The Man Who Was Tougher Than a Panzer Steel
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Artillery rounds landed everywhere, and the German Panzers impatiently awaited the command to charge forward. It was November 1941, and the outskirts of Tula, south of Moscow, were heavily defended.
Ludwig Bauer, a fearless Panzer ace gunner, awaited the charge while he opened fire at the enemy. Anti-tank artillery and a deep anti-tank ditch blocked their path, but Bauer and his crew pressed on.
The tanks then rolled forward under the hail of enemy fire. Some were struck down immediately, but Bauer’s Panzer II charged fearlessly until the spearheading tanks dropped logs on the ditch to build a bridge.
While enemy fire rained down, Bauer's tank, hit multiple times, continued to advance while the gunner fired with perfect accuracy. Panzers exploded around him, but he pushed forward, his Panzer II rushing uphill.
Then, chaos erupted. A Soviet KV-2 heavy tank's shell struck Bauer’s tank directly. Fire and smoke engulfed him. The driver and radio operator were lost instantly, but Bauer miraculously survived, emerging with only shrapnel wounds.
As he crawled from the burning wreckage, Bauer's eyes met those of the Soviet tank commander. He slowly got up and aimed with his Luger at the enemy vehicle. The Soviets laughed, and an instant later, the tank exploded…
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It's great to learn about all the sides from the War. Thank you!
Agreed. I really hate how often all WWII German soldiers and even all German civilians in general are painted as evil nazis. They weren't all in the SS, or even Nazis. The majority of them were just normal soldiers/people like any other, doing their duty/service. It's incredibly rude to dishonour them in such a way.
@@BeardedFrog I would like to have this better verified, but apparently it was Captain America who said, "The first country the Nazis invaded was their own." An excellent example of being able to respect an opponent was Patton - he regarded Rommel quite highly.
Yes after studying WW2 for yrs there is a lot of propaganda on both sides, victors write the history books
This story deserves a movie.
Incredible stories regardless of friend or foe
Sounds like the unluckiest, lucky bastard in the entire Wehrmact
Moral of the story never get in a tank with Bauer !
...explains where Jack Bauer got it....
Well except that one time when his crew got out safe. But I suppose 1:9 odds aren't the worst for tank survivability.
I find it so compelling that after all of his years of service and combat and encounters with death, always somehow crawling from the wreckage instilled by enemy fire, he was finally dispatched….( yet not by means of dying )…by not through the firing of munitions by the hostiles like every other time, but by his own home land’s creation. Friendly fire, its not so “friendly”.
That's war for you
True, just like Mr. Hand Grenade Is no longer your friend once the pin is pulled.
You have to remember too that it was mid April 1945. The Germans would surrender a month later. If the war had gone long enough for Him to recover I'm sure He would have kept fighting.
Taking a Panzer II into battle against a KV-2 is pretty ballsy on it's own.
The german tanks were infirior to the red armys in 1941
That he lived to talk about it...
Pervitin allowed these dudes to perform crazy feats.
Remind me not to get into a tank with 'lucky' Ludwig Bauer. Very glad to hear Ludwig survived the war.
His picture resembles writers Barry Sadlers Casca, the Eternal Mercenary! (course that was Barry himself wearing the M43 cap)
Drafted into a hellish war like that, the guy must've had an entire army of guardian angels.
murderers dont have guardian angels
@@gabyspan940 Come back when you've grown out of your diapers.
@@Iskelderon thats the only thing you can come back with, loser??? =))))
Excellent story. I hadn't heard of him before now, thanks.
There are plenty of interviews with him. But they are probably copyrighted and removed by RUclips by now. There was a long tank documentary from the 90s depicting him and others from the Soviet side.
If this chap kept a diary that would be an interesting read !
Thanks for the video 👍
Excellent video! 👍🏻🙂
I'm glad that he survived and continued to serve, with honour. No flies on this guy !
Worst mistake the little mustache man made was attacking Russia IMO
He needed oil was the reason.
He had no other choice
@@TheMenagerie-bb5mr he was trading oil with Russia until he attacked them, cutting off his supply.
Watch Europa the last battle.
War on to many fronts.
The Nazi who couldn't die sounds like a James bond movie
Can you do more videos on the early days of wwII, like this one here. Thank you very much
Must be Jack Bauer's grandfather.
Panzer 2’s weren’t anything to write home about either! Problem was the Russians mainly had T26’s with not nearly enough of the excellent T34’s and KV2’s!
To the russians, Bauer was like an inner city roach! You just couldnt get rid of him!!
He was the Grim Reaper of new panzer crews!
He was one extremely brave man and a very lucky boy!
Bro was bad luck for his crews
6:40
“With a deafening roar, the Soviet tanks unleashed the fury of their 7.62 mm guns. Baur watched in horror as his comrades tanks, vehicles he once thought invincible, crumbled like tin cans under the relentless barrage”.
That must’ve been a billion Mosin Nagant barrage!
....yeah....I cant see a tank crew worrying about incoming 7.62 rounds....
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Ahh, the Soviet T-34 tank had a 76.2mm main gun. Narration did not include the word “point” anywhere in the 762. But in context, it’s obvious which 762 armament is being referenced.
@beerggls and certainly obvious they should proofreading and editing
Nice
You will never know what worst luck your bad luck saved you from.
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I don't wanna be "that guy" who criticizes videos BUT......The narrator called the KV-1 a "medium tank". It's not a medium, it's a heavy tank. The T-34 would be considered a medium tank due to it's speed, armor and gun. Just trying to help.
Greatest tank battles has him on there .
Vonderbah arbeit Herr Whitman das ist zahr guht Kameradan!!❤
In Brazil, in the 90s. There is the legend of Sergeant SHAZAN (Navy). He survived a lightning strike that struck him during training on a soccer field, and then a landing vehicle ran over his car, with him inside, in the parking lot of the base in Rio de Janeiro.
Outstanding
I don't know if he was extremely lucky or extremely unlucky.
I think it was a little bit of both.
I gotta say man, I absolutely LOVE history, especially military history, and I have watched a literal metric shit ton of ww2 docs and tv shows and RUclips videos over the years. And I can say with 100% certainty that I have never heard anyone pronouncing Panzer the way that this guy is saying it lol. Not saying he’s wrong, hell maybe he’s correct and it’s all the rest of us that’s wrong, I really don’t know. But I do know that I am so used to hearing it pronounced the normal way that when the video started and he said “PAHNZER” (lol trying to type it to read the way he’s saying it😂) that way it IMMEDIATELY grabbed my attention as if someone had just pricked my ears with a pin or something 🤣. Anyways, that’s all I got about that 😂 y’all have a damn good day guys!!
But i bet you havent watched the only ww2 documentary worth watching, Europa: the last battle. Stop watching those allied propaganda documentaries man! i used to be the same.
@@mattvokins3638 allied propaganda?? So are you like claiming to be pro Nazi?
@@theoutdoorsman9726 brainwashed. Watch europa the last battle.
@@theoutdoorsman9726 "so are you like" speak english ffs, you can literally smell the woke on this one 🤣
@@mattvokins3638 you’re a clown dude. Nobody gives a shit about your dumb ass pro nazi bullshit.
Like Jack Bauer in 24 😂
Ludwig would make a perfect Trumpet Mouth supporter
Actually Bavaria deported the family trump and we ended up with them
Bro cassualy eating a 152 mm shell
the KV-1 is a heavy tank
But Bauer's fortunes couldn't stop The Red Army from taking Berlin 😂
"The Nazi Who Couldn't Die" makes for a catchy title, but the reality is the vast majority of rank and file German soldiers were not Nazi party members. Every able bodied male who did not volunteer was forcibly conscripted regardless of their political leanings.
Thanks everyone is not a nazi!!
Truthful introduction video...about memory of that German soldier...majorty of motivational decisions bringing regards final ...especially during military volunteers or rebellions biases....
KV had the same gun as other lighter tanks nothing special there
Same gun as t34 but better gun than all other German tanks excluding panzer4. At wars beginning anyways.
The best gunner was Bobby woll he was the only tank gunner to get the iron cross he was Michael whitmanns gunner and the best and he lived out the
He was a cat with 9 lives🫡🫡🫡
Sold out
Bye
I saw in this video American Sherman tanks in the Eastern Front
I used to love watching stuff like this but not so much anymore since I learned the Germans were the good guys. Now it’s just kinda heartbreaking.
Europa the last battle! ❤
Right . !
I just posted imagine if hitler had not attacked Russia how much different the world would be today.
Yes.... I totally get you.. and still, there's a party of me that just admire all those true Heroes that thought to the absolute end to make this world a better place.
As Patton said, it WAS the best army that walked the Earth, and it took the British Empire, The already mighty USA AND the unlimited manpower of the Soviet Union, the whole world really (!!!) to take them down.. Woooow.....
I would figure after having 2 world wars and a few wars after that all countries would learn from their mistakes and keep peace but sadly humanity does not learn from wars or discovery money and power is a insult to are brain
Assault guns?? WTF?
So what constitutes an indirect hit? Blowing off a pinky or part of an ass cheek?
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Have to agree with the statement “glorifying another Nazi” for that’s what it is. You can by his Deaths Head insignia in one of the pictures that that’s exactly what he was, a Nazi. No matter how “brave” they may have been, they don’t deserve our praise as they were true evil. That’s why our parents & Grandparents fought against them, lest we forget.
Plenty of non-Nazis served in the German military during WW2. Just because someone wore a German uniform during the war does not necessarily mean that they were a Nazi.
I hope you are as "discerning" in regards to the USA and their despicable deads over the last 200 years, and ESPECIALLY the last 80. The Nazi's, next to the USA were innocent little children.
Plus, you're a good little boy who's gladly repeating what Hollywood keeps repeating without having looked into ww2 in depth.
I suggest you watch:
EUROPA THE LAST BATTLE
or, AH THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD.
And ifc you have an ounce of integrity, you'll finally realise who were the bad guys..
you must have told him something like he will get second best beach property, compared to those given to top nazi scientists and politicians, in america
germany was superior in every way thry only lost due to being severely outnumbered!!!
they were litterly infirior to the russians in 1941 panzer 2s and 3s struggled with T-34 and one KV1 tank even destroyed an entire panzer korps in one battle because the germans couldn´t penetrate it
@@goofyguy1232 hahahahhahaha
@@goofyguy1232 wrong
Even outnumbered, Germany should have won against the Soviets. Stalin said multiple times to his closest people that he would have lost the war if it wasn't for the Lend Lease program he received from the USA.... CHECK IT OUT!!! 400,000 trucks (!!!) Petrol, food, 8,000 tanks, 10,000 planes etc..etc..
I dont know a country called Nazi, like I dont know countries called Democrat or Tory
Ludwig Bauer and Michael Whittman were two of the greatest German tankers that ever lived. Only other German that comes to mind is field Marshall Erwin Rommel.
What nonsense is this?
The narrator says at 0:40 that Bauer commanded a Panzer 2.
He says at 0:53 that Bauer's "gunner fired with perfect accuracy".
But in a Panzer 2, the commander fires the gun. There is no gunner!
Yet another "documentary" whose authors are out of their depth.
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50 cent?
Lol nice...
Why are you whispering?
Shhh...it's a secret!
I love this channel but I don't like hearing about germs being successful in any way!
More glorifying the Nazis.
The Nazis keep YT afloat!
Gotta admit those Hugo boss SS uniforms to this day do command presence
so telling war storys is spreading nazism damn, should ban all WW2 movies and storys from school so children dont try to gas jews or try to be communists
I love this channel keep up the phenomenal work sir! 🫡
Wuhahaha 😂😂😂 this with pistol of Bauer Versus Tank is a .............haha..........star trek 🤣🤣😆POOR NEZI GERMANS 🐏🐏🐏 FANTASY HAHA wow ................poor lie & fantasy of dmb nazist ( next slaves and soldiers of freemasons Albert Pike )