Berlin's Battlefield: a German Soldier's final resting place.
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- Опубликовано: 18 янв 2024
- Another adventure for the books! Went out with my group of friends to search for WWII relics in the Berlin area. If you are a WW2 enthusiast, you're in for a treat. We found so many interesting relics, I'm sure you'll be amazed. On top of that we found the remains of a fallen German soldier which was reported to the local authorities. The landser's Dog Tag was there too, so he is no longer missing in action anymore. Meanwhile this fallen soldier has been collected and will receive a proper burial at a German military cemetery.
Because we found so many great things and was such a blast being in the woods with these guys, it became a long video for you to enjoy.
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FAQ:
-Do you report things found to the authorities?
Yes, all nasty things found like UXO's and finds that could be important from an archaeology perspective are reported to the local authorities.
-Do you sell finds?
I am a collector myself so I hardly sell relics. But if I do then I'll post it on the social media pages or check out my Patron's website. I share finds with my Patrons (check the Patreon website for more details).
-How do you gain permission for metal detecting?
Check out local laws regarding metal detecting and get permission from the landowner. Or hook up with a local metal detecting club in the area you would like to detect and get your information from them. (I stopped responding to questions like this all together, I'm Iron Mike not Google Mike..)
-Can I come with you?
No.
-Do you love me?
Yes I do!
-Will you marry me?
No, lets just be friends.
-I want to see more!
Go check out the social media pages, or consider becoming a Patron! Patrons have access to much more, special videos, behind the scenes footage and WW2 goodie boxes containing relics me and my friends found over the years.
-What metal detector do you use?
The Garrett Ace Apex or the Garrett AT Max.
-Camera?
Go Pro 7, Go Pro 10 and a Sony handy cam
-Favorite find?
Deep Digger Dan's RUclips channel.
-What is on your bucket list?
Hitler's lost gold or the missing Nazi gold train everybody is searching for. But until then I am happy with whatever pops up, I even enjoy finding landmines... :-s
-What channels do you recommend?
Deep Digger Dan:
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Viking Jan:
/ @suohtas
The History Underground
/ @thehistoryunderground
Personal friend and a big support to the channel, Anton's Hardware:
Antons Hardware
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Proper respect shown to a fallen soldier and a family that may now know peace. Well done to you and your friends.
Well said mate
Same compliments as well.
Pies zdechł....
@@maxmadmax231he was probably a kid. Yes, Nazis were bad, but leading up to the war 1/3 of wehrmacht soldiers were conscripts, they didn't have a choice. If you were of military age in Germany at that time you either would have been brainwashed by the propaganda and convinced to volunteer or would have been conscripted. It's pretty ignorant to criticize this person and call them a "dog" when you have no idea what their situation was.
Sie hetzen schon wieder zum Krieg auf, für ihre Gewinne. 😬
While coming across human remains is a very solemn experience, it’s also a honor and a privilege to be able to help families find closure. Well done.
My mom worked in a bank in massachusetts, an old german lady would come in monthly to cash her check from the german government because her only son was killed in the war. One day, she came in to the bank and told my mother shed been contacted that upon groundbreaking of a new factory in germany, theyd found her sons remains. I was a boy at the time, but i never forgot that. Its important what you do. Thank you
Bless you guys for finding the fallen soldier.
sad that you found remains but i am glad that he will be going home after all these years i hope he still has family alive who can remember him now
To me it is more rewarding that a soldier has been found and he gets to go home to his family if any are alive and even if not he can be at rest with other Brave men of his Country, always follow up with these Brave men you find , find the name find his unit find a picture if possible it doesn't matter anymore from what country they come from , Celebrate them , Honour them and let them show us the futility and wastefulness of our most valuable possession. LIFE.
Thx for the respect to this fallen soldier.....i don´t like videos, where unburied soldiers are plundered. All well done, guys....thumbs up
You're so lucky to have found, made so many friends, that are diggers. I'm in my early 70's now, been all over the world, 40+ countries, lived in a few for extended periods, have yet to meet anyone interested in WW2.
In halbe war ich schon im Februar 1990.....!!!!
Da lag noch alles rum, ich weiß noch als ich Nähe Bahnhof, aus meinem Golf ausgestiegen bin und als erstes ein verschlussdeckel fürs MG 42 gefunden habe. An einem massiven Baum, ist ein Stück heckteil vom VW Kübelwagen mit hochgewachsen. Die besten Stellen waren an der Autobahn, Forsthaus Hammer und Forsthaus Massow. Und rund um den Friedhof halbe sowie in der " todesschneise".
Thank you Mike. I always look forward to your videos bc I never know what adventures you get into. Your spontaneous comments are always welcome and so funny (either intentionally or unintentionally) - I hope you have a fantastic day!
Mooie vondsten!
Goed dat jullie zo omgaan met de oorlogsslachtoffers, respect!
I love that you show respect for the soldiers! You can still show pictures and it show that you really do stuff with dignity.
Now he's spirit can rest
Its great to see Berlin again thanks for sharing. We need more videos from you.
That doesn’t look like an M1 carbine but more like a SVT 40. Many German soldiers would pick up and keep the SVT40 and use it. The SVT40 is a 7.62x54R cartridge.
I love your attitude and respect for the past. Very interesting as always. Keep safe.👍
🇩🇪🇬🇧 My utmost gratitude and respect to your friends for giving up your time. Time well spent finding the places were fallen soldiers lay. It matters not how long ago the war was , giving families peace is what matters the most. JR/UK
Big respect to you and the team for respecting the dead soldier.👍
Interesting with the coins from Norway 🇳🇴 and Denmark 🇩🇰. Keep up the good work...
Another excellent video, Mike. Very much enjoyed it.
It would be nice if you could do a follow up of the soldier’s final burial site to show how these unfortunate souls are honoured even after all this time once their bodies are discovered. No longer lost or forgotten. RIP
Thx Mike, as always! 😊
It's great that the search for the fallen from both wars are still being searched for.
The closure it brings is such a comfort
Love you're videos thanks for all you do
Excellent, Mike!
Heerlijke video weer Mike! Dank je wel! ❤👊 Groetjes van mij uit Rijswijk ZH. 💛💚
Hey mike good to see you all back hope you had a great Christmas and new year my friend outstanding fines the soldier you found will now be buried so now his family will now no what happened cant wait to see the next one stay safe mike 👍👍🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I get the feeling that the family know Han's isn't coming home?
So many amazing finds..
Thankyou for sharing this with us
You’re welcome. Thank you for watching
Excellent video fellers fantastic finds.
Awesome.great finds!
The foxhole was such a treasure trove. Such boring objects in normal life, but found together like that tell a story. That little hole was someones life, and so well preserved. The toothpaste may even be in there still haha.
Wow that’s a nice find!
Fantastic video!!!!
Nice haul of relics you guys found
I know I watched this before, but I saw a few things I don't remember. Some nice finds 👍 Maybe you can follow up in the future with a visit to the soldiers grave when you get more information.
Love to see your private collection what you have found.
This video was a huge blast and many of the finds were quite a treat!For a reason i really the dog tag of that poor soldier,i do hope i never come across remains on my trips,but even if i do,i would report and hope the people go back home
Een aflevering met informatie over de gevonden Landser en zijn onderdeel en hun deel in de oorlog zou een mooi eerbetoon zijn. Waardoor hij het respect krijgt wat hij verdient! Prachtig dat iemand die zo lang vermist is geweest toch weer thuis mag komen. Zelf eens een in de buurt van Halbe gevonden. Zo bijzonder.
Deze persoon ook opgegeven, of laten liggen?
@@prohydrojet2969 ook opgegeven bij de plaatselijke ruimer van de gemeente daar.
As long as you don't start crying
Leuke vondsten, vooral al die lopen zijn erg mooi
Cuanta historia amigo...me encantan sus videos..un gran abrazo desde Argentina 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷👊✊️👍
The Metals are iron cross, the one with a riffle is a Infantry badge. The helmet with crossed swords is a german wounded metal. The tank one is tank division metal.The Panzer Badge
I have a lot of relics near Leningrad. At the cottage, I dig potatoes mixed with shell casinds, cartridges, barbed wire.
What was this area like at the end of WW2 ? Was it a park, or a wooded area ? Do you ever consult old maps , or battlefield maps ?
For some reason the algorithm hasn’t recommended me an iron Mike video for so long. Damn RUclips!
me pone BIEN ver el bosque lleno de jóvenes árboles. 🌷🌳 🎥👍
Thank you so much! I´m a collector and hobby historian, connected to many others all across europe, and it makes me puke every time I see a broken Dog Tag or a complete one that has signs of decades in the ground in an Auction. Just like rotten Medals, cause you never know if some looter just found a fallen soldier, taking all that was left, and didnt tell anyone. So many families still dont know what happened to their Fathers, Grandfathers, and these subjects sell this stuff on ebay
The Germans had 6 SS cavalry divisions in WW2. I may be wrong but with the Kav rgt 2 it might have been the 2nd SS Maria Thresia or the 2nd Cossack if the soldier was in a cavalry division.
Находки отличные . respect .
I hope you guys realize how lucky you are, i live 14000kms away from there and will never have a chance to look for anything like you guys do. Bragging about who finds the most is a bit of a go at others who cannot dig.
Good job finding this poor soul. May he rest in peace. Glad he has been found and given a proper burial. Was this in the Grunewald?
It looks like you found a Soviet SVT 7.62 mm semi-automatic rifle.
Welcome home, bro.
bien les gars !
I follow a few Russian detector channels, they find remains regularly. Stalingrad region. I think it’s called Volgograd now. A lot of times the German soldiers remains have the ID tag with it. They have stated that the German authorities are not interested in getting remains back. They do however take the information from the ID tag to change from M.I.A to K.I.A. From what they report German authorities make no attempt to contact the family to let them know their loved one was found. Remains are brought to Sologubovka cemetery for proper burial. Some group’s in Russia do make attempts to contact the families to let them know. This group also tries to salvage the Russian ID tubes with the paper inside with their information. They do amazing work.
that's not surprising. Germany has went so far left that there is no hope for it....will be Muslim soon
that's not surprising. Germany has went so far left that there is no hope for it....will be Muslim soon
that's not surprising. Germany has went so far left that there is no hope for it....will be Muslim soon
that's not surprising. Germany has went so far left that there is no hope for it....will be Muslim soon
that's not surprising. Germany has went so far left that there is no hope for it....will be Muslim soon
I really hope you kept that pipe wrench! That would be great to clean up! My channel is all about old tools! 😀👍😎
RIP🙏
How are you allowed to search near Berlin ? Tell me
Rock'n'Roll Baby 🤟🏻👍🏻🍀
❤ mooie vondsten❤
respect all
17:50 showing respect, and please inform the family.
Thank you. And family will be informed
Asking or telling?
Just after the Berlin wall fell we were staying on a campsite in Kladow. We walked through the woods close to where the wall had been,. We were close to an old barracks when we found some trench remains,. My son kicked a rotten tree , as it fell we saw a spoon in the roots. It was a Luftwaffe spoon.
A M1 Carbine next to Berlin, beside german weapons? I´d expect that in the Ardennes or western Germany....wow!
Based on the abbreviations on the tag: 8/L.. ART. FRS. ABT. 23: 8th Instructional artillery radio direction finding department 23.
The German abbreviations being:
L= Lehr
ART=Artillerie
F.P.S.=Funk-Peilstelle
ABT=Abteilung
He's not SS. SS didn't have this kind of unit. Most likely, he's either an experienced soldier, previously wounded and brought back to Berlin for teaching duty... or more probably, some kid who was fresh out of training as an artillery spotter.
The SS mark is wrong though. SS units were marked with the dual sieg runes, not the regular "SS" like you found. HOWEVER, if a soldier in an artillery unit was attached to an SS unit, then yeah, he'd have that marked. Since the SS themselves didn't have RDF (radio direction finding) soldiers of their own, it makes sense he'd have the simple "SS" marked, to denote he was attached to that unit.
Thanks for the info. You are a knowledgeable fellow
Liest sich eher wie leichte Artillerie-Ersatz-Abteilung 23, 1939 in Potsdam aufgestellt und 1945 tatsächlich noch mobil gemacht. Paßt auch zum Berliner Umfeld, wenn der Kamerad dort gefallen ist!
Das ist durchaus eine Hundemarke der SS, das SS-Kavallerieregiment 2 wurde 1943 in SS-Kavallerieregiment 16 umbenannt. Hochinteressantes Stück!
Great channel, Mike & friends! To do digs like this, do you need a license or some sort of permission? Being interested in WWII history this would be so enjoyable to do.
Sorry for being such a geek, but I always wonder when coins are found... they will have been given as change for a purchase - and what was the last thing they were given as change for?
When Iron Crosses are found - what and where was the act of bravery for which they were awarded?
Cutlery - what was the last food eaten?
Toothbrush/razor - what was the owner thinking the last time he was brushing/shaving?
Awesome Job guys! Well paid-off video must say! Question for you though, what do you do with these rusty pistols/rifles? Here in Poland metal detecting has really strict laws regarding finding guns, even very rusty and destroyed weapons are considered by the government as ,,deadly", ,life threatening" and other shenanigans. P.S can't wait for the next video.
Some nice finds. I would be inclined to trace the details of the SS soldier that the ID tag belonged to and return it to the family. It could be that he was lying not too far from the tag, having been caught in an explosion.
If they surrendered there, it's possible the soldier did throw away his dog tag because you don't want to get caught by the Russians as an ss.
@@ichich4677 But his uniform would have given him away, probably his tattoo as well.
@@paulbradford8240 maybe he had a black tankers uniform. His dog tag says ss cavalry regiment, so he was probably a tanker without tank. In this state of war, units where often mixed with any soldier they could find. It's thrilling to speculate but we will never know, unfortunately.
@@ichich4677 Crocodile Tear on here does a lot of research and has experience with German records. He could probably decipher the ID tag(not easy with the German ones as there weren't straightforward) and say what is known of what became of him.
I just read that this regiment was part of the 8. Ss kav division and that it was annihilated 1945 at Budapest. So this man was probably no soldier of this unit anymore. German dog tags show only the unit in which the soldier started his military career, not in which he actually served.
What do you do with the finds do you take them to museums
Surprised you haven't found a soldier long before now
I know you cang give your location but are you in the former east Berlin or West. I lived in West Berlin as a kid and we found an old weapons turn in pile in the Forrest once
Kocham to❤polski tytuł i anglojęzyczny tekst👍A może by tak po chińsku lub mongolsku😂
Its just occured to me that i havent seen a ladybug in person for atleast 5 years
It's very possible the m1 carbine could have been German used. Captured on western front but moved into eastern sector. Germans loved US weapons. I couldn't see the weapon well on my phone at gym but it looked like a carbine magazine initially.
DerSoldatenfriedhof Halbei ist eine würdige Begräbnisstätte
Is this the Halbe battlefield?
„Ein Fan des Zweiten Weltkriegs….“
Are you not concerned that when you find these artifacts you might be taking objects that can identify soldiers buried there. Second question, is this a document battle site? Thank you.
Apparently SS soldiers would discard any pieces of identification linking them to the SS prior to capture or surrender. SS soldiers were treated very severely upon capture.
Why?
Mike where is Klugscheisser Dan...???
B.sera scrivo in italiano ma queste foreste sono private oppure proprietà dello stato ? ..sono molto ben tenute e per voi camminare è semplice
the "strange english key" is a stillson key
Qualche anello tedesco da scavo in vendita c'è?
Hi... Did u got a permit to do this in Germany?
I did found a M1 carbine together with some K98, Gewhr 88, STG44 and Mg34. I was told by the locals that during the first part af the battle of the Bulge the German captured so much American rifles and munition that the started using them by themselves. The same as at the East Front. Normaly where the Americans fought the would clean up the battle field from there rifles. An other fact is that I don't know about American fighting in the Berlin woods.
Gewehr 88! That's unusual
@@pleplop3683 Sorry, I checked it again and it is more likely a Mauser 1871 single shot 11 mm. Don't no if that is more rare....
@@remcoump19 still rare yeah, but not terribly unusual in the late war years
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You know that you have report weapon snd ammo finds to the german police? 😊
Do you know the identity of the soldier?
Where are the bones???
I'm wondering if it was a place of surrender did a potential SS combatant remove his dogtag and discard it so as not to be identified in as SS with the rest of the group?
Wouldn't matter as they were tattooed
There are no remains there. The electrician threw off his badge so that the Russians would not have any unnecessary questions.
these finds would be from near the end of the war, late 1944 early 1945, when the Germans were backed up by the soviets nearing Berlin? As always, our treasure hunters don't disclose much about their location.
shouldn't one report a dogtag find even if there are no remains near it? that might still help someone's family...
Je cherche des " reliques " concernant le 3 em Reich pour des raisons privée ; bague insigne médaille etc pouvez vous m’aider ?
"Dress Up's?"
Please nothing photo for the fallen respect
What you doing very much pistols guns rifles? Who is it SS officer? How he died? My grandfather died Stalingrad Don river 1943
Onore ai soldati tedeschi
Are you bringing this dog tag to their family?
address : berlin renickendorf fallen soldiers hand in stamps
Personal documents of military origin up to 1945
Your SS man probably ditched all the things that could tie him to the SS when the Russians began rounding up all the survivors from the battle there.
А вы представьте,сколько павших на территории России!? Миллионы! Только американцев и англичан там нет. А в Европе их всего лишь несколько тысяч лежит. Войну выиграли русские,как не говорите! Англосаксы до 1944 года боялись в Европу высадиться. Все гадали,кто кого. Мерзкая история(((
Unter Mensch?