My father was a B-24 pilot and I believe this factory was a target he hit at least once or more. It was heavily defended by fighters. I distinctly recall him saying they were hit by scads of "yellow bellied 190s." The armor plating on the 190s was painted yellow to attract enemy fighters/bombers to shoot where their eyes was drawn to, their least vulnerable spots. Maybe the yellow markings were of other origins, but this was the word then with bomber crews.
The overhead crane shots are interesting. Such cranes are claimed to be the main reason why the Skoda factory continued to build only lighter AFVs, the cost and disruption from upgrading the cranes’ being judged too high.
There were lots of seemingly minor reasons like that. They would have had to stop production to rebuild the factories. Even if they had suitable buildings next door they still would have had to stop to move the machinery and tools.
During the course of the war, many Austrian and German workers were conscripted and replaced by foreign prisoners of war. In numerical order these were French, Italians, Greeks, Yugoslavs, Russians and, finally, 600 concentration camp inmates.
Das waren unsere Soldaten in der Gefangenschaft auch! Oder wo sie in den Rhein wiesen umgebracht wurden und verreckten! Es war leider Krieg auf das wir heute verzichten sollten! Krieg ist ein schmutziges Geschäft was unnötige Menschen leben kostet und Flucht und Migration steigen lässt so könnten alle Flüchtlinge zu Hause bleiben und das eigene Land aufbauen! Oder?
What this calls Porsche Tigers are surely Ferdinands designed by Porsche, and often upgraded/debugged to Elefants. Very distinct from Tigers due to no turret. Porsche's Tiger was a wild electric hybrid design that could cross rivers underwater. It was rejected, altho they recycled some Porsche turrets into regular Tigers. Porsche was called the nutty professor of military vehicle design. In WW1 he built petro-electric supply trains that climbed mountains without rails for instance.
those war production facilities images completely blow my mind how the fuck they were able to produce such monsters in no time under constant bombing, lack of materials, lack of energy, lack of fucking everything... 😦😦😦😦
Das Werk der Firma Engel ist direkt daneben und die großen Hallen vom Nibelungen Werk wurden un andere Produktions Stätten umgewandelt! Hier wurde der Diesel Motor für BMW PKW entwickelt auch Motoren für den Russischen GAZ Gelände PKW sind dort entstanden!
Porsche was never involved in building Tigers or any other tanks. Germany has several other companies building tanks. None of the images shown can be considered assembly line. The individual tanks were worked on by different workers with specific skills. The workers came to the tank and completed their tasks when it was their phase of the production. None of the images shown on this video can be considered assembly line. If anything the video images demonstrated a static manufacturing process where craftsmen and craftswomen came to the individual tank under construction when their skills were needed to complete their phase of the work. When it comes to mass manufacturing it was the Americans who invented and optimized mass production.
You have no Idea what you are talking about. Nibelungenwerke had advanved assembly lines. They even had underground tunnels to provide pressurerd air and water impervious through bombing
The British manufactured a half dozen Panthers for testing in England (the German manufactured examples were too full of holes to be good representations of the design).
@@sjoormen1 May be they found all necessary parts in the factory and it was easy ti produce them? I know that the Sowjets had displayed a lot of captured german vehicles at home. You can still find them in Moskau, Kubinka and some other places. But the russian propaganda was really weird: The Sowjets never showed their lease-lend tanks like the Shermans they had used in the battle of Berlin.
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My father was a B-24 pilot and I believe this factory was a target he hit at least once or more. It was heavily defended by fighters. I distinctly recall him saying they were hit by scads of "yellow bellied 190s." The armor plating on the 190s was painted yellow to attract enemy fighters/bombers to shoot where their eyes was drawn to, their least vulnerable spots. Maybe the yellow markings were of other origins, but this was the word then with bomber crews.
Von den 12 Hallen für die Produktion der Panzer stehen nur noch 4 Hallen. In den 3 Hallen werde Traktoren der Marke CaseIH Steyr hergestellt
The overhead crane shots are interesting. Such cranes are claimed to be the main reason why the Skoda factory continued to build only lighter AFVs, the cost and disruption from upgrading the cranes’ being judged too high.
There were lots of seemingly minor reasons like that. They would have had to stop production to rebuild the factories. Even if they had suitable buildings next door they still would have had to stop to move the machinery and tools.
Austrians are also germans like people from saxony or bavaria.
"Austrians are German hillbillies" a mate used to say.
Not anymore, to me they resemble the people from middle east or Africa.
@@philnelson940 ...very friendly, intelligent and skilled hillbillies, I like to add (as a Rhineland german).
That's a myth created in the mid 1800s.
They just left the German Confederation
German workers were amazing
no wonder Churchill wanted to get rid of them
During the course of the war, many Austrian and German workers were conscripted and replaced by foreign prisoners of war. In numerical order these were French, Italians, Greeks, Yugoslavs, Russians and, finally, 600 concentration camp inmates.
You mean German slaves
Das waren unsere Soldaten in der Gefangenschaft auch! Oder wo sie in den Rhein wiesen umgebracht wurden und verreckten! Es war leider Krieg auf das wir heute verzichten sollten! Krieg ist ein schmutziges Geschäft was unnötige Menschen leben kostet und Flucht und Migration steigen lässt so könnten alle Flüchtlinge zu Hause bleiben und das eigene Land aufbauen! Oder?
German workers? You mean forced labourers mainly from outside Germany!
What this calls Porsche Tigers are surely Ferdinands designed by Porsche, and often upgraded/debugged to Elefants. Very distinct from Tigers due to no turret. Porsche's Tiger was a wild electric hybrid design that could cross rivers underwater. It was rejected, altho they recycled some Porsche turrets into regular Tigers. Porsche was called the nutty professor of military vehicle design. In WW1 he built petro-electric supply trains that climbed mountains without rails for instance.
I think that part of this plant is now Engel which is a manufacturing plant building injection moulding machines
Very interesting information, and a lot of new pictures/video not seen before!
Nibelungenwerk St. Valentin Daimler Puch AG MAN Nürnberg Henschel und Sohn Kassel ... ❤
Imagine going to war with artisanal made tanks instead of assembly line tanks.
SUPERB FILM.
those war production facilities images completely blow my mind how the fuck they were able to produce such monsters in no time under constant bombing, lack of materials, lack of energy, lack of fucking everything... 😦😦😦😦
When you are a fanatic, you can do amazing things.
Only 8000 men to build a huge amount of tanks.
An awesome place.. like to know what remains of It nowadays..
Interesting! Thanks!
Great historical video. Thanks for the info
How do you replace the US Engrish subtitles with English?
Very good video.
Thanks for the video!!!
Excelent, thank you
Super film, and I guess the narration is correct as it comes from Wikipedia 🙂
Wikipedia tells not always the truth.
Interesting.
Thank you.
Very cool
AI commentary is very flat
Awesome
Es war keine Anektion.
Hi quality product , with 90 day life cycle,
Das Werk der Firma Engel ist direkt daneben und die großen Hallen vom Nibelungen Werk wurden un andere Produktions Stätten umgewandelt! Hier wurde der Diesel Motor für BMW PKW entwickelt auch Motoren für den Russischen GAZ Gelände PKW sind dort entstanden!
Amazing
Excellent robovoice you allmost convinced me... n o t 🤯
Porsche was never involved in building Tigers or any other tanks. Germany has several other companies building tanks. None of the images shown can be considered assembly line. The individual tanks were worked on by different workers with specific skills. The workers came to the tank and completed their tasks when it was their phase of the production. None of the images shown on this video can be considered assembly line. If anything the video images demonstrated a static manufacturing process where craftsmen and craftswomen came to the individual tank under construction when their skills were needed to complete their phase of the work. When it comes to mass manufacturing it was the Americans who invented and optimized mass production.
Are you daft? Where do you think Elephants came from? From Porsche submission to future Tiger competition....
Auch Porsche hat beim Panzerbau mit gemischt und das Fahrwerk und den Antrieb dafür mit entwickelt!
You have no Idea what you are talking about. Nibelungenwerke had advanved assembly lines. They even had underground tunnels to provide pressurerd air and water impervious through bombing
Ah yes slave labor craftsman.... gtfo outta here
source: I made it the fuck up
Did not know that the Sowjets made some new Panzer IV for their victory parade 😊
The British manufactured a half dozen Panthers for testing in England (the German manufactured examples were too full of holes to be good representations of the design).
Especially as the parade was held the next month. I never noticed any german tank on the film showing that parade.
Das waren für die damalige Zeit die besten Panzer auf der Welt leider keine Dieselmotoren und unter Motorisiert für das große Gewicht!
@@willyholzwurm3076 Not true. Centurion was much better. Even T-44 was as good if not better.
@@sjoormen1 May be they found all necessary parts in the factory and it was easy ti produce them? I know that the Sowjets had displayed a lot of captured german vehicles at home. You can still find them in Moskau, Kubinka and some other places. But the russian propaganda was really weird: The Sowjets never showed their lease-lend tanks like the Shermans they had used in the battle of Berlin.
You lost me straight after you used the N Word. Next time use the word German !!
15th AF Italy
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National socialist tank factory.
yes, but this was only in the years 39-45. then everything magically diseapeard en germans were reborn lol