@@maxsim-f1g Its Nazi Germany, many people in the us or some other places get upset when its anything to do with Nazi's , hell you put your hand a the slightest of wrong angles at any point either to imitate throwing something or pointing and they call you a Nazi, threaten your life, and boycott your company... Well except Volkswagen, Porsche, and Mercedes-Benz. You dont see people screaming to close those companies down when they used forced labor of jews and non-jews during the era of Hitler.. so yeah theres nothing wrong historically, but everything wrong with society(mainly the usa).
So am I! I work as a grinder, especially as a thread grinder both external and internal. Amongst our thread grinders are three that were built in Berlin during the war, but still going strong. They are composed of no electronics, a bit of hydraulics and lots of mechanics and expertise.
I just realized they used crew or maintenance soldiers to mount the tracks at the factory and also gained training to mount tracks in the field a quite common failure even for modern tracked vehicles. Genius and very effective.
From 9:55 You can see an officer and panzer soldiers. Those are doing quality checks on the production line, they are checking the vehicles and the way the manufacturing going on. This is how much they where interested in quality.
the russians did the same with the crew following the production of their future tank through the shop to the final production end so the crew knew every aspect of the tank even if they did not have a factory at hand !
Might not be entirely the case. The Germans modified captured tanks into SP guns. I think this was a mod center which would be more military hands-on than a tank factory. The film is not a single plant because it’s a Panzer IV Krupp plant early in the reel and a Maybach engine plant later. Cheers
@@Richard-pe4cx Nálunk is ha a T 55 mühelybe krerült, közép vagy ipari nagyjavitáson esett át a vezetője is részt vett benne. Igy ismerte meg a legjobban a műkodését.
The German panzers were and still are among the best looking armored vehicles ever produced. Even the miserable Ferdinand/Elephant were pretty awesome looking lol. What I wouldn’t give to have a late model MKIV in my garage. Great footage, thanks for the upload!
Fantastic. I can smell the cutting oil. Thanks for posting this superb manufacturing video. A collector would give a fortune for these parts and tooling. Cheers from Texas.
Крайне интересные кадры. Сразу обращаешь внимание на высочайшую культуру производства. В 2003 году на одном из крупнейших заводов Санкт- Петербурга (Россия) наблюдал момент проверки покупателями из Китая германского вертикально- расточного станка с диаметром стола около 12 метров. Станок был произведен приблизительно в 1933- 34 году и находился в рабочем состоянии. В СССР попал в результате выплат Германией по репарациям по итогам Мировой войны 1939- 45 годов. В годы войны в СССР существовала практика привлечения танковых экипажей к сборке на танкостроительных заводах машин, на которых им предстояло воевать. И, кстати, зачастую у станков стояли подростки в возрасте 14 лет. Автору канала,- огромная благодарность за уникальные кадры.
To od kiedy kradzież nazywana jest ,, reparacją ,, ? wy bez wyroku sądu wywoziliście całe fabryki rusek był jest i będzie złodziejem tak jak na Ukrainie .
Watching this is a mixture between faszination and horror. It's incredible what beautiful and sublime things could have been created with so much hard work and sacrifice.
Man, I needed tank footage once and the fact you've uploaded this makes me happy. Cool to see almost 10 minutes worth of good Panzer factory footage. Keep up the hard work
Absolutely marvellous and superbly interesting video, from more than 80 years ago! The film was put together with footage from various armour factories in Germany during the war. Most of it comes from some of the big tank factories but some of it is probably from the NSU Werke at Neckersaum (Kettenkrad) while the images of the Sd. Kfz. 232 armoured cars are probably from the Büssing NAG factory in Braunschweig.
I was stationed in Schweinfurt, and seeing the ball bearings used here and made there, make it very clear why those factories (SKF and FAG) were bombed... Just the same the loss of life on both sides breaks my heart.
Great video! I suddenly missed my short-lived 2 year career as a CNC machinist! Also did manual milling & lathe works. Can't help but remember the smell of machine fumes and metal coolant's smell watching this video. Great to see how Panzers are made in the German production process!
Glad you enjoyed watching the video and that it brought back some memories. I worked at a heavy truck factory which made side loader garbage trucks and I mostly drove a forklift, but I also remember the atmosfeer.
Amazing from a procurement side that they were able to keep much of the production output going up until a few weeks before the end of the war. Where did the rubber come from for the bogies, gaskets, cables and hoses for instance?
This was increasingly difficult by the time the war continued, this is in the beginning of the war since they are producing Panzer V. Later in the war it was Tiger, Panther etc.
These videos are treasures that need to be seen ,they should how weapons of war are manufactured they offer the hobbyist ideas for dioramas and the historical collectors as well no app should even consider banning these videos.
I watch a lot of restoration efforts- torn, twisted and rusted metal...corroded and aged. Its fascinating to see all these parts when they were shiny and new and cutting edge....
Neat footage! Thank you! Hey youtube! Content like this is for historical purposes! Leave this guy alone showing antique footage! There are many who enjoy this type of machining and assembly sort of thing.
*OMG! My exact same thought when I watched this video. They would be salivating just to be present and watch how these beauties were been created. I'm a big fan of their astonishing capabilities to revive an old beauty from WW2* 😅😅
Incredible footage, I have never seen such a good quality WW2 production film. Just the infrastructure, factories, engineering machinery and human skill. It just goes to show what we can do for a perceived common cause and American money.
Sehr interessantes Video. Auch der zweite Teil vom Baukommando Becker. Da merkt man schon wie viel mehr "Werkstattlösungen" da dabei waren als in einer durchorganisierten Panzerfabrik.
Anything like this i soak it up is extremely fascinating to watch , I love all the films from this era on armaments manufacturing and war production footage well done for uploading 👍
Makes one realize how wasteful war is. All this engineering, resources, time and labor ended up as flaming scrap metal with the bodies of brave men inside.
Nice vid i recognize the PZ3 37mm or 50 short (i’m not sure) , the 50 mm Lang, the Stug 75 Kurtz, the PzArt Wespe, The Sig 150mm,a converdted FCM 36 with a 10,5 howitzer, the sdkfz 2 Kettenkaftrad , an 8 Rad ,stug 75 l48 , pz4 A , Pz 4 f and last a Tiger and a pz VD. I think its a collection of different facilities in different years
On assiste à la construction du Panzer 3 et du STUG 3, qui avaient le même châssis, donc on est à Berlin chez Alkett AVANT la guerre. Ce qui est formidable, c'est l'organisation de la construction, il y a là tout le génie technique allemand. Les STUG 3 puis 4 furent construits jusqu'à la fin de la guerre, ces canons d'assaut (STUG pour Sturmgeschütz), d'abord équipés d'un canon court de 50mm puis de 75mm, furent par la suite équipés du terrible canon de 88mm et devinrent des tueurs de chars. Le Panzer 3 fit la campagne de Pologne puis la campagne de France, avec son canon ridicule, remplacé assez vite par le Panzer 4 qui fit toute la guerre mais qui était surclassé par le T34 russe, restant efficace grâce à de meilleurs organes de visée et une meilleure utilisation tactique. Le Panzer 5 (Panther) et le Panzer 6 (Tigre) n'apparurent qu'en 1943 et manquèrent toujours de mise au point. Salut et fraternité*
German industry was never set up to meet the demand of a long protracted war. As long as they were winning quick easy victories everything was ok. That didn’t happen in Russia, that’s where it all started to unravel.
Some people see the part where multiple hulls are lined up and they believe that it is an assembly line. That could not be farther from the truth. Not using assembly lines made building enough units impossible. It went against their beliefs in craftsmanship. They could not see how that set them up to fail. Of course some could see it but were not listened to.
@@HeilAmarth That is not exactly correct. They had multiple plants producing synthetic oil that produced more than seventy five percent of their AV fuel alone. Fuel was an issue at the end and was one on the reasons why they lost the push in the Ardennes Forest. Their biggest problem was getting enough men and equipment. When the allies landed in Normandy Germany had plenty of av gas but only nineteen aircraft available to engage the allies. The allies were supported by twelve thousand aircraft on that same day. It was their lack of men and materials that allowed the allies to get a foothold and then slowly lost access to production of all essential materials. Fuel was one of those items.
This footage has historical significance. It not only shows the manufacturing of the Axis power. But how during the time of world war. That it was not any different over there as it was in the factories in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, or any other country. Thanks to the person sharing this footage for historical purposes.
Nibelungenwerk was a tank assembly complex that mostly made Panzer IV. The Videos mostly showing Panzer III/StuG and other assembly areas. They did work on the Ferdinand TD and even the JagdTiger, but it was the Panzer IV that should be in the videos.
It's a compilation from various factories to include the Hotchkiss plant in France I think. A lot of it's the Alkett plant. The German officer supervising in some of the scenes (1st half), I think might be Alfred Becker.
@@juliet7bravo I am reading 'D-Day Tank Hunter: The World War II memoirs of a frontline officer from North Africa to the bloody soil of Normandy'. The author was in France and commanded a 7,5 cm Pak 40 halftrack (French chassis).
What's the big fat tank destroyer at 11:20? I know a lot about German WW2 armor (seem em all read about em) i don't recall ever seeing this one. I thought it was a marder possibly but it's not and the chassis looks like an nbfz sort of but those were propaganda tanks with only 5 built
Thanks. Amazing content. It could've been sometime around 42' based on the panzer 3's, short barreled 4's and Speer later in the footage. Noticed some SPG or and tank killers maybe the Marder?
this is really great footage of AFV factories. it’s like watching grown men put together a life sized model kit. also how all parts are pretty much pre-staged.
Imagine working in this loud factory 60 hours per week, not being able to spend your pay on much since the stores are almost empty and everything is rationed, and going home to a cold house due to wood and coal shortages. You have to share a bed with your whole family for warmth, rarely sleep well, and have to head to work at the factory early. Any complaints about conditions in the factory will result in you being immediately remanded to military service, and complaints about life in Germany in general will get you a visit from the Gestapo.
Fascinating footage, although it's useful to remember that this will have been created for propaganda, not documentary purpose, hence the very stylised cinematic composition.
Mark 3's being produced in Workshop style production. The USA went into rolling production lines when could produce tanks at faster rates. No wonder they outstripped German tank production being 3 to 4 times faster.
Ferdinand Porsche visited Henry Ford for a tour of his factories in Detroit in 1933 at the request of A Hitler in order to copy rolling production lines in Germany. The intention was to build the new Volkswagen werks at Wolfsberg as a rolling production line from the start and adapt other manufacturers as and when needed from the that factory design. It was built in 1938. Armaments minister Albert Speer a former architect worked on rolling production line designs from 1942 onwards. By late 1943 much of German assembly was rolling production particularly in the fighter aircraft factories and utility vehicle assembly up until the USAAF and RAF stepped up bombing raids on industrial sites and most aircraft assembly went underground in repurposed mines taking it back to handbuilt assembly by slave labourers mid 1944 onwards. Only the larger Panzers remained hand built throughout the war because of a lack of space in most original manufacturers premises. MAN for instance who assembled the Panther. Alkett and Vomag both operated rolling lines for the panzer iv SPG variants and Stug model G by mid 43. Ford had utility truck factories in Germany prior to and throughout the war. The Ford S3000 was used extensively on the Russian front, some 1600 trucks built just for the buildup to Op Barbarossa. They operated rolling production lines. The issue with output speed was never one of the production line but mostly availability of parts and sanctioned raw materials getting to each production site dotted across Germany. Germany's global shipping was cut off almost from the outset of Britain declaring war by the Royal Navy in the North sea making precurement of raw materials difficult, such as Rubber mostly found in Asia and Nickel largely under British control in its mines in Australia and South America. Copper was also in short supply. After late 1941 the German national railway stock had been prioritised to service the final solution across much of Europe and moving war material towards the Russian front. It wasn't possible to use captured Russian rolling stock as the railway gauge was different width. (Something that has plagued Ukraine today still using soviet era line gauge whilst Poland is European width gauge. Everything has to be offloaded/reloaded at the Polish/Ukraine border wasting time) Krupp and Henschal & co were no longer able to make ample new steam locomotives or rolling stock as they were focused on war materials, Krupp building large weapons, artillery guns & barrels etc in its large foundry and Henschal & co forging armored plate for the panzer hulls & Turrets. Therefore what limited rolling stock was assigned to tank production sites to deliver raw materials or move component assemblies between sites such as Engine and transmission packs was always in short supply. Germany didn't grasp the importance of standardisation of components either until very late in the war. Too late. Allied bombing played a role in further hampering output speed by switching from carpet bombing industrial areas to targeting specific manufacturers who supplied precision material to aircraft, naval and tank production. RAF night raids on ball bearing factories in the Rhur valley were hugely successful. A very high precision component used in practically every application requiring a skilled workforce once destroyed set all areas of manufacturing back months by late 1943. Rather like the shortage of semi conductors for global car production witnessed in 2022/23. Remove one high precision component and the entire industry grinds to a halt. Factor in the high sabotage rate by slave workforce or loss of skilled workers and precision tooling in bombing raids and no amount of time & practice studies could increase Production year on year. America suffered no such issues in any industry, its supply shipping of raw materials wasn't hampered it secured Rubber stock from South American rain forests, its liberty ship building could keep pace with the output of war material delivered to England for the build up to D day and its car industry already on a larger scale than Germany's pre war was adapted to make war stock vehicles and aircraft never suffering a bombing raid once unlike Britain and Germany. Russia was possibly the most ingenuous regarding heavy production starting with pulling all heavy industry sites back from the front out of German aircraft range in a matter of months and even using the unskilled factory workforce to drive the tanks directly to the front replacing them with more unskilled workers who would also become driver and mechanic on the tank learned from the factory process rather than training up a military crew member to do the roles. Also the fact they chose diesel power plants over petrol meaning the T34 could run on relatively crude fuel oils even Kerosene mix, less refinery process required, a problem that Patton would later encounter trying to supply his army across Europe with more refined petrol stocks for the Sherman. Stocks stretched to the limit from England's fuel refineries via its middle east oil sites. Although Russia was an occupied country it still managed to increase tank production year on year to a staggering 84'000 units and 13'000 SPG's outpacing the US tank production.
Footage is mixed. 37mm cannon in some and 50mm in others. Some of it likely was filmed at the Mercedes plant in Marienfelde - given they're machining suspension parts and not just assembling them.
I ran an overhead crane much like the cranes shown in this video for 30 years in an aluminum smelter. The crane I ran was made in the early fifties and was very similar to these cranes. One thing I saw that was different in this plant was running suspended loads right over the workers. That would not of happened in an aluminum smelter here in the US at least from the eighties on. While I never had an incident there were incidents of dropped loads and the only reason there were no fatalities was the rule of no loads carried over the heads of workers. These German cranemen appeared to be quite good but for every so many thousand man hours there will be incidents of dropped loads especially when they are are trying very hard to keep production at a very high level! Accidents will happen in that environment. For all that this is a very interesting video on several levels.
Great video👍 thanks! Make it look so easy.....obviously just before war broke out, apart from Tiger 1, wasn't so easy when factories started being bombed, but when war ended, Germany, I read, still had armament production running at 60%!!!! Me.262's worlds most advanced fighters being bolted together, kit form in barns etc.
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Highly inefficiant static assembly of chassis with parts brought to the tank and not the reverse. Contrast this with the moving assembly lines that turned out Sherman tanks far more quickly. Opel was the American model they should have adopted, but didn't.
I find it still so amazing you don't upload this footage with watermarks all over it, even though you know people will reupload this footaeg for years to come. Watermarking it will make it so when the original will eventually end up lost in time and the watermarked version is all that future generations have left.
Thank you for the comment. I actaully want people to use the footage for there historical videos. A shout out would be great, most of the smaller channels actaully do give credit, the bigger channels just take and never give any credit. Ofcourse they need to edit the footage, not use my logo and the copyrighted music. Some ofcourse just re-uploud the video unedited, which I don't like but this will get them a copyright notice and that's why it has music in it. It is, what it is.
Is it known where this film was shot? Panzer I, Panzer IV (the only manufacturer until the end of 1941) and the Sturmgeschütz IV (from the end of 1943) were built in Magdeburg.
The German engineering was so complicated they couldn’t repair the tanks on the front fast enough. American engineering was so much easier and a whole lot faster to repair, Also we out built the Germans during the war. 25 to 50 thousand tanks! No way they lost.
Wonderful footage! Note that assembly lines were NOT used. This resulted from a deliberate Waffenamt policy considering that it was a mistake to commit to tooling up to produce what were in effect immature designs. This decision hobbled panzer production throughout the war.
I think a Marder II self-propelled tank destroyer build on a panzer II chassis. All tanks shown in this video are early war tanks, so I assume I`m right.
Thank you for the video very interesting. I cant help but feel watching these old videos .That we do not have the same skills and capacity any more. no computer numerical control. just human brains and the will to get a job done. Today people struggle with the aid computers doing the thinking. simple trigonometry and geometry is beyond some machinist. We do have progress a lot of areas but we loss it in other areas.
As a former locksmith, I find this video fascinating! What did the Germans use when there was no more rubber for the rollers? As far as I know, they used steel rollers?
Great video. You can tell that lots of the footage is from the early war period. There's plenty of workers, and no shell craters in the factories. Maybe things had been different if Germany continued to pump out Panzer III and IV's instead of wasting all that time and effort to produce Panther's, Tigers, and Tiger 2's?
I know youtube is not to friendly to people uploading this kind of stuff. So i would like to say thank you agen for doing it.
Glad you enjoyed it feel free to use anything you see for your awesome channel.
RUclips should be because its part of history, i guess.
@@Andrewatnanz That's right.
и ,что такого в этих материалах ? тут ,вроде, людей на видео не вешают
@@maxsim-f1g Its Nazi Germany, many people in the us or some other places get upset when its anything to do with Nazi's , hell you put your hand a the slightest of wrong angles at any point either to imitate throwing something or pointing and they call you a Nazi, threaten your life, and boycott your company... Well except Volkswagen, Porsche, and Mercedes-Benz. You dont see people screaming to close those companies down when they used forced labor of jews and non-jews during the era of Hitler.. so yeah theres nothing wrong historically, but everything wrong with society(mainly the usa).
As a machinists I am fascinated by these old manufacturing videos.
Same Here.
All analog, no computer assistance or design.
So am I!
I work as a grinder, especially as a thread grinder both external and internal. Amongst our thread grinders are three that were built in Berlin during the war, but still going strong. They are composed of no electronics, a bit of hydraulics and lots of mechanics and expertise.
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I just realized they used crew or maintenance soldiers to mount the tracks at the factory and also gained training to mount tracks in the field a quite common failure even for modern tracked vehicles. Genius and very effective.
From 9:55 You can see an officer and panzer soldiers. Those are doing quality checks on the production line, they are checking the vehicles and the way the manufacturing going on. This is how much they where interested in quality.
the russians did the same with the crew following the production of their future tank through the shop to the final production end so the crew knew every aspect of the tank even if they did not have a factory at hand !
Every country that produces its own machines do that as general practice
Might not be entirely the case. The Germans modified captured tanks into SP guns. I think this was a mod center which would be more military hands-on than a tank factory.
The film is not a single plant because it’s a Panzer IV Krupp plant early in the reel and a Maybach engine plant later. Cheers
@@Richard-pe4cx Nálunk is ha a T 55 mühelybe krerült, közép vagy ipari nagyjavitáson esett át a vezetője is részt vett benne. Igy ismerte meg a legjobban a műkodését.
The German panzers were and still are among the best looking armored vehicles ever produced. Even the miserable Ferdinand/Elephant were pretty awesome looking lol. What I wouldn’t give to have a late model MKIV in my garage. Great footage, thanks for the upload!
I'd like one of those PUMA (8 wheeled armored cars...much easier to park at Costco!)
@@Lerxstification lmao that’s something I never thought of. They did make some sweet variants as well.
Fantastic. I can smell the cutting oil. Thanks for posting this superb manufacturing video. A collector would give a fortune for these parts and tooling. Cheers from Texas.
Glad you enjoyed watching the video and thank you for the comment.
This is part of History and anything to do with what went on before our era has always fascinated me . Thank you for the video .
Some are still alive…..
Крайне интересные кадры.
Сразу обращаешь внимание на высочайшую культуру производства.
В 2003 году на одном из крупнейших заводов Санкт- Петербурга (Россия) наблюдал момент проверки покупателями из Китая германского вертикально- расточного станка с диаметром стола около 12 метров.
Станок был произведен приблизительно в 1933- 34 году и находился в рабочем состоянии.
В СССР попал в результате выплат Германией по репарациям по итогам Мировой войны 1939- 45 годов.
В годы войны в СССР существовала практика привлечения танковых экипажей к сборке на танкостроительных заводах машин, на которых им предстояло воевать.
И, кстати, зачастую у станков стояли подростки в возрасте 14 лет.
Автору канала,- огромная благодарность за уникальные кадры.
To od kiedy kradzież nazywana jest ,, reparacją ,, ? wy bez wyroku sądu wywoziliście całe fabryki rusek był jest i będzie złodziejem tak jak na Ukrainie .
6:05 смотри кто гусеницы натягивает. Солдаты, которые будут воевать на этом танке.
A lot of slave workers in the factories from country occupied by Germans.
@@duckduckov4362 Восхищен твоей наблюдательностью и проницательностью... А ведь верно... И как же я этого сам- то не рассмотрел... ))
Тут ты прав , чумазых подростков в засаленых телогрейках точно не хватает. Ну и качество работ соответсвует квалификации рабочих.
Watching this is a mixture between faszination and horror. It's incredible what beautiful and sublime things could have been created with so much hard work and sacrifice.
Beautifully put !
Man, I needed tank footage once and the fact you've uploaded this makes me happy. Cool to see almost 10 minutes worth of good Panzer factory footage. Keep up the hard work
Absolutely marvellous and superbly interesting video, from more than 80 years ago! The film was put together with footage from various armour factories in Germany during the war. Most of it comes from some of the big tank factories but some of it is probably from the NSU Werke at Neckersaum (Kettenkrad) while the images of the Sd. Kfz. 232 armoured cars are probably from the Büssing NAG factory in Braunschweig.
Its called Neckarsulm!:)
What a Heritage for the Audis that are produced there nowadays :)
I was stationed in Schweinfurt, and seeing the ball bearings used here and made there, make it very clear why those factories (SKF and FAG) were bombed... Just the same the loss of life on both sides breaks my heart.
It turns out it is never a good idea to invade Poland. Who'd have thought that eh?
Russia invaded poland aswel@@yereverluvinuncleber
Great video! I suddenly missed my short-lived 2 year career as a CNC machinist!
Also did manual milling & lathe works. Can't help but remember the smell of machine fumes and metal coolant's smell watching this video.
Great to see how Panzers are made in the German production process!
Glad you enjoyed watching the video and that it brought back some memories.
I worked at a heavy truck factory which made side loader garbage trucks and I mostly drove a forklift, but I also remember the atmosfeer.
New King Tiger II Tee on the way. Thank you again Panzer Insight. This video was pretty amazing!
Amazing from a procurement side that they were able to keep much of the production output going up until a few weeks before the end of the war. Where did the rubber come from for the bogies, gaskets, cables and hoses for instance?
Synthetic rubber.
Made synthetically from coal like they made tires and diesel/petrol
This was increasingly difficult by the time the war continued, this is in the beginning of the war since they are producing Panzer V. Later in the war it was Tiger, Panther etc.
These videos are treasures that need to be seen ,they should how weapons of war are manufactured they offer the hobbyist ideas for dioramas and the historical collectors as well no app should even consider banning these videos.
Thank you for the comment, and YT hates weapon content
I watch a lot of restoration efforts- torn, twisted and rusted metal...corroded and aged. Its fascinating to see all these parts when they were shiny and new and cutting edge....
Schöne Einblicke in die deutsche Panzerfertigung und den Umbau von Beutefahrzeugen.
Der Panzer bei 11:20 z.B. ist kein deutscher afaik.
Neat footage! Thank you!
Hey youtube! Content like this is for historical purposes! Leave this guy alone showing antique footage!
There are many who enjoy this type of machining and assembly sort of thing.
The Australian Tank Museum needs this video.
Why?
@gerbrand8132 because they restore ww two tanks
*OMG! My exact same thought when I watched this video. They would be salivating just to be present and watch how these beauties were been created. I'm a big fan of their astonishing capabilities to revive an old beauty from WW2* 😅😅
Just load down with audible. It is only Footage from German Wochenschau, shown in germany cinemas every week during WWII
They have been tagged alot so maybe they will see the video.
Been looking for a video like this for a long time, thanks for posting it!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Remarkable Photography. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you for sharing this important archival footage. Much appreciated.
You're welcome.
I have two identical model tigers... with the specific intent of building a manufacturing plant diorama some day!
Thanks for this!!!
You're welcome.
Incredible footage, I have never seen such a good quality WW2 production film. Just the infrastructure, factories, engineering machinery and human skill. It just goes to show what we can do for a perceived common cause and American money.
There is also a footage about the assembly of B-17s, similar impressive, even in colour.
Hitler was paid by Wall Street to start Ww2
Never seen factory video like this just amazing! RUclips should not destroy your channel
Seems to get better, but it still isn't great.
Sehr interessantes Video. Auch der zweite Teil vom Baukommando Becker. Da merkt man schon wie viel mehr "Werkstattlösungen" da dabei waren als in einer durchorganisierten Panzerfabrik.
Es waren i.d.R. keine speziellen Panzerfabriken, sondern Maschinenbaubetriebe, die auch Panzer herstellen konnten und das auch getan haben.
Oh look at all those hand crafted tanks, so quaint and old fashioned. Nice video.
Anything like this i soak it up is extremely fascinating to watch , I love all the films from this era on armaments manufacturing and war production footage well done for uploading 👍
I find this mixture of footages absolutely cool 😎 and very enjoyable. Thank you for sharing this video 👍👍👍👍
You're welcome buddy.
@PanzerInsight you are welcome 👍
Really interesting video, nice to se a panzer 3 being made, it's one of my favourites 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
@PanzerInsight and we all know about the stug life 😁👌
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This is the most interesting video I have ever watched, on any subject matter. Very, very nice. 👍
Glad you enjoyed it.
Makes one realize how wasteful war is. All this engineering, resources, time and labor ended up as flaming scrap metal with the bodies of brave men inside.
Plus they were wrong from the get go.
Nice vid i recognize the PZ3 37mm or 50 short (i’m not sure) , the 50 mm Lang, the Stug 75 Kurtz, the PzArt Wespe, The Sig 150mm,a converdted FCM 36 with a 10,5 howitzer, the sdkfz 2 Kettenkaftrad , an 8 Rad ,stug 75 l48 , pz4 A , Pz 4 f and last a Tiger and a pz VD.
I think its a collection of different facilities in different years
Always wondered how those magnificent German machines were made. Wish they would have shown more of the Tiger Tank.
Excellent, rare content. The individuals making these "Panzers" were not all "rabid Nazi's", but mostly average laborers, just doing their jobs.
Manchester, in his book, “The Arms of Krupp,” said much the same thing.
MAJESTIC !!! I'm crying 😭🙏
So this a Very Rare RUclips Up load historycal videos like This
very interesting to see how the sausage was made, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Awesome footage thx much! Can’t wait for my shirt to arrive great merch shop btw!
Thank you and I hope you will enjoy your shirt.
Brilliant video ! From a kettencraftkrad to a Tiger l
On assiste à la construction du Panzer 3 et du STUG 3, qui avaient le même châssis, donc on est à Berlin chez Alkett AVANT la guerre. Ce qui est formidable, c'est l'organisation de la construction, il y a là tout le génie technique allemand.
Les STUG 3 puis 4 furent construits jusqu'à la fin de la guerre, ces canons d'assaut (STUG pour Sturmgeschütz), d'abord équipés d'un canon court de 50mm puis de 75mm, furent par la suite équipés du terrible canon de 88mm et devinrent des tueurs de chars.
Le Panzer 3 fit la campagne de Pologne puis la campagne de France, avec son canon ridicule, remplacé assez vite par le Panzer 4 qui fit toute la guerre mais qui était surclassé par le T34 russe, restant efficace grâce à de meilleurs organes de visée et une meilleure utilisation tactique. Le Panzer 5 (Panther) et le Panzer 6 (Tigre) n'apparurent qu'en 1943 et manquèrent toujours de mise au point.
Salut et fraternité*
German industry was never set up to meet the demand of a long protracted war. As long as they were winning quick easy victories everything was ok. That didn’t happen in Russia, that’s where it all started to unravel.
Some people see the part where multiple hulls are lined up and they believe that it is an assembly line. That could not be farther from the truth. Not using assembly lines made building enough units impossible. It went against their beliefs in craftsmanship. They could not see how that set them up to fail. Of course some could see it but were not listened to.
They lost due to lack of oil.
@@HeilAmarth That is not exactly correct. They had multiple plants producing synthetic oil that produced more than seventy five percent of their AV fuel alone. Fuel was an issue at the end and was one on the reasons why they lost the push in the Ardennes Forest. Their biggest problem was getting enough men and equipment. When the allies landed in Normandy Germany had plenty of av gas but only nineteen aircraft available to engage the allies. The allies were supported by twelve thousand aircraft on that same day. It was their lack of men and materials that allowed the allies to get a foothold and then slowly lost access to production of all essential materials. Fuel was one of those items.
@@Jonathan.D True but there's more to that, search RUclips for "TIKhistory Oil".
AMAZING ! The FCM 7.5cm/10.5cm footage is new to me. Great job.
wow is right. If the internets are correct, fewer than 2 dozen were rebuilt into German AVFs.
10.5 cm leFH 18 (Sf.) auf Geschützwagen 39H(f)
@@heinersaller5374nope watch it again. From 8:55 till 11:26 those are FCM w/10.5 cm cannons. They drive one out of the assembly hall.
This footage has historical significance. It not only shows the manufacturing of the Axis power. But how during the time of world war. That it was not any different over there as it was in the factories in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, or any other country.
Thanks to the person sharing this footage for historical purposes.
Thank you Donald, glad you enjoyed the footage.
Excellent footage !
Thanks a lot for sharing this!
My pleasure!
precious and absolutely magnificent video
Back when people knew how to build things. Great video!
Nibelungenwerk was a tank assembly complex that mostly made Panzer IV. The Videos mostly showing Panzer III/StuG and other assembly areas.
They did work on the Ferdinand TD and even the JagdTiger, but it was the Panzer IV that should be in the videos.
Thank you for the information.
It's a compilation from various factories to include the Hotchkiss plant in France I think. A lot of it's the Alkett plant. The German officer supervising in some of the scenes (1st half), I think might be Alfred Becker.
@@juliet7bravo I am reading 'D-Day Tank Hunter: The World War II memoirs of a frontline officer from North Africa to the bloody soil of Normandy'. The author was in France and commanded a 7,5 cm Pak 40 halftrack (French chassis).
Some of these look like Panthers.
What's the big fat tank destroyer at 11:20? I know a lot about German WW2 armor (seem em all read about em) i don't recall ever seeing this one. I thought it was a marder possibly but it's not and the chassis looks like an nbfz sort of but those were propaganda tanks with only 5 built
Incredible footage and some I have never seen before. Very educational and fascinating
Thank you.
Last tank at end is a Tiger. Amazing craftsmanship.
Thanks. Amazing content. It could've been sometime around 42' based on the panzer 3's, short barreled 4's and Speer later in the footage. Noticed some SPG or and tank killers maybe the Marder?
Yes it's the Marder based on the FCM.
this is really great footage of AFV factories. it’s like watching grown men put together a life sized model kit. also how all parts are pretty much pre-staged.
Sort of drives home how time, tool, and tooling intensive German engineering was.
Imagine working in this loud factory 60 hours per week, not being able to spend your pay on much since the stores are almost empty and everything is rationed, and going home to a cold house due to wood and coal shortages. You have to share a bed with your whole family for warmth, rarely sleep well, and have to head to work at the factory early. Any complaints about conditions in the factory will result in you being immediately remanded to military service, and complaints about life in Germany in general will get you a visit from the Gestapo.
A lot of slave workers...
Excellent vid thanks for posting.
This was very interesting thanks very much some of this film was new to me, and I have looking for sixty plus years!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Outstanding video
Thank you.
Fascinating footage, although it's useful to remember that this will have been created for propaganda, not documentary purpose, hence the very stylised cinematic composition.
Mark 3's being produced in Workshop style production. The USA went into rolling production lines when could produce tanks at faster rates. No wonder they outstripped German tank production being 3 to 4 times faster.
Ferdinand Porsche visited Henry Ford for a tour of his factories in Detroit in 1933 at the request of A Hitler in order to copy rolling production lines in Germany.
The intention was to build the new Volkswagen werks at Wolfsberg as a rolling production line from the start and adapt other manufacturers as and when needed from the that factory design. It was built in 1938.
Armaments minister Albert Speer a former architect worked on rolling production line designs from 1942 onwards.
By late 1943 much of German assembly was rolling production particularly in the fighter aircraft factories and utility vehicle assembly up until the USAAF and RAF stepped up bombing raids on industrial sites and most aircraft assembly went underground in repurposed mines taking it back to handbuilt assembly by slave labourers mid 1944 onwards.
Only the larger Panzers remained hand built throughout the war because of a lack of space in most original manufacturers premises. MAN for instance who assembled the Panther.
Alkett and Vomag both operated rolling lines for the panzer iv SPG variants and Stug model G by mid 43.
Ford had utility truck factories in Germany prior to and throughout the war.
The Ford S3000 was used extensively on the Russian front, some 1600 trucks built just for the buildup to Op Barbarossa.
They operated rolling production lines.
The issue with output speed was never one of the production line but mostly availability of parts and sanctioned raw materials getting to each production site dotted across Germany.
Germany's global shipping was cut off almost from the outset of Britain declaring war by the Royal Navy in the North sea making precurement of raw materials difficult, such as Rubber mostly found in Asia and Nickel largely under British control in its mines in Australia and South America.
Copper was also in short supply.
After late 1941 the German national railway stock had been prioritised to service the final solution across much of Europe and moving war material towards the Russian front.
It wasn't possible to use captured Russian rolling stock as the railway gauge was different width.
(Something that has plagued Ukraine today still using soviet era line gauge whilst Poland is European width gauge.
Everything has to be offloaded/reloaded at the Polish/Ukraine border wasting time)
Krupp and Henschal & co were no longer able to make ample new steam locomotives or rolling stock as they were focused on war materials, Krupp building large weapons, artillery guns & barrels etc in its large foundry and Henschal & co forging armored plate for the panzer hulls & Turrets.
Therefore what limited rolling stock was assigned to tank production sites to deliver raw materials or move component assemblies between sites such as Engine and transmission packs was always in short supply.
Germany didn't grasp the importance of standardisation of components either until very late in the war. Too late.
Allied bombing played a role in further hampering output speed by switching from carpet bombing industrial areas to targeting specific manufacturers who supplied precision material to aircraft, naval and tank production.
RAF night raids on ball bearing factories in the Rhur valley were hugely successful.
A very high precision component used in practically every application requiring a skilled workforce once destroyed set all areas of manufacturing back months by late 1943.
Rather like the shortage of semi conductors for global car production witnessed in 2022/23. Remove one high precision component and the entire industry grinds to a halt.
Factor in the high sabotage rate by slave workforce or loss of skilled workers and precision tooling in bombing raids and no amount of time & practice studies could increase
Production year on year.
America suffered no such issues in any industry, its supply shipping of raw materials wasn't hampered it secured Rubber stock from South American rain forests, its liberty ship building could keep pace with the output of war material delivered to England for the build up to D day and its car industry already on a larger scale than Germany's pre war was adapted to make war stock vehicles and aircraft never suffering a bombing raid once unlike Britain and Germany.
Russia was possibly the most ingenuous regarding heavy production starting with pulling all heavy industry sites back from the front out of German aircraft range in a matter of months and even using the unskilled factory workforce to drive the tanks directly to the front replacing them with more unskilled workers who would also become driver and mechanic on the tank learned from the factory process rather than training up a military crew member to do the roles.
Also the fact they chose diesel power plants over petrol meaning the T34 could run on relatively crude fuel oils even Kerosene mix, less refinery process required, a problem that Patton would later encounter trying to supply his army across Europe with more refined petrol stocks for the Sherman.
Stocks stretched to the limit from England's fuel refineries via its middle east oil sites.
Although Russia was an occupied country it still managed to increase tank production year on year to a staggering 84'000 units and 13'000 SPG's outpacing the US tank production.
Imagine the hearing disabilities these guys were left with.
Excellent historical document!! Thanks!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This would be valuable to the Australian armour and artillery museum as they are restoring vehicles shown here.
A lot people seem to have tagged them so maybe they will see it.
Footage is mixed. 37mm cannon in some and 50mm in others. Some of it likely was filmed at the Mercedes plant in Marienfelde - given they're machining suspension parts and not just assembling them.
Nice documentary. Thank you.
You're welcome.
Very rare, extremely fascinating watching, many thanks for sharing
You're welcome.
I ran an overhead crane much like the cranes shown in this video for 30 years in an aluminum smelter. The crane I ran was made in the early fifties and was very similar to these cranes. One thing I saw that was different in this plant was running suspended loads right over the workers. That would not of happened in an aluminum smelter here in the US at least from the eighties on. While I never had an incident there were incidents of dropped loads and the only reason there were no fatalities was the rule of no loads carried over the heads of workers. These German cranemen appeared to be quite good but for every so many thousand man hours there will be incidents of dropped loads especially when they are are trying very hard to keep production at a very high level! Accidents will happen in that environment. For all that this is a very interesting video on several levels.
I was in manufacturing all my life, this is fascinating stuff …👍
Great video👍 thanks! Make it look so easy.....obviously just before war broke out, apart from Tiger 1, wasn't so easy when factories started being bombed, but when war ended, Germany, I read, still had armament production running at 60%!!!! Me.262's worlds most advanced fighters being bolted together, kit form in barns etc.
Glad you enjoyed it, my grandfather was forced to build the Me262 in a German bunkers build into a mountain.
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Highly inefficiant static assembly of chassis with parts brought to the tank and not the reverse. Contrast this with the moving assembly lines that turned out Sherman tanks far more quickly. Opel was the American model they should have adopted, but didn't.
American didn't have their factories under bombing raid. Separated and easier to repair assembly facilities were needed by the Germans.
Thank you for sharing this is great film.👏👏👏👍
You're welcome.
I find it still so amazing you don't upload this footage with watermarks all over it, even though you know people will reupload this footaeg for years to come.
Watermarking it will make it so when the original will eventually end up lost in time and the watermarked version is all that future generations have left.
Thank you for the comment.
I actaully want people to use the footage for there historical videos.
A shout out would be great, most of the smaller channels actaully do give credit, the bigger channels just take and never give any credit.
Ofcourse they need to edit the footage, not use my logo and the copyrighted music. Some ofcourse just re-uploud the video unedited, which I don't like but this will get them a copyright notice and that's why it has music in it.
It is, what it is.
Thank you for your service 🙏
Awesome video 📹 👏
Fantastic video!!!!
Thank you.
amazing footage
Thank you kindly
Is it known where this film was shot? Panzer I, Panzer IV (the only manufacturer until the end of 1941) and the Sturmgeschütz IV (from the end of 1943) were built in Magdeburg.
Thank you
You're welcome.
Great footage.
Many thanks!
beautiful footage.
Great video!
Great video
Thanks!
Amazing. At times I wonder how we won the war.
Thanks for sharing
The German engineering was so complicated they couldn’t repair the tanks on the front fast enough. American engineering was so much easier and a whole lot faster to repair, Also we out built the Germans during the war. 25 to 50 thousand tanks! No way they lost.
Real Men and Women worked in those Factories
Germany a powerhouse of engineering and technology! Great historical video! 👍👍👍
Herrliche Aufnahmen vielen Dank 😊
Fascinating
brilliant video
Thank you.
El panzer III siempre ha sido uno de mis tanques favoritos.
Magnífico documento histórico.
Vielen Dank 👍
Wonderful footage! Note that assembly lines were NOT used. This resulted from a deliberate Waffenamt policy considering that it was a mistake to commit to tooling up to produce what were in effect immature designs. This decision hobbled panzer production throughout the war.
Intersting thank you for the information, I have to really look into this
What vehicle was that at 11:16?
Crazy to think all of these people are dead, and all of these vehicles were destroyed.
I think a Marder II self-propelled tank destroyer build on a panzer II chassis. All tanks shown in this video are early war tanks, so I assume I`m right.
Nice German Genuine tank factory big factory very best
Deutsche Ingenieurskunst und Strebsamkeit. In der heutigen Zeit in Deutschland immer weniger zu finden
RIP....Germany
Thank you for the video very interesting.
I cant help but feel watching these old videos .That we do not have the same skills and capacity any more.
no computer numerical control.
just human brains and the will to get a job done.
Today people struggle with the aid computers doing the thinking. simple trigonometry and geometry is beyond some machinist.
We do have progress a lot of areas but we loss it in other areas.
As a former locksmith, I find this video fascinating!
What did the Germans use when there was no more rubber for the rollers? As far as I know, they used steel rollers?
They used synthetic rubber.
Great video. You can tell that lots of the footage is from the early war period. There's plenty of workers, and no shell craters in the factories. Maybe things had been different if Germany continued to pump out Panzer III and IV's instead of wasting all that time and effort to produce Panther's, Tigers, and Tiger 2's?
Wow to think these are really craftsmen; welders, toolmakers, machinist etc...pretty amazing and skilled men regardless what they are making etc. !
Some are slave labor
@@lewcrowley3710 Agree, especially after mid-1944, Speer made that clear.
Thanks to photography ❤
Thank you for the comment.
Outstanding...
Fantastic! Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it.