Yes, probably the most important German invention, that helped the allies to beat the Germans! After the British troops in North Africa luckily came over a few of them and realized its potential. On D-day all allied armies had them :)
@@Stegosaur7 They were invented in Germany during 1937, from what I can find. What makes you think it was made during WW1? Maybe a similar container they made around then?
This was the one I was looking for… Considering what the British had used to transport petrol/gasoline, the engineered design of the Wehrmacht-Einheitskanister.
@@enscroggs if i'm not mistaken, it was all teenagers, being instructed on how to dig foxholes and charge tanks with the lunge mine. ironically, it was famously ineffective against american tanks.
Regarding "reliability and durability issues" with the STG44: they went into production at a time when Germany was already dealing with critical shortages of various minerals and metals and needed to produce the guns as quickly and cheaply as possible with the resources at hand - they weren't built to last indefinitely. Having said that, they were widely used by North Vietnamese forces in the 1960's and 70's and even today can still be found in use in conflict zones from Ukraine to Syria and beyond - so they couldn't have been THAT unreliable.
Like was pointed out, a lot of the unreliability issues came from the initial means of production. So I imagine that, over time, during the post-war period as the firearms wound up in other hands, any subpar parts probably got replaced by better-machined parts. The NVA was especially good about refurbishing older weapons for use.
Most of these claims come from a biased US assesment that had little to do with reality and were in fact mostly bullshit because the brass stubbornly refused to belive anything is better than a 306 self loader. In their minds if the infantryman cant shoot 600 yards (and use the gun as a crowbar), the round is underpowered therefore "gun is bad". The realiability issues came from post war mags that were poorly made and somehow this info falsly trickled back to ww2. The STG is built like a tank thats why you see a crapton of them still firing in places like Syria.
@bobsyoruncle4583 don't even mention the AK-47. It has more in common mechanically with the M1 Garand. Also, the STG could've given them the idea, but that doesn't mean that the gun itself was good. Just like early tanks, they sucked, but they saw the potential
The German S-mine (abbreviation for shrapnel mine, splinter mine or spring mine) is missing from the list. It was developed by the Wehrmacht in the 1930s and the concept was adopted by all other warring parties.
@@augustuswayne9676 38-40km ist "dezent" entfernt von der 100km Grenze wo der Weltraum anfängt, selbst wenn man die amerikanische (falsche) Annahme zugrund legt der Weltraum würde bei 80km über dem Erdboden beginnen ist das alles noch weit von einander entfernt. Es war also "nur" die obere Stratosphäre.
Quick 1:1 translations for the German words used Nebelwurfgerät = Fog throwing machine Schnellnebelkerze = fast fog candle V2 Rocket is as he said a Vengeance Rocket but the German title is Vergeltungswaffe 2 = Vengeance weapon 2 STG 44 (abbreviated Sturmgewehr 44) = Storm rifle 44 MG 34/42 (abbreviated Maschinengewehr 34/42) = Machine gun 34/42 (Gewehr means both gun and rifle lol) Panzerfaust = Tank fist Panzerschreck = Tank fright/scare
sturmgewehr = Assaultrifle, To storm a position is called an assault, not a storm. Oder auf deutsch, Sturm lässt sich eher mit assault als mit Storm übersetzen, Storm bedeutet eher das Wetterphänomen als den "Sturm" des Infanteristen, man sagt ja auch nicht "Ich gewittere jetzt die Stellung des Feindes" aber ansonsten sind deine Übersetzungen sehr passend für unsere englischsprachigen Freunde ;)
@mirkoplanow1297 @mirkoplanow1297 Oh ik aber wie gesagt hab ich mir Mühe gegeben alles 1:1 zu übersetzten also wars geplant, dass es nich immer Sinn macht :3 danke für die Antwort tho hab so über das ,,Sturm" in Sturmgewehr nie nachgedacht
Gun = Schusswaffe Rifle = Gewehr Nicht alle Schusswaffen (Gun) sind Gewehre. Gun ist ein Sammelbegriff der auch Dinge wie Pistolen, Maschienenpistolen, sogar Schiffsgeschütze und weiteres umfasst. Gun means "Schusswaffe" not "Gewehr" (Rifle). While all Rifles are guns not all guns are rifles since stuff like Mps, Pistols, even Warshiparmaments are guns as well.
Now we are getting into the nitty gritty. If we want to translate "Gewehr" literally we would have to use "Armament", so any weapon. Even Pikes and Swords were called "Gewehr". A "Schussgewehr" with rifling is called "Büchse". Source: German Wikipedia.
- Jet Engine Airplanes. Because this is way too nuanced imo, the first jet engine would largely be attributed to Frank Whittle in 1930 i.e. Frank Whittle invented the jet engine, so you could say you were the first to develop and utilise it, but the invention already existed.
@@aflyingcowboy31 And it's also very controversial who actually had the first aircraft with a jet engine. The Gloster Meteor was deployed around the same time and was probably better than anything the Nazis had.
@@Nhkg17 The reason why people praised German jet engines is because it functioned well and had minimal design flaws. Compare to the Gloster Meteor that had areodynamic issues and problems while flying, literally 25% of the Gloster Meteor was lost to issues like that, not combat related.
@@ZeSpektrum It isnt about inventing, it's more about advancing the field. Take the MG42, the browning is a decent machine gun, yet the MG42 and German tactics leveled up the playing field, using the machine gun as a mobile infantry fighting unit. Same with Camo, while other armies had uniforms, the Germans implemented camo at a wider scale. Or what about the Stahl helm, literally all modern helmets are derived off that design, despite helmets already existing. All they did was level the field through efficiency and quality, just as is German culture.
I should note that the Panzerfaust did not use a rocket. It actually used a black-powder charge to propel the warhead. It was similar to a recoilless rifle.
Pass mal auf, Sportsfreund. It's "Schmitt" because "Schmit" as a name doesn't exist. At least I never saw "Schmit" anywhere else - correct me if I'm wrong though, Danke im Voraus! Also, the "i" in "Schmit" is a long vocal. The double "t" makes the "i" in "Schmitt" a short vocal because of the German pronouncination. Why is that? I can't tell, all of us knew it from birth, just like the Spanish already knowing if something ends with an "a" or "o". -Corrected- nerded by a fellow German🤓 Sonst einen schönen und erholsamen Tag noch👍
There is another character in the German lore and his name is Fritz such a “Hans did you bring the panzerfaust” “ nine Fritz I brought dast panzer division”
14:45 Finnish soldiers in front of a destroyed Soviet tank. Clearly to identify as Finnish as one has the Finnish Suomi KP/-31 submachinegun. Also you can see the Finnish collar patch.
The Germans definitely get credit for the "universal" machine gun concept, however, the concept of a quick change barrel should probably go to the Czechs with the ZB 26.
Exactly, it is the concept of a GPMG that Germans should be given credit for (they even tried it in WW1 with the MG-08/15 and 08/18). But the barrel change was out there long before.
@@cmarkn Yep... The Germans had a different concept. We used auto cannons for this purpose. And here, in the short video that shows the British during weapons tests in 1945, it quickly becomes clear why the Wehrmacht simply had more interest in auto cannons... th-cam.com/video/91LUxqn1QY0/w-d-xo.html
When the Army requirement for a light rifle was released in 1940, it included selective-fire capability. For some reason* that feature was dropped from the requirement, leaving the M1 Carbine semi-auto only. If it had been retained we would likely consider it to be the first assault rifle. Later, the full-auto requirement was restored in the M2 Carbine. Since Winchester designed the weapon that became the M1 to be fully-auto-capable, existing M1s could be covered to M2 status with just a few parts and a slight modification to the stock. The M2 was designed primarily for the Pacific where sudden banzai charges were very dangerous to U.S. ground forces. Having more firepower could only help. Unfortunately, the changeover to the M2 was a little slow. A few were used on Okinawa. Fortunately, the war ended before the need for millions of M2s critical. *I don't know the exact reason why the select-fire feature was dropped, but I suspect it was a training issue. The Army wanted a weapon for soldiers whose job didn't include carrying a battle rifle that gave them more firepower and longer range than the M1911 pistol. Furthermore, it needed to be light in weight, easy to operate, and reasonably accurate. The weight would mean learning to control the weapon on full-auto would require much more training time, which would necessarily reduce the soldier's training time on his primary job, so bye-bye full-auto rock-n-roll. The StG-44 is really heavy, 40% more than an M-16. Even the original AKM is lighter by more than two pounds. The weight seems burdensome, but it made the gun more controllable and easier to train on.
I mean of course AKM and ALSO like of course M16 is lighter then StG44 sadly it is actually not even the first Assault rifle Mkb42 was introduced year earlier
Military training is pipelined. To add another week of training means just adding a bit more barracks to hold that many more trainees, and adding a few more instructors to the cadre pool. Whether it takes 14 weeks or 15 weeks to train a radio operator is hardly material. More likely, the reason was that giving them automatic weapons means having to supply them with more ammunition, and having them carry more ammunition, without an appreciable increase in enemy casualties or reduction in friendly losses, rather than making and delivering that same amount of ammunition to the infantrymen, combat engineers, etc. on the front line.
Love your videos. By the way, one time a fellow showed me an exact helmet that you're wearing. It was his grandfather's authentic beachmaster's helmet. It was in tough condition but so awesome.
Former German conscript here: Our German Panzerfaust 3 still embodies most of that idea about being disposable while keeping the expensive parts as well. Additionally you can even fire them out of confined spaces but we were told not to fire them out of a vehicle as that space is WAY too small... 😂 If I remember correctly the room fired out of should have a minimum volume of at least 10 or 12 cubic meters to be fired 'safely' (at least 360 or 430 cubic feet).... You got the cartridges with the warhead and a separate pretty small grab handle incl. the expensive optics. You combine both by a simple click mechanism. Then: Aim, shoot, dispose empty cartridge and click in a new cartridge, aim, shoot, dispose and click.... 😉
"I _know_ it's technically impossible to fire a _Panzerschreck_ from an enclosed position. Don't read the f*cking manual next time and you won't care so much!"
You left out the humble Jerry can, a method of transferring twenty litres (five gallons) of liquids so simple and practical it's still in use. A runner up for tape recording, which was practical until the early 2000's and still has its retro fans.
Fun thing about all this is that it's not any of the super-complicated wonder weapons that survived the war but the most simple designs that stuck and are still being produced today. One is the Stahlhelm with its ear flaps and brim that has been adapted in most current military helmet designs that was made from simple stamped sheet-metal. Then there was the jerry can (short for German canister) - lightweight, easy to carry, stackable and almost indestructible, a design so convincing that the Brits just copied it 1:1 - also a simple stamped sheet metal design. And third, the MG-42 whose barrel shroud was made from ... you guessed it, stamped sheet metal.
You forgot the most important and influential item. This item was invented by the Germans during the nazi era for military use and probably everyone reading this has held this item in his hands before. It’s the *drumroll* jerrycan
Good to see a TH-cam'r actually taking time to present factual information on their subject, instead of repeating the massive amount of wrong info floating around the internet. I'm not a reenactor, but I do know what sticklers they are for getting the details correct.
I think the Quick Change barrel was already a thing with the VZ 26 which became the BREN Gun. But I think the MG34 stands on this List as the beginning of the GPMG General Purpose Machine Gun Concept which is still in use today.
Stellar channel. Good stuff. On a side note. When you're in full kit you look like ' that guy' in every WW2 movie. Never a big name actor but always a solid member of the squad. Few lines but his actions speak louder than his words.
The first real attempt at what we today call an assault rifle, to my knowledge, was the Russian Fedorov Avtomat designed in 1913. Of course, it wasn't chambered in an intermediate cartridge but a full-sized rifle cartridge in the form of 6.5x50mmSR Arisaka and only 3200 were ever made. But it _was_ a fully automatic, short-recoil operated rifle fed from a removable 25-round box magazine, much like the modern ones we are all familiar with today.
You forget some of the most important things like nightvision (Vampir), triangular bearing over radiowaves for positioning of navy vessels (-> which leads to the concept of GPS)
Hey man love your channel I love how in depth you go with the gear and weapons the Army used. Are you ever going to that with the Marines? I love their dungarees and camouflage helmets
6:23 You could argue the first "Assault Rifle" that was designed and "used" (albeit in VERY limited numbers) was the Russian-designed Fedorov Avtomat. It was technically designed in WWI, but really wasn't used until the Winter War (USSR vs. Finland). To my knowledge, it was the first recorded instance of its usage. It featured a 25-round magazine that actually was reloaded using five-round clips, and using generally the same type of cartridge Russian bolt-action rifles used (technically 6.5 ARISAKA, but still a rifle round), but could be reloaded by its magazine. I guess the problem you run into with instances like this is: What is the difference between an "Automatic Rifle" and an "Assault Rifle". In addition, what its role was. For example, this weapon was used as a light machine gun, not in the role the STG 44 was used in, in fairness. I will agree that the STG 44 could be defined in this role considering it was the most adopted rifle of its kind up until this point, was purpose-designed for this role, and most well-known. But I think this could stir interesting conversations, so, you tell me.
I would say the difference between an automatic rifle and an assault rifle is that an assault rifle uses weaker ammo like 8mm kurz in the case of the StG 44 or 5.56 in most modern NATO assault rifles. This is why nowadays, rifles like the FAL or the the G3 are called battle rifles, since they pretty much have all the features of an assault rifle but use full size rifle ammo.
6.5mm Arisaka still regarded as full-powered cartridge. So, Fedorov Avtomat is more or less an Automatic Rifle that supported infantry like BAR or Chauchat. Hell, even during the war, Fedorov Avtomat was deployed like other Automatic Rifle
Using a full-size round makes it a battle rifle with selective fire. Few, if any of these types of rifles were successful at being a standard issue rifleman's weapon.
You could argue that 6.5mm Arisaka rounds... weren't that powerful either. There's a reason that the Japanese were actively replacing their rifles before and during WWII to fire 7.7 Arisaka instead of older cartridges, because they weren't powerful enough. This same problem occurred with Italian rifles, which almost exclusively used 6.5mm Carcano. To be fair, the Italian ammunition tended to be more rounded than others, typically bullets have a point to them, Carcano bullets didn't, but I digress. Now yes, 5.56 NATO is smaller still, but that is also considered a "rifle" round. It's technically more powerful, sure, but it really isn't as powerful as most other rifles during the war, and hell, even during WWI most factions still used more powerful cartridges. But I can definitely see why it was utilized as an LMG (Automatic Rifle).
It also helps that, in a way, the MG 42 is still in use by many militaries in the world (MG3, MG 42/58; MG 42/59, MG 53, so on), of course with some differences in calliber and designs, but the core of the machine remains the same
I’d vote for the jerry can. If you don’t have a liquid container that’s sturdy yet light, safe and also cheap to produce, you can’t support motorized operations. Most armies didn’t have this solved in early WWII and the German design was so good the British just adopted it 100%.
Let me engage my "ackchyually" mode: In 1932 Belgians customized their BAR to FN Model D which had quick change barrel setup, but in Czechoslovakia they applied it even earlier in their ZB 26 LMG (which evolved into Bren). One could argue that these solutions were even better than the German ones because they included a handle so soldiers wouldn't have to touch the overheated barrel directly. As for the old solutions still in use: the M2 Browning (developped in 1933) is one of the examples, in Brazil military police uses Madsen LMG (designed in 1902), but what's most surprising is that in Ukraine they still use some Maxim guns that were developped in XIX century! I know it is not their standard issue, but they utilize anything that works, and it clearly does.
Even though some were launched from planes, the V-1 was a pulse-jet powered missle, not a glide bomb. It was essentially the first of what is now referred to as a cruise mussle.
Germany added smoke dischargers to tanks in 1942, if you look at photos on the British MkVI light tank on 1936 you will see a smoke bomb thrower on either side of the turret.......
Like I mentioned in the video, Germany had smoke discharges before this one was used. Other countries did as well. But the design of this specific 1942 German discharger is most similar to the modern designs in my opinion
@@WorldWarWisdom and to add to this, the german smoke launchers were ignited electrically, while the british had to pull on ropes to fire them, that is the reason why some people think they strapped shortened rifles on the sides of their tanks(the british, not the germans). Before 1942, the smoke launchers were typically mounted on the back of the german tanks, right beneath or slightly under the exhaust pipes, but the "nebeltöpfe" which were mounted on the side plates of the turrets were introduced later. Maybe the reason for this modification in placement was that until 1941 the germans were on the offensive and smoke in front of your tank is not a good idea if you want to shoot at targets IN FRONT of you, the Smoke launchers on the back were better for the German tactic called "Bewegungskrieg", which means, fire, maneuvering, fire, manouvering, getting hard targets removed by artillery and/or Airplanes, like the Stuka. and no, Blitzkrieg was never mentioned by any german authorities, it is a completely fabricated word from the english press, which stuck. If you are on the defensive(like germany after 1941), a smoke launcher on the back does not give you any benefits, because if the enemy charges you with tanks, it is not a good idea to blind yourself backing away from the assault of the enemy. if you assault a position and drag smoke behind you, you blind the enemy, not yourself.
The Germans also pioneered the design of the fin-stabilised discarding-sabot round, though they used it for long ranged artillery rather than anti-armour purposes. It was part of their V3 project, intended to shell London; however, it was only ever used to shell Luxembourg...with less than satisfactory results.
List of German inventions in ww2 or decade prior to it is much longer: airplanes: modern radar, phase array radar, over the horizon radar, targeting by radar anti aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles winged bombs also TV guided/wire guided bombs first operational jet-powered fighter/bomber swept wings flying wing krüger flaps ejection seats helicopter revolver cannon - I think Russian revolver machine guns were before if submarines: magnetic / acoustic / magnetic-acoustic torpedo / mines passive sonar true submarine anechoic tile army: assault rifle general-purpose machine gun cage armor jerrycan night-vision science - to be used in war effort: malaria medication antibiotics performance drugs nerve agents computers did I miss something?
Off the top of my head: Flying Wings, Night Vision, ejection seats, computers, passive sonar, "True Submarines", Malarial Medication, and technically jet aircraft are all wrong
@@rexxmen Flying Wings - you are right Prandtl only calculated them, but did not build any. Ejection seats - He162 had the first ejection seat with gunpowder propulsion. He219 was the series first plane to have one, He280 was the first plane to have one. But the idea of was is older. Computers - Zuses computers were first with Turing's logic. You might not call them computers as they had electro-mechanical and not electric switches. Then what are Russian hydraulic computers? Passive sonar - I mean the array one and not one invented by Leonardo Da Vinci or even 2000 years before for listen the tunneling activities in China. "True Submarines" - Elektroboot (class XXI) was first to be used primarily below water. It was so good that even USA Nautilus was a modified XXI class with nuclear reactor! They had also one with closed cycle machine that could run totally submerged - Sweden later used similar types of submarines. Malarial Medication - at least synthetic ones, natural were known from 17/18th century Jet aircraft - Germany build first jet fighter and bomber and first jet airplane (HE 178 in 1930).
Well the original idea behind Werner von Brauns rockets is that he wanted to build a rocket that could reach space and eventually the moon Wich he did after the war with the Saturn V rocket that brought Apollo 11 up to the moon. He never intended to build weapons of war but he used it to finance his research
A member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS. If he was a man of principles he should not have involved himself in any aspect of the Nazi War Machine. But, he chose to design weapons of mass destruction that not only brought terror to the United Kingdom but saw the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of slave labourers.
Von Braun was a committed n4zi and a member of the S.S., he chose to build weapons of mass destruction that brought death to over 9000 civilians and which resulted in the deaths of 12000 slave labourers. You can’t sugar coat it. He chose to do what he did.
Post WW2 the Americans combined the German invention of the long range guide rocket, the Japanese invention of the long range submarine and their own inventions, nuclear power and the nuclear bomb.
Keep up the great work. If you decide to do another video like this, I think turbojets should be mentioned as Germany was the first country to field a jet fighter and jet bomber.
Honestly the v1 was more scary You would hear a rumbling jet sound getting louder and louder until it stopped when it dive bombed and then would explode
@@rexxmen 1. it wasnt 2. the gloster meteor aka the other jet at that time was junk and a ton of their losses are only from complications from the planes design/ performance
Why do you say "Von Brown", yes "Braun" translates to "Brown", but oddly enough "Braun" has the same pronunciation as "brawn", at least that is what I was taught in my university German classes and from when I lived in Germany. My Grundkur's Deutsche states this the same way as well. The quick change barrel was first mass produced and implemented with the Danish Madsen machine gun which was used extensively in WWI. The browning 50 calibre heavy machine gun also used a similar barrel change mechanism, the Japanese also had similar systems. Also one of the most important logistic item used by every single army in the world at some point and still in use by most armies to this day is the ubiquitous Jerry Can, the design was do good and so well engineered, that the design is still the same today.
@ but that’s the thing, The Fritz X was radio guided. Nobody uses that anymore, to my knowledge. This is also about technology still in use, not derivatives from it. Laser guided bombs were developed in the 60s in a different environment. Also, Radar and infrared guided bombs were already developed by the allies in 1944, independently from the Fritz X
@ I did not know about the Radar and Infrared guided bombs from the allies, that is interesting, however, the video is about German technology, and I still thought he would have at least mentioned it.
@ Yes but again, it’s about weapons, systems and concepts still in use. There aren’t any radio guided bombs around anymore, as laser guiding and other methods are more efficient and less prone to jamming.
During the spring of 1945, one of most feared German weapons was the Panzerfaust. Not only was the weapon feared but the people behind the weapon were, too. As a last ditch effort to slow the Allied advances into Germany, the Hitler youth were equipped with the Panzerfaust. Hiding in basements and other concealed locations, the Hitler youth were so dedicated to Hitler, they would ignore surrender declarations. Fanatical in their mission, a shot from a concealed Panzerfaust operator could disable or destroy an Allied vehicle. Often times, the only recourse for advancing Allied units was to eliminate the young German fanatics. Not wanting to kill the young troops, the Allies were left with no recourse when pleas to surrender did no good.
To expand on the guided rockets section, german guided weapons were actually quite varied and nearly every modern day guided weapon was tried out by the germans, tho most never saw combat. There was the Ruhrstahl X-4 and X-7 air-to-air and anti-tank missiles respectively, the V1 bomb (cruise missile by definition), Fritz-X guided bomb, and wasserfall (and a few other designs) surface-to-air missile.
Small point about the V2 having killed more of its producers than enemies: That numbers usually come from taking prisoners killed in Mittelwerk, where the V2 was built, or its surrounding KZs. But: One has to consider that Mittelwerk also produced other stuff, like the V1 or planes, so that "killed by V2" number should take that into account. The V2 certainly had less "losses" than those other projects as it needed mostly quite skilled workers that werent easily replaceable and thus surely werent just killed on a whim. It might also be that a number of prisoners killed in the camps by allied bombings feeds into that number (that was certainly the case in Peenemünde). I am not trying to defend the over all situation in which the V2 was produced and later used against civilians, but I think the statement "V2 killed more of its own than enemies " is wrong.
Great video, liked and subscribed. I just have one nitpick that drove me crazy. Von Braun's name is pronounced like you're saying Von "Brawn" not Von "Brown."
If you nitpick at least do it right. None of the English pronounciations are correct. The 'au' in Braun is kinda similar to the 'ow' sound in 'cow', and you need to completely drop the sound the 'w' makes. The way he pronounces it in the video is much closer to the proper way than whatever the fuck 'Brawn' works out to.
@@Semiba okay I really don't wanna come of as combative. But what's there to disagree? There is no proper English pronunciation, brawn is simply further away from the real pronunciation than brown. We don't shoddily translate English names into German and fight about what's the proper way to pronounce that name the 'german way' we either say it right or make due with shoddy ways. But nitpicking and then trying to correct to a pronunciation that's further from the correct one (in the native language) makes no sense to me
Because the Jet is arguably not a German design pushed by the Germans, the UK had the first jet and were pushing pretty hard to get it working during the war, with arguably a time contest due to the Meteor fighters (vampire being slow to get going until after the war really, though having a single engine).
@@mitchverr9330 they did not...what are you talking about. The first jet even the first blueprints for them were german. They started working on those long before ww2?
@@WhyWouldYouCareYT You... do know that the first jet engine was made by Frank Whittle in his shed, right? The Germans were the first to make a flying aircraft with a jet engine, however the german design would prove to be a dead end design, pretty much everyone would use some variation on the british engine through the 40s and 50s, including the Russians based off an engine they got given and promised "not to make any military jets using it".
@@mitchverr9330 And the first "computer" is a zuse. Do you seriously want to tell me you dont know EXACTLY why the ridiculous things youre implying here are just that? The first jet is the Heinkel he 178. Not english this or that, not nothing.
@@WhyWouldYouCareYT Okay? And the brits went on to make their own at effectively the same time, lol. That the point, if the Germans never invented their own jet engine/plane, the UK was making their own, which they designed first anyway. So it isnt a german invention "still used today" is it?
Is that a USN Mark 2 on your desk? Can you do a video on knives? I found 2 of them in my grandfather’s shop after he died. I could only find limited information online.
Vehicle mounted Smoke Dischargers - At the very least the Brits had them on the Matilda I Quick Change Barrel - You know what a Bren gun is right? However, the MG 34 and 42 were highly influential as they were the first widely used GPMG. And like just about everyone else has said, you missed the Jerry can.
@@yamatokurusaki5790 the Puma May seem like a Tank but it is Not one. Like the name Sdkfz 234/2 clearly stats is it a "Sonderkraftfahrzeug" Modell 234. Its more a "Panzerspähwagen" with closer relation to Models Like the Sdkfz 221 and Sdkfz 222. And to Not give confusion about the meaning of the German Word "Panzerspähwagen", it means armored (Panzer/Gepanzert) reconecens Car while the full Name for German Tanks is "Panzerkampfwagen" (basicaly armored Battle Car/vehicle). PS. I don't want to sound mean, in principle your right that many consider it a Tank but officialy at least its Not one as far as my understanding goes
I think a good honerable mention would be the stahlhelm design or more like derivatives of it. I remember seeing an article long time ago giving the US army flak for using "nazi" helmets bc modern helmets tend to have a similar idea on flaring out mostly to the back of the head. The 1st as far as I can tell mass adopted helmet of that concept was the stahlhelm & it's a great design for a combat helmet hence many modern militaries using something of the similar concept.
British tanks had smoke dischargers in the 1930s. US Bazooka pre-dates German developments. Fedorov Avtomat (Russian) was used in WW1, and the US M1 Carbine was developed independently around the same time. MG34 and MG42 are valid enough in context. You left out the Jerry Can.
alot of people say the assault rifle didn't make a big difference but i beg to differ this massively changed squad based tactics before you needed two elements to operate offensively the assault rifle made these two roles interchangeable and offered ALOT of flexibility and in they're brief usage they saw massive success that otherwise might not have been possible i actually think if these had been used in the same numbers as a Kar this could have even been reflected strategically. im prolly wrong just the way i see it
I feel like the way the mg-42 gun cycles ammo is a more german invention than the barrel change as every machine guns since use the mg-42 feeding method
Jerry cans? Major miss. So good, they named it after the inventors. Logistics win wars.
I was about to say the same
Yes, probably the most important German invention, that helped the allies to beat the Germans! After the British troops in North Africa luckily came over a few of them and realized its potential. On D-day all allied armies had them :)
It was invented a few years before the beginning of the war, so strictly speaking it is not a WW2 invention.
they were invented in WW1
@@Stegosaur7 They were invented in Germany during 1937, from what I can find.
What makes you think it was made during WW1? Maybe a similar container they made around then?
And Jerry cans too :)
Jerry cans are, like, one of the best inventions humanity has ever seen. Never was life easier before😂🎉
This was the one I was looking for…
Considering what the British had used to transport petrol/gasoline, the engineered design of the Wehrmacht-Einheitskanister.
@@kjamison5951British special forces were well known to use captured jerry cans on long range patrols in the deserts of North Africa.
Gates of Hell enjoyer spotted 😎
they were invented in WW1
13:26 the use of the same clip is genuinely top tier comedic editing
When Japan surrendered the IJA was drilling teenage schoolgirls to use that pole grenade.
@@enscroggs"Asians are expendable" Me to my brother a few moments ago, also having Eastern Asian genes in the blood.
@@enscroggs if i'm not mistaken, it was all teenagers, being instructed on how to dig foxholes and charge tanks with the lunge mine. ironically, it was famously ineffective against american tanks.
Regarding "reliability and durability issues" with the STG44: they went into production at a time when Germany was already dealing with critical shortages of various minerals and metals and needed to produce the guns as quickly and cheaply as possible with the resources at hand - they weren't built to last indefinitely. Having said that, they were widely used by North Vietnamese forces in the 1960's and 70's and even today can still be found in use in conflict zones from Ukraine to Syria and beyond - so they couldn't have been THAT unreliable.
Like was pointed out, a lot of the unreliability issues came from the initial means of production. So I imagine that, over time, during the post-war period as the firearms wound up in other hands, any subpar parts probably got replaced by better-machined parts. The NVA was especially good about refurbishing older weapons for use.
Most of these claims come from a biased US assesment that had little to do with reality and were in fact mostly bullshit because the brass stubbornly refused to belive anything is better than a 306 self loader. In their minds if the infantryman cant shoot 600 yards (and use the gun as a crowbar), the round is underpowered therefore "gun is bad". The realiability issues came from post war mags that were poorly made and somehow this info falsly trickled back to ww2. The STG is built like a tank thats why you see a crapton of them still firing in places like Syria.
If your choice is a terrible gun or no gun, what are you gonna pick?
@@skyraider87 yes, that's why it's generally considered to be the most influential small arm of the 20th century - because it was so terrible.
@bobsyoruncle4583 don't even mention the AK-47. It has more in common mechanically with the M1 Garand. Also, the STG could've given them the idea, but that doesn't mean that the gun itself was good. Just like early tanks, they sucked, but they saw the potential
V1 was more like a cruise missile than glide bomb
The German S-mine (abbreviation for shrapnel mine, splinter mine or spring mine) is missing from the list. It was developed by the Wehrmacht in the 1930s and the concept was adopted by all other warring parties.
Some anti tank / anti vehicle mine patterns as well.
radio controlled bombs (fritz x). the list could go on
The V2 was also the first man made object that entered space.
i thought it was the Paris gun in WW1, or was that just the stratosphere or whatever.
@@Bmaxwellaz I think 🤔 you are right . But like you I'm not 💯 sure .
@@augustuswayne9676 38-40km ist "dezent" entfernt von der 100km Grenze wo der Weltraum anfängt, selbst wenn man die amerikanische (falsche) Annahme zugrund legt der Weltraum würde bei 80km über dem Erdboden beginnen ist das alles noch weit von einander entfernt.
Es war also "nur" die obere Stratosphäre.
Quick 1:1 translations for the German words used
Nebelwurfgerät = Fog throwing machine
Schnellnebelkerze = fast fog candle
V2 Rocket is as he said a Vengeance Rocket but the German title is Vergeltungswaffe 2 = Vengeance weapon 2
STG 44 (abbreviated Sturmgewehr 44) = Storm rifle 44
MG 34/42 (abbreviated Maschinengewehr 34/42) = Machine gun 34/42 (Gewehr means both gun and rifle lol)
Panzerfaust = Tank fist
Panzerschreck = Tank fright/scare
sturmgewehr = Assaultrifle, To storm a position is called an assault, not a storm. Oder auf deutsch, Sturm lässt sich eher mit assault als mit Storm übersetzen, Storm bedeutet eher das Wetterphänomen als den "Sturm" des Infanteristen, man sagt ja auch nicht "Ich gewittere jetzt die Stellung des Feindes" aber ansonsten sind deine Übersetzungen sehr passend für unsere englischsprachigen Freunde ;)
@mirkoplanow1297 @mirkoplanow1297 Oh ik aber wie gesagt hab ich mir Mühe gegeben alles 1:1 zu übersetzten also wars geplant, dass es nich immer Sinn macht :3
danke für die Antwort tho hab so über das ,,Sturm" in Sturmgewehr nie nachgedacht
@@Snapped_Femur Es kommt von Ansturm.
Gun = Schusswaffe
Rifle = Gewehr
Nicht alle Schusswaffen (Gun) sind Gewehre. Gun ist ein Sammelbegriff der auch Dinge wie Pistolen, Maschienenpistolen, sogar Schiffsgeschütze und weiteres umfasst.
Gun means "Schusswaffe" not "Gewehr" (Rifle). While all Rifles are guns not all guns are rifles since stuff like Mps, Pistols, even Warshiparmaments are guns as well.
Now we are getting into the nitty gritty. If we want to translate "Gewehr" literally we would have to use "Armament", so any weapon. Even Pikes and Swords were called "Gewehr". A "Schussgewehr" with rifling is called "Büchse". Source: German Wikipedia.
Love your great sense of humor and delivery. Keep it up it's great good show thanks
As a German, I missed some particular Inventions.
- Esbit Cookers for Military Ration Dishes.
- Jet Engine Airplanes.
- Modern Camo Patterns
- Jet Engine Airplanes.
Because this is way too nuanced imo, the first jet engine would largely be attributed to Frank Whittle in 1930 i.e. Frank Whittle invented the jet engine, so you could say you were the first to develop and utilise it, but the invention already existed.
@@aflyingcowboy31 And it's also very controversial who actually had the first aircraft with a jet engine. The Gloster Meteor was deployed around the same time and was probably better than anything the Nazis had.
@@Nhkg17 The reason why people praised German jet engines is because it functioned well and had minimal design flaws. Compare to the Gloster Meteor that had areodynamic issues and problems while flying, literally 25% of the Gloster Meteor was lost to issues like that, not combat related.
Expect Germans didn't invent "modern" camopatterns or personal stoves. Check your facts.
@@ZeSpektrum It isnt about inventing, it's more about advancing the field. Take the MG42, the browning is a decent machine gun, yet the MG42 and German tactics leveled up the playing field, using the machine gun as a mobile infantry fighting unit. Same with Camo, while other armies had uniforms, the Germans implemented camo at a wider scale. Or what about the Stahl helm, literally all modern helmets are derived off that design, despite helmets already existing.
All they did was level the field through efficiency and quality, just as is German culture.
I should note that the Panzerfaust did not use a rocket. It actually used a black-powder charge to propel the warhead. It was similar to a recoilless rifle.
Recoilless musket, as the barrel isn't rifled ;)
i'm missing the biggest Invention of all time .(in the field of logistics) .. the "jerrycan" ... der Einheitskanister for fuel and water
10:28 "Hey Hans?" "Ja?" "I need some support." *Places MG on shoulder.* "...I hate you Schmit."
Pass mal auf, Sportsfreund. It's "Schmitt" because "Schmit" as a name doesn't exist. At least I never saw "Schmit" anywhere else - correct me if I'm wrong though, Danke im Voraus!
Also, the "i" in "Schmit" is a long vocal. The double "t" makes the "i" in "Schmitt" a short vocal because of the German pronouncination. Why is that? I can't tell, all of us knew it from birth, just like the Spanish already knowing if something ends with an "a" or "o".
-Corrected- nerded by a fellow German🤓
Sonst einen schönen und erholsamen Tag noch👍
@@Better_Clean_Than_Green You'd rather find a Schmidt than a Schmitt. I've known a lot of the former, none of the latter.
There is another character in the German lore and his name is Fritz such a “Hans did you bring the panzerfaust” “ nine Fritz I brought dast panzer division”
14:45 Finnish soldiers in front of a destroyed Soviet tank. Clearly to identify as Finnish as one has the Finnish Suomi KP/-31 submachinegun. Also you can see the Finnish collar patch.
The Germans definitely get credit for the "universal" machine gun concept, however, the concept of a quick change barrel should probably go to the Czechs with the ZB 26.
Exactly, it is the concept of a GPMG that Germans should be given credit for (they even tried it in WW1 with the MG-08/15 and 08/18). But the barrel change was out there long before.
@@mo45327mg-8 is water cooled maxim
Mg15 is aircraft machine gun
Should they get credit for the universal use? The US was using the .50 cal Ma Deuce everywhere, for everything starting in 1918.
@cmarkn everywhere? You mean vehicles and tripods only?
@@cmarkn Yep... The Germans had a different concept. We used auto cannons for this purpose. And here, in the short video that shows the British during weapons tests in 1945, it quickly becomes clear why the Wehrmacht simply had more interest in auto cannons...
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When the Army requirement for a light rifle was released in 1940, it included selective-fire capability. For some reason* that feature was dropped from the requirement, leaving the M1 Carbine semi-auto only. If it had been retained we would likely consider it to be the first assault rifle. Later, the full-auto requirement was restored in the M2 Carbine. Since Winchester designed the weapon that became the M1 to be fully-auto-capable, existing M1s could be covered to M2 status with just a few parts and a slight modification to the stock. The M2 was designed primarily for the Pacific where sudden banzai charges were very dangerous to U.S. ground forces. Having more firepower could only help. Unfortunately, the changeover to the M2 was a little slow. A few were used on Okinawa. Fortunately, the war ended before the need for millions of M2s critical.
*I don't know the exact reason why the select-fire feature was dropped, but I suspect it was a training issue. The Army wanted a weapon for soldiers whose job didn't include carrying a battle rifle that gave them more firepower and longer range than the M1911 pistol. Furthermore, it needed to be light in weight, easy to operate, and reasonably accurate. The weight would mean learning to control the weapon on full-auto would require much more training time, which would necessarily reduce the soldier's training time on his primary job, so bye-bye full-auto rock-n-roll.
The StG-44 is really heavy, 40% more than an M-16. Even the original AKM is lighter by more than two pounds. The weight seems burdensome, but it made the gun more controllable and easier to train on.
I mean of course AKM and ALSO like of course M16 is lighter then StG44 sadly it is actually not even the first Assault rifle Mkb42 was introduced year earlier
Interestingly, like the AK47 its also still used by multiple militias and smaller armys.
Dude the STG44 fully loaded is over 11 pounds. Its 11 pounds 6 ounces. That is a monster of a rifle
Military training is pipelined. To add another week of training means just adding a bit more barracks to hold that many more trainees, and adding a few more instructors to the cadre pool. Whether it takes 14 weeks or 15 weeks to train a radio operator is hardly material.
More likely, the reason was that giving them automatic weapons means having to supply them with more ammunition, and having them carry more ammunition, without an appreciable increase in enemy casualties or reduction in friendly losses, rather than making and delivering that same amount of ammunition to the infantrymen, combat engineers, etc. on the front line.
The MG42 barrel change also meant the assistant gunner could change out the barrel without sitting up and exposing him to enemy fire.
Love your videos. By the way, one time a fellow showed me an exact helmet that you're wearing. It was his grandfather's authentic beachmaster's helmet. It was in tough condition but so awesome.
Man looks like he escaped 1944.
He is a reenactor. I see nothing wrong with him.
Yes he looks like one
There were also surface to anti-air rockets, and guided bombs.
Did'nt know you made longform content. Awesome video!
I wasn’t having a great day today. Thanks for making it better
Former German conscript here: Our German Panzerfaust 3 still embodies most of that idea about being disposable while keeping the expensive parts as well. Additionally you can even fire them out of confined spaces but we were told not to fire them out of a vehicle as that space is WAY too small... 😂 If I remember correctly the room fired out of should have a minimum volume of at least 10 or 12 cubic meters to be fired 'safely' (at least 360 or 430 cubic feet)....
You got the cartridges with the warhead and a separate pretty small grab handle incl. the expensive optics. You combine both by a simple click mechanism. Then: Aim, shoot, dispose empty cartridge and click in a new cartridge, aim, shoot, dispose and click.... 😉
"I _know_ it's technically impossible to fire a _Panzerschreck_ from an enclosed position. Don't read the f*cking manual next time and you won't care so much!"
I just realized that modern helmets are pretty similar to the german stalheim helmets
You left out the humble Jerry can, a method of transferring twenty litres (five gallons) of liquids so simple and practical it's still in use.
A runner up for tape recording, which was practical until the early 2000's and still has its retro fans.
Twenty liters, not forty. A liter is about a quart.
Twenty litres, not forty.
@@cmarkn thank you, corrected
Fun thing about all this is that it's not any of the super-complicated wonder weapons that survived the war but the most simple designs that stuck and are still being produced today. One is the Stahlhelm with its ear flaps and brim that has been adapted in most current military helmet designs that was made from simple stamped sheet-metal. Then there was the jerry can (short for German canister) - lightweight, easy to carry, stackable and almost indestructible, a design so convincing that the Brits just copied it 1:1 - also a simple stamped sheet metal design. And third, the MG-42 whose barrel shroud was made from ... you guessed it, stamped sheet metal.
the super complicated stuff needed more refinement that just wasn’t possible at the time you know because of the war
I swear I have that camera near the photo on the shelf
Honorable mention goes to the Jerry Can (Jerry because German), which still is the most convenient container to haul fuel with.
I may or may not that on my list for a part 2 video 👀
It was much better before the EPA ruined it by eliminating the second opening.
who else thinks World War Wisdom is the best?
history secretes is pretty good too I grew up watching him
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I think he would make a great German soldier cosplay
@@jamesdean9943 I think I should get a job and finally start reenacting, I got most of the kit, most.
@@jamesdean9943 he looks german as much he looks american
VIDEO IDEA! Make 30 to 45 minute videos reacting to war movies pointing out historical accuracys and inaccuracy along the way.
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Yes please ❤❤
W idea??? Cooking??
Yep that boy onto something
Yes
Almost every both ww1 and ww2 weapons are used in modern day battle nowadays because of its durability.
You forgot the most important and influential item. This item was invented by the Germans during the nazi era for military use and probably everyone reading this has held this item in his hands before. It’s the *drumroll* jerrycan
Awesome historical fact video, I hope you do the video that you want to on good before their time inventions.
Good to see a TH-cam'r actually taking time to present factual information on their subject, instead of repeating the massive amount of wrong info floating around the internet. I'm not a reenactor, but I do know what sticklers they are for getting the details correct.
I think the Quick Change barrel was already a thing with the VZ 26 which became the BREN Gun. But I think the MG34 stands on this List as the beginning of the GPMG General Purpose Machine Gun Concept which is still in use today.
It existed even before
Stellar channel. Good stuff.
On a side note. When you're in full kit you look like ' that guy' in every WW2 movie. Never a big name actor but always a solid member of the squad. Few lines but his actions speak louder than his words.
11:15
That guy's mischievous grin is just hilarious.
The first real attempt at what we today call an assault rifle, to my knowledge, was the Russian Fedorov Avtomat designed in 1913. Of course, it wasn't chambered in an intermediate cartridge but a full-sized rifle cartridge in the form of 6.5x50mmSR Arisaka and only 3200 were ever made. But it _was_ a fully automatic, short-recoil operated rifle fed from a removable 25-round box magazine, much like the modern ones we are all familiar with today.
It was a machine gun and was used like a machine gun. By that logic Japanese machine guns are assault rifles too
@@puenboy1 well, there was a mashine gun variant with a giant water cooled barrel, but the normal one had a normal barrel
@@martinhulin So a Lewis Gun with its water cooling removed is an assault rifle? So the Browning M1919 is an assault rifle?
@@puenboy1 a lewis gun is an air cooled lmg, look it also depends on how its designed, a fedorov avtomat has more simelariteas to an ar than to an mg
They did not create the smoke launchers. It’s been a thing.
Yep, they can be seen e.g. on early British cruisers like A13.
Great content. Subbed!
I am very surprised this young man has so few viewers. The videos and presentation are top notch. Thanks Mister!
Well, he insults Boomers for some reason.
You forget some of the most important things like nightvision (Vampir), triangular bearing over radiowaves for positioning of navy vessels (-> which leads to the concept of GPS)
"video about all the stuff germans put on their tanks" yeah the 200 or so small variations on the tiger tank would be a fun video
Hey man love your channel I love how in depth you go with the gear and weapons the Army used. Are you ever going to that with the Marines? I love their dungarees and camouflage helmets
5 minute in and i am already amazed how much topic you were able to cover. From minute details like operation paperclip and so on.
Stop glazing
6:23 You could argue the first "Assault Rifle" that was designed and "used" (albeit in VERY limited numbers) was the Russian-designed Fedorov Avtomat. It was technically designed in WWI, but really wasn't used until the Winter War (USSR vs. Finland). To my knowledge, it was the first recorded instance of its usage. It featured a 25-round magazine that actually was reloaded using five-round clips, and using generally the same type of cartridge Russian bolt-action rifles used (technically 6.5 ARISAKA, but still a rifle round), but could be reloaded by its magazine. I guess the problem you run into with instances like this is: What is the difference between an "Automatic Rifle" and an "Assault Rifle". In addition, what its role was. For example, this weapon was used as a light machine gun, not in the role the STG 44 was used in, in fairness. I will agree that the STG 44 could be defined in this role considering it was the most adopted rifle of its kind up until this point, was purpose-designed for this role, and most well-known. But I think this could stir interesting conversations, so, you tell me.
I would say the difference between an automatic rifle and an assault rifle is that an assault rifle uses weaker ammo like 8mm kurz in the case of the StG 44 or 5.56 in most modern NATO assault rifles. This is why nowadays, rifles like the FAL or the the G3 are called battle rifles, since they pretty much have all the features of an assault rifle but use full size rifle ammo.
6.5mm Arisaka still regarded as full-powered cartridge. So, Fedorov Avtomat is more or less an Automatic Rifle that supported infantry like BAR or Chauchat. Hell, even during the war, Fedorov Avtomat was deployed like other Automatic Rifle
Using a full-size round makes it a battle rifle with selective fire. Few, if any of these types of rifles were successful at being a standard issue rifleman's weapon.
The fedorov isnt an assault rifle. The cartridge is way too powerful
You could argue that 6.5mm Arisaka rounds... weren't that powerful either. There's a reason that the Japanese were actively replacing their rifles before and during WWII to fire 7.7 Arisaka instead of older cartridges, because they weren't powerful enough. This same problem occurred with Italian rifles, which almost exclusively used 6.5mm Carcano. To be fair, the Italian ammunition tended to be more rounded than others, typically bullets have a point to them, Carcano bullets didn't, but I digress. Now yes, 5.56 NATO is smaller still, but that is also considered a "rifle" round. It's technically more powerful, sure, but it really isn't as powerful as most other rifles during the war, and hell, even during WWI most factions still used more powerful cartridges. But I can definitely see why it was utilized as an LMG (Automatic Rifle).
It also helps that, in a way, the MG 42 is still in use by many militaries in the world (MG3, MG 42/58; MG 42/59, MG 53, so on), of course with some differences in calliber and designs, but the core of the machine remains the same
outstanding video, more of this please
Jerry Can: Aight imma head out
I’d vote for the jerry can. If you don’t have a liquid container that’s sturdy yet light, safe and also cheap to produce, you can’t support motorized operations. Most armies didn’t have this solved in early WWII and the German design was so good the British just adopted it 100%.
Let me engage my "ackchyually" mode:
In 1932 Belgians customized their BAR to FN Model D which had quick change barrel setup, but in Czechoslovakia they applied it even earlier in their ZB 26 LMG (which evolved into Bren). One could argue that these solutions were even better than the German ones because they included a handle so soldiers wouldn't have to touch the overheated barrel directly.
As for the old solutions still in use: the M2 Browning (developped in 1933) is one of the examples, in Brazil military police uses Madsen LMG (designed in 1902), but what's most surprising is that in Ukraine they still use some Maxim guns that were developped in XIX century! I know it is not their standard issue, but they utilize anything that works, and it clearly does.
Even though some were launched from planes, the V-1 was a pulse-jet powered missle, not a glide bomb. It was essentially the first of what is now referred to as a cruise mussle.
I got PTSD, as I see him changing the barrel without a glove
@@Tympson1 same
Thanks for the 5 in this video, I bet you could make a long video of more than a hour of German war invention.
Germany added smoke dischargers to tanks in 1942, if you look at photos on the British MkVI light tank on 1936 you will see a smoke bomb thrower on either side of the turret.......
Like I mentioned in the video, Germany had smoke discharges before this one was used. Other countries did as well. But the design of this specific 1942 German discharger is most similar to the modern designs in my opinion
@@WorldWarWisdom and to add to this, the german smoke launchers were ignited electrically, while the british had to pull on ropes to fire them, that is the reason why some people think they strapped shortened rifles on the sides of their tanks(the british, not the germans). Before 1942, the smoke launchers were typically mounted on the back of the german tanks, right beneath or slightly under the exhaust pipes, but the "nebeltöpfe" which were mounted on the side plates of the turrets were introduced later. Maybe the reason for this modification in placement was that until 1941 the germans were on the offensive and smoke in front of your tank is not a good idea if you want to shoot at targets IN FRONT of you, the Smoke launchers on the back were better for the German tactic called "Bewegungskrieg", which means, fire, maneuvering, fire, manouvering, getting hard targets removed by artillery and/or Airplanes, like the Stuka. and no, Blitzkrieg was never mentioned by any german authorities, it is a completely fabricated word from the english press, which stuck. If you are on the defensive(like germany after 1941), a smoke launcher on the back does not give you any benefits, because if the enemy charges you with tanks, it is not a good idea to blind yourself backing away from the assault of the enemy. if you assault a position and drag smoke behind you, you blind the enemy, not yourself.
There are similar smoke grenade launchers on some pre-war and WW2 British tanks.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure the British army was the first to use smoke grenade dischargers
The Germans also pioneered the design of the fin-stabilised discarding-sabot round, though they used it for long ranged artillery rather than anti-armour purposes. It was part of their V3 project, intended to shell London; however, it was only ever used to shell Luxembourg...with less than satisfactory results.
List of German inventions in ww2 or decade prior to it is much longer:
airplanes:
modern radar, phase array radar, over the horizon radar, targeting by radar
anti aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles
winged bombs also TV guided/wire guided bombs
first operational jet-powered fighter/bomber
swept wings
flying wing
krüger flaps
ejection seats
helicopter
revolver cannon - I think Russian revolver machine guns were before if
submarines:
magnetic / acoustic / magnetic-acoustic torpedo / mines
passive sonar
true submarine
anechoic tile
army:
assault rifle
general-purpose machine gun
cage armor
jerrycan
night-vision
science - to be used in war effort:
malaria medication
antibiotics
performance drugs
nerve agents
computers
did I miss something?
Off the top of my head: Flying Wings, Night Vision, ejection seats, computers, passive sonar, "True Submarines", Malarial Medication, and technically jet aircraft are all wrong
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Flying Wings - you are right Prandtl only calculated them, but did not build any.
Ejection seats - He162 had the first ejection seat with gunpowder propulsion. He219 was the series first plane to have one, He280 was the first plane to have one. But the idea of was is older.
Computers - Zuses computers were first with Turing's logic. You might not call them computers as they had electro-mechanical and not electric switches. Then what are Russian hydraulic computers?
Passive sonar - I mean the array one and not one invented by Leonardo Da Vinci or even 2000 years before for listen the tunneling activities in China.
"True Submarines" - Elektroboot (class XXI) was first to be used primarily below water. It was so good that even USA Nautilus was a modified XXI class with nuclear reactor! They had also one with closed cycle machine that could run totally submerged - Sweden later used similar types of submarines.
Malarial Medication - at least synthetic ones, natural were known from 17/18th century
Jet aircraft - Germany build first jet fighter and bomber and first jet airplane (HE 178 in 1930).
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Well the original idea behind Werner von Brauns rockets is that he wanted to build a rocket that could reach space and eventually the moon Wich he did after the war with the Saturn V rocket that brought Apollo 11 up to the moon. He never intended to build weapons of war but he used it to finance his research
A member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS. If he was a man of principles he should not have involved himself in any aspect of the Nazi War Machine. But, he chose to design weapons of mass destruction that not only brought terror to the United Kingdom but saw the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of slave labourers.
Von Braun was a committed n4zi and a member of the S.S., he chose to build weapons of mass destruction that brought death to over 9000 civilians and which resulted in the deaths of 12000 slave labourers. You can’t sugar coat it. He chose to do what he did.
Wernher* von Braun was an SS officer and willfully accepted slaves to be used for building his rockets.
@einundsiebenziger5488 well yes as cheap labor force
Post WW2 the Americans combined the German invention of the long range guide rocket, the Japanese invention of the long range submarine and their own inventions, nuclear power and the nuclear bomb.
Keep up the great work. If you decide to do another video like this, I think turbojets should be mentioned as Germany was the first country to field a jet fighter and jet bomber.
Honestly the v1 was more scary
You would hear a rumbling jet sound getting louder and louder until it stopped when it dive bombed and then would explode
We dont talk about the ME-262?
The 262 was junk. And the US and UK had jets in service at the same time
Meteor and Vampire say hello.
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You smug little prick. UK needs punishment.
@@rexxmen 1. it wasnt 2. the gloster meteor aka the other jet at that time was junk and a ton of their losses are only from complications from the planes design/ performance
@@mitchverr9330 the meteor was shit
and the vampires introduction was post war lol
This guy reminds me of pre-Captain America Steve Rogers.
Please do a video on starting reenacting
Why do you say "Von Brown", yes "Braun" translates to "Brown", but oddly enough "Braun" has the same pronunciation as "brawn", at least that is what I was taught in my university German classes and from when I lived in Germany. My Grundkur's Deutsche states this the same way as well.
The quick change barrel was first mass produced and implemented with the Danish Madsen machine gun which was used extensively in WWI. The browning 50 calibre heavy machine gun also used a similar barrel change mechanism, the Japanese also had similar systems.
Also one of the most important logistic item used by every single army in the world at some point and still in use by most armies to this day is the ubiquitous Jerry Can, the design was do good and so well engineered, that the design is still the same today.
I am rather surprised that you did not mention the German radio-guided rocket bombs, such as the Fritz X.
Because theyre not used nowadays.
But they are, they do not use radios for manually guiding them, however, they are still used today, and to great affect.
@ but that’s the thing, The Fritz X was radio guided. Nobody uses that anymore, to my knowledge. This is also about technology still in use, not derivatives from it. Laser guided bombs were developed in the 60s in a different environment. Also, Radar and infrared guided bombs were already developed by the allies in 1944, independently from the Fritz X
@ I did not know about the Radar and Infrared guided bombs from the allies, that is interesting, however, the video is about German technology, and I still thought he would have at least mentioned it.
@ Yes but again, it’s about weapons, systems and concepts still in use. There aren’t any radio guided bombs around anymore, as laser guiding and other methods are more efficient and less prone to jamming.
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Dresden.
During the spring of 1945, one of most feared German weapons was the Panzerfaust. Not only was the weapon feared but the people behind the weapon were, too.
As a last ditch effort to slow the Allied advances into Germany, the Hitler youth were equipped with the Panzerfaust. Hiding in basements and other concealed locations, the Hitler youth were so dedicated to Hitler, they would ignore surrender declarations. Fanatical in their mission, a shot from a concealed Panzerfaust operator could disable or destroy an Allied vehicle.
Often times, the only recourse for advancing Allied units was to eliminate the young German fanatics. Not wanting to kill the young troops, the Allies were left with no recourse when pleas to surrender did no good.
The AK was considered a submachine gun by the Russians and was initially employed as one.
The V2 also cost more than the Manhattan project.
That was a good one!
well the germans couldnt just buy back einstein even if they paid him more than the americans
Funny to know, the american m16 was more inspired by the stg44 than the ak 47
The Jerry can IS crying on the corner...
To expand on the guided rockets section, german guided weapons were actually quite varied and nearly every modern day guided weapon was tried out by the germans, tho most never saw combat. There was the Ruhrstahl X-4 and X-7 air-to-air and anti-tank missiles respectively, the V1 bomb (cruise missile by definition), Fritz-X guided bomb, and wasserfall (and a few other designs) surface-to-air missile.
Could we see a short on that parka at some point?
Small point about the V2 having killed more of its producers than enemies:
That numbers usually come from taking prisoners killed in Mittelwerk, where the V2 was built, or its surrounding KZs.
But: One has to consider that Mittelwerk also produced other stuff, like the V1 or planes, so that "killed by V2" number should take that into account. The V2 certainly had less "losses" than those other projects as it needed mostly quite skilled workers that werent easily replaceable and thus surely werent just killed on a whim.
It might also be that a number of prisoners killed in the camps by allied bombings feeds into that number (that was certainly the case in Peenemünde).
I am not trying to defend the over all situation in which the V2 was produced and later used against civilians, but I think the statement "V2 killed more of its own than enemies " is wrong.
Great video, liked and subscribed. I just have one nitpick that drove me crazy. Von Braun's name is pronounced like you're saying Von "Brawn" not Von "Brown."
If you nitpick at least do it right. None of the English pronounciations are correct. The 'au' in Braun is kinda similar to the 'ow' sound in 'cow', and you need to completely drop the sound the 'w' makes. The way he pronounces it in the video is much closer to the proper way than whatever the fuck 'Brawn' works out to.
@agermangoose4797 I was referring to the English pronunciation, not the authentic German pronunciation. I don't expect him to be fluent in German.
@@Semiba and still brown is closer than brawn
@@agermangoose4797 gonna have to agree to disagree then.
@@Semiba okay I really don't wanna come of as combative. But what's there to disagree? There is no proper English pronunciation, brawn is simply further away from the real pronunciation than brown. We don't shoddily translate English names into German and fight about what's the proper way to pronounce that name the 'german way' we either say it right or make due with shoddy ways. But nitpicking and then trying to correct to a pronunciation that's further from the correct one (in the native language) makes no sense to me
That kraut space magic is something else
The Jet plane is for sure missing on this list far beyond at least most of these...
Because the Jet is arguably not a German design pushed by the Germans, the UK had the first jet and were pushing pretty hard to get it working during the war, with arguably a time contest due to the Meteor fighters (vampire being slow to get going until after the war really, though having a single engine).
@@mitchverr9330 they did not...what are you talking about. The first jet even the first blueprints for them were german. They started working on those long before ww2?
@@WhyWouldYouCareYT You... do know that the first jet engine was made by Frank Whittle in his shed, right?
The Germans were the first to make a flying aircraft with a jet engine, however the german design would prove to be a dead end design, pretty much everyone would use some variation on the british engine through the 40s and 50s, including the Russians based off an engine they got given and promised "not to make any military jets using it".
@@mitchverr9330 And the first "computer" is a zuse.
Do you seriously want to tell me you dont know EXACTLY why the ridiculous things youre implying here are just that? The first jet is the Heinkel he 178.
Not english this or that, not nothing.
@@WhyWouldYouCareYT Okay? And the brits went on to make their own at effectively the same time, lol. That the point, if the Germans never invented their own jet engine/plane, the UK was making their own, which they designed first anyway.
So it isnt a german invention "still used today" is it?
Is that a USN Mark 2 on your desk? Can you do a video on knives? I found 2 of them in my grandfather’s shop after he died. I could only find limited information online.
Vehicle mounted Smoke Dischargers - At the very least the Brits had them on the Matilda I
Quick Change Barrel - You know what a Bren gun is right? However, the MG 34 and 42 were highly influential as they were the first widely used GPMG.
And like just about everyone else has said, you missed the Jerry can.
What's that jacket you're wearing? I like those clasps, never seen them before.
11:55 Oh! So thats why they only used the MG 34 on the Tanks and not the MG 42. Interesting, thank you for that Info!
PS. Greatings from Germany 🇩🇪
Some vehicles did use Mg42
@yamatokurusaki5790 vehicles or Tanks? And the question with Tanks would be If for the Front gun or the one on the roof of some tanks
@@S.M.S-Dresden i can tell you at least one vehicle that's tank like and alot ppl would consider it an tank and that's Sdkf234/2 puma
@@yamatokurusaki5790 the Puma May seem like a Tank but it is Not one. Like the name Sdkfz 234/2 clearly stats is it a "Sonderkraftfahrzeug" Modell 234. Its more a "Panzerspähwagen" with closer relation to Models Like the Sdkfz 221 and Sdkfz 222. And to Not give confusion about the meaning of the German Word "Panzerspähwagen", it means armored (Panzer/Gepanzert) reconecens Car while the full Name for German Tanks is "Panzerkampfwagen" (basicaly armored Battle Car/vehicle).
PS. I don't want to sound mean, in principle your right that many consider it a Tank but officialy at least its Not one as far as my understanding goes
@@S.M.S-Dresden i know but some ppl consider it an tank ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i didn't said it was an tank if you could actually read
The smoke launchers would normally fire a grenade that would shower shrapnel everywhere
I think a good honerable mention would be the stahlhelm design or more like derivatives of it. I remember seeing an article long time ago giving the US army flak for using "nazi" helmets bc modern helmets tend to have a similar idea on flaring out mostly to the back of the head. The 1st as far as I can tell mass adopted helmet of that concept was the stahlhelm & it's a great design for a combat helmet hence many modern militaries using something of the similar concept.
Schnellnebelkerze translates to quick smoking grenade
It propanol was a lot faster than regular ones
The first Assault rifle the lever action Henry, load on Sunday fire all week
Thats a beautiful parka, what model is that?
That's a U.S. Navy rain jacket.
British tanks had smoke dischargers in the 1930s.
US Bazooka pre-dates German developments.
Fedorov Avtomat (Russian) was used in WW1, and the US M1 Carbine was developed independently around the same time.
MG34 and MG42 are valid enough in context.
You left out the Jerry Can.
The Neibellworfgereit 😂
alot of people say the assault rifle didn't make a big difference but i beg to differ this massively changed squad based tactics before you needed two elements to operate offensively the assault rifle made these two roles interchangeable and offered ALOT of flexibility and in they're brief usage they saw massive success that otherwise might not have been possible i actually think if these had been used in the same numbers as a Kar this could have even been reflected strategically. im prolly wrong just the way i see it
Bro forgot the Jerry can.
I just finished school and I saw this video posted 9 minutes ago 😂
13:50 I can literally see Shrek wielding it
2:20 Why does the Quick Smoke take up to 200 seconds to make all its smoke?
I think that He means that the quick smoke will create Smoke for 200 Seconds and Not that it needed 200 Seconds to Finish deploymend of the Smoke
He literally explains why in the following 10 seconds, its continuous from launch up to 200 seconds
............X-7 - first wire guided anti-tank rocket.........HS-293 D - television wire-guided anti-ship-missile...........goliath - wire-guided unmaned ground vehicle.......
Yeah, the X-7 really is missing.
Ladungsträger, gab es schon im ersten Weltkrieg. Eine Idee unserer französischen Freunde...
Fritz X the first guided (anti ship) bomb
@@martinhulin nobody uses radio guided bombs nowadays
@kamikazekalamari yes, but they still invented guided bombs and we still use those
Nah the AK47 isn’t a “copy” of the StG44 but it took many of its ideas and even was developer of the StG worked on the AK47.
I feel like the way the mg-42 gun cycles ammo is a more german invention than the barrel change as every machine guns since use the mg-42 feeding method
The US press has renamed semi-automatic rifles assault rifles.