My third time watching this series. Absolutely top notch information, great - and relevant! - film to illustrate it, and clear narration. 👏👏👏Good stuff.👍
@@rolle16 he's in a home for a few years now and I received his whole library of WW2 books lol plus his 2nd class Iron Cross with certificate; I was going to ask him about his memoires (and eventually look for a publisher) but then this whole pandemia happpened...he's doing good though
Von Mellenthin remarked in his book 'Panzer battles' that the Soviets were masterful at establishing, maintaining, and enlarging bridgeheads. He remarked that no matter the effort to dislodge them, they couldn't be moved. This explains (to me at least) my frustration at the German armies inability to set-up and maintain defensive lines along natural barriers.
Must have been very depressing to get to Narva and there to be no defences setup and now you have to do it again!! Yep that was a ruff one! Great production Ace and we love the detail!!
My opinion is that German army was the best but u can't go against whole world Russians had all their army in their country and the Germans all over Europe Inc afrika
Because of the way the German treated the Russians in Russia the Germans had no other option than to fight. Hard. To be captured was, in effect, the same as being killed. While their comrades in the West were surrendering, after putting up a fight, the armies in the East were engaged in a struggle to the death.
Vladimir Boskovic They were good and could have been better if there hadn‘t been a madman at the wheel. + Most of their crack troops were lost at that point - have a look at their losses and how many generations had been stripped of their best and brightest and thrown into the eastern grinder. At that point it was replacements of the replacements interspersed with some invaluable veterans who kept them together.
It seems to be that the Soviets started by fighting that way, even terrorizing their own civilian population, and then at some point the Germans started doing the same. Stalin disowned any prisoners, even his own son. Check out the book Stalin's War of Extermination for details.
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@@chrisnnh The Russians would have killed the Germans regardless of any supposed maltreatment.
The retreating troops must have run across fortifications and trenches from several previous wars; all this area was the location of major ww1 and Estonian War Of Independence battles. The armies roll back and forth.
you are right. For example my father served 10 year in German Wehrmacht in France, Russia and at D-Day. 5 years POW in UK. He never wanted to hear something about third Reich.
I feel cold, hungry and despondent just watching this, whatever words we put to this it won’t do it justice, you have to feel for these men on both sides
I like the "wiggle" you're doing with the counters as you talk about them. It really helps alot! Could you maybe wiggle them a second or two longer? I didnt catch all of them as I'm watching the whole map. Maybe wiggle them a bit more too? You're doing a great job and I'm loving your channel more and more. Thanx!
Thanks for sending me another fine episode , really enjoy your detailed accounts and Map geography . It reminds me of Avalon Hill strategic board games I used to play in my early teens . Cheers all the best mate .
i as a german can only thank the volunteers from baltic and scandinavian countries for their service. they fought bravely alongside their german brothers against the bolshevik hordes. thank you for your service !
Again, awesome bit of history-they all added up- excellent graphics map and narration, great content and always historically entertaining! Keep em coming man, we look foward👍☝️
Excellent work, thoroughly enjoyed watching it. You have a way of making detailed events really interesting and a 'joy' to watch. Please keep up the good work, this is the kind of work that packs the potential to educate even the TH-cam generation! Best wishes, Finnish fans
Since we are on the topic of strategic rivers. You need to do an episode about General Mark Clark and his II Corps, devising the disastrous crossing of the Rapido River (Gari River) in January 1944. It pretty much resulted in the death of the 36th Infantry Division.
@@TheAceDestroyer WE never hear in US schools about battles where the US either loses, or screws something up real bad. fortunately, in the last five years the release of many archives in Europe 'adjusts" the story if you're paying attention. and not believing everything Hollywood would like to remanufacture.
Will you be talking about the SS- Langemarck's entrance and the legendary one man last stand that remi Schrijnen pulled off? it deserves a mention because it's one of the last examples where a single man could still change the tide in the massive maelstorm that total war is.
Yes, I will. I have already written a good part of the Battle of the Tannenberg line video (Pt. 5 of this series) and the Langemark will certainly be featured. I have already mentioned his actions in a previous Tannenberg line video I made, but I think it is about time I improved the quality of that video.
@@Big-boi92 My pleasure! Well, I'm currently still working on parts 3-5 on this series and I must say that the current Tannenberg Line video was uploaded when I started this channel, so the quality isn't like it is now.
You should definitely get hold of Mart Laar "Sinimäed 1944" and "Emajõgi 1944". The fact is the Soviets never breached the Narva defense line and they got lucky when the retreat was given in September.
Well, army group North was getting encircled from the south towards the Riga and they had to retreat, although the Soviets shouldn't have tried to fight up through the narrow strip of land like Narva was.Outmanuvering the strongpoints was the name of the game on the Eastern front.
Another AMAZING video. Big like ! Pity that the Russian steam warmachine just rolled ahead to Berlin unstoppably, even sacrficing millions of their soldiers. Baltic, Nordic, Dutch volunteers deserve respect fighting against bolshevism (for Germans it was natural). Wish to go metal detecting to these battlefields, so many reliques must be still there.
Good. I wish we had the tech and data to show masses of soldiers and equipment moving and animated in a liquid way rather than a box just sliding over a forest or lake or town etc., I would like to see smaller more granular level graphics showing how strength is concentrated and the actual physical course that it follows. But still great.
Excellent as always. If it can be done without inconvenience, I'd like to propose a small legend with the date on it in your (excellent) maps. Sorry if I asked for this earlier, I don't mean to nag, but I had this idea a few weeks before and I can't remember if I asked for it then (and I can't find my comment in earlier videos, so I think I'm safe).
@@TheAceDestroyer Thank you. It doesn't have to be much. Just a small "27 Jan" tucked away in a corner. I think it'll help with visualizing the flow of the battles. I find myself often rewinding to hear the date, whereas a misheard name, place or unit number is right there on the map. Have a nice sunday. Cheers.
No, I don't think so. I'm currently still working on the third, fourth and fifth episodes of this Narva 1944 series and then I'll see what I'll will do, but I don't think I'll make another 'Life and death of' video.
I take it that the Luftwaffe corp of the 9th and 10th Luftwaffe field divisions were destroyed during the retreat from the Oranienbaum Pocket? I know they were destroyed trying to cover the general retreat from Estonia, is this where they were destroyed? I thought it was during the evacuation of Estonia.
Great detail of a lesser known battle front. At 4.30 there are a number of what looks like Sherman tanks. What is the likely explanation? Footage from different battle or soviet Sherman’s ?
G'day, Yay Team ! "Least We Forget..." As they say On ANZAC Day...! When my Hungarian Fallschirmjaeger from the Luftwaffe father-in-law applied for membership of the Baulkham Hills (Sydney) branch of the Australian Returned Services League, in 1978..., they asked him what units he had served in, and when it sunk in they sputtered "B-..., b-..., but..., BUT ; You were the ENEMY..!" to which Ferenc Antony Kun replied "Oh, no... I was not The ENEMY...; That was YOU, Who was the ANY ME...!" And they all paused, and laughed, and then signed him in, & gave him his Membership Badge. After every Waaauugh(!) y'see, all the surviving Veterans take about 25 years (21 to 28, actually) to work out that all Waaauugh(!) is, was, and ever will be a total Crock of Shit - and to prove it they commence trying to make contact with the surviving people they used to be trying to kill, for pay, while safeguarding their "National Honour" ; and then they all begin to organise Meetings & Reunions on the Anniversaries of their old long-gone and otherwise forgotten Battles. Universally, while eating & drinking together, meeting each others' wives & kids..., they all agree that personally they never had any actual reason for having wanted to kill each other ; and ALL of them blame the Politicians & Propagandists & Patriotic Wannabe Shit-Stirrers who had taught them to salute by reflex, & to think it was vital to try to kill all those Strangers from over the Hills & far away. One of these dayze, eventually, perhaps.., hopefully..., with a bit of Luck..., the bloody fools might finally wake up to the FACT that the whole process of obediently fightin' & killin' & woundin' & bleedin' & burnin' & dyin' & sufferin' - and then waitin' for decades..., is completely totally and utterly unneccessary...; because it's only a matter of their own CHOICE which prevents their organising the great Meetup & Feasting & Drinking & Festivities right from the "Get (ready, {Get set} ) Go...!". Dying in a Ditch in the muddle of nowhere, at some place nobody ever heard of before a week or a day earlier, to satisfy a Politician's Fantasies - sure strikes me as being a silly sort of a Choice upon which to excercise one's Perfect Liberty and thereby to embrace Perfect Responsibility for every downstream cascading Consequence, resulting from collected individual Personal Choices... Complicated and interconnected... Such is Life, Have a good one. ;-p Ciao !
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.
Der Vater eines Schulfreundes war an diesem Frontabschnitt, er hat mir erzählt, dass sein Vater von schwersten Kämpfen immer gesprochen hat, das es dort zur Sache ging, das es oft zum Nahkampf kam, Pardon wurde nicht gegeben.
Oh wow, I hadn't seen that. I think you may be right. Seems like an odd place to store boots. If it are the remains of a soldier I can only hope that he was given a proper burial after the war.
That's because there's only a limited amount of 1944 German-Soviet winter footage. I can't go back in time to shoot my own footage. I have to make due with what I can find, and yes, usually, that is the same footage.
Not mentioning the Hungarians who were added to the Nordland to fill up the numbers. Nordland was not only made up of Scandinavians (they were the majority). So much work goes into making these videos, skipping the basic simple things. Pity.
In the first episode of this series I mentioned that the Nederland Brigade had a large number of Romanians and Hungarians in their ranks. So, I didn't skip it entirely. Unlike my other videos, which can be watched as separate videos, I have tried to build these Narva 1944 videos as a series in which each video is a continuation of the previous episode.
The Red Army seemed unstoppable and yet, the party (I mean, the Batlle of Narva) was about to begin. The also called "Battle of the European Waffen SS" showed Communism was not that popular in Eastern Europe!!
everybody talk German .. actualy at Narva front olny 1/3 as German nationality most was from various nationality encluded Estonian .as The AceDestroyer says thet wont give a inch of homeland without fight even they own death because weren't other options , I deside how im die not someone who is just brainless kills me The AceDestroyer
The Soviets destroyed 80% of Hitler’s military resources, men, machines and war material. The war with the Soviets was a lost cause even before it commenced on 22nd June 1941. When planning Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Military Intelligence proved worse than useless, they informed Hitler the Soviets had no more than 120 Divisions capable of fighting, in reality the Soviets had 860 Divisions fully equipped and ready for battle. The rest is history as they say.
True, but Hitler had this to say about the Soviets." You'll only have to kick in the door, and the whole rotten structure would come crashing down" Well, in a way it did. Only that it ended up burying him instead.
At the last moment Reinhard Gehlen told Hitler that the real numbers were 25% higher than previously reported but Hitler said it's gone too far now to back out.
With Lend Lease it was a lost cause. The head of the Abwehr, Canaris, turned out to be a traitor. he was handing over plans weekly to Averill Harriman, the US ambassador for the Soviet Union. He said on television later that that was one of the greatest secrets of the war. Reinhard Gehlen, their intelligence head in the East, later worked for the CIA and Mossad. The Barbarossa set up seems to have been repeated for the Korean War, where the South had very few tanks and aircraft and was set up to fail. See James Perloff's article about the Korean War for more info.
I don't think Germany is hated, but most people over here still believe the propaganda version of the war... that it was good versus evil and freedom versus tyranny. That story is like a comic book and is ridiculous, and it needs to change. I study the history of it, but not many people want to listen to it. Change is difficult without the interest in it. My family is half German, from Texas. I've always liked Germany and have even started collecting maps and other things from before the war.
Incredibly clear and detailed, particularly in relation to the German counter-attacks to rescue endangered formations. Well done Ace!
Thank you! I'm very pleased to hear that!
@@TheAceDestroyer Thanks Ace!
My third time watching this series. Absolutely top notch information, great - and relevant! - film to illustrate it, and clear narration. 👏👏👏Good stuff.👍
My grandfather was at the battle of Narva as a flemish volunteer; 93 years old and still alive and kicking!!
darkhorse75be glad to hear it
Wow! Great to hear..
wow I'm really interested in his story! Has he written his memoires?
Awesome , please give him my best regards and thank him for his service. I can only imagine the contempt he has for todays Coronavirus hysteria
@@rolle16 he's in a home for a few years now and I received his whole library of WW2 books lol plus his 2nd class Iron Cross with certificate; I was going to ask him about his memoires (and eventually look for a publisher) but then this whole pandemia happpened...he's doing good though
Von Mellenthin remarked in his book 'Panzer battles' that the Soviets were masterful at establishing, maintaining, and enlarging bridgeheads. He remarked that no matter the effort to dislodge them, they couldn't be moved.
This explains (to me at least) my frustration at the German armies inability to set-up and maintain defensive lines along natural barriers.
Must have been very depressing to get to Narva and there to be no defences setup and now you have to do it again!!
Yep that was a ruff one!
Great production Ace and we love the detail!!
Great series. Always found these battles so interesting. Great to know more!
Honestly believe Narva and Hürtgen Forest showed how hard Germany fought on in the final days even when it was dim.
My opinion is that German army was the best but u can't go against whole world Russians had all their army in their country and the Germans all over Europe Inc afrika
Because of the way the German treated the Russians in Russia the Germans had no other option than to fight. Hard. To be captured was, in effect, the same as being killed. While their comrades in the West were surrendering, after putting up a fight, the armies in the East were engaged in a struggle to the death.
Vladimir Boskovic They were good and could have been better if there hadn‘t been a madman at the wheel. + Most of their crack troops were lost at that point - have a look at their losses and how many generations had been stripped of their best and brightest and thrown into the eastern grinder. At that point it was replacements of the replacements interspersed with some invaluable veterans who kept them together.
It seems to be that the Soviets started by fighting that way, even terrorizing their own civilian population, and then at some point the Germans started doing the same. Stalin disowned any prisoners, even his own son. Check out the book Stalin's War of Extermination for details.
@@chrisnnh The Russians would have killed the Germans regardless of any supposed maltreatment.
The maps are awesome and accurately show how spread out was this engagement. Love episode two! It was worth the wait.
I'm very pleased to hear that you enjoyed it this episode!
Always worth watching a second time, well made
The retreating troops must have run across fortifications and trenches from several previous wars; all this area was the location of major ww1 and Estonian War Of Independence battles. The armies roll back and forth.
Really makes you appreciate your warm bed and hot food, eh?
you are right. For example my father served 10 year in German Wehrmacht in France, Russia and at D-Day. 5 years POW in UK. He never wanted to hear something about third Reich.
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Man!! I can't imagine those conditions!
I feel cold, hungry and despondent just watching this, whatever words we put to this it won’t do it justice, you have to feel for these men on both sides
Excellent series! Thank you for posting!
Thoroughly enjoyed the 2 episodes.
I like the "wiggle" you're doing with the counters as you talk about them. It really helps alot! Could you maybe wiggle them a second or two longer? I didnt catch all of them as I'm watching the whole map. Maybe wiggle them a bit more too? You're doing a great job and I'm loving your channel more and more. Thanx!
Thanks for sending me another fine episode , really enjoy your detailed accounts and Map geography . It reminds me of Avalon Hill strategic board games I used to play in my early teens . Cheers all the best mate .
My pleasure! I'm very happy to see that you enjoyed it!
i as a german can only thank the volunteers from baltic and scandinavian countries for their service. they fought bravely alongside their german brothers against the bolshevik hordes.
thank you for your service !
Long live the sacrifice of our forefathers, brother!
I, as a Dutch person, can only thank them for removing themselves from the gene pool.
@@martinusvanbrederode4080 you must be a proud jew
@@martinusvanbrederode4080 Not even calling yourself a Dutchman...
@@martinusvanbrederode4080 The only people worth a damn in Holland.
thank you for a thorough brake down of the bitter fighting. top stuff. keep it comming
It's my pleasure! I'm very happy to see that you enjoyed it!
Again, awesome bit of history-they all added up- excellent graphics map and narration, great content and always historically entertaining! Keep em coming man, we look foward👍☝️
rip to all thre troops of both sides ,what a war
Really like the layout of this. Thanks for posting. Look forward to the next part!
I'm very pleased to see that you enjoyed it!
Cracking video! You Never Fail to Surprise and it's always a pleasure to watch. Cheers
Excellent work, thoroughly enjoyed watching it. You have a way of making detailed events really interesting and a 'joy' to watch. Please keep up the good work, this is the kind of work that packs the potential to educate even the TH-cam generation!
Best wishes,
Finnish fans
I'm very happy to hear that! Thank you!
Very interresting, thank you for your work.
Since we are on the topic of strategic rivers. You need to do an episode about General Mark Clark and his II Corps, devising the disastrous crossing of the Rapido River (Gari River) in January 1944. It pretty much resulted in the death of the 36th Infantry Division.
Ah, thank you for the suggestion! I'll certainly take a look at that battle as I haven't heard about it before.
@@TheAceDestroyer WE never hear in US schools about battles where the US either loses, or screws something up real bad. fortunately, in the last five years the release of many archives in Europe 'adjusts" the story if you're paying attention. and not believing everything Hollywood would like to remanufacture.
Excellent video thank you so informative
I LOVE YOUR VIDS !!! AND YOUR ELOQUENT VOICE AND VOCABULARY ARE SPOT ON !!!
Will you be talking about the SS- Langemarck's entrance and the legendary one man last stand that remi Schrijnen pulled off? it deserves a mention because it's one of the last examples where a single man could still change the tide in the massive maelstorm that total war is.
Yes, I will. I have already written a good part of the Battle of the Tannenberg line video (Pt. 5 of this series) and the Langemark will certainly be featured. I have already mentioned his actions in a previous Tannenberg line video I made, but I think it is about time I improved the quality of that video.
@@TheAceDestroyer Thank you for your quick response, i'm sure to watch those videos now too!
@@Big-boi92 My pleasure! Well, I'm currently still working on parts 3-5 on this series and I must say that the current Tannenberg Line video was uploaded when I started this channel, so the quality isn't like it is now.
Your info was awesome thanks to you 😎
Another detailed excellent vid
You should definitely get hold of Mart Laar "Sinimäed 1944" and "Emajõgi 1944". The fact is the Soviets never breached the Narva defense line and they got lucky when the retreat was given in September.
Well, army group North was getting encircled from the south towards the Riga and they had to retreat, although the Soviets shouldn't have tried to fight up through the narrow strip of land like Narva was.Outmanuvering the strongpoints was the name of the game on the Eastern front.
Amazing channel !
I'm very happy to hear that! Thank you!
Another AMAZING video. Big like !
Pity that the Russian steam warmachine just rolled ahead to Berlin unstoppably, even sacrficing millions of their soldiers.
Baltic, Nordic, Dutch volunteers deserve respect fighting against bolshevism (for Germans it was natural).
Wish to go metal detecting to these battlefields, so many reliques must be still there.
Good. I wish we had the tech and data to show masses of soldiers and equipment moving and animated in a liquid way rather than a box just sliding over a forest or lake or town etc., I would like to see smaller more granular level graphics showing how strength is concentrated and the actual physical course that it follows. But still great.
Excellent as always. If it can be done without inconvenience, I'd like to propose a small legend with the date on it in your (excellent) maps. Sorry if I asked for this earlier, I don't mean to nag, but I had this idea a few weeks before and I can't remember if I asked for it then (and I can't find my comment in earlier videos, so I think I'm safe).
Thanks! Haha, no you didn't mention that earlier. I'll add one and see if it doesn't take too much space on the maps.
@@TheAceDestroyer Thank you. It doesn't have to be much. Just a small "27 Jan" tucked away in a corner. I think it'll help with visualizing the flow of the battles. I find myself often rewinding to hear the date, whereas a misheard name, place or unit number is right there on the map.
Have a nice sunday. Cheers.
The AceDestroyer Good job , i trully like it
I'm very happy to hear that! Thank you!
BEAUTIFUL.
Another Ace!
Steiner was always slacking
Will you be making more The life and death of Videos?
No, I don't think so. I'm currently still working on the third, fourth and fifth episodes of this Narva 1944 series and then I'll see what I'll will do, but I don't think I'll make another 'Life and death of' video.
The AceDestroyer oh well that’s sad to hear .... but Aight will wait for New episodes and future content
Are you going to do a video about Sinimäed?
My bad. U did it 2 years ago😁
Yes, I will make a new one about the Tannenberg line. The other one needs some improved maps and footage I think.
Tnx Ace
I take it that the Luftwaffe corp of the 9th and 10th Luftwaffe field divisions were destroyed during the retreat from the Oranienbaum Pocket? I know they were destroyed trying to cover the general retreat from Estonia, is this where they were destroyed? I thought it was during the evacuation of Estonia.
Great detail of a lesser known battle front. At 4.30 there are a number of what looks like Sherman tanks. What is the likely explanation? Footage from different battle or soviet Sherman’s ?
Indeed, it was shot together with other soviet-German footage, so I believe they are destroyed lend-lease Sherman tanks.
The AceDestroyer Then that is indeed a rare piece of footage! Well done
The German force were fighting in Eastern front and used to go on holiday to western frant
G'day,
Yay Team !
"Least We Forget..."
As they say
On ANZAC
Day...!
When my Hungarian Fallschirmjaeger from the Luftwaffe father-in-law applied for membership of the Baulkham Hills (Sydney) branch of the Australian Returned Services League, in 1978..., they asked him what units he had served in, and when it sunk in they sputtered
"B-..., b-..., but..., BUT ; You were the ENEMY..!"
to which Ferenc Antony Kun replied
"Oh, no...
I was not
The ENEMY...;
That was
YOU,
Who was the
ANY ME...!"
And they all paused, and laughed, and then signed him in, & gave him his Membership Badge.
After every Waaauugh(!) y'see, all the surviving Veterans take about 25 years (21 to 28, actually) to work out that all Waaauugh(!) is, was, and ever will be a total Crock of Shit - and to prove it they commence trying to make contact with the surviving people they used to be trying to kill, for pay, while safeguarding their "National Honour" ; and then they all begin to organise Meetings & Reunions on the Anniversaries of their old long-gone and otherwise forgotten Battles.
Universally, while eating & drinking together, meeting each others' wives & kids..., they all agree that personally they never had any actual reason for having wanted to kill each other ; and ALL of them blame the Politicians & Propagandists & Patriotic Wannabe Shit-Stirrers who had taught them to salute by reflex, & to think it was vital to try to kill all those Strangers from over the Hills & far away.
One of these dayze, eventually, perhaps.., hopefully..., with a bit of Luck..., the bloody fools might finally wake up to the FACT that the whole process of obediently fightin' & killin' & woundin' & bleedin' & burnin' & dyin' & sufferin' - and then waitin' for decades..., is completely totally and utterly unneccessary...; because it's only a matter of their own CHOICE which prevents their organising the great Meetup & Feasting & Drinking & Festivities right from the "Get (ready, {Get set} ) Go...!".
Dying in a Ditch in the muddle of nowhere, at some place nobody ever heard of before a week or a day earlier, to satisfy a Politician's Fantasies - sure strikes me as being a silly sort of a Choice upon which to excercise one's Perfect Liberty and thereby to embrace Perfect Responsibility for every downstream cascading Consequence, resulting from collected individual Personal Choices...
Complicated and interconnected...
Such is Life,
Have a good one.
;-p
Ciao !
The only enemy then was the Russians. We know this in Sweden and Finland, which have always been threatened by them.
And hears me eating icecream whilst watching war in the snow.
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.
Ace, the "sev" in severed is pronounced as you would pronounce the "sev" in seven (7). Thanks as always for a great video.
Yeah, thanks! Someone else mentioned that as well! I didn't know that! Thanks again!
And by the way where does , at that point, was the Luftwaffe? Always seems to me that russians fight better at night ?
I believe the weather conditions where to bad to fly out, with the freezing temperatures and the thick snow. But don't quote me on that.
@@TheAceDestroyer Thak you a lot for your answer, from Brazil!
Der Vater eines Schulfreundes war an diesem Frontabschnitt, er hat mir erzählt, dass sein Vater von schwersten Kämpfen immer gesprochen hat, das es dort zur Sache ging, das es oft zum Nahkampf kam, Pardon wurde nicht gegeben.
DARTH VADERS IN THE HOUSE!!
0.39. обрывки ног в ботинках на бруствере,, или что??
Oh wow, I hadn't seen that. I think you may be right. Seems like an odd place to store boots. If it are the remains of a soldier I can only hope that he was given a proper burial after the war.
Again and again I see the same footage.
That's because there's only a limited amount of 1944 German-Soviet winter footage. I can't go back in time to shoot my own footage. I have to make due with what I can find, and yes, usually, that is the same footage.
Not mentioning the Hungarians who were added to the Nordland to fill up the numbers. Nordland was not only made up of Scandinavians (they were the majority).
So much work goes into making these videos, skipping the basic simple things. Pity.
In the first episode of this series I mentioned that the Nederland Brigade had a large number of Romanians and Hungarians in their ranks. So, I didn't skip it entirely. Unlike my other videos, which can be watched as separate videos, I have tried to build these Narva 1944 videos as a series in which each video is a continuation of the previous episode.
The Red Army seemed unstoppable and yet, the party (I mean, the Batlle of Narva) was about to begin. The also called "Battle of the European Waffen SS" showed Communism was not that popular in Eastern Europe!!
Its pronouced severed ( sef erd ) not seevered. Great vid tho.
Ah thanks! I didn't know that. Happy to hear that you enjoyed it!
it is written 'tough'
Now I know where they got Nortena music.
everybody talk German .. actualy at Narva front olny 1/3 as German nationality most was from various nationality encluded Estonian .as The AceDestroyer says thet wont give a inch of homeland without fight even they own death because weren't other options , I deside how im die not someone who is just brainless kills me
The AceDestroyer
All this suffering for a crazy.
TIGERS IN THE MUD.
The Soviets destroyed 80% of Hitler’s military resources, men, machines and war material. The war with the Soviets was a lost cause even before it commenced on 22nd June 1941. When planning Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Military Intelligence proved worse than useless, they informed Hitler the Soviets had no more than 120 Divisions capable of fighting, in reality the Soviets had 860 Divisions fully equipped and ready for battle. The rest is history as they say.
True, but Hitler had this to say about the Soviets." You'll only have to kick in the door, and the whole rotten structure would come crashing down"
Well, in a way it did. Only that it ended up burying him instead.
At the last moment Reinhard Gehlen told Hitler that the real numbers were 25% higher than previously reported but Hitler said it's gone too far now to back out.
With Lend Lease it was a lost cause. The head of the Abwehr, Canaris, turned out to be a traitor. he was handing over plans weekly to Averill Harriman, the US ambassador for the Soviet Union. He said on television later that that was one of the greatest secrets of the war. Reinhard Gehlen, their intelligence head in the East, later worked for the CIA and Mossad. The Barbarossa set up seems to have been repeated for the Korean War, where the South had very few tanks and aircraft and was set up to fail. See James Perloff's article about the Korean War for more info.
I don't think Germany is hated, but most people over here still believe the propaganda version of the war... that it was good versus evil and freedom versus tyranny. That story is like a comic book and is ridiculous, and it needs to change. I study the history of it, but not many people want to listen to it. Change is difficult without the interest in it. My family is half German, from Texas. I've always liked Germany and have even started collecting maps and other things from before the war.
@@Jim_Ewing May God Bless you and your family!