Flamethrower Trooper (World War I)

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  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  6 лет назад +1291

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  • @comradeshadles4967
    @comradeshadles4967 3 года назад +3117

    Firefighter: “So what did you need me to do?”
    German Army: “What you normally do, but the opposite.”

  • @Cheese-wi3dm
    @Cheese-wi3dm 5 лет назад +2577

    Today
    Firemen: i save lives
    WW1
    Firemen: i take lives

    • @alphagt62
      @alphagt62 4 года назад +29

      On the railroad, the fireman was the guy who threw coal into the fire. So when someone says, “fireman”, you need to ask, “what kind?”.

    • @serbianwarcriminal5686
      @serbianwarcriminal5686 4 года назад +1

      well why do you think they are called firemen

    • @UFOhunter4711
      @UFOhunter4711 4 года назад +9

      The fireman giveth and he taketh

    • @rosalindaherrera5350
      @rosalindaherrera5350 4 года назад +3

      They were deployed to FLUSH trenches.

    • @gabrielc7861
      @gabrielc7861 4 года назад +4

      "You've become the very thing you swore to destroy"

  • @Lord_Pilaf
    @Lord_Pilaf 4 года назад +2323

    Burning people alive: "Oh ja, wunderbar!"
    Using a shotgun: Nein! Das ist VERBOTEN!!!"

    • @MiguelTortellini
      @MiguelTortellini 3 года назад +105

      10/10 stars comment

    • @persontheguyman223
      @persontheguyman223 3 года назад +136

      The pyro: I dont have such weakness

    • @Scazoid
      @Scazoid 3 года назад +55

      @@persontheguyman223 *Mmmmph Mmmph Mmmmmph.

    • @VioletPistols
      @VioletPistols 3 года назад +135

      Germany: *Literally burning people alive*
      Also Germany: *Literally gassing people*
      America: *Uses Shotguns*
      Germany again: NEIN! WAS IST DAS?! YOU MONSTER!

    • @allforone5693
      @allforone5693 3 года назад +40

      Well here’s the thing. If you get hit by a flamethrower your basically dead. But not by a shotgun. Germany complained about shotguns because they made it much harder to treat wounds.

  • @venomouszebr9755
    @venomouszebr9755 4 года назад +2321

    Germany: This, is a flamethrower
    France: Dear god!
    Germany: There's more
    France: No!

    • @lukegaming86
      @lukegaming86 4 года назад +77

      VenomousZebr it contains the dying wish of every man here

    • @eff0165
      @eff0165 4 года назад +97

      These tf2 references are always welcome

    • @venomouszebr9755
      @venomouszebr9755 4 года назад +9

      @@eff0165 lol

    • @Perfectheart-fan-girl
      @Perfectheart-fan-girl 3 года назад +44

      Noooooooo! You cant just spin around and kill us while were invisible.
      Ha ha flamethrower go brrrrrrrrr

    • @bigmac3373
      @bigmac3373 3 года назад +23

      [Insert sneaky snorting frenchman dying here]

  • @wuznab5109
    @wuznab5109 6 лет назад +5840

    Firefighters using flame throwers.
    Ironic.

    • @davidt.3860
      @davidt.3860 5 лет назад +336

      It kind of reminds me of the firefighters in Fahrenheit 451.

    • @EarlSquirrelsonn
      @EarlSquirrelsonn 5 лет назад +60

      Iconic too

    • @phantomconcord8914
      @phantomconcord8914 5 лет назад +136

      now they can be called firemen?

    • @projectkepleren
      @projectkepleren 5 лет назад +200

      YOU WERE SUPPOSE TO FIGHT THE FIRE, NOT CREATE THEM

    • @dora3077
      @dora3077 5 лет назад +80

      Waterfighters.

  • @tomnin363
    @tomnin363 6 лет назад +6611

    Germany:"STOP USING SHOTGUNS IT'S INHUMANE"
    Also Germany: *Creates flamethrowers*

    • @joshuabrown7815
      @joshuabrown7815 6 лет назад +566

      they were just salty that they weren’t the ones to perfect the design of shotguns

    • @roadroller8851
      @roadroller8851 6 лет назад +805

      They're just salty about the Scouts so they decided to go Pyro.

    • @mitigate385
      @mitigate385 6 лет назад +41

      ikr

    • @connortheandroid957
      @connortheandroid957 6 лет назад +92

      Tomnin its called "instant karma" sweet heart.

    • @Novusod
      @Novusod 6 лет назад +37

      The British also used flame throwers but British ones were bigger and badder.
      ruclips.net/video/BQlSutYJsV8/видео.html

  • @milx7210
    @milx7210 4 года назад +1694

    Germany: *uses firemen to use flamethrowers*
    Me: you have become the very thing you swore to destroy

  • @chancemathiot9987
    @chancemathiot9987 3 года назад +276

    Germany : says shotguns cause "too much suffering"
    Also Germany : " hohoho lets make something to burn them alive"

    • @kaisermaximiliandererste8833
      @kaisermaximiliandererste8833 2 года назад +3

      and usa with their nukes if thats not unfair i dont know what is

    • @Ro-fw3lc
      @Ro-fw3lc 2 года назад +8

      @@kaisermaximiliandererste8833 to be fair,the Japanese wouldn't give up so we had to force them to do so by dropping gods fist on them twice

    • @IMP_ROM
      @IMP_ROM 2 года назад +4

      @@Ro-fw3lc To be fair they were gonna surrender before but we nuked them anyways.

    • @robertevbayekha6639
      @robertevbayekha6639 2 года назад +4

      @@IMP_ROM to be fair the usa did warn them

    • @IMP_ROM
      @IMP_ROM 2 года назад +1

      @@robertevbayekha6639 😳 Damn.

  • @yarharhar
    @yarharhar 5 лет назад +3709

    Germany: uses flamethrower and mustard gas
    America: uses shotgun
    Germany: That's not fair

    • @pascalf9602
      @pascalf9602 5 лет назад +321

      Germany: Has some of the best scientiests.
      America: Takes them over and creates the a-bomb
      Germany: That's not fair ;)

    • @arch455
      @arch455 4 года назад +82

      @@pascalf9602 America:we dont care ni**a *PLAYS TEAM AMERICA*

    • @luka3174
      @luka3174 4 года назад +12

      England now america

    • @noanime0610
      @noanime0610 4 года назад +4

      Q W ????

    • @chris.3711
      @chris.3711 4 года назад +39

      That's because in the game of flamethrower, gas, and shotgun. Shotgun trumps everything.

  • @Legally_John
    @Legally_John 5 лет назад +2135

    Meanwhile the Pyro has a flamethrower _and_ a shotgun...
    The best of both worlds.

    • @dgray3771
      @dgray3771 5 лет назад +58

      Hey, it makes people in asylums useful productive citizens!

    • @laby9443
      @laby9443 4 года назад +102

      Pyro is half American and German
      *-KiDs Of SoLdIeR aNd MeDiC-*

    • @plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009
      @plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 4 года назад +26

      1916 bisexuality

    • @ChaosAbandon
      @ChaosAbandon 4 года назад +21

      R/TF2

    • @ajguevara6961
      @ajguevara6961 4 года назад +14

      I see that you're a man of culture

  • @FlippityFlopp1
    @FlippityFlopp1 3 года назад +668

    “A flame trooper kit is available near your location”

    • @Blama_
      @Blama_ 2 года назад +21

      Finally I found this comment!!!

    • @Layerlol
      @Layerlol 2 года назад +6

      Its near your location but good one

    • @Soggy_bag069
      @Soggy_bag069 2 года назад +9

      I’m just gonna bayonet charge you

    • @mr6johnclark
      @mr6johnclark 2 года назад +6

      Hans Get Ze Flammenwerfer.

    • @a50ftfall6
      @a50ftfall6 2 года назад +4

      2 seconds later
      it's gone

  • @andrewsmith9174
    @andrewsmith9174 4 года назад +347

    “The flamethrower operators knew they would receive no mercy if caught alive.” - dude, none of them were taken alive.

    • @usagifang
      @usagifang 3 года назад +39

      I mean. That's is what he said.

    • @sean_9138
      @sean_9138 2 года назад +4

      Duh

    • @Affenkatze77
      @Affenkatze77 2 года назад +14

      Thats what the „totenkopf“ means: no mercy for yourself and your Enemy.

    • @jaworski105
      @jaworski105 2 года назад +25

      I mean, when you’re also carrying a literal bomb on your back, I don’t think you have a high life expectancy.

    • @nobleman9393
      @nobleman9393 2 года назад

      Exactly his point.

  • @JC839
    @JC839 6 лет назад +779

    Recruiting fire fighters: “Hey you know how you are supposed to spray water through a hose to put out a fire? Well now I want you to do the opposite.”

    • @sector3475
      @sector3475 5 лет назад +34

      There was a mission in GTA2, where dudes upgrade firetruck to... well, actually to "fire truck" - it shoots napalm instead of water.

    • @Marin_yy
      @Marin_yy 5 лет назад +38

      spray fire through a hose to put out a water?

    • @alabasterscarf612
      @alabasterscarf612 5 лет назад

      It was a pleasure to burn...

    • @the_actual_alex
      @the_actual_alex 5 лет назад

      @@Marin_yy lol

    • @letsplaygames8563
      @letsplaygames8563 5 лет назад +1

      Firefighter: Put out water with fire?
      Germans: *facepalms* Execute him....”

  • @kevinpham9563
    @kevinpham9563 6 лет назад +4128

    Now we will use water gun as a counter attack

    • @kisen00
      @kisen00 6 лет назад +65

      Joseph Stalin ure deaid

    • @retardcorpsman
      @retardcorpsman 6 лет назад +189

      but what if they use a cloth gun to counter attack?

    • @noah2073
      @noah2073 6 лет назад +108

      You're 1 world war early, Stalin

    • @neohoy5231
      @neohoy5231 6 лет назад +123

      *RUSH B*
      *b=berlin*

    • @gleamlargosa2555
      @gleamlargosa2555 6 лет назад +7

      ure road

  • @ceoofcapitalism
    @ceoofcapitalism 2 года назад +48

    "I fear no man. But that thing..."
    "It scares me."

    • @PhantomGato-v-
      @PhantomGato-v- Год назад +1

      Pyro is honestly the cutest character in tf2

  • @dogtoes8434
    @dogtoes8434 3 года назад +683

    USA: uses shotguns
    Germany: how cruel
    Also germany:

    • @lennykump8396
      @lennykump8396 3 года назад +19

      Shotguns did (considered) unnecessary damage. Flame throwers drove people out of bunkers and trenches.

    • @dogtoes8434
      @dogtoes8434 3 года назад +77

      @@lennykump8396 flame throwers were just as unnecessary they literally burned people alive

    • @lennykump8396
      @lennykump8396 3 года назад +7

      @@dogtoes8434 no, they didn't. Itis mentioned in the video and I repeated this message in my last comment. Learn to read.

    • @dogtoes8434
      @dogtoes8434 3 года назад +21

      @@lennykump8396 and I didn't say that they just burned people alive stupid
      *and learn to read* actually you should learn how to spell
      Also haven't you considered that a enemy wasn't ever accidentally burned

    • @inurmomsbedroom123
      @inurmomsbedroom123 3 года назад +15

      @@dogtoes8434 It was rare to be hit directly by a flamethrower.
      He is right. It was mostly a suppression weapon just like the light machine gun developed into in the modern day.

  • @yusufcancelik708
    @yusufcancelik708 6 лет назад +546

    I fear no man,
    but that thing...
    It scares me.

    • @roadroller8851
      @roadroller8851 6 лет назад +55

      No, were not talking about that freak alright?
      He's not here is she?
      *How do I get this damn thing off me?!*

    • @drmmrptr
      @drmmrptr 6 лет назад +60

      One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask
      What dreams of chronic and sustains cruelty?
      * *M U S I C P L A Y S* *

    • @drmmrptr
      @drmmrptr 6 лет назад +30

      In a young girl's heart?

    • @Dr_Breachs
      @Dr_Breachs 6 лет назад +24

      How the music can free her, whenever it starts.

    • @drmmrptr
      @drmmrptr 6 лет назад +20

      And it's magic if the music is groovy

  • @distressedbrain
    @distressedbrain 5 лет назад +2416

    Hanz: This is a Flammenwerfer, it werfs Flammen.

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 5 лет назад +94

      Heinrich: _give them the werf!_

    • @mags247
      @mags247 5 лет назад +18

      Dear god

    • @peterkarl1996
      @peterkarl1996 4 года назад +47

      Hans, das ist ein Flammenwerfer, er wirtf Flammen would be tbe correct sentence

    • @sireawfulthe1st291
      @sireawfulthe1st291 4 года назад +31

      @@peterkarl1996 that's the joke

    • @MegaMGstudios
      @MegaMGstudios 4 года назад +35

      I'm the flammenwerfer, the werfer of the flammen

  • @thewallachianbard6975
    @thewallachianbard6975 3 года назад +75

    Soldier in a trench : This war is a nightmare, there's soldiers dead on from gunshot wounds on the right, soldiers dead from disease on my left, I've been sitting in a trench for weeks living off moldy rations and the rats are gnawing on my trenchfoot. Can it get any worse ?
    *Flamethrower hiss*

  • @Wolf62601
    @Wolf62601 3 года назад +381

    Germany: “Shotguns are unfair!”
    Also Germany: “Haha flamethrower go POOOOFFFFFFF”

  • @lewisa7325
    @lewisa7325 6 лет назад +2486

    Flame growers 🇩🇪👍
    Gas weapons 🇩🇪👍
    Serated bayonets 🇩🇪👍
    Shot guns 🇩🇪👎

    • @sturmgeist8934
      @sturmgeist8934 5 лет назад +94

      Throwers* Serrated*

    • @_nocturno
      @_nocturno 5 лет назад +57

      Germans Be Like

    • @camelthegamer7165
      @camelthegamer7165 4 года назад +11

      Best up this 12g to a 10g before the next world war.
      Dead Germans scream in fear.

    • @ofallmyintention9496
      @ofallmyintention9496 4 года назад +110

      Losing in two world wars 🇩🇪👍

    • @karstais
      @karstais 4 года назад +7

      no they used shovels with sereted edges to jab in the neck

  • @callido592
    @callido592 6 лет назад +3238

    When Shotguns are barbaric, but Flamethrowers are just fine :D

    • @fahrifatoni3362
      @fahrifatoni3362 6 лет назад +341

      It's just Germans with their magnificence of their sense of humor!

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 6 лет назад +219

      & mustard gas

    • @vexingrabbit1824
      @vexingrabbit1824 6 лет назад +233

      To be fair it wasn't the Shotgun that wasn't fair and OP, it was the Americans who wield it.

    • @vexingrabbit1824
      @vexingrabbit1824 6 лет назад +42

      Omar, I really hope your just playing stupid and not actually stupid. >_>

    • @hiems193
      @hiems193 6 лет назад +31

      Omar 1111 he said the americans firing with it lol

  • @addust
    @addust 3 года назад +180

    i can just imagine the voice of Pyro having a psycopathic laugh

  • @jackahoy7180
    @jackahoy7180 4 года назад +150

    Flamethrower: we're first used by the Germans in ww1
    Greek Fire: am I a joke to you?

    • @eddiecowen2624
      @eddiecowen2624 3 года назад +12

      I mean INFANTRY and LAND ARMY flamethrowers were first used by the kaiser, but naval flamethrowers were indeed used first by Greece.

    • @eddiecowen2624
      @eddiecowen2624 3 года назад

      @Ionian cool didn't know that

    • @Chuked
      @Chuked 3 года назад +4

      Greeks had them on naval weapons but not on infantry

    • @shagganuereeves158
      @shagganuereeves158 2 года назад +1

      All hail the mighty Sam o nella!
      For he hath brought us the gift of knowledge

    • @WiseMysticalTree81
      @WiseMysticalTree81 Год назад

      Could say the same about those Chinese flame tubes from like 500 years ago

  • @firepower7017
    @firepower7017 6 лет назад +498

    Germany:Shotguns causes unecessary harm *Hides Flamethrowers*
    America:mhm

    • @TheCaptainSplatter
      @TheCaptainSplatter 6 лет назад +24

      Lol. Burns were just as hard to treat as shotguns.

    • @gabrielgarcia9822
      @gabrielgarcia9822 6 лет назад +1

      Don't make me nuke YOU
      Oh what, that in the next world war. ok Germans and your sourcrout you will wait oh what I nuked Japan.

    • @freelemonade5032
      @freelemonade5032 6 лет назад +1

      Gabriel Garcia this is ww1, Japan was an ally back then

    • @someoneataplacedoingnothin8164
      @someoneataplacedoingnothin8164 6 лет назад

      Fire Power701 right?

    • @Jrmah
      @Jrmah 6 лет назад

      Fire Power701 b

  • @maca_sapper5275
    @maca_sapper5275 6 лет назад +725

    *Picks up a flame trooper kit*
    *Gets instantly bayonet charged*

  • @ZstackZip
    @ZstackZip 3 года назад +351

    *One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask...*

    • @matscaramal3191
      @matscaramal3191 2 года назад +44

      *what dreams, of chronic, and sustained cruelty...*

    • @joshuar3632
      @joshuar3632 2 года назад +27

      Probably...i cant breath in this thing. The tank weighs a tone, and this jackets balls hot.
      German engineering probably gave us the camelback water system

    • @J03_M4m4
      @J03_M4m4 2 года назад +20

      @@matscaramal3191 Do you believe in magic?

    • @stealthynaxo
      @stealthynaxo 2 года назад +9

      Thoughts behind the mask: "Damn you Hans, why is the fuel tank so heavy?! I can't see anything with this mask! What am I supposed to do once the fuel rans ou?! Shiza! This is stupid! You are stupid hans! Sit in a corner and think about how stupid you are!"

    • @hatma-xx5hj
      @hatma-xx5hj 2 года назад +11

      @@J03_M4m4 in young girl's heart.

  • @k-874
    @k-874 4 года назад +120

    "One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask. The dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty"

  • @wanikanii
    @wanikanii 5 лет назад +2321

    I swear to god using this in a bunker in battlefield 1 is the most satisfying thing ever

    • @luckykai7473
      @luckykai7473 4 года назад +161

      Pushed a few Brits into a bunker which I locked so they couldn't get out until they died or killed me.

    • @b_f_d_d
      @b_f_d_d 4 года назад +61

      S a t i s f i e d

    • @hngh6404
      @hngh6404 4 года назад +109

      In BFV I was playing on Iwo Jima with a Flame thrower and a Ton of Japanese MMG campers were in a bunker destroying our team. I poked my flame thrower into the little slit of the pillbox and burned all of them

    • @ralphy1989
      @ralphy1989 4 года назад +25

      Early cods had the best flamethrowers

    • @zxcb158
      @zxcb158 4 года назад +2

      Literally, but you can get killed easily tho

  • @zuko1569
    @zuko1569 6 лет назад +3001

    The Fire Nation is proud of you, Germany.

  • @dexm2010
    @dexm2010 3 года назад +14

    I respect the innovation of the weapon and the bravery of the flamethrower operators who were themselves uniquely vulnerable to attack rifle and other small arms fire, but my God what an awful and agonzing way for someone to die! May *all* who fought in the Great War rest in peace, you are not forgotten.

  • @carlsagan2607
    @carlsagan2607 3 года назад +28

    That is some next level inhumane warfare right there

    • @agreenplasticwateringcan
      @agreenplasticwateringcan 2 года назад +2

      Do you believe in magic?

    • @Dennis-up8uf
      @Dennis-up8uf 2 года назад +2

      WWII: firebombings
      Vietnam: napalm
      Iraq: white phosphorous

    • @ezekiyam3827
      @ezekiyam3827 2 года назад +1

      @@agreenplasticwateringcan on a young girl's heart

  • @Chor1op
    @Chor1op 6 лет назад +564

    *"FIREFIGHTERS WERE DEPLOYED FOR THE USE OF THE FLAMETHROWER"*
    *SIGH* THE IRONY

    • @Apidooom
      @Apidooom 6 лет назад +48

      Livin MƏMƏ ironic. He could save citizens from fire, but not the enemy

    • @gpgpgpgp1000
      @gpgpgpgp1000 6 лет назад +45

      It's almost as ironic as women defending islam!

    • @faterevelation
      @faterevelation 6 лет назад +13

      It's German humor mate, you wouldn't understand

    • @irsgachastudios3526
      @irsgachastudios3526 6 лет назад +1

      Apidooom lol right

    • @TheDaniel366Cobra
      @TheDaniel366Cobra 6 лет назад +13

      they protecc
      but they also attacc

  • @MyDogFulton
    @MyDogFulton 4 года назад +696

    I’m sure those dudes got lots of PTSD.
    I couldn’t even imagine the screams and the thought of looking at a body knowing you just did that to a human.

    • @WesleyKwong
      @WesleyKwong 3 года назад +22

      I think everyone would got some even using "small weapons"
      But I would be speciali if I blow someone in the chest with a shotgun...
      He would slowly cough blood since all his respiratory tract was trying to do his job, he couldn't ask for help, reaching to a point he would just accepted his death

    • @sahymakhtar7445
      @sahymakhtar7445 2 года назад +66

      @@NinjaBray wow so edgy and cool

    • @chieckenman4432
      @chieckenman4432 2 года назад +38

      @@NinjaBray wow so edgy and cool

    • @ezkillguy8316
      @ezkillguy8316 2 года назад +37

      @@NinjaBray wow so edgy and cool

    • @tacituskilgore2851
      @tacituskilgore2851 2 года назад +26

      @@NinjaBray wow so cool and edgy

  • @applebone3254
    @applebone3254 4 года назад +42

    "I fair no man!"
    "but that thing.."

    • @dongjunleejuly13th
      @dongjunleejuly13th 4 года назад +2

      it scares me.
      btw, it's "I 'fear' no man."

    • @Perfectheart-fan-girl
      @Perfectheart-fan-girl 3 года назад +1

      @@dongjunleejuly13th yo read my name

    • @rus2073
      @rus2073 3 года назад +1

      @@Perfectheart-fan-girl yo say my name

    • @sven8304
      @sven8304 3 года назад +1

      @@rus2073 oi read my name

  • @zeemer7040
    @zeemer7040 4 года назад +22

    "one shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask."
    -A Frenchman-

  • @mrcomp1971
    @mrcomp1971 6 лет назад +2159

    "W+m1 too OP plz nerf."
    -The French, probably.

    • @sheep8618
      @sheep8618 6 лет назад +80

      Pyro: Hudda hudda huh..!

    • @natsuka8158
      @natsuka8158 6 лет назад +120

      French = Spy
      AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGH

    • @eugeneflores9989
      @eugeneflores9989 6 лет назад +47

      what happen when germany create the phlog in WW1

    • @eugeneflores9989
      @eugeneflores9989 6 лет назад +44

      Germans:YES the jungle inferno update was released
      French :clock and dagger in the corner

    • @cindi9935
      @cindi9935 6 лет назад +10

      Exe.spy not working

  • @mattwells5347
    @mattwells5347 6 лет назад +340

    Weapon stats:
    Ammo reduced by 50%
    Damage increased by 100%
    Movement speed reduced by 20%
    No airblast
    No random crits

    • @sviatoslavs.1305
      @sviatoslavs.1305 6 лет назад +44

      Update:
      Added: crits while enemy is nearby.

    • @bobbyferg9173
      @bobbyferg9173 6 лет назад +65

      75% chance to scare French people out of holes

    • @machexx1494
      @machexx1494 6 лет назад +1

      Bobby Ferg Of course it scares them. Have you seen alllllll the memes with france surrendering.

    • @evisonesila8776
      @evisonesila8776 6 лет назад +23

      No wonder why French people hate pyro

    • @drmmrptr
      @drmmrptr 6 лет назад +5

      evisone sila cuz of spychecks

  • @bouncydachon
    @bouncydachon 2 года назад +4

    *“Do you believe in magic” playing in the distance*

  • @ZstackZip
    @ZstackZip 4 года назад +55

    One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask.
    What dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty?

    • @NONO-oy1cu
      @NONO-oy1cu 3 года назад +3

      Then the person behind that mask have imagination

    • @aquino3120
      @aquino3120 2 года назад +1

      @@NONO-oy1cu
      While an old song plays

    • @dauzlee2827
      @dauzlee2827 2 года назад +2

      Coincidently it was also a French who said that

  • @Patrick-zs3vp
    @Patrick-zs3vp 5 лет назад +752

    But everything changed when the fire nation attacked...

  • @-Invero-
    @-Invero- 6 лет назад +411

    Hans,bring me ze flammenwerfer!

  • @theromanorder
    @theromanorder 2 года назад +1

    This was my first sinple history video and was the very thing that has made me the historian i am today thank you simple history for all you have done

  • @expendableround6186
    @expendableround6186 3 года назад +8

    “You are afraid
    At the lash of searing flame
    Lungs, filled with acrid smoke.
    You ought to be afraid…
    _…You’re made out of meat.”_

  • @jonathanwells223
    @jonathanwells223 6 лет назад +767

    3:36 one shudders to imagine what lies behind that mask, what dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty.

    • @makigames6530
      @makigames6530 5 лет назад +105

      Do you believe in magic in a young girl's heart

    • @butterscheese
      @butterscheese 5 лет назад +16

      You have done well

    • @theretard5825
      @theretard5825 5 лет назад +3

      You Won!

    • @kortexounet
      @kortexounet 5 лет назад +74

      French soldier in the trenches : "I'am afraid of no german soldier, but this thing..... It scares me !"

    • @igaming1985
      @igaming1985 5 лет назад +8

      Jonathan Wells dammit you took my joke

  • @anarchicpancake2840
    @anarchicpancake2840 5 лет назад +531

    Everybody gangsta
    Till the flamethrower operators start walkin'

  • @kgb5507
    @kgb5507 4 года назад +48

    "They Shall Not Pass!" - some French soldier

    • @travisreed1730
      @travisreed1730 3 года назад +5

      That was Field Marshal Phillipe Petain. (Later the leader of the axis-alligned Vichy France during WW2)

  • @yeetthebeatout6906
    @yeetthebeatout6906 3 года назад +11

    Imagine being the first person to use one in combat

  • @exicutioner161
    @exicutioner161 6 лет назад +2082

    It’s always Germany coming up with new tech...
    World War 1: Flamethrowers
    World War 2: Jets and Missiles

    • @Codo--pc5un
      @Codo--pc5un 5 лет назад +132

      WW 3 Der SchwebePanzer
      It is a schwebender tank

    • @NguyenMinh-vs1vm
      @NguyenMinh-vs1vm 5 лет назад +28

      Not always Germany

    • @friedhelmwinter1237
      @friedhelmwinter1237 5 лет назад +282

      @@NguyenMinh-vs1vm Yeah But mostly. Germany Invented the car, the Traktor, Pistol, Machine pistol, smg, bycicle, the plane (Not the Wright brothers Go look that up for youre self) the assault rifle, the fighter jet, they put the first rifle to use (1864) the anti Tank rifle, real medicine, the Automatic carbine(Krb 43) heavy Machine gun and so on

    • @friedhelmwinter1237
      @friedhelmwinter1237 5 лет назад +177

      @@NguyenMinh-vs1vm the first camouflage patterns, and the best Looking Uniforms ever, (thanks to Hugo Boss and the fascist scumbags) the first practical helmet that could Save your life (m1916 stahlhelm) the first Military Camo smock Used by every Military Today.

    • @nokokusovai4415
      @nokokusovai4415 5 лет назад +83

      Don't forget radar.

  • @praphet5980
    @praphet5980 6 лет назад +217

    The literal Fireman.

    • @williamjames7293
      @williamjames7293 6 лет назад +8

      Destined Exodux ikr your going to make a weapon that sprays fire your going to need a person thats an expert in handling fire.

    • @franklydondor3448
      @franklydondor3448 6 лет назад +1

      You were the chosen one! It was said you were supposed to destroy the fire not join it!

    • @praphet5980
      @praphet5980 6 лет назад

      Did you ever hear the tragedy of the Flammenwerfer Hans in the Battle of Verdun? I thought not. It’s not a story a French would tell you. It’s a German legend. Hans was a Flammenwerfer who lived many years ago. He was so powerful and so wise that he could use the fire to scare off the cowardly French to expand lebensraum… He became so powerful, yet the only thing he was afraid of were campers. Unfortunately, his fire gave away his position and then one battle, a sniper killed him as he was burning baguettes. It’s ironic that the fire he used to burn others, also burned himself.

  • @AutomatonHulkBruiser
    @AutomatonHulkBruiser 2 года назад +2

    Germany: nothing is working.
    German weapon maker: USE FLAMES.

  • @why-yj5yw
    @why-yj5yw 3 года назад +58

    french: hi
    german: hi
    french: peac-
    german: no.

    • @death_truppler1276
      @death_truppler1276 3 года назад +2

      WW3 Russia vs USA
      meanwhile Germany takes poland again
      poland:why do you hate my

    • @flixflix4714
      @flixflix4714 3 года назад

      You think we were asking to make peace to the german during WWI ahahah wtf

  • @deox2259
    @deox2259 5 лет назад +901

    Germany: Uses flamethrowers
    US: Uses shotguns
    Germany: Warte, das ist illegal!

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 5 лет назад +72

      I do ind it kind of funny how the Americans executed most of the flamethrower operators they found because they were "cruel weapons" (and i heard some nations considered including them in the geneva convention) but that didnt stop the US from adopting them wholesale, especially in the Pacific Theater during WW2.

    • @_nocturno
      @_nocturno 5 лет назад +21

      @@arthas640 It Used To Burn Cover And Not Humans, So It Still Legal

    • @jt-ru5iy
      @jt-ru5iy 4 года назад +5

      @@arthas640 Japan was like the soviet union not in the geneva convention the germans also used flamethrowers on the eastern front

    • @wolfsoldner9029
      @wolfsoldner9029 4 года назад +6

      Another one who didnt listened to the video which explained that the flamethrowers were actually used to scare troops away.

    • @arandomzoomer4837
      @arandomzoomer4837 4 года назад

      @@jt-ru5iy In terms of the war crimes they committed they were more applicable to the Nazis of course.

  • @farhanatashiga3721
    @farhanatashiga3721 6 лет назад +203

    01:45 "baptism of fire" I see what you did there.

    • @gorgor6978
      @gorgor6978 6 лет назад +3

      What did he do, isn't that a famous phrase?

    • @farhanatashiga3721
      @farhanatashiga3721 6 лет назад +10

      Gor Gor baptism of fire, flamethrower. fire = flame, I hope that makes sense to you.

    • @gorgor6978
      @gorgor6978 6 лет назад +6

      It does, I just thought it had more to it.

    • @_draco_7300
      @_draco_7300 6 лет назад +5

      It reminds me of Sabaton ,,Baptised in fire, 40:1!''

    • @JeanLucCaptain
      @JeanLucCaptain 6 лет назад +3

      same guys who says shotguns are inumane. LOL.

  • @coolius5221
    @coolius5221 4 года назад +7

    I remember using one of these, it was damn heavy and I almost burned myself in the flames it produced. Still, it was fun to use it.

  • @powahfulgameplayer
    @powahfulgameplayer 3 года назад +24

    "Flamethrower Trooper"
    Team Fortress 2: "Wait, that is illegal."

    • @PhantomGato-v-
      @PhantomGato-v- Год назад

      The job of the pyro is to flamecheck for spies and burn medics. We are the literal meaning of war crimes.

  • @leonidezdionisio9915
    @leonidezdionisio9915 6 лет назад +517

    As if the French weren't roasted enough from the "retreating" jokes

    • @cenpi5521
      @cenpi5521 6 лет назад +30

      leonidez dionisio heh "roasted"

    • @retardcorpsman
      @retardcorpsman 6 лет назад +30

      i see what you did there

    • @lt.patterson6081
      @lt.patterson6081 6 лет назад +3

      leonidez dionisio clever

    • @bryanmanuel4945
      @bryanmanuel4945 6 лет назад +9

      Poor France always getting roasted for surrender Joke rest in peace French respect.

    • @halsipro
      @halsipro 6 лет назад +11

      i can assure you that nobody visits france because of the people. its a beautiful country

  • @timmillsom4457
    @timmillsom4457 6 лет назад +265

    What a terrible way to go. World war 1 was a scary time. Clubs, bats, knives, swords, guns, artillery and gas. How anyone survived the war is amazing

    • @raftash5279
      @raftash5279 6 лет назад +57

      Mercy and common respect. Infact one very lucky German soldier was quite successful after being sighted by a British sniper.

    • @jaghn4703
      @jaghn4703 6 лет назад +41

      I believe you're pertaining to an Austrian soldier who later on in his life has.. a "Successful political term".
      Ahhh, the beauty and wonders of coincidences.

    • @timmillsom4457
      @timmillsom4457 6 лет назад +6

      The one lucky German solider who managed to conquer France

    • @annairinastoll2960
      @annairinastoll2960 6 лет назад +16

      My great grandfather (born 1895) fought from 1914-1918 in the German army and returned Home alive.

    • @miliba
      @miliba 6 лет назад +10

      depends on where you were stationed. artillery, medic and desk jobs were pretty safe

  • @Oscorpior99
    @Oscorpior99 3 года назад

    The best looking coustume for me!

  • @kevins2459
    @kevins2459 4 года назад +1313

    I guess those French got French Fried.

    • @pixel0048
      @pixel0048 3 года назад +18

      correct

    • @Captain_Dough
      @Captain_Dough 3 года назад +24

      C O R R E C T

    • @upbeat3535
      @upbeat3535 3 года назад +15

      *Hmmm yes the floor here is made out of floor*

    • @jerry_2091
      @jerry_2091 3 года назад +14

      Them spies got spy check’d

    • @toxxc.5449
      @toxxc.5449 3 года назад +1

      Yes

  • @sheep8618
    @sheep8618 6 лет назад +52

    Pyro's grandfather using flamethrower on the battlefield.
    (1916, colorized)

  • @dmonkey4172
    @dmonkey4172 Год назад +1

    i always wanted to see pyro lore thx nice video

  • @liquidtempest8526
    @liquidtempest8526 2 года назад +3

    4:18
    Scout: PYRO DID YOU EAT MY SANDWHICH!?!?

  • @hundreadrides7730
    @hundreadrides7730 5 лет назад +878

    The French should have played engineer

  • @mosesmarlboro5401
    @mosesmarlboro5401 4 года назад +341

    "Hey Friz, you vere a firefighter before ze war right?"
    "Ya Hanz, zat is correct."
    "Excellent, have I got a propozal for you."

    • @TimaeusEXE
      @TimaeusEXE 4 года назад +8

      *Ja

    • @landsknecht7125
      @landsknecht7125 3 года назад +2

      Fritz

    • @avery41441
      @avery41441 3 года назад +4

      Snipers when see flamethrower o ya its big brain time

    • @doot7730
      @doot7730 3 года назад +3

      Friz::FLAMMENWERFER GOOO!
      Hanz:sis vas mistake.

  • @neetzlll9106
    @neetzlll9106 3 года назад +3

    2:32 storm trupers

  • @Larfmield0007
    @Larfmield0007 3 года назад

    The flammenwerfer,it werfed flammen...it was so beautiful...nien flammenwerfer after matched it's werfing

  • @roflmywaffles1313
    @roflmywaffles1313 6 лет назад +1779

    Random fact:Germany wanted the Americans to stop using shotguns calling them "inhumane"

    • @whitegradient5182
      @whitegradient5182 6 лет назад +398

      Rofl My Waffles for "creating uneccesary suffering "

    • @thaivinhhung657
      @thaivinhhung657 6 лет назад +80

      Crossbow has a pope who want to banned it too

    • @ltmentle5293
      @ltmentle5293 6 лет назад +146

      Rofl My Waffles The Flamethrower was tested in 1912 the American shotgun was made all the way back in 1897

    • @CuboidCheese
      @CuboidCheese 6 лет назад +182

      NietTristan *sigh* America wasn't even in the war at this point

    • @tezer2d
      @tezer2d 6 лет назад +171

      It was actually common to shoot a burning enemy so that he doesnt have to suffer a painful death.
      But that changed in WW2

  • @marshahare7717
    @marshahare7717 5 лет назад +1959

    I bet Firemen who were forced to burn people to death came home with super PTSD

    • @DuckyTheFox
      @DuckyTheFox 5 лет назад +55

      Probably

    • @pascals5408
      @pascals5408 5 лет назад +113

      Edgelord

    • @noahcapps9279
      @noahcapps9279 5 лет назад +26

      Matharox r/wooosh

    • @ric84
      @ric84 5 лет назад +7

      @@ainzooalgownoverlord8913 2edgy4me

    • @lloyd9710
      @lloyd9710 5 лет назад +12

      Marsha Hare they were not forced to be flamethrowers

  • @really.rhino12
    @really.rhino12 3 года назад +3

    Flame trooper kit located!

  • @oldgysgt
    @oldgysgt 4 года назад +1

    In the mid 1960's flamethrowers were still in the inventory of the Corps, so we trained on them in Infantry Training regardless of what MOS, (Military Occupational Specialty), we would eventually end up with. What surprised me when I first fired a flamethrower was the large amount of radiant heat the operator, (me), got in the face with each shot of flame. You would think all of the heat would be shot away from you, but the radiant heat went in all directions, even back at the operator.

  • @fenix9502
    @fenix9502 6 лет назад +135

    I fear no man. But that thing.... It scares me.
    -Heavy

  • @anactualalpaca7016
    @anactualalpaca7016 4 года назад +99

    Imagine going from being a simple fireman, to suddenly operating one of the deadliest infantry weapons ever designed

  • @mortuusest3206
    @mortuusest3206 4 года назад +13

    “I fear no man.... but that thing... it scares me. “ “No I ain’t talkin about that freak.. he’s not here is he!? How do I take this fking thing off!?” “One shudders to image what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask.. what dreams of chronic can sustain the cruelty”

  • @zarathos9949
    @zarathos9949 3 года назад +1

    Using this flammerwerfers in german bunkers and Vietnamese talking trees is the most satisfying thing

  • @datboihans8109
    @datboihans8109 6 лет назад +210

    Hanz, get ze flammenwerfer

    • @raftash5279
      @raftash5279 6 лет назад +6

      dat boi Hans Heinz, get the ketchup

    • @Saw321lol
      @Saw321lol 6 лет назад +5

      He's Hans, not Hanz.

    • @thergmtk
      @thergmtk 6 лет назад +5

      They're twins. Hanz and Hans.

    • @batrider322
      @batrider322 6 лет назад

      Heinz

    • @datboihans8109
      @datboihans8109 6 лет назад +3

      yes me and my brother burn frenchies, tommies, yankees, bolscheviks, anything really

  • @ibreathenapalm1112
    @ibreathenapalm1112 6 лет назад +691

    Flammenwerfer, it werf's flammen!

    • @lightshift1098
      @lightshift1098 6 лет назад +1

      Samovar The Russian Water Boiler Badgur?

    • @michalrojas1206
      @michalrojas1206 6 лет назад +6

      It werf’s flammen

    • @corvidcorax
      @corvidcorax 6 лет назад +14

      That is a Flammenwerfer.
      *It Werf's Flammen*

    • @lordpinochetuttp3819
      @lordpinochetuttp3819 6 лет назад +6

      That's.... correct

    • @corvidcorax
      @corvidcorax 6 лет назад +4

      Simon Rako Flamethrowers throw flames... naturally Flammenwerfer would werf flammen!

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 2 года назад

    I love your channel

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 2 года назад

    Keep up the great stuff

  • @Terrox
    @Terrox 5 лет назад +436

    Grosser Flammenwerfer is not a nickname, it means big flamethrower xD

    • @Terrox
      @Terrox 5 лет назад +16

      @Bradley Atchley nasty means böse in German, big means groß.

    • @henkpis7139
      @henkpis7139 4 года назад +3

      It means bigger

    • @keepsmiling7645
      @keepsmiling7645 4 года назад +18

      @@henkpis7139 No, just big.

    • @brennankarm8207
      @brennankarm8207 4 года назад +4

      @@henkpis7139 that would be größere, not grosser

    • @eugen_the_great
      @eugen_the_great 4 года назад +12

      Henk Pis ru rly correcting germans? How ignorant

  • @leljdam3189
    @leljdam3189 6 лет назад +149

    FLAMMENWERFER:
    1. IT WERFS
    2. IT WERFS THE FLAMMEN

    • @nicklab1927
      @nicklab1927 6 лет назад +2

      Germans have nice way to name objects ^^. Didn't work with Nebelwerfer, it doesn"t werfs clouds.

  • @yupled8541
    @yupled8541 3 года назад +2

    Hans, Get The Flammenwerfer!

  • @bigflip3714
    @bigflip3714 Год назад

    Great vid

  • @corvidcorax
    @corvidcorax 6 лет назад +139

    Just a normal day in the life of a German Fireman.

    • @FaustLimbusCompany
      @FaustLimbusCompany 6 лет назад +5

      《 ᴀᴛᴀɢᴏ-ɴɪsᴛ 》 They do a beautiful job, don't they?

    • @absolutV0DKA
      @absolutV0DKA 6 лет назад +4

      《 ᴀᴛᴀɢᴏ-ɴɪsᴛ 》 I will admit, the flamethrower was a badass invention by the Germans, and that's coming from a proud Commie!

  • @ronaldsit7418
    @ronaldsit7418 6 лет назад +300

    Origins of pyro: he's German, fought in World War One, and can live forever.

  • @italianduded1161
    @italianduded1161 2 года назад +2

    There was an episode in the Italian front where a group of Italian “Flammieri” (Flame thrower units) found Austro-Hungarian soldiers heading into a cave, they followed them and burned them to the ground… imagine the fear, the pain… the terror.
    War is always awfull.

  • @cannonfodderlord
    @cannonfodderlord 3 года назад +2

    One of my favorite weapons, best to spread kills easier, alongside with the flail.

    • @PhantomGato-v-
      @PhantomGato-v- Год назад +1

      Flail? Interesting choice. I like the polearm and chakram family.

  • @FinlayDaG33k
    @FinlayDaG33k 5 лет назад +192

    Offizier: "HANS GET ZEH..."
    Hans: "SAG NICHTS MEHR"

    • @3bydacreekside
      @3bydacreekside 4 года назад +2

      This broke me XD

    • @jc2076
      @jc2076 4 года назад +3

      I'm sorry what?! I'm australian and don't speak German

    • @BigNutts21
      @BigNutts21 4 года назад

      J C same

    • @louiss138
      @louiss138 4 года назад +9

      @@jc2076 I hope I translate it well:
      Officer: ''Hans get the...''
      Hans: ''SAY NOTHING MORE''

  • @magicman9218
    @magicman9218 5 лет назад +465

    99% of comments people thinking they're clever for referencing the shotgun video

    • @fuchsia3623
      @fuchsia3623 5 лет назад +7

      The 1% are clever cause they reference how the germans made gas

    • @bahardinaman7643
      @bahardinaman7643 5 лет назад

      Do u people know shotguns use for small distance?
      Shotguns don't v range, it only shatter one bullet in a small area.

    • @fuchsia3623
      @fuchsia3623 5 лет назад +8

      @@bahardinaman7643 yes everyone know your not smart cause you know that

    • @donaldgrant9067
      @donaldgrant9067 5 лет назад +1

      Ivan you know that for the Germans to complain about the use of shot guns while they use gas and flamethrowers is a little stupid.

    • @panzerschiff9805
      @panzerschiff9805 5 лет назад +6

      13% referencing tf2....including me

  • @aceofspadesguy4913
    @aceofspadesguy4913 3 года назад +4

    “Once we fought the fire, now we fight with fire”

  • @engineerfromtf2585
    @engineerfromtf2585 3 года назад

    I love this man

  • @s34nn35
    @s34nn35 5 лет назад +590

    4:16 German soldier: "Have mercy please!"
    British soldier: "NO MERCY"
    later..
    German: "kill him"
    British: "Have mercy pls"
    *NEIN*

    • @s34nn35
      @s34nn35 5 лет назад +35

      @low7782 I'm not

    • @s34nn35
      @s34nn35 5 лет назад +32

      @low7782 to you, but im not even asking for likes

    • @irarelyupload6930
      @irarelyupload6930 5 лет назад +4

      The Germans were not the good guys mate

    • @kato5754
      @kato5754 5 лет назад +17

      Later...
      German soldier: Have mercy please !
      British soldier: ...ok
      And that how the World War 2 stater

    • @samuelkenny375
      @samuelkenny375 4 года назад +1

      😂😂😂😂nice one broo

  • @justwatch7091
    @justwatch7091 Год назад +4

    "A flametrooper kit has been located near your location"

  • @goodgame-eq9fy
    @goodgame-eq9fy Год назад +1

    Good video

  • @AG26498
    @AG26498 5 лет назад +66

    Me: How can someone do this?
    (A flame trooper kit is available near your location)
    Me: burn baby

    • @chikin5
      @chikin5 5 лет назад +1

      Abdurrahman Goren hold mouse 1 to win

  • @wikketgaming6958
    @wikketgaming6958 6 лет назад +46

    Imagine hearing the hissing of the flamethrower, a man with a fucking death heads insignia slowly aproaching you, fire bursts out of his gun, a man wearing a black terrefying gas mask, you just stare at death, not seing a human, and black smoke slowly reaching towards you...

    • @freelemonade5032
      @freelemonade5032 6 лет назад +15

      Wikket Gaming Then there is an American with a shotgun.

    • @bobbyferg9173
      @bobbyferg9173 6 лет назад +5

      Free Lemonade Screams his war cry and pumps you full of Freedom giving led to your country.
      Wait...

    • @thestrongestsoul5203
      @thestrongestsoul5203 6 лет назад

      It would turn me on, uwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww baaaaaaaaaaabbbyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

    • @stevebaer50
      @stevebaer50 6 лет назад +1

      Wikket Gaming I totally agree with you about that statement. We Germans made it before the great war. See something like that is freaking awesome and scary to the enemy.

    • @tsiobieman6547
      @tsiobieman6547 6 лет назад +2

      Tbh the most terrifying thing with a flame trooper is you hiding, while he's searching for you and you can hear his slow pacing and breath from the gas mask.

  • @TheCensere
    @TheCensere 4 года назад +2

    Hands down that was the craziest and scariest person on the battlefield a soldier with a flame thrower

    • @shortleader0958
      @shortleader0958 3 года назад

      and the most phsychopathic

    • @PhantomGato-v-
      @PhantomGato-v- Год назад

      @@shortleader0958 and probably the most delusional too

  • @darko9081
    @darko9081 2 года назад

    best chanel of whole yt

  • @swifty6759
    @swifty6759 6 лет назад +155

    I always get scared when I see a flamethrower coming my way in Battlefield 1

    • @electricboxers9043
      @electricboxers9043 6 лет назад +3

      Whenever I see one I try my best to either stay away from him or flank him and attack his back. Suprisingly he's not as tough as I thought he would be

    • @GeorgeWBush01
      @GeorgeWBush01 6 лет назад +1

      Electric Boxers honestly. Just get behind them and it’s game over for them!

    • @THENEPTUNEGAMER
      @THENEPTUNEGAMER 6 лет назад +3

      Electric Boxers none of the elites are

    • @Sin-cl8kh
      @Sin-cl8kh 6 лет назад +2

      Sycrance flamethrower are always scare of me when I am running towards them

    • @youraverageuser7039
      @youraverageuser7039 6 лет назад +3

      Sycrance i run from the fire then turn around and BAYYYYONNNNEEETTTT CHHHHHARRRRRGGGGEEEEE!!!!