He actually was the minister for sports in Petain's collaborationist government. He was arested in 1942 after trying to flee to Free french north africa. He was sent to a death camp in Sachsenhausen but the personal intervention of the king of Sweden (yeah, why not) saved him from death. Despite being an active member of a collaborationist government, he didn't suffer any inquiries post war, and even received the official title for the deportees and the resistance fighters in France. Also kinda sad he didn't use a tennis racket to send back some german grenades to whence they came.
If someone had to make a film about this story, they'd need to change it to make it more believable. Reminds me of the "Death of Stalin", Zhukov had a lot of medals in the film, but in fact they got rid of a bunch of his medals for the movie, because they thought people would think it was a joke when seeing an uniform with so many medals 😂
Imagine a SS soldier seeing a SS officer that was highly decorated defecting to the Austrian Resistance and helping the Americans and the Wehrmacht protect the French VIPs.
"Never thought I would fight side by side with a German" "How about side by side with a friend?" "Yeah, I could do that" The real tragedy here is that this hero died literally days before the final surrender Gone but never forgotten
I hate sabaton songs tbh Sabaton songs are the bad kind of noise. You've got good noise like white noise and decent music. Then you've got the crap kind of metal like Sabaton. Death metal falls into that too...
In all seriousness, mad respect to Major Gangl. An SS Major giving Hitler the finger and joining with political prisoners alongside his dissenting men and lost his life saving another’s
Gangl was a legitimate gigachad. And the sad reality is, it was quite common towards the end of the war for SS and Wehrmacht to fight. Usually it was SS that attacked and tried to kill surrendering Wehrmacht units, outraged at their "cowardice".
Yup, cause the SS knew if the Wehrmacht troops stopped fighting the war would soon be over and the world would learn how fucky wucky the SS have been during the war, which might lead to some long necks on short strings.
if you were thinking, yeah, Germans defenders they were arrested and taken as prisoners of war, but released 2 years later because the requests from prisoners of the castle Curiosity: Gangl was posthumously honoured as a hero of the Austrian resistance, even a street in Wörgl is named after him
I love this battle. It's one of my favorites in all of WWII. It feels completely unreal, like some side story in a TV show or video game. More people should learn about it.
There is a fortress in the center of my city that's like a casual hanging out spot for everyone. It's been there since the 1300s. Most of the times you forget just how old it is and act like it's just the typical meetup spot to go for walks. History is wild.
They forgot an SS commander literally also helped in the defense planning (Kurt Siegfried Schrader), who was befriended by the French Prisoners as he was in the castle undergoing convalescence from his wounds. His family was also in the area as well. So basically an SS Captain who had sense against his SS comrades who are still deluded in the final victory..
Said tennis player actually got spotted by some Germans manning a machine gun after he scaled the castle walls to try and find reinforcements. Dressed as a local civilian, he played it cool, scoured for berries around their machine gun nest, and literally took a piss on a tree near them before running off for reinforcements. “Hanz?” “Ja I saw it Günther… just keep manning ze damn gun.”
"Bonjo- I mean Gooten tak, fellow Germans. Ich am just picking ze berries from le peti- die kleine bush. Please not shoot! Je need to pee trés- I mean sehr much. Je will leave vou- I mean ihr now. Adieu!"
It's actually sad to be hell as polish troops were trying to puncture German lines in Italy . SS were burning down whole Warsaw to ground and polish soldiers could hear all reports of it happening in real time. Unable to do anything
The SS were no longer in charge, his sole duty was to defend Germany, the SS were active terrorists at this point. Like wise the SS has ordered children to the front lines, so he was bit happy to kill the bastards.
The tennis star part kills me everytime. The fucking madlad vaults over the castle wall and guns it to the tree line right next to SS soldiers armed with machine guns, and LIVES.
Just goes to show bad guys will come from everywhere to fight the good guys defending their own land from foreign invaders (western and eastern banker hordes)
you know shit just got real when even the Wehrmacht are fighting the Nazis. They were like "You know what, my grandpa was a jew, and my cousin is Roman Catholic, and the American who just laid his life down to get us supplies was black. Fuck these guys, we're joining the Allies now."
"Roaming parties of SS men" sounds like a supernatural entity that has no counter and kills everything on sight Just some sharply dressed horrors stalking the fog at night
Please note that SS specters come in foreign legion entities, denoted by their funky fresh collar runes, or the pure germanic double lightning rune variant ☝🏻
French soliders in memes and pop culture: I surrender! French soliders in real life: I’m not trapped here in a room, You are trapped in a room with me!
perhaps they’re afraid of being seen as sympathetic to the wehrmacht, which, while they were the good guys in this case, did fight previously for the nazi empire
No seriously Gangl would be a great protagonist for a ww2 movie man has been serving since the beginning of the war becomes disillusioned with the Nazi’s and dies saving someone seriously Hollywood this is prime material right here
1:01 *"Never thought we're gonna die side by side with strangers"* *"How about side by side with comrades?"* *"Aye, we could do that"* Truly legends, they all will be remembered as chads. And Gangl as the gigachad
Westernfront: after 30 hours and 2 sherman tank platoons lost, the 69th American Infantry company managed to capture the 5 German teenagers who were defending a crucial key location, important to advance further into Germany, this battle was so famous that 80 movies were made about the heroism the American troops have presented that day. The eastern front: In a small village near the end of civilization 5 million German soldiers faced off 12 millionen soviet Infantry man supported by 12 soviet armour brigades. After 3 weeks 20 million civilians died together with 10 million soldiers. The minor soviet victory was so insignificant that it was almost forgotten in the wider scale of the eastern front.
USA: We saved your asses in WW2! UK: Well, we didn't exactly sit there idle given we fought in more theatres of war than anyone else, but thanks for your support anyway; we really would've struggled without your help! USSR: Who's we? I fought the great patriotic war alone - you're welcome by the way. USA & UK: ... UK: Should we tell him? USA: We supplied you with 400,000 jeeps and trucks, 35,000 radios, 15 million boots, 1.5 million blankets, 30% of all your high explosives, 55% of all the aluminium you used, 80% of all copper, 57% of your plane fuel, we did everything but build your railway and telephone networks while 90% of your rail carriages and locomotives were built by us and we damn near fed your entire army with canned food. Your leaders conspired with our enemy against our allies to help startthis war with the invasion of Poland yet we still risked our own men and ships to lease you all this to prevent your logistics being bled dry as your armies froze and starved while your generals sat impotent - unable to relay orders to their men. A little gratitude for our help would be welcome. USSR: Ah yes I see, this must be how you say thank you in your culture - you're welcome and we won't mention it, our 27 million dead will rest easier knowing they won the war. Fair to say, for victory America paid the price in oil, cotton and steel, Britain paid the price in money, prestige and empire while the USSR paid the price in enough blood to drown a nation. While my comment might seem to disparage the loss of Russian lives, it's more to discredit the propaganda that any one country won alone; each played their part, for we were allies.
@@Neion8 The Red Army had about 400,000 trucks in circulation as of 22.06.1941 to help transport equipment and men. The Soviet Union was also supplied with food by Mongolia, which did not fight, but tried to help the USSR in any way it could. The same goes for tanks and planes. They were a nice addition, but had no wow effect on Red Army crews. Already in 1942 the Matildas and Churchills could not fight the Wehrmacht tanks well because of the new long guns, whether they were tank guns or PAK-40s. This was also a big problem for the USSR, especially in the Crimea and Kharkov. What you can be thankful for is better quality gunpowder, but it was still not enough to say that Lend-Lease saved the USSR. If it had saved the USSR, the war would have gone better in 1942, there would have been no encirclement near Millerovo and a failed Rzhev operation where the Wehrmacht simply had better artillery than the Soviets. I do not want to say anything against the supplies, they saved millions of lives, but do not deify these supplies.
@@dds2491 To be clear, your opinion runs contrary to the opinions of: 1: Josef Stalin "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war." - Tehran conferance November 1943 2: Nikita Krushchev in his memoirs "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me." 3: Marshal Zhukov, hero of the Soviet Union, from a call recorded by the KGB in 1963 "People say that the allies didn't help us. But it cannot be denied that the Americans sent us materiel without which we could not have formed our reserves or continued the war. The Americans provided vital explosives and gunpowder. And how much steel! Could we really have set up the production of our tanks without American steel? And now they are saying that we had plenty of everything on our own." Given these guys were in charge of the war, I'd take their opinions over one influenced by decades of cold war propaganda that had to rally the Soviet peoples against their ex-allies. You're correct that many of the tanks sent to the Soviet union couldn't stand up to the best German tanks and biggest anti-tank guns, which is why it's a good thing the best those things were fairly rare compared to the scale of the Eastern front. Mathildas and Churchills can be pretty damn effective against infantry, light armoured vehicles (e.g. Halftracks) and lightly armoured tanks like the Pz 1s, 2s, 3s and even the early pz 4s though, which constituted most of Germany's land forces. By deploying those outdated vehicles against soft spots, they freed up the better Soviet tanks for the big offensives like Kursk where the extra armour, manouvrability and firepower actually made a difference. Thing is, those vehicles were only the tip of the iceburg; the reason focus is so often placed on them is because they were the least important part of Lend-lease; by making it seem like the biggest part and then discrediting it, propagandists can seemingly discredit the entire program without having the address the real points. What really made the difference were the material resources I mentioned beforehand.
Years ago there was an IMDB page for a movie in pre-production that was being made about this battle. Sadly ever since covid there have been no updates so sadly I guess the movie got scrapped. It’s called “the last battle” the same name as the Sabaton song about it.
Fun fact: Borotra was recognized and identified by a French Canadian reporter attached to the 142nd. That reporter, Rene Levesque, would go on to become Premier of Quebec.
It never occurred to me how wildly outnumbered the defenders were until I saw *"36 Personnel, 4 Tanks"* compared to fucking *"150-200 PERSONNEL, 3 FLAK GUNS."* Makes the feat of defending the castle all that more impressive. It's a shame Gangl didn't make it, because that's some true heroism right there.
And guess what? Of the 4 tanks, only ONE who actually reached the castle and helped in its defense. The other tanks were left in key roads and bridges to prevent the SS soldiers from blocking those routes.
Imagine if there was a New Order Wolfenstein like game except you basically do normal WW2 using the guise of “Super Tech” to teach people about the crazier parts in WW2 history.
I would prefer this not be a comedy at all, this should be represented with respect being such a one of a kind event. Keep both those goofballs away from it.
After the downfall, a castle relieved Defeating the Nazis who held them besieged Gangl and Lee and their men set the prisoners free - “The Last Battle” by Sabaton
AND IT'S THE END OF THE LINE OF THE FINAL JOURNEY ENEMIES LEAVING THE PAST AND IT'S AMERICAN TROOPS AND THE GERMAN ARMY JOINING TOGETHER AT LAST *Guitar Solo*
An overlooked fact about this battle is that it was relayed by a war reporter attached to an American unit nearby by the name of René Levesque, who would go on to become Premier of Quebec and a key figure in the sovereignist movement.
Awsome video, But I would just like to add that the first song isn't the company of heroes theme, it's "*S Elite guard assault" from Return to castle wolfenstein.
I thought this was a joke amalgamation of every trope and cliche of WWII stories, but then I looked it up. Dang, truth sometimes really is stranger than fiction. How has this not been made into a video game yet?
Lee: “look, you guys really need to hide, you’re literally civilians and I legally can’t let you enter combat.” The French prisoners: “fuck you, yankee! Nobody gets in the way of us and dead nazis!”
At the end of the line, of the final journey, enemies leaving the past. It's the American troops and the German army, fighting together at last. - Sabaton, The Last Battle.
@@coolkooplinggaming1500From the foot of the Alps to the shores of the sea. From the home of the Brave, to the Land of The Free! AMERICA F*CK YEAH!!!!!
Fun fact, Bororta was first received at the 142nd by Réne Lévesque, future Quebec premier and founder of the Parti Quebecois, one of the most influential Canadians of the 20th century.
"An which point where Reality decides to rest for an 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds." Some random place in the Galaxy:
It takes balls to be a soldier, but it takes balls made of ceramite to realize you're fighting for the wrong team and join forces with your former enemy.
another point, A sherman destroyed yet none of the crew killed. Interesting fact, for each sherman lost by the end of the war, 1/5th of a man was killed or lost. no not 1 In 5, but a 1/5th of man. Wet ammo stowage along with placing rounds at the bottom of the hull increased survivability when knocked out (as destroyed tanks can be named such for having simple mechanical issues such as 3 drive wheels missing and a warped hatch.)
"And it's the end of the line of the final journey, enemies leaving the past. And it's American troops and the German army joining together at last." -Sabaton, The Last Battle
One last fight, it’s the death throes of the Third Reich Justice shall be done, the final battle remains Ammo is running low, they’re depleting their machine guns Every bullet counts until surrender is announced
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A prison for high profile french personnel.
A tennis player.
He was a very good tennis player. :^)
@@peekaboo1575 also really good at running
His ability to jump high walls and hit high balls was too dangerous to be reckoned with
He actually was the minister for sports in Petain's collaborationist government. He was arested in 1942 after trying to flee to Free french north africa. He was sent to a death camp in Sachsenhausen but the personal intervention of the king of Sweden (yeah, why not) saved him from death. Despite being an active member of a collaborationist government, he didn't suffer any inquiries post war, and even received the official title for the deportees and the resistance fighters in France.
Also kinda sad he didn't use a tennis racket to send back some german grenades to whence they came.
@@thibaudduhamel2581 the deeper you dig, the crazier the story gets lmfao
"Man, this story is unrealistic"
What the story is based off:
fact is stranger than fiction
In real life
@@scrubfire14 because unlike fiction, real life doesn’t have to make sense.
If someone had to make a film about this story, they'd need to change it to make it more believable.
Reminds me of the "Death of Stalin", Zhukov had a lot of medals in the film, but in fact they got rid of a bunch of his medals for the movie, because they thought people would think it was a joke when seeing an uniform with so many medals 😂
Yeah. It's like when you complaining about an anime being unrealistic but then you find out the manga was more unrealistic
Imagine being a SS soldier and having to fight against a former prime minister
Imagine being a member of the SS and learning that a tennis player run through your lines and brought reinforcements.
Imagine a SS soldier seeing a SS officer that was highly decorated defecting to the Austrian Resistance and helping the Americans and the Wehrmacht protect the French VIPs.
Imagine being a SS soldier
@@初日の出_初日の入り I don't have to imagine
@@初日の出_初日の入り good people unlike nkvs
"Never thought I would fight side by side with a German"
"How about side by side with a friend?"
"Yeah, I could do that"
The real tragedy here is that this hero died literally days before the final surrender
Gone but never forgotten
He got a road named after him, so there's that
He helped save the prisoners and was the only casualty, more of a heroic sacrifice than a tragedy
@SanctusPaulus-ic5glhe doesn't have a right to be Russian
@Sanctus Paulus 1962 no shit his name is literally "chadimir putin🇷🇺"
@@kristianstrm2375 There is also a song in his honor, gladly by the one and only SABATON
Waiting for the sabaton fans to point out that there's a song about this battle
You basically already pointed it out before anyone could tho
@@themouthofsauron6926 yeah
I hate sabaton songs tbh
Sabaton songs are the bad kind of noise. You've got good noise like white noise and decent music. Then you've got the crap kind of metal like Sabaton. Death metal falls into that too...
@@KoishiVibin >:(
@@KoishiVibin >:(
In all seriousness, mad respect to Major Gangl. An SS Major giving Hitler the finger and joining with political prisoners alongside his dissenting men and lost his life saving another’s
at least he has been immortalized in the game HOI4
@@miles1779 huh, how?
@@TiredCzech You can get him as a general/Commander for european nations
@@miles1779 hes a fucking generic portrait.
@@miles1779 which nation is it?
The SS lost because they forgot to bring a siege tower.
a classic blunder
Don't make this mistake, kids
As far as I know they didn't even bring 1 single trebuchet 💔
Nah it's because they didn't use a Trojan Horse.
@@nickklavdianos5136 and the alternative would have been a battle-ram but they didn't bring that either.
Gangl was a legitimate gigachad.
And the sad reality is, it was quite common towards the end of the war for SS and Wehrmacht to fight. Usually it was SS that attacked and tried to kill surrendering Wehrmacht units, outraged at their "cowardice".
Yup, cause the SS knew if the Wehrmacht troops stopped fighting the war would soon be over and the world would learn how fucky wucky the SS have been during the war, which might lead to some long necks on short strings.
@@davidlazerz8564 lies
@@davidlazerz8564 shut up yanke and go cope. Your country is occuped by minoritys nowadays
That's not the only time the ss committed friendly fire
@@finnish5794 what are you implying
if you were thinking, yeah, Germans defenders they were arrested and taken as prisoners of war, but released 2 years later because the requests from prisoners of the castle
Curiosity: Gangl was posthumously honoured as a hero of the Austrian resistance, even a street in Wörgl is named after him
what ?
@CHADIMIR PUTIN 🇷🇺 bruh
It's nice that Gangl is remembered. He was a true hero, and a prime example, that not all of the Nazis, were bad people.
@@25aida not all *soldiers* of Nazi Germany, a Nazi will never not be evil
@@25aidahe wasn't a nazi. he was a soldier under nazi germany.
I am still sad as an Austrian, Gigachad Josef Gangl isn't mentioned in history books or history class
It would mess up the narrative of Germany being evil at this time
@@bagelmaster2498 Which they were
@@bagelmaster2498 Well from what I researched, he was an important member of the Resistance against Nazism soooo
I believe a town was named in his honor (Edit: it' just a street in a town near where the battle happened)
@@hawaiiw not all of the germans were bad, some of them were just serving their country
I love this battle. It's one of my favorites in all of WWII. It feels completely unreal, like some side story in a TV show or video game. More people should learn about it.
It feel like a filler episode
@@Panzermeiller filler? Man this feels like a season finale
My favorite is the battle of zwolle😂
The fact that Gangl, a Wehrmacht Major, sacrificed his life for a former French PM, is something straight outta a fiction novel
Nobody asked
Major Gangl casually safe-guarding french democracy by giving his life to the prime minister is one of the most coolest parts of history of all time
Tbh Reynauld didn’t have much of role in France anymore at that point
MR. PM GET DOWN
Nobody asked and go get a job.
That French tennis player was an actual chad
From a American perspective it’s so weird the Europeans just literally casual fight in castles.
@@asgdhgsfhrfgfd1170 that's wild
This is actually the only time US soldiers have defended a medieval castle. They did attack a few, though.
@@asgdhgsfhrfgfd1170 If that clock was made in september it means it is just as old as México's independent history
There is a fortress in the center of my city that's like a casual hanging out spot for everyone. It's been there since the 1300s. Most of the times you forget just how old it is and act like it's just the typical meetup spot to go for walks. History is wild.
The village where my family is from has been around since the roman times
They forgot an SS commander literally also helped in the defense planning (Kurt Siegfried Schrader), who was befriended by the French Prisoners as he was in the castle undergoing convalescence from his wounds. His family was also in the area as well.
So basically an SS Captain who had sense against his SS comrades who are still deluded in the final victory..
covalencing is not the right word.
@@Messerschmitt_BF_109G_10 sorry
He also apparently wrote this event in his diary!
@CHADIMIR PUTIN 🇷🇺 this is a bot btw
Nobody cares and get lost
its not just "ordinary battle ww2" its the "most ordinary battle in ww2"
*on the western front
Said tennis player actually got spotted by some Germans manning a machine gun after he scaled the castle walls to try and find reinforcements.
Dressed as a local civilian, he played it cool, scoured for berries around their machine gun nest, and literally took a piss on a tree near them before running off for reinforcements.
“Hanz?”
“Ja I saw it Günther… just keep manning ze damn gun.”
"Bonjo- I mean Gooten tak, fellow Germans. Ich am just picking ze berries from le peti- die kleine bush. Please not shoot! Je need to pee trés- I mean sehr much. Je will leave vou- I mean ihr now. Adieu!"
@@joelthorstensson2772 this is just absolutely fucking hilarious to me and I don't understand why
@@joelthorstensson2772 if you read it in a thick French accent it's even funnier.
I hope they let him wash his hands
@@redeye4516 "You got a wipe?"
Machine gunner awkwardly pulls out a handkerchief for him to wipe his hands on
This story needs a movie
agreed. there's a song about this by Sabaton
It's got a badass song by historic metal band sabaton called 'the last battle', so gooooood~
With Ultramarines 1:40
"Go back in the castle for safety!"
- Haha. N o n. *Starts blasting*
this is us, the french, we're somewhat very stubborn
@@lutscher7979 big fan of what you guys pulled with NATO in the 60s. And your warning-nuke policy in general lmao.
@@a2e5 our nukes, our rules lmao
which killed Gangl
@@lutscher7979 Ugh. You haven't seen anything yet until you see the Québécois. They're that, times about five lol
Shame you didn't talk about the Battle of Monte Casion, where Wojtek the Bear fought
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@@randommonkey4900 My honest reaction to this information : 💀
🤓
Montecassino
It's actually sad to be hell as polish troops were trying to puncture German lines in Italy . SS were burning down whole Warsaw to ground and polish soldiers could hear all reports of it happening in real time. Unable to do anything
This is a certified World War 2 classic
Greatest crossover in history. Better than End Game
Average Wolfenstein plot be like.
Edit: RIP Josef Gangl. A Life for another Life.
1:19
Nobody asked and nobody cares. Get lost
Ok mad balls at Gangl to fight against the SS. And that tennis star who volunteered to bypass the hardpoints was a chad.
The SS were no longer in charge, his sole duty was to defend Germany, the SS were active terrorists at this point. Like wise the SS has ordered children to the front lines, so he was bit happy to kill the bastards.
The tennis star part kills me everytime.
The fucking madlad vaults over the castle wall and guns it to the tree line right next to SS soldiers armed with machine guns, and LIVES.
@@-et37-
Not only does he live.
He f*cking takes a piss right in front of the machine gun like a mad lad.
Emotional story tbh. Everyone from different creeds coming together to fight the Nazis. 10/10 video
Even nazis themselves lol
Just goes to show bad guys will come from everywhere to fight the good guys defending their own land from foreign invaders (western and eastern banker hordes)
even the nazis were fighting the nazis
you know shit just got real when even the Wehrmacht are fighting the Nazis. They were like "You know what, my grandpa was a jew, and my cousin is Roman Catholic, and the American who just laid his life down to get us supplies was black. Fuck these guys, we're joining the Allies now."
There were also reinforcements consisting of an Austrian teenager and two Wehrmacht soldiers who slipped inside and assisted the defenders.
AND IT'S THE END OF THE LINE AT THE FINAL JOURNEY
ENEMIES LEAVING THE PAST!
@@MRMcLean98 ITS AMERICAN TROOPS AND THE GERMAN ARMY, JOINING TOGETHER AT LAST!
@@pontiusporcius8430 FROM THE FOOT OF THE ALPS TO THE SHORES OF THE SEA
@@Ryan-di4jj
From the foot of the Alps, to the Shores of the Sea.
From the Home of the Brave, to the Land of the Free.
AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!
From the foot of the Alps, to the Shores of the Sea!
"Roaming parties of SS men" sounds like a supernatural entity that has no counter and kills everything on sight
Just some sharply dressed horrors stalking the fog at night
A high level roaming bossfight
Wake up babe new European cryptid just came out
Dang, that new Elden ring boss has some serious drip.
Please note that SS specters come in foreign legion entities, denoted by their funky fresh collar runes, or the pure germanic double lightning rune variant ☝🏻
@Matthew Garrity there is also the rare death head variant that appears in the late game.
This feels like a fanfic. But it's actually real.
"french prisoner opt to stay along side the american soilder" who are the surrender now
French soliders in memes and pop culture: I surrender!
French soliders in real life: I’m not trapped here in a room, You are trapped in a room with me!
@@starmaker75 *I'm not trap deer in a room ooiz you, You are trap din a room ooiz me
@@starmaker75 France in real history are gigachads.
Average Virgin Cringe Brainless Fatherless Anti France Troll Fanboy taking Copium over here ⬆️
@@starmaker75 Ultrachad God Based Sigma Common France W Lover Enjoyer comment 🗿🇨🇵❤️
Why there hasn't been any movie about this is baffling to me
perhaps they’re afraid of being seen as sympathetic to the wehrmacht, which, while they were the good guys in this case, did fight previously for the nazi empire
but yes i think there should be a movie and those who renounce an evil cause should be praised 💪 🙏
Probably because nobody would believe something so strange could have actually happened
@@Bill-mq7wr meh, they can spin it as redemption arc for those guys
No seriously Gangl would be a great protagonist for a ww2 movie man has been serving since the beginning of the war becomes disillusioned with the Nazi’s and dies saving someone seriously Hollywood this is prime material right here
1:01 *"Never thought we're gonna die side by side with strangers"*
*"How about side by side with comrades?"*
*"Aye, we could do that"*
Truly legends, they all will be remembered as chads. And Gangl as the gigachad
Westernfront: after 30 hours and 2 sherman tank platoons lost, the 69th American Infantry company managed to capture the 5 German teenagers who were defending a crucial key location, important to advance further into Germany, this battle was so famous that 80 movies were made about the heroism the American troops have presented that day.
The eastern front:
In a small village near the end of civilization 5 million German soldiers faced off 12 millionen soviet Infantry man supported by 12 soviet armour brigades. After 3 weeks 20 million civilians died together with 10 million soldiers. The minor soviet victory was so insignificant that it was almost forgotten in the wider scale of the eastern front.
USA: We saved your asses in WW2!
UK: Well, we didn't exactly sit there idle given we fought in more theatres of war than anyone else, but thanks for your support anyway; we really would've struggled without your help!
USSR: Who's we? I fought the great patriotic war alone - you're welcome by the way.
USA & UK: ...
UK: Should we tell him?
USA: We supplied you with 400,000 jeeps and trucks, 35,000 radios, 15 million boots, 1.5 million blankets, 30% of all your high explosives, 55% of all the aluminium you used, 80% of all copper, 57% of your plane fuel, we did everything but build your railway and telephone networks while 90% of your rail carriages and locomotives were built by us and we damn near fed your entire army with canned food. Your leaders conspired with our enemy against our allies to help startthis war with the invasion of Poland yet we still risked our own men and ships to lease you all this to prevent your logistics being bled dry as your armies froze and starved while your generals sat impotent - unable to relay orders to their men. A little gratitude for our help would be welcome.
USSR: Ah yes I see, this must be how you say thank you in your culture - you're welcome and we won't mention it, our 27 million dead will rest easier knowing they won the war.
Fair to say, for victory America paid the price in oil, cotton and steel, Britain paid the price in money, prestige and empire while the USSR paid the price in enough blood to drown a nation. While my comment might seem to disparage the loss of Russian lives, it's more to discredit the propaganda that any one country won alone; each played their part, for we were allies.
@@Neion8 The Red Army had about 400,000 trucks in circulation as of 22.06.1941 to help transport equipment and men. The Soviet Union was also supplied with food by Mongolia, which did not fight, but tried to help the USSR in any way it could. The same goes for tanks and planes. They were a nice addition, but had no wow effect on Red Army crews. Already in 1942 the Matildas and Churchills could not fight the Wehrmacht tanks well because of the new long guns, whether they were tank guns or PAK-40s. This was also a big problem for the USSR, especially in the Crimea and Kharkov. What you can be thankful for is better quality gunpowder, but it was still not enough to say that Lend-Lease saved the USSR. If it had saved the USSR, the war would have gone better in 1942, there would have been no encirclement near Millerovo and a failed Rzhev operation where the Wehrmacht simply had better artillery than the Soviets. I do not want to say anything against the supplies, they saved millions of lives, but do not deify these supplies.
@@dds2491 To be clear, your opinion runs contrary to the opinions of:
1: Josef Stalin "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war." - Tehran conferance November 1943
2: Nikita Krushchev in his memoirs "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."
3: Marshal Zhukov, hero of the Soviet Union, from a call recorded by the KGB in 1963 "People say that the allies didn't help us. But it cannot be denied that the Americans sent us materiel without which we could not have formed our reserves or continued the war. The Americans provided vital explosives and gunpowder. And how much steel! Could we really have set up the production of our tanks without American steel? And now they are saying that we had plenty of everything on our own."
Given these guys were in charge of the war, I'd take their opinions over one influenced by decades of cold war propaganda that had to rally the Soviet peoples against their ex-allies.
You're correct that many of the tanks sent to the Soviet union couldn't stand up to the best German tanks and biggest anti-tank guns, which is why it's a good thing the best those things were fairly rare compared to the scale of the Eastern front. Mathildas and Churchills can be pretty damn effective against infantry, light armoured vehicles (e.g. Halftracks) and lightly armoured tanks like the Pz 1s, 2s, 3s and even the early pz 4s though, which constituted most of Germany's land forces. By deploying those outdated vehicles against soft spots, they freed up the better Soviet tanks for the big offensives like Kursk where the extra armour, manouvrability and firepower actually made a difference.
Thing is, those vehicles were only the tip of the iceburg; the reason focus is so often placed on them is because they were the least important part of Lend-lease; by making it seem like the biggest part and then discrediting it, propagandists can seemingly discredit the entire program without having the address the real points. What really made the difference were the material resources I mentioned beforehand.
Nobody cares and get lost
Years ago there was an IMDB page for a movie in pre-production that was being made about this battle. Sadly ever since covid there have been no updates so sadly I guess the movie got scrapped.
It’s called “the last battle” the same name as the Sabaton song about it.
The amount of rage I have that this story hasn't been made into a film yet is unfathomable
Fun fact: Borotra was recognized and identified by a French Canadian reporter attached to the 142nd.
That reporter, Rene Levesque, would go on to become Premier of Quebec.
Je savais qu'il était présent mais pas qu'il avait reconny Borotra, c'est vraiment débile comme évenement historique
It never occurred to me how wildly outnumbered the defenders were until I saw *"36 Personnel, 4 Tanks"* compared to fucking *"150-200 PERSONNEL, 3 FLAK GUNS."* Makes the feat of defending the castle all that more impressive. It's a shame Gangl didn't make it, because that's some true heroism right there.
And guess what? Of the 4 tanks, only ONE who actually reached the castle and helped in its defense. The other tanks were left in key roads and bridges to prevent the SS soldiers from blocking those routes.
And I mean that were 150-200 SS soldiers, not Wehrmacht soldiers.
@@errorschnansch1892Kinda explains how the battle was won.
Imagine if there was a New Order Wolfenstein like game except you basically do normal WW2 using the guise of “Super Tech” to teach people about the crazier parts in WW2 history.
Oh yeah, it's CASTLE ITTER time!
1:55 Was not expecting the Battalion Wars main theme
I KNEW I WAS NOT GOING MAD!
I'm glad somebody else spotted it too, I was not sure if anybody else remembered that game lol.
That’s some ancient stuff.
one of my favorite games ever
I wholeheartedly believe someone like Taika Waititi or Wes Anderson could make an amazing dark comedy film based on this event.
The Grand Budapest Hotel meets Jojo Rabbit. I would watch that.
Not Taika wattiti
Hollywood definitely shouldn't make a movie about this.
I 100% agree
I would prefer this not be a comedy at all, this should be represented with respect being such a one of a kind event. Keep both those goofballs away from it.
After the downfall, a castle relieved
Defeating the Nazis who held them besieged
Gangl and Lee and their men set the prisoners free - “The Last Battle” by Sabaton
AND IT'S THE END OF THE LINE OF THE FINAL JOURNEY
ENEMIES LEAVING THE PAST
AND IT'S AMERICAN TROOPS AND THE GERMAN ARMY
JOINING TOGETHER AT LAST
*Guitar Solo*
Nobody cares + nerd + nobody asked
"After the downfall a castle relivied defeating the nazis" 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
The prison housed 2 important people, and a tennis player.
Castle Itter has probably one of the wildest lineups of the entire war
''Fate had us meet as foes, but this castle will make us brothers.''
-Mahatma Gandhi
My man took character development to another level
When the actual history is so weird, there are no jokes in the captions
That looks more a medieval story than a WW2 battle 😂
It is the only time where American forces defended a medieval castle.
@@gengarzilla1685 fr
🎶🎶 "And it's American Troops and The German Army joining together at last" 🎶🎶
You have been auto-balanced to the enemy team!
That battalion wars 2 victory music was beautiful.
Underrated as hell.
Ah yes, the Battle of Castle Itter.
Prison Leader: *Let that man cook*
The best way this battle to be described is Germans, Americans, Austrians and French people fighting Nazis
"The best way this battle to be described is blah blah blah" 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
Nobody cares + nobody asked + useless
@@Toyota9993-m6g Nobody asked 🤓🤓🤓
Fuck me son if you're gonna be a prick in the comments put some effort into being a cunt instead of being unoriginal
How is this not a movie yet still baffles me.
An overlooked fact about this battle is that it was relayed by a war reporter attached to an American unit nearby by the name of René Levesque, who would go on to become Premier of Quebec and a key figure in the sovereignist movement.
Nobody cares
That music... Battallion wars nostalgia...Had that game on the GameCube back then
My favorite battle from WW2 for sure.
Love the Return to Castle wolfenstein ost at the start
Love that you used a song from Battalion Wars!
I was wondering if anyone else knew!! What a goated game!
@@burnaldo8995 haha, and you are a bigger fan of it then me considering your profile picture is the symbol of the Iron Legion! lol
1:54 That Battalion Wars 2 music brings back memories.
Don't forget a future prominent premiere of Quebec acting as a reporter being a translator for the Americans
that return to castle wolfenstein music be hittin different bruh😬
The only castle Americans get to fight from, though without medieval kit.
Awsome video, But I would just like to add that the first song isn't the company of heroes theme, it's "*S Elite guard assault" from Return to castle wolfenstein.
We need a movie about this
The battalion wars OST takes me back. That game was straight fire
02:05
Damn... I wonder how mister Reynaud felt like when he realised a German senior officer had just died saving him.
Nobody asked and get lost
The gif of that guy taking off his jersey is comedic gold
🎵 AND IT'S THE END, OF THE FINAL JOURNEY, ENEMIES LEAVING THE PAST.
AND IT'S AMERICAN TROOPS, AND GERMAN ARMY, JOINING TOGETHER AT LAST🎵
This battle is full of chads, i loved hearing about this in a museum via tape from vet who fought in it talking with a german vet about it
Castle Itter was my favorite battle to learn about tbh
Villain to hero arc
Nobody asked
No matter how many times this battle is recounted, it never loses its surreal air.
I thought this was a joke amalgamation of every trope and cliche of WWII stories, but then I looked it up.
Dang, truth sometimes really is stranger than fiction.
How has this not been made into a video game yet?
*ITS THE END OF THE LINE OF THE FINAL JOURNEY*
Lee: “look, you guys really need to hide, you’re literally civilians and I legally can’t let you enter combat.”
The French prisoners: “fuck you, yankee! Nobody gets in the way of us and dead nazis!”
SOMEHOW it’s less crazy when you know the history behind it, to think it could even make more sense
At the end of the line, of the final journey, enemies leaving the past. It's the American troops and the German army, fighting together at last.
- Sabaton, The Last Battle.
It's "Joining together at last"😊
From the foot of the alps to the shores of the sea
@@coolkooplinggaming1500From the foot of the Alps to the shores of the sea.
From the home of the Brave, to the Land of The Free!
AMERICA F*CK YEAH!!!!!
Fun fact, Bororta was first received at the 142nd by Réne Lévesque, future Quebec premier and founder of the Parti Quebecois, one of the most influential Canadians of the 20th century.
Prisoners really stood up and said "Ça, c'est pour les gars de Dunkirk"
*Executes SS Major*
I love having to pause every 2 seconds and read for about 10 every frame :)
This _must_ become a film at some point in time, I don't care if it's bad.
I'm so happy to hear Battalion Wars music here
They should make a movie out of this. It would be funny as hell
I can't believe nobody has made a movie about this or the events of "A Higher Call" yet.
"An which point where Reality decides to rest for an 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds."
Some random place in the Galaxy:
Studied this for my English finals and it's honestly the wackiest yet most interesting battle in WW2.
It takes balls to be a soldier, but it takes balls made of ceramite to realize you're fighting for the wrong team and join forces with your former enemy.
Nobody cares and nobody asked
Ah Yes my favourite Yarnhub documentary about castle itter
For some damn reason this reminded me of the Frenchmen on the castle in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Definitely one the best crossovers in history.
Rip gangl and may his smile live on through history
another point, A sherman destroyed yet none of the crew killed.
Interesting fact, for each sherman lost by the end of the war, 1/5th of a man was killed or lost. no not 1 In 5, but a 1/5th of man. Wet ammo stowage along with placing rounds at the bottom of the hull increased survivability when knocked out (as destroyed tanks can be named such for having simple mechanical issues such as 3 drive wheels missing and a warped hatch.)
It's easier to write history than fiction because reality doesn't have to make sense ,
Those Return to Castle Wolfenstein vibes
This story would make a great film.
Cuckovic has to be one of the best slavic names I've seen
"And it's the end of the line of the final journey, enemies leaving the past. And it's American troops and the German army joining together at last."
-Sabaton, The Last Battle
One last fight, it’s the death throes of the Third Reich
Justice shall be done, the final battle remains
Ammo is running low, they’re depleting their machine guns
Every bullet counts until surrender is announced