Also can say thanks to that as well and also another topic to look into Sea or naval Mines really has a lot of variety there it's not all a ball and spikes in the water as you can Google and TH-cam about it.
i fell in love with Hogan’s heros after seeing how hilarious it is when my husband and father-in-law watches it. I love another show called Allo’ Allo’ so funny!
I worked with some Germans who came over once or twice a year, in the late 1990s. They said Germans thought it was a great show, making fun of Nazis, and much better than the dour school propaganda which told how bad the Nazis were.
The Wheatcroft car resides at Donnington racing car museum in the UK. He also owns a lot of military vehicles and Harley Davidson US military bikes. Its a great place.
Apparently Hitler liked being driven at 100 miles an hour along the autobahns - and let's face it even if there had been speed limits I guess no traffic cop was going to stop him.
I'd love you to cover WW2 motorcycles. Ever since MGS3, I've had a fascination with them, especially the Harleys. Great idea for a new series actually.
I've seen this car twice! The first time in Bergeijk at Automusa, a car museum in 2005 and in 2021 in the National Military Museum in Soesterberg. Cool! In "Von Ryans Expresse" he had a nice supporting role.
I sincerely wonder whether that car in "Der Hauptmann" war film from 2017 was also a W31 Mercedes Benz?! Who knows? But John I give you kudos and a medal for this super good video!!🎖🦅❤❤🤗👍👍👍👍
Back when a Mercedes could put literal Light-seconds on the odometer between breakdowns… nowadays, you’ll be lucky to get 150-200k miles on a brand-new Mercedes before major problems.
Fun Fact: Mercedes Car Company was named after a Jewish German Business Man’s Daughter. Mercédès Jellinek. An ironic fate would await such a car company named after her.
I knew "Mercedes" was named after the guy's daughter. It just always messed with me that "exotic dancers" existed back then, and that the car was actually named after a stripper. Dude was apparently a horrible father.
Mercedes consists of two companies, who united in 1920s, Daimler and Benz. In 1886 Carl Benz invented first gasoline poweres car, Gottlieb Daimler, a former gunsmith( gunmaker) a kind of gasoline powered vehicle similar to a motorcycle. Both Mannheim and Stuttgart, where this men lived, are currently in same german state, but they didn' t knew each other before inventing their machines.
I noticed a Mercedes W31 G4 in an episode of The Bionic Woman 1976. The Nazi symbol was covered on the front passenger door. I saw a brand new Mercedes with a camouflage paint job recently as if it were a typically painted Spitfire or Hurricane during the Battle of Britain.
I hope it was an error, not an intentional change that this video did not have the movie title in the corner that was source of the clips. I enjoy your videos, but then also reminding me of old and obscure war movies to watch, so I miss having source shown.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Weird - l was watching on a Samsung tablet and nothing was visible. I will try watching on a different device, but normally they are clearly visible wether on TV or tablet. I have watched probably 100 of your videos and always seen the sources before.
Thanks man. Nothing changed in my editing process. I can view them when watching on my phone. It's good to have the feedback tho, in case I need to problem solve. Providing the titles is important to me.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsqFigured it out. Titles show on TV, but in the size and location you used on this video they disappear on a tablet viewing in portrait mode but are there in landscape, so just a cropping issue. I usually watch your videos in portrait on the same tablet and have not, not seen them before though. So you may consider making them a bit larger or relocated a bit. Anyway, I enjoy your videos a lot and appreciate both fairly obscure topics and video sources and they have gotten me to watch some interesting obscure (to the US market) movies.
Really good on this and who knows may want to do a video on the S-Mine or Bouncing Betty as another also is said to be revised that can replace the deadly ball bearings with sharp things to make it more deadly as seen in a documentary about it or other topics to look up since there's many out there like MANIPADs such as the SA-7 and Stinger among others in that category and still can be good for AK-47, RPG-7, M-14 rifle and who knows what others like B-52 bomber is another good one and like I already said a lot out there.
I always wonder in alternate history scenarios, where the axis managed to win or at least had a stalemate agreement, how pissed off the officers would be, when Mercedes Benz, and BMW tell them that they can't open the car canopy during parade because they haven't payed the subscription for the folding canopy mechanism.
It's from catch-22. M&M enterprises. There is a movie, a hulu series, and the original novel by Joseph heller. Milo minderbinder is the anthropomorphic stand in for unregulated capitalism.
That’s spooky watched one of your videos which seem to have a lot of German staff cars and I thought I wonder if Johnny will do one on featuring these cars - lo and behold 24 hours later 😂
when mercedes lauched the G 6X6 for australian army, it was said that it's the first 6 wheeled military vehicle since decades. and i think there is a heritage in it since (armored) genändewaen are not a rare thing in state use. both with army and politics.
I don't think hitler rode in anything but his armor vehicle after the first attempt on his life. I had a friend who saw him in his vehicles throughout the war. Apparently many of the more loyal HJ were kept where they could lay down their lives for Uncle Adolf as they were taught to call him.
The Jeep has barely seating for 2 including the driver and some uncomfortable room in the back for 2 or 3 more. If you value your back you choose the Mercedes.
Captain Klink was played by a Jew who escaped Nazi Germany, and only played Nazis when he could make fun of them. Sergeant Schulz may have been the same, but I read this a long time ago.
Credit where it's due, the car sure isn't as memorable as the Kubelwagen and Kettenkrad when it comes to visualizing a Nazi vehicle. Even if a good neighbor drove one of these, I would not have started batting an eye. Think the Volkswagen Beetle, which is rarely associated with those inhumans.
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When Johnny says "and have a nice rest of your day" I usually do.
Thanks Johnny
Also can say thanks to that as well and also another topic to look into Sea or naval Mines really has a lot of variety there it's not all a ball and spikes in the water as you can Google and TH-cam about it.
"A Bridge too Far" highlights some examples of command flags as well.
Never ask a man his salary
Never ask a woman her age
Most importantly, never ask Mercedes Benz what they did between 1939-1945.
Or Porsche, Hugo Boss, Volkswagen... or Henry Ford for his ideology. Yeesh.
@@TallDude73 Coco Chanel anyone
@@TallDude73as an American, Henry Ford thought nothing wrong, and got a prestigious medal.
never ask Mercedes Benz what they doing in north-Korea
@@TallDude73 Henry Ford supported Russia in the late 20/ early 30s as well.
i fell in love with Hogan’s heros after seeing how hilarious it is when my husband and father-in-law watches it. I love another show called Allo’ Allo’ so funny!
I worked with some Germans who came over once or twice a year, in the late 1990s. They said Germans thought it was a great show, making fun of Nazis, and much better than the dour school propaganda which told how bad the Nazis were.
Herr Flicks Mercedes Benz ended up being flattened by a steam roller.
@@barrythatcher9349 yes and blown up and cranked by Private Helga!
Such a funny show Allo Allo i nearly fell off the couch to Gestapo Hokie pokie
I was too young to appreciate the humor fully.
"Head vill ROLL!!"
~ Major Hochstetter.
😅
I glad somebody still remember Hogan's heroes it's a classic
They rerun it 5 days a week on MeTV.
I still prefer M*A*S*H*.
@@michaelandreipalon359 M*A*S*H and Hogan's heroes are better to anything they put out now.
The Wheatcroft car resides at Donnington racing car museum in the UK. He also owns a lot of military vehicles and Harley Davidson US military bikes. Its a great place.
A command flag and driver could solve some of my midlife crises
I had mine with a motor bike at 19.....😅😅😅
😂😂❤❤
Hogans heroes is such a great classic show, thanks for showing it again.
Great video once more, Johnny!
Apparently Hitler liked being driven at 100 miles an hour along the autobahns - and let's face it even if there had been speed limits I guess no traffic cop was going to stop him.
The cop would only have wondered which country was being Blitzkrieged today that Hitler was in such a hurry.
I'd love you to cover WW2 motorcycles. Ever since MGS3, I've had a fascination with them, especially the Harleys.
Great idea for a new series actually.
Oh yeah that's another good part also saw this about booby traps in WW2 in a documentary about them being booby trapped with fuses.
I love the Hogan’s Heroes references, one of my favorite shows.
Boy do I miss Hogan's Heroes! I'd watch reruns as a kid and I always loved their contraptions and gadgets.
"Did you know mercedes made a 6-wheeler long before that one ?"
"What do you suppose he's saying?"
@@toospooky051he’s saying take the third reich
"It's funny they didn't mention it, because Mercedes likes to go on about their heritage!"
I've seen this car twice! The first time in Bergeijk at Automusa, a car museum in 2005 and in 2021 in the National Military Museum in Soesterberg. Cool! In "Von Ryans Expresse" he had a nice supporting role.
That restored Mercedes was gorgeous. They are badly underpowered but very cool vehicles.
I would recommend a video on the Opel Blitz, a common truck for the Wehrmacht during the war
1:48 Erwin Rommel never smoked! But Plummer did a good acting job playing the desert fox.
I know nuthink of that car, nuthink. Thanks for the upload, Johnny. Catch ya for another one.
You're the best, Johnny! Thanks again
I sincerely wonder whether that car in "Der Hauptmann" war film from 2017 was also a W31 Mercedes Benz?! Who knows? But John I give you kudos and a medal for this super good video!!🎖🦅❤❤🤗👍👍👍👍
Oooh cars on the channel! its like christmas for me!
Back when a Mercedes could put literal Light-seconds on the odometer between breakdowns… nowadays, you’ll be lucky to get 150-200k miles on a brand-new Mercedes before major problems.
They ended the Million Mile Club
thanks for your content on obscure military history Johnny I watched all your videos and each and every one of them is perfect
Rommel's Rod.
You should do a video on Strichtarn camouflage
When I see that car, I think of that bit from Top Gear when they were discussing 6 wheeled Mercedes.
Never thought I'd see Mel Brooks in one of these! Love both versions of To Be or Not to Be.
"Oh Furher, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz
All my friends have tank divisions, I must make amends"
Worked hard all my lifetime, with no help from reinforcements. So oh Führer, won't ya buy me, a Mercedez Benz...."
I have checked, and in "Rat race" different Mercedes was used. it was taken formBarbie Museum
The Rat Race "Hitler car" is just made for movie, it was originally 1935 Lincoln.
SOOOOO thats the name of that 6 wheel monster !!!! thanks
I think that this is the 6 wheeled car they where referring to in that one Top gear episode.
Yes it is.
A gorgeous car.
"or just to feel the wind in your MUSTACHE😈😈😈" I see you johnny!!!
Damn never knew the one in Hogan's heroes was an original!
HOOOOGGGGGAAAANNNN!!!!!
Nice history video on the Mercedes Benz.
Man, that one in blue at the end.. just a beautiful machine
I second that motion!!! 🤠👍
25 seconds ago
never click on a video this fast
You should do a video on just Hogan;s Heroes.
Fun Fact: Mercedes Car Company was named after a Jewish German Business Man’s Daughter. Mercédès Jellinek.
An ironic fate would await such a car company named after her.
That is a fun fact
I knew "Mercedes" was named after the guy's daughter.
It just always messed with me that "exotic dancers" existed back then, and that the car was actually named after a stripper. Dude was apparently a horrible father.
@@immikeurnot What evidence is there that she was a stripper?
Mercedes consists of two companies, who united in 1920s, Daimler and Benz. In 1886 Carl Benz invented first gasoline poweres car, Gottlieb Daimler, a former gunsmith( gunmaker) a kind of gasoline powered vehicle similar to a motorcycle. Both Mannheim and Stuttgart, where this men lived, are currently in same german state, but they didn' t knew each other before inventing their machines.
"...or just feel the wind in your moustache." 😅
I noticed a Mercedes W31 G4 in an episode of The Bionic Woman 1976. The Nazi symbol was covered on the front passenger door. I saw a brand new Mercedes with a camouflage paint job recently as if it were a typically painted Spitfire or Hurricane during the Battle of Britain.
Well JJ my midlife crisis has turned into a very old life crisis in every way...Cause i am in my mid 80's lol ....Thanks JJ...your friend Shoe🇺🇸
The question is: Is it the SAME W31 in all these movies from the 60's-70's????
I think so?!
@@TellySavalas-or5hf I got no idea, but there couldn't have been that many of them running around in operable condition.
@historicmilitaria1944 Thanks!
MB in 2013: This is our first 6 wheeler!
Historians: *smurk*
Which of the buttons activates the flamethrowers?
Bean
Toast
Shit? On my shingle?!
I hope it was an error, not an intentional change that this video did not have the movie title in the corner that was source of the clips. I enjoy your videos, but then also reminding me of old and obscure war movies to watch, so I miss having source shown.
I think the only film I recognized was Catch 22 :)
They are all there. Maybe they are in smaller text? Looks okay to me tho.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Weird - l was watching on a Samsung tablet and nothing was visible. I will try watching on a different device, but normally they are clearly visible wether on TV or tablet. I have watched probably 100 of your videos and always seen the sources before.
Thanks man. Nothing changed in my editing process. I can view them when watching on my phone. It's good to have the feedback tho, in case I need to problem solve. Providing the titles is important to me.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsqFigured it out. Titles show on TV, but in the size and location you used on this video they disappear on a tablet viewing in portrait mode but are there in landscape, so just a cropping issue. I usually watch your videos in portrait on the same tablet and have not, not seen them before though. So you may consider making them a bit larger or relocated a bit.
Anyway, I enjoy your videos a lot and appreciate both fairly obscure topics and video sources and they have gotten me to watch some interesting obscure (to the US market) movies.
Really good on this and who knows may want to do a video on the S-Mine or Bouncing Betty as another also is said to be revised that can replace the deadly ball bearings with sharp things to make it more deadly as seen in a documentary about it or other topics to look up since there's many out there like MANIPADs such as the SA-7 and Stinger among others in that category and still can be good for AK-47, RPG-7, M-14 rifle and who knows what others like B-52 bomber is another good one and like I already said a lot out there.
1:41 does anyone knows what Tank was used here to pretend to be King Tiger?
Beautiful mercedes benz ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
"Klink, you idiot!"
Interesting so relatively few were produced compared to its use in post-war media, like those old war movies starring has Benz.
Another Mercedes W.
The car with the STAR!
Hitler didn't know how to drive a car. That's why he always had a chauffeur and not only in parades.
By the time he owned one he was too important. Same reason world leaders don't tend to today. Driving takes all your attention.
I always wonder in alternate history scenarios, where the axis managed to win or at least had a stalemate agreement, how pissed off the officers would be, when Mercedes Benz, and BMW tell them that they can't open the car canopy during parade because they haven't payed the subscription for the folding canopy mechanism.
How do you gather the clips for these videos? Do you just take notes on guns/vehicles/uniforms/etc in advance when you watch a film or show?
Alright I'm Ken and thank you Johnny.
I gonna call this a big W
Could you make a video about the twin mustang plane?
"...And golden eagles clutching Golden Battons."
Hahahahaha!
Thomas Witmann showed Goering car pennant on a YT video yesterday. The same one Johnny showed....!
This just in. Francisco Franco is still dead.
2:02 Can somebody explain to me the reason behind the odd vehicle markings here? I thought it was a weird scifi dystopia until looked the movie up.
It's from catch-22. M&M enterprises. There is a movie, a hulu series, and the original novel by Joseph heller. Milo minderbinder is the anthropomorphic stand in for unregulated capitalism.
That’s spooky watched one of your videos which seem to have a lot of German staff cars and I thought I wonder if Johnny will do one on featuring these cars - lo and behold 24 hours later 😂
Yes, Hitler and his infamous handicap parking permit. Nice vid, JJ
Up next...the messerschmidt bubble car...😊😊😊
Across Europe in Tank
Sherman Tank
Feel the wind in your moustache... LOL
If you were to give me the Keys and Title I would Smile Really BIG and say Thank You Very Much!!!! 🤠👍
Who else Instantly thought of the top gear joke "take the third Reich"
Yup
Johnny and Mark Felton collab when?
I would to get my hands on a eorking one of these.
when mercedes lauched the G 6X6 for australian army, it was said that it's the first 6 wheeled military vehicle since decades. and i think there is a heritage in it since (armored) genändewaen are not a rare thing in state use. both with army and politics.
WTF is "meters"?
Something the US Army uses. 1000 meters is a klick.
Black sorcery
Was Bing's Bomb in McHale Navy.
I don't think hitler rode in anything but his armor vehicle after the first attempt on his life. I had a friend who saw him in his vehicles throughout the war. Apparently many of the more loyal HJ were kept where they could lay down their lives for Uncle Adolf as they were taught to call him.
This is basically a truck with a regular cars body (albeit convertible). Still, its a looker, isnt it?
Very Nice, More WW2 German Car Vids please.
Shout out out to the infamous Top Gear episode referencing the six wheel Mercedes Benz W31:
th-cam.com/video/kL-m5Nocb-g/w-d-xo.html
The Mercedes Benz command car is nice and fancy and all, but I prefer the relatively humble and most versatile US command car which is the Jeep.
The Jeep has barely seating for 2 including the driver and some uncomfortable room in the back for 2 or 3 more. If you value your back you choose the Mercedes.
Can you please do the Lee Enfield
Salve a Grande Alemanha
The evil car until friendly car.
That's a lot of weight for such a weak engine.
I get 3.0 gallons to the mile in mine. But then i only use it to get to my Ju-52...
2:35 "We have American wunderwaffe panzer from die future!"
Change of plans, not invading Poland at present.
Johnny, you really have a 'niche' video channel; with enjoyable content, presented in a fun and unique way. I wish you great success - John 14:6
Wheatcroft outbid Mercedes Benz!
Do they still make these?
Come on. Do Jagdpanzer IV. It's been years.
allied have their jeep
we hve a schwim-wagen
_I saw nothing..! NOTHING..!!_
Schultz!!!!
how weird is it that a sitcom set in a Nazi POW camp is considered a classic
Captain Klink was played by a Jew who escaped Nazi Germany, and only played Nazis when he could make fun of them. Sergeant Schulz may have been the same, but I read this a long time ago.
Still a better comedy and sitcom the Gilligan's Island ever was. Personal opinion.
Credit where it's due, the car sure isn't as memorable as the Kubelwagen and Kettenkrad when it comes to visualizing a Nazi vehicle. Even if a good neighbor drove one of these, I would not have started batting an eye.
Think the Volkswagen Beetle, which is rarely associated with those inhumans.
What a "Beast"--went with the passengers
How so?
Alles klar, herr Kommissar?
Alaaaarm!
Bro,you forget「Der hapttman」W31.
sorry.I'm not good at it English from japan.
Can't believe I forgot that one!
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq I learned about W31 from that movie.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq sorry. It seems that a vehicle called W34 does not exist....It seems that I am mistaken.
Oh yup, I just looked it up! Nice movie prop tho.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Yes.I think it's very well done.
5 million buckaroonies!!!!!!!
Makarov pm
Were the horsepower figures given gross, net, or net at the rear wheels? The inner gearhead in me wants to know... 😉