Hitler's Arctic front: In the Footsteps of the German Gebirgsjäger (elite Mountain-troops)

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  • Опубликовано: 22 ноя 2024

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  • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
    @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад +9

    Click here for love and excitement: instagram.com/ironmikemetaldet

    • @Whoozerdaddy
      @Whoozerdaddy 11 месяцев назад

      Mike, the metal tube you picked up after the shovel handle is the ferrule that goes over the handle, down at the business end, to support and protect it. The shoe cleats are ice crampons and the pointed pick ends go on the base of an ice axe handle.

    • @dermonch4934
      @dermonch4934 10 месяцев назад

      Hello Mike , you have Instagram ? Can we Write on Instagram ? If you have Instagram ? Would Like to ask you something .
      Greets
      Chris

  • @arcticradio
    @arcticradio 11 месяцев назад +10

    Same here in Northern Finland. The forests are littered with stuff. Found a live 1936 mauser bullet the other day. We have over 30 camps nearby in one area alone. Buckets dated 1940, tin cans, parts of vans, engines, oil lamps…….the list goes on.

    • @kenhenrik71
      @kenhenrik71 11 месяцев назад +2

      Where do you live?

    • @JP-vs1ys
      @JP-vs1ys 11 месяцев назад +2

      That stuff should probably be mapped by pros...even though much of it is simply rubbish. It's still insights into the past. Much like Napoleonic era encampments. Someday it will be gone.

    • @JK_nsbm
      @JK_nsbm 6 месяцев назад +1

      missäpäin. ite oon ivalo-saariselkä väliltä löytänyt kaikenlaista

  • @ErinRenee1990
    @ErinRenee1990 10 месяцев назад +2

    I happened to be recommended your video by RUclips. It was very awesome to see those artifacts. I can’t believe their still there after all this time. Neat!

  • @TimothyKepner
    @TimothyKepner 11 месяцев назад +7

    Your videos seem to be too short as I could watch them for hours. Thank you for taking us along on you adventures it is always a pleasure.

    • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
      @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад

      Thanks Tim! And thanks again for your legendary support on the Patreon's website.

  • @KevinSmith-yh6tl
    @KevinSmith-yh6tl 11 месяцев назад +5

    ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC,MIKE!
    Thanks so much for taking us along.
    The amount of equipment left there is mind-blowing for us
    lovers of WW2 militaria, especially the pack frames!!!
    YOU DA MAN! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @thomasbrown5081
    @thomasbrown5081 11 месяцев назад +1

    Hi mike great video there was a lot of items good to see you back my friend stay safe cant wait for the next one 😀🙏🏼🙏🏼👍👍👍

  • @mynamesjudge
    @mynamesjudge 11 месяцев назад +1

    It's crazy that all of this is just laying on the ground. If this were my woods when I was a kid, that would be picked clean. We did find a lot of arrowheads but I never had a metal detector to look for anything underground. Luckily for my grandparents generation but unfortunately for me, there are no WWII artifacts in our New England woods.

  • @skunkworks2059
    @skunkworks2059 11 месяцев назад +2

    As a Canadian watching your videos it makes me so jealous. I can’t find ww2 things like this anywhere around me. I’d love some of that stuff to add to my history collection.

    • @JP-vs1ys
      @JP-vs1ys 11 месяцев назад +3

      be thankful. it would be very bad indeed if the germans made it to canada!

    • @suzyqualcast6269
      @suzyqualcast6269 6 месяцев назад

      You're lucky WW2 didn't land upon Canadian shores, leaving its debris behind, and I say that with absolute respect for your fellows who fought in Europe.

  • @Canned_beef
    @Canned_beef 11 месяцев назад +5

    Holy shit! It’s literally a gold mine. I’d rather explore this than visit any museum.

  • @kilcar
    @kilcar 11 месяцев назад +2

    Looks like they cached and burned everything upon surrender or withdrawal from the area. I started skiing eith nearly identical ski bindings; Silveretta Bindings!

  • @garryhulshof4383
    @garryhulshof4383 11 месяцев назад

    Good thing you had a guide,could get very lost walking around in that forest. Lots of very cool finds. Especially those gas mask canisters.

  • @cyberleaderandy1
    @cyberleaderandy1 11 месяцев назад

    Watching this on Christmas day and its utterly amazing. Thanks for a great year of videos Mike and Happy Christmas !

  • @Ryanboy2020
    @Ryanboy2020 11 месяцев назад +24

    Mike, why didnt the owner want anyone to metal detect on the property? There is probably a lot of cool things preserved under the surface.

    • @noahellis3672
      @noahellis3672 11 месяцев назад +16

      Probably because others have been there before but weren't conscientious about replacing the dirt and soil back into the holes that were dug. As the old saying goes it only takes one or a few bad apples to spoil things for everyone else.

    • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
      @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад +8

      I don't know and didn't ask. Usually it is what @noahellis3672 says. Probably a few bad experiences with other explorers or something.

    • @stretchedout6600
      @stretchedout6600 11 месяцев назад +5

      Maybe dead bodies he haves buried who knows?

    • @Davidautofull
      @Davidautofull 11 месяцев назад +6

      its probably like detecting a beach.
      where someone threw 10,000 BBs.
      cant move without getting a signal.

    • @OPEK.
      @OPEK. 11 месяцев назад +3

      Probably scared of someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing finding something explosive..

  • @johndaut2838
    @johndaut2838 11 месяцев назад +2

    The chimney was probably for a boiler. The drop containers were there probably to pack with First Aid materials to drop to the troops.

  • @bingobutler9656
    @bingobutler9656 11 месяцев назад

    Bro, it was great to see you and Digger Dawn hanging out! Another great video. Hope the universe is smiling on you and yours

    • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
      @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад +1

      It was big fun seeing Dawn again at the Kooistra rally last month!
      Thanks for coming by and great to read you enjoyed the video

  • @thomasholz1659
    @thomasholz1659 4 месяца назад

    Your first find is called „Steigeisen“, which fitted to boots helping men to move on icy paths.

  • @MARKE911
    @MARKE911 11 месяцев назад

    What a massive amount of stuff. A scrap haulers money 💰 pit. Thanks for showing and taking the time.

  • @sagesserbetc247
    @sagesserbetc247 11 месяцев назад +1

    Reminds me of my holidays in Norway, trash everywhere in the woods,not what i was expecting..

    • @cdd4248
      @cdd4248 11 месяцев назад +1

      Like WWII Trash or just everyday Trash? Because I would be shocked - having never been to Norway, my expectation would be everything orderly and neat as a pin.

  • @simonmbp
    @simonmbp 11 месяцев назад +2

    I was looking for packrafting in that area an found your channel 😂. But thanks, very interesting. My grandpa's brother was there as a soldier of Gebirgsdivision "Nord". He got a finish medal for rescuing a (finish) officer, Nahkampfspange (close combat medal) etc. He got shot in the lungs. However, he survived. He may have been in that field hospital. My grandpa said his brother was quite "famous" within his unit for several actions / "good shooting". My grandpa himself was also soldier of the "Nord" (12. Rgt.), but was fighting in southern Germany at the end of the war (he was 18). Their three brothers didn't survive the war, the youngest turned 16 in Dec. 1944. My grandpa died last year, his surviving brother several years ago (I knew him). My grandpa was heavily traumatized and always told me to run away if there is a war starting...

  • @scottlincoln9660
    @scottlincoln9660 11 месяцев назад +1

    I'm amazed thet the locals didn't 'liberate' all that skiing and mountaineering stuff after the war. It would have been very useful to them.

  • @daniellindballe4161
    @daniellindballe4161 11 месяцев назад

    Truly amazing Mike!! 💪🏻 great video!
    Best regards Daniel - ww2RevivalDenmark

  • @retAFcop98
    @retAFcop98 11 месяцев назад

    Excellent exploration Mike!

  • @geoffthiessen646
    @geoffthiessen646 11 месяцев назад

    Wow excellent fines and location

  • @arjanberendsen2988
    @arjanberendsen2988 11 месяцев назад

    Great footage as always and you are wearing a tshirt supporting JD ;)

    • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
      @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад +1

      Always! Least I can do for his support to my channel. Thanks for dropping in Arjan.

    • @arjanberendsen2988
      @arjanberendsen2988 11 месяцев назад

      @@IronMikeMetaldetecting Anytime Mike :)

  • @davea8346
    @davea8346 11 месяцев назад

    I lived in Norway in the 90s. Even then there were many with a strong dislike for the Germans. One of my friends told me of places with concrete bunkers and 8mm ammunition laying about.

  • @dinnng
    @dinnng 11 месяцев назад +2

    Steigeisen, Schneeschuhe, Eispickel und so weiter....all sorted and on top....seems like the soldiers had to leave after all because they lost the area and got to jail....maybe....

  • @thomaslockwood8870
    @thomaslockwood8870 11 месяцев назад

    Great video!

  • @ww2historyfinderl587
    @ww2historyfinderl587 11 месяцев назад +1

    Man wat een gekkenhuis zo veel relics als ik daar mocht rapen zou me auto me krakende veren terug naar huis gaan 😂
    Maar serius er ligt daar een fortuin aan relics 😮

  • @suzyqualcast6269
    @suzyqualcast6269 6 месяцев назад

    That chimney stack would have been at one end of a nissen type hut. Wasn't that artefact you picked up close to an early microphone remnant?

  • @skunkworks2059
    @skunkworks2059 11 месяцев назад +1

    Why are these things not being preserved. It’s truly a shame.

  • @009ADVENTURES
    @009ADVENTURES 11 месяцев назад

    unbelievable finds , super interesting video 👍

  • @olliealexander6291
    @olliealexander6291 10 месяцев назад

    Happy New Year from Chicago USA🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @corydunaway
    @corydunaway 11 месяцев назад

    I'm envious that yall can walk into the woods and find this stuff. There's a lot of bring backs in the U.S. but they cost a pretty penny for us collectors

    • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
      @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад +1

      Needed to take a flight first :-)

    • @corydunaway
      @corydunaway 11 месяцев назад

      @@IronMikeMetaldetecting well, at least you have connections over there

  • @cyndiebill6631
    @cyndiebill6631 11 месяцев назад +1

    Love the shirt you’re wearing. 😁👍

  • @mickeysrccrawl
    @mickeysrccrawl 11 месяцев назад +1

    Mike, im sure its a front-post, where soldiers stayed before going to the frontline, and where the got back for suplies or got ot from. Also the canisters (for plains) show, where the packed it for the troops. Great video, but still think some of it, migth be better at a museum :-)

  • @noahellis3672
    @noahellis3672 11 месяцев назад +3

    Those metal attachments that the mountain troops wore on the bottom of their boots are cleats. I'm guessing the owner has had other people who used metal detectors and dug up the land in places but they didn't replace the soil as they found it. That's a big no-no here in the U.S. where some of the guys who are searching for long buried artifacts on their RUclips sites are very meticulous in making sure that they replace the soil back in the ground so as to not leave unsightly holes. Maybe you could show the owner what you do when you seach the ground and how you restore the ground back to the way it was before being dug up.

    • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
      @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад

      Yeah that is probably what happened. People do make a mess of things and screwing it up for others. But metal detecting there was probably useless anyway. Would have loved to have dug out that gasmask canister spot. I'll bet there are some decent ones underneath the toplayer

  • @Arthur-f1i
    @Arthur-f1i 10 месяцев назад

    Dit is bizar, daar ligt letterlijk een fortuin in het bos.😳😳

  • @tessabrown5350
    @tessabrown5350 11 месяцев назад +1

    I'd love to come from Canada to metal detect.

  • @rodengorman8762
    @rodengorman8762 9 месяцев назад

    These look like burn pits/piles. Everything just dumped and set alight before they clear off.

  • @nozr1383
    @nozr1383 11 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome!

  • @daanveld2887
    @daanveld2887 11 месяцев назад +1

    Mike jammer man dat je niet mocht zoeken maar wel mooie vondste groetjes van de Veluwe

    • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
      @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад

      geen probleem, het was leuk om er een kijkje te nemen

    • @daanveld2887
      @daanveld2887 11 месяцев назад

      @@IronMikeMetaldetecting snap ik volgende keer beter zoek ze

  • @MetaaldetectieMetAnnemiek
    @MetaaldetectieMetAnnemiek 11 месяцев назад

    Wow. So many stuff

  • @TheGreatest1974
    @TheGreatest1974 11 месяцев назад +1

    My god. Imagine if there was a pile of old helmets like the pile of gas mask canisters?

  • @dbaider9467
    @dbaider9467 11 месяцев назад

    Mike, what brand of mosquito repellant are you using? I seriously need some like that man...

    • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
      @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад

      I took a DEET bath right before we went out! Musquitos and flies were a big problem there as you could tell looking at the outro.

  • @AParallelReality
    @AParallelReality 11 месяцев назад +2

    It’s too bad that guy won’t let people dig out stuff because it’s all gonna be ruined & lost forever

    • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
      @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah I agree but it was fun seeing that all nonetheless

    • @skwissgaar_skwigelf_kdz3251
      @skwissgaar_skwigelf_kdz3251 11 месяцев назад

      he probably knows that there is things that can still go boom just below the muskeg, and not to mention the fallen soldiers in unmarked graves, battlefield grave robbing for certain German artifacts is a lucrative business, hes doing his part to keep shovels out of hallowed ground.

  • @AnnasBurningCuriosity
    @AnnasBurningCuriosity 11 месяцев назад

    Ticked all the boxes ✅

  • @davidsawmandave8731
    @davidsawmandave8731 11 месяцев назад

    I dont see why there would be a problem to put a coil to the soil at a dump like this , problem is i would believe it would be hard to dig with all that iron

    • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
      @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад

      The owner simply didn't want it. It was fun checking out all those relics nonetheless. And not sure it would have been any use swinging a detector there with so much big metal chunks in the ground.

  • @salvatorerizzottolo5062
    @salvatorerizzottolo5062 9 месяцев назад

    Bei posti e bei ritrovamenti 👍👍

  • @stuman01
    @stuman01 11 месяцев назад +1

    So sad that all the amazing history is just rusting away.

  • @kenhenrik71
    @kenhenrik71 11 месяцев назад

    2 Geb div. Depo for the tropps fighting on litza. The owner of the land don't want a lot of people in the garden. I have permission and trying to show this to you. We probably haven't showed you the best objekts in Finnmark. Mike is welcome back anytime for more video 😊

  • @Jontsu86
    @Jontsu86 11 месяцев назад

    Did you collected any of those or just leave it?

    • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
      @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад

      We took some small items that fitted my pocket. The rest we just had to leave.

  • @gregblake2635
    @gregblake2635 11 месяцев назад

    We’re you allowed to take any souvenirs?

  • @chrisarnett1394
    @chrisarnett1394 7 месяцев назад

    The amount of stuff just lying about is flabbergasting!!

  • @ugaugai
    @ugaugai 11 месяцев назад

    Is there any chance the authorities clean these trash sites?

    • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
      @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад

      That had the chance to do so the last 78 years and didn't. So they probably will never do it.

  • @kimnorrgren9468
    @kimnorrgren9468 11 месяцев назад

    wow stock facility. Nearly too much...or?

  • @Nina0548x
    @Nina0548x 11 месяцев назад

    Heel Nice 🤩

    • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
      @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад +1

      Bedankt Nina! Weer eens wat anders dan graven.. :-)

    • @Nina0548x
      @Nina0548x 11 месяцев назад

      @@IronMikeMetaldetecting jaa ook vet! T besef dat er ook nog zoveel in tact is. Kan je wederom weer in deze video zien echt bizar

    • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
      @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад +1

      @@Nina0548x ja dit heb ik ook nog nooit eerder zo gezien. Honderden Gasmaskerbussen op een stapel.

  • @gregkerr725
    @gregkerr725 11 месяцев назад

    Like the Germans just shucked all their equipment and walked away!

    • @kenhenrik71
      @kenhenrik71 11 месяцев назад +1

      Run!!!! the red army is at the door step. They had too leave in a hurry. Priority on other objekts, non esensial exipment stayed behind. Okt 44

  • @HUTZELMUTZEL
    @HUTZELMUTZEL 11 месяцев назад

    "Steigeisen" für Schnee und Eis

  • @laus38l27
    @laus38l27 11 месяцев назад +1

    salut à tous

  • @ww2metaldetectingfinnmark
    @ww2metaldetectingfinnmark 11 месяцев назад

    🤩

  • @piasteroluywerty5905
    @piasteroluywerty5905 11 месяцев назад

    Напишіть адресу. Я виїзджаю.

    • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
      @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад

      Вибачте, я обіцяв зберігати таємницю! :-)

  • @paulbradford8240
    @paulbradford8240 11 месяцев назад

    Was all of this left due to the Germans being taken prisoner?

    • @IronMikeMetaldetecting
      @IronMikeMetaldetecting  11 месяцев назад +1

      According to our guide Ken the Germans left everything fleeing for the advancing Red army

  • @SteppingR
    @SteppingR 11 месяцев назад

    holy moly , so much crapmetal ..........and in 80 years .....same game in ex-UKR ;)

  • @starsys1469
    @starsys1469 11 месяцев назад

    Salut.

  • @spicykokosnoot7115
    @spicykokosnoot7115 11 месяцев назад

    wat een droom

  • @4erDak1977
    @4erDak1977 11 месяцев назад

    На сапаги адивали

  • @Armanto83
    @Armanto83 10 месяцев назад

    Man liegt da ne menge schrott rum. Könnte man doch sicherlich ein wenig Geld machen vielleicht. Dann wäre das zeug aus dem Wald weg😂😂

  • @taubenzucht6013
    @taubenzucht6013 11 месяцев назад

    Soll wohl heißen: des führers Arktisfront! Wenn schon deutsch, dann korrekt.

    • @SteppingR
      @SteppingR 11 месяцев назад

      beschwer dich bei YT ... das macht die SW autom.

  • @simonwilliams1740
    @simonwilliams1740 11 месяцев назад

    Good of the land owner to let you explore but why not let you dig?! Shame

  • @Tempestzzzz
    @Tempestzzzz 11 месяцев назад +1

    meh. Rusty junk.

  • @lucca04
    @lucca04 11 месяцев назад

    Non si può credere a questo video ❤