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  • Опубликовано: 9 июн 2022
  • Known as one of the strangest battles in history: The Battle for Castle Itter, an abandoned Nazi Prison Castle. This was the ONLY time in World War 2 where Americans, Germans and French joined forces to fight against the Nazis.
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  • @Regimentz.
    @Regimentz. Год назад +3483

    Fun Fact: As the tennis player was running to get reinforcements he stumbled upon two SS soldiers Manning a machine gun. At this point, he switched his appearance to match as an Austrian peasant. He proceeded to take a leak in front of the two soldiers and carry on his way. Leaving them completely dumbfounded.

  • @MatijaCG
    @MatijaCG Год назад +3337

    This is one of those historical events which must have a movie about them. Imagine American and Germans troops along some French prisoners, of which one was a tennis player, fighting Hitler's Waffen SS troops.

    • @cheeseninja1115
      @cheeseninja1115 Год назад +238

      most of the French prisoners were actually political prisoners. One was a former PM who was recorded as taking up a spare gun from the armory and helping in the defense, the German Army major Josef Gangl actually lost his life saving the PM from a SS sniper.

    • @tylerdowning4916
      @tylerdowning4916 Год назад +50

      Yes and when the allies were closing in Germany they were these French prisoners that were in the fancy castle but 1945 Wathen SS troops went and killed them but human troops defected and told Americans about this and they survived

    • @panzerivausfg4062
      @panzerivausfg4062 Год назад +71

      @@tylerdowning4916 None of which you said makes any sense

    • @AmericanCaesarian
      @AmericanCaesarian Год назад +20

      The last battle

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE Год назад +8

      ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

  • @AussieBall_Animations
    @AussieBall_Animations Год назад +385

    “After Adolf hitball committed self destruction”
    I’m dead💀

  • @CMDRScotty
    @CMDRScotty Год назад +66

    That real-life event deserves a real-life live-action movie.

    • @themuffincat
      @themuffincat Год назад +4

      That would be epic! I would watch it

  • @Juqus
    @Juqus Год назад +1957

    It is one of two known times during the war in which Americans and Germans fought side by side, the other being Operation Cowboy. Popular accounts of the battle have called it the strangest battle of World War II.
    ...

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE Год назад +10

      ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E‎

    • @bannado5696
      @bannado5696 Год назад +26

      What happened in operation cowboy

    • @ImNotTheProtagonist
      @ImNotTheProtagonist Год назад +91

      ​@@bannado5696 Americans were asked to save prized horses from behind enemy lines before the Soviet forces overtook the area. Well the short of it at least.

    • @NinthRomance
      @NinthRomance Год назад

      @@ImNotTheProtagonist are you fucken kidding me ?! They legit sent in soldiers to save a bunch of fucken horses ?! Whoever came up with that operation should have been executed for putting human lives at risk for a bunch of animals.

    • @bannado5696
      @bannado5696 Год назад +6

      @@ImNotTheProtagonist k thx

  • @lordseelenfresserdemonking1168
    @lordseelenfresserdemonking1168 Год назад +930

    American soilder: never thought I'll die along side a Nazi
    German soilder: how about a long side a freind ?
    American soilder: ja , I can do that
    ( German soilder smiles)

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE Год назад +28

      ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

    • @RegzalTG
      @RegzalTG Год назад +46

      @@EEEEEEEE damn, inspirational, thank you it would really help a lot of people, if only more people saw this

    • @flynnlore5957
      @flynnlore5957 Год назад +17

      @@EEEEEEEE Very inspirational :)

    • @empireofitalypsstimfromano5025
      @empireofitalypsstimfromano5025 Год назад +16

      @@EEEEEEEE How Much Wisdom

    • @WhoDey_Prods
      @WhoDey_Prods Год назад +16

      @@EEEEEEEE you are as wise as master Oogwgay

  • @Turalcar
    @Turalcar Год назад +7

    5:41 WIlhelm scream was a nice touch

  • @audrey8556
    @audrey8556 Год назад +93

    I know I’m a little late to this one, but Mr. Spherical has a way of making everything perfectly balanced. Humor, tragedy, history, an awesome art style, he does it all. I have 2 people to thank for my newfound love of history, and Mr. Spherical and Drew Durnil. So keep up your awesome work, providing knowledge and humor.
    Also, “Adolf Hitball committed self-destruction” will always make me laugh.

  • @Jimboyx
    @Jimboyx Год назад +1429

    Is it talking about that siege where the wehrmacht und the US Army fought against the SS?

    • @TheEDFLegacy
      @TheEDFLegacy Год назад +99

      That's what I'm thinking! 😁

    • @nathanwright84
      @nathanwright84 Год назад +159

      Yea I’m pretty sure it is the battle where the French vips and the American and German troops all fought against the SS.

    • @zoph6241
      @zoph6241 Год назад +70

      Yes, Castle Itter

    • @Damjan12536
      @Damjan12536 Год назад +21

      Yes it is

    • @Wafflemaker5000
      @Wafflemaker5000 Год назад +9

      And*

  • @kshitijkumar5629
    @kshitijkumar5629 Год назад +447

    Battle of castle itter, where whermacht major Josef gangl and US captain John Lee together defended the French political prisoners in a mediaeval castle against Nazi soldiers. Unfortunately Josef gangl was shot and killed. when trying to protect the French political prisoners.
    Ultimately battle was won when a Tennis player Jean Barotra, one of the prisoners, bravely escaped castle to call out for American reinforcements, and succeeded in its venture. The American reinforcements arrived at right time, and chased away the fleeing Nazis.

    • @winddings351
      @winddings351 Год назад +39

      Gangl wasn't an SS Major, he's a Wehrmacht major. You're confusing him with the guard SS that also helped defensed the castle

    • @empireofitalypsstimfromano5025
      @empireofitalypsstimfromano5025 Год назад

      @@winddings351 So Some SS Decided To Defect Too?

    • @puppylovera
      @puppylovera Год назад +8

      ss captain Sigfrid Shrader thought with the wehmacht soilders, and americans in the battle

    • @winddings351
      @winddings351 Год назад +8

      @@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025 Well kinda, he was a prison guard that the French prisoner befriended. He also moved his family into the castle, so in a way, defending the castle also means protecting his family

    • @user-qh1ls4to5o
      @user-qh1ls4to5o Год назад

      the wechmaht were still Nazis

  • @javieraravena5345
    @javieraravena5345 Год назад +13

    To add to the team up: there was actually a wounded SS soldier still on the castle that had previously befriended the prisoners and joined them in the defense of the Castle.
    Also there was another instance of cooperation, involving a Cossack unit, in Operation Cowboy

  • @stephenparallox
    @stephenparallox Год назад +24

    I absolutely love this story, would love to see an actual movie made about it. Just to clarify a few things. It wasn't just Nazis coming back to take the castle and kill the prisoners, it was the bloody SS. And the tennis player (at least from the accounts I read) dodged gunfire and scaled a wall to get reinforcements. The battle had a major effect on French history, cause it was major head of the French government that were being held at the castle. If they were killed, French history may have been change drastically post WWII, hence why the SS wanted to kill them.

  • @shadowwolf_ops2018
    @shadowwolf_ops2018 Год назад +368

    There's a important part you missed. The tennis player dressed up as an Austrian and when he got over the wall, he immediately ran into a nazi enemy machine gun nest. He pretended to forage for mushrooms, then peed on a tree, then left. The Germans were so confused they let him go.

  • @phalnx2614
    @phalnx2614 Год назад +2806

    I didn't even know this battle happened, so cool seeing the Americans and Germans team up to fight against the Nazis.

    • @AndresRamirez-fi5uw
      @AndresRamirez-fi5uw Год назад +75

      King And General's has an excellent video on the topic. So does Yarnhub.

    • @veasnatdm4861
      @veasnatdm4861 Год назад +64

      there a song about this event too, from the sabaton band

    • @sirnub6657
      @sirnub6657 Год назад +12

      Same

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE Год назад +7

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    • @giulioricardo844
      @giulioricardo844 Год назад +8

      @@veasnatdm4861 may I get a link to the song?

  • @t.o.mcartoons4263
    @t.o.mcartoons4263 Год назад +8

    6:05 "you should alway expect the unexpected"

  • @kiwiworld
    @kiwiworld Год назад +12

    4:59
    Wait are you using a tennis racket?
    HELL YA BRO

  • @levi_athon9648
    @levi_athon9648 Год назад +233

    Battle of Castle Itter.A battle with A decorated Wehrmacht Officer(Joseph Gangl),a literal SS Officer(Kurt-Siegfried Schrader and Americans(John ‘Jack’ Lee) fighting on the same side with the aid of a frech tennis player,politicians and generals and the Austrian Resistance.Strangest battle in World War II for sure

    • @alexmiguelsanchez2801
      @alexmiguelsanchez2801 Год назад +4

      It's not the strangest battle for me, it's the definition of redemption from the enemy.

  • @SahilFR
    @SahilFR Год назад +603

    I know the French tennis player wasn't actually hitting people with his tennis balls to defend the castle but I'd like to imagine he did.
    Also, I loved this video, very interesting would love to see more niche cool history stuff

    • @striderpup1169
      @striderpup1169 Год назад +31

      What if he essentially played tennis with grenades?

    • @MisterRomain
      @MisterRomain Год назад +6

      The whole tennis racket thing was a joke.

    • @justanotherdude32
      @justanotherdude32 Год назад +2

      So I'm curious I love this story, and was trying to do some research on this story about the French tennis player. I tried spelling his name in many different ways but cannot find anything on him. Who exactly was he? Or better yet, what was his legal name? I was wanting to find out more about him and this story. ^_^
      Still one of my favorite histrory stories. No matter where we're all from, good will always triumph over evil!

    • @jimothythebest
      @jimothythebest Год назад

      Id actually wouldnt be a bad replacement if you needed,you can hit them in the head and knock them out,so its easier to shoot them,or hitting the guns to break them

    • @tristanpham6781
      @tristanpham6781 Год назад +3

      @@striderpup1169 that's actually what he did

  • @dakotasimms7270
    @dakotasimms7270 Год назад +4

    I love how they showed the detail of the radio operator being the only tank crew member to survive

  • @suffer_with_me444
    @suffer_with_me444 9 месяцев назад +8

    3:43 this part😂

  • @ApoIIo_
    @ApoIIo_ Год назад +490

    One of the last wars of WW2 and was one of the strangest. This battle showed that not all Germans were bad. Great animation. I wish we could learn these types of battles in school.

    • @aloffvalkyrie4001
      @aloffvalkyrie4001 Год назад +20

      Yes, this represent the difference between ordinary german soldier who's just following orders from SS

    • @noahramey9593
      @noahramey9593 Год назад

      Yeah some people need to remember that hitler and the nazis were only voted in by I think like 37% of the population, meaning a majority of 63% didn’t support nazism. The reason he got in was because there were so many parties and candidates meaning the voting was heavily split up.

    • @Sonnycat-pe8il
      @Sonnycat-pe8il Год назад +18

      battle not war

    • @bhight100
      @bhight100 Год назад +5

      It was the last in Europe, but certainly not one of the last of the war, there was still over a month for painstaking fights left, at this point I beleive the airborn was getting redeployed to the Pacific to help at Okinawa

    • @iamgreatalwaysgreat8209
      @iamgreatalwaysgreat8209 Год назад +7

      @eastern ducky this is a way of evil to justify itself

  • @The1king991
    @The1king991 Год назад +277

    The story that was never told in World War II where Americans and Germans in the French civilians fight together

    • @orsaz924
      @orsaz924 Год назад +5

      This story should be told more often

    • @Remembrance1776
      @Remembrance1776 Год назад +5

      As far as battles go, it was pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things. It has symbolic value but had no effect on the war’s outcome. And I note that the Wehrmacht fought against the SS when the war was clearly over and the Americans were winning. Noble I guess but they would have laughed in the Americans face if the Axis were winning. It’s easy to do the right thing when it means joining the victors.

    • @reynaldouijjkmsudario1298
      @reynaldouijjkmsudario1298 4 месяца назад

      :_:_ballCanada:

    • @reynaldouijjkmsudario1298
      @reynaldouijjkmsudario1298 4 месяца назад

    • @FakingShrid
      @FakingShrid 2 месяца назад

      YEAH EXACTLY

  • @CristianLopez-zw1uz
    @CristianLopez-zw1uz Год назад +13

    "Now it's the end of the line of the final journey, enemies leaving the past. It's American troops and the German army, joining together at last." Sabaton The Last Battle

  • @minisopenguin5128
    @minisopenguin5128 10 месяцев назад +5

    4:48 got me laughing when he said "DIE YOU MOTHER-" 😂😂

  • @charliefoxtrott1048
    @charliefoxtrott1048 Год назад +1053

    When U know the story because Sabaton spoiled it, but U want to see Spherical Balls to do the show!

    • @SebastianRamirez-lx4hz
      @SebastianRamirez-lx4hz Год назад +10

      Hell yeah!

    • @breeze73-tim-92
      @breeze73-tim-92 Год назад +12

      I thought the same

    • @Orenju11
      @Orenju11 Год назад +46

      5 th of may, V day is just around the corner
      1945 the Führer reign is at it’s end
      Jenny at the gates, as the SS open fire
      There´s no time to waste, the final battle has begun
      After the downfall, a castle besieged
      Facing the nazis awaiting relief
      Gangl and Lee and their men set the prisoners free
      An 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
      One last fight, it’s the death throes of the 3:rd reich
      Justice shall be done, the final battle remains
      Ammo is running low, they’re depleting their machineguns
      Every bullet counts until surrender is announced
      After the downfall, a castle relieved
      Defeating the nazis who held them besieged
      Gangl and Lee and their men set the prisoners free
      From the foot of the alps to the shores of the sea
      From the foot of the alps to the shores of the sea
      From the home of the brave, from the land of the free
      From the foot of the alps to the shores of the sea

    • @NorgumiOwO
      @NorgumiOwO Год назад +7

      @@Orenju11 I'm going to screen shot this

    • @SotGravarg
      @SotGravarg Год назад

      @@SebastianRamirez-lx4hz ruclips.net/video/1KrwuHWHW7c/видео.html
      Idk if Sabaton did but Yarnhub did for sure.

  • @icarusblues7699
    @icarusblues7699 Год назад +361

    Fun fact : the tennis player disguised himself as an austrian looking for food, ran into germans, peed on a tree infront of them and left

  • @StevWasTaken
    @StevWasTaken Год назад +5

    6:55 this killed me 😂

  • @mrbismarckyt
    @mrbismarckyt Год назад +6

    I love the battle of castle itter and the song that Sabaton made called “The Last Battle” which is the same thing except it’s a musical about the American and the German army against the SS Troops, The Battle of Castle Itter, the war in Europe before VE-Day.

  • @Wedgebean
    @Wedgebean Год назад +212

    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!

  • @ShizukaOG
    @ShizukaOG Год назад +142

    *It’s also the only time Americans 🇺🇸 fought a battle inside a medieval castle.*
    *They also fought in Wolfenstein castle.* 🏰

    • @jesseshano7768
      @jesseshano7768 Год назад +6

      Yeah USA world king 👑🇺🇲

    • @nembox3414
      @nembox3414 Год назад +2

      @@jesseshano7768 And Russia

    • @Captain23rdGaming
      @Captain23rdGaming Год назад +1

      not too mention Americans did Seige shuri castle in the pacific

    • @space4166
      @space4166 Год назад

      @@nembox3414 ha ha Russia can’t even invade a tiny country..

    • @jesseshano7768
      @jesseshano7768 Год назад

      @@nembox3414 my friend russia is doing the same with its agents whatever we do, so the best of them is the f16 and f 35 project, but my government has started secretly making secret weapons of mass destruction, and russia is the only country that has weapons of mass destruction that we have weapons of doom and that is America, he said to him. He said if we don't come together, he will take over the whole world, as he does now, do you think all the states in the Asian continent and Russia could have the power to defeat America even if they knew, President Donald trump the population of China would be 1 million and it would be a crime against humanity and we did not do this because everyone will hate America. we just run the world russia one of our stupid little brothers just good search why do they call us super power 🗽😎✝️🇺🇲

  • @ki8y
    @ki8y Год назад +22

    0:01 POV: you’re watching timed comments and found this

  • @Luna-hb4bi
    @Luna-hb4bi Год назад +2

    I’m glad to see a video on this battle!! I’ve really had an interest in this battle lately, and recently found this channel so I’m really happy to see you make a video on it!

  • @OverlordMalarkey
    @OverlordMalarkey Год назад +50

    Out of all the stories from WW2, the Battle of Castle Itter is my favourite. Not all Germans were enslaved to Nazism Ideals, and the Battle proved it.

  • @gabrielisaaccalmelor1949
    @gabrielisaaccalmelor1949 Год назад +416

    MrSphearical is one of the only RUclipsrs that makes ads/sponsors entertaining

    • @DardanellesBy108
      @DardanellesBy108 Год назад +18

      I agree. The only other I can think of is Oversimplified. Only two out of my list of subscriptions.

    • @cactusoftheday174
      @cactusoftheday174 Год назад +6

      Same with internet historian

    • @WFootballFan
      @WFootballFan Год назад

      Yarn hub

    • @JayJay5244
      @JayJay5244 Год назад +1

      Clearly you haven’t seen Internet Historian (you should definitely check it out)

    • @notfaizen.05
      @notfaizen.05 Год назад +1

      @@JayJay5244 they said "*one* of the only", and not "the only", so i suppose they implied that there may be more that they don't know about

  • @sabbyoriginal
    @sabbyoriginal Год назад +2

    5:56 BRO GOT IT WANGIN’

  • @justanotherdude32
    @justanotherdude32 Год назад +9

    Love you MrSpherical.
    That's 2 for 2 of you taking time to animate my 2 favorite history stories of all time!
    Now, if you pick the story of Wojtek (Sorry Poland I know that's improper spelling!) the bear who served in world war 2 I'll really know you and I are on the exact same historical wavelength!
    Your content is my favorite. Please never stop, please take my money!

  • @cubsgameing1235
    @cubsgameing1235 Год назад +215

    The battle of Castle Itter was fought on 5 May 1945, in the Austrian village of Itter in the North Tyrol region of the country, during the last days of the European Theater of World War II.
    Troops of the 23rd Tank Battalion of the 12th Armored Division of the US XXI Corps led by Captain John C. "Jack" Lee, Jr., a number of Wehrmacht soldiers led by Major Josef "Sepp" Gangl, SS-Hauptsturmführer Kurt-Siegfried Schrader, and recently freed French prisoners of war defended Castle Itter against an attacking force from the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division until relief from the American 142nd Infantry Regiment of the 36th Division of XXI Corps arrived.
    The French prisoners included former prime ministers, generals, a tennis star, and Charles de Gaulle's sister. It is one of two known times during the war in which Americans and Germans fought side by side, the other being Operation Cowboy. Popular accounts of the battle have called it the strangest battle of World War II

    • @alexmiguelsanchez2801
      @alexmiguelsanchez2801 Год назад +14

      This should be a movie.

    • @eletricica8859
      @eletricica8859 Год назад +8

      mate you just copied this from wikipedia

    • @WhyamIherelmao
      @WhyamIherelmao Год назад +5

      @@eletricica8859 very much did

    • @hty9551
      @hty9551 Год назад +6

      And the former french prime minister being held in castle itter was the one who allowed his armies to get blitzkreiged in Belgium when the war began.

    • @Mr.E_Bola
      @Mr.E_Bola Год назад

      Yes,I think you are either smart or you googled it

  • @Ross-vb8bb
    @Ross-vb8bb Год назад +94

    For anyone confusee, the German army at that time was divided into SS and Wehrmacht.
    SS was Hitler‘s army, which were formed basically by nazis, and their duties had to do with murdering jews and stuff like that.
    Wehrmacht, in the other hand, was just the normal National Army and had nothing to do with nazism. Wehrmacht soldiers did have the swastika in their uniforms because they were still commanded by Hitler. But being Nazi, as opposed to SS, was not a requirement for joining the Wehrmacht.
    Also, as a German speaker, I don’t want to translate the word Wehrmacht because it sounds stupid when translated. Let’s just use it in German :D

    • @1aboPLZ
      @1aboPLZ Год назад +3

      Defense forces
      What's the problem?

    • @condedooku9750
      @condedooku9750 Год назад +8

      @@1aboPLZ That they did not defend anything, they were only attacking other countries.

    • @condedooku9750
      @condedooku9750 Год назад +13

      Well the Wehrmacht also participated in the Holocaust so... Actually they are not much better than the SS.

    • @1aboPLZ
      @1aboPLZ Год назад +2

      @@condedooku9750 yes but this translation fits as much as the german original one. And today its still called defense expenses and not military expenses

    • @derpsternium8334
      @derpsternium8334 Год назад +11

      This is partially true. The Wehrmacht was officially non-political, but in reality was VERY involved in the holocaust. while the SS were the main perpetrators of German Wartime Atrocities the Wehrmacht had their fair share as well (Although to a substantially lesser degree). It's not a bad thing that you said this though, it allows people like me to debunk it.
      The idea that the Wehrmacht were not involved in the crimes comitted by the Nazi Regieme is a still common misconceptionc called the "Clean Wehrmacht Myth". The myth originates fro just after WW2 ended and Germany was under allied occupation. The Western Allies wanted to make sure that the soon to be formed Federal Republic of Germany (or west germany) could defend itself from possible Soviet attack which meant they needed a standing army of their own. The problem is, the commanders and soldiers of this new army would have to be the same ones who just lost WW2. So, the Clean Wehrmacht myth was created to stem any public outrage this would give.

  • @HistoryMonarch1999
    @HistoryMonarch1999 Год назад +3

    I think some info to add that doesn’t take away too much from the story but is worth mentioning was gangl is known as a hero to the Austrian resistance since he provided weapons and info when he was stationed there which probably helped when he met with the Americans.
    I actually ended up reading up on him and I’m astonished. He served in so many fronts, west and east, even surviving Caen and escaping the falaise pocket

  • @redjarvis
    @redjarvis Год назад +1

    I have loved watching the channel grow from hardly and views but great content to finally gathering a substantial audience

  • @MrSpherical
    @MrSpherical  Год назад +139

    Set your reminders everyone! And don't forget to subscribe!

  • @darkrepublic-empireunionkl9211
    @darkrepublic-empireunionkl9211 Год назад +159

    8:08 can we all agree that this one is the most funniest part ever?🤣🤣

    • @jesseshano7768
      @jesseshano7768 Год назад +6

      Whhaahaa 🤣😅

    • @ohbhai4102
      @ohbhai4102 Год назад +10

      No this is the most funny part 0:19

    • @WalesGaming1707
      @WalesGaming1707 Год назад +4

      @@ohbhai4102 not that funny much though

    • @boronsson
      @boronsson Год назад

      it sounds really dumb to me as a german native speaker 😂

    • @galaxydoge8565
      @galaxydoge8565 Год назад

      @@boronsson what does it mean?

  • @graceannemorgan1035
    @graceannemorgan1035 Год назад +1

    Thankyou so much for this video mr spherical this is one of my favorite war stories so thankyou for getting more people to learn about this story. God bless you.

  • @thegoatfrosty
    @thegoatfrosty Год назад +7

    This was one of the last battles in WW2. Incredible 😌

  • @VictoriousSlash
    @VictoriousSlash Год назад +306

    This was the best countryballs animation i've seen today! Pay respects and remember our true heroes in world war 2

  • @aetius7139
    @aetius7139 Год назад +30

    its historically accurate. its called the battle of castle itter. The castle was used as a prison for some high profile french POW, a member of czech resistance, and a famous tennis player.
    As it clear that the germans lost the war at this point the garrison abandoned their post. The french prisoner then send someone to find nearby allied troops. They find an american infantry units. Along the way they encounter a wehrmact german troops who proceed to surrender to the americans.
    The nearby SS troops then decide to attack the itter castle. Its dubbed the strangest battle in WW2 fought side by side by a rag tag group of american, wehrmacht, french POW, and some czech resistance group against the SS german division.

  • @tealepeck8580
    @tealepeck8580 Год назад +6

    MrSpherical: *makes a humorous video about the final battle at Castle Itter*
    Sabaton fans: Allow us to introduce ourselves~
    Also Sabaton fans: JENNY AT THE GATES!

  • @KingBlueOfficial
    @KingBlueOfficial Год назад +1

    Wow cool mini film Mr spherical keep up the good work :)

  • @kudabelang8962
    @kudabelang8962 Год назад +23

    5:35 "WAS THAT A F***ING ANTI TANK GUN!?" That laughed me out 😂😂😂

  • @thewarroom1944
    @thewarroom1944 Год назад +78

    The tennis player was actually almost caught on his way to get reinforcements, but he disguised himself as an Austrian Citizen picking mushrooms. Then he processed to pee next to a tree and then kept running to find reinforcements.

    • @Damian-cilr1
      @Damian-cilr1 Год назад

      lmfao

    • @pyro_teamfartress2
      @pyro_teamfartress2 Год назад

      And he was almost caught by 2 SS soldiers manning a MG-42. I can't imagine what would have happened if he got caught.

    • @Yashiro205
      @Yashiro205 Год назад

      @@pyro_teamfartress2 he would got killed and there is a possibility that the Nazis would still exist

  • @CallMeAlbie
    @CallMeAlbie 9 месяцев назад

    I like how you can take things like war and politics, and make them such lighthearted topics

  • @KingPigcollabz
    @KingPigcollabz Год назад +1

    I knew it! The fact France was in war with a tennis racket was hilarious!

  • @ryantully3947
    @ryantully3947 Год назад +37

    I love to see the battle of castle Itter gaining more recognition, I love this ridiculous battle, I first learned about it from the Sabaton song “The last battle,” both the song and battle are awesome, thank you so much for bringing more recognition to this battle. :)

  • @foxboy_5742
    @foxboy_5742 Год назад +49

    I died to laugh with the final "Nazi Prison Castle" and the thunderstruck hitting the german soldier

  • @HEH767
    @HEH767 5 месяцев назад +1

    "stay alive until im dead" got me dead on the ground

  • @maltaball4850
    @maltaball4850 Год назад

    Hey Mr spherical I love all your content of your videos and I would really like to see malta being interviewed by you in the next video if you want😊

  • @jacksonlee6760
    @jacksonlee6760 Год назад +58

    No matter who I watch making a video about this historical event it's always a great experience, but with MrSphereical that extra bit of humor and personality to these videos really makes it stand out. I'm really glad that this channel is doing so well and hopefully it'll keep getting more and more popular!
    So thank you MrSphereical

  • @Cheesburger1009
    @Cheesburger1009 Год назад +29

    If that tennis player got a headshot with that racket i would be totally suprised

    • @F0UR3V3R
      @F0UR3V3R Год назад

      *knocks an SS down and unconscious*
      *They die of a meth overdose*

  • @Edsel-fd4yp
    @Edsel-fd4yp Год назад +1

    My favorite WW II battle, great video!

  • @agile564
    @agile564 Год назад +1

    Man I'm so glad I learned this from listening to music it got me to see it in a different way thank God for sabaton bro
    Also been here since 8k subs love this channel

    • @smartlucker4011
      @smartlucker4011 Год назад

      What's the name of the song used during the battle if you know?

    • @ronaldpagar6513
      @ronaldpagar6513 Год назад

      @@smartlucker4011 it's from sabaton

    • @smartlucker4011
      @smartlucker4011 Год назад

      @@ronaldpagar6513 what’s the name of the song by sabaton

    • @ronaldpagar6513
      @ronaldpagar6513 Год назад

      @@smartlucker4011 the last battle

    • @smartlucker4011
      @smartlucker4011 Год назад

      @@ronaldpagar6513 interesting because I don’t hear the same song during this battle. It is less rock and more chorus based

  • @masteeyes
    @masteeyes Год назад +24

    6:57 why did i laugh at this part for some reason

  • @mrreaper9626
    @mrreaper9626 Год назад +28

    1:32 comited self destruct🤣

  • @icemaun5379
    @icemaun5379 Год назад +2

    Sabaton made an epic piece of music called "The Last Battle" dedicated to this event. Still one of the best and most epic battles of World War 2

  • @Sawdust_
    @Sawdust_ Год назад

    i knew of this battle before, but the second i realized that this was about it, i knew it was gonna be good

  • @robloxgamedeveloper3707
    @robloxgamedeveloper3707 Год назад +36

    0:17 “Captain Lee! I got news from Berlin!”Yep this is Castle Battle Everyone Knows But In The Real Battle,The entire Americans are tankers (Lee Himself is a Tanker) and Also Is not a Nazi Prison Camp is a freaking a Castle with politicians.There Are Many Easter eggs to the real battle.Good Job.

    • @striderpup1169
      @striderpup1169 Год назад

      The Americans were from the 12th AD, 23rd tank battalion, so that makes sense. And Lee would have had seven or so Shermans, but he couldn’t take them all across a bridge.
      It used to be a Nazi prison castle, but it was abandoned by the SS garrison.

    • @lazyplushies1020
      @lazyplushies1020 Год назад

      I also wish for a million bucks

  • @indomieseleraku5351
    @indomieseleraku5351 Год назад +12

    4:03 I love how you mentioned M4 Sherman nicknamed "Besotten Jenny" that helped defend the itter castle

  • @ABtheButterfly
    @ABtheButterfly 9 месяцев назад

    I want a movie of this.

  • @elitely6748
    @elitely6748 Год назад +62

    Thanks MrSpherical this premiere is/was awesome! Can definetely really tell your improving and enjoying making these!

  • @WFootballFan
    @WFootballFan Год назад +38

    Castle Itter, where an american captain met an whermahct major who was in the austrian resistance and both went to a castle where French VIPs were held pow and there was an SS Hauptsturmmführer that vowed to protect the castle against the SS, 1 soldier from Gangl's side deserted and the SS came, the Sherman blew up and Gangl died because he took a bullet for a former president, another sherman came by and the allied team won.

    • @kaleoarnold3709
      @kaleoarnold3709 Год назад +12

      Again, and I will keep saying this until they actually do it but…
      HOW THE FUCK HASN’T THIS BEEN TURNED INTO A MOVIE YET?!?!?!?!?!?!

    • @MrSpherical
      @MrSpherical  Год назад +18

      @@kaleoarnold3709 This is where we come in.

    • @borderlandsm3niac26
      @borderlandsm3niac26 Год назад

      ​@@MrSpherical BAHAH

  • @happydog_69
    @happydog_69 Год назад

    Man I love this type of videos keep making videos like this

  • @noidea5984
    @noidea5984 Год назад +18

    One of the best German general was there, the man who nearly singlehandly defeated France, the famous Maurice Gamelin

  • @mhk1.
    @mhk1. Год назад +13

    “Adolf Hitball committed self-destruction”
    LMAO

  • @AdamTel1
    @AdamTel1 Год назад

    i keep re-playing this video idk why but thats so COOl!

  • @hssking8706
    @hssking8706 Год назад +1

    It's so epic to know that even those who did bad things knew when they could redeem themselves and take the first step...THIS VIDEO WAS EPICCC 🔥

  • @Swedish-ball2010
    @Swedish-ball2010 Год назад +22

    What a Legend 6:08 :(

  • @AniRichard
    @AniRichard Год назад +15

    2:49 OMG Companyballs Is Here!!!!!!!!!! Thats What I Waiting For!

  • @notsomeoneyouknow9814
    @notsomeoneyouknow9814 Год назад

    that how could you tell by french tennis player cracked me up lol

  • @LichsuhoathinhDrabattle
    @LichsuhoathinhDrabattle Год назад

    The channel releases videos regularly, with an easy to understand and interesting historical recap. Hope the channel produces more interesting historical videos☺☺

  • @2dfaceguyidk
    @2dfaceguyidk Год назад +16

    0:12 FORESHADOWING

  • @bhight100
    @bhight100 Год назад +40

    The castle is called Castle Itter, it was after Hiltter killed himself and Germany Surrendered. A German Weirmacht company that just surrendered to an American Airborn company and an SS officer who was also an Austrian resistance. The occupants of the castle were VIP prisoners. They included politicians, athletes and otheres. At the surrender, the SS left with a notice that they wold return to kill them all. They sent an athlete with an Austrian dialect over the walls to get help, the Americans, Weirmacht and single SS officer held off an entire SS battalion for over a day until the American Sherman tank division could arrive. The castle has not been repaired, it still bears the wounds inflicted that day.

  • @Pogeditscountries
    @Pogeditscountries Год назад

    Congrats On 825K Subs! this video is amazing.

  • @xandernasution6207
    @xandernasution6207 Год назад +2

    6:50 imagine this guy just use his tennis racket to fly away to the litteral reinforcements with the harry potter flute just going to this guy

  • @Dante_-cg3fq
    @Dante_-cg3fq Год назад +184

    An 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
    After the downfall, a castle relieved
    Defeating the nazis who held them besieged
    Gangl and Lee and their men set the prisoners free😎🤟🤘

  • @RexDacicus
    @RexDacicus Год назад +13

    7:55 with that animation of the good germans it kinda made me sad ngl

  • @saltstudios236
    @saltstudios236 Год назад +3

    The Last Battle is a great book. I highly recommend it.

  • @lamminlunchongloi4317
    @lamminlunchongloi4317 Год назад

    I really love this show 🤩🤩🤩Mr.spherical please upload more 😁🥰😁 will be waiting again and again 🙏

  • @gracekruger76
    @gracekruger76 Год назад +21

    Great video. Not all Germans were Nazis in war most were just soldiers serving their countries not the Nazi party

  • @raymond3663_
    @raymond3663_ Год назад +17

    5:05 it works better when the germans starts throwing grenade

    • @Profkol0rado
      @Profkol0rado Год назад +3

      They're gonna be like the Military dudes in half life throwing grenade and yelling "G R E N A D E"

  • @husamalmamari9999
    @husamalmamari9999 Год назад +2

    Wow!
    These videos are almost difficult to make without a huge team and comic writers.
    Quality work indeed!

  • @aieshaful5302
    @aieshaful5302 Год назад

    The ending was funny when he said what the *quak* is up with the weather 🤣

  • @tacoevan2805
    @tacoevan2805 Год назад +72

    I am so excited about this! It's going be so good!

  • @ABtheButterfly
    @ABtheButterfly Год назад +6

    I love how the lighting strick started a fire but Lee and Gangel don't even noticed or care

  • @bravo4266
    @bravo4266 Год назад

    Fun fact: 5:40 - 5:53. There was a German 88 mm anti-air gun that was also used for anti-tank operation that was located Nearest siege and was used by ss forces during the siege, It destroyed parts of the Castle and to take out the tank, The part where only ball who survived was holding a radio is true, The only member of the original crew survived was the radio operator who is able to crawl out of the burning tank before it fully exploded.

  • @Aiden_06
    @Aiden_06 Год назад

    I just wanted you to know that you have great animations and good content and you deserve more subs

  • @stopthattrend
    @stopthattrend Год назад +51

    After all these years, I finally found it... *Bowser's last castle!*

  • @dinodavid5315
    @dinodavid5315 Год назад +8

    This taught us a very important fact: Not all Germans are Nazis. Many people (mainly Americans) always confuse them and sometimes call WW1 Germans Nazis. I believe that only around 5% or WW2 Germans were actual Nazis, the rest were innocent civilians trying to survive. (My statistic might be off)

    • @howardbaxter2514
      @howardbaxter2514 Год назад +3

      People need to understand that not all soldiers back the political regime in charge. Soldiers, most of the time, are just fighting because they have to and/or they have pride for their country and want to protect it. It happened with German soldiers and it is happening today with the Russian soldiers and Russian people. Not all (likely only a minority) soldiers and civilians support Putin’s actions.

  • @ayr1190
    @ayr1190 Год назад

    What a fucking legendary battle. A movie is needed about this

  • @bayboide0615
    @bayboide0615 Год назад +1

    When I saw Nordvpn, my first thought is Oversimplifed LOL. Both my favorite yt channels

  • @zachboyd4749
    @zachboyd4749 Год назад +18

    "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!"

    • @howardbaxter2514
      @howardbaxter2514 Год назад +3

      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

    • @dkaloger5720
      @dkaloger5720 Год назад +2

      Sabaton

  • @RaidenTheRipper950
    @RaidenTheRipper950 Год назад +8

    I still cant believe they didnt make a movie or a game about this story-like battle.