1 of my oldest fam members was an anti Communist volunteer for the Wehrmact he was Norwegian. He spoke 3 languages including his own. He was in a Panzer Grenadier unit.
My father was in the Seige of Stalingrad and the Battle of Narva. My uncle was the same he became a prisoner of war by the Russians in 45 and released in 56. My father returned home with severe injuries.
Incredible attention to detail and excellent presentation again. I also like the clarity that the little wiggle brings. Great helpful innovation. Thanks
Thank you! Very glad to see that you also liked the wobbly wiggle things. I finally found something small which can point the viewer to what unit I'm talking about!
Exellent video!🖒Per Sörensen was known as,the best of the best,among the Danish volunteers.He was a former officer in the Royal Danish Army.He was also a veteran from the Freikorps Danmark unit in the Waffen-SS 1941-43.He was killed in action,in the battle of Berlin 1945.
You guys do an incredible job chronicling WWII battles; very informative and interesting. I hope you will chronicle my fathers last battle where the 551st Parachute Battalion ( temporarily attached to the 82nd Airbourne ) defeated Lt. COL. Joachim Pieper at Rochelinval Belgium on January 7th 1945.
Thanks! I'm happy to see that you enjoyed it! I'm planing to do more series in the line of this one and the Hurtgen campaign. I was thinking about a '82nd Airborne Division during the Battle of The Bulge' series myself, so yes, I do think I might feature your fathers last battle. I hope he survived?
THANK YOU ACE DESTROY. YOUR NARRATION SKILLS ARE BEYOND SUPERB !! AND AGAIN YOUR EXCELLENT GERMAN PRONUNCIATION SKILLS ARE AGAIN SUPERB !!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Excellent graphics, well chosen footage and clear narration - superb! I look forward to the rest of the series - and hope you don't fall victim to You tube's increasingly ridiculous censorship. Cheers.
The first time I heard of volunteer regiments on the german's side during 2nd world war, did the allies also have volunteer regiments? Anyways, it's a great documentary you made, detailed and very informative👍😁 keep up the good work Ace
Yes the allies used many volunteers such as Polish regiments and many other countries, atleast 17 countries were involved in the invasion of Normandy... Most of 'em from occupied countries... They were volunteering
You shouldn't be proud of people who collaborates with literall nazis. I will never understand Belgians, Ukrainians who are proud of their forefathers who fought with not against germans.
@@mixererunio1757 who said that I was proud of them? the reason why some Ukrainians are proud of their forefathers could be that for Ukraine communism was much worse than national socialism
It’s easy to be aggressive when you have alcohol or captured Pervatin to run on. And your Political Commissar is behind you waiting to shoot stragglers.
@@gutzzgutzz6795 You might want to read Sniper on the Eastern Front. Or watch the documentary on the use of Pervatin. While there may have been a policy restricting it, you could still get it through other channels. Such as having family members mail it to them. I watched an interview with a German officer that must have been made in the 1960’s. He stated on camera that in the fall of 1944 he was assigned to plan operations for his Panzer Corps part in Watch On The Rhine. Quote; we lived on coffee, cigarettes, and PERVATIN!!!
OOH YEASS!! NARVA, BABY!! bring on the Foreign Volunteers!! would love to have more content of the foreign volunteers and Osttruppen in the future :D :D
G'day, Well, as I heard it from my father in law, the Hungarian Air Farce Tailgunner, who was posted to the Luftwaffe in 1941 when Hungary trotted off to join in the great Operation BarbequeRussia - and they made of him a Fallschirmjaeger.... When they could, the brighter ones managed to sneak away from their units, hide in the Forests, wait till the wave of Shooting has passed through the immediate area, and then surrender to the fighting Infantry rather than waiting for the second-wave of Occupation Troops. Then, while everybody's drunk celebrating VE day, sneak off and run away, get accross a Neutral Border (from Hungary into Switzerland...) work there as a Lumberjack till in 1950 Britain starts importing EuroPeons as Labourers for Welsh Coal Mines - and in 1955 when Germans were permitted to travel then quit Coalmining to get work as a Flourmiller. Every one of them had a different story. The father of a school friend of mine, also Hungarian, hated Communists because Bela Kun's Government had put his father in a Camp as a Counter-Revolutionary, so he volunteered to be a Machine-Gunner in the back seat of a Stuka - for the thrill of shooting the Communists as they tried to bail out of the burning Tank his Pilot had just brewed up with a bomb, during the Climbout, hanging in his Straps. He was being railroaded to Siberia in 1946, for having fought against the Soviets, jumped off the Train, walked to India, married the daughter of a British Colonial Beaurocrat, and came to Oz to work on the Snowy Mountains Scheme. My General Studies teacher, Georges Szonyi, represented Hungary in the 1936 Oh-Limp-Dicks in Discus, Javelin, Heptathlon & Pentathlon...., in 1941 he, " Ven I vas your age I marched mit mein Horse (in an Artillery Regiment), from Berlin to visin 12 Km from Moscow... "Und zen I marched back again. It vas cold coming back. So cold zat I slept mit mein Horse, und ven mein Horse died, I cut it up und put it in my Pack, und zen I ATE mein Horse.... "Vat you know ? Vat haff you done ? "You haff bin novhere. You haff done nussink. You know nussink..., YOU Know SHIT...! "I am Australian by CHOICE..., You are only Australian by accident of birth...!" George Szonyi could speak 9 languages including Mandarin, & he could read & write 3 others - with Cantonese being one of those... He was licenced by both the Budapest & Sydney Musical Conservatoria to teach EVERY Instrument in the Philharmonic Orchestra except for the Violin... So, there's 3 Ostruppen stories - albeit all from Hungarians. A mate of mine emigrated to Oz at age 11, he's now 42..., discovered last year that his Grandfather was in the Dutch Viking SS - and he had never known of it until well after the old Hitlerite was long dead. He and his family were too ashamed of what he had done (for Adventure & for FUN !) to ever squeak of it to their next generation. So, there's a fourth. Such is Life, Have a good one. ;-p Ciao !
@@WarblesOnALot here is a fifth: my Granduncle was a Waffen SS NCO "fighting" old men and children in Yugoslavia. Even post-war he was a hardcore Nazi and not shy about his deeds (atrocities). When i asked him about Croat and Bosniaks in the Waffen SS he told me they were "worse than animals". Thus spoke the Animal!
I did see a documentary where Carius and a British tank soldier compared the Sherman to Tiger and both agreed that the Tiger was a big, clumsy, mechanically unreliable hunk of junk compared to Sherman. However... when asked which tank they'd prefer to fight in both said immediately "Tiger!" I think that speaks to how both German and Allied soldiers viewed the Sherman.
It’s a great story. I’d like it if you could maybe mention the unit of Tiger Ace Otto Carius and it’s battles at Narva, it would make a great mix with his book Tiger im Schlamm in the back of my head.
High respect for little Otto, however there was another little known Tiger Ace who scored higher than Carius. Can't think of his name right now but he was killed in the Easten Front. I'm sure Ace knows of him.
Thanks! Happy New Year to you too! Haha, well I largely feature the III. SS Panzer Korps front as that is the most featured in books, but there is still a lot out there to research.
Von Mellenthin remarked in his book Panzer Battles that one of the great strengths of the Red Army was that once it had established a bridgehead, all efforts to dislodge it would be in vain. I often wonder why The Germans left the Oranienbaum pocket/bridgehead in existence for so long, but perhaps all their efforts were previously unsuccessful. After all, Heeresgruppe Nord was the weakest of all the Heeres Gruppen.
They are boxes of Scho-ka-kola, a famous German chocolate brand. The boxes were often used in German military rations. I think they still use those circular boxes as packaging today. Here's their website: www.scho-ka-kola.de/homepage-english.html
It's a specialized trench plough, used by engineers. It looks like the trenches it creates, are futher digged out by a RAD unit (or HiWis or SS Frontarbeiter)
Well, they were more to the South East of Leningrad, near Wolchow. This series is more focused on the 3rd SS Panzer Corps which was to the north near the Gulf of Finland.
Very nice Intro this time! I assume you have the Front Diary Files of Armeegruppe Narwa as a Primary source for your Research. If not hit me up, this would be excellent Basis for future Narwa Parts :)
@@TheAceDestroyer www.dropbox.com/s/lzhlqennv4a2sim/KTB%20Armeeabteilung%20Narwa.pdf?dl=0 this should be a good read for you ( lot of german words i hope you can make your way through :D)
@@truekraut367 Excellent. There is a more complete version of the Kriegstagebuch available here wehrmacht.rindeleht.ee/ktb/1/1.html. Even more info and maps can be found here: www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/ArmeeAbteilung/ArmeeAbtNarwa-R.htm and here www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/KorpsSS/IIISSPzKorps-R.htm
The Danish freedom fighters asked the King fir his permission before volunteering to the German/European freedom fighting forces. The Danish king gave his approval. After the war the King didn' t want to know anyhing more of his approval and the Danish volunteered were arrested after their return home thus betrayed by their own King.
Thats right and All the papers from King and government"disappearred" after the war. Freicorr Denmark- Frikorps Danmark, Division Wiking, Sørensen was commander of reg.24 Dänemark last days in Berlin where he died, and get burried on a graveyard, after war hes parents brought hes corpus home and re burried in Viborg Denmark
I am amazed Germany could still move all these units with such low levels of fuel production and if I had been in charge of the German army I would have operated delaying tactics in the east while sending overwhelming infantry forces, planes and tanks to win in the west, then turn back to the east. The war in the west was lost as units advancing to the coast were torn to shreds by the allied air forces yet 900 fighter aircraft remained in Germany in the futile hope that bombing raids could be halted and hundreds more facing the Russians. I would have protected the Ruhr with a chunk of fighters and used the rest of the air force to defend divisions trying to get to Normandy. I feel not as much was done as was possible to stop the invasion.
@liebstandarte jagermeister - I agree and if Hitler had got his stupid face out the way the Generals would have done a lot better. Morally the Germans did not deserve to win but militarily they were hindered terribly by Hitler. One allied general once commented that Hitler's planning was the equivalent of giving 150 divisions to the allies!
@liebstandarte jagermeister You forget the millions of Russians, Romanians, Poles, Jews etc who served as slave labor in the rear to support the troops.
@John Beige the Fun part begins when you put one of them old ww2 mortars in to the fire ( never ever do or try to do this at home kids or anywhere else for that matter .its very , very dangerous and stupid thing to do ) .
Hi. To verify. The attack against the besiegers of Leningrad and the besiegers of the pocket, wasn't simultaneous. First the Leningrad struck, then the pocket struck. Is that right?
@@pancakes3250 I don't know the actual size difference in numbers. I just know that the Soviet Divisions had fewer men than the German ones. I think TIK has a video on that, or at least I recall him saying that in one of his videos.
@@TheAceDestroyer He did. I just couldnt compile it. To him soviet organization level is one size less than a german counter part. But is it organizationally one size less? Anyway i wanted to know. My thing is. The pocket front was held by 2 german luftwaffe divisions. They were hit by a shock army. So if soviet organization is one size less, by troop strength, then they were hit by just one core. Thats 3 divisions strong. So 2 divisions got hit by three. Since i dont know if a russian army organization level is just troop strength smaller but has all the organization and support of the normal army level, extra artillery and priority for other extra things over a core, i dont know how hard the hit was. The biggest problem, is this shock army, 200 tanks, broke 2 'rifle' divisions, but couldn't break a pioneer battalion. It is very unbelievable to me. Am i missing something? TIK explained luftwaffe ground forces was poor in quality, but i dont think they were worse than a single pio battalion. So, how did russians break 2 divisions on defense for long time, yet stalled on a rushed pioneer defending battalion? I am only assuming pioneers just got there. Thank you.
@@pancakes3250 Here's a great link to unit sizes. militaryhistoryvisualized.com/tag/division/ The German Infantry division had around 3000 men more (comparison from GER 1940 - USSR 1941) I must add that the sources regarding the SS usually try to speak more highly of these SS units. I believe the brunt fell mostly on the 9th Luftwaffe Division and that only a part fell on the Pioneers making them able to initially hold them back. The Shock army didn't have 200 tanks at the start. From the weeks leading up to the offensive up until the week after, 200 tanks were brought inside the pocket. These tanks, I imagine were distributed among various units and not used all at once in a joint operation.
Try to put some gripping war-sounding background music in your videos.. And also if you make live maps of the changing warfronts then it would be better for viewers to understand
The number of Dutch volunteers, within the Waffen SS was 22.000. During the battles at the eastern front, 4500 were killed ;over 6000 taken prisoner by the russians and from all remaning survivers around 1/3 stayed to live permanently in Germany after the war, most of them fearing the national anger in their home country. Almost all returning home, faced captivity by dutch military courts for some time. In general they were regarded as traitors and became outcasts , having great difficulty to pick up their lives. The amount of 25.000 volunteers on a population of 10 mio in 1940 , is about the same percentage volunteers as seen in Denmark and dutch speaking Belgium( Vlaanderen). Their reasons to join the WaffenSS were quite varied, but common factors were low education, unemployment , adventure seeking and of course for ideological reasons .
Drafted to the Waffen-SS only a few days after his 17th birthday, my uncle would end up dying less than three months after his conscription as radio operator in the 54th Signals Company under the 4th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Brigade "Netherlands" (4. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Brigade "Nederland") of the 3rd SS Panzer Corps, while the brigade was retreating towards Narva in the final January days of 1944. As he was German, it shows that the brigade was not only composed of Dutch and also not only of volunteers. Initially, my uncle was declared Missing in Action and my grandma was hoping for his return home for decades. In April 1945, even her nine-year-old son got killed while US troops advanced on my home village.
I saw TIK's Courland videos. This is great as it 'zooms in' to a more tactical level than TIK did. Thanks for doing this stuff. I don't imagine you can pay your mortgage with this niche content. Personally, I love it!
1942, '43 should have been the year the Germans organised, trained and equipped the nearly 500,000 assorted Hiwi's/Ostlegionaires such as the RLA, RONA, XV Cossack Corps etc given their severe manpower shortages and inability to man the entire front line in depth. Ironically the former commander of the 2nd Shock army and Deputy Volkhov Front commander Andrey Vlasov would have proved an invaluable resource had him and his 250,000 strong force been taken seriously before late 1944.
Note: for those of you who don't know the paratroopers were part of the German Airforce, unlike the troops of most other countries who assigned the Paras to the Army
I don't really do that for multiple reasons. The front line changed so much that it was very difficult to track the exact line from day to day. Also the front line at Gatsjina and other parts held by Wehrmacht units was difficult to trace. I didn't want to guess so I decided to leave it out and use the unit symbols instead.
My great grandfather fell there on 8th of June 1944 serving in the Nordland-Division, though he was native german.
He belonged to an elite Waffenbrüderschaft, one which inflicted 6 casualties upon the Bolsheviks for every casualty that they themselves suffered.
I recently have a Patient who was Tank Commander and member of the Nordland Division. He is native German AS well, but from czech Republik.
I fill never eat Lurpak again,😂
He was a brave man, then.
1 of my oldest fam members was an anti Communist volunteer for the Wehrmact he was Norwegian. He spoke 3 languages including his own. He was in a Panzer Grenadier unit.
Did he make it back home?
My father was in the Seige of Stalingrad and the Battle of Narva.
My uncle was the same he became a prisoner of war by the Russians in 45 and released in 56.
My father returned home with severe injuries.
What his name
@@avengernemesis7990 what his name
@@avengernemesis7990 Hail to your father and uncle
Incredible attention to detail and excellent presentation again. I also like the clarity that the little wiggle brings. Great helpful innovation. Thanks
Thank you! Very glad to see that you also liked the wobbly wiggle things. I finally found something small which can point the viewer to what unit I'm talking about!
If there is a way to make the wiggle a bit more visible, that would be great, but anyway, it's a very useful addition.
Exellent video!🖒Per Sörensen was known as,the best of the best,among the Danish volunteers.He was a former officer in the Royal Danish Army.He was also a veteran from the Freikorps Danmark unit in the Waffen-SS 1941-43.He was killed in action,in the battle of Berlin 1945.
Thanks! And thank you for the extra information!
You guys do an incredible job chronicling WWII battles; very informative and interesting.
I hope you will chronicle my fathers last battle where the 551st Parachute Battalion ( temporarily attached to the 82nd Airbourne ) defeated Lt. COL. Joachim Pieper at Rochelinval Belgium on January 7th 1945.
Thanks! I'm happy to see that you enjoyed it! I'm planing to do more series in the line of this one and the Hurtgen campaign. I was thinking about a '82nd Airborne Division during the Battle of The Bulge' series myself, so yes, I do think I might feature your fathers last battle. I hope he survived?
First-rate stuff, Ace, keep it coming. Fascinating to see Narva in detail!
THANK YOU ACE DESTROY. YOUR NARRATION SKILLS ARE BEYOND SUPERB !! AND AGAIN YOUR EXCELLENT GERMAN PRONUNCIATION SKILLS ARE AGAIN SUPERB !!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Great content as usual, your voice is very soothing and melodical!
@Andy FJK Thanks Andy, Happy to hear that!
@Clifton Brumbaugh Yeah, I really like Mr Felton's videos too! They're truly amazing!
@@TheAceDestroyer Yes, he is excellent. If you like naval history, Drachinifel is a real ninja. Check him out if you like.
Thanks! I will, but I must say I'm more into ground combat with tanks and infantry.
@@TheAceDestroyer ha ha me too
Спасибо за видео.Очень интересно.Живу в Санкт-Петербурге .очень интересно что происходило в те годы.
Excellent graphics, well chosen footage and clear narration - superb! I look forward to the rest of the series - and hope you don't fall victim to You tube's increasingly ridiculous censorship. Cheers.
Thanks! I'm very happy to hear that!
The level of detail is amazing! Love your videos! Keep it going!
Your editing is getting better. I appreciate the little wiggle animation to help indicate what units you're referring to.
Thanks! Yeah, I too found that quite an improvement over the normal motionless maps.
Big THANK YOU for this, Narwa battles are special to me.
here we go, great way to start the new year with another Acedestroyer video
Excellent video, perfect timing!!
I'm planning a wee diorama about Narva, Tannenberg Line, Orphanage Hill/Grenadier Hill....
Looking forward to see more! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻
Haven't started watching yet. But I know i am in for a treat from the Ace. Can't wait.
I really enjoy your historical videos, l can't wait for part two.
I'm thrilled to hear that! Happy to see that you enjoyed it!
The first time I heard of volunteer regiments on the german's side during 2nd world war, did the allies also have volunteer regiments? Anyways, it's a great documentary you made, detailed and very informative👍😁 keep up the good work Ace
Yes the allies used many volunteers such as Polish regiments and many other countries, atleast 17 countries were involved in the invasion of Normandy... Most of 'em from occupied countries... They were volunteering
Awesome! Always excited to see another video from you
Love your work Ace. Great history and great delivery. Cheers Don.
Great job yet again, can't wait for the 2nd part.
As usual Ace Destroyer,
Another fantastic documentary.
Thank you very much.
🙋♂️🐈🌞🙂😺
Another excellent highly detailed piece of rare historiography
thanks for this video, there is almost nothing about the danish volunteers( or danish legionnaire) on youtube
You shouldn't be proud of people who collaborates with literall nazis. I will never understand Belgians, Ukrainians who are proud of their forefathers who fought with not against germans.
@@mixererunio1757 they fighted against communism. Wich they thourght was worse.
fought * lol
@@mixererunio1757 who said that I was proud of them?
the reason why some Ukrainians are proud of their forefathers could be that for Ukraine communism was much worse than national socialism
Were they really volunteers? I know the baltic "volunteers" were conscripted, was it the same for the Danes
I like your videos. Historical accurate and smoothly to watch. Greetings from Germany
Thanks! I'm thrilled to hear that!
Great review! What a desperate battle.
In contrast to the Americans in your Hurtgen Forest series, one can't help but notice how aggressive the Soviets are on the offensive.
It’s easy to be aggressive when you have alcohol or captured Pervatin to run on. And your Political Commissar is behind you waiting to shoot stragglers.
Steve Wilson by 1944 they were not shooting people constantly! One a week maybe....
😉
Depends on what you consider aggressive.
It only took the Russians 4 years to go the same distance you can drive in less than 20 hours.
@@stevewilson4514 The wehrmacht stopped using Pervatin in the first few months of the war.
@@gutzzgutzz6795 You might want to read Sniper on the Eastern Front. Or watch the documentary on the use of Pervatin. While there may have been a policy restricting it, you could still get it through other channels. Such as having family members mail it to them.
I watched an interview with a German officer that must have been made in the 1960’s. He stated on camera that in the fall of 1944 he was assigned to plan operations for his Panzer Corps part in Watch On The Rhine. Quote; we lived on coffee, cigarettes, and PERVATIN!!!
Another great video. Great detail. 100K subs. soon.
Another great battle story.
I feel like I would be there.
Thanks for the great job.
The russians never oficially released the number of casualties, but more than 100,000 is estimated perished here. Great defensive victory
Lol no, the Americans never oficially released the number of casualties.
@@pomiklom2499 I dont get it?
The Germans never really appreciated how easily the allies could replenish their ranks.
The Russians won the demonic genocidal Slavic-germanic race war hands down. That's all the matters.
@@donaldsanver4744 pretty sure by 1944 they did.
OOH YEASS!! NARVA, BABY!! bring on the Foreign Volunteers!!
would love to have more content of the foreign volunteers and Osttruppen in the future :D :D
Well, I think it's going to be a four-part series, so three more episodes to go.
THIS IS NARVA, BABY! - Frank Wald
G'day,
Well, as I heard it from my father in law, the Hungarian Air Farce Tailgunner, who was posted to the Luftwaffe in 1941 when Hungary trotted off to join in the great Operation BarbequeRussia - and they made of him a Fallschirmjaeger....
When they could, the brighter ones managed to sneak away from their units, hide in the Forests, wait till the wave of Shooting has passed through the immediate area, and then surrender to the fighting Infantry rather than waiting for the second-wave of Occupation Troops.
Then, while everybody's drunk celebrating VE day, sneak off and run away, get accross a Neutral Border (from Hungary into Switzerland...) work there as a Lumberjack till in 1950 Britain starts importing EuroPeons as Labourers for Welsh Coal Mines - and in 1955 when Germans were permitted to travel then quit Coalmining to get work as a Flourmiller.
Every one of them had a different story.
The father of a school friend of mine, also Hungarian, hated Communists because Bela Kun's Government had put his father in a Camp as a Counter-Revolutionary, so he volunteered to be a Machine-Gunner in the back seat of a Stuka - for the thrill of shooting the Communists as they tried to bail out of the burning Tank his Pilot had just brewed up with a bomb, during the Climbout, hanging in his Straps.
He was being railroaded to Siberia in 1946, for having fought against the Soviets, jumped off the Train, walked to India, married the daughter of a British Colonial Beaurocrat, and came to Oz to work on the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
My General Studies teacher, Georges Szonyi, represented Hungary in the 1936 Oh-Limp-Dicks in Discus, Javelin, Heptathlon & Pentathlon...., in 1941 he,
" Ven I vas your age I marched mit mein Horse (in an Artillery Regiment), from Berlin to visin 12 Km from Moscow...
"Und zen I marched back again. It vas cold coming back. So cold zat I slept mit mein Horse, und ven mein Horse died, I cut it up und put it in my Pack, und zen I ATE mein Horse....
"Vat you know ? Vat haff you done ?
"You haff bin novhere. You haff done nussink. You know nussink..., YOU Know SHIT...!
"I am Australian by CHOICE..., You are only Australian by accident of birth...!"
George Szonyi could speak 9 languages including Mandarin, & he could read & write 3 others - with Cantonese being one of those... He was licenced by both the Budapest & Sydney Musical Conservatoria to teach EVERY Instrument in the Philharmonic Orchestra except for the Violin...
So, there's 3 Ostruppen stories - albeit all from Hungarians.
A mate of mine emigrated to Oz at age 11, he's now 42..., discovered last year that his Grandfather was in the Dutch Viking SS - and he had never known of it until well after the old Hitlerite was long dead.
He and his family were too ashamed of what he had done (for Adventure & for FUN !) to ever squeak of it to their next generation.
So, there's a fourth.
Such is Life,
Have a good one.
;-p
Ciao !
@@WarblesOnALot was this a Freudian mistake? "Hungarian Air Farce"
@@WarblesOnALot here is a fifth: my Granduncle was a Waffen SS NCO "fighting" old men and children in Yugoslavia. Even post-war he was a hardcore Nazi and not shy about his deeds (atrocities). When i asked him about Croat and Bosniaks in the Waffen SS he told me they were "worse than animals".
Thus spoke the Animal!
Love the opening music,
this is by far one of the best channels.
Happy New Year,
Cheers
Thanks! Happy New Year to you too!
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This prolonged battle should be called the Narva Meat Grinder.
Grindr…😂😂
love these videos , you can really envisage the fighting , thanks TAD
My pleasure! I'm happy to see that you enjoyed it!
First video watched as a subscriber , you're awesome !
Thanks! And, welcome to the channel!
I did see a documentary where Carius and a British tank soldier compared the Sherman to Tiger and both agreed that the Tiger was a big, clumsy, mechanically unreliable hunk of junk compared to Sherman. However... when asked which tank they'd prefer to fight in both said immediately "Tiger!" I think that speaks to how both German and Allied soldiers viewed the Sherman.
Keep up the good work you videos are better than some of documentaries
Thanks! I'm very pleased to hear that!
Excellent! Thank you.
It’s a great story. I’d like it if you could maybe mention the unit of Tiger Ace Otto Carius and it’s battles at Narva, it would make a great mix with his book Tiger im Schlamm in the back of my head.
I have him features in the second or third part, I should check my scripts. But, he'll certainly be featured!
Agreed. A remarkable story. And the Graf Strachwitz operations.
High respect for little Otto, however there was another little known Tiger Ace who scored higher than Carius. Can't think of his name right now but he was killed in the Easten Front. I'm sure Ace knows of him.
@@billcallahan9303 I believe you're referring to Kurt Knispel, I made a video about him a few years ago.
@@TheAceDestroyer Thank you Ace! That name always escapes me.
Love your commentaries!
I'm very happy to hear that!
Good comment thx, i can visual this batle in front of my eyes
Happy New Year to you. I will have to research this battle. You are ahead of me.The presentation is clean and well presented. Always a pleasure.
Thanks! Happy New Year to you too! Haha, well I largely feature the III. SS Panzer Korps front as that is the most featured in books, but there is still a lot out there to research.
Great video, very nice. You doing well to cover such battles.
Great start to a New Decade! NY Happy to you plus Interesting video¥ Cheers
Happy to hear that! Thanks and Happy New Year to you too!
Great video !
Peace to the fallen ...
Von Mellenthin remarked in his book Panzer Battles that one of the great strengths of the Red Army was that once it had established a bridgehead, all efforts to dislodge it would be in vain. I often wonder why The Germans left the Oranienbaum pocket/bridgehead in existence for so long, but perhaps all their efforts were previously unsuccessful.
After all, Heeresgruppe Nord was the weakest of all the Heeres Gruppen.
omg i have never even heard of this before, and i know a LOT about ww2
What were the discs being passed around at the 2:43 mark?
They are boxes of Scho-ka-kola, a famous German chocolate brand. The boxes were often used in German military rations. I think they still use those circular boxes as packaging today. Here's their website: www.scho-ka-kola.de/homepage-english.html
very good video, thank you!
Really enjoyed this episode , great little documentary
Thanks! I'm very happy to hear that!
Great video assdestroyer 👍
Thanks!
thank you sir
Great history, thank you for posting!
My pleasure! I'm happy to see that you enjoyed it!
History lesson time👍
great episode ace
Any idea what that is at 3:40?
I think it's a plough of some sort. Something agricultural at least.
It's a specialized trench plough, used by engineers. It looks like the trenches it creates, are futher digged out by a RAD unit (or HiWis or SS Frontarbeiter)
It's quite interesting. It's not something I've ever seen mentioned in books about WW2 vehicles.
You have a great channel. I subscribe.
Thanks! Welcome to the channel!
I think at this time also 27. SS Langemarck and 28. SS Wallonien were included in the 3th SS Panzer Corps, no?
Sorry...at that time 27 SS Langemarck was still 6. SS Freiwilligen sturmbrigade Langemarck.
Indeed, the 6. SS Freiwilligen Sturmbrigade Langemarck will make its entry in the next Narva 1944 video which will be released somewhere in July.
Did you by any chance stumble over info about the 1st Ostpreussische Infanteriedividion? :)
Well, they were more to the South East of Leningrad, near Wolchow. This series is more focused on the 3rd SS Panzer Corps which was to the north near the Gulf of Finland.
@@TheAceDestroyer Thanks, I appreciate it. I have trouble finding anything apart from the most basic info on them.
The fate of many countries was decided in the First Battle of Narva!!
Where do u live in?
Looks like a picturesque place to visit nowadays.
Very nice Intro this time! I assume you have the Front Diary Files of Armeegruppe Narwa as a Primary source for your
Research. If not hit me up, this would be excellent Basis for future Narwa Parts :)
I actually didn't. I used some books and articles on the subject but I presume that they used the diary.
@@TheAceDestroyer
www.dropbox.com/s/lzhlqennv4a2sim/KTB%20Armeeabteilung%20Narwa.pdf?dl=0
this should be a good read for you ( lot of german words i hope you can make your way through :D)
@@truekraut367 Excellent. There is a more complete version of the Kriegstagebuch available here wehrmacht.rindeleht.ee/ktb/1/1.html. Even more info and maps can be found here: www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/ArmeeAbteilung/ArmeeAbtNarwa-R.htm and here www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/KorpsSS/IIISSPzKorps-R.htm
Thanks guys! I really appreciate it!
I love how you say Danmark ahahaha anyway fantastic research i would´ve never known anything about the Danish volunteers if it wasn´t for you
The Danish freedom fighters asked the King fir his permission before volunteering to the German/European freedom fighting forces. The Danish king gave his approval. After the war the King didn' t want to know anyhing more of his approval and the Danish volunteered were arrested after their return home thus betrayed by their own King.
Yeah, the Danish volunteers are a very interesting story as you pointed out. Thanks for the info! I appreciate it!
Thats right and All the papers from King and government"disappearred" after the war. Freicorr Denmark- Frikorps Danmark, Division Wiking, Sørensen was commander of reg.24 Dänemark last days in Berlin where he died, and get burried on a graveyard, after war hes parents brought hes corpus home and re burried in Viborg Denmark
I'm not familiar with this campaign at all, thank-you for this very interesting and informative discussion!
My pleasure! I'm glad to see that you found it interesting!
Looking forward to more.
I am amazed Germany could still move all these units with such low levels of fuel production and if I had been in charge of the German army I would have operated delaying tactics in the east while sending overwhelming infantry forces, planes and tanks to win in the west, then turn back to the east. The war in the west was lost as units advancing to the coast were torn to shreds by the allied air forces yet 900 fighter aircraft remained in Germany in the futile hope that bombing raids could be halted and hundreds more facing the Russians. I would have protected the Ruhr with a chunk of fighters and used the rest of the air force to defend divisions trying to get to Normandy. I feel not as much was done as was possible to stop the invasion.
@liebstandarte jagermeister - I agree and if Hitler had got his stupid face out the way the Generals would have done a lot better. Morally the Germans did not deserve to win but militarily they were hindered terribly by Hitler. One allied general once commented that Hitler's planning was the equivalent of giving 150 divisions to the allies!
@liebstandarte jagermeister You forget the millions of Russians, Romanians, Poles, Jews etc who served as slave labor in the rear to support the troops.
@@edravo What about them?
Forests around Narva r still full of guns and ammunition even now .Exp. around Tannenberg line
@John Beige the Fun part begins when you put one of them old ww2 mortars in to the fire ( never ever do or try to do this at home kids or anywhere else for that matter .its very , very dangerous and stupid thing to do ) .
How do you know theres stuff still there?
@@auteursrecht been there
Cool intro music. Where did you find it?
Thanks! All music is from the TH-cam library, it's called 'Russian dance' if I'm not mistaken.
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Love the movie !!!
...DANKE !!
Can somebody tell me the name of the band from the intro song?
russian dance joey pecoraro
@@LactusTheIntolerant thank u
Hi. To verify. The attack against the besiegers of Leningrad and the besiegers of the pocket, wasn't simultaneous. First the Leningrad struck, then the pocket struck. Is that right?
I believe the Soviets attacked more or less at the same time.
@@TheAceDestroyer Ok.
Next can you tell me the difference pls between a russian division and german division, size difference.
@@pancakes3250 I don't know the actual size difference in numbers. I just know that the Soviet Divisions had fewer men than the German ones. I think TIK has a video on that, or at least I recall him saying that in one of his videos.
@@TheAceDestroyer He did. I just couldnt compile it. To him soviet organization level is one size less than a german counter part. But is it organizationally one size less? Anyway i wanted to know. My thing is. The pocket front was held by 2 german luftwaffe divisions. They were hit by a shock army. So if soviet organization is one size less, by troop strength, then they were hit by just one core. Thats 3 divisions strong. So 2 divisions got hit by three. Since i dont know if a russian army organization level is just troop strength smaller but has all the organization and support of the normal army level, extra artillery and priority for other extra things over a core, i dont know how hard the hit was. The biggest problem, is this shock army, 200 tanks, broke 2 'rifle' divisions, but couldn't break a pioneer battalion. It is very unbelievable to me. Am i missing something? TIK explained luftwaffe ground forces was poor in quality, but i dont think they were worse than a single pio battalion. So, how did russians break 2 divisions on defense for long time, yet stalled on a rushed pioneer defending battalion? I am only assuming pioneers just got there.
Thank you.
@@pancakes3250 Here's a great link to unit sizes. militaryhistoryvisualized.com/tag/division/ The German Infantry division had around 3000 men more (comparison from GER 1940 - USSR 1941) I must add that the sources regarding the SS usually try to speak more highly of these SS units. I believe the brunt fell mostly on the 9th Luftwaffe Division and that only a part fell on the Pioneers making them able to initially hold them back. The Shock army didn't have 200 tanks at the start. From the weeks leading up to the offensive up until the week after, 200 tanks were brought inside the pocket. These tanks, I imagine were distributed among various units and not used all at once in a joint operation.
Try to put some gripping war-sounding background music in your videos.. And also if you make live maps of the changing warfronts then it would be better for viewers to understand
The number of Dutch volunteers, within the Waffen SS was 22.000. During the battles at the eastern front, 4500 were killed ;over 6000 taken prisoner by the russians and from all remaning survivers around 1/3 stayed to live permanently in Germany after the war, most of them fearing the national anger in their home country. Almost all returning home, faced captivity by dutch military courts for some time.
In general they were regarded as traitors and became outcasts , having great difficulty to pick up their lives.
The amount of 25.000 volunteers on a population of 10 mio in 1940 , is about the same percentage volunteers as seen in Denmark and dutch speaking Belgium( Vlaanderen).
Their reasons to join the WaffenSS were quite varied, but common factors were low education, unemployment , adventure seeking and of course for ideological reasons .
It's enjoyable to learn the details on how the Soviet army managed to beat the Nazis away from my hometown of Leningrad. Thanks!
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Thank you very much! I really appreciate it!
Great video
can't wait for more (as an estonian)
Drafted to the Waffen-SS only a few days after his 17th birthday, my uncle would end up dying less than three months after his conscription as radio operator in the 54th Signals Company under the 4th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Brigade "Netherlands" (4. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Brigade "Nederland") of the 3rd SS Panzer Corps, while the brigade was retreating towards Narva in the final January days of 1944. As he was German, it shows that the brigade was not only composed of Dutch and also not only of volunteers. Initially, my uncle was declared Missing in Action and my grandma was hoping for his return home for decades. In April 1945, even her nine-year-old son got killed while US troops advanced on my home village.
What is the intro song called ?
It's called Russian dance, you can find it in the TH-cam audio library. Did you like it?
@@TheAceDestroyer Yes very much
Edit : just downloaded the song thanks men
@@datboi3136 No worries! Always happy to help!
@@TheAceDestroyer And the documentary is not bad either , actually really well presented and edited , keep up the good work !
I saw TIK's Courland videos. This is great as it 'zooms in' to a more tactical level than TIK did. Thanks for doing this stuff. I don't imagine you can pay your mortgage with this niche content. Personally, I love it!
Yeah, I always try to focus more on the battles themselves.
1942, '43 should have been the year the Germans organised, trained and equipped the nearly 500,000 assorted Hiwi's/Ostlegionaires such as the RLA, RONA, XV Cossack Corps etc given their severe manpower shortages and inability to man the entire front line in depth. Ironically the former commander of the 2nd Shock army and Deputy Volkhov Front commander Andrey Vlasov would have proved an invaluable resource had him and his 250,000 strong force been taken seriously before late 1944.
WHO Trusts traitors?
Any Italian volunteers fighting in Narva too in '44 ?
Probably. But it would be a very small amount. Perhaps they would just be lumped with German SS units in the Narva area.
Can I ask little look in to battle off More and 19 as division and Kurland pocket
Note: for those of you who don't know the paratroopers were part of the German Airforce, unlike the troops of most other countries who assigned the Paras to the Army
Great vid
Nice footage, I'm from Holland and when you speak so fast I can hardly understand the details . But go on !!
Thanks! You can always turn on the subtitles if you want. Je kan altijd de engelstalige ondertitels aanzetten hoor. Greetings from Belgium!
My great grandfather was there on the german side
Mine to with 23. SS Freiwilligen Division "Nederland:"... Regiment "De Ruyter".. surviived,
you should read -death on tracks-by svend hazzell-und keine sweinerwi
Skrrt first?
Yeah, I had both of those Wochenschau episodes favorited for years, then whoosh they are gone for hate speech, etc.
Exzellentes Video
My great grandpa died in this battle, he was a Jew and served the soviets. He is buried here.
My father fought in Stalingrad and Narva..
War what is good for absolute nothing !
I love the new series. I wonder if more Dutchmen died fighting for Hitler than against him?
there were about 25000 dutchmen in the Waffen ss, about 4000-6000 men were killed or missed in action
Who can decipher the sign at 7:20. "100 RM (Reichsmark) demjenigen, der einen alten? ??? auch die B??? bringt?".
The field divisions were well-equipped but not well-trained, which was a shocking waste of life.
A better graphic would be to line out the front lines. Thank you.
I don't really do that for multiple reasons. The front line changed so much that it was very difficult to track the exact line from day to day. Also the front line at Gatsjina and other parts held by Wehrmacht units was difficult to trace. I didn't want to guess so I decided to leave it out and use the unit symbols instead.
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