded with sources, rumor, facts. better journalistic integrity then most media companies. amazing work mate.)
- far more memes, jokes and "is that a Wave song about the F16?! why?! i mean it slaps but WHY?" then i EVER expected. wth xD
- i.... i don't even know how to describe this video for the purpose here..
Shame most people will take one look at the hour long videos and move on..
I need everyone on youtube to see the final minutes of your video on Wagner.
pure comedy gold to cap off the perfect deepdive
Incredible story telling. well researched accurate history and perspectives, well timed humor and a sprinkling of cute anime. Truly unique presentations.
"Virtually impossible is not actually impossible" cracked me up
i probably already knew most of that but i still enjoyed the memes.
great edit
great research
great voice
great video
have a sub
Tiger 212: at least Maho didn’t want to repair my rear
Tiger 131: well my relationship with getting damaged has one difference and Ich don’t think YOU want to cross that line **shows hole under the barrel of the gun**
Tiger 212: **wimpers** ok
I am very impressed by Animarchys historic videos, as compared to others they are immensly detailed and also wide ranging. I am not so much impressed by the anime inserts, but life can be disappointing..... :-)
I know the anime isn't for everyone, however they have the benefit that people who are interested in the anime, will be drawn to learn about history. And I would like to think that storytelling and good quality allows for people who don't like anime to look past it and see the quality.
That said I will have a crack at doing a non anime related history documentary at some point. Most likely the Battle of Britain.
This hits a lot different after seeing Lazerpig's evisceration of Wittmann.
Michael Cove on Price of Empire said how well the German Soldiers fought masked how badly they made War. Thanks for another great doc. Love ww2 history since grade school, yea they taught this in school I’m that old, love your presentation.
18:50 - sorry, but you're misrepresenting what the org chart is showing. While it's true that there's only one line for armor (that being a brigade), that brigade has two regiments, each with two battalions, each with 5-6 companies. The closest in size is the infantry brigade. Although the armor didn't make up the bulk of the divison, it was still the largest component, at least according to your diagram.
That is true. However I wouldn’t say I’m misrepresenting it. When you factor in the same org charts from the USSR and UK, they have nothing but tanks for the most part.
@@AnimarchyHistory agreed. We do the same now, though. Our Armor and Mechanized Infantry Divisions (or rather their BDEs) were all combined in the late 20th Century and now they're combined at the BN level.
@@militant-otaku9795 Hooray for hyper-war am I right?
Am so excited for you to hit 100k. You deserve it. Just got done watching the 3 parts of your Enterprise series and loved it.
20:30 in the words of the Mighty Jingles "If it's stupid, but it works: it's not stupid."
this is most likly the only documentary comady I've ever liked
Somehow you made a 2 hour video about the Tiger as an anime person and only had the bare minimum Wehraboo and Comieboo.
Congrats!
"bare commieboo"? i am afraid what you consider bit commieboo
From what I've heard, five Shermans pummeling a Tiger would usually lead to the Tiger getting wrecked.
Also, apparently the Half Tracks Whittman engaged in that convoy, one of them was a medical Halftrack... which was very clearly marked.
You probably heard the whole "it takes x-amount of Shermans to kill a Tiger". It comes from the saying that the shermans had to almost sacrifice 4 shermans in order for the the fifth to get close enough to pen the armor from the front.
Even though im a mega Tiger fan, this would have been a straight up insane tactic in real life.
What's that cover of Blitzkrieg Bop you used? That shit is lit!
Great documentary from a very unexpected Channel. Most of no no German Big Tanks looks cool, but they were all not ready for combat operation. They should have stick to Spamming Pz III, Pz IV, Stug, and Open Top Tank destroyer like Nashorn to counter T-34 swarm. But of course just like "TIK" said, the Madman Retlih (reverse read it) wanted to make his wonder weapon ready to action.
The Tiger 1 has two cool One-time records attached to it that I think show how Awesome it really was. One Most hits on a single tank in a single battle where the tank retreats under its own power. Over one hundred hits from numerous enemy tanks and anti-tank guns and aircraft. Next longest period of time the tank was by all accounts Invulnerable, the crews having No Predation, the first month of its mass release on to the Russian front when the tank simply was unkillable. (This last may now be broke by the M1 Abrams and its Long-time record of No Tanks Lost In battle). Any one like reading I highly recommend the book "Tigers In The Mud" A first-hand account of a Tiger ace commander.
I think Carius gunner downed a IL-2 with their Tiger I. Just for the lolz.
1:16:30
see..... this.. this is the wierd shit that makes your channel so memorable.... that and you do ...straddle.. that nice line between high technical detail but also being able to make it very digestable
that and the memes... good god.
Thoroughly enjoyed your video....
Was that a bit of condescending shade thrown on TIK? 🧐
Pass given. Great content. Well done, Sir. 👍🏻
But is this really the case? 😏
1:42:24 Haha I remember in CoH tales of valor getting to play as a Tiger and destroying everything, missions 1 and 3 was awesome fun annihilating the brits at Villers Bocage with an ace crew and tiger (and running away in mission 2 when the Tiger was disabled which too was fun)
I dipped into this for 2 minutes and found errors. Can't spare the time to check it all.
- Henschel didn't want their Tiger hull to carry Porsche's turret as stated here. They were forced into it.
- The Henschel Tiger was not "ten tons heavier" than Porsche's candidate. They were of almost the same weight.
You're mistaken too, lol. The Turret was designed by Krupp, as ordered by the German government. They were considering separate parts of the order.
@@ThePTBRULES Yes, strictly speaking that is correct. The turret on Porsche's tank was actually a Krupp design.
Well, the first prototype from Porsche really adds another level of meaning to the term "internal combustion engine"...
I know the panzerkampfwagaon tiger had alot of problems but it's still my second favorite german tank by which my number 1 favorite tank is the panzer 4
30:11 The French army doesn't exist Marchy. It can't hurt you!
Seeing all these thumbnails I would give anything to see this guys search history.
*clicks on girls und panzer video*
2 hours later: time to play warthunder
Yes, as you say, the battle for Poland was a "Smack Down". However, a largely ignored outcome of that campaign was the German wounded / KIA. Poland gave Germany a right bloody nose. The poles did well all things considered AND the fact that they were invaded on two different fronts. Fact is, they did in reality, far better then the French and the British BEF one year later.
Indeed they did. The French and BEF were routed. And the BEF was allowed to leave via Duinkerken.
Designers: Technology rules, we should put everything into this monster!
Soldiers and mechanics: Fck, dude! Who the hell is gonna keep that running?!
Soviets: Lol, amateurs, if there is less stuff that breaks, more stuff keeps working!
except soviet stuff is crap and even if it is low tech it still breaks way more often. rule number one if you want good tanks dont build them with slave labor
Didn't think I was going to spend 2 hours but I did !👍Good stuff Cheers 😃
I love these documents thank you so much also the part about maho is so true
Excellent video chap. Eagerly awaiting your next video.
Personal favorite tank track (pun inteded), is "Deathchain - Panzer holocaust". Now there's song to do the Apocalypse Now -tank style.
Do remember Germany and the US also used versions of the infantry-cruiser tank two peat. The US had tanks viz infantry tanks, but they also had combat cars that belonged to the cavalry, those combat cars were light tanks, with tracks. Germany also had the two peat. The combination of their cruiser tank the Pz3 and their infantry tank the Pz4 was the tank force they were building towards when the war started.. about 2 years early. German and american infantry tanks were much more mobile than their british counterparts, but they were infantry tanks non-the less.
Also, france used the same combination of cruisers, the S35 and the infantry Char2B.
11:44 that dog 100% went deaf after yhat
Great documentary video, I like how you slowly build up the momentum on the situations and battles you presented, although your statement on germany lacking coal was incorrect. Germany had alot of coal and during that time they were the 2nd largest coal producer in the world. Coal was also used for their synthetic oil production at the end of the war albeit it minimally impacted the result. What germany lacked wasnt only rare metals but aluminium, there are documentations of german troops salvaging aluminum from crashed enemy bombers at the end of the war, and even scrapping every aluminum they could from tanks and planes ghey couldnt repair. They also lacked oil and by a large margin. Before operation barbarossa started, the chief of the logistics office compiled a report to hitler saying they only have enough oil and resources to mount a 3-4 month full scale assault until they would have to procure more oil sources.
I also find it good that you mentioned war of movement/maneuver. Blitzkrieg wasnt the term the Wehrmacht used to describe thier doctrine. The term only arised years later after the war when historians at the time referred to the fall as france as akin to a lightning war.
German tanks weren't superior in specifications to the allied counterparts, they were either matched or when it comes to the heavies, they were outgunned. What they do have is radios, most of the tanks had them equipped. The allied tanks had what you call a command tank, its usually the platoon commander giving orders to other tanks and them just having a receiver to carry out those orders. On the other hand, the german tanks all had radios and what they did was they would communicate while in combat with the enemy tanks to maneuver one or two tanks behind the enemy tank while one was drawing its fire. It was like a wolf pack systematically hunting down its prey. What they also realized that if you knock out the enemy command tank then the allied tanks will just drive around like chickens with their heads cut off. Thus they dealt with them swiftly and effectively.
After researching further, I realized I made a mistake. There was indeed a coal shortage in germany around 1943 onwards due to mismanagement and logistics issues. At the time, germany was indeed producing increasing volumes of coal each year but the transport operation to move it from mines to factories and other locations were either terrible or non existent. They had the coal but they couldnt use it. I apologize and im ratifying my comment.
Australian armour and Artillery museum in Cairns has approx 240 exhibits, reconstructed tiger, a gorgeous panther as well.
The tiger 1 is a breakthroungh tank as far as I can remember. Heavy tanks create the hole and the mediums are the ones that rush off into the sunset. Heavy tanks thus value armour and gun over speed. Thus the tiger 1 is a good tank at its time.
Your right the tiger is a breakthrough tank, generally heavy tanks are made for that thing on mind expect for others like the is-2 which did it role of killing the German armour
The best is your pronunciation of the "sturer Emil." 😂 That is really sweet..
The Wolfenstein Nazis goosestepping to the UwU rap is the perfect representation of Nazi furries. I just don't know if they'd approve or not, here's hoping not
What nazi furries? Wtf mate
1:50 I like how you used footage from Shumatsu no Izetta in this video.
I know this video is already quite old but still:
About the planning of Zitadelle:
The Wehrmacht did have plans in 1943 to act on the principle of strikes from the rear [backhandblows], but Hitler did not want this and instead wanted to act offensively on a small scale. See Kursk 1943 Roman Toeppel page 20
The plan for Unternehmen Zitadelle (i.e., the basic idea) came from Generaloberst Schmidt. See Kursk 1943 Roman Töppel page 23
Manstein still tried to convince the General Staff in March 1943 to eliminate the Kursk front arc already now. See Kursk 1943 Roman Toeppel page 24
The driving forces for Unternehmen Zitadelle were Heeresgruppen Mitte and Nord not Hitler, who was initially more inclined to Unternehmen "Panther". See Kursk 1943 Roman Toeppel page 28-29
The first postponement of the original attack date of 1 May (3rd May, later 5th) was made because Army Group Center did not yet see itself ready to attack. See Kursk 1943 Roman Töppel page 32-34
The postponement to 12 June 43 was done because of the consideration to increase the chances for success by having better forces available and to have enough time to build up sufficient forces in Italy. See Kursk 1943 Roman Töppel page 35
Defacto, except for a handful of generals, almost everyone was against the postponement of Citadel until June, but an attack in May could hardly have taken place anyway because of the weather. See Kursk 1943 Roman Toeppel page 36-37
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So it is quite more complicated. As always the russian had trendemous luck with the weather. Furthermore the germans made some blunders. In the southern pincer they had too few infantry division in the norht to much. Model which you named was not aggresive enough in the north. he even send a infantry division in the first wave of attack instead of a panzer one..... Kursk, from what i interpret out of Töppels book failed, because the norther Pincer failed. The SOuth would have probably been able to reach Kursk altough it would be questionable waht would have remained of tehir combat power.
The Soviet artillery attack on the German initial positions was hardly successful. Interference fire was fired but the losses were only minor. Almost all divisions of the first attack wave could nevertheless attack as planned, only one division in the south was delayed, but this by fighting on the ground. See Kursk 1943 Roman Töppel page 109-110
yeah and the soviet air and Artillery "coutnersuprise" attack.... didnt went good... as to be expected by the soviets
and with coutnerattack you mean the one of the 5th Guards tank army in the south? where the SS litrally slaughter them and the whole thing had few effect except deleting russian reserves? where the russian lost around 100 tanks and killed 3-4 Panzer IV? the more succesful coutnerattacks came when the iniative shifted and the russian began to push the germans back
the thumbnail played Magnus and i was very confused
great video
Lol. Still gets me with *British Music Halts as Doom Music Begins* "Not This Time. Time For Payback!" *Cue Tiger I rampage as American goes "Oh Fu-"*
Best summary of Germany in the 1930's I've ever heard
1:32:16 Sugar we’re going down is such a bop tho
Also FOB is the best
HERE WE GO!
One detail - Pz.38(t) is basically a light tank. It's original Czechoslovak designation is LT vz.38 which stands for Lehký Tank - Light tank. If it was designed as medium, its designation will be ST as for Střední Tank - Medium tank...
Fury with Doom music is pretty neat
Some say he's still working on the next GuP Doc to this day.
31:45
USA: "write that down, write that down! "