How a German Squad attacks a position (WW2)
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I like how it's a "dirty trick" to throw a grenade into an armored car turret to make sure no one is hiding inside. Maybe they should have knocked politely and asked if they could borrow a cup of sugar like the allies did.
Charles Bets lmao so true
That's one of the things that makes the movie "Fury" so phony. If no grenades are available then a gun is pointed into the turret with backup as I have seen in actual combat footage. Other even phonier parts show the guy in the Sherman tank randomly toss grenades out the hatch that lands into groups of Germans all bunched up together killing then all. Typical hollywood BS.
German rude boys 😲
Nah, US troops accidentally burned some civilian families with their flame throwers on some japanese islands because they were too anxious to check who's hiding in a bunker.
Ahahahaha i see you took a page out of the British tactics handbook Africa campaign edition
What the narrator calls "dirty tricks" are just plain good solid tactics.
When they do it: dirty tricks
When we do it: clever ruses
Captain mainwaring agrees...shabby nazi tricks
You need every bit of cheesy insults to win a war, you know.
Well I guess whoever wins the encounter can decide what was dirty or not.... In war, you don't want a fair fight , you want every advantage you can get
@Hans Landa yeah unfortunately I don't count mass genocide as a tactic I condone, I was simply talking about division size/army vs army tactics. The Soviet Union definitely hasn't taken responsibility for the genocide you're talking about that's for sure
Such a platoon supported by an experienced panzershrek team could have shortened the film Fury by at least 80%.
A Tigerkommandant with 2 Braincells would have been sufficient.
Because it is totally inaccurate
Yup: totally agree. Still, the film w a s American.
Fury was a shit fest and made out the Germans to be totally inept, like almost every hollywood film about WW2.
Hell, I could have made 'Fury' shorter with a panzerschreck, I was really disappointed with the portrayal of the German troops fighting/tactics, nice thick tree line, and they have an exposed foxhole out in plain sight? And that 'end all battle' at the end. Yikes.
I studied military science for a year in high school, and it came to me as a shock, how much the German squad's manoeuvres resemble the modern, text-book movements.
Pottor Fhasz a lot of modern US infantry maneuvers were based off of these German squad tactics.
And I'm not even from the US. The fact, that most of these methods are now universal, just proves how ahead of time German infantry tactics were.
Pottor Fhasz native and african nations were using similar tactics for many battles. it was revolutionary for european nations, that for so long would line up to be shot and/or stabbed, to try and avoid frontal open assaults and use the environment and common sense to win battles.
That's not really true. See, there are two types of soldiers according to equipment and tactics: Irregular and regular fighters. In case of European, Oriental Asian and Muslim depictions of war, we don't see so much irregular men at arms, because first of all, it isn't that spectacular, and second, they are not effective against large bodies of force nor fortifications. But! That doesn't mean Europeans never used irregulars, and irregular tactics. The 16th century Hussars, the 19th century Guerillas, or the Welsh brigadiers in the 11th century, there were always fighters like these in Europe, making excellent use of environment, and as you said, common sense.
well, they invented modern warfare
I thought german soldiers (all armed with MP40) always run directly into allied fire. When they´ve been hit, they shoot a burst into the sky and fall down.
nobletea 3400 movies. Hollywood.
Kellys Heroes!!!
You watch too much of the movie Break out LOL
+tusk70
Haha! I remember that from just about every film I've seen about WW2. Also, the German guard has to have his back in one direction at all times to make it easy for Clint Eastwood to cut his throat. (Where Eagles Dare)
you forgot the part where they all hip fired with stocks closed
Guess all those SS guys in the movie "Fury" should have read their tactical manuals before attacking a lone disabled Sherman.
MrGumboGalahad houten huis
MrGumboGalahad Its a movie idiot
I am well aware of that but refuse to sink to your level of name calling. Although I have read that those who resort to name calling are often of low intelligence.....
MrGumboGalahad / Hollywood get #1 in misleading everyone.
hollywood SS troops lol
2019. My father is currently the youngest surviving POW of WW2, an infantryman captured as part of Task Force Baum sent deep within German lines. He describes War and Combat differently; mostly terrifying tedium until artillery and tanks start firing along with machine guns, etc.. He says nobody can comprehend the lack of sleep and the noise and smell of the industrialized slaughter. Pretty soon he was in a POW camp. All on the Task Force were killed or captured. While on the mission, he witnessed "City Killing"... the sky went black and 500+ allied bombers roared towards a city in the distance Air raid sirens went off, bombs were dropped. The city was flattened but the Germans went into bomb shelters so usually "only" 10% would get killed. In the camp he saw the world's first jet aircraft overhead and they were German. Despite everything the POW's heard about the war ending, those jets were so unfathomable the POW's were badly demoralized.
My grand father was former guirella team leader in philipphines, btw im a filipino. My grandfather fought every japanese supply lines and interrupt them when fighting was on going. They almost killed japanese imperial soldiers around 1k plus with 50 fighting men. They even provide Americans with intel. My grandfather died jus a year ago with the age of 101 yrs old😊
Annie Rose Loquinario yeah the Filipinos were badass during the war.
I had a great uncle that was part of Task Force Baum.
If only Adolf would have left the generals do their work...He would have had jets and assault rifles in 41, one or two aircraft carriers, Brits obliterated at Dunkerque and their airports razed before the Battle of Britain, no Barbarossa to speak of or at least German generals would have started it in early spring and went straight to Moscow before winter. p.s. Atomic bomb would have helped a bit but he was so stoned that had to put his trembling hands on everything...His generals had no stones down there...Phew!
They invented modern warfare. Vietnam, gulf, whatever we fight. Everything is based on this. Also our SQUAD and special units are based on what they invented. See the helmet, every army has now ear protection. The weapons, every army has now Assault Rifles. Every army has now jetfighters. And that discipline they had, beautfiul.
Gudarian learned armoured manouver warfare from the British, who didn't embrace it.
If you wind back the clock, the stormtrumpen used these tactics in their big 1918 offensive. They, in turn, adapted them from those developed by the Canadians which gave them overwhelming success at Vimy Ridge a year earlier, 1917. Thanks Canada.
@Sgt. Rockner The "Sturmtruppen" was an invention of the German Reichswehr . It was their original idea. Why are you not able to give merits to those who earn it? May be you don't know, that G. Washington, owes a lot to German blood and Military leadership. The famous General F.W. von Steuben - the organizer and teacher of the American Army - was a German-Prussian man. General Herchheimer, von Kalb and Peter Mühlenberg, who lead the Am. Army to victory have also been Germans. In Missouri every second soldier has been German. In NY alone stood 10 regiments of Germans.In Ohio 11.
Not enough artillery. No where nearly enough air power. And above all, not enough men. American tactics were 'find them, fix them, finish them'. With enough firepower, tactical brilliance is no longer at a premium.
The German's Ardennes offensive had initial success only because the Allied Air force was grounded by bad weather. And when that cleared up then, as Rommel famously put it, the Wehrmacht's feet were 'nailed to the ground'.
Did you know the Canadians invented the Armored Personal Carrier in Normanyd during 1944?. They took steel slabs - plenty of scrap around - and welded it to the top of their M3s. Way to go, Hosers! @@sgt.rockner8074
my father was in Stalingrad, and when we used to play 'Indians and Cowboys' he would coach us recalling that they did not move so to a regrouping spot, specially if off cover in open field. They actually spread a distance before getting together at same advanced line, in order to avoid a sniper or line already tipped off by motion waiting for the next soldiers to drop them on expected line of advance. Each will approach the regrouping point from different spots and not at same intervals in time, even if it took a whole hour or more to do such, a unit in the Force was more valuable than trickling blood uselessly. Storming from there would be then easier and sudden
I feel as if that mean they know there objective and know how bad the combat is and basically make their way just trying to survive.
I recall watching a WW 2 movie on TV with my dad way back in the day. It had a couple dozen German soldiers attacking across a open field and getting mowed down. My dad who was WW 2 army vet just laugh and said that's so unrealistic and if they actually fought like that they would have lost the war in a month.
I didn't see any of these tactics in Saving Private Ryan. The Germans just walked into a defended position and sucked it up
that was more realistic... it only becomes after 60 or so years have passed; american tradition...
could it happen? definitely. as you said they had improvised explosives. The fins defeated soviet armour with logs... the fins were also outnumbered 100 to 1 and did not have semi automatic weaponry standard issue. It wasn't an entire division because if it was an entire division you would have hundreds of tanks, not 2. Not likely but not impossible.
No lol, russia invaded to annex the country but only took territory on the border. They used this territory as an excuse to invade the country. Finland is still independent from Russia. That is what they were fighting for.
they wanted to take land on the border as a buffer zone (security) for Leningrad.
The goal of that war was annexation. They did not achieve it.
''remember the sound these weapons make'' - *opens cannon fire, punches heavy bag, activates sewing machine*
right, thanks!
Dave lol considering this was a war training video, he was talking about get to know the sounds of the weapons on the battlefield.
don't forget the smacking two sticks together, it sounds so much like real gunfire it's uncanny
the supersonic sound of a rifle doesn't register on the micraphones of the era....george stevens used to record firing into a drum to get a descent sound effect...you are so spoilt.
Nothing WORSE.....than a half-stitch...under any circumstances......bloody hell....
If bombers had dropped sewing machines on Ploiești and Dresden, the landscape would have been drastically different post 1945. Eh ?
Since I see some stories in comment section I thought I would tell my great Uncle's story.
My Great Uncle Bob (Robert Wishard) was a Combat Medic in WWII and fought in the Pacific against the Japanese. He came home as the ONLY survivor of his entire Platoon which was gunned down right in-front of him with the other Medic that was with him. They were told to hold back while the rest of the Platoon moved in on a Village/Town but on their way to the Village the whole platoon was ambushed from both their left and right. Within what seemed like seconds his ENTIRE Platoon (including his friends) were all dead. Without question. Once he heard Japanese Soldiers moving up QUICKLY, he and the other Medic ran but they ran in opposite directions of each other in the panic. (Which he regretted later)
He ended up running into a swamp that was basically just a bunch of mud, sticks and disease. He hid in that water for over 2 WEEKS, (which gave him Malaria and he lost ALL his hair when he came back to the US, plus other complications) the whole time hearing Japanese soldiers walking right around him. Once he decided to leave that river he ran into a lone Jap. Soldier and actually managed to kill him without any fuss from other Soldiers around the area. (He never wrote down how he killed him and I never asked, all he said is that he did not suffer. So who knows exactly what happened) but he picked up his Arisaka Rifle, (which turned out to be a Type 38, we know this because he brought it back home, I have it right now in my garage stored safely) , his pistol. (A Nambu Type 14 which I also still have) his Knife/Bayonet and a silk Japanese flag he had on him plus alot of his information that he had on him. (Ended up being mostly personal information like his Dog tags, Wallet which had his name, Wife's name and such, which brought such a toll on my Uncle that he actually wrote to the wife of the Japanese Soldier he killed to explain the situation and apologize. For whatever it was worth) :( He started to get VERY sick and had to literally crawl his way back into friendly territory, on his way back American Scouts found him and brought him back home where he was told he was the only person alive in his entire platoon.
This is only a very quick version of what my Great Uncle endured and I'm sure it was worse then he could or wanted to explain.
R.I.P Robert "Bob" Wishard . And to all the other great men (and women) who fought for what they believed in.
That was a great story. My country was almost not involved in the war but I'm always thankful to the allies and soldiers like uncle Bob for what they did. I wonder what happened to the other medic in case your uncle told you about it.
Wow, can’t imagine what people like him went through
This training film was exceptionally well conceived and made, giving some real insight into the planning behind the depicted assault as well as its execution. You have to be impressed by the treatment of the engagement from the enemy's perspective (commonplace as an instructional device today but startlingly novel in the 1940s, when enemy soldiers were generally portrayed as items on the landscape). In this case the chosen technique worked as a powerful means of focusing the soldier audience's attention on the fact that it would be thinking, competent people who would be trying to do them harm. The American personnel who demonstrated the tactics of a German infantry squad would have been highly-qualified instructors-all officers and NCOs-in their own army. The longer the time that had elapsed between America's entry into the war and the making of the film, the higher the likelihood that they were also combat veterans.
Information from various sources would have assisted in designing the demonstration. This would include knowledge acquired from any captured enemy training manuals, the interrogation-and sometimes active cooperation-of captured German soldiers, and the wealth of observations from the battlefield made by the Americans themselves, especially those who were later to become tactical instructors (maybe some of the very men in the film). The film is focused, concise and to the point-never straying into extraneous detail. The troops who viewed it would begin to be alerted to some of the German infantry tactics they might encounter on the battlefield (and _definitely_ would be encountering in the associated practical training exercises that their instructors would have programmed to immediately follow-up their viewing of the film).
Of all the old World War Two training films you can find on RUclips, none is more literally at the sharp end of infantry soldiering than this example. If it was the US Army's practice to give out awards to the best of such productions, then this one should have been Gold Oscar material.
MG34: "Klaus to the left of me, Junkers to the right. Here I am stuck in the middle with you"
Cannonball66, this was truly inspired.
:)
I always thought Germans just ran straight into enemy fire, it’s what the movies always show us.
Germans used small infantry group tactics rather well, the allies learned a lot from them after the war and based a lot of the modern military tactics after them.
Pretty interesting video, especially the part about recognizing the different training those soldiers receive compared to friendlies and using those differences to spot them.
I can spot German tourists walking down the street immediately. Different walk, different way of dressing, different behaviour, etc. Germans are very predictable people.
Sam A You can tell them apart from an Austrian, a Czech, a Pole, a Serb, a Bulgarian or a Hungarian? Jason Borne, eat your heart out!
An Austrian probably not. but the rest yes. I know because i live in Germany
finally I have a proper excuse for having difficulty with identifying sides in Arma 3 :-D
@Andrew Robertson
mostly wrong nations. ethical and culturly people from germany, netherlands, austria, dansk and switzerland are similar. means those are hard to tell apart. to tell a german apart from most of the nations you mentioned is really easy.
they played the objective well
Unlike the italians...
German Sgt. should've equipped a Hellriegel.
IDK, that machine gun team was just sitting there camping and worrying about their KD. P
They were incredibly good at storming positions, utilizing each type of weapon to confuse the enemy and make it seem like there are a lot more of them than there really are. Modern soldiers like Special Forces use similar tactics.
They were also very good at dying in large numbers in frontal assaults as if it was WWI.
@@zipz8423 they still have a higher K/D ratio despite being outnumbered
@@dantewiggins5119 Yep, I can see the obvious advantages.
@@zipz8423 That's simply inaccurate, frontal assaults were not all that common in the Second World war and if they were used they were supposed to be supported by Artillery, Armored and Aerial assets to maximize the likelihood of friendly victory.
I like the small lie that Stielhandgrenaten don't kill with fragmentation, in order to encourage soldiers to keep firing under threat of enemy grenades.
wonders of propoganda
@@DaletheStgwDude There might well be secondary fragmentation from wood splinters, stone chips, glass, etc.
@@DaletheStgwDude wrap a bit of wire around it and it will provide sufficient fragmentation
But they don't kill with fragmentation, they are not fragmentation grenades. As opposed to the US Mk. 2. Frag grenade for example which has an outer body specifically designed to produce maximum amount of shrapnel, the case around the explosive on these German grenades is just thin sheet metal, and produces very little shrapnel, perfect for an attacker, who will often find himself on an open field/in insufficient cover while using these grenades during an attack.
They are very dangerous in enclosed spaces like enemy trenches/foxholes/bunkers, much more than in open fields with such little fragmentation and the blast dissipates easily in the open. Also their shape, with the long bulky handle, provides better leverage allowing for a greater throwing distance than egg-shaped grenades, and the shape is also much less prone to rolling or bouncing unpredictably when it reaches its target, it will usually stay very close to the place where it lands. This is, again, much more preferable to an attacker in situations when he is attacking up a hill for example, where he can throw the stick grenades up with a much smaller chance of them rolling back down than an egg-shaped grenade.
To conclude, the grenade was meant as an offensive weapon, because in most cases the attacker would be in less cover than the defender, which is exactly why the stick grenade doesn't kill with shrapnel; the blast will kill an enemy in an enclosed cover position with or without shrapnel anyways, and the shrapnel could only injure the attacker if the grenade doesn't land perfectly where intended or gets thrown back for example.
Later in the war, when the German army found itself on the defensive more and more, special segmented sleeves were issued for the stick grenades, which offered more fragmentation and was more useful on the defence, i.e. throwing them out of solid cover towards an attacker who is moving and not in good cover.
Germans in hollywood germans : charging literally non stop, acting like a sheep in a cattle
Accurate germans in hollywood : entire us squad dead or either captured
Based
Accurate germans in hollywood: German squad loses half its men 5 minutes into an American artillery fire mission
@@NUCL3ARTAC0S most accurate Germans in hollywood: Germans hide in the forests and inflict devastating casualties on allies ,also German artillery fire non stop because Germans had a lot of artillery in 1944
@@NUCL3ARTAC0S Ok.
I adopt a similar tactic walking home late at night..
Never been mugged yet..
I recreate submachine gun noises like the guy out of police academy to create confusion..
I'm going to make a realistic war movie about the Battle of Stalingrad. It'll all take place on a single floor of an apartment building, and it'll be one week long, in real time.
I hope the movie will be released soon. Gl mate
Interesting idea.
*The FBI would like to know your location*
Think he made it to realistic and didn't make it for a week rip 🙏
The short range of the MP40 was actually a strategic decision, they thought if the commander is forced to engage at close range, it would encourage his squad to near the objective.
I'm not really convinced on that logic. The mp40 was mostly to offer extra volume of fire on the enemy while attacking. Whether it hits makes no difference, but rather to keep the enemy down.
@@speggeri90 German Army regulations emphasize the squad leader/commanders role in being ahead of the squad in an assault and pulling the squad forward.
This makes good sense and bad sense as that few feet farther could help in a fight
@@speggeri90 He's right, that literally was their reason and made a lot of sense really, I'm sure you've heard the saying a good leader leads from the front. This way troops were constantly moving forward according to their Blitzkrieg philosophy.
The MG34 was used on all panzers right through the war. It was never upgraded to MG42 as the barrel in a MG34 can be changed from behind (ideal in a cramped panzer) where as a MG42s barrel had to be changed from the side (impossible in a panzer due to where the machine was situated.)
Cool knowledge, I didn't know that. Thank you sir
To those complaining they call the german tactics "dirty" keep in mind the context of this video. What are they supposed to say? "Notice the enemies brilliant battle tactics as they kill your fellow soldiers!" Yeah lol thats a morale booster.
No wonder they lost, they let us video them!
Henry Rhu No shit
Duh!
Salty Henry O O P S I E
Salty Henry you're wrong. Everyone knows that It was filmed in secret by an undercover agent sent by the Americans to infiltrate the Wehrmacht.
i'm pretty sure this is a german educational video recovered from the germans by the americans and they narrated it.
or these are americans acting like german soldiers to display their tactics
Imagine the terror a rookie soldier would feel when facing a battle hardened enemy intent on killing him. Thank god i will never have to fight in a war.
Lol says who
really? Most decisive battles are fought in the bedroom apparently!!!
Get ready for the race war kid
@@marinesmalevolentcaptain4945 race war... please elaborate
@@cpi3267 this guy is deluded on neo-nazi propaganda. Don't listen to him, they create this world for themselves in their minds in which there is some conflict about to happen with sides determined by skin color... Just a mad mans ramblings.
No German soldiers... or indeed Allied soldiers... were killed or injured in the making of this video. Nice of the Germans to take time out to show the allies their strategies!
GaryNumeroUno lmao
It was a training video for allied troops
John Kimy He was joking.
FUCKING ALLY CS CAMPERS! I would 360 Headshot No Scope them.
Depends the Germans feared all of the allied nations and anything that says otherwise is just modern revisionism. The Brits were known for their discipline and tenacity, the Russians for their brutal determination and well brutality, the Americans for their pants shit inducing artillery barrages(the US army's artillery park was the best in the war in that category, only the Brits came close).
I went paintballing with a group of 20 people a few weeks ago. That really made me appreciate soldiers a lot more.
I have been in the danish army now for 2 months and it’s chocking how similar these tactics are to the ones we are using here in 2019
There hasn't been a great power war since so no one has rethought the tactics involved.
You don’t need great power wars to employ and test small unit tactics in real action.
That such tactics are still used is because they work and because the basic battlefield conditions then and now are not that dissimilar when it comes to small units engaging each other.
@@DebatingWombat The great power wars, total wars in particular, lead to entirely new tactics based around the newer technology of the day.
@jjquinn295 That may be, but in the case of small group infantry tactics in taking positions held by similar small groups of opponent infantry without calling in additional support (which is the scenario depicted in this video) is not markedly different today from what it was in WWII.
These tactics have been used effectively over and over in the wars since and as the basic arms are not hugely different (mainly the exchange of long range bolt action or semi automatic rifles for assault rifles firing intermediate cartridges), there are good reasons why these tactics persist.
Also, the tactics were not even particularly new in WWII, but were developed in and after WWI to cope with the necessity to take strong positions defended by machine guns and repeating rifles. Hence the huge uptake in the use of light machine guns and automatic rifles (the Chauchat and BAR) to deliver suppression fire as in the video.
so danish planning invade poland now ? ;/
This diciplined movement isn't just used to advance, mind you, but also when falling back. It keeps order and saves lives. Unlike the movies where it always ends in a rout and panic.
Basically pin down the enemy with suppression fire and then work around the flanks. Easier said than done
But done. And often. Pin, flank, and fire. Find them, fix them, and finish them.
MG 42 was called the buzz saw because it had a high rate of fire. US troops generally *did* put their heads down if they heard it.
People don’t realize that prior to WWI the majority of books written about military tactics were publish by Germany. I could be wrong however it might’ve been earlier when Germany was Prussia
Not only were their tactics copied but also much of their equipment. Most notably their helmets, the same shape is still in use.
Fuck UR DUM. The mighty German war machine, so advanced because of the shape of their steel hats.
The tactics were taken from a little know British Officer call Captain Liddell who wrote theories on modern tactics after he witnessed the slaughter and attrition of WW1. He came up with the idea of the indirect approach to off balance the opposition but also the idea of fast moving infantry carried forward by armoured vehicles. Plus artillery and air support used in a combined assault. Guderian the German tank commander who came up with the Blitzgrieg term based his tactics on what he had read of Liddells ideas. Used very effectively in France 1940.
The modern US helmet is not a copy of the stalhelm. After Vietnam the US military began a study on what was the most effective shape for a helmet and what they came up with was a design that was similar to the stalhlem. Just if you approach the problem from an engineering standpoint that's the shape you get. The internals of the modern helmet are also very different from the stalhelm, especially the new ones that replaced the webbing with foam cushions.
@@erwin669 lol
@@erwin669 its the same they just removed the bend of stalhelms
This is really fascinating, I like the layering of perspectives in how these assaults happen. The only thing I could wish for is a second run-through from the perspective of the allied MG team.
"WE DEFEATED THE WRONG ENEMY!" Patton was murdered for speaking the truth
You önly defeatet Japan, the Udssr took defeatet Germany.
That's right, Patton didn't do shit to defeat the Germans, it was the great Soviet Union, and Stalin
communist is what he was pointing out
Thus, in another word USA should've been an ally with Germany and Japan? And being responsible for genocide of Jews, slavs and Chinese?
Is that what you mean?
@@peterkuznetzoff3480 His point was that the USA should have been hostile to the USSR. It doesnt mean they have to be friendly with japan and germany.
It took the US a full year to learn to fight the Germans. They fought with great tenacity, and executed with speed and violence. Control was at the lowest level possible, the NCOs. "Higher" didn't interfere or meddle since there was no need. Even if a German unit was pushed off of a position, you could bet they'd counterattack, and within 30 minutes. You could set your watch by it.
Bullshit. The US was fighting Japan as well
@Barnacle Boy Nonsense! That was only true at the beginning of the invasion. It was actually more like 60% to 70% during most of the war.
@@psilvakimo the allied invasion came on June 1944 until then 80 % of the army was in Eastern front
Historical accuracy....realised that this is a typical "allied" squad(2:27) because unlike the allied soldiers depicted here Germans were taught to always carry their rifles/machine guns in the right hand.
If you watch German soldiers moving in period footage, you will notice the rifle is almost always carried with the right hand only, and held down at full arm's length (known to modern hunters as the "trail carry"). This allows the rifleman to run easier and swing the left arm. It is also easier on the soldier, who carries the rifle for hours at a time (we have now added handles to the tops of modern rifles for this very reason).
Remember, up to the 1950s ALL Germans are taught to be right-handed as children (left-handedness was thought to be unnatural), and virtually EVERY German rifle and combat movement, from parade drill to combat movement, has the German soldier using the right (strong) arm to handle the rifle.
I agree with what you have written about the "unnaturalness" of being left-handed. I am not German, but I live in Germany and my German friends were talking about that just a couple of days ago at work. They were saying that it was ridiculous :P
I'm left handed, but was trained shooting right handed.
It was common in most Nations to not allow children to be left handed, all the way up to the late 50s. Of course, the majority of left handed people typically have a higher IQ and are more intelligent than right handed people. People that are Left Handed also have a higher spacial awareness, due to being forced to do things in reverse.
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-asymmetric-brain/201903/are-left-handers-smarter-right-handers
@@cpi3267 There are tons of scientific studies and publications that have continually all agreed on Left Handed people having a higher IQ, far better spacial awareness, and generally smarter people.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/19/left-handed-people-better-maths-righties-study-suggests/
www.iflscience.com/brain/are-left-handed-people-more-gifted-than-others-our-study-suggests-it-may-hold-true-for-maths/all/
www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/why-are-left-handed-people-so-brilliant-8919135.html
www.ladbible.com/more/interesting-left-handed-people-are-officially-smarter-science-confirms-20170621
"..the right moment to lay down his smoke"
Those were the days when you could smoke anywhere as a German.
I will use theses tactics in Call of Duty to improve my stats.
screw Arma 3, try red orchestra 2 heroes of stalingrad.
Real life tactics doesn't always work in games
4T3hM4kr0n! try squad
Call of Duty is a game for Noobs.
Btw, i am running and gunning in Arma III too :p and i am mostly somewhat on top of scoreboards, when i play the whole round.
Thats also what the fake germans in the video do... run and gun. But with strategic depht and teamwork, thats the way to go.
Good Email I don't think CoD players would necessarily enjoy arma 3, realism is generally less fun.
Very interesting. Thanks for uploading!
Great video, very interesting and above all, I like the apolitical and descriptive way the narrator explains the German tactics.
Anyone who is interested in WW2 German tactics should read about General Felix Steiner (the original) commander of SS Standarte "Deutschland", and his training methods. Father of modern warfare. The Waffen SS was also the first soldiers to wear camouflage gear in combat.
camouflage gear existed before WW1. The British colonial forces had Khaki colors to blend in with the desert environment.
oh, come on. a uni-colored "camouflage". Geniuses :/ @@neurofiedyamato8763
@@JohnyNJ ok fine. The British (and at least the Canadians) issued sniper units with hand painted camouflage patterned suits in WW1. This consisted of paint splatter and smudges over khaki green background. This predated the use of the German splitter pattern. If you count Italians using the Tele mimetico patterned half-shelters as ponchos in Abbysinia in the mid 30s then that's one more that beat the Waffen SS to the distinction.
Camo has actually been around for millennia.
@@zipz8423 hasn't actually. It is a fairly modern phenomena...
this is literally the same shit we do in training today, war really doesn't change
yes but judging by your name you do this maneuver with a boat. lol
"Yes German infantry, interesting chess moves you made there . . . let me see now . . ."
"That should counter your tactics."
DesolationAngel101 More like the Americans copied these tactics and used them effectively themselves. War isn't a cartoon.
Thanks for the video 👍
May all the men who died in ww2 Rest In Peace
Except for the SS.
Adrian metzler-holden no
Adrian metzler-holden except like Hitler Stalin and all there cronies
@@AslanW Ill give an exception to that.
The development of the battle group 'Kampfgruppen' by the Germans was revolutionary.
Augustus Trumpus Diabeetus Titleist Well I've read about it so I guess I do know.
RicTic66 Where did you read about it?
www.naval-military-press.com/battle-group-german-kampfgruppen-action-of-world-war-two.html
RicTic66 Thanks.
Well worth a read and you can pick up a good used copy for a couple of 'quid'
Very interesting! Thank you very much for sharing this Video!
Great illustration of the importance of camouflage and concealment at 7:03
So sad, brothers killing brothers. 50 millions lives lost for nothing.
it emancipated women, gave technology a huge burst, made the US the new global dominant power, crippled communism and it gave the people a reason to live for. Unlike the crappy entitled generations of these days that have 0 concept of the horrors and sorrow of war. Wouldn't call that nothing. It might even be necessary, once in a while (a devastating war that is). Like the plague made apparent you can't shit in the streets and expect everything to be alright. cause and effect.
cor boet Emancipating women was a mistake. And all it did was power up communism through lend-lease while destroying Europe. General Patton, before he had his "accident", said that he knew that he'd fought the wrong enemy.
Intelligent Horse? That's a completely wrong name!
not sure where youre from mate but the lives soldiers sacrificed where necessary as I believe had it not been for allied forces to and including Britain I feel that I would be speaking German now. The deaths of all people agaist German forces are to be never forgotten as they are the hero's of a previous generation that instilled liberty and human rights to avoid such a terrible situation again. Andres Patino......go read a book and get back to me.
This is why we need WW3, a necessary evil to wash the weak away.
when the American confronted the German face to face for the first time in North Africa in 1942 they were untested in real combat, they
were green troops as Monti call them; once the German open up on them and started getting casualties, they saw the ferocity and fighting skills of the enemy and were so scared that they left
their positions and run to the rear
passing the Indian lines and kept
going even farther until they were
reassembled and sent back to the
front line.
And then the Americans proceeded to march all the way to Berlin and Munich.......
And a l l by themselves
@@japhfo yes by themselves no help from british, canada, USSR and etc. just themselves. they defeated the germans just by riding on horsebacks.
@@briscoedarling3237 after the Russian horde cleared those cities.....
Awesome video
I don't know if this was made during the actual war. I'm impressed they took the information and just gave it to the allied soldier giving them a solid chance "to know their enemy". Fear comes after uncertainty.
This is extremely BRILLIANT strategy!
Heels down when you prone. Wouldn't want a bullet in them. First thing you learn in the Bundeswehr.
First thing you learn drinking Bundeswehr is that you should have had miller light. That's why Germany got beat up so bad.
@@mikejohnson7202 I never drank in the Bundeswehr all my years. It's a myth.
German were ahead of it's time in tactic, technology,mindset and helmets
Videos like this are hugely valuable instructions (and important Hollywood corrections) for a modern audience. It also, valuable, highlights the paradox that in both WWs Germany had tactical and operational superiority through an empowering ethos of decision-making small unit command; YET, at strategic level, particularly in WWII, strategy effected the destruction of this tactical and operational advantage, with well documented results. Strange system, but ultimately good for the world, where Colonels listened to Corporals and Sergeants, but Fuhrers listened to nobody.
7:31 "Brauche mehr Toilettenpapier, Brauche mehr Toilettenpapier"
Be more "I need new pants! I shit these!'....way too late for toilet paper
Ich habe keine Toilettten papier. Wirden sie Eichenblatter bringen?
Amerikaner weinten, als sie unsere Tigerpanzer sahen.
I like it. I would be thinking the same. :)
Leker Mir von hinter
Am I alone in my opinion that the Wehrmacht are pretty cool?
Mate... Join the brotherhood of Wehrboos!!
You know the wehrmacht had helped the US fight the SS in a battle towards the end of the war cause they didn't believe in the order of killing POWs at the prison camp they were guarding so the SS was sent to kill the prisoners so they helped the US defend the castle they had made into a prisoner of war camp
You're not alone. Not all of Germany was filled with "evil Nazis". Most regular soldiers, just like any war, were fighting for their brothers and for their country, and didn't know or didn't believe the stories about what was going on back home. But it's much more comfortable for us to paint our enemies as entirely evil so we can feel good about killing them. We have done it for generations, but no PR campaign has ever stuck as hard as the one cast on the Germans.
You're not a bigot if you think the Germans were cool, or even if you sympathize with them. They had a terrible time, worse than anyone in the war. People forget, most of the jews and others that were killed in the camps were German citizens. People's neighbors and families were being taken from their homes and worked to death. It was a horrible time for everyone, and the only real evil bastards were the Nazi officers and officials that were living comfortably while they enacted these policies. Even the SS and hitler youth were just brainwashed out of their minds. They did horrible things, and needed to die, but wouldn't anyone after all of that intense brainwashing? I dunno. I hate Nazis, but I don't hate Germans. And yes there is a difference. A huge one.
no
@@Knee_Grow777 Hah, you troll. Good try.
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Their training was pretty advanced for it's time period even for today's combat standards.
How a Soviet squad attacks a position: They run towards it heedless of casualties, scaring the shit out of the enemy with their 'Urrrahh!'.
How a Japanese squad attacks a position: They run towards it heedless of casualties, scaring the shit out of the enemy with their 'Banzai!'.
How a British or Commonwealth squad attacks a position: They concentrate precision rifle fire on the position and then attack it with grenades.
How the Americans attack a position: They blow the shit out of it with artillery, aircraft, and anything else they have.
Americans actually charge til today...
@nogood toobad
I guess you are not knowledgeable of Verdun. After that, I don't blame the French for running in the opposite direction.
The Germans would have won easily if it weren't for the slow work of attrition. German tactics far outweighed any opponent's methods.
Oh dear. Someone has been watching too many Wehrmach videos on RUclips
The Germans would have never won the war, whatever you say, that will still be the case.
American artillery would like a word.
@9 2 British? Try Americans. By late 1917, the French troops were revolting, the British colonials were needing bribes, and the illegal warcrime of blockades were running out of money.
If the USA stays out, the Entente must declare peace
Thanks for this. The airsofters didn’t stand a chance against my “group ah.”
How terrifying it must have been, despite training such as this film (maybe because of it), to be in a firefight with these highly trained and highly determined Germans.
And with their master tactics.
So much more complicated than most of you realize , and the reason we won the war is simple , huge production and huge numerical advantage , and when you want to brag on the allies , look at all the losses we incurred in just the relatively short time we were in combat with the Germans , yes we gave them a beating in Normandy , but you can blame Hiller for most of that , they were never going to win once America entered the war , but don't go thinking skill played any part except for individual survival , when less than two percent of of the bombs dropped by the heavies even came close to the target , I call that failure ! , yet popular propaganda would have you believe that they won the war instead of getting a ton of aircrews slaughtered along with many German civilians , much courage wasted for ambitious fools that could always make the "right decision " when it came to their underlings ,and the same could be said for British bomber command , with them it was just terror raids , nice young men turned into killers by old fools
U R DUM
Usually, in cases like this one, the Americans would call in artillery fire. American artillery, gun for gun, was the most deadly in the war. The Germans say we cheated, using all of our great advantage in material to win- are they kidding? Wisdom is the first requirement before starting a war, and when they declared war on the US with its huge industrial capability they showed how inferior they were in fighting a war.
I hate how you Americans always forget the Russians, they sent 9 million men west to beat the Nazis. The US Army was a fraction of that.
@@zipz8423------- Yes, and those Russian artillery bombardments have never been equaled. At Kustrin, at the start of Bagration, they launched a 30 minute bombardment with 17,000 cannon and a million rockets. Whole forests, villages and everything in front of it disappeared completely.
Germany took on the greatest economic power in the world - and lost. So great was US economic power was that it supplied to Russia alone an amount equivalent to 1/5th that county's GDP - every year from 1942 forward. Germany lost the war in factory. Tough luck, chum.
these were so obviously US soldier-actors, untrained in the correct use and reload of the k98, it hurts to watch them storm forward without rechambering, and how awkwardly they operate the bolt.
Of course they were. Why would actual Germans make videos for the US military?
The US Army used German Military videos for training purposes. They would simply dub over the German voices. US Snipers in the 60's used WW2 German Sniper training videos.
Ebin Shitposter :DD the only thing that's retarded is that comment. of course, they were not German soldiers, but the army could at least have used actors that practised operating a bolt action rifle before filming them doing these awkward moves.
Somebody forgot to take their autism medicine.
As someone pointed out, the men didn't reload b4 a move and had problems working the bolts. That would make it more likely latter in the war when even trainees were using the semi automatic M1s rather than the pre War M1903 Springfields and their clones. Also makes it likely the men picked for the film didn't come from rural backgrounds.
The bolt action was probably the most common civ owned rifle in the US until the later 1950s when semis got cheaper/more common. Hell even until the late 70s bolts were the rifles most of us who shot, grew up learning to use.
Useful, i will use this knowledge respectfully my good sir
very interesting stuff, love it
The Wehrmacht was the finest army in the world. They eventually defeated by overwhelming numbers on both fronts. They were let down by their leadership.
Charles Black hah lol
They were let down by Hitler being an idiot
They were defeated the moment they attacked Russia in Operation Barbarrosa.
overrated ... not really tested until Moscow and Africa ...
Not really tested? Isn't that the point of being "the finest army". You manage to take over Poland and France within a matter of months. You push the BEF out of Europe and the Russians back to Moscow...
your comment is stupid. In the early part of the war, they made huge ground and the Allies had no real answer.
watching this to get better at PUBG
A MG would not be left alone to fend off the enemy, Three or four riflemen would be with them to protect their flanks, and carry extra ammo. The MG team (and the riflemen) would also have a fall back position (one that would then allow them grazing fire of their previous position, if possible), especially once the smoke was thrown. And a second fall back position. As stated, they were there to delay the German advance.
This battle is effectively a game of chess. In movies we see extras running head-on to meet their epic deaths.
"If facing a German onslaught, always remember to duck and cov-ahh"
Well, my guess is that these "soldiers" are US actors. Their unfamiliarity with their weapons is quite startling to watch. The Mauser K98 bolt, with its twin locking-lugs at the front, needs a firm upward stroke to unseat the lugs - after which it will slide quite smoothly rearwards. This is done with the heel of the palm UNDER the bolt, not the floppy-wristed overhand grab these blokes are using. And the MG34 gunner hasn't a clue how to set the bipod on his weapon. They don't look all that loose and agile in the field, either - so they're probably not even US military dudes.
I think they were ment to be slow to make it seam like the Germans were "bad" at fighting
Oi Hitler! Borrow some german soldiers for our training videos, will ya?
@@lerui2820 hitler: Nein
Great Battlefield 5 tips n tricks!
Fighting for an idea you truly believe in will almost always beat some dork who just got drafted without a clue.
There's a good follow up video on RUclips called *Europa: The Last Battle*
Oh yeah what a great documentary
Ja die Amis haben viel gelernt als sie nach Europa kamen.......
Interesting - this presentation is what I would classify as a raid. I wonder how they set up ambush differently and performed reconnaissance and so on.
when they pop smoke, fall back a about 20 yards and wait for them to attack your last position.
Thanks for the tip, you’re switched on mate. Unfortunately ridged commanders often won’t Abandon positions
If it wasn't for Hitler halting weapons development these soldiers could have been firing the stg 44, which is similar to the ak 47. Would have been a shock to units fighting the wehrmacht..
Did someone offend your fallen master?
papiPyro: He didn't say which one was first, he just said it is a similar rifle. The fact that it came before the ak is already apparent in '44 and '47. You also compare that the one gun was designed in 42, while the AK came into use in 49. You should compare the year they were both designed, you're comparing oranges with apples. Anyway, he was just saying that the STG44 would've been awesome, comparable to the AK47, which still is widely used today because it is such an incredible rifle.
TheGOATVegeta ever heard of the mk 42 its the first assault rifle,hitler was against it,also the new caliber , he was a rifleman,read more.
Derek aka Derek fuckoff stupid kid play with your crayons .
Dude, Germans needed to arm millions of soldiers.
Speeding-up untested design of a new weapon would end up in a unreliable gun that wouldn't be good for a dirty, muddy russia and survive a lot of bullets fired or the sand territories of africa.
All the factories were already prepared for production of mauser rifles so doing KAR wasnt that hard.
If they would have to produce a tottaly different design as their new main weapon during a war, it would end up in much smaller amount of infrantry because only a portion of the original amount of infrantry can be armed with their new STG.
And hitler didnt delay weapons developement, if he did it was a good economic decision I think.
USSR was producing thousands of tanks and a lot of artillery.. So if infrantry were equipped with a better rifle, it wouldnt propably give them an advantage... They would lose a lost battle with both rifles... And if they had an advantage by encircling the enemy, tactical maneveurs etc. they would propably do fine anyway with their current fire-power and rifles, especially if they had strong machine gunes.
Hitler didnt delay anything wtf, MP-38 was an expensive gun to manufacture. It got redesigned in terms of material use to make them, they changed from mild to stamp steel and some stupid aluminium part which didnt need to be aluminium got changed to steel aswell. And it happened early in the war, before facing soviets and their mass-produced SMGs so they thought about quite early. And yet, it took 20 years to develop a SMG and u think a completely new rifle would be ready early in the war, especially after initial German victories that showed that everything is fine and German will win with everyone?...
All I can think about Germany having better guns is double-feed magazine but the reliable technology just came shortly after.. when the decisions for magazine of SMGS were already made so it staid as a single-feed.
And propably maybe a bigger SMG like hungarian one was a cool idea.. It gave SMG big range and there was around 40k made.. The report about them was good, I think it would be a cool idea to create a bigger rifle-like universal SMG but that wasnt in the mind of any military leader at that time.
I'd have thought that real Geman infantry would have used cover rather better and would have fastened their helmet chinstraps (spot teh idiot's helmet falling off).
there is VERY VALID reason for leaving your chinstrap loose. Have you any idea how troops in combat - and training - have suffered neck/choking damage from a tightly worn helmet? Also, a tightly worn helmet will be so close to your skull that a potential deflective bullet would simply pass thru the helmet and penetrate the top of the skull... however, a loosely worn helmet would be forced off the head of the soldier, more likely saving his life or any serious head/skull damage.
Concussion from 'defensive' grenades [as well as 'aggressive/offensive' fragmentation grenades] WILL likely do serious damage to your trachea and possibly crack your jaw if you wear a helmet with a tightened strap.
My advice would be to wear a loose strap. If you pop your head over the top of a dug in position and a mortar round explodes from 5-15 meters away the blast will tear your head off as the concussion is caught by the helmet - for this reason i could say DON'T use the strap, allow your helmet to get blown off your head and YOU get blown back without losing your head or a tightly/loosely fitted strap tearing into your neck.
If you're just in 'Maneuvres' then, go ahead, wear the fucking thing tight. Stops it from falling off when running from an umpire declaring "You're under Artillery Fire". But in real life? wear it loose or not at all... If you're gonna die, you're gonna die, and no tightly fitted helmet strap will stop that. I'd rather have a helmet blown off my head than stuck to my head as a blast carries it and my fucking head off 20 meters when your body is only thrown back 5 meters.
I really do wish to point this out..... helmets weren't for the bullets they were from shrapnel (I think). beside the bullet would probably just go thru the helmet anyways strap or not.
German helmets could be worn with the strap fastened, due to the shape. American soldiers were told to never fasten the straps because they could be killed by the blast of artillery or a mortar. US helmets at the time would catch the blast of artillery or mortar fire and could break a soldiers neck or cause injury. Its why in all film footage, you see US Infantry were the straps either removed or hanging loose. Also, none of the helmets protected a soldier from weapons fire, it was designed to protect against shrapnel. All rifles calibers would easily penetrate any of the helmets that were used in WWII.
Lol...I just watched an old episode of Combat, the tv show, on youtube, First Day...it has like exactly this!
Damn, they even included the detail of running with the weapon in one had.
Good OLD AUDY MURPHY wasn't AFRAID one bit going toe to toe with the Germans!!
Me and the boys rolling to the ceo of gay in california
These tactics were first shown to the British army in the 19th century in New Zealand by the Maori. Maori ambushing British columns using fire and manoeuvre after the initial shock of contact. Maori use of the tupara or double barrel musket, used to win the firefight at contact. The Boer kommando used similar systems against the Brits during the boer war of the early 20th century.
Didnt realise the mauris used mp40s and mg34s
Basic infantry squad tactics still relevant today
Serious question, if anybody knows the answer--is this captured German footage, or are the "germans" american soldiers using german equipment as a demonstration?
Rick Johnson
I think the most likely answer is the latter.
Danke. Unsere deutschlish ist sehr komisch.
Americans in german uniforms. I can tell by the wrong handling of the K98.
Was at this time not a verry something similar rifle (the Springfield) in use in the US-Army? Also the jumps into cover were not performed verry well..."In Stellung!" and the role over looks a little bit different, according to old drill-instruction manuals....^^
But anyway, better this videoclip with american actors, instead of nothing...:)
Rick Johnson probably a training video for U.S.troops
I feel like the commentator was a young David Attenborough.
Adam01 with an American accent?
*WAS* not *IS* and i wasn't referring him to literally be David Attenborough, just commentating in his style! Although this video was shot before David rose to fame.
Wannabe Smart ass eliminated.
All right, keep your wig on.
A German soldier in his natural habitat
LOL
This was badass
How did we win with instructional movies like this??? SPACE FORCE!
Why is this recommended to me? I think youtube is telling us something or to prepare
No its not. Cringe comment.
Bahaha I thought it was funny. *shrug*
:/@@Michael_MW
I'm a centrist man. In my mind I picture overly liberal RUclips staff warning us of the Nazi uprising that is "totally happening". It gives me a chuckle. :)
yes, all those National Socialists around..@@Michael_MW
US wouldnt have stand a chance alone vs the Wehrmacht
Any recommendations for miniature wargame rules that can simulate this kind of action? Thanks.
3:34 What does it say between "hand signals and whistle" ?